cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantum Attacks without Superposition Queries: the Offline Simon's Algorithm
Creators: name: Bonnetain, Xavier
name: Hosoyamada, Akinori
name: Naya-Plasencia, María
name: Sasaki, Yu
name: Schrottenloher, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In symmetric cryptanalysis, the model of superposition queries has led to surprising results, with many constructions being broken in polynomial time thanks to Simon's period-finding algorithm. But the practical implications of these attacks remain blurry. In contrast, the results obtained so far for a quantum adversary making classical queries only are less impressive. In this paper, we introduce a new quantum algorithm which uses Simon's subroutines in a novel way. We manage to leverage the algebraic structure of cryptosystems in the context of a quantum attacker limited to classical queries and offline quantum computations. We obtain improved quantum-time/classical-data tradeoffs with respect to the current literature, while using only as much hardware requirements (quantum and classical) as a standard exhaustive search with Grover's algorithm. In particular, we are able to break the Even-Mansour construction in quantum time $\tilde{O}(2^{n/3})$, with $O(2^{n/3})$ classical queries and $O(n^2)$ qubits only. In addition, we improve some previous superposition attacks by reducing the data complexity from exponential to polynomial, with the same time complexity. Our approach can be seen in two complementary ways: \emph{reusing} superposition queries during the iteration of a search using Grover's algorithm, or alternatively, removing the memory requirement in some quantum attacks based on a collision search, thanks to their algebraic structure. We provide a list of cryptographic applications, including the Even-Mansour construction, the FX construction, some Sponge authenticated modes of encryption, and many more.
description: ASIACRYPT 2019
An archeology of domination: Historicizing gender and class in early Western state formation
Creators: name: Peterson, V. Spike
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study provides a theoretical framework for and historical discussion of the construction, legitimation, and institutionalization of domination relations in early Western state formation (paleolithic era to classical Athens). Processes of social differentiation are examined within three societal configurations--Communal/Egalitarian, Kin Corporate/Lineage, and Archaic/Civil State. Societal transformations are shown to result from systemic and processual interactions among ecological, cultural, and technological variables--particularly the politics of sexuality, kinship, and citizenship; militarism; trade/exchange relationships; and cosmological/ideological transformations. Examination of transformations in meaning systems--expressed in cosmologies--is especially crucial for understanding state formation and domination relations because (1) a reorientation of meaning systems invariably accompanies--in order to legitimate--specialization of activities and differentiation of wealth, and (2) the invention of writing accompanies state formation, with significant implications for the power of justificatory ideologies. To facilitate comparisons of meaning systems, three "core-relations" presumed to order the assumptions embedded in cosmologies are developed (intra-subjective, subjective-objective, and inter-subjective). The study describes state formation in the Near Eastern empires and in the Athenian polis, with attention to cosmological alterations legitimating the institution of sexual and socioeconomic hierarchy. Because classical Athenian texts "fixed" the Western tradition's notions of the state and definition of "politics," a fuller understanding of Athenian state formation is critical for contemporary political and social inquiry. In particular, the public-private dichotomy delineated in those texts justified (and thereby also mystified) the fundamentally--but not exclusively--patriarchal foundations of the polis, and by implication, subsequent Western states; failure to acknowledge the patriarchal foundations of the state impairs our understanding of the state, "politics," and domination relations. Further, institutionalization of the dichotomy established not only the politically oppressive division of public and private, but also other dichotomies as naturalized ordering principles. Specifically, the "core-relations" that characterize the Western tradition are hierarchical dichotomies (creativity over procreativity, culture over nature, and autonomy over mutuality) that sustain the dynamics of domination implicit in androcentrism, essentialism, instrumentalism, and elitism. Significantly, these dichotomies are mystified by their embeddedness in the public-private dichotomy still legitimized by the liberal state.
