cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Precipitation kinetics of Al3Zr and Al3Sc in aluminum alloys modeled with cluster dynamics
Creators: name: Clouet, Emmanuel
name: Barbu, Alain
name: Laé, Ludovic
name: Martin, Georges
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precipitation kinetics of Al3Zr and Al3Sc in aluminum supersaturated solid solutions is studied using cluster dynamics, a mesoscopic modeling technique which describes the various stages of homogeneous precipitation by a single set of rate equations. The only parameters needed are the interface free energy and the diffusion coefficient which are deduced from an atomic model previously developed to study the same alloys. A comparison with kinetic Monte Carlo simulations based on the vacancy diffusion mechanism shows that cluster dynamics correctly predicts the precipitation kinetics provided a size dependent interface free energy is used. It also manages to reproduce reasonably well existing experimental data.
description: Acta Mater. (2005), in press
The Sustainability and Cost-Effectiveness of Water Storage Projects on Canterbury Rivers: The Opihi River Case
Creators: name: Hearnshaw, Edward J.S.
name: Cullen, Ross
name: Hearnshaw, Edward J.S.
name: Cullen, Ross
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Cost utility analysis
subject: ecosystem services
subject: ecosystem services index
subject: indicators
subject: sustainability
subject: water storage projects

description: There is an increasing demand for water resources in the Canterbury region. The impact of this demand has lead to unacceptable minimum river flows, which has resulted in adverse affects to river ecology. In an effort to resolve this problem water storage projects have gained considerable attention. However, in order to consider all values of the impact of water storage projects, a systematic way of implementing an ecosystem services approach is developed. This ecosystem services approach coupled with various appropriate analytical methods are developed for the purposes of evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water storage projects and the sustainability of river systems impacted by water storage projects. For the purposes of evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water storage projects it is argued that cost utility analysis should be applied through an ecosystem services index, which is constructed from the aggregation of normalized indicators that represent each ecosystem service and preferential weights for each ecosystem service. The evaluation of sustainability is considered both according to its weak and strong definitions. Weak sustainability is evaluated by a non-declining ecosystem services index over time. Strong sustainability is evaluated by the elicitation of threshold levels or safe minimum standards where an ecosystem service, as represented by an indicator, should not pass below. These analytical methods developed are subsequently applied to the Opihi River, which is a river system located in Canterbury that has been hydrologically modified and impounded by the Opuha Dam scheme. The application of the analytical methods to the Opihi River provides a few preliminary results. Further data collection is required to fully determine the cost-effectiveness of the Opuha Dam and the sustainability of the Opihi River impacted by the dam scheme.
New approach to analyze relationships between agritouristic supply and territory
Creators: name: Iseppi, Luca
name: Ginaldi, Fabrizio
name: Iseppi, Luca
name: Ginaldi, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Rural Tourism
subject: Agritourism
subject: Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA)
subject: Agricultural Policy.

description: This paper defines the phenomenon of agritourism in Friuli Venezia Giulia (NE Italy) at the end of 2009, in the light of the multifunctionality of agritouristic farms and taking into account the land use. The proposed statistical approach to outline the situation includes (a) the classification of the variables linked to agritouristic supply to find the main supply types, (b) the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in order to classify the regional agritourisms according to their supply and (c) the Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) to investigate the relationships between agritouristic supply, agricultural land use and territory. Since the CCA is widely used only in social and environmental sciences, this work represents its first application in agribusiness field. The method becomes important during the agricultural policy planning processes because it provides decision makers with a means of rapid assessment of the relationships between rural supply and land uses on the territory.
title: Experimental Investigations on Temperature Generation and Release of Ultra-High Performance Concrete during Fatigue Tests
Creators: name: Deutscher, Melchior
name: Tran, Ngoc Linh
name: Scheerer, Silke
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Smarter, more filigree, and resource-saving buildings are the aim of developments in the construction industry. In reinforced concrete construction, ultra-high strength concretes have been developed to achieve these goals. Due to their use and requirements, these highly pressure-resistant materials are increasingly exposed to cyclically occurring and high-frequency loads. Examples of this are applications in long-span bridges or wind turbines. Research into the fatigue behaviour of the new construction material is therefore very important for the standardization and practical introduction of the high performance material. In this article, we want to investigate the heating process of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) under fatigue stress in more detail. In previous investigations in this project, an influence of the heating on the fatigue strength could be determined. A systematic parameter study has defined decisive load configurations for a maximum heating process. The aim is now to better understand the heating process. For this purpose, the temperature generation rate and the temperature release, which probably influences the overall temperature development, are investigated. A test program with eight experiments gives information about the temperature release during the experiment and the heating rate with and without pre-damage in the sample. In addition, the causes of failure caused by temperature are investigated with additional insulated tests. The results are presented, discussed, and conclusions are drawn in the article. For instance, fatigue damage affects the rate of temperature increase, but not the thermal conductivity of the material. In the different configurations, the test specimens essentially overlap at the maximum temperature reached in the inner test specimen. In addition to the assumed influence of the temperature gradients in the cross section as a cause of premature failure due to additional constraint stresses, the maximum temperature in particular turns out to be decisive, independent of the gradient.
