cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stay with Your Community: Bridges between Clusters Trigger Expansion of COVID-19
Creators: name: Ohsawa, Yukio
name: Tsubokura, Masaharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spreading of virus infection is here simulated over artificial human networks. The real-space urban life of people is modeled as a modified scale-free network with constraints. A scale-free network has been adopted in several studies for modeling on-line communities so far but is modified here for the aim to represent peoples' social behaviors where the generated communities are restricted reflecting the spatiotemporal constraints in the real life. Furthermore, the networks have been extended by introducing multiple cliques in the initial step of network construction and enabling people to zero-degree people as well as popular (large degree) people. As a result, four findings and a policy proposal have been obtained. First, the "second waves" occur without external influence or constraints on contacts or the releasing of the constraints. These second waves, mostly lower than the first wave, implies the bridges between infected and fresh clusters may trigger new expansions of spreading. Second, if the network changes the structure on the way of infection spreading or after its suppression, the peak of the second wave can be larger than the first. Third, the peak height in the time series depends on the difference between the upper bound of the number of people each member accepts to meet and the number of people one chooses to meet. This tendency is observed for two kinds of artificial networks and implies the impact of the bridges between communities on the virus spreading. Fourth, the release of once given constraint may trigger a second wave higher than the peak of the time series without introducing any constraint from the beginning, if the release is introduced at a time close to the peak. Thus, both governments and individuals should be careful in returning to human society with inter-community contacts.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures, 4 Tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2004.09372
Tilt and phantom cosmology
Creators: name: Coley, A. A.
name: Hervik, S.
name: Lim, W. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in tilting perfect fluid cosmological models with an ultra-radiative equation of state, generically the tilt becomes extreme at late times and, as the tilt instability sets in, observers moving with the tilting fluid will experience singular behaviour in which infinite expansion is reached within a finite proper time, similar to that of phantom cosmology (but without the need for exotic forms of matter).
description: 9 pages, v2: more discussion, added references
Additional file 1 of Barriers to surgery performed by non-physician clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa—a scoping review
Creators: name: Phylisha Van Heemskerken
name: Broekhuizen, Henk
name: Gajewski, Jakub
name: Brugha, Ruairí
name: Bijlmakers, Leon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Query as used in PubMed and Embase.
Biological nonlocality and the mind-brain interaction problem: comments on a new empirical approach
Creators: name: Thaheld, Fred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Up to now, we have been faced with an age old fundamental dilemma posed by the mind-brain interaction problem, i.e. how is it that the mind which is subjective and immaterial, can interact with the brain which is objective and material? Analysis of recent experiments appears to indicate that quantum mechanics may have a role to play in the resolution of the mind-brain interaction problem in the form of biological entanglement and nonlocality. This analysis, when coupled with ongoing and proposed experiments, may help us to simultaneously resolve related issues such as whether mental events can initiate neural events, the transference of conscious subjective experience, the measurement problem and the binding problem.
description: 21 pages
Economic Aspects in Landscape Decision-making: a Participatory Planning Tool based on a Representative Approach
Creators: name: Van Der Heide, C.M.
name: Blaeij, A.T. De
name: Heijman, Wim J.M.
name: Van Der Heide, C.M.
name: Blaeij, A.T. De
name: Heijman, Wim J.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Landscape economics
subject: Choice experiment
subject: Stakeholder analysis.

description: In this paper, we develop a method for spatial decision support that combines economic efficiency – measured by the concept of willingness to pay – with a participatory planning tool, that allows for an active collaboration among the actors involved, in such a way that decision makers can draw on the outcomes in their spatial planning and design process. The method is called RITAM, a Dutch acronym for spatially explicit, participatory and interdisciplinary trade-off method, and combines features of three different approaches to achieve an ‘optimal’ landscape. These three approaches are (i) choice experiment approach; (ii) consumer versus citizen approach; and (iii) participatory approach. As such, RITAM can be seen as a valuation technique that makes explicit use of a participatory approach, in which people managing the landscape – in particular the representatives of the different stakeholder groups that use the landscape for different purposes – are engaged. We applied this new method to a case study in the Frisian Lake District (the Netherlands). The result give an indication of the spatial preferences of the population living in and around the area. Although future works is required, RITAM appears to be a suitable method for landscape planning and design processes, taken into account the preferences of the different organised interest groups in an area.
Pro-inflammatory adjuvant properties of pigment-grade titanium dioxide particles are augmented by a genotype that potentiates interleukin 1β processing.
