cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Loss-Making Marginal Spending on Crop Variable Inputs
Creators: name: Reader, Mark A
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Lawrence, Rachel J.
name: Lang, Ben GA
name: Reader, Mark A
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Lawrence, Rachel J.
name: Lang, Ben GA
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Marginal Products
subject: Marginal Profit
subject: (Efficiency Ratios
subject: Factor Coefficients
subject: Factor Elasticities)
subject: Farm Variable Inputs
subject: Fertiliser Use
subject: Agricultural Productivity
subject: Farm Enterprise Management
subject: Farm Firms
subject: Wheat
subject: Oilseed Rape
subject: England and Wales

description: AIM : Crop variable inputs (CVI's) are critical to successful crops. So we here ask: "What are the marginal returns to crop variable inputs?" And explore whether observed CVI levels maximise economic returns to farmers. We compare results to national aggregates in India. DATA: Analysed Farm Business Survey 2004-2012, where crop gross margins and input spending are available, for conventional winter wheat and oilseed in England and Wales. RESULTS: Marginal spending on variable inputs (e.g. seed, fertiliser, crop protection) returns in economic product significantly less than GBP£1 per marginal pound spent. Therefore, expenditure allocation on those inputs could be quite far from economic optima. However marginal physical products (yields) are positive, but small, and significantly different from zero. These conclusions hold across a wide range of alternative economic models and subsets of the data. The same conclusions are observed, in estimations for Indian grain production, and for maize in China where lower national rates of fertiliser application appear optimal. DISCUSSION: Unknowns, including yield, quality and price, make it difficult to optimise ex ante input levels. Tied advice could reduce the efficiency in the farm sector - owing to possible perverse incentives. And the preferences of farmers, may be to avoid risk, or to maximise yields. Farmers may also be biased - relative to full information and perfect competition. All of which might distort prices from the neoclassical equilibria with perfect information and perfect competition. Thus, one could ask "How useful are the prices seen in practice, for allocation in the context of the farmer behaviour reported here?"
Megan Davis and Marcia Langton (eds), It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Meaningful Constitutional Recognition and Reform (Melbourne University Press, 2016)
Creators: name: O'Bryan, Katie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This content was published in the Monash University Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Monash Law School, managed by a team of student editors.
Softening of SUSY flavor problem from asymptotically free bulk interactions
Creators: name: Choi, Kang-Sin
name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Kim, Jihn E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it was pointed out that soft masses of the supersymmetric gauge theories with extra dimensions tends to a flavor conserving point, which is a desirable scenario in gravity mediation models. We point out that in 6D we must consider the anomaly free condition in addition to the condition on the asymptotic freedom. From this, we find $E_6$, $E_7$ and $E_8$ are natural candidates in 6D. There is no SU(N) model, but there exist two SO(10) models and SO(2n) models(one each for each $n\ge 6$) satisfying these conditions. In 5 dimensions, there is no such condition on anomaly freedom, but the softening may not be enough.
description: LaTeX file of 15 pages including one eps figure
Unsupervised Domain Adversarial Self-Calibration for Electromyographic-based Gesture Recognition
Creators: name: Côté-Allard, Ulysse
name: Gagnon-Turcotte, Gabriel
name: Phinyomark, Angkoon
name: Glette, Kyrre
name: Scheme, Erik
name: Laviolette, François
name: Gosselin, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides an intuitive and non-invasive interface from which to control machines. However, preserving the myoelectric control system's performance over multiple days is challenging, due to the transient nature of the signals obtained with this recording technique. In practice, if the system is to remain usable, a time-consuming and periodic recalibration is necessary. In the case where the sEMG interface is employed every few days, the user might need to do this recalibration before every use. Thus, severely limiting the practicality of such a control method. Consequently, this paper proposes tackling the especially challenging task of unsupervised adaptation of sEMG signals, when multiple days have elapsed between each recording, by introducing Self-Calibrating Asynchronous Domain Adversarial Neural Network (SCADANN). SCADANN is compared with two state-of-the-art self-calibrating algorithms developed specifically for deep learning within the context of EMG-based gesture recognition and three state-of-the-art domain adversarial algorithms. The comparison is made both on an offline and a dynamic dataset (20 participants per dataset), using two different deep network architectures with two different input modalities (temporal-spatial descriptors and spectrograms). Overall, SCADANN is shown to substantially and systematically improves classification performances over no recalibration and obtains the highest average accuracy for all tested cases across all methods.
