cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
No Evidence for a Aystematic FEII Emission Line Redshift in Type 1 AGN
Creators: name: Sulentic, J. W.
name: Marziani, P.
name: Zamfir, S.
name: Meadows, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test the recent claim by Hu et al. (2008) that FeII emission in Type 1 AGN shows a systematic redshift relative to the local source rest frame and broad-line Hbeta. We compile high s/n median composites using SDSS spectra from both the Hu et al. sample and our own sample of the 469 brightest DR5 spectra. Our composites are generated in bins of FWHM Hbeta and FeII strength as defined in our 4D Eigenvector 1 (4DE1) formalism. We find no evidence for a systematic FeII redshift and consistency with previous assumptions that FeII shift and width (FWHM) follow Hbeta shift and FWHM in virtually all sources. This result is consistent with the hypothesis that FeII emission (quasi-ubiquitous in type 1 sources) arises from a broad-line region with geometry and kinematics the same as that producing the Balmer lines.
description: 12 pages, 1 table, 1 figure - accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Improving DWF Simulations: the Force Gradient Integrator and the Möbius Accelerated DWF Solver
Creators: name: Yin, Hantao
name: Mawhinney, Robert D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have implemented a variant of the force gradient integrator proposed by Kennedy et.al. and are using it in our production 2+1 flavor DWF simulations with pion masses of 180 MeV in (4.5fm)3 volumes. We find modest speed-ups (\sim 20%) from using the force gradient integrator, compared to our previously used Omelyan integrator. On other ensembles, primarily finite temperature 2+1 flavor DWF QCD, we have extensively tuned the Hasenbusch preconditioning masses and achieved speed-ups of 2-3x. Here we have also switched to the force gradient integrator, but this change has not had any impact on the speed. We also report on an improved solver for DWF, which uses Möbius fermions, with a smaller fifth dimension than the original DWF fermions, as an intermediate step in the generation of solutions of the Dirac equation. This approach cuts the number of effective Dirac applications by approximately a factor of 2 when the conjugate gradient iteration count is large.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure, Lattice 2011
Doping-Berichterstattung: Meinungen und Motive von Sportjournalisten
Creators: name: Schaffrath, Michael
name: Kautz, Fabian
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2017

description: Zusammenfassung Doping gehört zu den größten negativen Begleiterscheinungen des Spitzensports. Auch die Art wie Sportjournalisten über das Thema Doping berichten oder eben nicht berichten gerät immer wieder in den Fokus der Kritik, und zwar nicht nur von betroffenen Athleten, Trainern oder externen Beobachtern, sondern auch von den Berufsangehörigen selber. Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit Meinungen und Motiven von Sportjournalisten in Deutschland zum Thema Doping und Dopingberichterstattung. Die Ergebnisse beruhen auf einer Online-Befragung der Mitglieder der Berufsorganisationen Verband Deutscher Sportjournalisten (VDS) sowie Sportnetzwerk. Von 3.170 angeschriebenen Sportjournalisten nahmen 850 an der Befragung teil. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass „Doping-Journalisten“ vor allem für die überregionalen Tageszeitungen sowie den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk arbeiten. Hauptmotive für die Dopingberichterstattung sind eine positive A-Probe sowie die Aufklärung über Hintergründe des Spitzensports und das Kritisieren von Missständen. Fragen zu den Themen, in welcher Form und wann über Dopingvergehen berichtet werden sollte, offenbaren ein breites Meinungsspektrum unter den Sportjournalisten. Abstract Doping is amongst the most negative concomitant phenomenon of high-performance sports. The way sport journalists report – or fail to report – about doping is being part of criticism, not only by affected athletes, coaches or external observers but also by the professionals themselves. The study focuses on the opinions and motives of German sport journalists concerning doping and the media-coverage of the topic. Therefore an online survey amongst the members of two German organizations for sport journalists - called “Verband Deutscher Sportjournalisten” (VDS) and “Sportnetzwerk” – was conducted. 3.170 members were contacted via E-Mail, 850 answered the questionnaire. Results illustrate that “doping-journalists” work predominantly for quality newspapers and public-service broadcasting. The three main objectives for reporting doping are a positive A-sample, information about backgrounds of high performance sports as well as criticism of grievances. When it comes to when and how there should be doping reports German sport journalists have developed very diverse positions.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 2 Nr. 2 (2017)
title: Regards from the Angel
Creators: name: Deamer, John
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Regards from the Angel enacts issues of loss, event, and representation. It interrogates ideas of what the psychotherapist John Bowlby calls a "secure base." The novel acts out events, as theorised by Badiou, Deleuze, and Lyotard. It dramatises the effects of the death of a parent, of abuse; and of the loneliness of spiritual "lostness," via Derrida's analysis of Freud's idea of melancholy and mourning. In the novel "lostness" produces certain symptoms: addiction, promiscuity, and even psychosis. The novel takes a classic format: five acts. In each act a new factor is introduced. In the first, the protagonist moves to London and meets the antagonist. In the second he experiences the realities of living in the city. In the third, he meets a woman called Megan, with whom he falls in love. In the fourth, he suffers a loss of unity and becomes divided from himself. In the fifth, he lives with and then leaves Megan; and the antagonist dies; the protagonist suffers a breakdown. The novel is high! y intertextual. Because of the nature of the characters, especially Megan, there are many references to other texts. The very short thesis that follows investigates some of the issues raised in Regards from the Angel. Bowlby's idea of "the secure base," Derrida's refutation of the classic Freudian model of mourning, and Badiou' s theory of the event all are discussed. Ultimately though, Regards from the Angel is a novel about loss, event, and love.
An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s
Creators: name: Comin, Diego
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Commerce