Creators: name: Riedle, Sebastian
name: Pele, Laetitia C
name: Otter, Don E
name: Hewitt, Rachel
name: Singh, Harjinder
name: Roy, Nicole C
name: Powell, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cells, Cultured
Macrophages
Animals
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Mice, Mutant Strains
Titanium
Acetylmuramyl-Alanyl-Isoglutamine
Lipopolysaccharides
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
Inflammation Mediators
Adjuvants, Immunologic
Food Additives
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Genotype
Phenotype
Mutation
Female
Interleukin-1beta
Nod2 Signaling Adaptor Protein

description: Background. Pigment-grade titanium dioxide (TiO2) particles are an additive to some foods (E171 on ingredients lists), toothpastes, and pharma-/nutraceuticals and are absorbed, to some extent, in the human intestinal tract. TiO2 can act as a modest adjuvant in the secretion of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin 1β (IL-1β) when triggered by common intestinal bacterial fragments, such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and/or peptidoglycan. Given the variance in human genotypes, which includes variance in genes related to IL-1β secretion, we investigated whether TiO2 particles might, in fact, be more potent pro-inflammatory adjuvants in cells that are genetically susceptible to IL-1β-related inflammation. Methods. We studied bone marrow-derived macrophages from mice with a mutation in the nucleotide-binding oligomerisation domain-containing 2 gene (Nod2m/m), which exhibit heightened secretion of IL-1β in response to the peptidoglycan fragment muramyl dipeptide (MDP). To ensure relevance to human exposure, TiO2 was food-grade anatase (119 ± 45 nm mean diameter ± standard deviation). We used a short ‘pulse and chase’ format: pulsing with LPS and chasing with TiO2 +/− MDP or peptidoglycan. Results. IL-1β secretion was not stimulated in LPS-pulsed bone marrow-derived macrophages, or by chasing with MDP, and only very modestly so by chasing with peptidoglycan. In all cases, however, IL-1β secretion was augmented by chasing with TiO2 in a dose-dependent fashion (5–100 µg/mL). When co-administered with MDP or peptidoglycan, IL-1β secretion was further enhanced for the Nod2m/m genotype. Tumour necrosis factor α was triggered by LPS priming, and more so for the Nod2m/m genotype. This was enhanced by chasing with TiO2, MDP, or peptidoglycan, but there was no additive effect between the bacterial fragments and TiO2.
Stress relaxation in a perfect nanocrystal by coherent ejection of lattice layers
Creators: name: Chaudhuri, Abhishek
name: Sengupta, Surajit
name: Rao, Madan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a small crystal trapped within a potential well and in contact with its own fluid, responds to large compressive stresses by a novel mechanism -- the transfer of complete lattice layers across the solid-fluid interface. Further, when the solid is impacted by a momentum impulse set up in the fluid, a coherently ejected lattice layer carries away a definite quantity of energy and momentum, resulting in a sharp peak in the calculated phonon absorption spectrum. Apart from its relevance to studies of stability and failure of small sized solids, such coherent nanospallation may be used to make atomic wires or monolayer films.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, published version, changed content
Some Results on $*-$Ricci Flow
Creators: name: Basu, Nirabhra
name: Debnath, Dipankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44, 53D10, 53C25

description: In this paper we have introduced the notion of $*-$ Ricci flow and shown that $*-$ Ricci soliton which was introduced by Kakimakamis and Panagiotid in 2014, is a self similar soliton of the $*-$ Ricci flow. We have also find the deformation of geometric curvature tensors under $*-$ Ricci flow. In the last two section of the paper, we have found the $\Im$-functional and $ω-$ functional for $*-$ Ricci flow respectively.
description: 8 pages
Additional file 1 of Gut transcriptomic changes during hibernation in the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)
Creators: name: Haijian Sun
name: Jiaying Wang
name: Yutong Xing
name: Yi-Hsuan Pan
name: Mao, Xiuguang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Principal component analysis (PCA) and clustering of the 30 samples from 15 individuals based on expression data of 14,009 genes showing gene expression distance of all samples.
Externalities Imposed on Residential Properties in Highly Urbanized Areas
Creators: name: Cotteleer, Geerte
name: Peerlings, Jack H.M.
name: Cotteleer, Geerte
name: Peerlings, Jack H.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Hedonic pricing
subject: Spatial econometrics
subject: Externalities

description: In highly industrialized areas open spaces such as farmland and nature are under pressure since urban areas are expanding at their expense. Because of the high opportunity costs of development in urban areas, a high price has to be paid for the maintenance or creation of open space. The question is if this high price can be justified by the value of the open space. We estimate the value residents attach to surrounding open space in a hedonic pricing model. More specifically, we investigate in a highly urbanized area in the Netherlands how the externalities of farmland, nature, and other uses, such as industrial areas and the sea affect residential property prices. Moreover, spatial lag and error dependence are corrected for in the hedonic pricing model used to estimate the value of open space and other externalities. According to our results premiums are paid by residents who buy properties close to urban parks and the North Sea and for properties with views on open space.
