cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CUSTOMER PREFERENCES FOR MICHIGAN APPLES: A CASE EXAMPLE OF A MARKET RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR A COMMODITY INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Ricks, Donald J.
name: Sterns, James A.
name: Woods, Timothy A.
name: Ricks, Donald J.
name: Sterns, James A.
name: Woods, Timothy A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: A series of market-research studies on Michigan apples are discussed in this paper. They provide a case example of a continuing program of market research to aid this industry. These include studies on changing preferences, needs, perceptions, practices and buying behavior for major customer segments of this industry, including consumers and grocery retailers, as well as mid-chain customer segments such as shippers and processors. While this market research program includes several component studies, the overall integration of the information from the various component studies is especially important for the development of the industry's marketing strategies. The component studies which comprise the overall market research program to date include the following interrelated phases: 1. An initial survey of apple shippers as key mid-chain firms - emphasizing overview information on customer needs and preferences as well as priorities for needed market research information. 2. A consumer focus group study. 3. A large-sample consumer telephone survey on consumer preferences, behavior and attitudes. 4. Consumer taste tests emphasizing fruit firmness and taste. 5. Consumer visual test regarding purchase preferences for fruit size and color. 6. A survey of consumers using an in-store taste and sampling program. 7. A follow-up survey of shippers that concentrated on apple varieties preferred for current and future markets. 8. A similar survey of apple processors on apple varieties preferred for processed apple markets. 9. A survey of grocery trade customers on their needs and preferences for fresh apples. 10. Integrative analyses comparing and contrasting preference information obtained from the studies listed in 1-9. The market research was done as part of broad-scope industry efforts to analyze, target and develop major strategic directions intended to position the industry for high performance and success in the future. These identified strategic directions have the goal of improving the industry's overall performance, including effectively meeting the needs of their consumer and trade customers in order to improve industry's competitiveness and economic viability. The specific types of information, priority questions and customer targets for each of the component market-research studies were developed in close cooperation with industry leaders and major industry organizations such as the industry's generic promotional commission. The industry has used the information from these market-research studies to develop their evolving strategies to most effectively serve their customer needs and hence to compete in the changing markets for their industry.
Thermal Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in the $1/r^2$ long-range ferromagnetic quantum Ising chain revisited
Creators: name: Humeniuk, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the inverse square long-range ferromagnetic Ising chain in a transverse field, the thermal phase boundary of the floating Kosterlitz-Thouless phase is obtained for several values of the transverse field down to the quantum critical point. The sharp domain walls in the classical model are increasingly smeared out by the transverse field, which is evidenced by a pronounced broadening of the non-universal bump in the specific heat. The discernability of KT critical scaling in finite-size simulations is discussed.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Herostrates Gistel 1848
Creators: name: Bezděk, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Herostrates

description: Herostrates Gistel, 1848, syn. nov.
 Herostrates Gistel, 1848b: xi; GISTEL (1851): xi.
 Current status. New junior objective synonym of Metaxyonycha Chevrolat, 1836.
 Comments. Herostrates Gistel, 1848 was proposed as an unnecessary new replacement name for Metazyonycha Chevrolat, 1836 (GISTEL 1848b). The spelling Metaxyonycha is an incorrect subsequent spelling of Metazyonycha in prevailing usage and attributed to the publication of the original spelling; therefore, Metaxyonycha is deemed to be the correct original spelling according to Article 33.3.1 (ICZN 1999) (BOUCHARD & BOUSQUET 2013).
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Jan, 2020, Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), pp. 173-188 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.011, http://zenodo.org/record/3879369
Structure and stability of self-assembled actin-lysozyme complexes in salty water
Creators: name: Sanders, Lori K.
name: Guaqueta, Camilo
name: Angelini, Thomas E.
name: Lee, Jae-Wook
name: Slimmer, Scott C.
