cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the Integration of Carbon Capture and Storage into the International Climate Regime
Creators: name: Bode, Sven
name: Jung, Martina
name: Bode, Sven
name: Jung, Martina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
subject: Permanence
subject: Sequestration
subject: LULUCF
subject: Climate Policy

description: As GHG emissions did not decline as anticipated early of the 1990ties Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) recently gained more and more attention as a climate change mitigation option. However, CO2 suppressed in geological reservoirs is likely to lead to future releases of the CO2 stored. This "non-permanence" must be considered if an environmentally sound policy is desired. Against this background, the present article analyses a potential integration of CCS in the international climate regime. It is based on existing rules and modalities regarding non-permanence of sequestration in the Land use, Land-use change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector. Interestingly, the experience from LULUCF has almost completely been neglected during the discussion on CCS. We argue that CCS can only be accounted for in a transparent and comprehensive way, if it is considered a "removal" (or "sink") activity. This is, however, incompatible with the current UNFCCC rules and definitions. Consequently, they would have to be changed. Accounting and problems of cross-border projects are discussed. They arise due to the potential geographical separation of capture and storage site. Furthermore, an economic analysis is conducted considering the consequences of non-permanent storage. We apply the tCER approach for LULUCF projects which has already been agreed upon during the international climate negotiations. It may thus form the basis for CCS, too. The study suggests that CCS is probably not as attractive as widely claimed.
On the Detection of Artefacts in Spectro-astrometry
Creators: name: Brannigan, E.
name: Takami, M.
name: Chrysostomou, A.
name: Bailey, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that artificial bipolar structure can be detected using spectro-astrometry when the point spread function (PSF) of a point source suffers distortion in a relatively wide slit. Spectro-astrometry is a technique which allows us to probe the spatial structure of astronomical sources on milliarcsecond scales making it possible to detect close binaries and to study the geometry and kinematics of outflowing gas on scales much smaller than the seeing or the diffraction limit of the telescope. It is demonstrated that distortion of the PSF, caused by tracking errors of the telescope or unstable active optics during an exposure can induce artificial signals which may be misinterpreted as a real-astrometric signal. Using simulations we show that these may be minimised by using a narrow slit relative to the seeing. Spectra should be obtained at anti-parallel slit position angles (eg. 0 and 180 degrees) for comparison in order to allow artificial signatures to be identified.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Lamoreaux, John C. und Cailara, Cyril: The Life of Timothy of Kākhushtā
Creators: name: Kaufhold, Hubert
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 86 (2002): Oriens christianus, Band 86
The ablation of gas clouds by blazar jets
Creators: name: Heil, J.
name: Zacharias, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flaring activity in blazars can last for vastly different time-scales, and may be the result of density enhancements in the jet flow that result from the intrusion of an interstellar cloud into the jet. We investigate the lightcurves expected from the ablation of gas clouds by the blazar jet under various cloud and jet configurations. We derive the semi-analytical formulae describing the ablation process of a hydrostatic cloud, and perform parameter scans of artificial set-ups over both cloud and jet parameter spaces. We then use parameters obtained from measurements of various cloud types to produce lightcurves of these cloud examples. The parameter scans show that a vast zoo of symmetrical lightcurves can be realized. Both cloud and emission region parameters significantly influence the duration, and strength of the flare. The scale height of the cloud is one of the most important parameters, as it determines the shape of the lightcurve. In turn, important cloud parameters can be deduced from the observed shape of a flare. The example clouds result in significant flares lasting for various time scales.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication by A&A
Rio, Kyoto, Marrakesh - groundrules for the global climate policy regime
Creators: name: Michaelowa, Axel
name: Michaelowa, Axel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: After four years of intense negotiations that tethered on the brink of failure, the design of the international climate policy regime that is formed by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Marrakesh Accords is now sufficiently clear to be implemented. Apart from the U.S. and Australia, all industrialised countries have now stated that they will ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Industrial countries are subject to binding greenhouse gas emissions targets for the commitment period 2008-2012. Several countries profit from exceptions that weaken the targets. The availability of forestry and agricultural sinks will further lower the necessity for emission reductions. A world market for emission rights will form as the Kyoto Mechanisms can be used without limits; the only category apart are sinks CDM credits that are capped. Given the U.S. position to stay out of the Kyoto Protocol, overall demand for emission rights is likely to be lower than supply of "hot air" from Russia and Ukraine. Thus the world market price will be very low, probably between 1 and 5 - / t of CO2. The price could be higher if sellers form a cartel or some sellers are excluded from the market when they do not fulfil the relatively strict reporting rules agreed in Marrakesh. Under a low price the CDM whose institutional structure is rather cumbersome will only have a chance if it concentrates on the cheapest project types and most effective host countries. Especially attractive are projects collecting and burning landfill methane while most renewable energy projects are too expensive, unless they are implemented in very favourable locations.