Supporting COVID journalism by curbing misinformation with Wikipedia fact-checking workflows
Creators: name: Rasberry, Lane
name: Mietchen, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: misinformation
fact-checking
Wikipedia
COVID-19
vaccines

description: This is a presentation prepared as part of a proposal to the COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund. The proposed project was not chosen for funding, but we hope that having the presentation here can help trigger some collaboration around curbing misinformation, be it related to pandemics, global warming, biodiversity loss, sustainable agriculture or other important issues of our time.
Traceability of meat: Consumers' associations and their willingness-to-pay
Creators: name: Lichtenberg, L.
name: Heidecke, Sandra-Jasmin
name: Becker, Tilman C.
name: Lichtenberg, L.
name: Heidecke, Sandra-Jasmin
name: Becker, Tilman C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: conjoint analysis
subject: willingness-to-pay
subject: meat traceability

description: The willingness-to-pay by German consumers for the credence characteristic traceability of pork and turkey is analysed by means of the conjoint analysis additive model, also taking the consumers´ associations with the term traceability and the QS label into account. The results indicate a different WTP regarding traceability of pork and turkey for specific consumer groups. A majority considers meat traceability as important. However, the distinctive sensitivity to price exhibited is a result of the fact that traceability is only of secondary importance as an assessment criterion, after price. Food retailers should adjust their communication and price policies in order to take advantage of the consumers’ higher WTP for traceable products according to the sort of meat.
Meinardus, Otto F. A.: The Copts in Jerusalem(Cairo 1960)
Creators: name: Cramer, Maria
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 46 (1962): Oriens christianus, Band 46
Spectral energy distribution for GJ406
Creators: name: Pavlenko, Ya. V.
name: Jones, H. R. A.
name: Lyubchik, Yu.
name: Tennyson, J.
name: Pinfield, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of modelling the bulk of the spectral energy distribution (0.35 - 5 micron) for GJ406 (M6V). Synthetic spectra were calculated using the NextGen, Dusty and Cond model atmospheres and incorporate line lists for H2O, TiO, CrH, FeH, CO, MgH molecules as well as the VALD line list of atomic lines. A comparison of synthetic and observed spectra gives Tef = 2800 +/- 100 K. We determine M$_bol = 12.13 +/- 0.10 for which evolutionary models by Baraffe et al. (2003) suggest an age of around 0.1 -- 0.35 Gyr consistent with its high activity. The age and luminosity of GJ406 correspond to a wide range of plausible masses (0.07 -- 0.1 Msun).
description: 10 pages, 14 figs, accepted by AA
Chew card processing protocol
Creators: name: Nance, Alexandra
name: Cook, Carly N.
name: Clarke, Rohan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 50103 Invasive Species Ecology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This protocol describes how to digitally extract a measure of rodent activity from chew cards based on the amount of area that has been chewed for each individual card. Chew cards are more commonly used as presence/absence devices, with the standard measure being the proportion of cards in a network that have been chewed. The activity index derived from the attach protocol provides more fine-scale activity metrics, as the intensity with with each card has been chewed (rather than just whether or not the card has been chewed) is used as the monitoring metric. Chew cards are a standard monitoring tool for numerous invasive species including rats, mice, possums and stoats. They are baited with non-toxic lure, in this case, a peanut-butter mixture. Chew cards were deployed for a continuous one-month period and were the collected and processed digitally. For information about chew card deployment and use see associated research article.
Intra and Inter organisational determinants of electronic-based traceability adoption: evidences from the French agri-food industry
Creators: name: Galliano, Danielle
name: Orozco, L.
name: Galliano, Danielle
name: Orozco, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Traceability
subject: Technology adoption
subject: Agri-food industry

description: Traceability, the ability to trace the origin of products throughout the supply chain, has become an instrument to assure food quality and safety in agri-food chains. This process is organized within both institutional and market constraints, yet it integrates also a technological sphere marked by the unprecedented development of information and communication technologies. This paper analyses the factors influencing firms’ behaviour, with regards to adopting electronic-based traceability, in the French agri-food industry. These factors (microeconomic determinants) related to firms’ internal characteristics and the factors related to their environment. We use data from the ICT and Electronic Commerce survey from 2002, carried out by the French National Institute of Statistics (INSEE). A Probit type model is used, which allow us to take into account the firm’s determinants for its organisational choice, differentiating from those adopting (or not) an electronic-based traceability tool. Our main results show that the choices of electronic-based traceability depend on and interact with their own organizational characteristics and those of their competitive, industrial and local environment. Traceability technologies evidence the complementarities between organisational and technological practices. Large industrial firms known for their established identity and a brand image seem distant from standard traceability practices, contrarily to agribusinesses, which are subjected to regulations and look forward to use traceability for both complying with their downstream contracts and add value to their regional specificities.