Focusing of Parametric X-ray Radiation from a Bent Crystal
Creators: name: Shchagin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An idea of producing a focused parametric X-ray radiation (PXR) is presented. The PXR is emitted by relativistic charged particles channeling along a bent crystal. Then the PXR emitted from the whole length of the bent crystal is going to the focus. Some properties of focused PXR are estimated for typical experimental conditions and possible applications are discussed. The experiment for observation of focused PXR is proposed.
description: 8 pages, including 1 figure
Spin Liquid State in an Organic Mott Insulator with Triangular Lattice
Creators: name: Shimizu, Y.
name: Miyagawa, K.
name: Kanoda, K.
name: Maesato, M.
name: Saito, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: $^{1}$H NMR and static susceptibility measurements have been performed in an organic Mott insulator with nearly isotropic triangular lattice, $κ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_{2}$Cu$_{2}$(CN)$_{3}$, which is a model system of frustrated quantum spins. The static susceptibility is described by the spin $S$ = 1/2 antiferromagnetic triangular-lattice Heisenberg model with the exchange constant $J$ $\sim$ 250 K. Regardless of the large magnetic interactions, the $^{1}$H NMR spectra show no indication of long-range magnetic ordering down to 32 mK, which is four-orders of magnitude smaller than $J$. These results suggest that a quantum spin liquid state is realized in the close proximity of the superconducting state appearing under pressure.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Theoretical Background and Empirical Supply Estimates of the U.S. Livestock Sector
Creators: name: Subotnik, Abraham
name: Subotnik, Abraham
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Note: This paper was prepared for limited distribution to the research community outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of ERS or USDA.
Additional file 2 of A pipeline for targeted metagenomics of environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Grieb, Anissa
name: Bowers, Robert M.
name: Monike Oggerin
name: Goudeau, Danielle
name: Lee, Janey
name: Malmstrom, Rex R.
name: Woyke, Tanja
name: Fuchs, Bernhard M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. The background fluorescence in the green channel of flow cytometric measurements was set to 10 RU (blue line), based on comparisons betwen EUB-338 and Non-338 probes hybridized to 1% formaldehyde fixed Gramella forsetii (A, B) and Micrococcus sp. (C, D) samples. The Non-338 control of Gramella forsetii (A) was not stained with DAPI, the Non-338 control of Micrococcus sp. (C) was stained with DAPI. Green fluorescence was detected with a 530/40 nm filter, blue fluorescence with a 460/50 nm filter. 5000 events were recorded for Gramella forsetii (A, B) and 2000 for Micrococcus sp. (C, D).
The Economics of Mining Soil Fertility: A Dynamic Modeling Approach
Creators: name: Jomini, Patrick A.
name: Lowenberg-DeBoer, J.
name: Jomini, Patrick A.
name: Lowenberg-DeBoer, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: Conditions are identified under which soil fertility depletion may be a desirable management practice. Dynamic programming is used to · evaluate strategies based on extension recom~endations. Fertility mining is advisable when input prices are expected to fall, capital is constraining or output prices or tax rates are expected to rise.
Catalyst segmentation methods of microchannel reactors for hydrogen production
Creators: name: Chen, Junjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Chemical engineers are employed in the design and development of both processes and plant items. In each case, data and predictions often have to be obtained or confirmed with pilot experiments. Plant operation and control is increasingly the sphere of the chemical engineer rather than the chemist. Chemical engineering provides an ideal background for the economic evaluation of new projects and, in the plant construction sector, for marketing. Contributor: Junjie Chen, ORCID: 0000-0001-5055-4309, E-mail address: komcjj@gmail.com, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, 2000 Century Avenue, Jiaozuo, Henan, 454000, P.R. China
Additional file 3 of A pipeline for targeted metagenomics of environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Grieb, Anissa
name: Bowers, Robert M.
name: Monike Oggerin
name: Goudeau, Danielle
name: Lee, Janey
name: Malmstrom, Rex R.
name: Woyke, Tanja
name: Fuchs, Bernhard M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. Four pure cultures (Gramella forsetii, Maribacter forsetii, Escherichia coli, Micrococcus sp.) were fixed with 10 different fixation methods (formaldehyde 4%, 1%, 0.25%, 0.1%, ethanol, Lugol’s solution with and without thiosulfate, glyoxal with and without ethanol and unfixed). HCR-FISH was done on filtered cells and signal intensity was measured after washing the cells off the filter and analyzing them in the flow cytometer. Plotted are the green fluorescence (530/40 nm) from HCR-FISH and blue fluorescence (450/60 nm) from DAPI staining. The fluorescence intensity is given in relative units on a logarithmic scale. The background fluorescence (dotted line) was defined for 10 RU. N.A. = not analyzed due to disrupted cells.