name: Luijten, Erik
name: Wong, Gerard C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interactions between actin, an anionic polyelectrolyte, and lysozyme, a cationic globular protein, have been examined using a combination of synchrotron small-angle x-ray scattering and molecular dynamics simulations. Lysozyme initially bridges pairs of actin filaments, which relax into hexagonally-coordinated columnar complexes comprised of actin held together by incommensurate one-dimensional close-packed arrays of lysozyme macroions. These complexes are found to be stable even in the presence of significant concentrations of monovalent salt, which is quantitatively explained from a redistribution of salt between the condensed and the aqueous phases.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Weak Gravitational lensing by Bocharova-Bronnikov-Melnikov-Bekenstein black holes using Gauss-bonnet theorem
Creators: name: Javed, Wajiha
name: Khadim, Muhammad Bilal
name: Övgün, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we demonstrate the weak gravitational lensing in the context of Bocharova-Bronnikov-Melnikov-Bekenstein (BBMB) black hole. To this desire, we derive the deflection angle of light in a plasma medium by BBMB black hole using the Gibbons and Werner method. First, we obtain the Gaussian optical curvature and implement the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to investigate the deflection angle for spherically symmetric spacetime of BBMB black hole. Moreover, we also analyze the graphical behavior of deflection angle by BBMB black hole in the presence of plasma medium.
description: 5 pages. Accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal Plus
THE SINGLE INDEX MARKET MODEL IN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Gempesaw, Conrado M.
name: Tambe, A.M.
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Toensmeyer, Ulrich C.
name: Gempesaw, Conrado M.
name: Tambe, A.M.
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Toensmeyer, Ulrich C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This study illustrates the differences in empirical results due to data measurements and estimating procedures when applying the single index market model in agriculture. Gross and net return betas along with systematic and unsystematic risk proportions are estimated and found to be different. The stochastic coefficients model is used to show the difference in beta-risk estimates compared with the traditional fixed coefficients OLS procedure. A third estimating technique, weighted least squares/Prais Winsten method, is also proposed.
Numerical solution of fractional delay-integro-differential equations with a weakly singular kernel
Creators: name: Dehestani, Haniye
name: Ordokhani, Yadollah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 10301 Numerical Analysis
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, a new numerical method for solving fractional delay-integro-differential equations (FDIDEs) with a weakly singular kernel is presented. The transformation matrix of Bessel polynomials to Taylor polynomials and Taylor operational matrix of integration are used to transform the equation to a system of algebraic equations. Illustrative examples are included to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the technique.
Optical Dipole Trapping beyond Rotating Wave Approximation: The case of Large Detuning
Creators: name: Lembessis, Vassilios E
name: Ellinas, Demosthenes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the inclusion of counter-rotating terms, usually dropped in evaluations of interaction of an electric dipole of a two level atom with the electromagnetic field, leads to significant modifications of trapping potential in the case of large detuning. The results are shown to be in excellent numerical agreement with recent experimental findings, for the case of modes of Laguerre-Gauss spatial profile.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Betelgeuse -- A Century and more of Variation
Creators: name: Lloyd, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mean light curve of Betelgeuse is constructed from the visual data in BAA VSS and AAVSO archives. Period analysis reveals clusters of periods around 2000 and 400 days but these are swamped by the long-term trends. No identifiable periods emerge but the feature near 400 days is the most persistent and survives even when the range of variation is low. Herschel's data from 1836-40 and early data from the BAA VSS around 1900 show a range of V {\raise.3ex\hbox{\boldmath${\scriptstyle\sim}$}} 0 -- 1, so the star was brighter and more active than recently. Historically it shows a wide range of behaviour.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Seasonal abundance and distribution of marine mammals in the southern Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
Creators: name: Keple, Alison Ruth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Strait of Georgia is a highly productive region and among the most important marine systems in British Columbia. It is at the mouth of the Fraser River, one of the most productive river systems in North America. Marine mammals are apex predators in this system, with at least ten species using the area during all or part of the year. Line transect surveys aboard B.C. Ferries vessels were conducted from May 1, 2000 to April 30, 2001 to determine the distribution and abundance of marine mammal species in the Strait of Georgia. A total of 2,879 individuals, representing nine species, were seen in 898 sightings. Harbour seals (n = 1,629), California sea lions (n = 415), Dall's porpoise (n = 397) and Steller sea lions (n = 205) were the most frequently observed, accounting for 92% of the sightings. Pacific white-sided dolphins (n = 110), harbour porpoise (n = 71), killer whales (n = 49), gray whales (n = 2), and a minke whale were also seen during the surveys. Abundance estimates were highest in spring and lowest in winter, with a second smaller peak in abundance in autumn. Pinnipeds were estimated to consume the most prey due to high population estimates for harbour seals and large body size of adult male sea lions. Peaks in marine mammal abundances appear to coincide with seasonal physical and biological factors in the Strait of Georgia and Fraser River system that may influence the availability of prey species.
