cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A multi-level cost benefit approach for regulatory decision support in food safety and quality assurance scenarios
Creators: name: Fritz, Melanie
name: Schiefer, Gerhard
name: Fritz, Melanie
name: Schiefer, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: cost-benefit analysis
subject: multi-level analysis
subject: policy decision support
subject: impact assessment

description: In complex policy decision situations where policy objectives can only be reached through appropriate activities of individual actors with own decision authority and individual objectives, the classical approaches for measuring the effects of regulatory initiatives through cost-benefit or related types of analysis do not provide the appropriate information for decision support. This paper discusses a framework for a multi-level analysis approach that could provide decision support in multi-level policy decision situations.
A Theoretical Framework for Symbolic Quick Error Detection
Creators: name: Lonsing, Florian
name: Mitra, Subhasish
name: Barrett, Clark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Symbolic quick error detection (SQED) is a formal pre-silicon verification technique targeted at processor designs. It leverages bounded model checking (BMC) to check a design for counterexamples to a self-consistency property: given the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the design, executing an instruction sequence twice on the same inputs must always produce the same outputs. Self-consistency is a universal, implementation-independent property. Consequently, in contrast to traditional verification approaches that use implementation-specific assertions (often generated manually), SQED does not require a full formal design specification or manually-written properties. Case studies have shown that SQED is effective for commercial designs and that SQED substantially improves design productivity. However, until now there has been no formal characterization of its bug-finding capabilities. We aim to close this gap by laying a formal foundation for SQED. We use a transition-system processor model and define the notion of a bug using an abstract specification relation. We prove the soundness of SQED, i.e., that any bug reported by SQED is in fact a real bug in the processor. Importantly, this result holds regardless of what the actual specification relation is. We next describe conditions under which SQED is complete, that is, what kinds of bugs it is guaranteed to find. We show that for a large class of bugs, SQED can always find a trace exhibiting the bug. Ultimately, we prove full completeness of a variant of SQED that uses specialized state reset instructions. Our results enable a rigorous understanding of SQED and its bug-finding capabilities and give insights on how to optimize implementations of SQED in practice.
description: preprint of a paper to appear at FMCAD 2020, including appendix
Administrative burdens and dairy industry competitiveness
Creators: name: Bremmers, Harry J.
name: Poppe, Krijn J.
name: Wijnands, Jo H.M.
name: Van Der Meulen, Bernd M.J.
name: Bremmers, Harry J.
name: Poppe, Krijn J.
name: Wijnands, Jo H.M.
name: Van Der Meulen, Bernd M.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: dairy industry
subject: competitiveness
subject: administrative burdens
subject: food safety
subject: labelling

description: The goal of this paper is to assess the effect of regulatory burdens in the European dairy industry on its competitiveness. A theoretical foundation is provided by transaction cost economics and total quality management insights. The effects of legislation on administrative requirements and competitiveness are supposed to be mediated by impacts on innovativeness, company strategy, food safety system availability, as well as the available information & communication capabilities. We will connect to previous research (Wijnands et al., 2007) and the findings therein. Four sub-questions are addressed: • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, innovation and competitiveness? • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, food safety & quality system deployment and competitiveness? • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, food labelling requirements and competitiveness? • what is the relationship between administrative burdens, supply chain transparency and competitiveness? In addition to the theoretical framework presented earlier in Bremmers et al., 2008, this paper contains the first results of a survey in the European dairy industry. They are combined with the proceeds from a literature search. The results show that (Q1) especially product innovation is negatively impacted by administrative burdens. Food safety and quality systems (Q2) serve to provide a level playing field in Europe. They would be installed also if no legal requirements would enforce them, because clients ask for it, so that administrative burdens could easily be attributed to business strategy rather than legal obligations. To reduce administrative burdens, we advice to integrate food safety and quality requirements is necessary. It would reduce monitoring and reporting costs, both for private as well as public parties. Food labeling (Q3) (a ‘made in Europe’ origin marking) could work contraproductive with respect to the competitive position of dairy firms and will have an increase of administrative burdens as a net-effect. And last but not least (Q4), increased chain transparency (mentioning the name of intermediary producers on the end-product package) will accelerate administrative burdens, but will only be beneficial for SMEs with a differentiated product. Commodity-producers in the dairy industry which only follow a cost strategy will gradually merge and/or disappear.
Integrable models for asymmetric Fermi superfluids: Emergence of a new exotic pairing phase
Creators: name: Dukelsky, J.
name: Ortiz, G.
name: Rombouts, S. M. A.
name: Van Houcke, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce an exactly-solvable model to study the competition between the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell (LOFF) and breached-pair superfluid in strongly interacting ultracold asymmetric Fermi gases. One can thus investigate homogeneous and inhomogeneous states on an equal footing and establish the quantum phase diagram. For certain values of the filling and the interaction strength, the model exhibits a new stable exotic pairing phase which combines an inhomogeneous state with an interior gap to pair-excitations. It is proven that this phase is the exact ground state in the strong coupling limit, while numerical examples demonstrate that also at finite interaction strength it can have lower energy than the breached-pair or LOFF states.
description: Revised version accepted for publication
Pteropodidae Gray 1821
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Richards, Leigh
name: Denys, Christiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Pteropodidae