description: Two striking aspects of the Japanese stagnation of the 1990s are its severity and especially its persistence. Over the 1983-1991 period, TFP grew at a more than respectable rate of 2.4 percent. It fell to an average of 0.2 percent for 1991-2000. We know from Cogley and Nason (1995) that the persistence in real business cycles models comes from the persistence of the shocks. However, none of the shocks that arguably have hit the Japanese economy seem to have persisted for a decade. This implies that a successful account of the Japanese stagnation requires a model where the propagation mechanisms generate a significant amount of persistence.
Policy challenges and the reform of postal savings in Japan
Creators: name: Scher, Mark J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper discusses the current policy challenges to the existence of Japan's postal saving system, the main repository for Japan's household savings. Some critics have erroneously conflated the investment function of mobilized funds that occurred under the government's managed by the Ministry of Finance, with the collection mechanism managed separately by the Ministry of Posts. Critically reviewed are the efficacy and wisdom of the search for market-oriented investment policies in view of the public's real fears for the safety of their savings; current proposals to privatize, not only the postal savings system but also the post delivery system itself and the potential loss of essential services to rural populations.
Rezension zu: Jana Wiske Die Elite. Die Bedeutung der Live-Berichterstattung im deutschen Spitzensport aus der Sicht von Sportjournalisten.
Creators: name: Hänelt, Maria
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2018

description: Rezension zu: Jana Wiske: Die Elite. Die Bedeutung der Live-Berichterstattung im deutschen Spitzensport aus der Sicht von Sportjournalisten. Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2017. 358 Seiten, 32,00 €. ISBN: 978-3-86962-277-4
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (2018)
Japoplusia Jaschhof, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Japoplusia

description: Genus Japoplusia Jaschhof gen. nov.
Type species, honshuensis sp. nov., here designated.
Diagnosis. This new genus is introduced for a diallactiine species that is basically similar to Johnsonomyia but has completely different, distinctive male genitalic structures, as follows. The parameres, which are separated from each other, are developed into exceedingly long, thin sticks with pointed apices (↓, Fig. 11B); the ninth tergite is firmly merged with the gonocoxae (↓, Fig. 11B); the ejaculatory apodeme is markedly broadened medially (Fig.
of 11B the); and apical the margin unusually (↓, Fig broad. 11, A medially). The female concave sex gonostylus of Japoplusia has is a large unknown pectinate. tooth that covers the greater part
Etymology. The generic name is composed of Japo -, from Japan, and - plusia, from Haplusia, a diallactiine genus with similar venation.
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, A review of world Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae), with the description of six new genera and seventeen new species, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on pages 224-225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/267022
Livestreams als neue Chance für Randsportarten?
Creators: name: Beck, Daniel
name: Bourquin, Louis
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2018