A MODEL TO EXPLAIN PARTICIPATION IN NEW YORK'S AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS AND USE-VALUE ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS
Creators: name: Boisvert, Richard N.
name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Bailey, Elizabeth
name: Boisvert, Richard N.
name: Bills, Nelson L.
name: Bailey, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Logit regression models are estimated to identify factors affecting decisions to enroll farmland in New York's agricultural districts program and participate in the use-value assessment program. The results suggest that the districts law is consistent with preserving the best farmland at the rural-urban fringe and that the decision to enroll in agricultural districts affects in a recursive fashion the decision to participate in the use-value assessment program. Short-term monetary gains are the overriding considerations in applying for use-value exemptions. This may lead to additional erosion of the tax base via tax preferences for agricultural land.
Deliverable 7.5 Project Final Brochure and Video
Creators: name: González, Lucía
name: Dalmas, Sebastien
name: Caixach, Ariadna
name: Conde, Lucia
name: Sánchez, Sergio
name: Aulinas, Montse
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: brochure
video
graphic materials

description: CHESS SETUP final brochure and video.
Smooth/rough layering in liquid-crystalline/gel state of dry phospholipid film, in relation to its ability to generate giant vesicles
Creators: name: Hishida, Mafumi
name: Seto, Hideki
name: Yoshikawa, Kenichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Morphological changes in a dry phospholipid film on a solid substrate were studied below and above the main transition temperature, between the gel and liquid-crystalline phases by phase-contrast microscopy and AFM. A Phospholipid film in the liquid-crystalline phase exhibits flat, smooth layering, whereas that in the gel phase shows rough, random layering. These film morphologies are discussed in relation to the ability to form giant vesicles through the natural swelling method.
An Uncertainty-aware Transfer Learning-based Framework for Covid-19 Diagnosis
Creators: name: Jokandan, Afshar Shamsi
name: Asgharnezhad, Hamzeh
name: Jokandan, Shirin Shamsi
name: Khosravi, Abbas
name: Kebria, Parham M.
name: Nahavandi, Darius
name: Nahavandi, Saeid
name: Srinivasan, Dipti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The early and reliable detection of COVID-19 infected patients is essential to prevent and limit its outbreak. The PCR tests for COVID-19 detection are not available in many countries and also there are genuine concerns about their reliability and performance. Motivated by these shortcomings, this paper proposes a deep uncertainty-aware transfer learning framework for COVID-19 detection using medical images. Four popular convolutional neural networks (CNNs) including VGG16, ResNet50, DenseNet121, and InceptionResNetV2 are first applied to extract deep features from chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) images. Extracted features are then processed by different machine learning and statistical modelling techniques to identify COVID-19 cases. We also calculate and report the epistemic uncertainty of classification results to identify regions where the trained models are not confident about their decisions (out of distribution problem). Comprehensive simulation results for X-ray and CT image datasets indicate that linear support vector machine and neural network models achieve the best results as measured by accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and AUC. Also it is found that predictive uncertainty estimates are much higher for CT images compared to X-ray images.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables
Hydrotica Gistel 1848
Creators: name: Bezděk, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Hydrotica

description: Hydrotica Gistel, 1848
 Hydrotica Gistel, 1848a: 404; GISTEL (1848b): xi, 123; GISTEL (1851): xi, 123.
 Current status. Junior objective synonym of Typophorus Chevrolat, 1836 (see MONRÓS & BECHYNÉ 1956, SEENO & WILCOX 1982, RILEY et al. 2003).
 Comments. Hydrotica Gistel, 1848 was proposed as an unnecessary new replacement name for Typophorus Chevrolat, 1836 (GISTEL 1848a).