description: Pteropodidae
A total of 11 species of pteropodids have been recorded from Mt Nimba.
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, pp. 359-375 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2) on page 363, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3942481
Low-temperature conductivity of quasi-one-dimensional conductors: Luttinger liquid stabilized by impurities
Creators: name: Artemenko, S. N.
name: Remizov, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new non-Fermi-liquid state of quasi-one-dimensional conductors is suggested in which electronic system exists in a form of collection of bounded Luttinger liquids stabilized by impurities. This state is shown to be stable towards interchain electron hopping at low temperatures. Electronic spectrum of the system contains zero modes and collective excitations of the bounded Luttinger liquids in the segments between impurities. Zero modes give rise to randomly distributed localized electronic levels, and long-range interaction generates the Coulomb gap in the density of states at the Fermi energy. Mechanism of conductivity at low temperatures is phonon-assisted hopping via zero-mode states. At higher voltages the excitations of Luttinger liquid are involved in electron transport, and conductivity obeys power-law dependence on voltage. The results provide a qualitative explanation for recent experimental data for NbSe3 and TaS3 crystals.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
On the relation between mini-halos and AGN feedback in clusters of galaxies
Creators: name: Richard-Laferrière, A.
name: Hlavacek-Larrondo, J.
name: Nemmen, R. S.
name: Rhea, C. L.
name: Taylor, G. B.
name: Prasow-Émond, M.
name: Gendron-Marsolais, M.
name: Latulippe, M.
name: Edge, A. C.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Sanders, J. S.
name: Hogan, M. T.
name: Demontigny, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A variety of large-scale diffuse radio structures have been identified in many clusters with the advent of new state-of-the-art facilities in radio astronomy. Among these diffuse radio structures, radio mini-halos are found in the central regions of cool core clusters. Their origin is still unknown and they are challenging to discover; less than thirty have been published to date. Based on new VLA observations, we confirmed the mini-halo in the massive strong cool core cluster PKS 0745$-$191 ($z=0.1028$) and discovered one in the massive cool core cluster MACS J1447.4+0827 ($z=0.3755$). Furthermore, using a detailed analysis of all known mini-halos, we explore the relation between mini-halos and AGN feedback processes from the central galaxy. We find evidence of strong, previously unknown correlations between mini-halo radio power and X-ray cavity power, and between mini-halo and the central galaxy radio power related to the relativistic jets when spectrally decomposing the AGN radio emission into a component for past outbursts and one for on-going accretion. Overall, our study indicates that mini-halos are directly connected to the central AGN in clusters, following previous suppositions. We hypothesize that AGN feedback may be one of the dominant mechanisms giving rise to mini-halos by injecting energy into the intra-cluster medium and reaccelerating an old population of particles, while sloshing motion may drive the overall shape of mini-halos inside cold fronts. AGN feedback may therefore not only play a vital role in offsetting cooling in cool core clusters, but may also play a fundamental role in re-energizing non-thermal particles in clusters.
description: 26 pages, 9 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Market Driven Entrepreneurship: The Convergence of Market Orientation and the Resource Based View
Creators: name: Micheels, Eric T.
name: Gow, Hamish R.
name: Micheels, Eric T.
name: Gow, Hamish R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Market Orientation
subject: Resource Based View
subject: Production Agriculture

