cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Undecidable classical properties of observers
Creators: name: Aerts, Sven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A property of a system is called actual, if the observation of the test that pertains to that property, yields an affirmation with certainty. We formalize the act of observation by assuming that the outcome correlates with the state of the observed system and is codified as an actual property of the state of the observer at the end of the measurement interaction. For an actual property, the observed outcome has to affirm that property with certainty, hence in this case the correlation needs to be perfect. A property is called classical if either the property or its negation is actual. It is shown by a diagonal argument that there exist classical properties of an observer that he cannot observe perfectly. Because states are identified with the collection of properties that are actual for that state, it follows that no observer can perfectly observe his own state. Implications for the quantum measurement problem are briefly discussed.
description: 12 pages, Worked out version of the first part of a talk given at the IQSA conference in Denver, 2004. To appear in Int. J. Theor. Phys
Comparison of human and porcine skins as the barrier membraneinan in vitro permeation of plant polyphenols
Creators: name: Aroonsri Priprem
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2011
Subjects: In vitro permeation, phenolic compounds, plant extracts, porcine skin and human skin

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 7, 3, 39-46
Does the U.S. Midwest Have a Cost Advantage Over China in Producing Corn, Soybeans, and Hogs?
Creators: name: Fang, Cheng
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Fang, Cheng
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural trade
subject: competitiveness
subject: corn
subject: cost of production
subject: exchange rate
subject: hogs
subject: land policy
subject: productivity
subject: soybeans
subject: U.S. Midwest versus China

description: China's accession to the World Trade Organization, a significant event for U.S. agricultural trade, has been viewed as benefitting U.S. farmers, especially midwestern farmers. This research compares the productivity and cost of production (COP) of China and the United States in producing corn, soybeans, and hogs. The results show that the U.S. Midwest (defined in this study as the Heartland region as classified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service) has a substantial advantage in land and labor productivities in producing corn and soybeans, especially compared to China's South and West producing regions. However, China's Northeast region, a major corn- and soybean-producing area, has a very competitive COP over the U.S. Midwest. In hog production, the U.S. Midwest has a cost advantage over China in feed cost and labor productivity (there is little difference in fine feed usage), but this advantage is more than offset by the lower cost of feeder pigs and low capital replacement cost in China. Land policy in both the United States and China is a key determinant of COP. In addition, labor productivity and related policies in China are driving forces for China's competitive position.
When the Human Brain Goes Diving: Using NIRS to Measure Cerebral and Systemic Cardiovascular Responses to Deep, Breath-Hold Diving in Elite Freedivers
Creators: name: J. Chris McKnight
name: Mulder, Eric
name: Ruesch, Alexander
name: Kainerstorfer, Jana
name: Jingyi Wu
name: Hakimi, Naser
name: Balfour, Steve
name: Bronkhorst, Mathijs
name: Horschig, Jörn M.
name: Pernett, Frank
name: Katsufumi Sato
name: Hastie, Gordon D.
name: Tyack, Peter L.
name: Schagatay, Erika
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60806 Animal Physiological Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Folder containing NIRS data file for a grey seal and files containing analysis files for human and seal data.
Nonequilibrium Magnetization of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in a Static Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Faulhaber, D. R.
name: Jiang, H. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a sensitive DC torque magnetometer we measure the orbital magnetization by sweeping the density at fixed magnetic fields on GaAs-AlGaAs heterostructures. At low temperatures strong nonequilibrium magnetization signals dominate the data. In literature the observation of nonequilibrium signals are often associated with eddy currents generated by sweeping the magnetic field. The elimination of a changing magnetic field then poses a question regarding the origin of these signals. Our data suggests another source of nonequilibrium magnetization potentially due to the change of area occupied by compressible and incompressible states as one sweeps the Fermi energy from one Landau level to the next.
description: 12 pages 4 figures. Accepted to Physical Review B Nov 2005
A Case Study of China's Commercial Pork Value Chain
Creators: name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Hu, Dinghuan
name: Fang, Cheng
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Hu, Dinghuan
name: Fang, Cheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: commercial
subject: cost structure
subject: imports
subject: pork value chain