Review protocol for BCAA on EIMD
Creators: name: Doma, Kenji
name: Connor, Jonathan
name: Harrison, Drew
name: Burt, Dean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110602 Exercise Physiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: BackgroundUnfamiliar exercises can cause a high level of exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD), particularly those that involve eccentric contractions. It is believed that the attenuation in muscular contractility caused by EIMD may compromise the quality of training, and thus appropriate recovery interventions need to be considered to minimise the level of EIMD. More recently, oral supplementation of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) has been reported to alleviate the signs and symptoms of EIMD, and therefore accelerate recovery following strenuous training sessions. However, several studies have also reported no benefit of BCAA supplementation for EIMD recovery, with conflicting findings possibly due to variation in study designs. A systematic exploration of the literature that addresses these methodological limitations may provide the overall benefit of BCAA supplementation for recovery, although a thorough investigation has yet to be conducted. Thus, the purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis will collate findings from various studies that have reported on the effects of BCAA supplementation on markers of EIMD.
Farm level impact of rural development policy: a conditional difference in difference matching approach
Creators: name: Salvioni, Cristina
name: Sciulli, Dario
name: Salvioni, Cristina
name: Sciulli, Dario
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Rural Development Policy
subject: conditional diff-in-diff matching

description: We use a conditional difference-in-difference matching estimator and a 2003-2007 balanced panel drawn from the FADN Italian sample to evaluate the impact at the farm level of the implementation of the first Italian Rural Development Programme (RDP). We find that, in average, farms receiving at least a RDP payment increased family labor, while they did not increase total labour employed on farm. In addition, they experienced an increase in labor profitability and added value, even though the estimate significance varies accordingly to the matching method used. Our findings, suggest that the implementation of the first RDP produced a positive direct impact on rural GDP, while it did not prove to be effective in terms of rural employment growth.
Generalised Holonomy for Higher-Order Corrections to Supersymmetric Backgrounds in String and M-Theory
Creators: name: Lu, H.
name: Pope, C. N.
name: Stelle, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The notion of {\it generalised structure groups} and {\it generalised holonomy groups} has been introduced in supergravity, in order to discuss the spinor rotations generated by commutators of supercovariant derivatives when non-vanishing form fields are included, with their associated gamma-matrix structures that go beyond the usual Γ_{MN} of the Riemannian connection. In this paper we investigate the generalisations to the usual Riemannian structure and holonomy groups that result from the inclusion of higher-order string or M-theory corrections in the supercovariant derivative. Even in the absence of background form fields, these corrections introduce additional terms Γ_{M_1... M_6} in the supercovariant connection, and hence they lead to enlarged structure and holonomy groups. In some cases, the corrected equations of motion force form fields to become non-zero too, which can further enlarge the groups. Our investigation focuses on the generalised structure and holonomy groups in the transverse spaces K_n of (Minkowski) \times K_n backgrounds for n=6, 7, 8 and 10, and shows how the generalised holonomies allow the continued existence of supersymmetric backgrounds even though the usual Riemannian special holonomy is destroyed by the inclusion of the string or M-theory corrections.