description: The dramatically changing marketing structure for agricultural products is forcing agricultural producers to become more entrepreneurial, but what does this mean? How do agricultural producers produce sustainable competitive advantage within a commodity market characterised by homogeneous producers? The convergence of two academic literatures - Market orientation from market strategy and Resource Based View from strategic management – provide a number of insights. In this paper we lay the foundation for research into the market orientation–performance link in terms of production agriculture. Building on the previous market orientation literature, we examine its ability to create a sustainable competitive advantage using a resource based view (RBV). Focusing primarily on the U.S. beef industry, we examine these two distinct literatures in tandem and show that the concept of a market orientation meets all the necessary conditions laid out in the RBV literature to create a sustainable competitive advantage, even in a commodity marketplace such as agriculture. This convergence between these two literatures has important implications and direction for future research as we attempt to analyze and evaluate the heterogeneous responses of firm the new global agri-food business environment.
Hume, Robert Ernest: The world's living religious
Creators: name: Steffes, Johann Peter
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (1928): Oriens christianus, Band 25/26, Heft 1
GIANT: Scalable Creation of a Web-scale Ontology
Creators: name: Liu, Bang
name: Guo, Weidong
name: Niu, Di
name: Luo, Jinwen
name: Wang, Chaoyue
name: Wen, Zhen
name: Xu, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding what online users may pay attention to is key to content recommendation and search services. These services will benefit from a highly structured and web-scale ontology of entities, concepts, events, topics and categories. While existing knowledge bases and taxonomies embody a large volume of entities and categories, we argue that they fail to discover properly grained concepts, events and topics in the language style of online population. Neither is a logically structured ontology maintained among these notions. In this paper, we present GIANT, a mechanism to construct a user-centered, web-scale, structured ontology, containing a large number of natural language phrases conforming to user attentions at various granularities, mined from a vast volume of web documents and search click graphs. Various types of edges are also constructed to maintain a hierarchy in the ontology. We present our graph-neural-network-based techniques used in GIANT, and evaluate the proposed methods as compared to a variety of baselines. GIANT has produced the Attention Ontology, which has been deployed in various Tencent applications involving over a billion users. Online A/B testing performed on Tencent QQ Browser shows that Attention Ontology can significantly improve click-through rates in news recommendation.
description: Accepted as full paper by SIGMOD 2020
Dark Energy, Extra Dimensions, and the Swampland
Creators: name: Montefalcone, Gabriele
name: Steinhardt, Paul J.
name: Wesley, Daniel H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perhaps the greatest challenge for fundamental theories based on compactification from extra dimensions is accommodating a period of accelerated cosmological expansion. Previous studies have identified constraints imposed by the existence of dark energy for two overlapping classes of compactified theories: (1) those in which the higher dimensional picture satisfies certain metric properties selected to reproduce known low energy phenomenology; or (2) those derived from string theory assuming they satisfy the Swampland conjectures. For either class, the analyses showed that dark energy is only possible if it takes the form of quintessence. In this paper, we explore the consequences for theories that belong to both classes and show that the joint constraints are highly restrictive, leaving few options.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Blogpost: Sonora
Creators: name: Guarneros-Meza, Valeria
Publisher: name: De Montfort University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160605 Environmental Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160805 Social Change
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The blogpost examines the experience of non-indigenous communities in an area of vast copper deposits in Mexico, as they attempt to regulate the behaviour of a huge company and the centralizing instincts of national government.
Measuring productivity differentials – An application to milk production in Nordic countries
Creators: name: Sipilainen, Timo
name: Kuosmanen, Timo
name: Kumbhakar, Subal C.
name: Sipilainen, Timo
name: Kuosmanen, Timo
name: Kumbhakar, Subal C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: productivity
subject: technical efficiency
subject: meta-frontier

