cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimal Renormalization-Group Improvement of Two Radiatively-Broken Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Elias, V.
name: Mann, R. B.
name: McKeon, D. G. C.
name: Steele, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the absence of a tree-level scalar-field mass, renormalization-group (RG) methods permit the explicit summation of leading-logarithm contributions to all orders of the perturbative series for the effective-potential functions utilized in radiative symmetry breaking. For scalar-field electrodynamics, such a summation of leading logarithm contributions leads to upper bounds on the magnitudes of both gauge and scalar-field coupling constants, and suggests the possibility of an additional phase of spontaneous symmetry breaking characterized by a scalar-field mass comparable to that of the theory's gauge boson. For radiatively-broken electroweak symmetry, the all-orders summation of leading logarithm terms involving the dominant three couplings (quartic scalar-field, t-quark Yukawa, and QCD) contributing to standard-model radiative corrections leads to an RG-improved potential characterized by a 216 GeV Higgs boson mass. Upon incorporation of electroweak gauge couplants we find that the predicted Higgs mass increases to 218 GeV. The potential is also characterized by a quartic scalar-field coupling over five times larger than that anticipated for an equivalent Higgs mass obtained via conventional spontaneous symmetry breaking, leading to a concomitant enhancement of processes (such as $W^+ W^- \to ZZ$) sensitive to this coupling. Moreover, if the QCD coupling constant is taken to be sufficiently strong, the tree potential's local minimum at $ϕ= 0$ is shown to be restored for the summation of leading logarithm corrections. Thus if QCD exhibits a two-phase structure similar to that of $N = 1$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, the weaker asymptotically-free phase of QCD may be selected by the large logarithm behaviour of the RG-improved effective potential for radiatively broken electroweak symmetry.
description: latex2e using amsmath, 36 pages, 7 eps figures embedded in latex. Section 8.3 errors asociated with electroweak coupling effects are corrected
Impacts of Liberalization on Agriculture and Trade: A Case Study of Uzbekistan
Creators: name: Sattarov, Doniyor
name: Schmitz, P. Michael
name: Mal, Puran
name: Sattarov, Doniyor
name: Schmitz, P. Michael
name: Mal, Puran
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Uzbekistan
subject: agricultural sector
subject: agriculture trade
subject: liberalization
subject: AGRISIM Model.

description: The agricultural sector of Uzbekistan is still characterized by unsustainable production patterns and the agricultural institutions of the country are controlled to a large extent through government intervention. The Government takes the decision to grow cotton and wheat and fix the output prices. The decision about the production quotas for cotton and wheat leads to a restricted area and water availability for growing other crops. The country is affected by a locally occurring climate change as well as regional climate change threatens to aggravate existing water use conflicts. The current and expected climatic conditions are showing the additional irrigation applications for a sustainable and fruitful agricultural production. The partial implementation of reforms such as privatization and liberalization of agricultural markets affect the development of agriculture and agricultural trade in Uzbekistan. This paper highlights the major effects of market and price liberalization on agricultural trade using the partial equilibrium model AGRISIM which is based on the "Static World Policy Simulation Model" (SWOPSIM)of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).With the help of the model, changes in general economic conditions and policy intervention in agricultural markets and foreign trade are simulated. The study suggests that the issues of sustainable agriculture development and food security in Uzbekistan can be achieved through, liberalization of agricultural markets and trade specially wheat and cotton.
Performance Evaluation of Histogram Equalization and Fuzzy image Enhancement Techniques on Low Contrast Images
Creators: name: Onyedinma, E
name: Onyenwe, I
name: Inyiama, H
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Image enhancement aims at improving the information content of original image for a specific purpose. This purpose could be for visual interpretation or for effective extraction of required details. Nevertheless, some acquired images are often associated with pixels of low dynamic range and as such result in low contrast images. Enhancing the contrast therefore tends to increase the dynamic range of the gray levels in the acquired image so as to span the full intensity range. Techniques such as Histogram Equalization (HE) and fuzzy technique can be adopted for contrast enhancement. HE adjusts the contrast of an input image by modifying the intensity distribution of its histogram. It is characterized by providing a global approach to image enhancement, computationally fast and easy to implement approach but can introduce unnatural artifacts and other undesirable elements to the resulting image. Fuzzy technique on its part enhances image by mapping the image gray level intensities into a fuzzy plane using membership functions; modifying the membership functions as desired and mapping back into the gray level plane. Thus, details at desired areas can be enhanced at the expense of increase in computational cost. This paper explores the effect of the use of HE and fuzzy technique to enhance low contrast images. Their performances are evaluated using the Mean squared error (MSE), Peak to signal noise ratio (PSNR), entropy and Absolute mean brightness error (AMBE).
Linking the Price of Agricultural Land to Use Values and Amenities
Creators: name: Borchers, Allison
name: Ifft, Jennifer
name: Kuethe, Todd H.
name: Borchers, Allison
name: Ifft, Jennifer
name: Kuethe, Todd H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Land Economics/Use