CDM Potential of Dairy Sector in India
Creators: name: Sirohi, Smita
name: Michaelowa, Axel
name: Sirohi, Smita
name: Michaelowa, Axel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: CDM
subject: agriculture
subject: dairy
subject: India

description: Among the co-operative mechanisms established under the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism is the only one, which has the potential to assist developing countries in achieving sustainable development by promoting environmentally friendly investment from industrialized country governments and businesses. Although, apart from nuclear energy and deforestation avoidance, all other projects are eligible under CDM, so far, the CDM projects have largely been confined to industrial sector and agricultural sector, in general has been left out. To assess the issues and opportunities presented by potential international markets for greenhouse gases offsets through the CDM and facilitate implementation of CDM in India, a National Startegy Study on CDM is already underway in the country. However, here again, the agriculture sector, in general, and livestock sector, in particular has not been included in the ambit of NSS, although in India total emissions of methane from livestock are highest. The present study is a pioneering attempt to examine the prospects of CDM projects in the Indian dairy sector. This report discusses the issues of baseline additionality and sustainable development in the context of CDM projects in the dairy sector in India, estimates the cost of various methane mitigation strategies in the sector and highlights the key constraints for the potential CDM projects in this sector.
Direct Photon Measurement at RHIC-PHENIX
Creators: name: Sakaguchi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results on direct photon measurements from the PHENIX experiment at RHIC are presented. The direct photon yields for $p_T>$6 GeV/$c$ as a function of centrality in Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV are found to be consistent with NLO pQCD calculation scaled by the number of binary collisions. The results suggest that the photons observed are emitted from the initial stage of hard scattering. Comparisons with several theoretical calculations are also presented.
description: 8 pages, 13 figures. Proceedings for 21st Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics held in Breckenridge, Colorado, U.S.A., in Feburary, 2005
Optimization of data-driven filterbank for automatic speaker verification
Creators: name: Sarangi, Susanta
name: Sahidullah, Md
name: Saha, Goutam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most of the speech processing applications use triangular filters spaced in mel-scale for feature extraction. In this paper, we propose a new data-driven filter design method which optimizes filter parameters from a given speech data. First, we introduce a frame-selection based approach for developing speech-signal-based frequency warping scale. Then, we propose a new method for computing the filter frequency responses by using principal component analysis (PCA). The main advantage of the proposed method over the recently introduced deep learning based methods is that it requires very limited amount of unlabeled speech-data. We demonstrate that the proposed filterbank has more speaker discriminative power than commonly used mel filterbank as well as existing data-driven filterbank. We conduct automatic speaker verification (ASV) experiments with different corpora using various classifier back-ends. We show that the acoustic features created with proposed filterbank are better than existing mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and speech-signal-based frequency cepstral coefficients (SFCCs) in most cases. In the experiments with VoxCeleb1 and popular i-vector back-end, we observe 9.75% relative improvement in equal error rate (EER) over MFCCs. Similarly, the relative improvement is 4.43% with recently introduced x-vector system. We obtain further improvement using fusion of the proposed method with standard MFCC-based approach.