description: In China, with the cost of improved technology rising, surplus labor shrinking, and demand for food quality and safety increasing, it will be just a matter of time before the country's hog production sector will be commercialized like that of developed countries. However, even if China's cost of production converges to international levels, as shown in this case study, China may continue to retain some competitive advantage because of the labor-intensive nature of the marketing services involved in hog processing and meat distribution. The supply of variety meats offers the most promising market opportunity for foreign suppliers in China. The market may open further if the tariff rate for variety meats is reduced from 20% and harmonized with the pork muscle meat rate of 12%, and if the value-added tax of 13% is applied equally to both imported and domestic products. The fast-growing Western-style family restaurant and higher-end dining sector is another market opportunity for high-quality imported pork.
EMERGING FORMS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS
Creators: name: Barone, Michael J.
name: Decarlo, Thomas E.
name: Barone, Michael J.
name: Decarlo, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural producers
subject: commodity markets
subject: competitive advantage
subject: marketing
subject: product differentiation

description: Traditional recommendations for building sustainable competitive advantages revolve around differentiating a product from the competition along attributes that are important and relevant to customers. However, strategic approaches based on such notions do not represent viable options for companies competing in commodity markets characterized by a lack of physical product differentiation. The objective of this paper is to conduct a literature review with the aim of identifying alternative approaches to creating competitive advantage that can be used even under conditions in which no differences in actual quality exist across products. This review of the literature uncovered three non-traditional strategies that provide a basis for perceptually differentiating products in the face of physical homogeneity. Agricultural producers operating in parity markets should consider these recommendations when developing strategies aimed at creating the competitive advantages that drive sales performance in the marketplace.
Expanding the capabilities of Bayesian regression with interactions and smooth effects
Creators: name: Johnson, Nathan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The B-WISE (Bayesian regression With Interactions and Smooth Effects) method of regression modelling was designed to improve upon other flexible regression schemes in the areas of model interpretability and ease of implementation. B-WISE models have been shown to have good predictive performance, and performance can be even further improved with a natural Bayesian model averaging scheme. In this thesis I will outline some ways in which some of the constraints inherent in a B-WISE model can be relaxed, so that the technique can be used in more general situations and with even greater flexibility. It is shown that much of the interpretability of B-WISE models is retained and implementation is still relatively straightforward.
Development of Pharmaceutical Care Database Management Software for Asthmatic Patients in Order to Use Quality of Life Questionnaire in Routine Clinical Practice
Creators: name: Sunee Lertsinudom
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2011
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Care Database Management Software, asthma, quality of life

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 7, 3, 55-60
Emerging Issues for Geographical Indication Branding Strategies
Creators: name: Agarwal, Sanjeev
name: Barone, Michael J.
name: Agarwal, Sanjeev
name: Barone, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: brand
subject: branding
subject: commodity marketing
subject: generic brand
subject: geographic identity

description: Branding strategies centering on the geographical origins of a product can provide a basis for differentiating commodity products. The use of such "geographical indications" (or GIs) can involve unique quality characteristics associated with a particular location or quality images that are based on the history, tradition, and folklore in a region. In this paper we describe the benefits and pitfalls (such as the threat of new entrants, oversupply, the broadening of boundaries to include more producers, and limiting generic use of such names) of using GI branding strategies. We also focus on trademark issues germane to a company's ability to (1) adopt GI-based trademarks as a means of gaining a competitive advantage and (2) protect the rights associated with such marks in order to sustain this source of competitive advantage.
Quantum LDPC Codes with Almost Linear Minimum Distance
Creators: name: Panteleev, Pavel
name: Kalachev, Gleb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 94Bxx, 81P73

description: We give a construction of quantum LDPC codes of dimension $Θ(\log N)$ and distance $Θ(N/\log N)$ as the code length $N\to\infty$. Using a product of chain complexes this construction also provides a family of quantum LDPC codes of distance $Ω(N^{1-α/2}/\log N)$ and dimension $Ω(N^α\log N)$, where $0 \le α< 1$. We also introduce and study a new operation called lifted product, which naturally generalizes the product operations for quantum codes and chain complexes. Moreover, as a simple byproduct of our results on quantum codes, we obtain a new result on classical codes. We show that for any fixed $R < 1$ there exists an asymptotically good family of classical quasi-cyclic LDPC codes of rate at least $R$ with, in some sense, optimal circulant size $Ω(N/\log N)$ as the code length $N\to\infty$.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume Effects on the Glass Transition Dynamics
Creators: name: Roland, C. M.
name: McGrath, K. J.
name: Casalini, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The role of jamming (steric constraints) and its relationship to the available volume is addressed by examining the effect that certain modifications of a glass-former have on the ratio of its isochoric and isobaric activation enthalpies. This ratio reflects the relative contribution of volume (density) and temperature (thermal energy) to the temperature-dependence of the relaxation times of liquids and polymers. We find that an increase in the available volume confers a stronger volume-dependence to the relaxation dynamics, a result at odds with free volume interpretations of the glass transition.
description: 9 pages 5 figures
Economic, Financial, and Political Environment in Argentina
Creators: name: Agarwal, Sanjeev
name: Agarwal, Sanjeev
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Development