description: In many areas throughout the United States, the market value of agricultural land exceeds its use value in agricultural production. This deviation is the result of many factors, including urban influence, recreation, mineral extraction, and other natural amenities. This study examines the drivers of the nonagricultural portion of cropland and pastureland values across the United States using a rich geospatial data framework linked to the USDA’s June Area Survey. The analysis suggests that many natural amenities and urban pressures shape the value of US cropland and pastureland, and that development potential is the largest driver of the nonagricultural component of farmland values.
Stenocypris derupta Vavra 1906
Creators: name: Ma, Shunxin
name: Yu, Na
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cyprididae
Stenocypris
Stenocypris derupta

description: Stenocypris derupta Vávra, 1906
(Figure 18a)
 Stenocypris derupta sp. nov. Vávra, 1906: 413–438.
 Material examined
Five empty valves collected and measured, all preserved in micropalaeontological slides (ECNU20140913/TT65.1–5).
 Dimensions
 (Female, LV, n = 2) Length, 2.32–2.50 mm; height, 0.87–0.98 mm.
 Brief description
In lateral view, dorsal margin arched. Ventral margin straight. Anterior end wide. Postero-ventral margin sharply pointed. Marginal septa present.
 Distribution
 Stenocypris derupta was reported from Indonesia (Vávra 1906) and India (Patil and Talmale 2005). In China, this species has been recorded from Hubei (Chen 1956), Jiangxi (Zhang et al. 1994) and Jiangsu (Yu et al. 2005).
 Remarks
 There are 37 species in the genus Stenocypris (Martens and Savatenalinton 2011). Among them, the postero-ventral margin of seven species is sharply pointed, such as Stenocypris acuta Vávra, Stenocypris akatovae Semenova, S. derupta Vávra, 1906, Stenocypris dybowskii Grochmalicki, Stenocypris maxillaris Kiss, Stenocypris pancratovae Akatova, and Stenocypris sohni Deb, 1983. Six of these species, not including S. maxillaris, have no spines on the margin of RV. Moreover, the posterior end of the carapace is sharper in S. acuta than in S. derupta, and less pointed in S. akatovae, S. dybowskii, S. pancratovae and S. sohni compared with S. derupta. Among these seven species, three have been reported from Asia: S. derupta (Chen 1956; Zhang et al. 1994; Yu et al. 2005; Karuthapandi et al. 2014), S. pancratovae (Karanovic 2012) and S. sohni (Deb 1983); S. akatovae from Europe; and the other species were reported from Africa.
description: Published as part of Ma, Shunxin & Yu, Na, 2018, Freshwater ostracods (Crustacea) from Tiantong National Forest Park and Dongqian Lake, eastern China, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 1825-1868 in Journal of Natural History 52 (27 - 28) on page 1850, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1489085, http://zenodo.org/record/5175156
Dynamical Correlations for Vicious Random Walk with a Wall
Creators: name: Nagao, Taro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A one-dimensional system of nonintersecting Brownian particles is constructed as the diffusion scaling limit of Fisher's vicious random walk model. $N$ Brownian particles start from the origin at time $t=0$ and undergo mutually avoiding motion until a finite time $t=T$. Dynamical correlation functions among the walkers are exactly evaluated in the case with a wall at the origin. Taking an asymptotic limit $N \to \infty$, we observe discontinuous transitions in the dynamical correlations. It is further shown that the vicious walk model with a wall is equivalent to a parametric random matrix model describing the crossover between the Bogoliubov-deGennes universality classes.
description: LaTeX, 21 pages, no figure, minor corrections made before publication in Nucl. Phys. B
Let’s Talk About the Money: Spousal Communication, Expenditures and Farm Production
Creators: name: Chen, Joyce J.
name: Collins, LaPorchia
name: Chen, Joyce J.
name: Collins, LaPorchia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Asymmetric information
subject: Intra-household allocation
subject: Engel curve