An archeology of domination: Historicizing gender and class in early Western state formation
Creators: name: Peterson, V. Spike
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study provides a theoretical framework for and historical discussion of the construction, legitimation, and institutionalization of domination relations in early Western state formation (paleolithic era to classical Athens). Processes of social differentiation are examined within three societal configurations--Communal/Egalitarian, Kin Corporate/Lineage, and Archaic/Civil State. Societal transformations are shown to result from systemic and processual interactions among ecological, cultural, and technological variables--particularly the politics of sexuality, kinship, and citizenship; militarism; trade/exchange relationships; and cosmological/ideological transformations. Examination of transformations in meaning systems--expressed in cosmologies--is especially crucial for understanding state formation and domination relations because (1) a reorientation of meaning systems invariably accompanies--in order to legitimate--specialization of activities and differentiation of wealth, and (2) the invention of writing accompanies state formation, with significant implications for the power of justificatory ideologies. To facilitate comparisons of meaning systems, three "core-relations" presumed to order the assumptions embedded in cosmologies are developed (intra-subjective, subjective-objective, and inter-subjective). The study describes state formation in the Near Eastern empires and in the Athenian polis, with attention to cosmological alterations legitimating the institution of sexual and socioeconomic hierarchy. Because classical Athenian texts "fixed" the Western tradition's notions of the state and definition of "politics," a fuller understanding of Athenian state formation is critical for contemporary political and social inquiry. In particular, the public-private dichotomy delineated in those texts justified (and thereby also mystified) the fundamentally--but not exclusively--patriarchal foundations of the polis, and by implication, subsequent Western states; failure to acknowledge the patriarchal foundations of the state impairs our understanding of the state, "politics," and domination relations. Further, institutionalization of the dichotomy established not only the politically oppressive division of public and private, but also other dichotomies as naturalized ordering principles. Specifically, the "core-relations" that characterize the Western tradition are hierarchical dichotomies (creativity over procreativity, culture over nature, and autonomy over mutuality) that sustain the dynamics of domination implicit in androcentrism, essentialism, instrumentalism, and elitism. Significantly, these dichotomies are mystified by their embeddedness in the public-private dichotomy still legitimized by the liberal state.
Three-dimensional oscillator in magnetic field: the de Haas-van Alphen effect in mesoscopic systems
Creators: name: Kuzmenko, N. K.
name: Mikhajlov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theoretical investigation of the cluster de Haas - van Alphen (dHvA) oscillations in three-dimensional systems performed for the first time. Applying a three-dimensional oscillator model to systems with electron numbers $10< N \leq 10^5$ we predict distinctive size effects: the dHvA oscillations can be observed only within a certain temperature range determined by $N$; the lower size limit for $N$ is $\approx 20$; the amount of the dHvA oscillations is reduced with decreasing $N$ which is accompanied by stretching the period of the oscillations.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
The effect of grade level on the relationship between class size and academic achievement
Creators: name: Barber, Harold Eugene
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this investigation was twofold: to study the relationship between class size and academic achievement, and to examine the effect of grade level on this relationship. The sample consisted of 193 groups of students in small and large classes from grades three, six, and eight in the District of Columbia public schools. To control for pupil ability, each school in the sample had between 35 percent and 65 percent of its students scoring above the median grade equivalent consistently from 1985 to 1987. Faculty experience was controlled by requiring all teachers in the respective grades to have between four and twenty years of experience in the teaching field. Scores obtained from the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (C.T.B.S.) in Reading, Language, Math, and Science for the period 1985-1987 (combined years) were used to measure achievement. (Eighth graders were not tested in Science.) The t-test was used to test the null hypothesis of no significant difference between small and large classes in academic achievement. Analysis of Variance tests were conducted to determine whether the relationship between class size and academic achievement was affected by grade level. The results showed statistically significant differences in favor of small classes in grades three and six. The differences at the third grade seemed greater than those at the sixth grade. At the eighth grade level, the analysis found a statistically significant difference only in Language. In general, the hypothesis stating that there is an inverse relationship between class size and academic achievement seems to be supported by the results. With regard to the interaction effects of grade level and class size, the analysis found a statistically significant difference only in Math. Supplementary analysis showed additional differences in the interaction effects by year. However, on the basis of the general findings, the null hypothesis on the interaction effects of grade and class size cannot be rejected.