description: Interest is high in Argentina as an emerging economic power in the Americas. This paper analyzes issues pertinent to the relative advantages and disadvantages between the United States and Argentina for producing, transporting, processing and marketing major agricultural commodities in the context of distribution to significant global markets. Designed as a tool for agribusiness students and prospective investment and trade partners, it outlines Argentina's economic, financial, and political history. The paper focuses on the past 15 years, with emphasis on the trade-related economic and political reforms in the presidencies of Carlos Menem and Fernando de la Rua. Appendices give background on two wars, the "Dirty War" and the Falkland Islands War, and outline the participation of Argentina as a founding member of Mercosur, a customs union.
What is the Halo Mass Function in a Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmology?
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Mihir
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) or wave dark matter is an alternative theory designed to solve the small-scale problems faced by the standard cold dark matter proposal for the primary material component of the universe. It is made up of ultra-light axions having mass $\sim 10^{-22}$ eV that typically have de Broglie wavelength of several kpc, alleviating some of the apparent small-scale discrepancies faced by the standard $Λ$CDM paradigm. In this paper, we calculate the halo mass function for the fuzzy dark matter using a sharp-k window function and compare it with one calculated using numerical simulations, finding the peak mass at roughly $10^{10} {M_{\odot}}$ for a particle mass of $2\times 10^{-22}$ eV. We also constrain the mass of FDM particle to be $\gtrapprox 2\times10^{-22}$ eV using the observations of high-redshift ($z\sim 10$) lensed galaxies from CLASH survey.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
[Brev til DKNVS]
Creators: name: Uppsala Universitets Consistorium
name: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1832

description: Oversender en medalje som ble preget "øfwer dess Canceller Hans Kongl. Høghet Kron-Prinsen"
Transformational Leadership of Heads of Pharmacy Department of Hospitals under the Offce of the Perma- nent Secretary,Ministry of Public Health
Creators: name: Wachira Sumethiwit
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU MSU UBU
Year: 2011
Subjects: Transformational leadership, Hospital pharmacist

description: Isan Journal ofPharmaceutical Sciences, 7, 3, 61-72
The Impact of Ownership Structure on the Performance of China's Feed Mill Sector
Creators: name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
name: Fabiosa, Jacinto F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: China
subject: feed mill sector
subject: privatization
subject: trade

description: In the decade of the 1990s, China's feed sector became increasingly privatized, more feed mills opened, and the scale of operation expanded. Capacity utilization remained low and multi-ministerial supervision was still prevalent, but the feed mill sector showed a positive performance overall, posting a growth rate of 11 percent per year. Profit margin over sales was within allowable rates set by the government of China at 3 to 5 percent. Financial efficiency improved, with a 20 percent quicker turnover of working capital. Average technical efficiency was 0.805, as more efficient feed mills increasingly gained production shares. This study finds evidence that the increasing privatization explains the improved performance of the commercial feed mill sector. The drivers that shaped the feed mill sector in the 1990s have changed with China's accession to the World Trade Organization. With the new policy regime in place, the study foresees that, assuming an adequate supply of soy meal and an excess capacity in the feed mill sector, it is likely that China will allow corn imports up to the tariff rate quota (TRQ) of 7.2 mmt since the in-quota rate is very low at 1 percent. However, when the TRQ is exceeded, the import duty jumps to a prohibitive out-quota rate of 65 percent. With an import duty for meat of only 10 to 12 percent, China would have a strong incentive to import meat products directly rather than bringing in expensive corn to produce meat domestically. This would be further reinforced if structural transformation in the swine sector would narrow the cost differential between domestic and imported pork.
A Comparative Analysis of Agricultural Transportation and Logistics Systems in the United States and Argentina
Creators: name: Goldsby, Thomas J.
name: Goldsby, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: global markets
subject: infrastructure
subject: logistics systems
subject: transportation systems
subject: privatization