description: Published in Digital Signal Processing journal (Elsevier)
Gillman, Ian und Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim: Christians in Asia before 1500
Creators: name: Hage, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 86 (2002): Oriens christianus, Band 86
Additional file 1 of Analysis of risk allele frequencies of single nucleotide polymorphisms related to open-angle glaucoma in different ethnic groups
Creators: name: Hyun-Tae Shin
name: Yoon, Byung Woo
name: Seo, Je Hyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. A heatmap generated using open-angle glaucoma-related single nucleotide polymorphisms in the global population and the East Asian population. Figure S2. A Heatmap generated using open-angle glaucoma-related single nucleotide polymorphisms in the East Asian population
Defining Investment Additionality for CDM Projects - Practical Approaches
Creators: name: Langrock, Thomas
name: Michaelowa, Axel
name: Greiner, Sandra
name: Langrock, Thomas
name: Michaelowa, Axel
name: Greiner, Sandra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The environmental integrity of the CDM under the Kyoto Protocol depends on the possibility to avoid giving emission credits to projects that would have happened anyway. Whether and how "Investment Additionality" of CDM projects has to be determined is currently part of climate negotiations. We discuss the rationale of companies to invest in projects and analyse possible criteria to determine Investment Additionality from a theoretical point of view. A number of case studies is used to show the implications of the different criteria. The use of a single criterion is not possible, especially due to the importance of non-monetary barriers. However, some criteria are better than others. Moreover, the institutional framework for the selection and application of criteria is very important. Concluding, we suggest a combination of a threshold Internal Rate of Return with a risk factor as primary criterion. To take nonmonetary barriers into account, additional criteria could be used such as the existence of similar privately financed projects in the host country. If no explicit criterion is politically feasible, stringent baseline methodologies could at least capture some aspects of Investment Additionality. Die umweltpolitische Integrität des im Kyoto-Protokoll verankerten CDM hängt davon ab, ob Projekte, die ohnehin stattgefunden hätten, Emissionsgutschriften erhalten können. Ob und wie die "Zusätzlichkeit der Investition" nachgewiesen werden muss, ist derzeit Bestandteil der Klimaverhandlungen. Wir diskutieren die Entscheidungsgründe, die Firmen zu Investitionen in Projekte bewegen und analysieren mögliche Kriterien für die Bestimmung der Zusätzlichkeit aus einer theoretischen Perspektive. Darüber hinaus werden Fallstudien zur Untersuchung der Auswirkungen der verschiedenen Kriterien herangezogen. Sie zeigen, dass die generelle Beschränkung auf ein einzelnes Kriterium nicht möglich ist. Jedoch sind einige Kriterien besser als andere. Außerdem sind die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen für die Auswahl und Anwendung der Kriterien sehr wichtig. Zusammenfassend befürworten wir die Kombination eines Schwellenwerts für die interne Ertragsrate mit einem Risikofaktor. Um nicht-monetäre Hindernisse zu berücksichtigen, können zusätzliche Kriterien wie die Existenz von ähnlichen, privat finanzierten Projekten im Gastland überprüft werden. Wenn kein derartiges Kriterium politisch durchsetzbar ist, können strenge Regeln für die Referenzfallbestimmung zumindest einige Aspekte der Zusätzlichkeit einfangen.
Comment on 'Model-dependence of Shapiro time delay and the "speed of gravity/speed of light" controversy'
Creators: name: Kopeikin, Sergei M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper published in Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2004, vol. 21, p. 3803 Carlip used a vector-tensor theory of gravity to calculate the Shapiro time delay by a moving gravitational lens. He claimed that the relativistic correction of the order of v/c beyond the static part of the Shapiro delay depends on the speed of light c and, hence, the Fomalont-Kopeikin experiment is not sensitive to the speed of gravity c_g. In this letter we analyze Carlip's calculation and demonstrate that it implies a gravitodynamic (non-metric) system of units based on the principle of the constancy of the speed of gravity but it is disconnected from the practical method of measurement of astronomical distances based on the principle of the constancy of the speed of light and the SI metric (electrodynamic) system of units. Re-adjustment of theoretically-admissible but practically unmeasurable Carlip's coordinates to the SI metric system of units used in JPL ephemeris, reveals that the velocity-dependent correction to the static part of the Shapiro time delay does depend on the speed of gravity c_g as shown by Kopeikin in Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2004, vol. 21, p. 1. This analysis elucidates the importance of employing the metric system of units for physically meaningful interpretation of gravitational experiments.
description: 8 pages, no figures, accepted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Biomechanics and behavior of hummingbird molt
Creators: name: Christensen, Beth A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis explores how hummingbirds cope with molt, a costly component of their annual cycle, on two very different time scales. My first experiment explores aerodynamic explanations for the unique, non-sequential primary molt pattern followed by all hummingbirds, with the molt sequence of the two outermost primaries reversed in order compared to other birds. I simulated both the ancestral, sequential molt pattern and the non-sequential pattern in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) by removing primary 9 or 10, respectively. I used high speed video (500 fps) to film hovering events before wings were altered, immediately after I removed either feather, and approximately one week later. From the video, I estimated wingbeat kinematics of birds and used oscillator and aerodynamic theories to predict and interpret results. Results suggest possible aerodynamic benefits of the pattern followed by hummingbirds compared to the basic pattern they have evolved away from. My second study investigates how captive molting hummingbirds alter their behavior during molt. I used focal animal sampling to record frequencies and durations of flights, feeding bouts and aggressive encounters before, during and after natural molt. Molting birds flew less, fed less frequently, and engaged more often in aggressive encounters during molt than non-molting periods. These behavioral changes may be a mechanism to partially or entirely offset costs of the molting process. Natural selection has resulted in diverse ways to reduce the costs of molt, including how birds molt. Hummingbirds strictly adhere to a unique primary molt pattern, and results of this study show evidence of possible benefits. Changing behavior allows individual birds a means to compensate for the costs of molt on a daily basis. Overall, these are only two ways that hummingbirds cope with a necessary component of their annual cycle.
Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany
Creators: name: Suedekum, Jens
name: Blien, Uwe
name: Suedekum, Jens
name: Blien, Uwe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Employment Growth
subject: Shift-Share-Analysis
subject: Regional Wages
subject: Purchasing Power Argument

description: We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very accurate data set for West Germany. The regression shows that the impact of regional wages on employment growth is significantly negative. There is some variation of this effect across sectors, but in no case we find support for the claim that an exogenous wage increase leads to higher employment growth.
Additional file 4 of Rapid changes in mucociliary transport in the tracheal epithelium caused by unconditioned room air or nebulized hypertonic saline and mannitol are not determined by frequency of beating cilia
Creators: name: Susyn Joan Kelly
name: Martinsen, Paul
name: Tatkov, Stanislav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4.
Shock Waves and Cosmological Matrix Models
Creators: name: Li, Miao
name: Song, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find the shock wave solutions in a class of cosmological backgrounds with a null singularity, each of these backgrounds admits a matrix description. A shock wave solution breaks all supersymmetry meanwhile indicates that the interaction between two static D0-branes cancel, thus provides basic evidence for the matrix description. The probe action of a D0-brane in the background of another suggests that the usual perturbative expansion of matrix model breaks down.
description: 10 pages, harvmav, v2: some comments on instability added, v3: version to appear in JHEP
Shape-aware Semi-supervised 3D Semantic Segmentation for Medical Images
Creators: name: Li, Shuailin
name: Zhang, Chuyu
name: He, Xuming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Semi-supervised learning has attracted much attention in medical image segmentation due to challenges in acquiring pixel-wise image annotations, which is a crucial step for building high-performance deep learning methods. Most existing semi-supervised segmentation approaches either tend to neglect geometric constraint in object segments, leading to incomplete object coverage, or impose strong shape prior that requires extra alignment. In this work, we propose a novel shapeaware semi-supervised segmentation strategy to leverage abundant unlabeled data and to enforce a geometric shape constraint on the segmentation output. To achieve this, we develop a multi-task deep network that jointly predicts semantic segmentation and signed distance map(SDM) of object surfaces. During training, we introduce an adversarial loss between the predicted SDMs of labeled and unlabeled data so that our network is able to capture shape-aware features more effectively. Experiments on the Atrial Segmentation Challenge dataset show that our method outperforms current state-of-the-art approaches with improved shape estimation, which validates its efficacy. Code is available at https://github.com/kleinzcy/SASSnet.
description: Appear in MICCAI2020
Transaction Costs of the Kyoto Mechanisms
Creators: name: Michaelowa, Axel
name: Stronzik, Marcus
name: Michaelowa, Axel
name: Stronzik, Marcus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Transaction costs will reduce the attractiveness of the Kyoto Mechanisms compared to domestic abatement options. Especially the project-based mechanisms CDM and JI are likely to entail considerable costs of baseline development, verification and certification. The AIJ pilot phase and the PCF programme give indications about the level of these costs. Under current estimates of world market prices for greenhouse gas emission permits, projects with annual emission reductions of less than 50,000 t CO2 equivalent are unlikely to be viable; for micro projects transaction costs can reach several hundred Euro per t CO2 equivalent. Thus the Marrakesh Accord rule to have special rules for small scale CDM projects makes sense, even if the thresholds chosen advantage certain project types; projects below 1000 t CO2 equivalent per year should get further exemptions. An alternative solution with no risk for the environmental credibility of the projects would be to subsidise baseline setting and charge lower, subsidised fees for small projects for the different steps of the CDM/second track JI project cycle. Transaktionskosten verringern die Attraktivität der Kyoto-Mechanismen im Vergleich zu heimischen Verringerungsmaßnahmen. Besonders die projektbasierten Mechanismen CDM und JI bringen voraussichtlich erhebliche Kosten für Referenzfallentwicklung, Verifizierung und Zertifizierung mit sich. Die AIJ-Erprobungsphase und das Programm des PCF geben Anhaltspunkte für die Höhe dieser Kosten. Bei den derzeitigen Schätzungen der Weltmarktpreise für Treibhausgasemissionsrechte sind Projekte mit weniger als 50,000 t CO2-Äquivalent pro Jahr ökonomisch nicht attraktiv; für Kleinstprojekte können die Transaktionskosten mehrere Hundert - pro t CO2- Äquivalent betragen. Daher sind die Marrakesch-Beschlüsse, Sonderregeln für CDMKleinprojekte auszuarbeiten, sinnvoll, wenn auch die dort gewählten Schwellenwerte bestimmte Projekttypen begünstigen. Projekte unter 1000 t CO2-Äquivalent pro Jahr sollten weitere Vergünstigungen erhalten. Eine Alternative ohne Gefährdung der umweltpolitischen Glaubwürdigkeit der Projekte wäre die Subventionierung der Referenzfallerstellung und die Erhebung geringerer, subventionierter Gebühren für die verschiedenen Schritte des CDM/2.-Weg-JI-Projektzyklus.