The Role of Activism in Combating Feelings of Helplessness Among Chicago Adolescents: A Qualitative Analysis
Creators: name: Ekwueme, Patricia Oby
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: activism
subject: Chicago
subject: emotional health
subject: racism
subject: Racism
subject: Public Health
subject: Political Activism
subject: Adolescent
subject: Illinois--Chicago

description: Background: Racism is a public health issue that has both immediate effects and also long term, generational consequences. Racisms impacts spans from increased incidences of chronic physical health and mental health conditions  to lost job opportunities and affordable housing. Racism is pervasive and has persistent effects on a significant portion of the US population. Previous research has explored the effects of direct racism on adults health outcomes, but there is limited data on the impacts of vicarious racism on adolescents and their emotional health. Moreover, there is even more limited data on successful strategies to help minorities combat the negative effects of racism in their lives.  Objective: This study seeks to examine how adolescents interact with social media and racially-charged stories online. We then explore the emotional responses and strategies adolescents utilize to combat those emotions. Methods: We conducted four (N=4) focus groups with adolescents aged 13-19, with a total of 18 participants. The research team conducted semi-structured focus groups. Focus groups were recorded, transcribed, coded, and analyzed. Results: This paper focused on three main themes that emerged from the data: helplessness, resilience/support systems, and activism as a coping strategy. Adolescents mentioned feelings of helplessness as an initial reaction to racist events and a sense of lack of control. On the other hand, they were able to identify people in their lives who they lean on for support and how activism can sometimes combat those feelings and help them feel like they are making a difference. Discussion: Adolescents are astutely aware of racial conflicts. Not only are they able to properly identify the conflicts, but they have the nuanced view of how racial tensions affect them and people around them. The insights gained from this focus group may allow stakeholders to consider anti-racism strategies that include addressing adolescents emotional needs, including the lack of control, and developing coping strategies on familiar platforms, like social media.
Three-dimensional black hole entropy
Creators: name: Troost, Jan
name: Tsuchiya, Asato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss in detail the properties of gravity with a negative cosmological constant as viewed in Cherns-Simons theory on a line times a disc. We reanalyze the problem of computing the BTZ entropy, and show how the demand of unitarity and modular invariance of the boundary conformal field theory severely constrain proposals in this framework.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures; v2: error corrected, conclusions changed
The effect of grade level on the relationship between class size and academic achievement
Creators: name: Barber, Harold Eugene
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this investigation was twofold: to study the relationship between class size and academic achievement, and to examine the effect of grade level on this relationship. The sample consisted of 193 groups of students in small and large classes from grades three, six, and eight in the District of Columbia public schools. To control for pupil ability, each school in the sample had between 35 percent and 65 percent of its students scoring above the median grade equivalent consistently from 1985 to 1987. Faculty experience was controlled by requiring all teachers in the respective grades to have between four and twenty years of experience in the teaching field. Scores obtained from the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (C.T.B.S.) in Reading, Language, Math, and Science for the period 1985-1987 (combined years) were used to measure achievement. (Eighth graders were not tested in Science.) The t-test was used to test the null hypothesis of no significant difference between small and large classes in academic achievement. Analysis of Variance tests were conducted to determine whether the relationship between class size and academic achievement was affected by grade level. The results showed statistically significant differences in favor of small classes in grades three and six. The differences at the third grade seemed greater than those at the sixth grade. At the eighth grade level, the analysis found a statistically significant difference only in Language. In general, the hypothesis stating that there is an inverse relationship between class size and academic achievement seems to be supported by the results. With regard to the interaction effects of grade level and class size, the analysis found a statistically significant difference only in Math. Supplementary analysis showed additional differences in the interaction effects by year. However, on the basis of the general findings, the null hypothesis on the interaction effects of grade and class size cannot be rejected.
Dark state semilocalization of quantum emitters in a cavity
Creators: name: Botzung, Thomas
name: Hagenmüller, David
name: Schütz, Stefan
name: Dubail, Jérôme
name: Pupillo, Guido
name: Schachenmayer, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a disordered ensemble of quantum emitters collectively coupled to a lossless cavity mode. The latter is found to modify the localization properties of the "dark" eigenstates, which exhibit a character of being localized on multiple, noncontiguous sites. We denote such states as semi-localized and characterize them by means of standard localization measures. We show that those states can very efficiently contribute to coherent energy transport. Our paper underlines the important role of dark states in systems with strong light-matter coupling.