description: There is a burgeoning literature highlighting asymmetric information among household members. However, little is known about the source of the asymmetry and its effect on efficiency. Using a unique survey of Ghanaian households, we examine the accuracy of spousal cross-reports and the effect of discrepancies on farm production. We find that information problems pertain to scale, the quantity of resources, and scope, the distribution of resources, as well as allocation decisions on the margin (Engel curves). Moreover, we find that information asymmetries lead to inefficiency in production, and the effect is equivalent to about 15% of the variation across households.
On the complexity of the steady-state of weakly symmetric open quantum lattices
Creators: name: Nigro, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of Lindblad equations on $d$-dimensional lattices supporting a unique steady-state configuration. We consider the case of a time evolution weakly symmetric under the action of a finite group $G$, which is also a symmetry group for the lattice structure. We show that in such case the steady-state belongs to a relevant subspace, and provide an explicit algorithm for constructing an orthonormal basis of such set. As explicitly shown for a spin-1/2 system, the dimension of such subspace is extremely smaller than the dimension of the set of square operators. As a consequence, by projecting the dynamics within such set, the steady-state configuration can be determined with a considerably reduced amount of resources. We demonstrate the validity of our theoretical results by determinining the \emph{exact} structure of the steady-state configuration of the two dimensional XYZ model in the presence of uniform dissipation, with and without magnetic fields, up to a number of sites equal to 12. As far as we know, this is the first time one is capable of determining the steady-state structure of such model for the 12 sites cluster exactly. Altough in this work we consider explicitly only spin-1/2 systems, our approach can be exploited in the characterisation of arbitrary spin systems, fermion and boson systems (with truncated Fock space), as well as many-particle systems with degrees of freedom having different statistical properties.
Outplacement - Responsible Redundancies in the Context of Regional Development
Creators: name: Klimczuk, Andrzej
name: Klimczuk-Kochańska, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: Trwający na początku XXI wieku globalny kryzys gospodarczy wymusza podejmowanie przez przedsiębiorstwa działań restrukturyzacyjnych. Zmiany te często wiążą się z redukcją zatrudnienia i kształtowaniem nowych relacji z pracownikami. Outplacement stanowi wciąż mało popularną i słabo rozpoznawalną w Polsce koncepcję odpowiedzialnego zarządzania zwolnieniami pracowników, która pozwala na złagodzenie negatywnych skutków utraty pracy i na skrócenie okresu bezrobocia. Celem opracowania jest przybliżenie istoty i potencjału stosowania outplacementu w Polsce. Podjęta krytyczna analiza literatury przedmiotu obejmuje wskazanie działań na rzecz antycypacji procesów restrukturyzacji i funkcji zwolnień monitorowanych w ochronie kompetencji kluczowych przedsiębiorstw. Określeni zostali główni interesariusze outplacementu w skali regionalnej oraz możliwości organizacji outplacementu przez partnerstwa i pakty lokalne, czyli z udziałem podmiotów sektora komercyjnego, publicznego i pozarządowego. Podsumowanie zawiera wnioski, co do możliwych działań praktycznych. The ongoing at the beginning of the XXI century global economic crisis forces companies to take over restructuring actions. These changes are often associated with the reduction of employment and shaping of the new contract agreements with employees. Outplacement continues to be weakly popular and poorly recognized in Poland. It is the concept of responsible management of redundancies, which allows to mitigate the negative effects of losing a job and reduce the period of unemployment. The aim of this paper is to describe the essence and potential of outplacement usage in Poland. Undertaken critical analysis of the literature indicate measures for anticipate restructuring and outplacement functions in the protection of key enterprises competencies. Outplacement key stakeholders at the regional level were specified. Possibilities of outplacement organization including the local partnerships and pacts were explored. In other words, the cooperation of the commercial, public and non-governmental sector entities. Summary include proposals for further practical actions.
Stenocypris hirutai Smith and Kamiya 2006
Creators: name: Ma, Shunxin
name: Yu, Na
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cyprididae
Stenocypris
Stenocypris hirutai

description: Stenocypris hirutai Smith and Kamiya, 2006
(Figures 18b,c, 19)
 Stenocypris hirutai sp. nov. Smith and Kamiya, 2006: 337–339, figs. 2(f–i), 6, 7.
 Material examined
Seven females (ECNU20140914/TT14; ECNU20150421/TT53-54, 57; ECNU20150418/TT55- 56, 59) dissected.
 Dimensions
 (Female, n = 4) Length, 1.44–1.67 mm; height, 0.63–0.67 mm.
 Brief description
 Female, surface of carapace with setae along free margins. In lateral view, anterior end wider than posterior. LV overlapping RV ventrally. A2 with five short setae and one long natatory seta, five short setae equal in length, longest seta not reaching to middle of next segment. Two large bristles on third masticatory lobe of Mx1 smooth. Basal segment of L6 with two hirsute setae d, seta f reaching to end of next segment. UR asymmetrical, right one stronger than the left. UR ramus and terminal claws with well-developed denticles. Seta Sa long and seta Sp absent. UR attachment with basal triangular reinforcement.
 Distribution
 Stenocypris hirutai has been reported from Japan (Smith and Kamiya 2006; Tanaka et al. 2015) and South Korea (Smith et al. 2015). This is a new report for China.
 Remarks
Comparing with Japanese specimens (Smith and Kamiya 2006), the carapace of our specimens is larger and the denticles on stem of right UR are larger and longer (Figure 19).
description: Published as part of Ma, Shunxin & Yu, Na, 2018, Freshwater ostracods (Crustacea) from Tiantong National Forest Park and Dongqian Lake, eastern China, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 1825-1868 in Journal of Natural History 52 (27 - 28) on pages 1851-1852, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1489085, http://zenodo.org/record/5175156
title: ÉVALUATION DE L’EFFICACITÉ D’UNE CURE THERMALE À MONTROND-LES-BAINS CHEZ DES PATIENTS PORTEURS D’UNE LOMBALGIE CHRONIQUE COMMUNE
title: Evaluation of effectiveness of crenotherapy at Montrond-les-Bains for patients suffering from common chronic lower back pain
Creators: name: Queneau, Patrice
name: Trèves, Richard
Publisher: name: Société Française de Médecine Thermale
Year: 2010