description: The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional productivity differentials on dairy farms in Denmark, Finland and Sweden. Several methods have been suggested for analysing productivity differentials in agriculture between groups of farms or countries. Hayami [5] and Hayami and Ruttan [7] suggested the meta-production function approach. This idea has been further developed by Lau and Yotopoulos [9] and Fulginity and Perrin [13]. Battese and Rao [2] suggested the meta-frontier analysis for these comparisons. One of the advantages of meta-frontiers with respect to metaproduction functions is that they are able to separate technological differences from the differences in technical efficiency. Battese et al. [5] and O’Donnell et al. [16] have extended this idea and developed both parametric and nonparametric approaches. In this paper, we extend the metafrontier analysis to the concave nonparametric least squares estimation of the production function suggested by Kuosmanen [18,19]. In addition, we compare the results with the approach where the estimation of meta-frontier can be avoided. The reference can also be the maximum output providing technology that is the one that yields the maximum estimated output, given inputs [21]. In this case the estimation can be based either on average or frontier production functions. The farm level data is obtained from the EU’s Farm Accountancy Data Network data set for Denmark, Finland and Sweden. They cover 954 dairy farms in 2003. The results suggest that different method provide slightly different results but in all approaches productivity differentials are considerable in favour of Danish farms. In addition, the Danish technology is not only dominating at the mean but also at most of the data points.
Migration of Small Bodies and Dust to Near-Earth Space
Creators: name: Ipatov, S. I.
name: Mather, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The orbital evolution of Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), resonant asteroids, and asteroidal, trans-Neptunian, and cometary dust particles under the gravitational influence of planets was integrated. For dust particles we also considered radiation pressure, Poynting-Robertson drag, and solar wind drag. The probability of a collision of one former JFC with a terrestrial planet can be greater than analogous total probability for thousands other JFCs. If those former JFCs that got near-Earth object (NEO) orbits for millions of years didn't disintegrate during this time, there could be many extinct comets among NEOs. The maximum probability of a collision of an asteroidal or cometary dust particle with the Earth during its lifetime was for diameter $d$$\sim$100 microns. At $d$$
description: Submitted to Advances in Space Research (Proceedings of COSPAR-2004)
Technology Diffusion, Abatement Cost, and Transboundary Pollution
Creators: name: Heal, Geoffrey
name: Tarui, Nori
name: Heal, Geoffrey
name: Tarui, Nori
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: International Environmental Agreement
subject: Pollution Abatement Costs
subject: Endogenous Technological Change

description: This paper studies countries’ incentives to develop advanced pollution abatement technology when technology may spillover across countries and pollution abatement is a global public good. We are motivated in part by the problem of global warming: a solution to this involves providing a global public good, and will surely require the development and implementation of new technologies. We show that at the Nash equilibrium of a simultaneous-move game with R&D investment and emission abatement, whether the free rider effect prevails and under-investment and excess emissions occur depends on the degree of technology spillovers and the effect of R&D on the marginal abatement costs. There are cases in which, contrary to conventional wisdom, Nash equilibrium investments in emissions reductions exceed the first-best case.
Urban Design Elements with a Case Study at Bandar Sungai Petani of Kedah
Creators: name: Aida Amalina Abd Rahim, Mohamad Azil Muzammil Baharudin
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Colonial architecture
City development
Mental mapping
Commercial area
Government office
Colonial urban element
Architecture identity.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12, 3, 12A3B: 1-13
RESEARCH OF RELIGIOUS VALUES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING
Creators: name: Kholmatova, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The scientific-philosophical definition of value always changes and deepens in its essence and content in connection with the spiritual-intellectual potential of the era, the current level of scientific research. Value also refers to the objective existence of events and events that are significant for an individual, group, and society. In the gradual improvement of social development, only the values tested in historical experience become universal content.
Enforcement and Environmental Quality in a Decentralized Emission Trading System
Creators: name: D'Amato, Alessio
name: Valentini, Edilio
name: D'Amato, Alessio
name: Valentini, Edilio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Emissions Trading
subject: Environmental Federalism
subject: Enforcement
subject: Monitoring Cost

description: This paper addresses the issue of whether the powers of monitoring compliance and allocating tradeable emissions allowances within a federation of countries should be appointed to a unique federal regulator or decentralized to several local regulators. To this end, we develop a two stage game played by environmental regulator(s) and the polluting industries of two countries. Regulator(s) choose the amount of emission allowances to be issued and set the level of monitoring effort to achieve full compliance, while regulated firms choose actual emissions and the number of permits to be held. We identify various, possibly conflicting, spillovers among states in a decentralized setting. We show that cost advantage in favor of local regulators is not sufficient to justify decentralization. Nevertheless, cost differential in monitoring violations can imply lower emissions and greater welfare under a decentralized institutional setting than under a centralized one. However, while a better environmental quality under decentralization is a sufficient condition for higher welfare under the same regime, it is not also a necessary condition.
Computational Complexity in Additive Hedonic Games
Creators: name: Sung, Shao Chin
name: Dimitrov, Dinko
name: Sung, Shao Chin
name: Dimitrov, Dinko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Additive Preferences
subject: Coalition Formation
subject: Computational Complexity
subject: Hedonic Games
subject: NP-hard
subject: NP-complete