description: Zusammenfassung In Randsportarten ermöglichen Livestreams im Internet die Übertragung von sportlichen Wettkämpfen, die vom Fernsehen nicht berücksichtigt werden. Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit der Nutzung solcher Übertragungen in den Hallensportarten Basketball, Handball, Volleyball und Unihockey in der Schweiz. Zu diesem Zweck wurde im März 2017 eine standardisierte Befragung von 712 Nutzern von Livestream-Plattformen durchgeführt. Der typische Livestream-Nutzer ist demnach männlich, mit einem Durchschnittsalter von rund 30 Jahren eher jung und hat selbst Wettkampferfahrung in der Sportart, die er verfolgt. Livestreams erfüllen primär Informationsbedürfnisse. Es handelt sich um ein Nischenangebot, das in erster Linie von Personen mit persönlichem Bezug zur Sportart genutzt wird; diese nehmen auch die oft eher bescheidene Übertragungsqualität in Kauf. Abstract Online live streaming allows the transmission of sporting events in disciplines that are seldom televised. The present article analyzes the reception of such transmissions in Switzerland in the following disciplines: basketball, handball, volleyball, and floorball. A standardized survey was conducted among 712 users of live streaming platforms in March 2017. It shows that the typical live stream user is male, rather young (average age around 30 years), and usually does or has done himself the sport he is watching. Live streaming in these sports is a niche offer mainly used by persons with a special relation to the discipline; these persons also accept limitations of the offer such as a poor transmission quality.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 3 Nr. 2 (2018)
Multiple phase transitions in a system of exclusion processes with limited reservoirs of particles and fuel carriers
Creators: name: Brackley, Chris A.
name: Ciandrini, Luca
name: Romano, M. Carmen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The TASEP is a paradigmatic model from non-equilibrium statistical physics, which describes particles hopping along a lattice of discrete sites. The TASEP is applicable to a broad range of different transport systems, but does not consider the fact that in many such systems the availability of resources required for the transport is limited. In this paper we extend the TASEP to include the effect of a limited number of two different fundamental transport resources: the hopping particles, and the "fuel carriers", which provide the energy required to drive the system away from equilibrium. As as consequence, the system's dynamics are substantially affected: a "limited resources" regime emerges, where the current is limited by the rate of refuelling, and the usual coexistence line between low and high particle density opens into a broad region on the phase plane. Due to the combination of a limited amount of both resources, multiple phase transitions are possible when increasing the exit rate beta for a fixed entry rate alpha. This is a new feature that can only be obtained by the inclusion of both kinds of limited resources. We also show that the fluctuations in particle density in the LD and HD phases are unaffected by fluctuations in the number of loaded fuel carriers, except by the fact that when these fuel resources become limited, the particle hopping rate is severely reduced.
The application of a movement strategy in decreasing biomechanical risk factors for anterior cruciate ligament injury
Creators: name: Celebrini, Richard G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Introduction: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury remains one of the most common and debilitating knee injuries in sport. Neuromuscular training programs show promise in improving biomechanical risk factors but we do not know which aspects of these programs are effective. There is a need to investigate the effect of specific movement strategies in reducing biomechanical risk factors for ACL injury. Purpose: 1) To evaluate the reproducibility of biomechanical variables at the knee during three soccer-specific tasks (Chapter 2). 2) To determine the feasibility of implementing a novel movement strategy (Core-PAC) into a soccer team warm-up (Chapter 3). 3) To determine whether the Core-PAC would improve biomechanical variables during the three tasks after immediate instruction and after a four-week training program (Chapter 3). 4) To conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to compare a Core-PAC trained group to a control group for biomechanical variables during the three tasks after a six-week training program (Chapter 4). Methods: Design: A test-retest design was used for the reliability study (Chapter 2). A single group pretest-posttest design was used for the feasibility study (Chapter 3). An RCT was used in Chapter 4. Subjects: A cohort of female soccer players (n = 10) participated in the reliability study (Chapter 2) and the feasibility study (Chapter 3). A different cohort of female soccer players participated in the RCT (n = 20) (Chapter 4). Results: Chapter 2: Adequate reproducibility (flexion angles (ICC=0.88-0.95; SEM=1.0-1.9°); abduction moments (ICC=0.62-0.84; SEM=0.1-0.5 Nm/kg) were demonstrated during the three tasks. Chapter 3: Feasibility of implementing the Core-PAC into a soccer warm-up was demonstrated. After immediate instruction, there were significant increases in peak flexion angles (3.5-6.4°) and decreases in abduction moments (0.17-0.27 Nm/kg) during the three tasks. After the training program, some individuals showed improvement. Chapter 4: The Core-PAC group improved (P < 0.05) flexion angles during the side-hop task (6.2°) after training and during the side-cut (8.5°) and side-hop (10°) tasks after reminding them to use the Core-PAC. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that the Core-PAC may be one method of modifying high-risk movements to reduce the risk of ACL injury.
On the nature of the fourth generation neutrino and its implications
Creators: name: Aparici, Alberto
name: Herrero-García, Juan
name: Rius, Nuria
name: Santamaria, Arcadi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the neutrino sector of a Standard Model with four generations. While the three light neutrinos can obtain their masses from a variety of mechanisms with or without new neutral fermions, fourth-generation neutrinos need at least one new relatively light right-handed neutrino. If lepton number is not conserved this neutrino must have a Majorana mass term whose size depends on the underlying mechanism for lepton number violation. Majorana masses for the fourth generation neutrinos induce relative large two-loop contributions to the light neutrino masses which could be even larger than the cosmological bounds. This sets strong limits on the mass parameters and mixings of the fourth generation neutrinos.
description: To be published. Few typos corrected, references updated
The Contribution of Bank Lending to the Long-Term Stagnation in Japan
Creators: name: Peek, Joe
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Commerce

description: While it is well established that bank lending to severely impaired (zombie) Japanese firms during the 1990s was detrimental to the Japanese economy, bank lending to troubled, but economically viable, firms may have had beneficial effects. The objective of this study is to investigate the consequences of increased bank lending to distressed Japanese firms in order to determine the extent to which those increased loans contributed to the recovery of distressed firms, rather than being used to insulate the firms from market forces in order to avoid the painful, but needed, restructuring. That is, is increased lending to a distressed firm associated with an improvement in the subsequent performance of the firm?
Japoplusia honshuensis Jaschhof, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Japoplusia
Japoplusia honshuensis