The non-Abelian state-dependent gauge field in optics
Creators: name: Leifer, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The covariant formulation of the quantum dynamics in CP(1) should lead to the observable geometrodynamical effects for the local dynamical variable of the light polarization states.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX
Catalyst layer design of microchannel steam reforming reactors for hydrogen production
Creators: name: Chen, Junjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: The fundamental principles of chemical engineering underlie the operation of processes extending well beyond the boundaries of the chemical industry, and chemical engineers are employed in a range of operations outside traditional areas. Plastics, polymers, and synthetic fibres involve chemical-reaction engineering problems in their manufacture, with fluid flow and heat transfer considerations dominating their fabrication. Contributor: Junjie Chen, ORCID: 0000-0001-5055-4309, E-mail address: komcjj@gmail.com, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, 2000 Century Avenue, Jiaozuo, Henan, 454000, P.R. China
Problems on homology manifolds
Creators: name: Quinn, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57P99

description: A list of problems prepared for the proceedings of the Workshop on Exotic Homology Manifolds, Oberwolfach June 29-July 5 2003.
description: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 22 April 2006
Additional file 26 of A pipeline for targeted metagenomics of environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Grieb, Anissa
name: Bowers, Robert M.
name: Monike Oggerin
name: Goudeau, Danielle
name: Lee, Janey
name: Malmstrom, Rex R.
name: Woyke, Tanja
name: Fuchs, Bernhard M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 26: Figure S15. Exemplary scatter plots from flow cytometry showing the gating principle of seawater samples hybridized with HCR-FISH probe. (A) DAPI positive cells were selected in the forward scatter vs. blue fluorescence (DAPI signal) plot and (B) HCR-FISH positive cells were selected in the blue vs. green fluorescence (HCR-FISH signal) plot. Of (B) only those events that were also appearing in the gate in (A) were sorted.
Photoluminescence of tetrahedral quantum-dot quantum wells
Creators: name: Fonoberov, V. A.
name: Pokatilov, E. P.
name: Fomin, V. M.
name: Devreese, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Taking into account the tetrahedral shape of a quantum dot quantum well (QDQW) when describing excitonic states, phonon modes and the exciton-phonon interaction in the structure, we obtain within a non-adiabatic approach a quantitative interpretation of the photoluminescence spectrum of a single CdS/HgS/CdS QDQW. We find that the exciton ground state in a tetrahedral QDQW is bright, in contrast to the dark ground state for a spherical QDQW. The position of the phonon peaks in the photoluminescence spectrum is attributed to interface optical phonons. We also show that the experimental value of the Huang-Rhys parameter can be obtained only within the nonadiabatic theory of phonon-assisted transitions.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, E-mail addresses: vladimir@ee.ucr.edu, ep@pokatilov.moldline.net, vladimir.fomin@ua.ac.be, jozef.devreese@ua.ac.be, to be published in Phys. Rev. Letters
Thesis.pdf
Creators: name: Utecht, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 40699 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40305 Marine Geoscience
subject: 90905 Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: This item contains my written master thesis as a .pdf document.
Catalyst segmentation methods of autothermal steam reforming reactors for hydrogen production
Creators: name: Chen, Junjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Chemical engineers are employed in the design and development of both processes and plant items. In each case, data and predictions often have to be obtained or confirmed with pilot experiments. Plant operation and control is increasingly the sphere of the chemical engineer rather than the chemist. Chemical engineering provides an ideal background for the economic evaluation of new projects and, in the plant construction sector, for marketing. Contributor: Junjie Chen, ORCID: 0000-0001-5055-4309, E-mail address: komcjj@gmail.com, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, 2000 Century Avenue, Jiaozuo, Henan, 454000, P.R. China
Additional file 25 of A pipeline for targeted metagenomics of environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Grieb, Anissa
name: Bowers, Robert M.
name: Monike Oggerin
name: Goudeau, Danielle
name: Lee, Janey
name: Malmstrom, Rex R.
name: Woyke, Tanja
name: Fuchs, Bernhard M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 25: Table S11. Probes used in FISH experiments. In HCR-FISH, the probe consists of a taxon specific sequence attached to the initiator sequence. The G’s in bold of the hairpin oligonucleotides are labelled with Atto488 (Biomers).