description: Latex, 23 pages, clarifying comments and references added
Core/Shell CdSe/CdS Bone-Shaped Nanocrystals with a Thick and Anisotropic Shell as Optical Emitters
Creators: name: Castelli, Andrea
name: Dhanabalan, Balaji
name: Polovitsyn, Anatolii
name: Caligiuri, Vincenzo
name: Di Stasio, Francesco
name: Scarpellini, Alice
name: Brescia, Rosaria
name: Palei, Milan
name: Martin-Garcia, Beatriz
name: Prato, Mirko
name: Manna, Liberato
name: Moreels, Iwan
name: Krahne, Roman
name: Arciniegas, Milena P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Colloidal core/shell nanocrystals are key materials for optoelectronics, enabling control over essential properties via precise engineering of the shape, thickness, and crystal lattice structure of their shell. Here, we apply the growth protocol for CdS branched nanocrystals on CdSe nanoplatelet seeds and obtain bone-shaped heterostructures with a highly anisotropic shell. Surprisingly, the nanoplatelets withstand the high growth temperature of 350 °C and we obtain structures with a CdSe nanoplatelet core that is overcoated by a shell of cubic CdS, on top of which tetrahedral CdS structures with hexagonal lattice are formed. These complex core/shell nanocrystals show a bandedge emission around 657 nm with a photoluminescence quantum yield of ca. 42 % in solution, which is also retained in thin films. Interestingly, the nanocrystals manifest simultaneous red and green emission, and the relatively long wavelength of the green emission indicates charge recombination at the cubic/hexagonal interface of the CdS shell. The nanocrystal films show amplified spontaneous emission, random lasing, and distributed feedback lasing when the material is deposited on suitable gratings. Our work stimulates the design and fabrication of more exotic core/shell heterostructures where charge carrier delocalization, dipole moment, and other optical and electrical properties can be engineered.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Abstract DNA-type systems
Creators: name: Aerts, Diederik
name: Czachor, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An abstract DNA-type system is defined by a set of nonlinear kinetic equations with polynomial nonlinearities that admit soliton solutions associated with helical geometry. The set of equations allows for two different Lax representations: A von Neumann form and a Darboux-covariant Lax pair. We explain why non-Kolmogorovian probability models occurring in soliton kinetics are naturally associated with chemical reactions. The most general known characterization of soliton kinetic equations is given and a class of explicit soliton solutions is discussed. Switching between open and closed states is a generic behaviour of the helices. The effect does not crucially depend on the order of nonlinearity (i.e. types of reactions), a fact that may explain why simplified models possess properties occuring in realistic systems. We explain also why fluctuations based on Darboux transformations will not destroy the dynamics but only switch between a finite number of helical structures.
description: version accepted in Nonlinearity
Supplemental Figure 2
Creators: name: Manjarin, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70204 Animal Nutrition
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science

description: Metabolomic profile in frontal cortex of juvenile Iberian pigs. Heatmap of relative abundance of metabolites in frontal cortex of 83-d-old pigs fed HFF and CON diets, with fold change and significance levels by HFF compared to CON. Columns are individual pigs (n = 5-6 animals per treatment) and rows are log-transformed metabolite data. Blue and red represent the row minimum and maximum values. P-values for each metabolite were calculated by a 2-way ANOVA with a mixed model, and adjusted for false discovery rate with Benjamin-Hochberg procedure. Significant P-values for t-tests are expressed as *P ≤ 0.05, **P ≤ 0.01, ***P ≤ 0.001, whereas P-values adjusted by FDR are presented in brackets.
Modeling the efficiency of the agri-environmental payments to Czech agriculture in a CGE framework incorporating public goods approach
Creators: name: Kristkova, Zuzana
name: Ratinger, Tomas
name: Majerova, Jana
name: Kristkova, Zuzana
name: Ratinger, Tomas
name: Majerova, Jana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Environmental public goods
subject: agri-environmental policy
subject: CGE models

description: Capturing agricultural multifunctionality challenges agricultural economists for more than a decade. On one hand, researchers increasingly build in their commodity based models provision of environmental protection and landscape maintenance, on the other hand, there are efforts as contingence valuation to assess the economic value of environmental benefits provided by agriculture. This paper and the corresponding research tries to merge the both research streams by incorporating supply and demand of landscape public good in the CGE framework. The former is done by including an explicit sector of joint commodity and noncommodity production in the model structure, the latter by extending the household demand system of willingness to pay for landscape. The approach is tested on four scenarios which are extensively compared.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 03/03/11.
The contribution of modeling tools to deal with the challenges of CAP policy evaluation
Creators: name: Kolodziejak, Andre
name: Kolodziejak, Andre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Modelling CAP evaluation

description: A very positive development in the last decade has been the increased interest of agricultural economists in ex post modeling. So far however this has not resulted in a strong increase of the use of modeling for ex post CAP evaluation purposes. It can be expected that the need for evidence based evaluation of the CAP, based on specific modeling tools for that purpose, will increase in the coming years. The more important role of the EU budget authority, the European Parliament, following the Lisbon Treaty is one of the driving factors of this increasing need. The EU 2020 strategy shows a political shift from the market liberalization processes of the past decades aiming at efficiency, such as the Internal Market, towards policies promoting stability and equity. The recent economic crisis and climate change adds to this. The effect of this will be that CAP policies will have to be evaluated more from a holistic and European added value perspective. In order to increase for the sake of good governance the role of ex post evaluation modeling, agricultural economists will succeed in providing and using excellent modeling tools if they are capable to formulate an agenda how to match their modeling tools in time with the substantially changing CAP and EU policies and their objectives.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 03/03/11.