description: Japoplusia honshuensis Jaschhof sp. nov.
Fig. 11A–D
Diagnosis. This species is readily distinguishable from all other Diallactiini by the male genitalic characters referred to in the generic diagnosis of Japoplusia.
Male description. Body length 2.6 mm. Head. Postgenal setae about 15, loosely clustered. Eye bridge 6–7 ommatidia long dorsally. Scape and pedicel lighter than flagellum, scape with 2 setae, pedicel unsetose. 12 flagellomeres retained. Neck of fourth flagellomere (Fig. C) 1.2 times longer than node; node with short setae intermingled with short hair-like translucent sensilla basally, a crenulate whorl with long sensory hairs with hooded alveoli medially, more such sensory hairs scattered distally, especially ventrally, numerous short hair-like translucent sensilla distally, microtrichia dense basally, sparse elsewhere. Clypeus unsetose. Palpus as long as head height, 4 segments, first to third segments with hair-shaped translucent sensilla, fourth segment as long as second and third segments together. Thorax. Both scutal and scutellar setae sparse. Wing length 2.7 mm (Fig. D). Length / width 2.8. Membrane completely covered with setae. Costal break distinct; btv slightly angled, setose; both M1+2 and M4 absent. Legs with narrow scales in addition to setae. Basitarsi without spine. Tarsi brighter than proximal segments, most pronounced in hindleg. Claws slightly bent, untoothed. Empodia vestigial. Genitalia (Fig. B). The bridge formed by ninth tergite longer medially than laterally, with long setae. Gonocoxae massive; ventral portions elongated posteriorly to form trapezoid lobes; ventral bridge with narrow depression along median; ventral emargination V-shaped, edges sclerotized; medial bridges with membranous outgrowth occupying parts of the emargination (only indicated on right side in Fig. B); apodemes unusually broad, long, broadly interconnected shortly before their anterior ends. Parameral apodemes form long crescents. Ejaculatory apodeme moderately long, with the apex strongly inclined dorsally; exact outline of the medial broadening unresolved.
Etymology. The species epithet refers to Honshu, where the only specimen known of the new species was collected.
Type mateial. Holotype. Male, Japan, Honshu, prefecture Aomori, Shichinohe, in old-growth mixed deciduous forest predominated by buna (Japanese beech), 300-400 m, 28 July 1999, sweepnet, M. Jaschhof (in KUEC).
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, A review of world Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae), with the description of six new genera and seventeen new species, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on page 225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/267022
Potentials and Limits of Super-Resolution Algorithms and Signal Reconstruction from Sparse Data
Creators: name: Shabat, Gil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A common distortion in videos is image instability in the form of chaotic (global and local displacements). Those instabilities can be used to enhance image resolution by using subpixel elastic registration. In this work, we investigate the performance of such methods over the ability to improve the resolution by accumulating several frames. The second part of this work deals with reconstruction of discrete signals from a subset of samples under different basis functions such as DFT, Haar, Walsh, Daubechies wavelets and CT (Radon) projections.
US Trade Policy: The Infatuation with FTAs
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics
International relations

description: The U.S. administration is poised to expand NAFTA to Chile and elsewhere. It also may be committed to turning APEC into a Free Trade Area (FTA). It seems therefore to have decided to persist in pushing ahead with these types of trading arrangements even though the multilateral WTO has been jumpstarted. I believe that this policy of, instead of concentration now on multilateralism at the WTO, is a mistake.
The Provision of (Two Way) Converters in the Transition Process to a New Incompatible Technology
Creators: name: Choi, Jay Pil
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics

description: This paper analyzes the dynamic provision of converters in the transition process between two incompatible technologies. I derive the equilibrium behavior in the provision of converters and compare it to the socially optimal outcome. I find that there can be two types of market inefficiency in the provision of converters. First, converters can be supplied by the "wrong" group. Second, the timing of provision may be too late since the providers of converters ignore the positive externality that their patronage would confer on the users of the rival technology.
The Optimal Income Tax Schedule
Creators: name: Lancaster, Kelvin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Economics