Преимущества и недостатки литературных текстов в преподавании иностранных языков
Creators: name: Zayniddin Sanakulov
name: Мусабекова  Мадина Нариманбековна
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: альнейшая работа посвящена использованию литературных текстов в преподавании немецкого языкакак иностранного. Здесь речь идёт о преимуществах и недостатках литературных текстов в преподаваниииностранных языков.
Литературные тексты на уроках иностранных языков
Creators: name: Zayniddin Sanakulov
name: Мусабекова  Мадина Нариманбековна
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200525 Literary Theory
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Это исследование посвящено использованию литературных текстов в преподавании иностранныхязыков. Также, в этом исследовании рассмотрены утверждение относительно предрассудков, что «стихив основном сложные формы и не подходят для преподавания иностранного языка». Поскольку стихи, в от­личие от других литературных жанров, состоят из пары буквальных стихов, их не следует рассматриватькак сложные формы. Чтобы подтвердить этот аргумент и показать, что поэзия может использоваться в преподавании иностранных языков, была проанализирована поэма Кристиана Моргенштерна. Кроме того, было установлено, что из-за частых языковых игр стихи каждого человека воспринимаются и интерпрети­руются по-разному. Таким образом, стихи могут стать материалом, особенно для разговорных занятий,и служить для того, чтобы занятия были еще более увлекательными.
Depletion in post-AGB stars with a dusty disc. II
Creators: name: Maas, T.
name: Van Winckel, H.
name: Evans, T. Lloyd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a chemical abundance analysis on the basis of high signal-to- noise and high resolution spectra for 12 stars of our newly defined sample. The selection criterion for the stars of this sample was their position in the `RV Tauri' box in the [12]-[25], [25]-[60] two-colour diagram. An additional requisite was the presence of a near-IR excess. We found that the photospheres of nine stars are affected by the depletion process. Since the most likely origin of the near-IR excess is a disc, this strongly suggests that the phenomenon of depletion and the presence of a disc are linked. Among the depleted stars we find different depletion patterns. In seven stars elements with a condensation temperature below 1500 K are not or only slightly affected. Large underabundances are measured only for most elements with a condensation temperature above 1500 K.
description: 20 pages, 22 figures, published in A&A
Project Management Plan and ethical conduct
Creators: name: Rossi Filangieri, Alfonso
name: Russo, Raffaella
name: Barbier, Michèle
name: Capuano, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The CORE Project Management Plan & ethical conduct is devoted to the execution and control of the project activities, by providing a description of the organisational and managerial aspects of the project, together with the ethical aspects it will comply. This deliverable describes roles and responsibilities, administration and coordination activities, risks and issues management. The document has a dedicated section related to the project ethical conduct. However, all the aspects related to the possible ethical issues arisen from research activities, will be treated in the Work Package 10 deliverables
Dynamic symmetry-breaking in mutually annihilating fluids with selective interfaces
Creators: name: Succi, Sauro
name: Montessori, Andrea
name: Falcucci, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The selective entrapment of mutually annihilating species within a phase-changing carrier fluid is explored by both analytical and numerical means. The model takes full account of the dynamic heterogeneity which arises as a result of the coupling between hydrodynamic transport, dynamic phase-transitions and chemical reactions between the participating species, in the presence of a selective droplet interface. Special attention is paid to the dynamic symmetry breaking between the mass of the two species entrapped within the expanding droplet as a function of time. It is found that selective sources are much more effective symmetry breakers than selective diffusion. The present study may be of interest for a broad variety of advection-diffusion-reaction phenomena with selective fluid interfaces, including the problem of electroweak baryogenesis.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of QALY league table of Iran: a practical method for better resource allocation
Creators: name: Hashempour, Reza
name: Raei, Behzad
name: Lari, Majid Safaei
name: Gallezan, Nasrin Abolhasanbeigi
name: AkbariSari, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. The results of technical charecteristics and cost per QALY of the studies.