description: Interest is high in Argentina as an emerging economic power in the Americas. This paper analyzes issues pertinent to the relative advantages and disadvantages of transportation and logistics systems between the United States and Argentina in the context of distribution to significant global markets. Designed as a tool for agribusiness students and prospective investment and trade partners, it provides a side-by-side analysis of U.S. and Argentine rail, motor, and water transportation systems. Also from a comparative perspective, it examines grain storage capacities and systems.
Statistical entropy of two-dimensional dilaton de Sitter space
Creators: name: Lowe, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been proposed that a quantum group structure underlies de Sitter/Conformal field theory duality. These ideas are used to give a microscopic operator counting interpretation for the entropy of two-dimensional dilaton de Sitter space. This agrees with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy up to a factor of order unity.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, revtex4
IMPROVING THE U.S. POSITION IN WORLD SOYBEAN MEAL TRADE
Creators: name: Park, Hyesun S.
name: Hurburgh, Charles R.
name: Park, Hyesun S.
name: Hurburgh, Charles R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: In order to improve the value of U.S. soybean meal in trade markets, problems with quality must be corrected. This can only be achieved by creating appropriate incentives for producers, improving the accuracy of meal protein and amino acid testing, and gaining acceptance for composition tests as pricing criteria. A study of various data sources and physical soybean meal samples found that U.S. soybean meal was more consistent and of higher feeding value than was soybean meal from several other exporting countries. Common near-infrared analyzers can provide useful measures of composition for pricing. Amino acid levels as a quality measure can be tracked from the whole soybean into soy meal. Continuing integrated analysis could produce a dramatic reorientation of high and low soybean and soybean meal value in the marketplace.
Macroscopic evidence of microscopic dynamics in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam oscillator chain from nonlinear time series analysis
Creators: name: Romero-Bastida, M.
name: Castaneda, D.
name: Braun, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of detecting specific features of microscopic dynamics in the macroscopic behavior of a many-degrees-of-freedom system is investigated by analyzing the position and momentum time series of a heavy impurity embedded in a chain of nearest-neighbor anharmonic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam oscillators. Results obtained in a previous work [M. Romero-Bastida, Phys. Rev. E {\bf69}, 056204 (2004)] suggest that the impurity does not contribute significantly to the dynamics of the chain and can be considered as a probe for the dynamics of the system to which the impurity is coupled. The ($r,τ$) entropy, which measures the amount of information generated by unit time at different scales $τ$ of time and $r$ of the observable, is numerically computed by methods of nonlinear time-series analysis using the position and momentum signals of the heavy impurity for various values of the energy density $ε$ (energy per degree of freedom) of the system and some values of the impurity mass $M$. Results obtained from these two time series are compared and discussed.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX4 PRE format; to be published in Phys. Rev. E
The X-ray properties of Eta Carinae during its 2020 X-ray minimum
Creators: name: Kashi, Amit
name: Principe, David A.
name: Soker, Noam
name: Kastner, Joel H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The massive binary system Eta Carinae is characterized by intense colliding winds that form shocks and emit X-rays. The system is highly eccentric ($e\simeq0.9$), resulting in modulated X-ray emission during its 5.54 year orbit. The X-ray flux increases in the months prior to periastron passage, exhibiting strong flares, then rapidly declines to a flat minimum lasting a few weeks, followed by a gradual recovery. We present Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope spectra obtained before, during, and after the 2020 X-ray minimum, and perform spectral analysis to establish the temporal behavior of X-ray flux and X-ray-absorbing column density ($N_{\rm H}(t)$) for the 2-10 keV and 5-10 keV energy ranges. The latter range is dominated by the stellar wind collision region and, therefore, these spectral parameters - in particular, $N_{\rm H}(t)$ - serves as a potentially stringent constraint on the binary orientation. We compare the observed $N_{\rm H}(t)$ results to the behavior predicted by a simple geometrical model in an attempt to ascertain which star is closer to us at periastron: the more massive primary ($ω\simeq 240$-$270^\circ$), or the secondary ($ω\simeq 90^\circ$). We find that the variations in column density, both far from periastron and around periastron passage, support the latter configuration ($ω\simeq 90^\circ$). The 2020 X-ray minimum showed the fastest recovery among the last five minima, providing additional evidence for a recent weakening of the primary star's wind.
description: Accepted to ApJ
A Bayesian Examination of Anchoring Bias and Cheap Talks in Constructed Markets
Creators: name: Aadland, David
name: Caplan, Arthur J.
name: Aadland, David
name: Caplan, Arthur J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We present a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between anchoring bias, hypothetical bias, and cheap talk in constructed markets. In our theory, interviewers provide agents with signals such as cheap talk and bid values while eliciting the value for nonmarket goods. In response to these signals, agents revise their prior distributions over the value of the good. Previous empirical studies have failed to account for the interaction between cheap talk and anchoring during this updating process, leading researchers to incorrectly assess the effects of cheap talk in reducing hypothetical bias. In particular, we predict that cheap talk will appear to be more effective for relatively large bids. We test our theory in an experimental setting where agents are asked to make a hypothetical voluntary contribution to a public good. The experimental results, as well as several recent empirical studies, are consistent with the theory.
Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Biotech Foods in China
Creators: name: Lin, William W.
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Tuan, Francis C.
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Bai, Junfei
name: Lin, William W.
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Tuan, Francis C.
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Bai, Junfei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Biotech foods
subject: willingness to pay
subject: China
subject: contingent valuation method
subject: semi-double-bounded dichotomous choice model