description: We investigate the computational complexity of several decision problems in hedonic coalition formation games and demonstrate that attaining stability in such games remains NP-hard even when they are additive. Precisely, we prove that when either core stability or strict core stability is under consideration, the existence problem of a stable coalition structure is NP-hard in the strong sense. Furthermore, the corresponding decision problems with respect to the existence of a Nash stable coalition structure and of an individually stable coalition structure turn out to be NP-complete in the strong sense.
Developments and improvements of radiopure ZnWO$_{4}$ anisotropic scintillators
Creators: name: Belli, P.
name: Bernabei, R.
name: Cappella, F.
name: Caracciolo, V.
name: Cerulli, R.
name: Cherubini, N.
name: Danevich, F. A.
name: Incicchitti, A.
name: Kasperovych, D. V.
name: Merlo, V.
name: Piccinelli, E.
name: Polischuk, O. G.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ZnWO$_4$ is an anisotropic crystal scintillator; for its peculiar characteristics, it is a very promising detector to exploit the so-called directionality approach in the investigation of those Dark Matter (DM) candidates inducing nuclear recoils. Recently, in the framework of the ADAMO project, an R\&D to develop high quality and ultra-radiopure ZnWO$_4$ crystal scintillators has been carried out. In the present paper the measurements to study the anisotropic response of a ZnWO$_4$ to $α$ particles and to nuclear recoils induced by neutron scattering are reported. Monochromatic neutrons have been produced by a neutron generator at ENEA-CASACCIA. The quenching factor values for nuclear recoils along different crystallographic axes have been determined for three different nuclear recoils energies. These results open the possibility to realize a pioneer experiment to investigate the above mentioned DM candidates by means of the directionality.
description: Proceedings of the IPRD 2019 Conference, 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in JINST
The Relationship Between Environmental Efficiency and Manufacturing Firm’s Growth
Creators: name: Cainelli, Giulio
name: Mazzanti, Massimiliano
name: Zoboli, Roberto
name: Cainelli, Giulio
name: Mazzanti, Massimiliano
name: Zoboli, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Firm growth
subject: Manufacturing
subject: Emission intensity
subject: Economic performance
subject: Environmental performance

description: This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2, NOx, SOx data over 1990-1999. The paper tests the extent to which (past) environmental efficiency/intensity, which is driven by structural features and firm strategic actions, including responses to policies, influences firms growth. Our results show, first, a typical trade off generally appearing for the three core environmental emissions we analyse: lower environmentally efficiency in the recent past allows higher degrees of freedom to firms and relax the constraints for growth, at least in this short/medium term scenario. Nevertheless, the size of the estimated coefficients is not large. Trade off are significant for two emission indicators out of two, but quite negligible in terms of impacts, besides the case of CO2. For example, growth is reduced by far less than 0.1% in association to a 1% increase of environmental efficiency. Environmental efficiency does not seem a primary cost factor and constraint to growth if compared to other factors affecting firm targets and firm competitiveness. In addition, non-linearity seems to characterise the economic growth-environmental performance relationship. Signals of inverted U shape appears: this may be a signal that both firm strategies and recent policy efforts are affecting the dynamic relationship between environmental efficiency and economic productivity, turning it from an usual trade off to a possible joint complementary/co-dynamics, where bad environmental performances hamper firm growth and investments in greener technologies may be associated to positive economic performances of firms and sectors.
The Fundamental Groups of Open Manifolds with Nonnegative Ricci Curvature
Creators: name: Pan, Jiayin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We survey the results on fundamental groups of open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. We also present some open questions on this topic.
Booklet: participation and extractive sector in Mexico
Creators: name: Zaremberg, Gisela
name: Guarneros-Meza, Valeria
name: Gallardo, Lourdes
name: Ortuño, Ivonne
Publisher: name: De Montfort University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160605 Environmental Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160510 Public Policy