description: L’objectif de ce travail est d’évaluer l’efficacité de la crénothérapie sur la lombalgie chronique commune par une étude prospective ouverte avec le suivi d’une cohorte de 40 patients (25 femmes et 15 hommes, âgés, en moyenne, de 57 ans). Le recrutement a été local, entre avril 2005 et décembre 2006. Chaque patient est son propre témoin, suivi pendant 220 jours au cours de 4 consultations médicales : J-110, J0 (début de la cure), J+21 (fin de la cure) et J+110. Le critère principal d’évaluation de la lombalgie est l’intensité de la douleur, évaluée avec l’échelle visuelle analogique (EVA). Celui-ci diminue de façon statistiquement significative en fin de cure, cette diminution se prolongeant à J+110, montrant ainsi une rémanence de l’effet des soins dans les 3 mois qui suivent la fin de la cure. Il en est de même pour les critères secondaires d’évaluation, c’est-à-dire les paramètres cliniques de raideur rachidienne, les indices fonctionnel et psychologique de qualité de vie, ainsi que sur la consommation médicamenteuse, à court et moyen termes (après 3 mois).
description: The objective of this work is to evaluate the effectiveness of crenotherapy against common chronic lower back pain with an open prospective study based on the monitoring of a group of 40 patients (25 women and 15 men, with an average age of 57). Recruitment was made locally between April 2005 and December 2006. Each patient being his own witness, monitored for 220 days by means of 4 medical check-ups : D-110, D0 (start of treatment), D+21 (end of treatment) and D+110. The main evaluation criterion for lower back pain was the pain intensity, evaluated via the analogical visual scale (EVA). This decreases in statistically significant way at the end of the therapy ; this decrease carrying on until D+110, thus indicating a remaining effect of the treatment during the 3 months following the end of the therapy. The same applies to the secondary evaluation criteria, i.e. the clinical parameters for lumbar stiffness, the functional and psychological markers for quality of life, as well as for medications consumption, short and medium term (after 3 months).
The Hopf algebras of signed permutations, of weak quasi-symmetric functions and of Malvenuto-Reutenauer
Creators: name: Guo, Li
name: Thibon, Jean-Yves
name: Yu, Houyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05, 16T30, 16W99

description: This paper builds on two covering Hopf algebras of the Hopf algebra QSym of quasi-symmetric functions, with linear bases parameterized by compositions. One is the Malvenuto-Reutenauer Hopf algebra SSym of permutations, mapped onto QSym by taking descents of permutations. The other one is the recently introduced Hopf algebra RQSym of weak quasi-symmetric functions, mapped onto QSym by extracting compositions from weak compositions. We extend these two surjective Hopf algebra homomorphisms into a commutative diagram by introducing a Hopf algebra HSym, linearly spanned by signed permutations from the hyperoctahedral groups, equipped with the shifted quasi-shuffle product and deconcatenation coproduct. Extracting a permutation from a signed permutation defines a Hopf algebra surjection form HSym to SSym and taking a suitable descent from a signed permutation defines a linear surjection from HSym to RQSym. The notion of signed $P$-partitions from signed permutations is introduced which, by taking generating functions, gives fundamental weak quasi-symmetric functions and sends the shifted quasi-shuffle product to the product of the corresponding generating functions. Together with the existing Hopf algebra surjections from SSym and RQSym to QSym, we obtain a commutative diagram of Hopf algebras revealing the close relationship among compositions, weak compositions, permutations and signed permutations.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures
Are Women Better Bankers to the Poor? Evidence from Rural Microfinance Institutions
Creators: name: Hartarska, Valentina
name: Mersland, Roy
name: Nadolnyak, Denis
name: Hartarska, Valentina
name: Mersland, Roy
name: Nadolnyak, Denis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: microfinance
subject: microfinance institutions
subject: gender and finance
subject: outreach
subject: efficiency