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Jan, 2020, Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), pp. 173-188 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.011, http://zenodo.org/record/3879369
Clifford Space as a Generalization of Spacetime: Prospects for QFT of Point Particles and Strings
Creators: name: Pavsic, Matej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The idea that spacetime has to be replaced by Clifford space (C-space) is explored. Quantum field theory (QFT) and string theory are generalized to C-space. It is shown how one can solve the cosmological constant problem and formulate string theory without central terms in the Virasoro algebra by exploiting the peculiar pseudo-Euclidean signature of C-space and the Jackiw definition of the vacuum state. As an introduction into the subject, a toy model of the harmonic oscillator in pseudo-Euclidean space is studied.
description: 27 pages
FACTORS AFFECTING WELFARE GAINS FROM FISHING GEAR RESTRICTIONS
Creators: name: Anderson, Eric E.
name: Anderson, Eric E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: While the use of gear restrictions to regulate fishing activity seldom has the objective of improving economic efficiency, it is capable of achieving that result under some conditions. It can also reduce economic efficiency. This paper explores the way several factors affect the sign and magnitude of welfare gains from fishing gear restrictions. These factors include, among others: the fixity or variability of the price of fish and the presence or absence of diminishing short-run average product of effort. Some generalizations are offered regarding the characteristics of fisheries in which gear restrictions are most likely to produce welfare gains.
Como organizar e divulgar a sua produção científica
Creators: name: Reis, Juliana Gonçalves
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80707 Organisation of Information and Knowledge Resources
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Apresentação como organizar e divulgar a sua produção científica.
IMPROVING STUDENTS' SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH SIMULATION OF JOB INTERVIEW
Creators: name: Asrifan, Andi
name: Octaberlina, L. R.
name: Agus, Selviana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Simulation of Job Interview, Speaking, and Interest

description: The aims of this study were to find out: (1) whether the use or not of Job Interview Simulation improves the speak ability of the students, and (2) whether the students are highly interested in using Job Interview Simulation for improved speech ability. The pre-experimental method used in this research was that of single-language class. In the academic year 2015-2016, the research population was the eighth grade. There were 135 students in 6 categories, each with 22-23 students, (VIII.1, VIII.2, VIII.3, VIII.4, VIII.5 and VIII.6). The researcher chose VIII.2 as representative and the total number of students is 22. The researchers have taken cluster random spectrum. The research data were collected using two types of instruments, namely test and questionnaire. The speaking examination was used to obtain data on the ability of the students to speak and the survey was used to understand the interest of students in the English language through the Job Interview Simulation. The results of the analyzes showed that after students were taught simulation work interview, there was a significant difference between their scores and before they were taught simulation work interview. The average post-test score was more than the average pre-test score (73.04>50.13). In addition, the p-value result was lower than α (0.000<0.05), meaning H1 was accepted. Then the Likert Scale analyzes of interest indicated that students would like to speak English by using the Job Interview Simulation. It has been demonstrated by 59.1% of interested students and 40.9% of interested students. Building on the data analysis, the research found: (1) the use of Job Interview Simulation improves the speaking skills of pupils; (2) it makes students interested in speaking English through the use of Job Interview Simulation.
Multi-element microscope optimization by a learned sensing network with composite physical layers
Creators: name: Kim, Kanghyun
name: Konda, Pavan Chandra
name: Cooke, Colin L.
name: Appel, Ron
name: Horstmeyer, Roarke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standard microscopes offer a variety of settings to help improve the visibility of different specimens to the end microscope user. Increasingly, however, digital microscopes are used to capture images for automated interpretation by computer algorithms (e.g., for feature classification, detection or segmentation), often without any human involvement. In this work, we investigate an approach to jointly optimize multiple microscope settings, together with a classification network, for improved performance with such automated tasks. We explore the interplay between optimization of programmable illumination and pupil transmission, using experimentally imaged blood smears for automated malaria parasite detection, to show that multi-element "learned sensing" outperforms its single-element counterpart. While not necessarily ideal for human interpretation, the network's resulting low-resolution microscope images (20X-comparable) offer a machine learning network sufficient contrast to match the classification performance of corresponding high-resolution imagery (100X-comparable), pointing a path towards accurate automation over large fields-of-view.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Negative and Positive Lateral Shift of a Light Beam Reflected from a Grounded Slab
Creators: name: Wang, Li-Gang
name: Chen, Hong
name: Liu, Nian-Hua
name: Zhu, Shi-Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the lateral shift of a light beam reflecting from a dielectric slab backed by a metal. It is found that the lateral shift of the reflected beam can be negative while the intensity of reflected beam is almost equal to the incident one under a certain condition. The explanation for the negativity of the lateral shift is given in terms of the interference of the reflected waves from the two interfaces. It is also shown that the lateral shift can be enhanced or suppressed under some other conditions. The numerical calculation on the lateral shift for a realistic Gaussian-shaped beam confirms our theoretical prediction.
