cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aggregation and Cointegration
Creators: name: Korosi, Gabor
name: Longmire, Ritchard
name: Matyas, Laszlo
name: Korosi, Gabor
name: Longmire, Ritchard
name: Matyas, Laszlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The analysis of economic time series assumes specific economic behaviour of a representative agent. The data used in analysis is generated by aggregating observations of all individuals in a population. This is valid only if all members of a population have the same data generating process, but what happens if their behaviour is heterogeneous? This paper examines the properties of test statistics for cointegration when the aggregate data consists of heterogeneous individuals.
2018-01 Guaranteed non-labor income and labor supply
Creators: name: Feinberg, Robert
name: Kuehn, Daniel
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: One peculiar source of non-labor income that has not been studied for its effect on labor supply is the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend. This is somewhat surprising given the recent policy focus on Guaranteed Basic Income programs. An annual lump-sum payment, the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) is available to almost all Alaska residents, is clearly exogenous with respect to work effort, and -- while relatively predictable -- varies over time and across households (since it increases linearly with family size). This paper estimates the non-labor income elasticity of labor supply using exogenous variation from the Alaskan PFD and data from the American Community Survey. The analysis finds that men have elasticities between -0.15 and -0.10, depending on the specification. Single women have elasticities between -0.14 and -0.11, while married women have somewhat larger elasticities between -0.18 and -0.11.
Superconducting Properties of Combustion Synthesized MgB2
Creators: name: Takano, Yoshihiko
name: Oguro, Nobutaka
name: Kaieda, Yoshinari
name: Togano, Kazumasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have successfully prepared the MgB2 superconducting bulk and powdered materials by the method of combustion synthesis. The starting materials used in this study were powders of Mg and B. X-ray powder diffraction pattern was well assigned to the P6/mmm MgB2 phase. The temperature dependence of magnetization shows sharp superconducting transition around 38K. The critical current density can be estimated from the hysteresis of the magnetization curvature using the Bean's model. The powdered sample shows a high critical current density of 2x10^6 A/cm2 at 5K under the magnetic field of 1T.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, PDF file
Impact of Organizational Culture on Employee Satisfaction: A Case of Hilton Hotel, United Kingdom
Creators: name: Reidhead, Christine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: Purpose: This paper has focused on examining the impact of organizational culture on employee satisfaction in Hotel Hilton, United Kingdom. Design: The paper is written on the basis of secondary data. The research study is conducted on the basis of qualitative research method and data is collected through critical review of literature from secondary sources. The secondary data is collected from scholarly articles and books. Findings: From the findings, it is revealed that there is a significant impact of organizational culture on employee satisfaction. When, the management of an organization focuses highly on providing supportive organizational culture, then, it helps in enhancing the satisfaction level of employees. The satisfied employees in an organization serve as a competitive advantage. Research Limitations: Due to lack of enough time and resources, the paper is written on the basis of one case study, so, this might decrease the generalizability of research findings. Moreover, future studies can be conducted for examining the importance of organizational culture for other important factors of the firm. Practical Implications: The findings of this research paper proves to be much beneficial for managers of organizations, as they can get to know that how satisfaction level of employees can be enhanced through focusing on organizational culture. Originality: Previously, there was no study conducted for exploring the importance of organizational culture for enhancing employee satisfaction, and how it could be directly linked to the competitive advantage of the firm. So, this study has been carried out to investigate the impact of organizational culture on employee satisfaction, in the case of Hilton Hotel UK.
Non-Linear Effect of Government Spending on Private Consumption in Cambodia: Markov-Switching Autoregressive Model
Creators: name: Leanghak Hok
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 140213 Public Economics- Public Choice
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The influence of government expenditure on private consumption has been debated among scholars. Some studies have found a positive linkage between the two while some others have found a negative one. In this study, the Markov-Switching Autoregressive (MSAR) model was used to investigate the non-linear impact of government spending on private consumption in Cambodia. The result based on Cambodia’s annual data from 1987 to 2015 shows that private consumption responds positively to a rise in disposable income or a decline in saving interest rates. Inflation is statistically insignificant. The impact of government purchases on private consumption is linear, negative, and asymmetric. A non-linear effect of government investment on household consumption occurs in Cambodia during certain periods—times of political instability, which are 1994-1995, 1997-1998, and 2004-2006. This non-Keynesian effect during the period 2010-2015 occurs because of raising the present value of taxes. The contribution of the study is that an increase in the present value of taxes and political instability can prevent the efficacy of government spending on private consumption.