Triangle for the entropic index q of non-extensive statistical mechanics observed by Voyager 1 in the distant heliosphere
Creators: name: Burlaga, L. F.
name: -Vinas, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tsallis identified a set of numbers, the q-triplet, (qstat, qsen, qrel), for a system described by nonextensive statistical mechanics. The deviation of the q's from unity is a measure of the departure from thermodynamic equilibrium. We present observations of the q-triplets derived from two sets of daily averages of the magnetic field strength B observed by Voyager 1 in the solar wind near 40 A.U. during 1989 and near 85 A.U. during 2002, respectively. The results for 1989 do not differ significantly from those for 2002. We find qstat = 1.75, qsen = -0.6, and qrel = 3.8.
Sphecodes gracilior Morawitz 1893
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Sphecodes
Sphecodes gracilior

description: 33. Sphecodes gracilior Morawitz, 1893
(Figs 33 a–e)
 Sphecodes gracilior Morawitz, 1893: 78, ♀, ♂.
 Type locality: Ayni, Sogd Province (Tajikistan).
 Published (original) locality: “Warzaminor”.
 Lectotype: ♂, designated Astafurova & Proshchalykin 2017a: 252, Warzaminor [Tajikistan, Sogd Province, Ayni, 39°23′N 68°32′E] // gracilor F. Mor., ♂ // F. Morawitz det., Typ. // lectotypus Sphecodes gracilior Morawitz 1893, design. Astafurova & Proshchalykin 2017 // Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_HYM_0000168.
 Current status. Sphecodes alternatus Smith, 1853 (synonymized by Popov 1935: 367).
 Distribution. North Africa, South and Central Europe, Russia (east to Khakassia Republic), Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Northwestern China (Astafurova et al. 2019).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2020, The type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Contribution III Family Halictidae, genera Halictus Latreille, 1804, and Sphecodes Latreille, 1804, pp. 401-446 in Zootaxa 4790 (3) on pages 436-437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3891137
Additional file 2 of Gut transcriptomic changes during hibernation in the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum)
Creators: name: Haijian Sun
name: Jiaying Wang
name: Yutong Xing
name: Yi-Hsuan Pan
name: Mao, Xiuguang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) identified in each pairwise comparison of the four states by DESeq2 and edgeR, respectively.
Aerodynamics of an airfoil with plain flap in presence of momentum injection
Creators: name: Triplett, Benjamin I.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The concept of Moving Surface Boundary-layer Control (MSBC), as applied to a NASA LS(1)-0417 airfoil with plain flap, is investigated through a planned wind tunnel test-program at a subcritical Reynolds number of 10⁵. The airfoil carries two rotating cylinders for momentum injection. One is located at the leading edge of the wing and the other a the leading edge of the flap. For conciseness, they are referred to as wing cylinder and flap cylinder, respectively. High speed rotating cylinders controlled the key momentum injection parameters, Uw/U and Uf/U. Here Uw and Uf are the surface velocities of the wing and flap cylinders, respectively, and U is the free stream wind speed. Experiments are conducted to characterize the performance of both the two-dimensional (i.e. infinite aspect ratio, 2-D), and of the three-dimensional (i.e. finite aspect ratio, 3-D) cases. The 2-D model airfoil with leading edge momentum injection demonstrated the effectiveness of the concept. The maximum lift of the airfoil was increased by 177% with a delay in stall from 10° to 50°. In general, the airfoil performance improves with an increase in Uw/U. The momentum injection at the flap enhanced the effect of flap deflection. With the flap deflected to 45°, the flap cylinder rotation further shifted the lift curve to the left, and increased the maximum lift coefficient from 1.65 to 2.25. On the other hand, there is no apparent change in the stall angle of attack. Furthermore, the flap cylinder rotation increased the magnitude of the suction pressure peak and decreased the suction pressure at the trailing edge, suggesting a narrowed wake. For the 2-D model with a flap deflection of 45°, the combined wing and flap cylinder rotations showed significant improvement on the airfoil performance. The maximum lift of the airfoil in this configuration was 3.6, a 300% increase over the basic airfoil. This is 213% higher lift than that for the airfoil with flap deflection but without momentum injection. The leading edge cylinder delays separation of the boundary-layer, allowing the airfoil to operate at high angles of incidence without stall. The effective wing-camber, introduced by flap deflection, is further increased through any combination of the momentum injection at the wing and the flap. The three-dimensional study indicated that the relative effectiveness of momentum injection at the wing and flap, is the same, i.e. it is independent of the effect of aspect ratio. As well, the effect of aspect ratio is essentially the same with and without the MSBC. These facts should help aircraft designers in implementation of the MSBC in prototype designs. The fundamental information presented in the thesis should serve as a reference and prove useful in further study aimed at aerodynamic design of a wing.