description: 8pages,4 figures
A. Alpago-Novello - V. Beridze - J. Lafontaine-Dosogne, Art and Architecture in Medieval Georgia, Louvain-la-Neuve 1980
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 66 (1982): Oriens christianus, Band 66
Difficulty-aware Glaucoma Classification with Multi-Rater Consensus Modeling
Creators: name: Yu, Shuang
name: Zhou, Hong-Yu
name: Ma, Kai
name: Bian, Cheng
name: Chu, Chunyan
name: Liu, Hanruo
name: Zheng, Yefeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Medical images are generally labeled by multiple experts before the final ground-truth labels are determined. Consensus or disagreement among experts regarding individual images reflects the gradeability and difficulty levels of the image. However, when being used for model training, only the final ground-truth label is utilized, while the critical information contained in the raw multi-rater gradings regarding the image being an easy/hard case is discarded. In this paper, we aim to take advantage of the raw multi-rater gradings to improve the deep learning model performance for the glaucoma classification task. Specifically, a multi-branch model structure is proposed to predict the most sensitive, most specifical and a balanced fused result for the input images. In order to encourage the sensitivity branch and specificity branch to generate consistent results for consensus labels and opposite results for disagreement labels, a consensus loss is proposed to constrain the output of the two branches. Meanwhile, the consistency/inconsistency between the prediction results of the two branches implies the image being an easy/hard case, which is further utilized to encourage the balanced fusion branch to concentrate more on the hard cases. Compared with models trained only with the final ground-truth labels, the proposed method using multi-rater consensus information has achieved superior performance, and it is also able to estimate the difficulty levels of individual input images when making the prediction.
Combined replacement of lnc-MEG3 and miR-155 elicit tumor suppression in multiple myeloma
Creators: name: El-Khazragy, Nashwa
name: Abdelrahman, Sara Elsayed
name: Darwish, Amal
name: Hemida, Eman H. A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: To investigate the biological impact of simultaneous overexpression of lncRNA MEG3 and miR-155, termed a “double hit,” on multiple myeloma (MM) cells compared to individual biomarker substitution. Human MM cells were transfected with MEG3-overexpressed plasmids and miR-155 mimics. Cell cytotoxicity, apoptosis, and gene expression were evaluated in transfected cells and clinical samples. MEG3 and miR-155 were significantly downregulated in MM patients, with lower expression levels correlating with advanced disease stages and poorer survival. Dual overexpression induced potent cytotoxic effects in MM cells. MEG3 and miR-155 are potential tumor suppressors in MM. Simultaneous overexpression of both biomarkers could represent a novel therapeutic strategy, and their levels could serve as diagnostic and prognostic markers.
Spin qubit based on the nitrogen-vacancy center analog in a diamond-like compound C3BN
Creators: name: Wang, Duo
name: Liu, Lei
name: Zhuang, Houlong L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond plays important roles in emerging quantum technologies. Currently available methods to fabricate the NV center often involve complex processes such as N implantation. By contrast, in a diamond-like compound C3BN, creating a boron (B) vacancy immediately leads to an NV center analog. We use the strongly constrained and appropriately normed (SCAN) semilocal density functional - this functional leads to nearly the same zero-phonon line (ZPL) energy as the experiment and as obtained from the more time-consuming hybrid density functional calculations - to explore the potential of this NV center analog as a novel spin qubit for applications in quantum information processing. We show that the NV center analog in C3BN possesses many similar properties to the NV center in diamond including a wide band gap, weak spin-orbit coupling, an energetically stable negatively charged state, a highly localized spin density, a paramagnetic triplet ground state, and strong hyperfine interactions, which are the properties that make the NV center in diamond stand out as a suitable quantum bit (qubit). We predict the NV center analog in C3BN to exhibit two ZPL energies that correspond to longer wavelengths close to the ideal telecommunication band for quantum communications. C3BN studied here represents only one example of A3XY (A: group IV element; X/Y: group III/V elements) compounds. We expect many other compounds of this family to have similar NV center analogs with a wide range of ZPL energies and functional properties, promising to be new hosts of qubits for quantum technology applications. Furthermore, A3XY compounds often contain group IV elements such as silicon and germanium, so they are compatible with the sophisticated semiconductor processing techniques. Our work opens up ample opportunities towards scalable qubit host materials and novel quantum devices.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
The level of coverage of the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) by general bibliographic databases. Supplementary material.