Tommy Gold Revisited: Why Does Not The Universe Rotate?
Creators: name: Chapline, George
name: Mazur, Pawel O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding gravitational collapse requires understanding how $\sim 10^{58}$ nucleons can be destroyed in $\sim 10^{-5}$ seconds. The recent proposal that the endpoint of gravitational collapse can be a "dark energy star" implies that the mass-energy of the nucleons undergoing gravitational collapse can be converted to vacuum energy when one gets near to conditions where classical general relativity predicts that a trapped surface would form. The negative pressure associated with a large vacuum energy prevents an event horizon from forming, thus resolving the long-standing puzzle as to why gravitational collapse always leads to an explosion. An indirect consequence is that the reverse process - creation of matter from vacuum energy - should also be possible. Indeed this process may be responsible for the "big bang". In this new cosmology the observable universe began as a fluctuation in an overall steady state universe. The fluctuations in the CMB in this picture are the result of quantum turbulence associated with vorticity. This explanation for the CMB fluctuations is superior to inflationary scenarios because there is a natural explanation for both the level of CMB fluctuations and the deviation from a scale invariant spectrum at large scales.
description: 5 pages, LaTeX file, 1 figure, corrected spelling of the last name in the references (apologies to the author of that reference)
The continuum limit of quantum gravity at second order in perturbation theory
Creators: name: Kellett, Matthew
name: Mitchell, Alex
name: Morris, Tim R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that perturbative quantum gravity based on the Einstein-Hilbert action, has a novel continuum limit. The renormalized trajectory emanates from the Gaussian fixed point along (marginally) relevant directions but enters the diffeomorphism invariant subspace only well below a dynamically generated scale. We show that for pure quantum gravity to second order in perturbation theory, and with vanishing cosmological constant, the result is the same as computed in the standard quantisation. Although this case is renormalizable at second order for kinematic reasons, the structure we uncover works in general. One possibility is that gravity has a genuine consistent continuum limit even though it has an infinite number couplings. However we also suggest a possible non-perturbative mechanism, based on the parabolic properties of these flow equations, which would fix all higher order couplings in terms of Newton's constant and the cosmological constant.
description: 48 pages. 1 figure. 8 more pages with clarifications and new section on gauge parameter (in)dependence. To be publ in CQG
Reduction of Two-Dimensional Dilute Ising Spin Glasses
Creators: name: Boettcher, S.
name: Hartmann, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently proposed reduction method is applied to the Edwards-Anderson model on bond-diluted square lattices. This allows, in combination with a graph-theoretical matching algorithm, to calculate numerically exact ground states of large systems. Low-temperature domain-wall excitations are studied to determine the stiffness exponent y_2. A value of y_2=-0.281(3) is found, consistent with previous results obtained on undiluted lattices. This comparison demonstrates the validity of the reduction method for bond-diluted spin systems and provides strong support for similar studies proclaiming accurate results for stiffness exponents in dimensions d=3,...,7.
description: 7 pages, RevTex4, 6 ps-figures included, for related information, see http://www.physics.emory.edu/faculty/boettcher/
A model of cosmology and particle physics at an intermediate scale
Creators: name: Bastero-Gil, M.
name: Di Clemente, V.
name: King, S. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a model of cosmology and particle physics in which all relevant scales arise in a natural way from an intermediate string scale. We are led to assign the string scale to the intermediate scale M_* \sim 10^{13} GeV by four independent pieces of physics: electroweak symmetry breaking; the μparameter; the axion scale; and the neutrino mass scale. The model involves hybrid inflation with the waterfall field N being responsible for generating the μterm, the right-handed neutrino mass scale, and the Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking scale. The large scale structure of the Universe is generated by the lightest right-handed sneutrino playing the role of a coupled curvaton. We show that the correct curvature perturbations may be successfully generated providing the lightest right-handed neutrino is weakly coupled in the see-saw mechanism, consistent with sequential dominance.