The dijet mass distribution in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Reiten, Jared
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
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: In these proceedings, we review the production of both light and heavy flavor dijets in heavy ion collisions and highlight a promising observable to expose their distinct signatures. We propose the modification of dijet invariant mass distributions in heavy ion collisions as a novel observable that exhibits striking sensitivity to the quark-gluon plasma transport properties and heavy quark mass effects on in-medium parton showers. This observable has the advantage of amplifying the effects of jet quenching in contrast to conventional observables, such as the dijet momentum imbalance shift, which involve cancellations of such effects and, hence, result in less pronounced signals. Predictions are presented for Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV to guide the future sPHENIX program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures; Proceedings of the XLIX International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
The prefix in Isletan Tiwa: A functional approach
Creators: name: Laylin, Laura
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The goal of this dissertation is to find, describe, and explain a grammar-culture nexus. The verbal prefix in Isletan Tiwa, a Tanoan language spoken at Isleta pueblo, New Mexico, has been analyzed using a Relational Grammar framework. In this dissertation, the prefix is reanalyzed using the functional framework, Role and Reference Grammar, to demonstrate that more is at issue in the analysis of the prefix than a simple subject-object relation. The prefix codes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic information in such a fashion that three levels of transitivity are postulated, each corresponding to a prefix paradigm. One paradigm, the one indicating the highest degree of transitivity, contains gaps. This suggests that there exist some "impossible person combinations" in expressions which contain agented entities. Reference to ethnographic material from Isleta indicates that these impossible person combinations reflect nonlinguistic concerns.
The prefix in Isletan Tiwa: A functional approach
Creators: name: Laylin, Laura
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The goal of this dissertation is to find, describe, and explain a grammar-culture nexus. The verbal prefix in Isletan Tiwa, a Tanoan language spoken at Isleta pueblo, New Mexico, has been analyzed using a Relational Grammar framework. In this dissertation, the prefix is reanalyzed using the functional framework, Role and Reference Grammar, to demonstrate that more is at issue in the analysis of the prefix than a simple subject-object relation. The prefix codes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic information in such a fashion that three levels of transitivity are postulated, each corresponding to a prefix paradigm. One paradigm, the one indicating the highest degree of transitivity, contains gaps. This suggests that there exist some "impossible person combinations" in expressions which contain agented entities. Reference to ethnographic material from Isleta indicates that these impossible person combinations reflect nonlinguistic concerns.
HOW MISLEADING CAN ALLEN ELASTICITIES OF SUBSTITUTION BE?
Creators: name: Taylor, Timothy G.
name: Gupta, Gautam
name: Taylor, Timothy G.
name: Gupta, Gautam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The Allen elasticity of substitution has recently been shown to be an incorrect measure of substitutability when there are more than two inputs. This paper presents an empirical comparison of the Morishima and Allen elasticities based on a translog cost function estimated using data for aggregate southeastern U.S. Agriculture. The results indicate substantial differences. in the two measures.
Barter of Agricultural Commodities
Creators: name: Vogt, Donna U.
name: Jabara, Cathy L.
name: Linse, Dee A.
name: Vogt, Donna U.
name: Jabara, Cathy L.
name: Linse, Dee A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Barter
subject: international trade
subject: strategic materials
subject: agricultural commodities

description: Barter and barter-type agreements are employed by developing and centrally-planned countries in trade of both agricultural and nonagricultural products. These types of agreements generally involve the exchange of goods without the transfer of international currencies. This paper answers the question "why barter?" by describing the economic and political motives behind barter agreements and by providing a sample of agreements between countries that use barter in trade. The operation of the U.S. Barter Program from 1950 to 1973, which arranged for exchanges of agricultural commodities for strategic materials, supplies, and services, is described and the potential for future U.S. barter of agricultural commodities for strategic materials is examined. Results indicate that several developing countries could become key barter partners.
description: This paper was produced for limited distribution to the research community outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Managing Multiple Systematic Review: Recommended Practices and the Systematic Review Tracking Checklist
Creators: name: Wafford, Q. Eileen
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systematic reviews
subject: Tracking checklist
subject: Systematic Reviews as Topic

description: The challenges of managing multiple systematic reviews have led to development of the Systematic Review Tracking Checklist and a system that incorporates additional recommendations including data management practices.