Creators: name: Carballo-Costa, Lidia
name: Costas, Rodrigo
name: Moseley, Anne M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110317 Physiotherapy
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary material of a conference contribution.
Metastable States, Relaxation Times and Free-energy Barriers in Finite Dimensional Glassy Systems
Creators: name: Franz, Silvio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this note we discuss metastability in a long-but-finite range disordered model for the glass transition. We show that relaxation is dominated by configuration belonging to metastable states and associate an in principle computable free-energy barrier to the equilibrium relaxation time. Adam-Gibbs like relaxation times appear naturally in this approach.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Typos corrected
Variation in pink shrimp populations off the west coast of Vancouver Island : oceanographic and trophic interactions
Creators: name: Martell, Steven James Dean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the historical dynamics of pink shrimp populations off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Fisheries for pink shrimp in this area started in 1973 and stocks collapsed on two occasions. Shrimp populations continued to decline in the absence of fishing. Using a single species stock assessment model, I reconstructed time series on shrimp abundance, recruitment, and natural mortality in two statistical areas to investigate environmental and trophic interactions that would explain historical variability in recruitment and natural mortality. In the southern statistical area, there was evidence of recruitment over-fishing, and in both statistical areas juvenile survival rate was density dependent. There was no evidence that northern flowing coastal current advected shrimp larvae from southern fishing grounds to northern fishing grounds. Incorporating oceanographic indices as environmental correlates did not explain much of the residual variation in the stock-recruitment relationships. Members of the family Gadidae primarily consume shrimp, and I examined if variation in estimated shrimp mortality was correlated with Pacific cod and Pacific hake abundance. No significant negative correlations were found between shrimp abundance arid predator abundance; however, the Pacific hake time series was incomplete. Contrary to other studies, shrimp abundance and Pacific cod abundance were positively correlated, as well as shrimp recruitment and juvenile Pacific cod abundance. To examine pink shrimp dynamics from an ecosystem perspective I constructed a simplified ecosystem model that represented the main trophic interactions and commercial fisheries off the west coast of Vancouver Island. A time series of relative primary production off the west coast of Vancouver Island was estimated by fitting the ecosystem model to time series data,. Including trophic interactions and variation in primary production explained an additional 29% and 15% of the residual sum of squares for pink shrimp biomass and landings, respectively. Predation mortality by Pacific cod on pink shrimp declines in the mid 1980's and late 1990's due to depleted Pacific cod stocks, however, total mortality for pink shrimp increases due to increased shrimp fishing. The west coast Vancouver Island ecosystem is sensitive to variation in primary production, and estimated primary production shifts downward around 1977.
Nonreciprocal ground-state cooling of multiple mechanical resonators
Creators: name: Lai, Deng-Gao
name: Huang, Jin-Feng
name: Yin, Xian-Li
name: Hou, Bang-Pin
name: Li, Wenlin
name: Vitali, David
name: Nori, Franco
name: Liao, Jie-Qiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simultaneous ground-state cooling of multiple degenerate or near-degenerate mechanical modes coupled to a common cavity-field mode has become an outstanding challenge in cavity optomechanics. This is because the dark modes formed by these mechanical modes decouple from the cavity mode and prevent extracting energy from the dark modes through the cooling channel of the cavity mode. Here we propose a universal and reliable dark-mode-breaking method to realize the simultaneous ground-state cooling of two degenerate or nondegenerate mechanical modes by introducing a phasedependent phonon-exchange interaction, which is used to form a loop-coupled configuration. We find an asymmetrical cooling performance for the two mechanical modes and expound this phenomenon based on the nonreciprocal energy transfer mechanism, which leads to the directional flow of phonons between the two mechanical modes. We also generalize this method to cool multiple mechanical modes. The physical mechanism in this cooling scheme has general validity and this method can be extended to break other dark-mode and dark-state effects in physics.