description: 23 pages, 2 figures, uses axodraw.sty
Accelerating B-spline Interpolation on GPUs: Application to Medical Image Registration
Creators: name: Zachariadis, Orestis
name: Teatini, Andrea
name: Satpute, Nitin
name: Gómez-Luna, Juan
name: Mutlu, Onur
name: Elle, Ole Jakob
name: Olivares, Joaquín
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Background and Objective. B-spline interpolation (BSI) is a popular technique in the context of medical imaging due to its adaptability and robustness in 3D object modeling. A field that utilizes BSI is Image Guided Surgery (IGS). IGS provides navigation using medical images, which can be segmented and reconstructed into 3D models, often through BSI. Image registration tasks also use BSI to align pre-operative data to intra-operative data. However, such IGS tasks are computationally demanding, especially when applied to 3D medical images, due to the complexity and amount of data involved. Therefore, optimization of IGS algorithms is greatly desirable, for example, to perform image registration tasks intra-operatively and to enable real-time applications. A traditional CPU does not have sufficient computing power to achieve these goals. In this paper, we introduce a novel GPU implementation of BSI to accelerate the calculation of the deformation field in non-rigid image registration algorithms. Methods. Our BSI implementation on GPUs minimizes the data that needs to be moved between memory and processing cores during loading of the input grid, and leverages the large on-chip GPU register file for reuse of input values. Moreover, we re-formulate our method as trilinear interpolations to reduce computational complexity and increase accuracy. To provide pre-clinical validation of our method and demonstrate its benefits in medical applications, we integrate our improved BSI into a registration workflow for compensation of liver deformation (caused by pneumoperitoneum, i.e., inflation of the abdomen) and evaluate its performance. Results. Our approach improves the performance of BSI by an average of 6.5x and interpolation accuracy by 2x compared to three state-of-the-art GPU implementations. We observe up to 34% acceleration of non-rigid image registration.
description: Accepted in CMPB
Farm subsidies and agricultural employment: The education channel
Creators: name: Berlinschi, Ruxanda
name: Van Herck, Kristine
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Berlinschi, Ruxanda
name: Van Herck, Kristine
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Employment
subject: Farm Subsidies
subject: Education
subject: Credit Constraints

description: Agricultural employment in industrialized countries has been steadily decreasing despite important levels of farm subsidies. We argue that one explanation to this puzzle is the positive impact of subsidies on the education levels of farmers’ children. If farmers are credit constrained, they may underinvest in their children’s education. By increasing farmers’ revenues, subsidies increase investment in education. If more educated children are less willing to become farmers, one long term effect of subsidies is to reduce labor supply in the agricultural sector. We provide a theoretical model and some empirical evidence supporting this argument.
Resolvents of self-adjoint extensions with mixed boundary conditions
Creators: name: Pankrashkin, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 47A10; 34B05; 47A06

description: We prove a variant of Krein's resolvent formula expressing the resolvents of self-adjoint extensions through the associated boundary conditions. Applications to solvable quantum-mechanical problems are discussed.
description: 15 pages, rewritten almost completely
BCAA review protocol for Figshare.docx
Creators: name: Doma, Kenji
name: Connor, Jonathan
name: Harrison, Drew
name: Gahreman, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110602 Exercise Physiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: BackgroundUnfamiliar exercises can cause a high level of exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD), particularly those that involve eccentric contractions. It is believed that the attenuation in muscular contractility caused by EIMD may compromise the quality of training, and thus appropriate recovery interventions need to be considered to minimise the level of EIMD. More recently, oral supplementation of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) has been reported to alleviate the signs and symptoms of EIMD, and therefore accelerate recovery following strenuous training sessions. However, several studies have also reported no benefit of BCAA supplementation for EIMD recovery, with conflicting findings possibly due to variation in study designs. A systematic exploration of the literature that addresses these methodological limitations may provide the overall benefit of BCAA supplementation for recovery, although a thorough investigation has yet to be conducted. Thus, the purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis will collate findings from various studies that have reported on the effects of BCAA supplementation on markers of EIMD.
DEVORA Experiments Manual
Creators: name: Simons, Benjamin
name: DEVORA Project
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40314 Volcanology
subject: 40604 Natural Hazards
subject: Education

description: A manual for recreating some of DEVORA's favourite volcanic experiments and demonstrations for science education.