description: Based on a large-scale consumer survey, this study employs a semi-double-bounded dichotomous choice model to estimate the mean willingness to pay (WTP) for biotech foods in China. The study also accounts for the effects of respondents' characteristics on the probability of purchasing biotech foods and WTP. Analyses focus on biotech soybean oil and insect-resistant biotech rice.
Persistence Probabilities of the German DAX and Shanghai Index
Creators: name: Ren, F.
name: Zheng, B.
name: Lin, H.
name: Wen, L. Y.
name: Trimper, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We present a relatively detailed analysis of the persistence probability distributions in financial dynamics. Compared with the auto-correlation function, the persistence probability distributions describe dynamic correlations non-local in time. Universal and non-universal behaviors of the German DAX and Shanghai Index are analyzed, and numerical simulations of some microscopic models are also performed. Around the fixed point $z_0=0$, the interacting herding model produces the scaling behavior of the real markets.
Fully automatic left ventricular ejection fraction evaluation in magnetic resonance images using patch-based clustering technique
Creators: name: Kittichai Wantanajittikul
name: Suwit Saekho
name: Suchaya Silvilairat
name: Krit Leemasawat
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
patch-based clustering
Fuzzy C-means clustering (FCM)
mathematical morphology

description: Journal of Associated Medical Sciences, 53, 3, 43-54
Testing Models of Periodically Modulated FRB Activity
Creators: name: Katz, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The activity of the repeating FRB 20180916B is periodically modulated with a period of 16.3 days, and FRB 121102 may be similarly modulated with a period of about 160 days. In some models of this modulation the period derivative is insensitive to the uncertain parameters; these models can be tested by measurement of or bounds on the derivative. In other models values of the uncertain parameters can be constrained. Periodic modulation of aperiodic bursting activity may result from emission by a narrow beam wandering within a cone or funnel along the axis of a precessing disc, such as the accretion discs in X-ray binaries. The production of FRB 200428 by a neutron star that is neither accreting nor in a binary then shows universality: coherent emission may occur in a wide range of environments.
description: 5 pp; typo in Eq. 7 corrected
Value Added What??...Horizontal versus Vertical Expansion in Iowa Production Agriculture
Creators: name: Roe, Joshua D.
name: Roe, Joshua D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Farm investment in value-added agricultural firms continues to grow in the United States. Using farm-level, asset allocation models, value added investments were found to be advantageous for farms with below average earnings or older operators. Farms with superior financial performance benefited from a portfolio allocation that favored farm expansion.
One loop verification of SMEFT Ward Identities
Creators: name: Corbett, Tyler
name: Trott, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We verify Standard Model Effective Field Theory Ward identities to one loop order when background field gauge is used to quantize the theory. The results we present lay the foundation of next to leading order automatic generation of results in the SMEFT, in both the perturbative and non-perturbative expansion using the geoSMEFT formalism, and background field gauge.
description: 40 pages, 1 Figure
The radioprotective potential of Centotheca lappacea (L) desv. extract in human endothelial cell
Creators: name: Arunee Hematulin
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Centotheca lappacea extract
radioprotector
radiationinduced vascular injuryCentotheca lappacea extract
radiationinduced vascular injury

description: Journal of Associated Medical Sciences, 53, 3, 55-61
Extracting an arbitrary relative phase from a multiqubit two-component entangled state
Creators: name: Yang, Chui-Ping
name: Han, Siyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that an arbitrary relative phase can be extracted from a multiqubit two-component (MTC) entangled state by local Hadamard transformations and measurements along a single basis only. In addition, how to distinguish a MTC entangled state with an arbitrary entanglement degree and relative phase from a class of multiqubit mixed states is discussed.
description: 4 pages, REVTEX, accepted by Physical Review A
Snowblind: the importance of climate information for recreational real estate
Creators: name: Osgood, Daniel E.
name: Osgood, Daniel E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Seasonal climate forecasting systems have made substantial gains in recent years. Since climate forecasting technologies are quite new, it is difficult to value them by studying the impacts of existing systems. In pursuing the research necessary to develop and refine these technologies it is worthwhile to know if they have any benefit before their implementation. In this manuscript I determine that there is robust pre-implementation evidence that new vegetation index forecasting technologies could provide non-zero benefits in ranchette markets in Arizona. The magnitudes of the benefits are subtle, but nontrivial when aggregated across the population. In addition, intriguing results for parameters introduced in order to control for confounding impacts are found, suggesting potential rents on information asymmetries.
Ruhbach; Schroer; Wichelhaus: Bekenntnis in Bewegung
Creators: name: Weissgerber, Hans
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 19 Nr. 2 (1970): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 19, Heft 2
title: Rezension: "Der umkämpfte Krieg. Das Museum des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Danzig. Entstehung und Streit" / Paweł Machcewicz. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. ISBN: 978-3-447-11035-8
Creators: name: Zagańczyk-Neufeld, Agnieszka
name: Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (Www.Pol-Int.Org)
Publisher: name: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Year: 2020