description: This article asks if women are better bankers to the poor, motivated by recent work showing differences in performance between male and female CEOs in financial firms and in NGOs. We adapt the banking approach to managerial efficiency to account for the outreach and sustainability goals of Microfinance Institutions. We then evaluate whether outreach efficiency differs by the CEO's gender using panel data from 250 MFIs worldwide. We find that in rural markets, MFIs with female CEOs have 12-14 point higher outreach efficiency suggesting that promoting gender diversity at the top is likely to have social and financial benefits.
Concept of Solidarity of Generations in the National Social Policy
Creators: name: Klimczuk, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Artykuł omawia główne cechy koncepcji "solidarności pokoleń". Podejście to jest wykorzystywane w analizach dotyczących procesu starzenia się społeczeństw na początku XXI wieku oraz w projektowaniu polityki publicznej. Opracowanie przybliża podstawowe znaczenia pojęć dotyczących pokolenia i relacji międzypokoleniowych. Zwrócono uwagę, iż solidarność pokoleń stanowi kwestię socjalną wymagającą wspólnych interwencji podmiotów publicznych, komercyjnych i pozarządowych. Praca prezentuje też wnioski z krytycznej analizy założeń działań na rzecz solidarności pokoleniowej zaprezentowanych w wybranych dokumentach projektu cywilizacyjnego "Polska 2030. Trzecia fala nowoczesności". The article discusses the main features of "solidarity of generations" concept. This approach is used in the analysis of the ageing process at the beginning of the XXI century as well as in designing of public policy. Essay introduces the basic concepts of generations and relationships between generations meaning. Article emphasizes that solidarity between generations is a social issue that requires the combined intervention of public, commercial and non-commercial bodies. Paper presents a conclusions from critical analysis of assumptions for the solidarity of generations included in the selected documents of civilizational project "Poland 2030. The Third Wave of Modernity."
Interferometer Observations of Subparsec-scale Infrared Emission in the Nucleus of NGC 4151
Creators: name: Swain, M.
name: Vasisht, G.
name: Akeson, R.
name: Monnier, J.
name: Millan-Gabet, R.
name: Serabyn, E.
name: Creech-Eakman, M.
name: van Belle, G.
name: Beletic, J.
name: Beichman, C.
name: Boden, A.
name: Booth, A.
name: Colavita, M.
name: Gathright, J.
name: Hrynevych, M.
name: Koresko, C.
name: Mignant, D. Le
name: Ligon, R.
name: Mennesson, B.
name: Neyman, C.
name: Sargent, A.
name: Shao, M.
name: Thompson, R.
name: Unwin, S.
name: Wizinowich, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report novel, high-angular resolution interferometric measurements that imply the near-infrared nuclear emission in NGC 4151 is unexpectedly compact. We have observed the nucleus of NGC 4151 at 2.2 microns using the two 10-meter Keck telescopes as an interferometer and find a marginally resolved source ~0.1 pc in diameter. Our measurements rule out models in which a majority of the K band nuclear emission is produced on scales larger than this size. The interpretation of our measurement most consistent with other observations is that the emission mainly originates directly in the central accretion disk. This implies that AGN unification models invoking hot, optically thick dust may not be applicable to NGC 4151.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, Letters
Economic Insights Required for Using Lifecycle Analysis for Policy Decisions
Creators: name: Klotz, Richard
name: Bento, Antonio M.
name: Landry, Joel R.
name: Klotz, Richard
name: Bento, Antonio M.
name: Landry, Joel R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: greenhouse gas emissions
subject: lifecycle analysis
subject: biofuel policies