Electron-positron annihilation into three pions and the radiative return
Creators: name: Czyz, Henryk
name: Grzelinska, Agnieszka
name: Kuhn, Johann H.
name: Rodrigo, German
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Monte Carlo event generator PHOKHARA, which simulates hadron and muon production at electron-positron colliders through radiative return, has been extended to final states with three pions. A model for the form factor based on generalized vector dominance has been employed, which is consistent with presently available experimental observations.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures. Final version to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C
High rate of gravitational waves mergers from flyby perturbations of wide black-hole triples in the field
Creators: name: Michaely, Erez
name: Perets, Hagai G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-wide triple black-holes (TBHs; with an outer orbit $>10^3$ AU) in the field can be considerably perturbed by flyby encounters with field stars by the excitation of the outer orbit eccentricities. We study the cumulative effect of such flybys, and show them to be conductive for the production of gravitational-wave (GW) sources. Flyby encounters with TBHs can turn the TBHs unstable and follow chaotic evolution. This leads to a binary-single resonant encounter between the outer BH and the inner-binary. These encounters can result in either a prompt GW-merger of two of the TBH components during the resonant phase, or the disruption of the TBH. In the latter case a more compact binary is left behind, while the third BH escapes and is ejected. The compact remnant binary may still inspiral through GW-emission, although on longer timescales. A significant number of these would lead to a delayed GW-merger in less than a Hubble time. We find a volumetric merger rate of $\sim3-10{\rm Gpc^{-3}yr^{-1}}$ contributed by the (former) prompt-merger TBH channel and $\sim100-250{\rm {\rm Gpc^{-3}yr^{-1}}}$ contributed by the (latter) delayed-merger TBH channel. The prompt channel gives rise to eccentric mergers in the aLIGO band, while the majority of the delayed-GW mergers are circularized when enter the aLIGO band. We find the total {\rm eccentric} volumetric merger rate to be $\sim1-10{\rm Gpc^{-3}yr^{-1}}$ from both channels. We expect these mergers to show no significant spin-orbit alignment, and uniform delay time distribution.
description: comments are welcomed
Technical Barrier Effects of a Food Safety Measure – a Case of Finnish Salmonella Control Program
Creators: name: Niemi, Jyrki S.
name: Peltola, Jukka
name: Simola, Antti
name: Niemi, Jyrki S.
name: Peltola, Jukka
name: Simola, Antti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International trade
subject: biosecurity
subject: welfare analysis

description: In this paper, indirect costs of Finnish Salmonella Control Program (FSCP) due to its trade effects are evaluated. FSCP is a part of Finnish biosecurity policies intended to shield Finnish food supply and consumption chain from salmonella outbreaks. The program directly increases costs of importing by e.g. requiring costly certificates for imports. Additionally, it may cause anxiety to suppliers of imports as there are added uncertainties in the import process. As similar requirements apply to domestic suppliers, the program should not be thought of as a technical trade barrier (TBT), however, it may affect trade flows indirectly and effects may be assessed in a similar manner as those of TBT’s. The evaluation of the trade effects is performed using a combined price wedge-gravity approach and they are quantified as tariff-equivalents. After determining the tariff equivalent, sensitivity results are provided as some of the parameter values used in the calculation are difficult to observe directly.
Additional file 1 of Exploring supervised machine learning approaches to predicting Veterans Health Administration chiropractic service utilization
Creators: name: Coleman, Brian C.
name: Fodeh, Samah
name: Lisi, Anthony J.
name: Goulet, Joseph L.
name: Corcoran, Kelsey L.
name: Harini Bathulapalli
name: Brandt, Cynthia A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Variables included in the final dataset.
Agricultural Productivity Growth in the Euro-Med Region: Is there Evidence of Convergence?