Evaluating Agri-Environmental Schemes – The Marginal Costs of Ecosystem Services
Creators: name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Wossink, Ada
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Wossink, Ada
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: agri-environmental services
subject: bio-economic modelling
subject: economies of scale and scope

description: We provide a new approach for assessing the cost of marginal ecosystem changes and the effectiveness of agri-environmental schemes. The approach is based on a theoretical and empirical analysis of the bio-economic production interactions between marketed outputs and non-marketed ecosystem services at the micro level. To frame the economic nature of the problem, we employ a generalized joint production model in combination with cost minimization. The generalized joint production framework allows for the consideration of complementary, substitutive and competitive relationships between agricultural production and non-marketed ecosystem services generation and avoids double counting. From this theoretical model we distinguish three theoretical cases depending on the imposed minimum acceptable level of the non-marketed ecosystem services. We employ farm level panel data for the UK to empirically investigate these cases. More specifically, to represent and evaluate the production structure, we estimate first- and second-order elasticities derived from a flexible transformation function. Results show that the majority of farms produce agricultural output and ecosystem services in a complementary relationship. Generation of multiple ecosystem services on the same farm showed either a substitutive or competitive relationship. A change in the composition of the ecosystem services output would have very different implications for individual farms.
The Group Evolution Multiwavelength Study (GEMS): bimodal luminosity functions in galaxy groups
Creators: name: Miles, Trevor A.
name: Raychaudhury, Somak
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Goudfrooij, Paul
name: Ponman, Trevor J.
name: Kozhurina-Platais, Vera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present B and R-band luminosity functions (LF) for a sample of 25 nearby groups of galaxies. We find that the LFs of the groups with low X-ray luminosity (L_X < 10^{41.7} erg/s) are significantly different from those of the X-ray brighter groups, showing a prominent dip around M_b = -18. While both categories show lack of late-type galaxies in their central regions, X-ray dim groups also show a more marked concentration of optical luminosity towards the centre. A toy simulation shows that in the low velocity dispersion environment, as in the X-ray dim group, dynamical friction would facilitate more rapid merging, thus depleting intermediate-luminosity galaxies to form a few giant central galaxies, resulting in the prominent dip seen in our LFs. We suggest that X-ray dim (or low velocity dispersion) groups are the present sites of rapid dynamical evolution rather than their X-ray bright counterparts, and may be the modern precursors of fossil groups. We predict that these groups of low velocity dispersion would harbour younger stellar populations than groups or clusters with higher velocity dispersion.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Oenochroma Guenee 1858
Creators: name: Hausmann, Axel
name: Hebert, Paul D. N.
name: Mitchell, Andrew
name: Rougerie, Rodolphe
name: Sommerer, Manfred
name: Edwards, Ted
name: Young, Catherine J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Oenochroma

description: Genus Oenochroma Guenée, 1858
All 20 species of the genus Oenochroma Guenée, 1858 as listed in Scoble (1999) are distributed in mainland Australia except one species which is restricted to New Caledonia (Oenochroma unifasciata Holloway, 1979). From dissections, it is most likely that Oenochroma hieroglyphica (Warren, 1906), which was described from Papua New Guinea, Mt. Kaindi, is a junior synonym of Oenochroma turneri (Lucas, 1892), described from Toowoomba near Brisbane. Two species are known to occur both in mainland Australia and in Tasmania: Oenochroma vinaria and Oenochroma vetustaria (Walker, 1860) (McQuillan 2004). The type species of the genus, Oenochroma vinaria, boasts the violaceous red "wine" colour ("rose-lie de vin" in the original description) that may have suggested to Guenée the chosen denominations of the species and of the genus. Only Oenochroma vinaria and the new species described here are intended to fall in the “ vinaria speciescomplex.” It is possible that they may group together, phylogenetically, with Oenochroma pallida and Oenochroma decolorata. However, both the definitions of infrageneric species-groups such as of the whole genus Oenochroma await an urgently needed major revision. Collection material (ANIC, ZSM, TASAG) suggests that the genus includes several other undescribed species.
description: Published as part of Hausmann, Axel, Hebert, Paul D. N., Mitchell, Andrew, Rougerie, Rodolphe, Sommerer, Manfred, Edwards, Ted & Young, Catherine J., 2009, Revision of the Australian Oenochroma vinaria Guenée, 1858 species-complex (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Oenochrominae): DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity and assesses status of type specimen without dissection, pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2239 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190505
Critical phase in non-conserving zero-range processes and equilibrium networks
Creators: name: Angel, A. G.
name: Evans, M. R.
name: Levine, E.