description: We develop an analytic and numerical model that integrates land, food and fuel markets and is linked with a sectoral emissions model to examine how the amount of biofuel in the economy impacts the lifecycle emissions of a biofuel under different policies. Our central finding is that the change in GHG emissions due to a unit expansion in biofuel will vary dramatically in the amount of biofuel in the economy and with the policy driving the expansion. The emissions from a unit expansion in corn ethanol due to a blend mandate fall from 12 gCO2e/MJ to 3 gCO2e/MJ, as the quantity of ethanol in the economy increases from 6 to 15 billion gallons. For an input subsidy, emissions due to a unit of ethanol increase from 15 gCO2e/MJ to 26 gCO2e/MJ over the same increase in ethanol. We discuss the implications of these results for lifecycle analysis.
Gry komputerowe i branża gier a sztuka komiksowa
Creators: name: (98049), Andrzej Klimczuk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Growth in popularity of computer (video) games is a noticeable change in recent years. Electronic entertainment increasingly engages the wider society and reaches to new audiences by offering them satisfy of wide variety of needs and aspirations. As a mass media games not only provide entertainment, but they are also an important source of income, knowledge and social problems. Article aims to bring closer look on the common areas of games and comics. On the one hand designers and artists working on games are often inspired by comic books, as well as they create their licensed adaptations and separate "interactive issues". On the other hand more and more often we can see comics based on popular games. Study present the areas of agreement, cooperation or dependence like: technologies used to create games and comic books, use of comic books to comment events in the gaming industry and organization of exhibitions or events popularizing the works from both fields. W ostatnich latach dostrzegalny jest wzrost popularności gier komputerowych (wideo). Elektroniczna rozrywka angażuje uwagę coraz to szerszych kręgów społecznych i dociera do nowych grup odbiorców oferując im zaspokojenie najrozmaitszych potrzeb i aspiracji. Jako środek masowego przekazu gry dostarczają nie tylko rozrywki, ale stanowią też istotne źródło dochodów, wiedzy i problemów społecznych. Celem artykułu jest przybliżenie wspólnych obszarów gier i komiksu. Z jednej strony projektanci i artyści pracujący nad grami często czerpią inspirację z komiksów, jak również tworzą ich licencjonowane adaptacje i odrębne, "interaktywne numery". Z drugiej zaś coraz częściej publikowane są komiksy bazujące na popularnych grach. Opracowanie przedstawia również takie obszary porozumienia, współpracy, bądź zależności jak: technologie wykorzystywane przy tworzeniu gier i komiksów, zastosowanie komiksów w komentowaniu wydarzeń branży gier oraz organizowanie wystaw i imprez popularyzujących twórczość z obu dziedzin.
Additional file 6: of Individualized induction chemotherapy by pre-treatment plasma Epstein-Barr viral DNA in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian
name: Peng, Hao
name: Li, Wen-Fei
name: Zhang, Yuan
name: Liu, Li-Zhi
name: Tian, Li
name: Lin, Ai-Hua
name: Sun, Ying
name: Ma, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Table S4.Results of multivariate analysis for the selected 1191 pairs with pre-treatment Epstein-Barr virus DNAâ â ¤â 4650 copies/ml. (DOCX 15 kb)
Low-speed impact craters in loose granular media
Creators: name: Uehara, J. S.
name: Ambroso, M. A.
name: Ojha, R. P.
name: Durian, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on craters formed by balls dropped into dry, non-cohesive, granular media. By explicit variation of ball density $ρ_{b}$, diameter $D_{b}$, and drop height $H$, the crater diameter is confirmed to scale as the 1/4 power of the energy of the ball at impact: $D_{c}\sim(ρ_{b}{D_{b}}^{3}H)^{1/4}$. Against expectation, a different scaling law is discovered for the crater depth: $d\sim({ρ_{b}}^{3/2}{D_{b}}^{2}H)^{1/3}$. The scaling with properties of the medium is also established. The crater depth has significance for granular mechanics in that it relates to the stopping force on the ball.
description: experiment; 4 pages, 3 figures
Disorder driven multifractality transition in Weyl nodal loops
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Miguel
name: Ribeiro, Pedro
name: Castro, Eduardo V.
name: Araújo, Miguel A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of short-range disorder in nodal line semimetals is studied by numerically exact means. For arbitrary small disorder, a novel semimetallic phase is unveiled for which the momentum-space amplitude of the ground-state wave function is concentrated around the nodal line and follows a multifractal distribution. At a critical disorder strength, a semimetal to compressible metal transition occurs, coinciding with a multi- to single-fractality transition. The universality class of this critical point is characterized by the correlation length and dynamical exponents. At considerably higher disorder, an Anderson metal-insulator transition takes place. Our results show that the nature of the semimetallic phase in non-clean samples is fundamentally different from a clean nodal semimetal.
The Healthy Incentives Pilot and Fruit and Vegetable Intake: Interim Results
Creators: name: Klerman, Jacob Alex
name: Bartlett, Susan
name: Wilde, Parke
name: Olsho, Lauren
name: Klerman, Jacob Alex
name: Bartlett, Susan
name: Wilde, Parke
name: Olsho, Lauren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Health Economics and Policy

description: In response to low consumption of fruits and vegetables by SNAP recipients, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service created the Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP) to test the efficacy of providing a 30% incentive for purchases of fruits and vegetables. Published elasticity estimates imply that a pure price reduction of 30% would increase fruit and vegetable consumption by about 20%, i.e., about a fifth of a cup per day. This paper considers the applicability of predictions based on a pure price reduction. It then reports interim results of a random assignment evaluation of HIP which find an increase of about a fifth of a cup per day.
MOESM2 of An operon consisting of a P-type ATPase gene and a transcriptional regulator gene responsible for cadmium resistances in Bacillus vietamensis 151–6 and Bacillus marisflavi 151–25
Creators: name: Yu, Xiaoxia
name: Ding, Zundan
name: Ji, Yangyang
name: Zhao, Jintong
name: Liu, Xiaoqing
name: Tian, Jian
name: Wu, Ningfeng
name: Fan, Yunliu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Primers used in this study.
Escape from Third-Best: Rating Emissions for Intensity Standards
Creators: name: Lemoine, Derek M.
name: Lemoine, Derek M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: externality
subject: emission
subject: intensity
subject: rating
subject: second-best