description: 12 pages + 2 pages appendices. The last three authors shared senior authorship
Ischnocoelia xanthochroma Perkins 1908
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia xanthochroma

description: xanthochroma Perkins
Ischnocoelia xanthochroma Perkins 1908: 32, female—“Middle Queensland ” (London, type no. 18.127).— Bohart & Stange 1965: 11 (female holotype examined).— Giordani Soika 1969: 69 (key), 71, figs. 38, 41, 45–46 (redescription; Qld.: Bundaberg, Mackay); 1977: 109 (Qld.: “N. Queensland,” Somerset; N. T.: Port Darwin).— Cardale 1985: 179 (cat.).— Giordani Soika 1993b: 126 (compared to I. chlorotica n. sp.).— Borsato 2003: 532 (xanthocroma [!]; Qld.: Georgetown, “Mareeba, Granite Gorge”), 534 (compared to I. yahwulpa n. sp.).— Brown 2009: 29 (N. T.: North Coast).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Allocating Risk and Liability for Defective 3D Printed Products: Product Safety, Negligence or Something New?
Creators: name: Nielsen, Jane
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The traditional relationships and roles of the manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, and consumer are being challenged. The rise of the sharing economy, demonstrated through applications such as Uber, online auctions sites such as eBay, and service advisory facilities such as TripAdvisor, has created a very different, and a somewhat less vertical, capitalist economy than what it was 10 years ago. Perhaps the most significant factor in the shared economy evolution has been the rise of the affordable 3D printer, now available for home use. The consumer can now also be a manufacturer and a retailer. A person can purchase the 3D printer, and through their own skills, or through the purchase or gift of a computer-assisted design file, can now create their own products for personal use or for resale. Law, as it traditionally does, now has to play catch-up to science. Society must ask the question whether the current regulatory regime is suitable, or in need of modification? This paper, in the context of the 3D printer, suggests that the increasing use of this technology requires careful consideration of whether the current law, be it product safety law or negligence, provides adequate protection to consumers.
To Arrest or Not to Arrest the Incumbent Head of State: The Bashir Case and the Interplay between Law and Politics
Creators: name: Petrovic, Jadranka
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In 2009, Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir (‘President Bashir’) was indicted by the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the conflict in the western region of Darfur, Sudan. The following year the ICC charged President Bashir with genocide over events in Darfur, where allegedly more than 300 000 people have died and more than two million people have been displaced since 2003. Before the ICC can prosecute President Bashir, it has to obtain custody over him. As a judicial institution without power to arrest those it indicts, the Court relies on national authorities. States to which President Bashir has travelled since the warrants for his arrest have been issued have been reluctant to arrest and surrender President Bashir to the ICC justifying their refusal by the head of state immunity argument. By focusing on the specific response of the South African government to the ICC’s arrest warrant against President Bashir in June 2015, this article considers the question of whether states must cooperate with the ICC in instances of an arrest warrant against a sitting head of state of a non-state party and observes the broader implications of state responses similar to the South African case.
Zinkicide nanoformulation efficacy to mitigate xylem limited Xylella fastidiosa strains in tobacco and blueberry
Creators: name: Deepak, Shantharaj
name: Feliciano, Naranjo Eber
name: Swadeshmukul, Santra
name: De La Fuente Leonardo,
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: plant health
subject: xylella
subject: zinkicide
subject: blueberry
subject: http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C20262
subject: http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C587

description: Blueberry leaf scorch disease caused by Xylella fastidiosa causes important economic losses in the US. There is growing interest in employing nanoformulations for managing plant diseases due to their efficacy with particle size. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of the ZnO based nanoformulation Zinkicide (ZnK) against X. fastidiosa. In vitro assays showed that ZnK minimum inhibitory concentration, MIC50, and MIC90 was 50 ppm and ≥ 60 ppm respectively. Initially, ZnK efficacy was tested in the model tobacco pathosystem infected with X. fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa TemeculaL. ZnK added as soil drenches at an optimum cumulative concentration of 2500 ppm showed bactericidal activity by reducing ~1000-fold X. fastidiosa TemeculaL population. Subsequently, ZnK was evaluated in the greenhouse using blueberry infected with X. fastidiosa subsp. multiplex AlmaEm3. Preliminary results showed that an optimum non-phytotoxic ZnK concentration of 2000 ppm led to bactericidal activity, causing a slow progression of X. fastidiosa AlmaEm3 growth in the xylem, resulting in overall lower disease incidence and reduction in bacterial population by ~10-fold. Evaluation of systemic mobility of ZnK in other hosts as well as identification of non-phytotoxic concentrations will allow application of this management strategy transferrable to other hosts to limit X. fastidiosa outbreaks.