Creators: name: Galonopulos, K.
name: Surry, Yves R.
name: Mattas, Konstadinos
name: Galonopulos, K.
name: Surry, Yves R.
name: Mattas, Konstadinos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Productivity growth
subject: sequential Malmquist TFP
subject: convergence.

description: This paper measures agricultural productivity growth by means of the sequential Malmquist Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index among a set of thirty-two countries including West European, Central and East European (CEE) and Middle East and North African (MENA) countries for the period 1961-2002. At a second stage it is also investigated whether this measure is converging among the countries, by employing cross-sectional tests for absolute and conditional β-convergence as well as for club convergence. Results suggest that despite the fact that the CEE and MENA countries exhibit a high rate of productivity growth after the 1990s, absolute convergence cannot be accepted. Still, evidence for conditional convergence is found and the formation of two separate clubs of countries that converge to different equilibrium points is identified.
New variational perturbation theory based on $q-$deformed oscillator
Creators: name: Kim, Hyeong-Chan
name: Yee, Jae Hyung
name: Kim, Sang Pyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new variational perturbation theory is developed based on the $q-$deformed oscillator. It is shown that the new variational perturbation method provides 200 or 10 times better accuracy for the ground state energy of anharmonic oscillator than the Gaussian and the improved Gaussian approximation, respectively.
description: 6pages, no figures, minor corrections
Why Should Regional Agricultural Productivity Growth Converge? Evidence from Italian Regions
Creators: name: Esposti, Roberto
name: Esposti, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: TFP growth
subject: Convergence
subject: Panel Data

description: The paper analyses agricultural TFP growth across Italian regions during the 1952-2002 period, and aims at identifying those factors that favour or hinder regional agricultural TFP growth convergence. Of major relevance is whether regions, despite their inescapable heterogeneity, tend to share common technological improvements, that is, to move along the same productivity growth rate. TFP growth decomposition ultimately allows attributing observed productivity performance to convergence and divergence forces. Appropriate testing and estimation procedures are adopted to take into account panel unit-root issues and cross-sectional dependence.
Additional file 1 of The predominant expression of cancer stem cell marker ALDH1A3 in tumor infiltrative area is associated with shorter overall survival of human glioblastoma
Creators: name: Gan, Chao
name: Pierscianek, Daniela
name: Hindy, Nicolai El
name: Ahmadipour, Yahya
name: Keyvani, Kathy
name: Sure, Ulrich
name: Zhu, Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. Original blots of western blotting. Supplementary Figure S2. ALDH1A3 mRNA expression in subtypes of GBM and normal control based on TCGA database. Among three subtypes of GBM, ALDH1A3 mRNA level in the classical and proneural subtypes of GBM was significantly lower than that in the control and in the mesenchymal GBM. Student t test with Welch’s correction was used for data analysis between subgroups. **P < 0.01, ***P< 0.001, compared with control; ###P <0.001, compared with mesenchymal.
Electric Field Control of Three-Dimensional Vortex States in Core-Shell Ferroelectric Nanoparticles
Creators: name: Morozovska, Anna N.
name: Eliseev, Eugene A.
name: Hertel, Riccardo
name: Fomichov, Yevhen M.
name: Tulaidan, Viktoriia
name: Reshetnyak, Victor Yu.
name: Evans, Dean R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach coupled with electrostatic equations, we performed finite element modeling of the polarization behavior in a ferroelectric barium titanate core covered with a tunable paraelectric strontium titanate shell placed in a polymer or liquid medium. A stable two-dimensional vortex is formed in the core after a zero-field relaxation of an initial random or poly-domain distribution of the polarization, where the vortex axis is directed along one of the core crystallographic axes. Subsequently, sinusoidal pulses of a homogeneous electric field with variable period, strength, and direction are applied. The field-induced changes of the vortex structure consist in the appearance of an axial kernel in the form of a prolate nanodomain, the kernel growth, an increasing orientation of the polarization along the field, and the onset of a single-domain state. We introduced the term "kernel" to name the prolate nanodomain developed near the vortex axis and polarized perpendicular to the vortex plane. In ferromagnetism, this region is generally known as the vortex core. The vortex states with a kernel possess a manifold degeneracy, appearing from three equiprobable directions of vortex axis, clockwise and counterclockwise directions of polarization rotation along the vortex axis, and two polarization directions in the kernel. This multitude of the vortex states in a single core are promising for applications of core-shell nanoparticles and their ensembles as multi-bit memory and related logic units. The rotation of a vortex kernel over a sphere, possible for the core-shell nanoparticles in a soft matter medium with controllable viscosity, may be used to imitate qubit features.