description: 42 pages, 21 figures
Polarization effects for pair creation by photon in oriented crystals at high energy
Creators: name: Baier, V. N.
name: Katkov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pair creation by a photon in an oriented crystal is considered in a frame of the quasiclassical operator method, which includes processes with polarized particles. Under some quite generic assumptions the general expression is derived for the probability of pair creation of longitudinally polarized electron (positron) by circularly polarized photon in oriented crystal. In particular cases $\vartheta_0 \ll V_0/m$ and $\vartheta_0 \gg V_0/m$ ($\vartheta_0$ is the angle of incidence, angle between the momentum of initial photon and axis (plane) of crystal, $V_0$ is the scale of a potential of axis or a plane relative to which the angle $\vartheta_0$ is defined) one has constant field approximation and the coherent pair production theory correspondingly. Side by side with coherent process the probability of incoherent pair creation is calculated, which differs essentially from amorphous one. At high energy the pair creation in oriented crystals is strongly enhanced comparing with amorphous medium. In appendixes the integral polarization of positron is found in external field and for coherent and incoherent mechanisms.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures
Stacking of oligo and polythiophenes cations in solution: surface tension and dielectric saturation
Creators: name: Scherlis, Damian A.
name: Fattebert, Jean-Luc
name: Marzari, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stacking of positively charged (or doped) terthiophene oligomers and quaterthiophene polymers in solution is investigated applying a recently developed unified electrostatic and cavitation model for first-principles calculations in a continuum solvent. The thermodynamic and structural patterns of the dimerization are explored in different solvents, and the distinctive roles of polarity and surface tension are characterized and analyzed. Interestingly, we discover a saturation in the stabilization effect of the dielectric screening that takes place at rather small values of $ε_0$. Moreover, we address the interactions in trimers of terthiophene cations, with the aim of generalizing the results obtained for the dimers to the case of higher-order stacks and nanoaggregates.
Deliverable 6.4 Market research and exploitation plan
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Lucia
name: Gomez, Alejandro
name: Caixach, Ariadna
name: Conde, Cecilia
name: Sánchez, Sergio
name: Mitats, Josep
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Key Exploitation Results (KER)
product and services analysis
market analysis
industrialisation potential
exploitation plan

description: The objective of this deliverable is to identify replication opportunities in the area of heat integration systems for new and existing buildings aiming to nearly zero CO2 emissions. This document includes a market research evaluating the opportunities and threats for the CHESS SETUP solution wide implementation, an analysis of the different business models concerning all stakeholders represented in the consortium and the detailed Key Exploitation Results (KERs) with the roadmap planning to be undertaken after the project's successful termination.
Improved Delsarte bounds for spherical codes in small dimensions
Creators: name: Pfender, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B40; 52C17

description: We present an extension of the Delsarte linear programming method. For several dimensions it yields improved upper bounds for kissing numbers and for spherical codes. Musin's recent work on kissing numbers in dimensions three and four can be viewed in our framework.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures. Substantial changes after referee's comments, one new lemma
title: 5-Year Review of the Oceanic Whitetip Shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
Creators: name: Schultz, Jennifer
Publisher: name: NOAA Office of Protected Resources
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03fy33a80
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: During a 5-year review, we determine whether a species should be removed from the list (i.e., delisted), reclassified from an endangered species to a threatened species (i.e., downlisted), or reclassified from a threatened species to an endangered species (i.e., uplisted; 16 U.S.C. 1533(c)(2)). Section 4(b)(1)(A) of the ESA requires us to make the determination based solely on the best scientific and commercial data available at the time of the review and after taking into account efforts to protect the species (16 U.S.C. 1533(b)(1)(A)).
Como organizar e divulgar a sua produção científica.pptx
Creators: name: Reis, Juliana Gonçalves
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80707 Organisation of Information and Knowledge Resources
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Apresentação como organizar e divulgar a sua produção científica.
NEGATIVE MILK SUPPLY RESPONSE UNDER CONSTRAINED PROFIT MAXIMIZING BEHAVIOR
Creators: name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Kaiser, Harry M.
name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Kaiser, Harry M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: A conceptual model is formulated that shows that a downward sloping supply function may exist for a profit maximizing firm facing a cash-flow constraint. The necessary requirement is that at least one factor must be a non-cash input. The model is tested using analysis of variance on two groups of producers from farm record data, one group facing a binding budget constraint the other group not. The results indicate that farms facing a cash flow constraint increase output more than farms not restricted by a cash flow constraint in response to a price decrease.