Using pi_2(1670) -> b_1(1235) pi to Constrain Hadronic Models
Creators: name: Page, Philip R.
name: Capstick, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that current analyses of experimental data indicate that the strong decay mode pi_2 -> b_1 pi is anomalously small. Non-relativistic quark models with spin-1 quark pair creation, such as ^3P_0, ^3S_1 and ^3D_1 models, as well as instanton and lowest order one-boson (in this case pi) emission models, can accommodate the analyses of experimental data, because of a quark-spin selection rule. Models and effects that violate this selection rule, such as higher order one-boson emission models, as well as mixing with other Fock states, may be constrained by the small pi_2 -> b_1 pi decay. This can provide a viability check on newly proposed decay mechanisms. We show that for mesons made up of a heavy quark and anti-quark, the selection rule is exact to all orders of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) perturbation theory.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, 3 encapsulated Postscript figures, small changes
Additional file 4 of scDALI: modeling allelic heterogeneity in single cells reveals context-specific genetic regulation
Creators: name: Heinen, Tobias
name: Secchia, Stefano
name: Reddington, James P.
name: Zhao, Bingqing
name: Furlong, Eileen E. M.
name: Stegle, Oliver
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Review history.
Spectral characterization of non-Gaussian quantum noise: Keldysh approach and application to photon shot noise
Creators: name: Wang, Yu-Xin
name: Clerk, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Having accurate tools to describe non-classical, non-Gaussian environmental fluctuations is crucial for designing effective quantum control protocols and understanding the physics of underlying quantum dissipative environments. We show how the Keldysh approach to quantum noise characterization can be usefully employed to characterize frequency-dependent noise, focusing on the quantum bispectrum (i.e., frequency-resolved third cumulant). Using the paradigmatic example of photon shot noise fluctuations in a driven bosonic mode, we show that the quantum bispectrum can be a powerful tool for revealing distinctive non-classical noise properties, including an effective breaking of detailed balance by quantum fluctuations. The Keldysh-ordered quantum bispectrum can be directly accessed using existing noise spectroscopy protocols.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, including appendices
2018-01 Guaranteed non-labor income and labor supply
Creators: name: Feinberg, Robert
name: Kuehn, Daniel
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.). Department of Economics
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: One peculiar source of non-labor income that has not been studied for its effect on labor supply is the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend. This is somewhat surprising given the recent policy focus on Guaranteed Basic Income programs. An annual lump-sum payment, the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) is available to almost all Alaska residents, is clearly exogenous with respect to work effort, and -- while relatively predictable -- varies over time and across households (since it increases linearly with family size). This paper estimates the non-labor income elasticity of labor supply using exogenous variation from the Alaskan PFD and data from the American Community Survey. The analysis finds that men have elasticities between -0.15 and -0.10, depending on the specification. Single women have elasticities between -0.14 and -0.11, while married women have somewhat larger elasticities between -0.18 and -0.11.
Modelling Export Activity in a Multicountry Economic Area: The APEC Case
Creators: name: Matyas, Laszlo
name: Konya, Laszlo
name: Harris, Mark N.
name: Matyas, Laszlo
name: Konya, Laszlo
name: Harris, Mark N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Gravity model
subject: Panel data
subject: Foreign trade
subject: Fixed effects model
subject: Exports flows
subject: APEC countries

description: The gravity model has long been used for modelling and predicting trade flows. This paper generalises the gravity model allowing for proper representation of local and target country effects and also the business cycle(s). The new approach is based on a panel data framework (instead of a simple cross sectional or times series approach) where the additional information available from using both types of data is utilised to properly model all the specific effects. The model is then estimated for a panel of APEC countries.
Quantum Rotor Atoms in Light Beams with Orbital Angular Momentum: Highly Accurate Rotation Sensor
Creators: name: Kuzmenko, Igor
name: Kuzmenko, Tetyana
name: Band, Yehuda B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atoms trapped in a red detuned retro-reflected Laguerre-Gaussian beam undergo orbital motion within rings whose centers are on the axis of the laser beam. We determine the wave functions, energies and degeneracies of such quantum rotors (QRs), and the microwave transitions between the energy levels are elucidated. We then show how such QR atoms can be used as high-accuracy rotation sensors when the rings are singly-occupied.
description: 10 pages, 8 eps figures
A new global multisource sea ice concentration composite
Creators: name: Olsen, Ida Lundtorp
name: Englyst, Pia
name: Høyer, Jacob
name: Lavergne, Thomas
name: Birkedal, Anton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This presentation was given on 16 October 2024 as a GHRSST Talk by Ida Olsen. 