description: The principal conclusion of this paper is that the generic pattern for the optimal income tax schedule is that of a monotonically rising marginal tax rate. The belief that the marginal rate should decline to zero at the upper end of the scale is not supported. The Results should hold for high and low elasticities of labor-leisure substitution, and for additive as well as strictly concave welfare functions. Differences between the conclusions of this paper and those of previous writers are due primarily to the formulation of the optimizing problem and detailed interpretation and analysis of the solution, rather thank to differences between the underlying models, although these exist.
Kinetic Monte Carlo and Cellular Particle Dynamics Simulations of Multicellular Systems
Creators: name: Flenner, Elijah
name: Janosi, Lorant
name: Barz, Bogdan
name: Neagu, Adrian
name: Forgacs, Gabor
name: Kosztin, Ioan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Computer modeling of multicellular systems has been a valuable tool for interpreting and guiding in vitro experiments relevant to embryonic morphogenesis, tumor growth, angiogenesis and, lately, structure formation following the printing of cell aggregates as bioink particles. Computer simulations based on Metropolis Monte Carlo (MMC) algorithms were successful in explaining and predicting the resulting stationary structures (corresponding to the lowest adhesion energy state). Here we present two alternatives to the MMC approach for modeling cellular motion and self-assembly: (1) a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC), and (2) a cellular particle dynamics (CPD) method. Unlike MMC, both KMC and CPD methods are capable of simulating the dynamics of the cellular system in real time. In the KMC approach a transition rate is associated with possible rearrangements of the cellular system, and the corresponding time evolution is expressed in terms of these rates. In the CPD approach cells are modeled as interacting cellular particles (CPs) and the time evolution of the multicellular system is determined by integrating the equations of motion of all CPs. The KMC and CPD methods are tested and compared by simulating two experimentally well known phenomena: (1) cell-sorting within an aggregate formed by two types of cells with different adhesivities, and (2) fusion of two spherical aggregates of living cells.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures; submitted to Phys Rev E
Wealth Effects, Distribution and the Theory of Organization
Creators: name: Legros, Patrick
name: Newman, Andrew F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Economics

description: We construct a general equilibrium model of firm formation in which organization is endogenous. Firms are coalitions of agents providing effort and investment capital. Effort is unobservable unless a fixed monitoring cost is paid, and borrowing is subject to a costly state verification problem. Because incentives vary with an agents wealth, different types of agents become attractive firm members under different circumstances. When borrowing is not costly, firms essentially consist of one type of agent and are organized efficiently. But when the costly state verification problem is sufficiently severe, firm organization will depend on the distribution of wealth: with enough inequality, it will tend to be dictated by incentives of rich agents to earn high returns to wealth, even if the chosen organizational form is not a technically efficient way to provide incentives.
Evidence for Aharony duality for orthogonal gauge groups
Creators: name: Hwang, Chiung
name: Park, Kyung-Jae
name: Park, Jaemo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Aharony duality for three dimensional $\mathcal N=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories for orthogonal gauge groups with matters in vector representation. We provide the evidence for the duality by working out the partition function on $S^3$ and the superconformal index, which show perfect agreement.
description: 17 pages; typos corrected, arguments refined and references added
Housing Partnerships: A new system of housing Finance
Creators: name: Caplin, Andrew
name: Freeman, Charles
name: Tracy, Joseph
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Economics

description: "Owning a home is a high priority for the vast majority of American households. Since homeownership is seen as improving the quality of local public goods, expanding home ownership is a priority not only of private households, but also of the various branches of government. Currently the Federal Government provides public assistance to home owners through the mortgage interest deduction, HUD subsidies on high default FHA/VA loans, and a variety of other schemes. Generally, the housing market reflects a long and intricate private/public partnership."
Johnsonomyia funebris Plakidas 2007, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Jaschhof, Mathias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Cecidomyiidae
Johnsonomyia
Johnsonomyia funebris

description: Johnsonomyia funebris (Plakidas, 2007) comb. nov.
Haplusia funebris — Plakidas 2007: 81, figs 1–19.
Johnsonomyia funebris differs from all other Johnsonomyia I have seen in the gonostylus, which is strongly flattened, broadest in the middle, narrowly rounded apically, and apparently lacking a tooth. The tegmen, which is rounded apically, appears to have sclerotized substructures whose nature I was unable to understand in the single specimen studied. The eye bridge is 4–5 ommatidia long dorsally; male flagellomere nodes have a regular whorl of setae basally; and Rs is not darkened. Other characters are as referred to in the original description of this species (Plakidas 2007). Plakidas’s (2007) key to the North American species of Johnsonomyia (his Haplusia), including J. funebris, includes a misidentification: his J. rubra is actually an unnamed species of Haplusia in the sense held here.
Material examined. Holotype male, paratype female, with the data as specified by Plakidas (2007).
description: Published as part of Jaschhof, Mathias, 2016, A review of world Diallactiini (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Winnertziinae), with the description of six new genera and seventeen new species, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 4127 (2) on page 227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/267022
Tectonic nature of the NE Asian continental margin during the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous: constraints from the geochronology and geochemistry of igneous rocks in the NE North China Craton
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao-Ming
name: Xu, Wen-Liang
name: Sun, Chen-Yang
name: Wang, Feng
name: Li, Yu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: This paper presents geochronological, geochemical, and zircon Hf–O isotope data for late Mesozoic intrusive rocks from the northeastern North China Craton (NCC), with the aim of constraining the late Mesozoic tectonic nature of the NE Asian continental margin. U–Pb zircon data indicate that the Late Mesozoic magmatism in the northeastern NCC can be subdivided into two stages: Late Jurassic (161 − 156 Ma) and Early Cretaceous (125 − 120 Ma). Late Jurassic magmatism consists mainly of monzogranites. These monzogranites display high Sr/Y ratios and the tetrad effect in their REE, respectively, and have negative εHf(t) values (−22.6 to −15.8). The former indicates that the primary magma was generated by partial melting of thickened NCC lower crust, the latter suggests that the monzogranites were crystallized from highly fractionated magma, with the primary magma derived from partial melting of lower continental crust. Combined with the spatial distribution and rock associations of the Late Jurassic granitoids, we conclude that the Late Jurassic magmatism in the eastern NCC formed in a compressional environment related to oblique subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasia. The Early Cretaceous magmatism consists mainly of granitoids and quartz diorites. The quartz diorites formed by mixing of melts derived from the mantle and lower crust. The coeval granitoids are classified as high-K calc-alkaline and metaluminous to weakly peraluminous series. Some of the granitoids are similar to A-type granites. The granitoid εHf(t) values and TDM2 range from −14.3 to −1.4 and 2089 to 1274 Ma, respectively. These values indicate that their primary magma was derived from partial melting of lower crustal material of the NCC, but with a contribution of mantle-derived material. We therefore conclude that Early Cretaceous magmatism in the northeastern NCC occurred in an extensional environment related to westward subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate beneath Eurasia.
Bank Monitoring Incentives and Borrower Earnings Management: Evidence from the Japanese Banking Crisis of 1993-2002
Creators: name: Hamao, Yasushi
name: Kang, Jun-Koo
name: Bae, Gil S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Commerce