description: Historische Museen als Bestandteil und wichtiges Medium von Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik sind oft Gegenstand öffentlicher Debatten. Die politische Auseinandersetzung um das neu gegründete Museum des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Danzig überschritt jedoch die Grenzen einer demokratischen, öffentlichen Debatte und zeigte mit aller Deutlichkeit, mit welchen Mitteln die in Polen regierende Partei Recht und Gerechtigkeit (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) ihre nationalistische Geschichtspolitik umsetzt. Der umkämpfte Krieg ist eine Art Verteidigungsrede des polnischen Historikers und des ehemaligen Direktors des Museums, Paweł Machcewicz, eine Antwort auf politisch motivierte Vorwürfe, ein Tagebuch des Untergangs seines Museumsprojektes und der Schädigung seiner wissenschaftlichen Karriere. Gleichzeitig ist das Buch eine wichtige Stimme in der Debatte darüber, wie die Geschichte Polens erzählt werden soll, und wie sich Polen dabei in der europäischen Gemeinschaft positioniert.
Strength in adversity : motherhood for women who have been battered
Creators: name: Irwin, Lori G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Violence against women in intimate relationships in Canada occurs in astonishing proportions. One in four Canadian women have experienced battering by a partner. This battering coexists with parenting children who witness or experience the abuse. Although researchers have described women's experiences of abuse, factors influencing their decisionmaking, and the experiences of children in abusive contexts, there is a paucity of literature that addresses how women mother and parent their children within this adversity. The purpose of this research study was to explore the experience of motherhood from the perspective of women who have been battered. In this research, the way in which women come to understand their experiences as mothers was of central concern. The method used in this study was interpretive description, a qualitative research approach that allowed women's accounts of their experiences to be conceptualized as constructed narratives that reflect their attempt to make sense of their lives as mothers. Five women who have been battered who are mothers were interview twice for this study. The open-ended interviews were transcribed verbatim and their accounts were analyzed for emerging patterns and themes. The findings of this study showed that the women experienced many complex challenges while mothering in an abusive relationship and that many of these extended beyond the relationship once women left. The way the women fulfilled their roles as mothers was influenced by the abuse in their lives, by their perceived social ideals of motherhood, and by their concerns for both their children1 and themselves. Within the context of an abusive relationship, women used various strategies to care for and protect their children including minimizing the intensity and frequency of abuse. Controlling behaviors of partners influenced parenting options for mothers and altered their ability to parent according to their values. After leaving their abusive relationships, women found a sense of meaning in being a mother that helped them to build self-esteem, support their children, and experience personal growth. The experiences of motherhood revealed in this study extend our understanding of the complexities of being a mother in the context of abuse, point to the need to revise existing theories to reflect broader conceptualizations of motherhood, and provide direction for supporting women and their children in health care encounters.
title: Review: "Lives of the Orange Men. A Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement" / Major Waldemar Frydrych. Chicho, CA: Minor Compositions, 2013. ISBN: 978-1570272691
Creators: name: Aniskiewicz, Alena
name: Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (Www.Pol-Int.Org)
Publisher: name: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Year: 2020