The full recording for this GHRSST Talk can be found here.
2018-04 Marx, the predisposition to reject markets and private property, and the attractive alternatives to capitalism
Creators: name: Wisman, Jon
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Ever since capitalism came to be recognized as a new economic system, its principal institutions of private property and markets have had vociferous critics, of whom none was more wide-ranging and influential than Karl Marx. Marx claimed that not only were private property and markets critical to creating an ideological patina of freedom behind which, as in slavery and feudalism, a small class extracted from the mass of producers practically all output above that necessary for bare subsistence, they were also corrupting. Yet, Marx recognized that capitalism, unlike earlier exploitative systems, was radically dynamic, producing unprecedented wealth, while transforming not only all it inherited from the past, but also its own nature so as to eventually empower even the producers, who he believed would abandon these capitalist institutions. This article claims Marx was correct in identifying the core problem of capitalism to be its extreme inequality in the ownership and control of the means of production, but that finding fault with private property and markets has been a mistake that has impeded the generation of an attractive and viable alternative to capitalism. It concludes with an outline of an alternative which would eliminate the core problem of exploitation due to unequal ownership and control of the means of production, while retaining roles for private property and markets. It would entail two components: Guaranteed employment at living wages and democratic worker control of firms.
2018-04 Marx, the predisposition to reject markets and private property, and the attractive alternatives to capitalism
Creators: name: Wisman, Jon
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.). Department of Economics
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Ever since capitalism came to be recognized as a new economic system, its principal institutions of private property and markets have had vociferous critics, of whom none was more wide-ranging and influential than Karl Marx. Marx claimed that not only were private property and markets critical to creating an ideological patina of freedom behind which, as in slavery and feudalism, a small class extracted from the mass of producers practically all output above that necessary for bare subsistence, they were also corrupting. Yet, Marx recognized that capitalism, unlike earlier exploitative systems, was radically dynamic, producing unprecedented wealth, while transforming not only all it inherited from the past, but also its own nature so as to eventually empower even the producers, who he believed would abandon these capitalist institutions. This article claims Marx was correct in identifying the core problem of capitalism to be its extreme inequality in the ownership and control of the means of production, but that finding fault with private property and markets has been a mistake that has impeded the generation of an attractive and viable alternative to capitalism. It concludes with an outline of an alternative which would eliminate the core problem of exploitation due to unequal ownership and control of the means of production, while retaining roles for private property and markets. It would entail two components: Guaranteed employment at living wages and democratic worker control of firms.
Strike Data with a Crisis Point
Creators: name: Lieberman, Offer
name: Lieberman, Offer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: F-expansion
subject: Gumbel distribution
subject: Pseudovariate
subject: Strike Data

description: The paper is concerned with the analysis of strike data in which the distribution of short strikes differs from that of long strikes. It appears through visual inspection and asymptotic procedures that for Israeli strikes in the years 1965-1992, the hazard function is exponential for strikes lasting less than 40 days and that it is Weibull with a Weibull parameter greater than unity for longer strikes. The economic interpretation of the phenomenon is discussed. As there is typically only a small sample of long strikes available (Kiefer 1988), classical asymptotic tests are unlikely to convey the correct message. We suggest a test statistic for the hypothesis that a break does not occur. A new F-based expansion for the small sample distribution of the test is derived. The test rejects the hypothesis of no break for the data under investigation. While conventional approximations to the distribution of the test statistic are shown to break down catastrophically, the F-expansion appears to be highly accurate.
V-A sum rules with D=10 operators
Creators: name: Zyablyuk, K. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The difference of vector and axial-vector charged current correlators is analyzed by means of QCD sum rules. The contribution of 10-dimensional 4-quark condensates is calculated and its value is estimated within the framework of factorization hypothesis. It is compared to the result, obtained from operator fit of Borel sum rules in the complex q^2-plane, calculated from experimental data on hadronic tau-decays. This fit gives accurate values of the light quark condensate and quark-gluon mixed condensate. The size of the high-order operators and the convergence of operator series are discussed.
description: 9 pages, 7 figure files. v2: references added. v3: more careful treatment of errors, to appear in EPJC
The Difference in Competitiveness of Indonesian Biodiesel between Spain and the EU
Creators: name: Yoyon Muzayyin
name: Dwidjono Hadi Darwanto
name: Masyhuri .