description: We examine banks' disincentives to monitor borrower earnings management activity during the Japanese banking crisis of 1993-2002. We show that during this period, a period characterized by significant deterioration in the financial health of the Japanese banking sector, firms that borrow a large amount of short-term loans from their main bank manage earnings more aggressively around public equity offerings. This result derives largely from the subsample of offerings by poorly performing firms that maintain lending relationships with main banks that are in weak financial health. We also find a significant decrease in post-offering short-term lending by the main banks for firms that manage earnings upward prior to the offerings. In contrast, we do not find such results during the boom period of 1983-1992. Our results suggest that, when they are under great pressure for survival, Japanese main banks have few incentives to monitor corporate managers, and act primarily in the interests of short-term creditors.
On the variational noncommutative Poisson geometry
Creators: name: Kiselev, Arthemy V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We outline the notions and concepts of the calculus of variational multivectors within the Poisson formalism over the spaces of infinite jets of mappings from commutative (non)graded smooth manifolds to the factors of noncommutative associative algebras over the equivalence under cyclic permutations of the letters in the associative words. We state the basic properties of the variational Schouten bracket and derive an interesting criterion for (non)commutative differential operators to be Hamiltonian (and thus determine the (non)commutative Poisson structures). We place the noncommutative jet-bundle construction at hand in the context of the quantum string theory.
description: Proc. Int. workshop SQS'11 `Supersymmetry and Quantum Symmetries' (July 18-23, 2011; JINR Dubna, Russia), 4 pages
Photon echo quantum memory and state transformation
Creators: name: Delfan Abazari, Ahdiyeh
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2009

description: Bibliography: p. 83-89
description: Quantum memory, as an essential part of a quantum repeater, is the key element for extending quantum communication beyond its current distance limit of around 100 km. In addition to memories, quantum communication tasks require state manipulation and measurement. This is generally accomplished by means of interferometric optical set­ups, which often suffer from the requirement of phase stabilization. In this thesis we investigate a novel, particularly robust and versatile quantum state transformation ap­proach based on photon-echo type atom-light interaction that allows combining storage with controlled transformation of quantum states. The possibility of modifying a 100% efficient quantum memory protocol to perform this operation is studied and an experi­mental test-bed based on the traditional stimulated photon echo process is proposed. The method is demonstrated through simulations and experimental studies of nonorthogonal state discrimination, which is of special interest for quantum information processing from the fundamental as well as practical point of view.
Boulevardisierung im Sportressort?
Creators: name: Hahn, David
name: Degen, Matthias
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2019