Lycaste Gistel 1848
Creators: name: Bezděk, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Lycaste

description: Lycaste Gistel, 1848
 Lycaste Gistel, 1848a: 404; GISTEL (1848b): 123; GISTEL (1851): 123.
 Current status. Junior objective synonym of Chalcophana Chevrolat, 1836 (SEENO & WILCOX 1982: 65).
 Comments. Lycaste Gistel, 1848 was proposed as an unnecessary new replacement name for Chalcophana Chevrolat, 1836 (GISTEL 1848a). Moreover, Lycaste Gistel, 1848 is a homonym of Lycaste Gistel, 1834 in Buprestidae and Lycaste Agassiz, 1846 in Crustacea.
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Jan, 2020, Review of the genus-level names proposed by Johannes Gistel in Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), pp. 173-188 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 179, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.011, http://zenodo.org/record/3879369
Multihadron production features in different reactions
Creators: name: Sarkisyan, Edward K. G.
name: Sakharov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider multihadron production processes in different types of collisions in the framework of the picture based on dissipating energy of participants and their types. In particular, the similarities of such bulk observables like the charged particle mean multiplicity and the pseudorapidity density at midrapidity measured in nucleus-nucleus, (anti)proton-proton and electron-positron interactions are analysed. Within the description proposed a good agreement with the measurements in a wide range of nuclear collision energies from AGS to RHIC is obtained. The predictions up to the LHC energies are made and compared to experimental extrapolations.
description: Invited talk at the XXXV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 05), Kromeriz, Czech Republic, 9-15 Aug 2005
Googling for Abortion: Search Engine Mediation of Abortion Accessibility in the United States
Creators: name: Mejova, Yelena
name: Gracyk, Tatiana
name: Robertson, Ronald E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Among the myriad barriers to abortion access, crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) pose an additional difficulty by targeting women with unexpected or "crisis" pregnancies in order to dissuade them from the procedure. Web search engines may prove to be another barrier, being in a powerful position to direct their users to health information, and above all, health services. In this study we ask, to what degree does Google Search provide quality responses to users searching for an abortion provider, specifically in terms of directing them to abortion clinics (ACs) or CPCs. To answer this question, we considered the scenario of a woman searching for abortion services online, and conducted 10 abortion-related queries from 467 locations across the United States once a week for 14 weeks. Overall, among Google's location results that feature businesses alongside a map, 79.4% were ACs, and 6.9% were CPCs. When an AC was returned, it was the closest known AC location 86.9% of the time. However, when a CPC appeared in a result set, it was the closest one to the search location 75.9% of the time. Examining correlates of AC results, we found that fewer AC results were returned for searches from poorer and rural areas, and those with TRAP laws governing AC facility and clinician requirements. We also observed that Google's performance on our queries significantly improved following a major algorithm update. These results have important implications concerning health access quality and equity, both for individual users and public health policy.
First Measurement of A_N at sqrt(s)=200 GeV in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at RHIC
Creators: name: Bueltmann, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first measurement of the single spin analyzing power (A_N) at sqrt(s)=200GeV, obtained by the pp2pp experiment using polarized proton beams at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Data points were measured in the four momentum transfer t range 0.01 < |t| < 0.03 (GeV/c)^2. Our result, averaged over the whole t-interval is about one standard deviation above the calculation, which uses interference between electromagnetic spin-flip amplitude and hadronic non-flip amplitude, the source of A_N. The difference could be explained by an additional contribution of a hadronic spin-flip amplitude to A_N.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures. New values of polarization errors. Final version submitted to Phys. Lett. B
On the higher order corrections to the Fokker-Planck equation
Creators: name: Plyukhin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Rayleigh model of nonlinear Brownian motion is revisited in which the heavy particle of mass M interacts with ideal gas molecules of mass m via instantaneous collisions. Using the van Kampen method of expansion of the master equation, non-linear corrections to the Fokker-Planck equation are obtained up to sixth order in the small parameter m/M, improving earlier results. The role and origin of non-Gaussian statistics of the random force in the corresponding Langevin equation are also discussed.
description: to appear in Physica A