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: he purpose of this paper is to find the competitiveness of Indonesia's biodiesel exports in the Spanish and the European Union (EU) market as a whole using some competitiveness analysis approaches. In addition to knowing the similarities and differences in the results of the methods of analyzing the competitiveness of Indonesian biodiesel in Spain and the EU. The methodology used was comparative advantage analysis, including analysis of RCA, RSCA, and NRCA and market share. The data used are the value of biodiesel and total monthly exports of both Indonesia and other countries to Spain and the EU from January 2012 to January 2019. Through the market share approach, it was known that Indonesia's biodiesel market share in the Spanish and EU markets was only 22 percent and 0.04, respectively with an increasing trend in Spain and a decreasing trend in the EU. Each method for measuring competitiveness shows the similarity of results. Indonesia's biodiesel had competitiveness, both in Spain and the EU. Indonesia's biodiesel competitiveness trends are declining of all methods, both in the Spanish and EU markets, except the RCA method for Spain. Indonesia's biodiesel competitiveness is relatively better in Spain than the EU. The originality that there was not paper on the theme of the comparative competitiveness of Indonesia's biodiesel exports in Spain and the EU. This paper also proposes new criteria for determining competitiveness using existing competitiveness analysis methods. This can be input to determine better steps in marketing Indonesian biodiesel to Spain and the EU.
2012-07 Using difference-in-differences to estimate damages in healthcare antitrust
Creators: name: McCluer, R. Forrest
name: Starr, Martha A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In calculating damages in healthcare antitrust cases, the difference-in-difference (DID) approach provides a potentially valuable means of controlling for lawful factors that influence prices, such as case-mix and quality of care, as distinct from price differentials due to unlawful behavior. After first comparing DID to traditional methods of estimating damages, this paper uses DID to analyze data from a well-known case against Marshfield Clinic, a large multispecialty group practice that was found to have illegally allocated markets for physician services in Central Wisconsin. Using a specification similar to what was used in the case, we find that illegal behavior accounted for about two-fifths of the Clinic's extra increase in costs per patient during the damage period. The courts, however, were not persuaded that the analysis adequately controlled for legal factors. We discuss potential pitfalls in using DID to estimate damages suggested by the case, as well as possible ways around them.
The Multi-INstrument Burst ARchive (MINBAR)
Creators: name: Galloway, D. K.
name: Zand, J. J. M. in 't
name: Chenevez, J.
name: Wörpel, H.
name: Keek, L.
name: Ootes, L.
name: Watts, A. L.
name: Gisler, L.
name: Sanchez-Fernandez, C.
name: Kuulkers, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the largest sample of type-I (thermonuclear) X-ray bursts yet assembled, comprising 7083 bursts from 85 bursting sources. The sample is drawn from observations with Xenon-filled proportional counters on the long-duration satellites RXTE, BeppoSAX and INTEGRAL, between 1996 February 8, and 2012 May 3. The burst sources were drawn from a comprehensive catalog of 115 burst sources, assembled from earlier catalogs and the literature. We carried out a consistent analysis for each burst lightcurve (normalised to the relative instrumental effective area), and provide measurements of rise time, peak intensity, burst timescale, and fluence. For bursts observed with the RXTE/PCA and BeppoSAX/WFC we also provide time-resolved spectroscopy, including estimates of bolometric peak flux and fluence, and spectral parameters at the peak of the burst. For 950 bursts observed with the PCA from sources with previously detected burst oscillations, we include an analysis of the high-time resolution data, providing information on the detectability and amplitude of the oscillations, as well as where in the burst they are found. We also present analysis of 118848 observations of the burst sources within the sample timeframe. We extracted 3-25 keV X-ray spectra from most observations, and (for observations meeting our signal-to-noise criterion), we provide measurements of the flux, spectral colours, and for selected sources, the position on the colour-colour diagram, for the best-fit spectral model. We present a description of the sample, a summary of the science investigations completed to date, and suggestions for further studies.
description: 105 pages, 34 figures, 18 tables; machine-readable sample data tables available via https://doi.org/10.26180/5e4a697d9b8b6; web interface to sample data available via http://burst.sci.monash.edu. Updated observation numbers to reflect final data table versions, slight modifications to text to preserve table ordering. Now published by ApJS
Promalactis merangirella Lvovksy 2000
Creators: name: Kim, Sora
name: Heppner, John B.
name: Park, Kyu-Tek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Oecophoridae
Promalactis
Promalactis merangirella

description: Promalactis merangirella Lvovksy, 2000a
 Promalactis merangirella Lvovsky, 2000a: 676. TL: Dolok Merangir, Indonesia.