description: 54 pages, 12 figures, 4 appendices
Competing Orders and non-Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson Criticality in (Bose) Mott transitions
Creators: name: Balents, Leon
name: Bartosch, Lorenz
name: Burkov, Anton
name: Sachdev, Subir
name: Sengupta, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reviews a recent non-Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson (LGW) approach to superfluid to Mott insulator transitions in two dimensional bosonic lattice systems, using a dual vortex field theory (cond-mat/0408329). The physical interpretation of conventional LGW theory of quantum criticality is re-examined and similarities and differences with the vortex picture are discussed. The ``unification'' of various competing (insulating) orders, and the coincidence of these orders with the Mott transition are readily understood in this formulation. Some aspects of the recent theory of ``deconfined'' quantum criticality, which are to an extent subsumed in this approach, are discussed. A pedagogical presentation of the ``nuts and bolts'' of boson-vortex duality at the hamiltonian level is included, tailored to a condensed matter audience.
description: Pedagogical article written for proceedings of "Physics of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems" YKIS2004 workshop, held at Yukawa Institute, Kyoto, Japan, November 2004
WHEN FLEXIBLE FORMS ARE ASKED TO FLEX TOO MUCH
Creators: name: Driscoll, Paul J.
name: Driscoll, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Taylor series-based flexible forms cannot be interpreted as Taylor series approximations unless all data used in estimation lie in a region of convergence. When flexible forms lose their Taylor series interpretation, elasticity estimates will be biased. When the flexible form is a translog, Rotterdam, or AIDS model, the region of convergence is shown to be the entire positive orthant. Regions of convergence associated with quadratic, Leontief, and any flexible form that does not employ logged arguments are smaller and may not encompass the entire data set. Implications for production and demand analyses and experimental design are discussed.
Decoding machine learning benchmarks
Creators: name: Cardoso, Lucas F. F.
name: Santos, Vitor C. A.
name: Francês, Regiane S. K.
name: Prudêncio, Ricardo B. C.
name: Alves, Ronnie C. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6

description: Despite the availability of benchmark machine learning (ML) repositories (e.g., UCI, OpenML), there is no standard evaluation strategy yet capable of pointing out which is the best set of datasets to serve as gold standard to test different ML algorithms. In recent studies, Item Response Theory (IRT) has emerged as a new approach to elucidate what should be a good ML benchmark. This work applied IRT to explore the well-known OpenML-CC18 benchmark to identify how suitable it is on the evaluation of classifiers. Several classifiers ranging from classical to ensembles ones were evaluated using IRT models, which could simultaneously estimate dataset difficulty and classifiers' ability. The Glicko-2 rating system was applied on the top of IRT to summarize the innate ability and aptitude of classifiers. It was observed that not all datasets from OpenML-CC18 are really useful to evaluate classifiers. Most datasets evaluated in this work (84%) contain easy instances in general (e.g., around 10% of difficult instances only). Also, 80% of the instances in half of this benchmark are very discriminating ones, which can be of great use for pairwise algorithm comparison, but not useful to push classifiers abilities. This paper presents this new evaluation methodology based on IRT as well as the tool decodIRT, developed to guide IRT estimation over ML benchmarks.
description: Paper published at the BRACIS 2020 conference, 15 pages, 4 figures
Clinical prevalence of Lewy body dementia.
Creators: name: Kane, Joseph PM
name: Surendranathan, Ajenthan
name: Bentley, Allison
name: Barker, Sally AH
name: Taylor, John-Paul
name: Thomas, Alan J
name: Allan, Louise M
name: McNally, Richard J
name: James, Peter W
name: McKeith, Ian G
name: Burn, David J
name: O'Brien, John
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Humans
Lewy Body Disease
Parkinson Disease
Incidence
Prevalence
Age of Onset
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Female
Male
United Kingdom

description: Background: The prevalence of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and dementia in Parkinson’s disease (PDD) in routine clinical practice is unclear. Prevalence rates observed in clinical and population-based cohorts and neuropathological studies vary greatly. Small sample sizes and methodological factors in these studies limit generalisability to clinical practice. Method: We investigated prevalence in a case series across nine secondary care services over an 18-month period, to determine how commonly DLB and PDD cases are diagnosed and reviewed within two regions of the UK. Results: Patients with DLB comprised 4.6% (95% CI 4.0-5.2%) of all dementia cases. DLB was represented in a significantly higher proportion of dementia cases in services in the North East (5.6%) than those in East Anglia (3.3%; χ2=13.6, p<0.01). DLB prevalence in individual services ranged from 2.4% to 5.9%. PDD comprised 9.7% (95% CI 8.3-11.1%) of PD cases. No significant variation in PDD prevalence was observed between regions or between services. Conclusion: We found that the frequency of clinical diagnosis of DLB varied between geographical regions in the UK, and that the prevalence of both DLB and PDD were much lower than would be expected in this case series, suggesting considerable under-diagnosis of both disorders. The significant variation in DLB diagnostic rates between these two regions may reflect true differences in disease prevalence, but more likely differences in diagnostic practice. The systematic introduction of more standardised diagnostic practice could improve the rates of diagnosis of both conditions.