The impact of niobium doping upon the magnetotransport properties of the oxygen-deficient perovskite SrCo1-xNbxO3-d
Creators: name: Motohashi, T.
name: Caignaert, V.
name: Pralong, V.
name: Hervieu, M.
name: Maignan, A.
name: Raveau, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The oxygen-deficient perovskite cobaltite SrCo1-xNbxO3-d was synthesized by direct solid-state reaction and its magnetotransport properties were investigated. This cobaltite exhibits an unusual ferromagnetic behavior with a transition temperature Tm = 130-150 K and a spin glass like behavior below Tm. Importantly, this phase reaches a large magnetoresistance (MR) value, MR = -(rH - r0) / r0 = 30% at 5 K in 7 T. The large MR effect is believed to be related to the disordered magnetic state induced by the Nb-for-Co substitution.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Appl. Phys. Lett
Welfare Effects of Demographic Changes in a Ramsey Growth Model
Creators: name: Stiller, Silvia
name: Stiller, Silvia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Demographic Forecast
subject: Population Ageing
subject: Consumption
subject: Welfare

description: Population ageing and decline are inescapable facts for Germany which are expected to have - especially due to the labour force decrease - negative impacts on the economy. In this context it is often referred to the possibility of countering potentially negative economic effects of population ageing by a fertility increase or immigration of people at the working age. Of course, changing fertility and immigration are both suited to reduce population ageing. But they influence the population structure, labour supply and thus the economic conditions in substantially different way. This discussion paper focuses on one aspect which is related to this issue. It is examined by simulations how different demographic scenarios affect consumption development and thus average welfare of individual cohorts. The analysis is based on a Ramsey growth model and refers to the demographic structure in Germany. The model results imply that welfare of cohorts with a life expectancy up to 50 years is higher without immigration. Instead, when a consumer faces a life expectancy higher than 50 years or will be born in the future immigration has a positive influence on welfare. Independently of his life expectancy and year of birth a consumer is worse off if fertility rises. In Deutschland sind die Alterung und der drastische Rückgang der Bevölkerung unausweichlich. Im Zuge dieser Entwicklung werden, insbesondere wegen des Arbeitskräfterückgangs, negative Auswirkungen auf die Ökonomie erwartet. In diesem Zusammenhang wird häufig auf die Möglichkeiten verwiesen, den potentiellen negativen ökonomischen Effekten der Alterung durch Zuwanderung von Menschen im Erwerbsalter oder durch einen Fertilitätsanstieg entgegenzuwirken. Zwar sind sowohl höhere Fertilität als auch Zuwanderung geeignet, die demographische Alterung zu reduzieren. Aber Zuwanderung und steigende Fertilität sind aus ökonomischer Sicht nicht gleichwertig, weil sie den Bevölkerungsaufbau und das Arbeitsangebot sehr unterschiedlich beeinflussen. Dieses Diskussionspapier konzentriert sich auf einen hiermit verbundenen Aspekt. Es wird anhand von Simulationsrechnungen untersucht, wie sich unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsszenarios auf die Konsummöglichkeiten und deshalb die Wohlfahrt einzelner Kohorten auswirken. Die Analyse basiert auf einem Ramsey Wachstumsmodell und bezieht sich auf die demographische Situation in Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Wohlfahrt von Kohorten mit einer Lebenserwartung bis 50 Jahre ohne Zuwanderung höher ist als mit Zuwanderung. Für Konsumenten mit einer höheren Lebenserwartung als 50 Jahre und für zukünftig geborene Kohorten, beeinflußt Zuwanderung die individuelle Wohlfahrt positiv. Unabhängig von seiner Lebenserwartung und seinem Geburtsjahr sinkt die Wohlfahrt eines Konsumenten, wenn die Fertilität steigt.
Ageing, dynamical heterogeneities and crystallization in the Biroli-Mezard model
Creators: name: Marinari, E.
name: Van Kerrebroeck, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a number of essential dynamical features of the Biroli-Mezard model. We observe a dynamical slowing down which for high densities depends both on the observation time and on the age of the system. We relate this ageing behavior to the real space dynamics of the system, from which it is clear that the system initially gains mobility due to some essential initial restructuring. We discuss crystallization, its relevant time scales and connection with ageing. We quantify how heterogeneous the slow dynamics of the BM model is by investigating the dynamical susceptibility and discussing its dependence on the age of the system. We establish a number of quantitative evidences that are in good agreement with a recent analysis.