description: "Poland in this time," readers are told early in Waldemar Fydrych's Lives of the Orange Men, "was a strange and wonderful land. Some people thought it was [a] real trip, but others found it psychotic. For this reason the unfamiliar reader might find themselves disoriented, as if tumbling down a rabbit hole. So for the purposes of edification and understanding, the reader will encounter a number of clear and concise explanatory notes to provide access to this world where the familiar becomes strange" (p. 9). Neither entirely clear nor concise, Fydrych's biographical history of the Orange Alternative movement he helped found is nevertheless an illuminating and pleasurable rabbit hole. Organized in the 1980s, when Poland was gripped by the struggle between the Communist authorities and newly formed Solidary movement, the Orange Alternative offered a playful and radically different point of view – staging irreverent "happenings" and decorating streets with graffiti dwarves. This book records the movement's humor and humanity and is a valuable source for those interested in Polish history and culture, as well as broader questions of political performance and art in public space. Lives of the Orange Men offers a personal glimpse into a pivotal era in Poland, but does so in a way that makes strange the familiar history – and thus revives the spirit of the movement it chronicles.
An Examination of the Impacts of Exchange Rate Volatility on Sectoral Trade in the Mercosur
Creators: name: Larson, Donald W.
name: Bittencourt, Maurício Vaz Lobo
name: Thompson, Stanley R.
name: Larson, Donald W.
name: Bittencourt, Maurício Vaz Lobo
name: Thompson, Stanley R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This study captures the lack of macroeconomic policy coordination among Mercosur countries, through the impact of real bilateral exchange rate volatility on trade. A sectoral gravity model is estimated under two different measures of exchange rate volatility. Results show that the reduction in exchange rate volatility can increase bilateral trade.
Generalized Gelfand-Yaglom Formula for a Discretized Quantum Mechanic System
Creators: name: Shea, Meredith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Gelfand-Yaglom formula relates the regularized determinant of a differential operator to the solution of an initial value problem. Here we develop a generalized Gelfand-Yaglom formula for a Hamiltonian system with Lagrangian boundary conditions in the discrete and continuous settings. Later we analyze the convergence of the discretized Hamilton-Jacobi operator and propose a lattice regularization for the determinant.
description: 18 pages
Dip in UHECR spectrum as signature of proton interaction with CMB
Creators: name: Berezinsky, V.
name: Gazizov, A. Z.
name: Grigorieva, S. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultrahigh energy (UHE) extragalactic protons propagating through cosmic microwave radiation (CMB) acquire the spectrum features in the form of the dip, bump (pile-up protons) and the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) cutoff. We have performed the analysis of these features in terms of the modification factor. This analysis is weakly model-dependent, especially in case of the dip. The energy shape of the dip is confirmed by the Akeno-AGASA data with $χ^2=19.06$ for d.o.f. =17 with two free parameters used for comparison. The agreement with HiRes data is also very good. This is the strong evidence that UHE cosmic rays observed at energies $1\times 10^{18}$ eV - $4\times 10^{19}$ eV are extragalactic protons propagating through CMB. The dip is also present in case of diffusive propagation in magnetic field.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
Wealth Accumulation by Farm Households: Evidence from a National Survey
Creators: name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: El-Osta, Hisham S.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: El-Osta, Hisham S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Wealth affects the economic well-being of the farm households by enabling farm households to secure credit, facilitate intergenerational transfer, and provide for smoothing consumption expenditures in times of income shortfall. This paper examines the factors that are likely to influence wealth accumulation by farm households. Specifically, we use 2001 ARMS data and multivariate regression procedure to estimate two models; one for those farm households whose wealth originates primarily from the farm and another for households with both farm- and nonfarm wealth.
FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF MICROSPONGES LOADED TOPICAL HYDROGEL FOR THE TREATMENT OF PLAQUE PSORIASIS.
Creators: name: Rupeshri.R. Netkar*, Dr.V.P. Wankhade, Dr.S.C. Atram, Dr.N.N. Bobade,  Dr.S.D. Pande.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Microsponge-based drug delivery systems represent an innovative approach to enhance the efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical formulations. This study explores the development and evaluation of clobetasol-loaded microsponges incorporated into a hydrogel matrix for topical application in treating dermatological conditions such as psoriasis. The research optimized microsponge formulations using Eudragit S100 and RS100 polymers, investigating key parameters including drug-polymer ratios, particle size distribution, drug entrapment efficiency, and in vitro drug release profiles. The optimized microsponges exhibited improved stability and sustained release characteristics when integrated into the hydrogel, ensuring prolonged drug delivery and minimized local side effects. Accelerated stability studies confirmed the robustness of the microsponges in maintaining physical integrity and drug content over 30 days under various storage conditions. This study underscores the potential of microsponge technology to revolutionize topical drug delivery, offering controlled release and enhanced therapeutic outcomes for dermatological applications. Future research directions include exploring additional therapeutic agents and optimizing formulations for broader clinical applications.