Electromagnetic structure and weak decay of pseudoscalar mesons in a light-front QCD-inspired model
Creators: name: Salcedo, L. A. M.
name: de Melo, J. P. B. C.
name: Hadjmichef, D.
name: Frederico, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the scaling of the $^3S_1-^1S_0$ meson mass splitting and the pseudoscalar weak decay constants with the mass of the meson, as seen in the available experimental data. We use an effective light-front QCD-inspired dynamical model regulated at short-distances to describe the valence component of the pseudoscalar mesons. The experimentally known values of the mass splittings, decay constants (from global lattice-QCD averages) and the pion charge form factor up to 4 [GeV/c]$^2$ are reasonably described by the model
description: 27 Pages, 7 eps figures,use revtex4
THE INVERSE LEWBEL DEMAND SYSTEM
Creators: name: Eales, James S.
name: Eales, James S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: A new model of consumer preferences is introduced. It is appropriate for modeling perishable commodities which are produced with a lag, where it is reasonable to assume the market-level quantities are fixed by previously made production decisions. The inverse Lewbel system, as it is called, is a flexible nonlinear system of share equations, which nests two other inverse demand systems, the direct translog and the inverse AIDS. Thus, the inverse Lewbel may be employed to test whether these more restrictive preference structures are appropriate. In an application to quarterly U.S. meat consumption, the more restrictive structures are rejected.
Precision measurement of the top quark mass from M_{b l} distribution in t -> b l νdecays
Creators: name: Nekrasov, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of the top quark mass measurement from $M_{b l}$ distribution in $t \to b l ν$ decays can be considerably improved if applying the technique of moments and proceeding to moments of high degree. At the LHC this allows one to reduce the systematic and statistical errors of the top mass by more than a factor of two.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, Talk given at 12th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow, Russia, August 25-31, 2005
Haenchen, Ernst: Die Botschaft des Thomas-Evangeliums
Creators: name: Engberding, Hieronymus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 46 (1962): Oriens christianus, Band 46
Quantum-optimal-control-inspired ansatz for variational quantum algorithms
Creators: name: Choquette, Alexandre
name: Di Paolo, Agustin
name: Barkoutsos, Panagiotis Kl.
name: Sénéchal, David
name: Tavernelli, Ivano
name: Blais, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A central component of variational quantum algorithms (VQA) is the state-preparation circuit, also known as ansatz or variational form. This circuit is most commonly designed to respect the symmetries of the problem Hamiltonian and, in this way, constrain the variational search to a subspace of interest. Here, we show that this approach is not always advantageous by introducing ansätze that incorporate symmetry-breaking unitaries. This class of ansätze, that we call Quantum-Optimal-Control-inspired Ansätze (QOCA), is inspired by the theory of quantum optimal control and leads to an improved convergence of VQAs for some important problems. Indeed, we benchmark QOCA against popular ansätze applied to the Fermi-Hubbard model at half-filling and show that our variational circuits can approximate the ground state of this model with significantly higher accuracy and for larger systems. We also show how QOCA can be used to find the ground state of the water molecule and compare the performance of our ansatz against other common choices used for chemistry problems. This work constitutes a first step towards the development of a more general class of symmetry-breaking ansätze with applications to physics and chemistry problems.
KANSAS WHEAT YIELD RISK MEASURES AND AGGREGATION: A META- ANALYSIS APPROACH
Creators: name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Schurle, Bryan W.
name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Schurle, Bryan W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: A meta-analysis approach to prediction of farm level yield risk from county level yield series is applied to Kansas wheat yields. A nonlinear relationship between county level and farm level yield risk is found, which indicates that yield risk increases at an increasing rate as the number of acres in the risk measure decreases. County level yield variability should be adjusted upward by approximately .1% for each percent difference in county acreage and average farm acreage within the county. The meta-analysis approach is shown to be promising for the prediction of farm level yield risk when farm level information is difficult to obtain.