name: Mukamel, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zero-range processes, in which particles hop between sites on a lattice, are closely related to equilibrium networks, in which rewiring of links take place. Both systems exhibit a condensation transition for appropriate choices of the dynamical rules. The transition results in a macroscopically occupied site for zero-range processes and a macroscopically connected node for networks. Criticality, characterized by a scale-free distribution, is obtained only at the transition point. This is in contrast with the widespread scale-free real-life networks. Here we propose a generalization of these models whereby criticality is obtained throughout an entire phase, and the scale-free distribution does not depend on any fine-tuned parameter.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
The effect of EU derogation strategies on the complying costs of the nitrate directive
Creators: name: Van Der Straeten, Bart
name: Buysse, Jeroen
name: Nolte, Stephan
name: Lauwers, Ludwig H.
name: Claeys, Dakerlia
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Van Der Straeten, Bart
name: Buysse, Jeroen
name: Nolte, Stephan
name: Lauwers, Ludwig H.
name: Claeys, Dakerlia
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Nitrate directive
subject: MAS-model
subject: derogation
subject: Flanders

description: Within the framework of the nitrate directive, member states have the possibility to apply for derogation, i.e. increasing fertilization standards under certain conditions. Several EU regions have made use of this possibility but all in a different way. In 2009, 6 different derogation policies were worked out. This paper focuses on the differences between the applied policies and makes an assessment of the impact of these differences on the application rate of derogation, the manure surplus and the costs to allocate the manure. Based on the MP-MAS model described by Van der Straeten et al. (2010) the different scenarios are applied on a single case area (Flanders) and the economic effects have been simulated. Results show large differences between the policy alternatives, leading to the conclusion that member states not only have to focus on the permission to allow derogation or not but also at the details of the derogation policy. Granting derogation at parcel level instead of farm level increases the potential effect of derogation, the height of the increase in fertilization standards under derogation determines the application rate of derogation: a higher increase leads to a higher application rate.
Investigation of energy spectrum and chemical composition of primary cosmic rays in 1-100 PeV energy range with a UAV-borne installation
Creators: name: Chernov, D.
name: Bonvech, E.
name: Finger, M.
name: Finger, M.
name: Galkin, V.
name: Ivanov, V.
name: Podgrudkov, D.
name: Roganova, T.
name: Vaiman, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new project is developed with the implementation of a relatively new method of studying the primary cosmic ray -- the registration of extensive air showers' optical Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (Cherenkov light) reflected from the snow surface. The aim of the project is the study of the cosmic ray mass composition in the energy range of 1-100 PeV by detecting the reflected extensive air showers' Cherenkov light. Silicon photomultipliers are planned to be used as the main photosensitive element of the detector and an unmanned aerial vehicle will is planned to lift the measuring equipment over the snow-covered ground.
description: Procs. of the Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics Conference (INSTR20), 24--28 February 2020, Novosibirsk, Russia. Contains 11 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to JINST
Accelerating and Supersonic Density Fluctuations in Coronal Hole Plumes: Signature of Nascent Solar Winds
Creators: name: Cho, Il-Hyun
name: Nakariakov, Valery M.
name: Moon, Yong-Jae
name: Lee, Jin-Yi
name: Yu, Dae Jung
name: Cho, Kyung-Suk
name: Yurchyshyn, Vasyl
name: Lee, Harim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Slow magnetoacoustic waves in a static background provide a seismological tool to probe the solar atmosphere in the analytic frame. By analyzing the spatiotemporal variation of the electron number density of plume structure in coronal holes above the limb for a given temperature, we find that the density perturbations accelerate with supersonic speeds in the distance range from 1.02 to 1.23 solar radii. We interpret them as slow magnetoacoustic waves propagating at about the sound speed with accelerating subsonic flows. The average sonic height of the subsonic flows is calculated to be 1.27 solar radii. The mass flux of the subsonic flows is estimated to be 44.1$\%$ relative to the global solar wind. Hence, the subsonic flow is likely to be the nascent solar wind. In other words, the evolution of the nascent solar wind in plumes at the low corona is quantified for the first time from imaging observations. Based on the interpretation, propagating density perturbations present in plumes could be used as a seismological probe of the gradually accelerating solar wind.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL, 11 pages, 5 figures
The pion parton distribution function in the valence region
Creators: name: Wijesooriya, K.
name: Reimer, P. E.