Keywords:  Microsponge technology, Clobetasol, Hydrogel formulation, Dermatological applications, Sustained release, Drug-polymer ratios, Eudragit S100, RS100 polymers, Drug stability.
title: Wet sieving versus dry crushing: Soil microaggregates reveal different physical structure, bacterial diversity and organic matter composition in a clay gradient
Creators: name: Felde, Vincent John Martin Noah Linus
name: Schweizer, Steffen A.
name: Biesgen, Danh
name: Ulbrich, Angela
name: Uteau, Daniel
name: Knief, Claudia
name: Graf-Rosenfellner, Markus
name: Kögel-Knabner, Ingrid
name: Peth, Stephan
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: aggregate breakdown dynamics
subject: aggregate carbon
subject: aggregate separation
subject: aggregate stability
subject: aggregation
subject: microaggregate
subject: microbial community structure
subject: SOM distribution
subject: 333
subject: 570
subject: Bodenbestandteil
subject: Bodenbakterien
subject: Sieben
subject: Zerkleinern
subject: Bodenmikroorganismus

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Strategic Interaction and Spatial Multiplier Effects in Local Growth Control Policies: The California Housing Market
Creators: name: Waldorf, Brigitte S.
name: Byun, Pillsung
name: Florax, Raymond J.G.M.
name: Waldorf, Brigitte S.
name: Byun, Pillsung
name: Florax, Raymond J.G.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: spatial spillovers
subject: growth controls
subject: housing supply
subject: market orientation

description: Since the 1970s, growth controls spread across many metropolitan regions in the United States. Several studies address the effects of local growth controls on housing markets, particularly its price effect, which is induced by rising construction cost, constrained housing supply, improved amenities, and market reorientation of homebuilders. However, only few studies explicitly address inter-jurisdictional spatial spillovers and strategic interaction of policy-makers of different jurisdictions in the design of growth control policies. This study focuses on two housing market outcomes, supply of new housing and market orientation, and utilizes a spatial econometric framework to systematically investigate local and global spatial spillovers giving rise to spatial multiplier effects. Preliminary results suggest that market orientation of new home building is primarily influenced by population growth and building permit caps, with positive spillovers at the local level only. For the supply of new housing, however, the models seem to suggest positive global spillover effects. However, there is additional indication of a potential relevance of including spatial heterogeneity in the model specification. Specifically, a north-south disparity or a coastal-inland disparity may have non-negligible impacts with concurrent implications for policy-making.
Direct Detection Limits on Heavy Dark Matter
Creators: name: Clark, Michael
name: Depoian, Amanda
name: Elshimy, Bahaa
name: Kopec, Abigail
name: Lang, Rafael F.
name: Li, Shengchao
name: Qin, Juehang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiply-interacting massive particles (MIMPs) are heavy (>10^10 GeV/c^2) dark matter particles that interact strongly with regular matter, but may have evaded detection due to the low number density required to make up the local dark matter halo. These particles could leave track-like signatures in current experiments, similar to lightly-ionizing particles. We show that previously calculated limits from the MAJORANA Demonstrator on the flux of lightly-ionizing particles can be used to exclude MIMP dark matter parameter space up to a mass of 10^15 GeV/c^2. We also calculate limits from the standard XENON1T analysis in this high-mass regime, properly taking into account flux limitations and multi-scatter effects. Finally, we show that a dedicated MIMP analysis using the XENON1T dark matter search could probe unexplored parameter space up to masses of 10^18 GeV/c^2.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Updated version, following the errata published in Phys. Rev. D 104, 129903
THE ROLE OF PHYTOSOMES – A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
Creators: name: Vivek Baban Ingle*, Sunil S. Bhagat, Dr. Swati P. Deshmukh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Phytosomes are an innovative drug delivery system designed to address the limitations of conventional methods, particularly in the context of herbal medicines. Historically valued for their safety and efficacy, herbal remedies are increasingly being revisited for modern therapeutic applications. Phytosomes represent a unique complex formed by the interaction of plant-derived bioactive compounds and phospholipids, offering enhanced pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties over traditional herbal formulations. These advanced formulations improve the absorption and bioavailability of phytoconstituents, many of which are water-soluble, such as flavonoids, yet demonstrate poor oral absorption due to their hydrophilic nature. By encapsulating these bioactive compounds within a lipid-compatible matrix, phytosomes enable better penetration across biological membranes, significantly enhancing their therapeutic efficacy. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the structure, benefits, and mechanisms of phytosomes, exploring their potential to revolutionize the delivery of plant-based therapies. Additionally, the article highlights current market products utilizing phytosome technology, emphasizing their role as a promising advancement in the field of drug delivery.

Keywords: Phytosomes, Phytomedicines, Traditional medicines, phytoconstituents