Automation, autonomy and social integration: A study of office clerical workers
Creators: name: Taylor, Walter
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The rationalization of the production process through automation and the concomitant management expectations and control, in contrast to traditional mechanization and management control, affects worker autonomy or control over the work process and the social integration of workers within the workplace. However, any effects that automation and management control exert upon worker autonomy and social integration may be mediated by the attitudes, orientations or other background characteristics that worker import to the workplace. All clerical workers of an automated and an unautomated division of a large social service agency were surveyed by questionnaire in the workplace. A total of 121 workers responded. Although their jobs are limited in substantive complexity, most workers possess some autonomy due to their perceptions that their jobs are nonroutine and not closely supervised. Evidence of social integration exists based upon the workers' perceptions that social interaction, social solidarity and knowledge of the job and other unit activities are adequate. However, evidence of social disintegration exists based upon the workers' perception that management/worker relationships are highly unsatisfactory and considerable worries, tensions and uncomfortable feelings are experienced in the workplace. Automation strongly affected management expectations and control. It had some impact upon intrinsic job satisfaction and worker solidarity but minimal impact upon autonomy. However, automation's effects were considerable for workers in the automated division when orientations to people in contrast to object and orientations to intrinsic in contrast to extrinsic job aspects were introduced as intervening variables. It was concluded that automation not only complements management control in rationalizing the work process. It also augments management control. In addition, automation can affect worker autonomy and social integration when analyzed in context of the orientations that workers import to the workplace.
Visual link retrieval and knowledge discovery in painting datasets
Creators: name: Castellano, Giovanna
name: Lella, Eufemia
name: Vessio, Gennaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visual arts are of inestimable importance for the cultural, historic and economic growth of our society. One of the building blocks of most analysis in visual arts is to find similarity relationships among paintings of different artists and painting schools. To help art historians better understand visual arts, this paper presents a framework for visual link retrieval and knowledge discovery in digital painting datasets. Visual link retrieval is accomplished by using a deep convolutional neural network to perform feature extraction and a fully unsupervised nearest neighbor mechanism to retrieve links among digitized paintings. Historical knowledge discovery is achieved by performing a graph analysis that makes it possible to study influences among artists. An experimental evaluation on a database collecting paintings by very popular artists shows the effectiveness of the method. The unsupervised strategy makes the method interesting especially in cases where metadata are scarce, unavailable or difficult to collect.
description: Published on Multimedia Tools and Applications. Modified references. Corrected typos. Added observations according to reviewers
Automation, autonomy and social integration: A study of office clerical workers
Creators: name: Taylor, Walter
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The rationalization of the production process through automation and the concomitant management expectations and control, in contrast to traditional mechanization and management control, affects worker autonomy or control over the work process and the social integration of workers within the workplace. However, any effects that automation and management control exert upon worker autonomy and social integration may be mediated by the attitudes, orientations or other background characteristics that worker import to the workplace. All clerical workers of an automated and an unautomated division of a large social service agency were surveyed by questionnaire in the workplace. A total of 121 workers responded. Although their jobs are limited in substantive complexity, most workers possess some autonomy due to their perceptions that their jobs are nonroutine and not closely supervised. Evidence of social integration exists based upon the workers' perceptions that social interaction, social solidarity and knowledge of the job and other unit activities are adequate. However, evidence of social disintegration exists based upon the workers' perception that management/worker relationships are highly unsatisfactory and considerable worries, tensions and uncomfortable feelings are experienced in the workplace. Automation strongly affected management expectations and control. It had some impact upon intrinsic job satisfaction and worker solidarity but minimal impact upon autonomy. However, automation's effects were considerable for workers in the automated division when orientations to people in contrast to object and orientations to intrinsic in contrast to extrinsic job aspects were introduced as intervening variables. It was concluded that automation not only complements management control in rationalizing the work process. It also augments management control. In addition, automation can affect worker autonomy and social integration when analyzed in context of the orientations that workers import to the workplace.