description: Zusammenfassung Die Sportpresse hat gegenüber anderen Medien einen fundamentalen Aktualitätsnachteil und muss verstärkt als Komplementärmedium agieren, um für ansprechende Inhalte zu sorgen. Fraglich ist neben dem Inhalt jedoch ebenso die Art der Berichterstattung: auf sprachlich-stilistischer und formal-gestalterischer Ebene. Untersucht wird die Berichterstattung (N = 455) der Süddeutschen Zeitung über die Fußball-Europameisterschaften 2000, 2008 und 2016 hinsichtlich eines möglichen Boulevardisierungstrends. Zur Ermittlung eines möglichen Trends wurde ein Boulevardisierungsindex entwickelt. Dem Index kann ein leichter Boulevardisierungstrend für den 16-jährigen Zeitraum entnommen werden. Dabei ist die Berichterstattung besonders zwischen den Jahren 2000 und 2008 boulevardesker geworden. Die Befunde zeigen zudem, dass insgesamt vermehrt auf Boulevardvariablen gesetzt wurde, die vor dem Hintergrund journalistischer Qualität als weniger kritisch anzusehen sind. Abstract The sports press has compared to other media a major date disadvantage and therefore must act increasingly as a complementary medium to provide appealing content. In addition to the content, however, the type of reporting is also questionable: on a linguistic-stylistic and formal-creative level. The study investigates the coverage (N = 455) of the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the European Football Championships 2000, 2008 and 2016 with regard to a possible tabloidization trend on formal-design, linguistic-stylistic and content-related levels. To identify a possible trend, a tabloidization index was developed. The index has a slight trend for the 16-year period. The tabloidization increased especially between the years 2000 and 2008. The findings also show that overall there has been an increase in the use of tabloid variables that are seen as less critical in the light of journalistic quality.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 3 Nr. 2 (2018)
Optimized Trigger for Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray and Neutrino Observations with the Low Frequency Radio Array
Creators: name: Singh, K.
name: Mevius, M.
name: Scholten, O.
name: Anderson, J. M.
name: van Ardenne, A.
name: Arts, M.
name: Avruch, M.
name: Asgekar, A.
name: Bell, M.
name: Bennema, P.
name: Bentum, M.
name: Bernadi, G.
name: Best, P.
name: Boonstra, A. -J.
name: Bregman, J.
name: van de Brink, R.
name: Broekema, C.
name: Brouw, W.
name: Brueggen, M.
name: Buitink, S.
name: Butcher, H.
name: van Cappellen, W.
name: Ciardi, B.
name: Coolen, A.
name: Damstra, S.
name: Dettmar, R.
name: van Diepen, G.
name: Dijkstra, K.
name: Donker, P.
name: Doorduin, A.
name: Drost, M.
name: van Duin, A.
name: Eisloeffel, J.
name: Falcke, H.
name: Garrett, M.
name: Gerbers, M.
name: Griessmeier, J.
name: Grit, T.
name: Gruppen, P.
name: Gunst, A.
name: van Haarlem, M.
name: Hoeft, M.
name: Holties, H.
name: Horandel, J.
name: Horneffer, L. A.
name: Huijgen, A.
name: James, C.
name: de Jong, A.
name: Kant, D.
name: Kooistra, E.
name: Koopman, Y.
name: Koopmans, L.
name: Kuper, G.
name: Lambropoulos, P.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
name: Loose, M.
name: Maat, P.
name: Mallary, C.
name: McFadden, R.
name: Meulman, H.
name: Mol, J. -D.
name: Morawietz, J.
name: Mulder, E.
name: Munk, H.
name: Nieuwenhuis, L.
name: Nijboer, R.
name: Norden, M.
name: Noordam, J.
name: Overeem, R.
name: Paas, H.
name: Pandey, V. N.
name: Pandey-Pommier, M.
name: Pizzo, R.
name: Polatidis, A.
name: Reich, W.
name: de Reijer, J.
name: Renting, A.
name: Riemers, P.
name: Roettgering, H.
name: Romein, J.
name: Roosjen, J.
name: Ruiter, M.
name: Schoenmakers, A.
name: Schoonderbeek, G.
name: Sluman, J.
name: Smirnov, O.
name: Stappers, B.
name: Steinmetz, M.
name: Stiepel, H.
name: Stuurwold, K.
name: Tagger, M.
name: Tang, Y.
name: ter Veen, S.
name: Vermeulen, R.
name: de Vos, M.
name: Vogt, C.
name: van der Wal, E.
name: Weggemans, H.
name: Wijnholds, S.
name: Wise, M.
name: Wucknitz, O.
name: Yattawatta, S.
name: van Zwieten, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When an ultra-high energy neutrino or cosmic ray strikes the Lunar surface a radio-frequency pulse is emitted. We plan to use the LOFAR radio telescope to detect these pulses. In this work we propose an efficient trigger implementation for LOFAR optimized for the observation of short radio pulses.
description: Submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Macroscopic quantum resonators (MAQRO)
Creators: name: Kaltenbaek, Rainer
name: Hechenblaikner, Gerald
name: Kiesel, Nikolai
name: Romero-Isart, Oriol
name: Schwab, Keith C.
name: Johann, Ulrich
name: Aspelmeyer, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum physics challenges our understanding of the nature of physical reality and of space-time and suggests the necessity of radical revisions of their underlying concepts. Experimental tests of quantum phenomena involving massive macroscopic objects would provide novel insights into these fundamental questions. Making use of the unique environment provided by space, MAQRO aims at investigating this largely unexplored realm of macroscopic quantum physics. MAQRO has originally been proposed as a medium-sized fundamental-science space mission for the 2010 call of Cosmic Vision. MAQRO unites two experiments: DECIDE (DECoherence In Double-Slit Experiments) and CASE (Comparative Acceleration Sensing Experiment). The main scientific objective of MAQRO, which is addressed by the experiment DECIDE, is to test the predictions of quantum theory for quantum superpositions of macroscopic objects containing more than 10e8 atoms. Under these conditions, deviations due to various suggested alternative models to quantum theory would become visible. These models have been suggested to harmonize the paradoxical quantum phenomena both with the classical macroscopic world and with our notion of Minkowski space-time. The second scientific objective of MAQRO, which is addressed by the experiment CASE, is to demonstrate the performance of a novel type of inertial sensor based on optically trapped microspheres. CASE is a technology demonstrator that shows how the modular design of DECIDE allows to easily incorporate it with other missions that have compatible requirements in terms of spacecraft and orbit. CASE can, at the same time, serve as a test bench for the weak equivalence principle, i.e., the universality of free fall with test-masses differing in their mass by 7 orders of magnitude.
description: Proposal for a medium-sized space mission, 28 pages, 9 figures - in v2, we corrected some minor mistakes and replaced fig. 9 with a higher-resolution version; Experimental Astronomy, March 2012, Online, Open Access
Der Effekt der Anstoßzeiten der Fußball Bundesliga auf die Nachfrage der Fernsehübertragung im Pay-TV
Creators: name: Wellbrock, Christian-Mathias
name: Boller-Hoffecker, Annalena
name: Rittmann, David
Publisher: name: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport
Year: 2020