description: The report presents a summary of the existing participative institutions, their limitations and challenges in the implementation of the extractive regulation in Mexico. The findings underline the lack of coordination between different tiers of government and their agencies and the historical problems that have characterised weak participation in Mexico.
Spinning particle, rotating black hole and twistor-string
Creators: name: Burinskii, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structure of spinning particle based on the rotating black hole solution is considered. It has gyromagnetic ratio $g=2$ and a nontrivial twistorial and stringy systems. The mass and spin appear from excitations of the Kerr circular string, while the Dirac equation describes excitations of an {\it axial} stringy system which is responsible for scattering. Complex Kerr geometry contains an open twistor-string, target space of which is equivalent to the Witten's `diagonal' of the $ CP^3\times CP^{*3}$.
description: 5 p. Talk at the SPIN 2004 Symposium (ICTP Trieste, October 2004)
Neue Zeitschriften
Creators: name: Graf, G.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 25 Nr. 1 (1928): Oriens christianus, Band 25/26, Heft 1
Effects of prenatal ethanol exposure in rats on multiple endpoints of central serotonergic function
Creators: name: Hofmann, Candace Erica
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy produces a wide range of abnormalities in the offspring. The main objective of this thesis was to examine long-term functional changes in central 5-HT receptor function of female and male rats prenatally exposed to ethanol. Serotonin receptor function was assessed through pharmacological challenge with the 5-HT[sub 1A] and 5-HT[sub 2A] receptor agonists 8-hydroxy-2-(di-npropylamino) tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) and (±)-1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane hydrochloride (DOI), respectively. Adult offspring of Sprague-Dawley rats from prenatal ethanol-fed (E), pair-fed (PF) and ad libitum-fed (C) dams were examined. The first study (Chapter III) investigated 8-OH-DPAT-induced hypothermia and DOI-induced Wet Dog Shakes (WDS). Both E females and males showed a greater hypothermic response to 8-OH-DPAT than PF and C animals. In addition, E females and males also showed less of a differential response to a low and high dose of 8-OH-DPAT than PF and C animals. In response to DOI, E females but not males, showed a significantly greater rate of WDS than PF and C females. The second study (Chapter IV) examined expression of anxiety-like behaviour and the anxiolytic response to 8-OH-DPAT in the novelty-induced suppression of feeding task. There was a marked drop in the number of E animals feeding in the novel environment compared to PF and C animals. The observed increase in anxiety-like behaviour in E females was ameliorated by 8-OH-DPAT, suggesting that expression of anxiety-like behaviour in this task is partially mediated by the 5-HT[sub 1A] receptor. The third study (Chapter V) examined 8-OH-DPAT- and DOI-induced increases in plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and corticosterone. Corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) mRNA and 5-HT[sub 1A] and 5-HT[sub 2A] receptor mRNA expression was also measured. E females had an attenuated ACTH response to 8-OH-DPAT, but a potentiated ACTH response to DOI, in comparison to PF and C females. Furthermore, 8-OH-DPAT increased 5-HT[sub 1A] mRNA expression in the hippocampus in E females compared to PF and C females. E males also showed increased CRH mRNA levels in response to DOI. These data indicate that prenatal ethanol exposure results in long-term effects on 5- HT[sub 1A] and 5-HT[sub 2A] receptor-mediated behavioural and physiological function in adult animals and that some of these effects may be sex specific.
Does elasticity stabilise a magnetic neutron star?
Creators: name: Bera, Prasanta
name: Jones, D. I.
name: Andersson, Nils
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The configuration of the magnetic field in the interior of a neutron star is mostly unknown from observations. Theoretical models of the interior magnetic field geometry tend to be oversimplified to avoid mathematical complexity and tend to be based on axisymmetric barotropic fluid systems. These static magnetic equilibrium configurations have been shown to be unstable on a short time scale against an infinitesimal perturbation. Given this instability, it is relevant to consider how more realistic neutron star physics affects the outcome. In particular, it makes sense to ask if elasticity, which provides an additional restoring force on the perturbations, may stabilise the system. It is well-known that the matter in the neutron star crust forms an ionic crystal. The interactions between the crystallized nuclei can generate shear stress against any applied strain. To incorporate the effect of the crust on the dynamical evolution of the perturbed equilibrium structure, we study the effect of elasticity on the instability of an axisymmetric magnetic star. In particular we determine the critical shear modulus required to prevent magnetic instability and consider the corresponding astrophysical consequences.
description: 12 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Stochastic Loewner evolution for conformal field theories with Lie-group symmetries
Creators: name: Bettelheim, E.
name: Gruzberg, I. A.
name: Ludwig, A. W. W.
name: Wiegmann, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Stochastic Loewner evolution is a recent tool in the study of two-dimensional critical systems. We extend this approach to the case of critical systems with continuous symmetries, such as SU(2) Wess-Zumino-Witten models, where domain walls carry an additional spin 1/2 degree of freedom. We show that the stochastic evolution results in the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equation for correlation functions.
Hipposideridae Lydekker 1891
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Richards, Leigh
name: Denys, Christiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Hipposideridae