The low-mass pre-main sequence population of the stellar association LH 52 in the Large Magellanic Cloud discovered with Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 Observations
Creators: name: Gouliermis, D.
name: Brandner, W.
name: Henning, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the serendipitous discovery of ~ 500 low-mass candidate PMS stars in the vicinity of the stellar association LH 52 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We present evidence that the red faint sequence of these stars seen in the CMD of LH 52 from HST/WFPC2 observations belongs only to the association and follows almost perfectly isochrone models for PMS stars of masses down to ~ 0.3 M_solar. We find that this feature has a Galactic counterpart and that the mass spectrum of the candidate PMS stars in LH 52 seems to correspond to a Salpeter IMF with a slope Gamma ~ -1.26 in the mass range 0.8 - 1.4 M_solar.
description: 4 Pages - 3 figures - Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Additional file 2 of QALY league table of Iran: a practical method for better resource allocation
Creators: name: Hashempour, Reza
name: Raei, Behzad
name: Lari, Majid Safaei
name: Gallezan, Nasrin Abolhasanbeigi
name: AkbariSari, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Appendix S2. The results of technical charecteristics and ICUR of the studies.
Active-sterile neutrino mixing constraint using reactor antineutrinos with the ISMRAN set-up
Creators: name: Behera, S. P.
name: Mishra, D. K.
name: Pant, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we present an analysis of the sensitivity to the active-sterile neutrino mixing with the Indian Scintillator Matrix for Reactor Anti-Neutrino (ISMRAN) experimental set-up at very short baseline. In this article, we have considered the measurement of electron antineutrino induced events employing a single detector which can be placed either at a single position or moved between near and far positions from the given reactor core. Results extracted in the later case are independent of the theoretical prediction of the reactor anti-neutrino spectrum and detector related systematic uncertainties. Our analysis shows that the results obtained from the measurement carried out at a combination of the near and far detector positions are improved significantly at higher $Δm^{2}_{41}$ compared to the ones obtained with the measurement at a single detector position only. It is found that the best possible combination of near and far detector positions from a 100 MW$_{th}$ power DHRUVA research reactor core are 7 m and 9 m, respectively, for which ISMRAN set-up can exclude in the range 1.4 $eV^{2} \leq Δm^{2}_{41} \leq$ 4.0 $eV^{2}$ of reactor antineutrino anomaly region along with the present best-fit point of active-sterile neutrino oscillation parameters. At those combinations of detector positions, the ISMRAN set-up can observe the active sterile neutrino oscillation with a 95$\%$ confidence level provided that $\sin^{2}2θ_{14}\geq 0.09$ at $Δm^{2}_{41}$ = 1 eV$^{2}$ for an exposure of 1 ton-yr. The active-sterile neutrino mixing sensitivity can be improved by about 22\% at the same exposure by placing the detector at near and far distances of 15 m and 17 m, respectively, from the compact proto-type fast breeder reactor (PFBR) facility which has a higher thermal power of 1250 MW$_{th}$.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, Minor text corrections similar to Published version
Sustainable Forestry Investment under the Clean Development Mechanism: The Malaysian Case
Creators: name: Dutschke, Michael
name: Dutschke, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In the light of the development of the Malaysian forestry sector in recent years, the article gives an overview over the current discussions around the inclusion of biological carbon sink projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, like forest definitions, additionality, baselines and permanence. Some new ideas are presented, the details of which need to be explored in detail in further studies. As a result, the article gives twofold recommendations: First, which issues international climate negotiators need to tackle in order to make forestry projects work in practice; and second, how and under which conditions CDM forestry can be supportive to the Malaysian development goals. Vor dem Hintergrund der Entwicklung des malaysischen Forstsektors in den letzten Jahren gibt der vorliegende Aufsatz einen Überblick über die aktuellen Diskussionen um die Einbeziehung biologischer Kohlenstoffsenken in den Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) des Kyoto-Protokolls. Stichwörter sind Forstdefinitionen, Zusätzlichkeit, Baselines und Permanenz. Der Autor unterbreitet in diesem Zusammenhang einige neue Vorschläge, deren Details Gegenstand künftiger Studien sein werden. Zusammenfassend gibt der Artikel Politikempfehlungen auf zwei Ebenen: Zum einen, welche Fragen die internationalen Verhandlungsführer lösen müssen, bevor Forstprojekte unter dem CDM zur Realität werden können. Zum anderen, wie und unter welchen Bedingungen CDM-Forstwirtschaft den malaysischen Entwicklungszielen zuträglich sein kann.