description: An increasingly common type of environmental policy instrument limits the carbon intensity of transportation and electricity markets. In order to extend the policy's scope beyond point-of-use emissions, regulators assign each competing fuel an emission intensity rating for use in calculating compliance. I show that welfare-maximizing ratings do not generally coincide with the best estimates of actual emissions. In fact, the regulator can achieve a higher level of welfare by manipulating the emission ratings than by manipulating the level of the standard. Moreover, a fuel's optimal rating can actually decrease when its estimated emission intensity increases. Numerical simulations of the California Low-Carbon Fuel Standard suggest that when recent scientific information suggested greater emissions from conventional ethanol, regulators should have lowered ethanol's rating (making it appear less emission-intensive) so that the fuel market would clear with a lower quantity.
Współczesna polityka społeczna wobec niepełnosprawności i osób niepełnosprawnych (Contemporary Social Policy Towards Disability and Disabled People)
Creators: name: Klimczuk, Andrzej
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: Niepełnosprawność jest jedną z cech różnicujących jednostki i grupy we współczesnych społeczeństwach. Osoby o ograniczonej sprawności fizycznej, poznawczej i psychicznej są szczególnie narażone na dyskryminację oraz wykluczenie społeczne, gospodarcze i polityczne. Co istotne kwestia socjalna osób niepełnosprawnych na początku XXI wieku zmienia się wchodząc w relację z procesem starzenia się ludności. Artykuł ma na celu przybliżenie wybranych teoretycznych koncepcji działań na rzecz poprawy wizerunku niepełnosprawności i ograniczania barier doświadczanych przez osoby niepełnosprawne w dostępie do różnego rodzaju zasobów, przestrzeni i szans. Krytyczna analiza literatury przedmiotu obejmuje wskazanie cech koncepcji polityki aktywizacji oraz zasad i celów polityki społecznej w holistycznym paradygmacie normalizacji. Podsumowanie zawiera możliwe dalsze kierunki badań i analiz. Disability is one of the features that differentiate individuals and groups in modern societies. People with reduced physical, cognitive and psychological efficiency are particularly exposed to discrimination and social, economic and political exclusion. What's important social issue of people with disabilities in the early 21st century changes by entering into a relationship with the ageing of the population. Article aims to introduce some theoretical concepts efforts to improve the image of disability and reduce the barriers faced by persons with disabilities in access to different kinds of resources, spaces and opportunities. A critical analysis of the literature includes: description of the concept of activation policy as well as principles and objectives of social policy in a holistic paradigm of normalization. This summary contains possible future directions of research and analysis.
MOESM1 of Effects of larval diets and temperature regimes on life history traits, energy reserves and temperature tolerance of male Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae): optimizing rearing techniques for the sterile insect programmes
Creators: name: Hadian Sasmita
name: Wu-Chun Tu
name: Lee-Jin Bong
name: Kok-Boon Neoh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The result of Studentʼs t-test for independent samples between diets (Khan’s and IAEA 2) across temperature regimes (P = 0.05).
Vestalenula cornelia Smith 2006
Creators: name: Ma, Shunxin
name: Yu, Na
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Darwinulidae
Vestalenula
Vestalenula cornelia

description: Vestalenula cornelia Smith et al., 2006
(Figure 25c,d)
 Vestalenula cornelia sp. nov. Smith et al., 2006: 1570; figs. 1–3.
 Material examined
Three females (ECNU20150419/TT77-79) dissected.
 Dimensions
 (Female, n = 3) Length, 0.47–0.54 mm; height, 0.24–0.26 mm; width, 0.23 mm.
 Brief description
 In dorsal view, LV overlapping RV both anteriorly and posteriorly. Postero-ventral keel on RV equalling 19% of total length of carapace. In lateral view, posterior end wider than the anterior. A1 with one ventral-distal seta. Claw Gm on A2 long, slightly shorter than claw GM. P-abd without seta.
 Distribution
This species was firstly reported from Japan (Smith et al. 2006). It is a new record for China.
 Remarks
 Only females were found in our samples, but males of V. cornelia have been reported from Japan (Smith et al. 2006). Our specimens are slightly longer than Japanese specimens. The keel on the RV of our specimens is located in a slightly more posterior position, and is not as smooth as the Japanese specimen.
description: Published as part of Ma, Shunxin & Yu, Na, 2018, Freshwater ostracods (Crustacea) from Tiantong National Forest Park and Dongqian Lake, eastern China, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 1825-1868 in Journal of Natural History 52 (27 - 28) on page 1863, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1489085, http://zenodo.org/record/5175156
Symmetric polynomials in the symplectic alphabet and their expression via Dickson--Zhukovsky variables
Creators: name: Alexandersson, Per
name: González-Serrano, Luis Angel
name: Maximenko, Egor A.
name: Moctezuma-Salazar, Mario Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05 (primary), 05E10, 15B05 (secondary)

description: Given a symmetric polynomial $P$ in $2n$ variables, there exists a unique symmetric polynomial $Q$ in $n$ variables such that \[ P(x_1,\ldots,x_n,x_1^{-1},\ldots,x_n^{-1}) =Q(x_1+x_1^{-1},\ldots,x_n+x_n^{-1}). \] We denote this polynomial $Q$ by $Φ_n(P)$ and show that $Φ_n$ is an epimorphism of algebras. We compute $Φ_n(P)$ for several families of symmetric polynomials $P$: symplectic and orthogonal Schur polynomials, elementary symmetric polynomials, complete homogeneous polynomials, and power sums. Some of these formulas were already found by Elouafi (2014) and Lachaud (2016). The polynomials of the form $Φ_n(\operatorname{s}_{λ/μ}^{(2n)})$, where $\operatorname{s}_{λ/μ}^{(2n)}$ is a skew Schur polynomial in $2n$ variables, arise naturally in the study of the minors of symmetric banded Toeplitz matrices, when the generating symbol is a palindromic Laurent polynomial, and its roots can be written as $x_1,\ldots,x_n,x^{-1}_1,\ldots,x^{-1}_n$. Trench (1987) and Elouafi (2014) found efficient formulas for the determinants of symmetric banded Toeplitz matrices. We show that these formulas are equivalent to the result of Ciucu and Krattenthaler (2009) about the factorization of the characters of classical groups.
description: 38 pages
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 216
Creators: name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Dankers, William H.
name: Engene, Selmer A.
name: Garver, W.B.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Dankers, William H.
name: Engene, Selmer A.
name: Garver, W.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1940
Subjects: Agribusiness
Production Economics