 Diagnosis (Figures 2h, 3h, 4f, 4 fa,b)
 This species is superficially similar to Promalactis mooatana sp. nov. in the fore wing pattern, but it can be easily differentiated by the heavily oblique antemedial band and the larger costal patch reaching halfway across wing, and the male genitalia with cornutus absent. The first author checked the adult characters given by Wang et al. (2013) and the genitalic characters based on the figures by Lvovsky (2000a). In the taxonomical key of Southeast Asian Promalactis by Wang et al. (2013), this species has one band (= fascia) in the wing pattern, but the specimen of the species examined in this study has two bands: a subbasal band and an antemedial band. The male genitalic character of this species is well accordance with those of P. merangirella given by Lvovsky (2000a). It is necessary to check the fore wing of the species in further study.
 Material examined
One male. Indonesia, Sumatra U., 43 km, southwest P. Siantar (HW4), 1200 m, 24–26 July 1992, J.B. Heppner, gen. slide No. 9311/S Kim.
 Distribution
Indonesia (Sumatra: North, Northeast).
description: Published as part of Kim, Sora, Heppner, John B. & Park, Kyu-Tek, 2017, Eight new species of the genus Promalactis (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Indonesia, with a checklist of the genus, pp. 1671-1695 in Journal of Natural History 51 (29 - 30) on page 1690, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1353154, http://zenodo.org/record/4746796
Plasmon induced resonant effects on the optical properties of Ag-decorated ZnSe nanowires
Creators: name: Sivan, Aswathi K
name: Di Mario, Lorenzo
name: Catone, Daniele
name: OKeeffe, Patrick
name: Turchini, Stefano
name: Rubini, Silvia
name: Martelli, Faustino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present how the optical properties of ZnSe nanowires are modified by the presence of Ag nanoparticles on the sidewalls of the ZnSe nanowires. In particular we show that the low-temperature luminescence of the ZnSe nanowires changes its shape, enhancing the phonon-replicas of impurity related recombination and affecting rise and decay times of the transient absorption bleaching at room temperatures, with an increase of the former and a decrease of the latter. In contrast, the deposition of Au NPs on the ZnSe nanowires does not change the optical properties of the sample. We suggest that the mechanism underlying these experimental observations is energy transfer via the Foerster interaction based on the fact that the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of Ag nanoparticles spectrally overlaps with absorption and emission of ZnSe while the Au LSPR does not.
Upper limit for the cross section of the overlapping scalar resonances f0(980) and a0(980) produced in proton-proton collisions in the range of the reaction threshold
Creators: name: Moskal, P.
name: Adam, H. -H.
name: Budzanowski, A.
name: Czyzykiewicz, R.
name: Grzonka, D.
name: Janusz, M.
name: Jarczyk, L.
name: Kamys, B.
name: Khoukaz, A.
name: Kilian, K.
name: Kolf, C.
name: Kowina, P.
name: Lister, T.
name: Oelert, W.
name: Piskor-Ignatowicz, C.
name: Przerwa, J.
name: Quentmeier, C.
name: Rozek, T.
name: Santo, R.
name: Schepers, G.
name: Sefzick, T.
name: Siemaszko, M.
name: Smyrski, J.
name: Strzalkowski, A.
name: Taschner, A.
name: Winter, P.
name: Wolke, M.
name: Wustner, P.
name: Zipper, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Utilizing a missing mass technique we investigate the pp --> ppX reaction scanning beam energies in the range permitting to create a mass close to that of the f0(980) and a0(980) scalar resonances, but still below the K^+K^- threshold where they decay dominantly into pi pi and pi eta mesons, respectively. Prior to the data analysis we introduce a notion of the close to threshold total cross section for broad resonances. We estimated for the overlapping mesons a0 and f0 the total cross section to be smaller than 430 nb at excess energy of Q = 5 MeV. The experiment have been performed at the Cooler Synchrotron COSY using the COSY-11 facility.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to J. Phys. G: Nucl. Phys
Interpreting the Assam Revolts of 1893-94: A Retrospective Discourse With Special Reference to its Unsuccessful Factor
Creators: name: Pathak, Kamal Chandra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160808 Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Anger emanates from hunger and hunger gives birth revolution. The peasants of Assam resorted to the path of violence against the Colonial Government in the close of the 19th century but their attempts met with failure. This paper is an honest attempt through which some of the major factors that precipitated the fiasco of the upheavals of 1893-94 are addressed.