EFFECT OF LENGTH OF TIME ON MEASURED DEMAND ELASTICITIES: THE PROBLEM REVISITED
Creators: name: Capps, Oral
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Capps, Oral
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This study centers attention on the effect of varying lengths of time (weekly, biweekly, monthly observations) on measured demand elasticities for disaggregate fresh beef products. Parameter estimates and elasticities based on monthly data differ from those based on biweekly or weekly data. Generally, inventory adjustment dominates with the latter time intervals. On the other hand, for three of the six disaggregate fresh beef products analyzed, habit formation is the dominating effect with monthly data.
Wittgenstein on meaning and understanding
Creators: name: Benzarour, Zahia
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this dissertation is to present Wittgenstein's theory of meaning as use and investigate its consequences for the problem of other minds. Wittgenstein builds his philosophy on the critique of the idea that the meaning of a word is an object (referential theory of meaning), and the first chapter of this dissertation offers a presentation of the referential theory; in this chapter I also take as an instance of the refutation of the referential theory the example of Russell's theory of description. The second chapter presents Wittgenstein's arguments against the notion that the meaning of a word is a private object, and presents the notion of rule-following. The third chapter shows why Wittgenstein rejected the notion of understanding as an inner process, followed by an explanation of Augustine's ostensive definition. The fourth chapter deals with Wittgenstein's theory of meaning as use by explaining the notions of form of life, language-game, family-resemblance and grammar. My focus in the fifth chapter is on the consequences of Wittgenstein's theory on the problem of other minds, i.e. that the problem of other minds does not exist at all when we understand that it is not an inner process that gives words meaning. I also deal with the distinction of symptoms and criteria. The last chapter is on my disagreement with Wittgenstein and some critiques concerning different notions such as that the meaning of a word is its use in the language, and how Wittgenstein never made the distinction between the meaning of a word and the meaning of a sentence. In addition, I will maintain that private language is possible when we refer to sensations and feelings.
Report describing toolbox of methodologies and approaches for WPs to engage stakeholders regarding new evidence on the use of medicines in pregnancy and lactation (D6.3)
Creators: name: Huys, Isabelle
name: van Poelgeest-Pomfret, Mary Lynne
name: Otero-Lobato, Marijo
name: Esslinger, Suzan
name: Kalra, Dipak
name: Allan, Christine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This deliverable will establish guidelines that describe several methodologies in order to guarantee successful interaction with stakeholders involved in ConcePTION.
Information and Collective Risk Reduction
Creators: name: Shogren, Jason F.
name: Shogren, Jason F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Information and nonincreasing absolute risk aversion have been shown to decrease voluntary contributions to traditionally defined public goods. This paper explores whether this result holds for public goods in the form of collective risk reduction programs. Risk differs from traditional public goods in that risk is comprised of two core elements: probability and severity. We find that the impact of information on voluntary contributions now depend on the convexity of the marginal severity function and risk aversion. For probability reduction, risk aversion no longer solely motivates behavior, the convexity of the marginal probability function is the driving force (a measure of aversion to productivity uncertainty). Our results suggest that any policy promoting voluntary provision of collective risk reduction through information will confront complexities which may render the effort ineffective.
Additional file 24 of A pipeline for targeted metagenomics of environmental bacteria
Creators: name: Grieb, Anissa
name: Bowers, Robert M.
name: Monike Oggerin
name: Goudeau, Danielle
name: Lee, Janey
name: Malmstrom, Rex R.
name: Woyke, Tanja
name: Fuchs, Bernhard M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 24: Table S10. Bacterial strains used for benchmarking the influence of cell fixation and for HCR-FISH optimization.
Catalyst segmentation methods of continuous flow reactors for hydrogen production
Creators: name: Chen, Junjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Further applications of chemical engineering are found in the fuel industries. In the second half of the 20th century, considerable numbers of chemical engineers have been involved in space exploration, from the design of fuel cells to the manufacture of propellants. Looking to the future, it is probable that chemical engineering will provide the solution to at least two of the world's major problems: supply of adequate fresh water in all regions through desalination of seawater and environmental control through prevention of pollution. Contributor: Junjie Chen, ORCID: 0000-0001-5055-4309, E-mail address: komcjj@gmail.com, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, 2000 Century Avenue, Jiaozuo, Henan, 454000, P.R. China