description: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Determinanten der Nachfrage nach Übertragungen von Fußball-Bundesligaspielen im Pay-TV in Deutschland. Mittels einer Regressionsanalyse wur­den 496 Spiele untersucht, die im Pay-TV in den Saisons 2015/2016 und 2016/2017 (bis ein­schließlich 23. Spieltag) ausgestrahlt wurden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen robuste Effekte von An­stoßzeiten auf die TV-Nachfrage für Bundesligaspiele: Spiele unter der Woche weisen im Ver­gleich zu Spielen am Wochenende geringere Zuschauerzahlen auf und Zuschauerzahlen der Einzelspiele sind im Vergleich zu Konferenzspielen höher. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass Fernsehveranstalter, Werbetreibende, Mediaplaner und Agenturen für Rechte und Lizenzen der Sportveranstaltungen die verschiedenen Anstoßzeiten in die strategische Planung der Spieltag­gestaltung mit einbeziehen sollten.
description: Journal für Sportkommunikation und Mediensport, Bd. 4 Nr. 1-2 (2019)
Quantum thermometry using the ac Stark shift within the Rabi model
Creators: name: Higgins, Kieran D. B.
name: Lovett, Brendon W.
name: Gauger, Erik M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum two level system coupled to a harmonic oscillator represents a ubiquitous physical system. New experiments in circuit QED and nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) achieve unprecedented coupling strength at large detuning between qubit and oscillator, thus requiring a theoretical treatment beyond the Jaynes Cummings model. Here we present a new method for describing the qubit dynamics in this regime, based on an oscillator correlation function expansion of a non-Markovian master equation in the polaron frame. Our technique yields a new numerical method as well as a succinct approximate expression for the qubit dynamics. We obtain a new expression for the ac Stark shift and show that this enables practical and precise qubit thermometry of an oscillator.
Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the breastfeeding self-efficacy scale to assess exclusive breastfeeding
Creators: name: Collins, Shalean M.
name: Dennis, Cindy-Lee
name: Tuthill, Emily L.
name: Young, Sera L.
name: Martin, Stephanie L.
name: Natamba, Barnabas K.
name: Boateng, Godfred O.
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019

description:
Background Increasing the prevalence of optimal breastfeeding practices, including exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, could prevent an estimated 823,000 child deaths annually. Self-efficacy is an important determinant of breastfeeding behaviors. However, existing measures do not specifically assess exclusive breastfeeding self-efficacy, but rather self-efficacy for any breastfeeding. Hence, we sought to adapt and validate an instrument to measure exclusive breastfeeding self-efficacy. Methods We modified and added items from Dennis’ Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form (BSES-SF). It was then implemented in an observational cohort in Gulu, Uganda at 1 (n = 239) and 3 (n = 238) months postpartum (clinicaltrials.gov NCT02925429). We performed inter-item and adjusted item-test correlations, as well as exploratory factor analysis and parallel analysis at 1 month postpartum to remove redundant items and determine their latent factor structure. We further applied confirmatory factor analysis to test dimensionality of the scale at 3 months postpartum. We then assessed the reliability of the scale and conducted tests of predictive and discriminant validity. Known group comparisons were made by primiparous status and correct breastfeeding knowledge. Results The modification of the original BSES-SF to target exclusive breastfeeding produced 19 items, which were reduced to 9 based on item correlations and factor loadings. Two dimensions of the adapted scale, the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Scale to Measure Exclusive Breastfeeding BSES-EBF emerged: Cognitive and Functional subscales, with alpha coefficients of 0.85 and 0.79 at 3 months postpartum. Predictive and discriminant validity and known group comparisons assessments supported its validity. Conclusions This version of the Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy scale, the BSES-EBF Scale, is valid and reliable for measuring exclusive breastfeeding self-efficacy in northern Uganda, and ready for adaptation and validation for clinical and programmatic use elsewhere.