2012-07 Using difference-in-differences to estimate damages in healthcare antitrust
Creators: name: McCluer, R. Forrest
name: Starr, Martha A.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.). Department of Economics
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: In calculating damages in healthcare antitrust cases, the difference-in-difference (DID) approach provides a potentially valuable means of controlling for lawful factors that influence prices, such as case-mix and quality of care, as distinct from price differentials due to unlawful behavior. After first comparing DID to traditional methods of estimating damages, this paper uses DID to analyze data from a well-known case against Marshfield Clinic, a large multispecialty group practice that was found to have illegally allocated markets for physician services in Central Wisconsin. Using a specification similar to what was used in the case, we find that illegal behavior accounted for about two-fifths of the Clinic's extra increase in costs per patient during the damage period. The courts, however, were not persuaded that the analysis adequately controlled for legal factors. We discuss potential pitfalls in using DID to estimate damages suggested by the case, as well as possible ways around them.
Community Buyers’ Affective Reactions in Social Commerce: Stimuli and Response
Creators: name: Ying-CHieh Yang
name: I-Hua Lin
name: Hui-Chu Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: Based on the S-O-R model, the purpose of this study is to probe the roles of community buyers’ affective reactions (trust and perceived risk from social commerce) in relationships between five stimuli and consumer engagement in social commerce (CESCI). Integrating prior studies in the social commerce field develops a conceptual model and 12 hypotheses. All data collected from the target population in Taiwan are analyzed through two-step structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the hypotheses. Of 12 hypotheses, only eight hypotheses are supported and findings confirm the antecedents and outcomes of community buyers’ affective reactions in social commerce. Besides the need for empirical confirmation of the hypotheses given, finally, there are several practical implications for social marketers and future research directions for scholars.
2010-15 Gender equality in the US labor markets in the Great Recession of 2007-2010
Creators: name: Grown, Caren
name: Tas, Emcet
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Great Recession of 2007-2009, the worst economic downturn faced by the U.S. economy since the Great Depression, has also come to be known as the Great Man-cession in that job loss hit males harder than females. By contrast, this paper argues that the man-cession story is far too simple. Using a broad range of indicators from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and taking a historical perspective, we show that several demographic groups have been especially hard hit by the recession, including African American males and females, Hispanic males and females, young females, and families maintained by single women. In addition, the gender gap in unemployment is much smaller once underemployed and marginally attached workers are counted. Data from the Current Employment Statistics cast further doubt on the man-cession story, indicating that women lost over 10 times more jobs in the current recession than in the previous two recessions compared to men, who lost 2.3 times more jobs. Following this review of the trends, the paper surveys federal and state government responses to the needs of workers hardest hit by the recession and concludes that man-cession label has led to misidentification of the most vulnerable groups who should be the explicit beneficiaries of economic recovery policies.
A hybrid learning method for system identification and optimal control
Creators: name: Schubnel, Baptiste
name: Carrillo, Rafael E.
name: Alet, Pierre-Jean
name: Hutter, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present a three-step method to perform system identification and optimal control of non-linear systems. Our approach is mainly data driven and does not require active excitation of the system to perform system identification. In particular, it is designed for systems for which only historical data under closed-loop control are available and where historical control commands exhibit low variability. In a first step, simple simulation models of the system are built and run under various conditions. In a second step, a neural network architecture is extensively trained on the simulation outputs to learn the system physics, and retrained with historical data from the real system with stopping rules. These constraints avoid overfitting that arise by fitting closed-loop controlled systems. By doing so, we obtain one (or many) system model(s), represented by this architecture, and whose behaviour can be chosen to match more or less the real system. Finally, state-of-the-art reinforcement learning with a variant of domain randomization and distributed learning is used for optimal control of the system. We first illustrate the model identification strategy with a simple example, the pendulum with external torque. We then apply our method to model and optimize the control of a large building facility located in Switzerland. Simulation results demonstrate that this approach generates stable functional controllers which outperform on comfort and energy benchmark rule-based controllers.