Muraoka, Takamitsu: Classical Syriac
Creators: name: Kropp, Manfred
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 86 (2002): Oriens christianus, Band 86
Generating functional analysis of CDMA detection dynamics
Creators: name: Mimura, Kazushi
name: Okada, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the detection dynamics of the parallel interference canceller (PIC) for code-division multiple-access (CDMA) multiuser detection, applied to a randomly spread, fully syncronous base-band uncoded CDMA channel model with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) under perfect power control in the large-system limit. It is known that the predictions of the density evolution (DE) can fairly explain the detection dynamics only in the case where the detection dynamics converge. At transients, though, the predictions of DE systematically deviate from computer simulation results. Furthermore, when the detection dynamics fail to convergence, the deviation of the predictions of DE from the results of numerical experiments becomes large. As an alternative, generating functional analysis (GFA) can take into account the effect of the Onsager reaction term exactly and does not need the Gaussian assumption of the local field. We present GFA to evaluate the detection dynamics of PIC for CDMA multiuser detection. The predictions of GFA exhibits good consistency with the computer simulation result for any condition, even if the dynamics fail to convergence.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
DOES NUTRITION LABELING LEAD TO HEALTHIER EATING?
Creators: name: Teisl, Mario F.
name: Levy, Alan S.
name: Teisl, Mario F.
name: Levy, Alan S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Nutrient labeling is found to significantly affect consumer purchase behavior; some evidence that consumers may act as if they hold nutrient (or health risk) budgets is found. Providing nutrient information may allow consumers to more easily switch consumption away from "unhealthy" products in those food categories where differences in other quality characteristics (e.g., taste) are relatively small between the more and less "healthy" products, toward "unhealthy" products in categories where differences may be relatively large (i.e., a "substitution effect"). If this substitution effect is large, nutrient labeling may not change the overall consumption of "unhealthy" nutrients and thus may not lead to significant changes in health risk.
Land management practice in Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
Creators: name: Chen, Shi Kuan James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This is an empirical study of how the municipal government of Fuzhou, Fujian Province in the PRC carried out land management from the beginning of urban land reform in the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. It is argued that land management practice is explicable through the model of the local corporatist state which emerged as the result of economic reform and decentralisation in post-Mao China. Based on interviews with local officials and other informants and secondary research, the study examines land management practice in the four areas of inner city redevelopment, industrial relocation, hidden land transactions by state-owned enterprises and economic technology development zones. The study concludes that three characteristics make up the totality of land management practice in Fuzhou - the extensive assertion of control over its domain of corporate governance, the exercise of its power as an instrument to serve its various interests that are defined by the specific contexts, and the fluidity and informal nature of extensive bargaining among the participants in the land development process.
Causal particle detectors and topology
Creators: name: Langlois, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate particle detector responses in some topologically non-trivial spacetimes. We extend a recently proposed regularization of the massless scalar field Wightman function in 4-dimensional Minkowski space to arbitrary dimension, to the massive scalar field, to quotients of Minkowski space under discrete isometry groups and to the massless Dirac field. We investigate in detail the transition rate of inertial and uniformly accelerated detectors on the quotient spaces under groups generated by $(t,x,y,z)\mapsto(t,x,y,z+2a)$, $(t,x,y,z)\mapsto(t,-x,y,z)$, $(t,x,y,z)\mapsto(t,-x,-y,z)$, $(t,x,y,z)\mapsto(t,-x,-y,z+a)$ and some higher dimensional generalizations. For motions in at constant $y$ and $z$ on the latter three spaces the response is time dependent. We also discuss the response of static detectors on the RP^3 geon and inertial detectors on RP^3 de Sitter space via their associated global embedding Minkowski spaces (GEMS). The response on RP^3 de Sitter space, found both directly and in its GEMS, provides support for the validity of applying the GEMS procedure to detector responses and to quotient spaces such as RP^3 de Sitter space and the RP^3 geon where the embedding spaces are Minkowski spaces with suitable identifications.
description: 47 pages, 9 figures
FACTORS INFLUENCING EARLY ADOPTION OF NEW FOOD PRODUCTS IN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS
Creators: name: McLean-Meyinsse, Patricia E.
name: McLean-Meyinsse, Patricia E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: The study uses the chi-square contingency test for independence and an ordered probit model to examine the relationships between early adoption of new food products and primary grocery shoppers' geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic characteristics (GDS). The results suggest that GDS variables affect early adoption. Specifically, early adopters are likely to be women, about 42 years old, living in three-person households, college educated, Catholics, Caucasians, and have household income of at least $50,000.