description: Hipposideridae
 A total of eight species of hipposiderids have been recorded from Mt Nimba (Monadjem et al., 2013 b).
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, pp. 359-375 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2) on page 365, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3942481
Assessing the Consequences of Natural Disasters on Production Networks: A Disaggregated Approach
Creators: name: Henriet, Fanny
name: Hallegatte, Stephane
name: Henriet, Fanny
name: Hallegatte, Stephane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Natural disasters
subject: Economic impacts
subject: Economic Network

description: This article proposes a framework to investigate the consequences of natural disasters. This framework is based on the disaggregation of Input-Output tables at the business level, through the representation of the regional economy as a network of production units. This framework accounts for (i) limits in business production capacity; (ii) forward propagations through input shortages; and (iii) backward propagations through decreases in demand. Adaptive behaviors are included, with the possibility for businesses to replace failed suppliers, entailing changes in the network structure. This framework suggests that disaster costs depend on the heterogeneity of losses and on the structure of the affected economic network. The model reproduces economic collapse, suggesting that it may help understand the difference between limited-consequence disasters and disasters leading to systemic failure.
Classification of standard modules with linear periods
Creators: name: Suzuki, Miyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Suppose that $F$ is a non-Archimedean local field and $D$ is a central division algebra over $F$. Let $n$ be a positive integer. We show a classification modulo essentially square-integrable representations of standard modules of $\mathrm{GL}_n(D)$ which have non-zero linear periods. By this classification, the conjecture of Prasad and Takloo-Bighash is reduced to the case of essentially square integrable representations.
description: to appear in J. Number Theory
A concise guide to complex Hadamard matrices
Creators: name: Tadej, Wojciech
name: Zyczkowski, Karol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Complex Hadamard matrices, consisting of unimodular entries with arbitrary phases, play an important role in the theory of quantum information. We review basic properties of complex Hadamard matrices and present a catalogue of inequivalent cases known for dimension N=2,...,16. In particular, we explicitly write down some families of complex Hadamard matrices for N=12,14 and 16, which we could not find in the existing literature.
description: 56 pages, no figures, an updated on line version at http://chaos.if.uj.edu.pl/~karol/hadamard/
Theory testing (hypothesis testing) in agricultural economics
Creators: name: Meszaros, Sandor
name: Meszaros, Sandor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: theory testing
subject: hypotheses testing
subject: economics
subject: agricultural economics
subject: production-theory

description: According to Karl Popper, economics and agricultural economics should be deemed scientific if the theories (hypotheses) are subject to strict tests. The testing of agro-economic theories goes back 50 years in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan, and these methods are becoming increasingly part of educational research methodology. In fact, the author of this paper teaches this very subject at Debrecen University, and for this reason has endeavoured to provide an overview on current trends in this field. The present overview first discusses the role of testing in the research process (cognition), and then analyses the various classification methods (types) of testing. It deals in detail with the application of the (microeconomic) production-theory in agriculture and discusses the potential and limits for measuring scientific progress in this field. Finally it draws conclusions regarding future trends.
An Objectives-Driven Process for Selecting Methods to Support Requirements Engineering Activities
Creators: name: Lobo, Lester
name: Arthur, James D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.1; D.2.9

description: This paper presents a framework that guides the requirements engineer in the implementation and execution of an effective requirements generation process. We achieve this goal by providing a well-defined requirements engineering model and a criteria based process for optimizing method selection for attendant activities. Our model, unlike other models, addresses the complete requirements generation process and consists of activities defined at more adequate levels of abstraction. Additionally, activity objectives are identified and explicitly stated - not implied as in the current models. Activity objectives are crucial as they drive the selection of methods for each activity. Our model also incorporates a unique approach to verification and validation that enhances quality and reduces the cost of generating requirements. To assist in the selection of methods, we have mapped commonly used methods to activities based on their objectives. In addition, we have identified method selection criteria and prescribed a reduced set of methods that optimize these criteria for each activity defined by our requirements generation process. Thus, the defined approach assists in the task of selecting methods by using selection criteria to reduce a large collection of potential methods to a smaller, manageable set. The model and the set of methods, taken together, provide the much needed guidance for the effective implementation and execution of the requirements generation process.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, publisheed: 29th Annual IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, April 2005
Hope and reality: EU accession’s impact on Hungarian agri-food trade
Creators: name: Kiss, Judit
name: Kiss, Judit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: EU accession
subject: Hungarian agricultural trade
subject: trade balance
subject: commodity structure
subject: geographical structure