description: 15 pages, Accepted for publication in TNNLS
2010-15 Gender equality in the US labor markets in the Great Recession of 2007-2010
Creators: name: Grown, Caren
name: Tas, Emcet
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.). Department of Economics
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The Great Recession of 2007-2009, the worst economic downturn faced by the U.S. economy since the Great Depression, has also come to be known as the Great Man-cession in that job loss hit males harder than females. By contrast, this paper argues that the man-cession story is far too simple. Using a broad range of indicators from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and taking a historical perspective, we show that several demographic groups have been especially hard hit by the recession, including African American males and females, Hispanic males and females, young females, and families maintained by single women. In addition, the gender gap in unemployment is much smaller once underemployed and marginally attached workers are counted. Data from the Current Employment Statistics cast further doubt on the man-cession story, indicating that women lost over 10 times more jobs in the current recession than in the previous two recessions compared to men, who lost 2.3 times more jobs. Following this review of the trends, the paper surveys federal and state government responses to the needs of workers hardest hit by the recession and concludes that man-cession label has led to misidentification of the most vulnerable groups who should be the explicit beneficiaries of economic recovery policies.
Light Concentrators for Borexino and CTF
Creators: name: Oberauer, L.
name: Grieb, C.
name: von Feilitzsch, F.
name: Manno, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light concentrators for the solar neutrino experiment Borexino and the Counting Test Facility (CTF) have been developed and constructed. They increase the light yield of these detectors by a factor of 2.5 and 8.8, respectively. Technical challenges like long term stability in various media, high reflectivity and radiopurity have been addressed and the concepts to overcome these difficulties will be described. Gamma spectroscopy measurements of the concentrators show an upper limit of 12e-6 Bq/g for uranium and a value of 120e-6 Bq/g for thorium. Upper limits on other possible contaminations like 26Al are presented. The impact of these results on the performance of Borexino and the CTF are discussed and it is shown that the design goals of both experiments are fulfilled.
description: submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
Gender stereotypes in preschoolers’ mental rotation
Creators: name: Ebert, W. Miro
name: Jost, Leonardo
name: Jansen, Petra
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: spatial ability, gender stereotypes, human sex differences, preschool, children, mental rotation, kindergarten
subject: 796 Sport

description: The investigation of gender stereotypes constitutes a relevant approach to understanding the development of spatial ability and sex differences in the domain. This was the first study concerned with the presence of implicit and explicit gender stereotypes about spatial ability, and their potential relation to spatial task performance, in preschool-aged children. Our full sample consisted of 138 4- to 6-year-old kindergarten children. The experimental procedure consisted of three parts. Children completed an implicit association task, a short questionnaire on explicit stereotypes, and a chronometric mental rotation task. Preschool-aged children held explicit gender stereotypes about spatial ability linking it to boys rather than girls. Boys exhibited stronger stereotypes in this regard than girls. We also found evidence for the presence of implicit stereotypes. However, implicit stereotypes were not found in sub-group analyses. No clear relationship between stereotypes and mental rotation performance emerged, but our results suggest that implicit stereotyping affected mental rotation accuracy differently in girls compared with boys. Our main conclusion was that children already hold stereotypic beliefs about spatial ability at preschool age. There did not seem to be a relationship of stereotyping with spatial ability at this age.
Bayesian Arbitrage Threshold Analysis
Creators: name: Forbes, Catherine S.
name: Kalb, Guyonne R. J.
name: Kofman, Paul
name: Forbes, Catherine S.
name: Kalb, Guyonne R. J.
name: Kofman, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Bayesian VAR
subject: error correction
subject: non-linear threshold models
subject: index futures arbitrage

description: A Bayesian estimation procedure is developed for estimating multiple regime (multiple threshold) vector autoregressive models appropriate for deviations from financial arbitrage relationships. This approach has clear advantages over classical stepwise threshold autoregressive analysis. Whereas classical procedures first have to identify thresholds and then perform piecewise autoregressions, we simultaneously estimate threshold and autoregression parameters. To illustrate the Bayesian procedure, we estimate a no-arbitrage band within which index futures arbitrage is not profitable despite (persistent) deviations from parity.