description: US; PDF; dzs0081@auburn.edu
Ischnocoelia yahwulpa Borsato 2003
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia yahwulpa

description: yahwulpa Borsato
Ischnocoelia yahwulpa Borsato 2003: 511, 532, figs. 8–9, 14, male, female—“ Queensland, (15.03S— 145E) 4 km SW of Casuarina Hill ” (holotype male Canberra); also from “Watalgan Ra. near Bundaberg,” “(15.16S.— 144.59E) 14 km W by N Hope Vale Mission,” “Sandstone Outerope, 30 km W of Fairview, (via Laura N Queensland)” “ Captain Billy Creek. Cape York Pen., (13.40S. 142.50E),” Kuranda, “ 15 km SW of Mareeba. ”
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Outsourcing Obligations to Developing Nations: Australia’s Refugee Resettlement Agreement with Cambodia
Creators: name: Failla, Monique
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Despite a proclaimed commitment of the ‘developed West’ to international cooperation in the formation of durable solutions for refugees, a pattern of defensive policy designed to outsource obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention has emerged. In this context, on 26 September 2014, Australia and Cambodia signed a ‘responsibility sharing’ agreement for the relocation to Cambodia of recognised refugees who originally sought protection in Australia and were removed to Nauru for processing. Whilst the Cambodia Agreement is of particular relevance in the Australasian region, this paper will analyse its nature and eﬀect against the backdrop of the global trend of burden shifting and the implications of such an agreement for international law. This paper will examine whether the Cambodia Agreementt complies with the 1951 Refugee Convention through an analysis of the potential issues with fulﬁlment of the rights found therein. This requires the establishment of a continuum of jurisdiction pursuant to which it is concluded that transferees under the Cambodia Agreementt remain under the eﬀective jurisdiction of Australia. This paper concludes that while a developing country may have the capacity to provide the requisite standard of protection to refugees under the 1951 Refugee Convention, in practice Cambodia fails to do so.
The clash between de Sitter and anti-de Sitter space
Creators: name: Firouzjahi, Hassan
name: Leblond, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate solutions that are dynamically evolving between asymptotically de Sitter and asymptotically anti-de Sitter regions in the context of Einstein gravity coupled to general matter fields in d dimensions. We demonstrate the existence of a no go theorem whenever the matter content of the theory is 'reasonable', i.e. such that the weak energy condition is satisfied. We show that there exist solutions for which the energy conditions are violated in a finite region of the spacetime. We speculate on the holographic interpretation of these gravitational backgrounds by combining ideas from the AdS/CFT and the dS/CFT dualities.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, citations added, typos corrected
Heterogeneous Economic and Behavioural Drivers of the Farm Afforestation Decision
Creators: name: Ryan, Mary
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
name: Upton, Vincent
name: Handgraaf, Michael
name: Ryan, Mary
name: O'Donoghue, Cathal
name: Upton, Vincent
name: Handgraaf, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Afforestation decision
subject: life-cycle analysis
subject: afforestation policy incentives

description: In the context of incentivising farm afforestation to provide ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration to mitigate greenhouse gas production, this paper sheds new light on the complexity of the farm afforestation decision and the characteristics of the farms and the farmers who are likely or unlikely to afforest land. Using a panel dataset of farm level micro-data, we observe whether farming intensity changes as a result of planting. We generate forest and agriculture income streams and employ a life-cycle theoretical framework to analyse the relative importance of agricultural and forest financial drivers in the decision-making process at farm level. We find that for many farmers the afforestation decision involves a wider complex of contemporaneous farm decisions. We find that there is a relationship between financial drivers and the likelihood of planting but we also find that there is a cohort of older smaller farmers that will never plant, and for whom negative cultural attitudes are stronger than financial drivers. We also identify a cohort of large, younger farmers who might plant if the forest income is greater than the agricultural income. This paper describes the farm and farmer characteristics of these cohorts and concludes that a “one size fits all” programme based solely on financial incentives may not be the most appropriate means to encourage further farm afforestation.