description: Farm Income in Minnesota; Methods in assisting cooperative creameries; Farmers can increase their earnings; Minnesota farm prices for November 1940
Deliverable D5.3 - Intermediate report on KPI and KVI validation
Creators: name: Ivanovic, Filip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report covers the steps taken to implement testing solutions in the 6G-SANDBOX project as of August 31st 2024. An initial test scope is defined, as well as a main set of KPIs that will be put under test. Two main types of tests are conducted: those testing network cores, or end to end tests that test a full network setup, RAN included. Two Keysight tools are employed for this task, LoadCore for the former and IxChariot for the latter. All 4 6G-SANDBOX platforms (Athens, Berlin, Malaga, Oulu) were put under test, with multiple different trial networks defined and tested at each platform. This report introduces the concept of the Reference Trial Network, which was used during this process to achieve calibration between the platforms. The overall concepts of Inter-Platform and Intra-Platform calibration are also defined, both of which leverage the concept of the Reference Trial Network to provide 6G-SANDBOX users the ability to contextualize any and every measured result. Measurement results from multiple different test cases are presented. Each platform presents an analysis of these results, what they mean for the platforms performance and potential explanations for any outliers. The performance of each Reference Trial Network implementation is also compared in greater detail. The testing process detailed within was successful, in terms of result production and the drawing of large- and small-scale conclusions. A noticeable delta in the performance of the Reference Trial Network between the 4 platforms hasled to the realization that future iterations of the Reference Trial Network need to be defined more granularly, especially in terms of the hardware and virtualization specifications. The difficulties encountered in the implementation of the testing solutions mean that the future process of automating the testing process will need to be approached more carefully and critically than previously expected. This report is an important stepstone for 6G-SANDBOX and will greatly inform and guide the path of continuing testing work in the project.
Additional file 1: of Prevalence and relationship of malnutrition and distress in patients with Cancer using questionnaires
Creators: name: Zhu, Chenjing
name: Wang, Baoqing
name: Gao, Yuan
name: Ma, Xuelei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Questionnaires derived from DT, PG-SGA and NRS2002 which contain questions about basic demographic information, nutritional status, and level of psychological distress of patients. (DOCX 653 kb)
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 217
Creators: name: Boss, Andrew
name: Cox, Rex W.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Garver, W.B.
name: Boss, Andrew
name: Cox, Rex W.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Garver, W.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1941
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: A Program for Minnesota Farms in 1941; The amount and expenditures for hired labor on Minnesota Farms; Minnesota farm prices for December 1940
MOESM1 of The chemical case for Mercury mantle stripping
Creators: name: Helffrich, George
name: Brasser, Ramon
name: Shahar, Anat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1 Discussion of fmetal for chondritic meteorites. Figure S1 Carbon saturation as a function of pressure. Figure S2a Compatibility of S and FeO content of Mercury’s mantle with pressure of metal/silicate equilibration for various core S contents (1, 2, 5 and 7 wt%), using Chabot bulk silicate composition. Figure S2b Compatibility of S and FeO content of Mercury’s mantle with pressure of metal/silicate equilibration for various core S contents (1, 2, 5 and 7 wt%), using Zolotov bulk silicate composition. Figure S3 Comparison of modeled bulk Mercury Fe, Mg and Si against various chondritic meteorite classes.
Supplementary Figures and Tables from Parasitic wasps do not lack lipogenesis
Creators: name: Ruther, Joachim
name: Prager, Lorena
name: Pokorny, Tamara
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: This file contains Figures S1-S8 and Tables S1-S3.
Minnesota Farm Business Notes No. 218
Creators: name: Toben, G.E.
name: Baughman, E. T.
name: Dankers, William H.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Garver, W.B.
name: Toben, G.E.
name: Baughman, E. T.
name: Dankers, William H.
name: Waite, Warren C.
name: Garver, W.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1941
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management

description: AAA Payments and Practices in Southeastern Minnesota, 1939; More farmers must file income tax returns; Marketing poultry and eggs through cooperative creameries in West Central Minnesota; Minnesota farm prices for January 1941
Competition of percolation and phase separation in a fluid of adhesive hard spheres
Creators: name: Miller, Mark A.
name: Frenkel, Daan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a combination of Monte Carlo techniques, we locate the liquid--vapor critical point of adhesive hard spheres. We find that the critical point lies deep inside the gel region of the phase diagram. The (reduced) critical temperature and density are $τ_c=0.1133\pm0.0005$ and $ρ_c=0.508\pm0.01$. We compare these results with the available theoretical predictions. Using a finite-size scaling analysis, we verify that the critical behavior of the adhesive hard sphere model is consistent with that of the 3D Ising universality class.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures