cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Involving Children and Teenagers With Bilateral Cochlear Implants in the Design of the BEARS (Both EARS) Virtual Reality Training Suite Improves Personalization.
Creators: name: Vickers, Deborah
name: Salorio-Corbetto, Marina
name: Driver, Sandra
name: Rocca, Christine
name: Levtov, Yuli
name: Sum, Kevin
name: Parmar, Bhavisha
name: Dritsakis, Giorgos
name: Albanell Flores, Jordi
name: Jiang, Dan
name: Mahon, Merle
name: Early, Frances
name: Van Zalk, Nejra
name: Picinali, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Digital Health
spatial hearing
bilateral
cochlear implant
virtual reality
training
action research
participatory design
children

description: Older children and teenagers with bilateral cochlear implants often have poor spatial hearing because they cannot fuse sounds from the two ears. This deficit jeopardizes speech and language development, education, and social well-being. The lack of protocols for fitting bilateral cochlear implants and resources for spatial-hearing training contribute to these difficulties. Spatial hearing develops with bilateral experience. A large body of research demonstrates that sound localisation can improve with training, underpinned by plasticity-driven changes in the auditory pathways. Generalizing training to non-trained auditory skills is best achieved by using a multi-modal (audio-visual) implementation and multi-domain training tasks (localisation, speech-in-noise, and spatial music). The goal of this work was to develop a package of virtual-reality games (BEARS, Both EARS) to train spatial hearing in young people (8-16 years) with bilateral cochlear implants using an action-research protocol. The action research protocol used formalized cycles for participants to trial aspects of the BEARS suite, reflect on their experiences, and in turn inform changes in the game implementations. This participatory design used the stakeholder participants as co-creators. The cycles for each of the three domains (localisation, spatial speech-in-noise, and spatial music) were customized to focus on the elements that the stakeholder participants considered important. The participants agreed that the final games were appropriate and ready to be used by patients. The main areas of modification were: the variety of immersive scenarios to cover age range and interests, the number of levels of complexity to ensure small improvements were measurable, feedback, and reward schemes to ensure positive reinforcement, and an additional implementation on an iPad for those who had difficulties with the headsets due to age or balance issues. The effectiveness of the BEARS training suite will be evaluated in a large-scale clinical trial to determine if using the games lead to improvements in speech-in-noise, quality of life, perceived benefit, and cost utility. Such interventions allow patients to take control of their own management reducing the reliance on outpatient-based rehabilitation. For young people, a virtual-reality implementation is more engaging than traditional rehabilitation methods, and the participatory design used here has ensured that the BEARS games are relevant.
Tunable spin and orbital polarization in SrTiO3-based heterostructures
Creators: name: Ho, Cong Son
name: Kong, Weilong
name: Yang, Ming
name: Rusydi, Andrivo
name: Jalil, Mansoor B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate the effective Hamiltonian of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) in $\mathrm{LaAlO_3/SrTiO_3}$ (LAO/STO) heterostructures. We derive analytical expressions of properties, e.g., Rashba parameter, effective mass, band edge energy and orbital occupancy, as functions of material and tunable heterostructure parameters. While linear RSOC is dominant around the $Γ$-point, cubic RSOC becomes significant at the higher-energy anti-crossing region. We find that linear RSOC stems from the structural inversion asymmetry (SIA), while the cubic term is induced by both SIA and bulk asymmetry. Furthermore, the SOC strength shows a striking dependence on the tunable heterostructure parameters such as STO thickness and the interfacial electric field which is ascribed to the quantum confinement effect near the LAO/STO interface. The calculated values of the linear and cubic RSOC are in agreement with previous experimental results.
THE AGRICULTURAL RISK MANAGEMENT SIMULATOR MICROCOMPUTER PROGRAM
Creators: name: King, Robert P.
name: Black, J. Roy
name: Benson, Fred J.
name: Pavkov, Patti A.
name: King, Robert P.
name: Black, J. Roy
name: Benson, Fred J.
name: Pavkov, Patti A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The Agricultural Risk Management Simulator (ARMS) is a microcomputer program designed to help users evaluate strategies for managing yield and price risk in crop farming operations. Risk management strategies are defined by choices regarding crop mix, the purchase of multiple peril crop insurance, and the use of forward contracting. Probabilistic budgeting is used to determine the net cash flow probability distribution for each strategy considered. Flexibility with regard to both sources of probabilistic information and the form of yield and price probability distributions is a noteworthy feature of the program.
Temperature dependence of ESR intensity for the nanoscale molecular magnet V15
Creators: name: Machida, Manabu
name: Iitaka, Toshiaki
name: Miyashita, Seiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electron spin resonance (ESR) of nanoscale molecular magnet ${\rm V}_{15}$ is studied. Since the Hamiltonian of ${\rm V}_{15}$ has a large Hilbert space and numerical calculations of the ESR signal evaluating the Kubo formula with exact diagonalization method is difficult, we implement the formula with the help of the random vector technique and the Chebyshev polynominal expansion, which we name the double Chebyshev expansion method. We calculate the temperature dependence of the ESR intensity of ${\rm V}_{15}$ and compare it with the data obtained in experiment. As another complementary approach, we also implement the Kubo formula with the subspace iteration method taking only important low-lying states into account. We study the ESR absorption curve below $100{\rm K}$ by means of both methods. We find that side peaks appear due to the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction and these peaks grows as temperature decreases.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. To appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Suppl
Beef Cattle Production and Management Practices and Implications for Educators
Creators: name: Vestal, Mallory K.
name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Doye, Damona G.
name: Lalman, David L.
name: Vestal, Mallory K.
name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Doye, Damona G.
name: Lalman, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Beef producers need to continually incorporate new information and adopt new technology to effectively manage production costs. Oklahoma State University began a Master Cattleman program with this need in mind. Understanding technology adoption by producers requires identifying current management practices. Data from a survey developed as part of the Master Cattleman program document current practices. Management practices were examined for two groups; producers with smaller herds who are less dependent on the beef enterprise for family income, and producers with larger herds who are more dependent on beef. Results clearly show that size and dependence on the beef enterprise matters when considering a broad spectrum of beef management practices.
149. Gravito-inertial asteroseismology
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: I look at some other recent results on the non-radial pulsators in the SPB and Gamma Dor classes. These stars show periodic variations as a result of the usual restoring force of gravity (or buoyancy), as well as due to Coriolis forces resulting from stellar rotation. Many astrophysical results from Gaia compare favourably with the much denser  sampling from Kepler.
Enmeshment and acculturative stress in Chinese immigrant families in Canada
Creators: name: Leung, Pansy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: While the first entry of Chinese immigrants to Canada dates back to more than a century, in 1967 when the Canadian immigration policy changed, Chinese immigrants from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan became the top source of migration. Over the past few decades, the process of acculturation and mental health of Chinese immigrants has received attention in cross-cultural research. Researchers are particularly interested in investigating the stress experienced by immigrants during the process of acculturation and the ways of dealing with such stress. The thesis reports on a study that explores acculturative stress, length of residence, and cohesion of Chinese immigrants in Canada. The results from this study showed that enmeshment (a high level of family cohesion or family togetherness) and flexibility (a high level of adaptability to change family rules and roles) are related to a lower level of acculturative stress in Chinese immigrant mothers in Vancouver, British Columbia. Of particular interest was the effect of cohesion and adaptability on the social dimension of acculturative stress. Additionally, the results showed that length of residence did not predict acculturative stress in Chinese immigrant families. Limitations, contributions, and implications of the present study for future acculturation research are discussed.
Irrigation Technology Adoption in the Texas High Plains: A Real Options Approach
Creators: name: Seo, Sangtaek
name: Segarra, Eduardo
name: Mitchell, Paul D.
name: Leatham, David J.
name: Seo, Sangtaek
name: Segarra, Eduardo
name: Mitchell, Paul D.
name: Leatham, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Water scarcity has been a significant issue for several decades in the Texas High Plains, with agriculture identified as the main activity contributing to this scarcity. To address this issue, much effort has been devoted to developing and encouraging adoption of sophisticated irrigation systems with high levels of water application efficiency, such as the low energy precision application (LEPA) system, subsurface drip irrigation (SDI), and variable rate irrigation (VRI). In this study, the economic feasibility of these irrigation systems is evaluated in cotton farming in the Texas High Plains using a real options approach. Results find that only the LEPA system is profitable under current conditions. The VRI system is profitable with high cotton prices (above $0.72/lb), while SDI is not profitable under any conditions explored.
Anomaly Mediation, Fayet-Iliopoulos D-terms and precision sparticle spectra
Creators: name: Hodgson, R.
name: Jack, I.
name: Jones, D. R. T.
name: Ross, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the sparticle spectra that arise when anomaly mediation is the source of supersymmetry-breaking and the tachyonic slepton problem is solved by a Fayet-Iliopoulos D-term. We also show how this can lead to a minimal viable extension of anomaly mediation, in which the gauge symmetry associated with this D-term is broken at very high energies, leaving as its footprint in the low energy theory only the required D-terms and seesaw neutrino masses.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures. Uses epsf. Minor corrections and added reference
Lightwave Terahertz Quantum Manipulation of Non-equilibrium Superconductor Phases and their Collective Modes
Creators: name: Mootz, Martin
name: Wang, Jigang
name: Perakis, Ilias E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a gauge-invariant density matrix description of non-equilibrium superconductor (SC) states with spatial and temporal correlations driven by intense terahertz (THz) lightwaves. We derive superconductor Bloch--Maxwell equations of motion that extend Anderson pseudo-spin models to include the Cooper pair center-of-mass motion and electromagnetic propagation effects. We thus describe quantum control of dynamical phases, collective modes, quasi-particle coherence, and high nonlinearities during cycles of carrier wave oscillations, which relate to our recent experiments. Coherent photogeneration of a nonlinear supercurrent with dc component via condensate acceleration by an effective lightwave field dynamically breaks the equilibrium inversion symmetry. Experimental signatures include high harmonic light emission at equilibrium-symmetry-forbidden frequencies, Rabi--Higgs collective modes and quasi-particle coherence, and non-equilibrium moving condensate states tuned by few-cycle THz fields. We use such lightwaves as an oscillating accelerating force that drives strong nonlinearities and anisotropic quasi-particle populations to control and amplify different classes of collective modes, e.g., damped oscillations, persistent oscillations, and overdamped dynamics via Rabi flopping. Recent phase-coherent nonlinear spectroscopy experiments can be modeled by solving the full nonlinear quantum dynamics including self-consistent light--matter coupling.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
The Effect of Risk Presentation on Product Valuation: An Experimental Analysis
Creators: name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Shaw, W. Douglass
name: Silva, Andres
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Shaw, W. Douglass
name: Silva, Andres
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: We examine how people might evaluate a product with novel attribute, given various kinds of risk information. Using a product with healthful benefits, we assess subjects' willingness to pay given various kinds of health risk information conveying reduced health risks, life tradeoffs, and ambiguity. Four treatments in separate non-hypothetical experimental auctions are used to elicit willingness to pay values. Results suggest that willingness to pay vary across the groups that receive differing risk information. Specifically, willingness to pay was higher for the group that was given clear risk information and questions related to life tradeoffs than for the group given ambiguous risk information. Willingness to pay was lowest for the group that was given no risk information at all.
Additional file 1 of Subcutaneous hemangioma on nasal dorsum: a case report
Creators: name: Hamsu Kadriyan
name: Sulaksana, Muhammad Alfian
name: Didit Yudhanto
name: I. Gusti Ayu Trisna Aryani
name: Yuliani, Eka Arie
name: Ardianti, Nurul Endah
name: Moh. Suprayogi
name: Fathul Djannah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Surgical Case Report (SCARE) 2018 checklist.
Syriac versions of the "Historia Monachorum in Aegypto"
Creators: name: Tóth, Péter
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 94 (2010): Oriens christianus, Band 94
Production Structure, Technological Change and Scale Economies in the Saw and Planing Mills Industry in New Brunswick, Canada
Creators: name: Yigezu, Yigezu A.
name: Foster, Kenneth A.
name: Lantz, Van
name: Yigezu, Yigezu A.
name: Foster, Kenneth A.
name: Lantz, Van
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The translog cost function approach is employed to characterize the production structure and to estimate the rate of technical change and technical bias in the saw and planing mills industry (SPM) in the New Brunswick Province. The findings are that the production structure of the saw and planing mills in Canada is neither homothetic nor homogenous implying potential scale induced distortion in the input mix. Morishma elasticity of substitution estimates show that in the existing technology of the saw and planing mills in New Brunswick, labor can more easily be substituted by capital than capital by labor. Moreover, the amount of round wood that is required to complement labor is higher than that required to complement energy and capital, which indicates that a labor intensive technology choice in the SPM industry is more round wood consuming than the capital and energy intensive technologies. These results coupled with the increasingly stringent environmental regulations indicate that the relative use of labor compared to other inputs is likely to decline in the saw and planing mills industry. Hence, in view of their cost minimizing behavior, the saw and planing mills in New Brunswick will sooner or latter start to replace labor with energy or capital. The saw and planing mills in New Brunswick exhibited fairly high economies of scale during the period 1965-1995, but the rate of technical change has been found to be negative.
Modernity and postmodernity in Japanese new religion and literature
Creators: name: Tanaka, Motoko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis explores the relations between modernity, postmodernity and new religions in Japanese literature. I examine the emergence of new religions since the Meiji period; modernity and religion with particular attention to Takahashi Kazumi's (1931-1971) Jashumonge (The Evil Creed) first published in 1966, and postmodernity, focusing on Shimada Masahiko's (1961- ) Yogensha no Namae (The Name of the Prophet) published in 1992. The development of new religious movements in Japan is intimately related to fundamental social changes that have taken place since the mid-nineteenth century. Rapid modernization influenced the directions and characteristics of new religions. In this thesis, I argue that three modern conditions - in particular, secularization, urbanization, and the spirit of reformation and protest - have had a profound impact on the nature of new religious organizations. In modern societies, religion became one of the social structures that supports meta-narratives such as communalism, the goals of which are to achieve a better life for the group. New religions entered a new phase after Japan entered the so-called postmodern era, the post-industrial, super-consumption culture beginning in the 1970's. New religions entered a new phase as they were influenced by postmodernism's emphasis on individualism, consumerism, and the emergence of advanced information technologies. Since the meta-narratives and perceptions of reality and authenticity are deconstructed in such a society, new religions offer individual fulfillment through virtual reality and fictitious themes as well as doctrines based on globalism. By studying two literary works, it becomes clear that underlying the emergence of religious movements are social and cultural problems such as power struggles, legitimacy, individualism, and hyperreality. Literary works that deal with new religions successfully analyze these problems in detail and articulate the drastic ways in which the mentality of the Japanese people has changed according to social changes and movements within modern and postmodern eras. New religions reflect a heightened awareness of people's daily lives and hopes; they emerge from an implicit critique of conventional religions that have been rather concerned with communities as a whole.
Credit Scoring Models: A Comparison between Crop and Livestock Farms
Creators: name: Durguner, Seda
name: Barry, Peter J.
name: Katchova, Ani L.
name: Durguner, Seda
name: Barry, Peter J.
name: Katchova, Ani L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper uses FBFM (Illinois Farm Business Farm Management Association) data to analyze several key factors in the decision to categorize borrowers into acceptable or problematic and to classify borrowers across five classes. Net worth does not play significant role in the decision process for livestock farms, whereas it is significantly important for crop farms. For livestock farms, tenure ratio is not significant across classes and is generally not significant across categories depending on the cut off point used to describe acceptable or problematic borrower. However, it is significant for crop farms. Working capital to gross farm return, return on farm assets, and asset turnover ratio are all significant for both farm types. The operating expense to gross farm return is not an independent variable for livestock farms whereas an independent and significant variable for crop farms.
Additional file 1 of Proteomic study of hypothalamus in pigs exposed to heat stress
Creators: name: Yu, Tian-Yue
name: Yong, Yan-Hong
name: Li, Jun-Yu
name: Fang, Biao
name: Can-Ying Hu
name: Wu, Lian-Yun
name: Xiaoxi Liu
name: Zhichao Yu
name: Xingbin Ma
name: Yadnyavalkya Patil
name: Gooneratne, Ravi
name: Ju, Xiang-Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. The significantly changed protein in hypothalamus of pigs under HS.
PATOF – From the PAst TO the Future: Legacy Data in Small and Medium-Scale "PUNCH" Experiments – a Blueprint for PUNCH and Other Disciplines
Creators: name: Ding-Ze, Hu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Metadata
Scientific Data Management
FAIR

description: The PATOF project builds on work ongoing at MAMI particle physics experiment A4. It produced a stream of valuable data for many years which already released scientific output of high quality and still provides a solid basis for future publications. Here, we report from our approach to make the data hoard of a dismounted project sustainable and publishable according to the FAIR principles which, finally, would make the data intelligible to, both, humans and machines. In addition to a complex central detector system recording electrons after their scattering off nuclear targets, several auxiliary systems were used to record parameters like beam position or environmental and slow-control data. The A4 data set consists of about 100 TB and 300 million files of different types (hierarchical folder structure and file format with minimal metadata provided create vague context). Recent work with consulting support from the HMC hub “Matter” helped to identify problems and potential solutions for a FAIRification of A4 data. We would now like to go beyond the support we can get from the hub and build a full “FAIR Metadata Factory” that can be used across the research field and beyond. 

The focus of PATOF is on making the data of A4 (and in the future of ALPS II, PRIMA, P2, and LUXE) fully publicly available. The project proposes to apply expertise in FAIR data management gained in PUNCH experiments to other disciplines. The results - including the generalisation of the FAIR Metadata Factory - will be openly available, with the perspective of establishing a “living cookbook” useful for any data project. PATOF will serve as a catalyst by having good connections to other research fields, to related HMC applications.
Models of Baryogenesis via Spontaneous Lorentz Violation
Creators: name: Carroll, Sean M.
name: Shu, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of background fields that spontaneously violate Lorentz invariance, a matter-antimatter asymmetry can be generated even in thermal equilibrium. In this paper we systematically investigate models of this type, showing that either high-energy or electroweak versions of baryogenesis are possible, depending on the dynamics of the Lorentz-violating fields. In addition to the previously-studied models of spontaneous baryogenesis and quintessential baryogenesis, we identify two scenarios of interest: baryogenesis from a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson with weak-scale mass and intermediate-scale baryon-number violation, and sphaleron-induced baryogenesis driven by a constant-magnitude vector with a late-time phase transition.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure. references added. submited to PRD
Import Demand for Dairy Products in Cote d'Ivoire
Creators: name: Balagtas, Joseph Valdes
name: Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.
name: Diarra, Ibrahim
name: Balagtas, Joseph Valdes
name: Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.
name: Diarra, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: We estimate an LA/AIDS model of demand for imported dairy products for Cote d'Ivoire. We employ a unique set of Ivorian customs data, spanning seven dairy products observed monthly from January 1996 to December 2005. Demand for milk powder is found to be inelastic, as substitutes for milk powder in the domestic processing industry are scarce. Demand for fluid milk, yogurt, and cream are found to be elastic, as these domestic products produced from imported powder may substitute for the imports. With the exception of condensed milk, dairy products are found to be necessities.
Controlling edge states of zigzag carbon nanotubes by the Aharonov-Bohm flux
Creators: name: Sasaki, K.
name: Murakami, S.
name: Saito, R.
name: Kawazoe, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been known theoretically that localized states exist around zigzag edges of a graphite ribbon and of a carbon nanotube, whose energy eigenvalues are located between conduction and valence bands. We found that in metallic single-walled zigzag carbon nanotubes two of the localized states become critical, and that their localization length is sensitive to the mean curvature of a tube and can be controlled by the Aharonov-Bohm flux. The curvature induced mini-gap closes by the relatively weak magnetic field. Conductance measurement in the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm flux can give information about the curvature effect and the critical states.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Game theoretic centrality: a novel approach to prioritize disease candidate genes by combining biological networks with the Shapley value
Creators: name: Sun, Min Woo
name: Moretti, Stefano
name: Paskov, Kelley M.
name: Stockham, Nate T.
name: Varma, Maya
name: Chrisman, Brianna S.
name: Washington, Peter Y.
name: Jae-Yoon Jung
name: Wall, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Full list of genes ranked by game theoretic centrality, degree centrality, betweenness centrality, and PageRank algorithm.
On Cheng's Eigenvalue Comparison Theorems
Creators: name: Bessa, G. Pacelli
name: Montenegro, J. Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C40, 53C42, 58C40

description: We prove Cheng's eigenvalue comparison theorems for geodesic balls within the cut locus under weaker geometric hypothesis, and we also show that there are certain geometric rigidity in case of equality of the eigenvalues. This rigidity becomes isometric rigidity under upper sectional curvature bounds or lower Ricci curvature bounds. We construct examples of smooth metrics showing that our results are true extensions of Cheng's theorem. We also construct a family of complete smooth metrics on the Euclidean space non-isometric to the constant sectional curvature k metrics of the simply connected space forms of constant sectional curvature k such that the geodesic balls of radius r have the same first eigenvalue and the geodesic spheres have the same mean curvatures. In the end we construct examples of Riemannian manifolds M with arbitrary topology with positive fundamental tone positive that generalize Veeravalli's examples.
description: paper with 11 pages
FORECASTING FOR AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Freebairn, John W.
name: Freebairn, John W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The paper provides a review of the objectives of forecasts and of the techniques for generating forecasts in the context of agriculture. Forecasts provide information to facilitate decision making. The techniques are evaluated in terms of assumptions about the processes generating the forecast variables, their relative requirements for time, data and other resources, and their relative forecast accuracy. An evaluation of naive, informal model and econometric model forecasts of Australian agricultural commodity prices and production levels is reported.
Σύγχρονοι κίνδυνοι που αντιμετωπίζουν οι ανήλικοι στο διαδίκτυο και τρόποι προστασίας
Creators: name: Μηλιώνη, Ελένη
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ασφάλεια
subject: Παιδιά
subject: Προστασία

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία θα προσπαθήσουμε να καταλάβουμε να απαριθμήσουμε και να αναλύσουμε τους βασικότερους κινδύνους που μπορεί ένα παιδί να συναντήσει στο διαδίκτυο καθώς και να δώσουμε κάποιες χρήσιμες και κατανοητές συμβουλές σε παιδιά και γονείς που μπορούν να κάνουν την χρήση του διαδικτύου ασφαλέστερη.
Electronic States of Al-Mg-Zn Quasicrystal and Its Approximant based on the First-Principles Calculations
Creators: name: Saito, Masaki
name: Sekikawa, Takuya
name: Ono, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First-principles calculations are performed to investigate the electronic states of 1/1 and 2/1 approximants with the composition Al$_{15}$Zn$_{40}$Mg$_{45}$ which is close to the quasicrystal (QC) Al$_{14.9}$Zn$_{41.0}$Mg$_{44.1}$ in which the superconductivity is recently discovered. The density of states for the 1/1 approximant shows a wide pseudogap structure near the Fermi level as commonly observed in various approximants of the QCs, whereas those for the 2/1 approximant do not show such a wide pseudogap. Instead of the wide pseudogap, the 2/1 approximant shows a remarkable narrow pseudogap at the Fermi level in contrast to the 1/1 approximant, which shows a shallow hump at the Fermi level within the wide pseudogap. This seems to be consistent with the experimental observation of the electrical resistivity, which increases with decreasing temperature from the room temperature down to around the superconducting transition temperature for the 2/1 approximant together with the QC, whereas it monotonically decreases for the 1/1 approximant.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Inverse Scattering Transform for the Toda Hierarchy with Quasi-Periodic Background
Creators: name: Egorova, Iryna
name: Michor, Johanna
name: Teschl, Gerald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a rigorous treatment of the inverse scattering transform for the entire Toda hierarchy in the case of a quasi-periodic finite-gap background solution.
description: 11 pages
TARIFF COMPENSATION: SUFFICIENT JUSTIFICATION FOR ASSISTANCE TO AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURE?
Creators: name: Harris, Stuart
name: Harris, Stuart
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This paper discusses in greater detail the case for tariff compensation set out in the Green Paper on Rural Policy. It considers a number of theoretical and practical arguments levelled against the principle, including those put forward in the Annual Report for 1973-74 of the Industries Assistance Commission. It concludes that despite the various counter arguments, the second best argument for tariff compensation applicable to low cost manufacturing as well as rural industries, remains valid in principle; in practice the extent to which any such partial compensation would be warranted needs to be assessed in the light of the appropriate substitution and complementarity relationships.
Leptonic CP Violation Search and the Ambiguity of dm^2_31
Creators: name: Koike, Masafumi
name: Okamura, Naotoshi
name: Saito, Masako
name: Takeuchi, Tatsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a search for the CP-violating angle deltaCP in long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. We show that the subleading deltaCP-dependent terms in the nu_mu -> nu_e oscillation probability can be easily obscured by the ambiguity of the leading term which depends on |dm^2_31|. It is thus necessary to determine the value of dm^2_31 with a sufficient accuracy. The nu_mu survival events, which can be accumulated simultaneously with the nu_e appearance events, can serve for this purpose owing to its large statistics. Therefore, the combined analysis of nu_e appearance and nu_mu survival events is crucial to provide a restrictive constraint on deltaCP. Taking a test experimental setup, we demonstrate in the deltaCP-dm^2_31 plane that the analysis of nu_e appearance events leads to less restrictive constraints on the value of deltaCP due to the ambiguity of dm^2_31 and that the combined analysis efficiently improves the constraints.
description: ReVTeX file, 9 pages, 7 figures. Discussions added in Sections 1, 2, and 4; Reference expanded
Autoregressive Density Modeling with the Gaussian Process Mixture Transition Distribution
Creators: name: Heiner, Matthew
name: Kottas, Athanasios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We develop a mixture model for transition density approximation, together with soft model selection, in the presence of noisy and heterogeneous nonlinear dynamics. Our model builds on the Gaussian mixture transition distribution (MTD) model for continuous state spaces, extending component means with nonlinear functions that are modeled using Gaussian process (GP) priors. The resulting model flexibly captures nonlinear and heterogeneous lag dependence when several mixture components are active, identifies low-order nonlinear dependence while inferring relevant lags when few components are active, and averages over multiple and competing single-lag models to quantify/propagate uncertainty. Sparsity-inducing priors on the mixture weights aid in selecting a subset of active lags. The hierarchical model specification follows conventions for both GP regression and MTD models, admitting a convenient Gibbs sampling scheme for posterior inference. We demonstrate properties of the proposed model with two simulated and two real time series, emphasizing approximation of lag-dependent transition densities and model selection. In most cases, the model decisively recovers important features. The proposed model provides a simple, yet flexible framework that preserves useful and distinguishing characteristics of the MTD model class.
CINECA Report on GA4GH Researcher ID D2.2
Creators: name: Linden, Mikael
name: Kuba, Martin
name: Izquierdo, Jorge
name: Mbiyavanga, Mamana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: GA4GH passport
GA4GH visa
GA4GH researcher ID
ELIXIR AAI
authentication
data access
permissions

description: GA4GH Passport (a.k.a. GA4GH Researcher ID) is the GA4GH standard for expressing an authenticated researcher’s roles and data access permissions (a.k.a. passport visas). Together with the GA4GH Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure (AAI) specification, it describes how passport visas are issued and delivered from their authority (such as a Data Access Committee) to the environment where the data access takes place (such as an analysis platform or cloud). The work package has contributed to the Passport and AAI standards which were approved by the GA4GH in October 2019. This deliverable provides an overview of the GA4GH Passport and AAI standards (version 1.0) in general. It then describes in detail how ELIXIR AAI has implemented the specification as a Passport broker service. Some directions of the next version of the GA4GH Passport and AAI standards, which are still in development in the GA4GH DURI workstream, are displayed. Finally, a hands-on experiment presents how passports could alternatively leverage self-sovereign identity, an emerging identity and access management paradigm in the industry.
OPTION VALUE
Creators: name: Olsen, Graeme
name: Olsen, Graeme
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: The option value of a good is the amount which potential consumers of the good are prepared to pay now, to ensure that the good remains available for future purchase. Option values should be considered when making resource allocation decisions, so that efficient decisions are made. The theoretical basis of option value is described and the problems involved in the recognition, use and measurement of option value are discussed.
Entanglement as Measure of Electron-Electron Correlation in Quantum Chemistry Calculations
Creators: name: Huang, Zhen
name: Kais, Sabre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum chemistry calculations, the correlation energy is defined as the difference between the Hartree-Fock limit energy and the exact solution of the nonrelativistic Schrodinger equation. With this definition, the electron correlation effects are not directly observable. In this report, we show that the entanglement can be used as an alternative measure of the electron correlation in quantum chemistry calculations. Entanglement is directly observable and it is one of the most striking properties of quantum mechanics. As an example we calculate the entanglement for He atom and H2 molecule with different basis sets.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
MPEC 2024-C110 : 2024 CY1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 CY1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Composite Metrics for Network Security Analysis
Creators: name: Enoch, Simon Yusuf
name: Hong, Jin B.
name: Ge, Mengmeng
name: Kim, Dong Seong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Security metrics present the security level of a system or a network in both qualitative and quantitative ways. In general, security metrics are used to assess the security level of a system and to achieve security goals. There are a lot of security metrics for security analysis, but there is no systematic classification of security metrics that are based on network reachability information. To address this, we propose a systematic classification of existing security metrics based on network reachability information. Mainly, we classify the security metrics into host-based and network-based metrics. The host-based metrics are classified into metrics ``without probability" and "with probability", while the network-based metrics are classified into "path-based" and "non-path based". Finally, we present and describe an approach to develop composite security metrics and it's calculations using a Hierarchical Attack Representation Model (HARM) via an example network. Our novel classification of security metrics provides a new methodology to assess the security of a system.
description: 21 pages journal
Additional file 1 of Breast cancer diagnosis is associated with relative left ventricular hypertrophy and elevated endothelin-1 signaling
Creators: name: Maayah, Zaid H.
name: Takahara, Shingo
name: Alam, Abrar S.
name: Ferdaoussi, Mourad
name: Gopinath Sutendra
name: El-Kadi, Ayman O. S.
name: Mackey, John R.
name: Pituskin, Edith
name: D. Ian Paterson
name: Dyck, Jason R. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary Fig. 1. The original, full blot for phosphorylated eukaryotic elongation factor-2 (p-eEF2), total-eEF2 and β-ACTIN.
Open Environmental Data Analysis (EGU 2018 PICO)
Creators: name: Nüst, Daniel
name: Bartoschek, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Open Data
Open Hardware
Open Science
environmental analysis
reproducible research
Docker
containers
Rocker
OpenSenseMap
senseBox
BinderHub

description: Open Science is a major movement in openness, availability, and transparency spanning Open Access, Open Data, Reproducible Research, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and Open-source Hardware. Free to use platforms supporting Open Science become more recognised and are FOSS themselves, such as Zenodo (https://zenodo.org), Binder (http://mybinder.org/), and senseBox (https://sensebox.de/en). We present an open environmental data analysis building on all these projects. A central R Markdown (http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/) document provides a recipe for data retrieval, analysis, and visualisation with R (https://r-project.org). Docker (https://docker.com) and Rocker (http://rocker-project.org/) provide a portable transparent and reproducible computational environment which can be opened easily on Binder. We demonstrate an open analysis workflow for environmental data utilising numerous Open X projects, showcasing the potential of latest technology and potentially a template towards development of more open practices. Full conference abstract: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-17461.pdf
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Generating conditional atomic entanglement by measuring photon number in a single output channel
Creators: name: Berman, C. Genes P. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polarization analysis of quantized probe light transmitted through an atomic ensemble has been used to prepare entangled collective atomic states. In a "balanced" detection configuration, where the difference signal from two detection ports is analyzed, the continuous monitoring of a component of the Stokes field vector provides a means for conditional projective measurements on the atomic system. Here, we make use of classical driving fields, in the pulsed regime, and of an "unbalanced" detection setup (single detector) where the effective photon number of scattered photons is the detected observable. Conditional atomic spin squeezed states and superpositions of such squeezed states can be prepared in this manner.
Follow-up Studies of Five Cataclysmic Variable Candidates Discovered by LAMOST
Creators: name: Thorstensen, John R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report follow-up observations of five cataclysmic variable candidates from LAMOST published by Hou et al. (2020). LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9 is the most unusual of the five; an early-M type secondary star contributes strongly to its spectrum, and its spectral and photometric behavior are strikingly reminiscent of the hitherto-unique propeller system AE Aqr. We confirm that a 7.34-hr period discovered in the Catalina survey data (Drake et al. 2014) is orbital. Another object, LAMOST J204305.95+341340.6 appears to be a near twin of the novalike variable V795 Her, with an orbital period in the so-called 2-3 hour "gap". LAMOST J035913.61+405035.0 is evidently an eclipsing, weakly-outbursting dwarf nova with a 5.48-hr period. Our spectrum of LAMOST J090150.09+375444.3 is dominated by a late-type secondary and shows weak, narrow Balmer emission moving in phase with the absorption lines, but at lower amplitude; we do not see the HeII 4686 emission evident in the published discovery spectrum. We again confirm that a period from the Catalina data, in this case 6.80 hr, is orbital. LAMOST J033940.98+414805.7 yields a radial-velocity period of 3.54 hr, and its spectrum appears to be typical of novalike variables in this period range. The spectroscopically-selected sample from LAMOST evidently includes some interesting cataclysmic variables that have been unrecognized until now, apparently because of the relatively modest range of their photometric variations.
description: Astronomical Journal, in press
PLANT PESTICIDE ECONOMICS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COTTON INSECTICIDES
Creators: name: Longworth, John W.
name: Rudd, Don
name: Longworth, John W.
name: Rudd, Don
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The energy crisis and the current world food situation have both drawn attention to the importance of off-farm inputs in high-technology agricultural systems. Plant pesticides are one of the most important of these off-farm inputs. The correct use of chemical pesticides requires a high level of managerial competence since the issues involved are extremely complex. The development of an integrated approach to the management of plant pests offers an alternative to the increasingly expensive chemical control techniques. Cotton production illustrates both the complexities of the management involved in plant pest control and the feasibility of developing integrated control strategies. Plant pesticides, especially insecticides, also create externalities. The policy issues surrounding the use of cotton insecticides demonstrates the need for careful analysis before political action is taken. A feasible package of policy measures for the control of the use of insecticides in Australian cotton-growing areas is suggested.