description: The principal aim of this article is to examine how Hungary’s agricultural trade has changed since EU accession and whether the country has managed to retain its position as a net exporter. After analysing the Eurostat database’s latest statistical data we concluded that Hungary’s agri-food trade position has deteriorated regarding both old and new EU member states. The central causes for this are not so much insufficient exports but rather a sharp rise in imports. Future prospects hinge on further EU enlargement, changes in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, the outcome of the WTO Doha Round, and trends in world agriculture. To adapt to expected changes and to capitalise on emerging opportunities, Hungary should alter its agricultural export commodity structure in order to increase its competitiveness and diversify its geographical structure.
Study of K- -> pi0 e nu gamma decay with ISTRA+ setup
Creators: name: Bolotov, V. N.
name: Guschin, E. N.
name: Duk, V. A.
name: Laptev, S. V.
name: Lebedev, V. A.
name: Mazurov, A. E.
name: Polyarush, A. Yu.
name: Postoev, V. E.
name: Akimenko, S. A.
name: Britvich, G. I.
name: Datsko, K. V.
name: Filin, A. P.
name: Inyakin, A. V.
name: Konstantinov, V. F.
name: Konstantinov, A. S.
name: Korolkov, I. Y.
name: Khmelnikov, V. A.
name: Leontiev, V. M.
name: Novikov, V. P.
name: Obraztsov, V. F.
name: Polyakov, V. A.
name: Romanovsky, V. I.
name: Shelikhov, V. I.
name: Tchikilev, O. G.
name: Uvarov, V. A.
name: Yushchenko, O. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of study of the radiative kaon decay K-->pi0 e nu gamma at ISTRA+ setup are presented. 4476 events of this decay have been observed. The branching ratio is measured.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
МАВЗОЛЕЙ АЛИ ШЕКЕРНАБ ИМАМЗАДЕ В КАЗВИН
Creators: name: Kheiri, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 120102 Architectural Heritage and Conservation
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120105 Architecture Management
subject: 220403 Islamic Studies
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220405 Religion and Society
subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: Economics

description: The architectural feature of the building of the medieval Islamic East wherein numerous pantheons and mausoleums. Their purpose was that only about worshipping the holy people buried here, but also in the implementation of a series of rites and rituals. One of these is the Mausoleum Mausoleums Imamzadeh Shiites in Iran.
Архитектурная особенность строительства средневекового исламского Востока, где в многочисленных пантеонах и мавзолеях. Их цель заключалась в том, чтобы поклоняться только святым людям, похороненным здесь, а также в проведении ряда обрядов и ритуалов. Одним из них является Мавзолей мавзолеев-имамзаде шиитов в Иране.
The Massive Klein-Gordon Field Coupled to a Harmonic Oscillator at the Boundary
Creators: name: George, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the massive Klein-Gordon field on the half line with and without a Robin boundary potential.The field is coupled at the boundary to a harmonic oscillator.We solve the system classically and observe the existence of classical boundary bound states in some regions of the parameter space. The system is then quantized, the quantum reflection matrix and reflection cross section are calculated. Resonances and Ramsauer-Townsend effects are observed in the cross section. The pole structure of the reflection matrix is discussed.
description: V1:24 pages, 12 figures, V2:1 reference added, V3: Shortened to 21 pages by reducing section 2 to subsection of section 3, minor alterations and referance added
Rhinolophidae Gray 1825
Creators: name: Monadjem, Ara
name: Richards, Leigh
name: Denys, Christiane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae

description: Rhinolophidae
Four species of rhinolophids have been recorded from Mt Nimba.
description: Published as part of Monadjem, Ara, Richards, Leigh & Denys, Christiane, 2016, An African bat hotspot: the exceptional importance of Mount Nimba for bat diversity, pp. 359-375 in Acta Chiropterologica 18 (2) on page 366, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2016.18.2.005, http://zenodo.org/record/3942481
Psi'' decays to charmless final states
Creators: name: Rosner, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The importance of measuring the non-$D \bar D$ decays of the $ψ'' = ψ(3770)$ resonance is discussed. These decays can shed light on a possible discrepancy between the total and $D \bar D$ cross sections at the $ψ''$, and on a proposed mechanism for enhancement of penguin amplitudes in $B$ meson decays through charm--anticharm annihilation. Measurements (including the $ψ''$ line shape) in states of definite G-parity and in inclusive charmless final states such as $η' + X$ are found to be particularly important.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures. To be published in Annals of Physics. Table 1 and references updated