TeV Gamma-rays from the Northern Sky Pulsar Wind Nebulae
Creators: name: Bednarek, W.
name: Bartosik, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the TeV gamma-ray fluxes expected from the population of young pulsars in terms of the self-consistent time dependent hadronic-leptonic model for the high energy processes inside the pulsar wind nebulae. This radiation model bases on the hypothesis of Arons and collaborators who postulate that leptons are accelerated inside the nebulae as a result of resonant scattering on heavy nuclei, which in turn are accelerated in the pulsar wind region or the pulsar inner magnetosphere. Our aim is to find out which nebulae on the nortehrn hemisphere are the best candidates for detection at energies above 60 GeV and 200 GeV by the next generation of low threshold Cherenkov telescopes.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure, J.Phys. G accepted
HOUSEHOLD HOUSING DECISIONS UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Creators: name: Duan, Zheng
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Real estate is the largest component in most American households' portfolios. Prior studies have shown both negative and positive relations between uncertainty and households' housing decisions. This dissertation makes an effort to reconcile the differences in the literature through theoretical and empirical work that links uncertainty and households' housing decisions from a real options perspective. In the first chapter, I provide novel empirical evidence to show the importance of uncertainty in explaining households' several housing decisions - housing consumption, housing investment and mortgage default. After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, I find that the effect of uncertainty has opposite signs on housing purchase decisions depending on the type of purchase (primary residence or investment property). I also find that uncertainty contributes to households' default decisions beyond other factors that have previously been identified in the literature. In addition to identifying the sign of the effect of uncertainty, I show that the uncertainty effect varies depending on the household's risk aversion, which is consistent with the predictions from a theoretical real options perspective. The second chapter introduces a real options type of model to explain from a theoretical perspective why the effect of uncertainty on households' home purchase decisions can depend on the type of a home purchase. Based on a real options approach introduced in Miao and Wang (2007) the model captures the dual nature of housing as a consumption good and an investment vehicle. It explains the uncertainty effect on the optimal timing of home purchase decisions either as a consumption good or as an investment. Unlike previous studies that rely on risk-neutral assumptions in the valuations of real options in explaining uncertainty effect on households' decisions, the model recognizes idiosyncratic risks and households' precautionary saving motives which allow the effect of uncertainty to vary across different degrees of risk-aversion. The third chapter introduces a real options type of model to explain the effect of uncertainty on households' default decisions. Unlike previous studies that focus on the link between uncertainty and investment decisions,the model shows the usefulness of a real options approach in explaining households' default decisions. The model predicts a positive relation between uncertainty and households' default decisions, which is consistent with the empirical results from the first chapter.
Private and Public Consumption Expenditure Substitutability: Bayesian Estimates for the G7 Countries
Creators: name: Martin, Gael M.
name: Martin, Vance L.
name: Martin, Gael M.
name: Martin, Vance L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The degree of substitution between private and public per capita consumption for the G7 countries is estimated over the period 1960 to 1996. Special attention is given to isolating both long-run and short-run substitution effects. Inferences are produced using a Bayesian methodology, with a Jeffreys prior being used to offset an identification problem in the likelihood function. The marginal posterior densities of interest are estimated via a hybrid of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms. The empirical results indicate that for the US, Germany, France and Italy, private and public consumption expenditure are substitutes in the short-run, but complements in the long-run. The opposite result occurs for the UK, whilst Japan and Canada exhibit no significant short-run or long-run relationships.
Promalactis nataliae Lvovsky 2000
Creators: name: Kim, Sora
name: Heppner, John B.
name: Park, Kyu-Tek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Oecophoridae
Promalactis
Promalactis nataliae

description: Promalactis nataliae Lvovsky, 2000a
 Promalactis nataliae Lvovsky, 2000a: 670. TL: Dolok Merangir, Indonesia.
 Diagnosis (Figures 2k, 3k, 4h, 4 ha,b)
 This species is superficially close to P. trigonilancis sp. nov. in the wing pattern, but it can be easily distinguished by the genitalic characters. The male genitalia are distinguished by the bifurcate uncus, elongated cucullus and process of sacculus.
 Material examined
One male. Indonesia, Sumatra U., 43 km, southwest P. Siantar (HW4), 1200 m, 24–26 July 1992, J.B. Heppner, gen. slide No. 9324/S Kim.
 Distribution
Indonesia (Sumatra: North, Northeast).
description: Published as part of Kim, Sora, Heppner, John B. & Park, Kyu-Tek, 2017, Eight new species of the genus Promalactis (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) from Indonesia, with a checklist of the genus, pp. 1671-1695 in Journal of Natural History 51 (29 - 30) on page 1692, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1353154, http://zenodo.org/record/4746796