name: Holt, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The parton distribution function of the pion in the valence region is extracted in a next-to-leading order analysis from Fermilab E-615 pionic Drell-Yan data. The effects of the parameterization of the pion's valence distributions are examined. Modern nucleon parton distributions and nuclear corrections were used and possible effects from higher twist contributions were considered in the analysis. In the next-to-leading order analysis, the high-$x$ dependence of the pion structure function differs from that of the leading order analysis, but not enough to agree with the expectations of pQCD and Dyson-Schwinger calculations.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
title: Phonon Bridge Effect in Superlattices of Thermoelectric TiNiSn/HfNiSn With Controlled Interface Intermixing
Creators: name: Heinz, Sven
name: Angel, Emigdio Chavez
name: Trapp, Maximilian
name: Kleebe, Hans-Joachim
name: Jakob, Gerhard
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: The implementation of thermal barriers in thermoelectric materials improves their power conversion rates effectively. For this purpose, material boundaries are utilized and manipulated to affect phonon transmissivity. Specifically, interface intermixing and topography represents a useful but complex parameter for thermal transport modification. This study investigates epitaxial thin film multilayers, so called superlattices (SL), of TiNiSn/HfNiSn, both with pristine and purposefully deteriorated interfaces. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffractometry are used to characterize their structural properties in detail. A differential 3w
-method probes their thermal resistivity. The thermal resistivity reaches a maximum for an intermediate interface quality and decreases again for higher boundary layer intermixing. For boundaries with the lowest interface quality, the interface thermal resistance is reduced by 23% compared to a pristine SL. While an uptake of diffuse scattering likely explains the initial deterioration of thermal transport, we propose a phonon bridge interpretation for the lowered thermal resistivity of the interfaces beyond a critical intermixing. In this picture, the locally reduced acoustic contrast of the less defined boundary acts as a mediator that promotes phonon transition.
BCAA review protocol for Figshare.docx
Creators: name: Doma, Kenji
name: Connor, Jonathan
name: Harrison, Drew
name: Burt, Dean
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110602 Exercise Physiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: BackgroundUnfamiliar exercises can cause a high level of exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD), particularly those that involve eccentric contractions. It is believed that the attenuation in muscular contractility caused by EIMD may compromise the quality of training, and thus appropriate recovery interventions need to be considered to minimise the level of EIMD. More recently, oral supplementation of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) has been reported to alleviate the signs and symptoms of EIMD, and therefore accelerate recovery following strenuous training sessions. However, several studies have also reported no benefit of BCAA supplementation for EIMD recovery, with conflicting findings possibly due to variation in study designs. A systematic exploration of the literature that addresses these methodological limitations may provide the overall benefit of BCAA supplementation for recovery, although a thorough investigation has yet to be conducted. Thus, the purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis will collate findings from various studies that have reported on the effects of BCAA supplementation on markers of EIMD.
Evaluating the Improvement of Quality of Life in Rural Areas
Creators: name: Cagliero, Roberto
name: Cristiano, Simona
name: Pierangeli, Fabio
name: Tarangioli, Serena
name: Cagliero, Roberto
name: Cristiano, Simona
name: Pierangeli, Fabio
name: Tarangioli, Serena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: evaluation
subject: quality of life
subject: marginality
subject: qualitative indicators

description: The research starts from the necessity to create specific tools for evaluating the impacts of rural development policies on fragile areas. The study is motivated by the need for developing an appropriate evaluation method that leads to gather meaningful information for a broader understanding of the quality of life in rural areas, including the subjective well-being’s dimensions and its determinants and feeds the policy designs on this specific domain. The multidimensional nature of quality of life is a main challenge in terms of evaluation. Indeed, within the Rural Development Programmes 2007-2013, the enhancement of the quality of life in rural areas is one of the major strategic objectives to be addressed by a menu of measures. Selections of some current literature on the multidimensional nature of quality of life have been used as conceptual basis for analysing the extent to which the European evaluation framework for rural development programmes (EC 1999, 2006, 2010) - based on the intervention logic model, the use of economic indicators and evaluative questions - is able to capture the relevant dimensions of well-being rural people’s lives. A part of the research is based on the analysis of ex-post evaluations carried out in Italy. The evaluations are expected to assess the improvement of quality of life in rural areas as effect of programmes’ implementation. The paper provides two different experiences of quantification of quality of life in rural area: a synthetic measure of marginality as a proxy of quality of life indicators (in Piedmont) and a synthetic index of quality of life (in Emilia Romagna). The paper proposes a wider integrated evaluation approach to be used in the context of the evaluation of impacts of rural development programmes, that through the combined utilization of quantitative and qualitative indicators and additional evaluative questions, allows a more comprehensive assessment of quality of life in rural areas.