Supplementary material
Creators: name: Brañez-Condorena, Ana
name: Goicochea-Lugo, Sergio
name: Zafra-Tanaka, Jessica Hanae
name: Naysha Becerra-Chauca
name: Failoc-Rojas, Virgilio E
name: Herrera-Añazco, Percy
name: Taype-Rondan, Alvaro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary material
Least Squares Approximation for a Distributed System
Creators: name: Zhu, Xuening
name: Li, Feng
name: Wang, Hansheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we develop a distributed least squares approximation (DLSA) method that is able to solve a large family of regression problems (e.g., linear regression, logistic regression, and Cox's model) on a distributed system. By approximating the local objective function using a local quadratic form, we are able to obtain a combined estimator by taking a weighted average of local estimators. The resulting estimator is proved to be statistically as efficient as the global estimator. Moreover, it requires only one round of communication. We further conduct a shrinkage estimation based on the DLSA estimation using an adaptive Lasso approach. The solution can be easily obtained by using the LARS algorithm on the master node. It is theoretically shown that the resulting estimator possesses the oracle property and is selection consistent by using a newly designed distributed Bayesian information criterion (DBIC). The finite sample performance and computational efficiency are further illustrated by an extensive numerical study and an airline dataset. The airline dataset is 52 GB in size. The entire methodology has been implemented in Python for a {\it de-facto} standard Spark system. The proposed DLSA algorithm on the Spark system takes 26 minutes to obtain a logistic regression estimator, which is more efficient and memory friendly than conventional methods.
Relative space-time transformations in GRBs
Creators: name: Ruffini, R.
name: Bianco, C. L.
name: Chardonnet, P.
name: Fraschetti, F.
name: Xue, S. -S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The GRB 991216 and its relevant data acquired from the BATSE experiment and RXTE and Chandra satellites are used as a prototypical case to test the theory linking the origin of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) to the process of vacuum polarization occurring during the formation phase of a black hole endowed with electromagnetic structure (EMBH). The relative space-time transformation paradigm (RSTT paradigm) is presented. It relates the observed signals of GRBs to their past light cones, defining the events on the worldline of the source essential for the interpretation of the data. Since GRBs present regimes with unprecedently large Lorentz $γ$ factor, also sharply varying with time, particular attention is given to the constitutive equations relating the four time variables: the comoving time, the laboratory time, the arrival time at the detector, duly corrected by the cosmological effects. This paradigm is at the very foundation of any possible interpretation of the data of GRBs.
description: AASTeX, 10 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Ap. J. Lett
Breeding and management of dairy cows to increase profit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Creators: name: Bell, M.J.
name: Bell, M.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: dairy cow
subject: biological variation
subject: greenhouse gas emissions
subject: profit.

description: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of changing a range of biological traits on farm profit and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG; expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent, CO2-eq.) for dairy cows in Northern Ireland, and also in the whole of the UK. An average cow was modelled for each population of animals, using average values from milk recording records. Previous work developed a dynamic model, to include nutrient partitioning to allow investigation of GHG abatement options over an animal’s lifetime. A Markov chain approach was used to describe the steady-state herd structure, as well as estimate the CO2-eq. emissions per cow and per kilogram of milk solids (MS). The effects of a single phenotypic and genetic standard deviation change in a range of production and fitness traits were assessed. For each dairy cow population, the study will identify traits that will improve production efficiency by bringing about a desirable increase in profit, and reduce average CO2-eq. emissions per cow and per kg MS of herds. Selective breeding and appropriate management can both potentially improve health, fertility and feed utilisation of dairy systems and reduce its environmental impact.
FOOD PREFERENCES SEGMENTATION USING AN AIDS/MIXTURE APPROACH
Creators: name: Arnoult, Matthieu H.
name: Kehlbacher, Ariane
name: Srinivasan, C.S.
name: McCloy, Rachel
name: Tiffin, Richard
name: Arnoult, Matthieu H.
name: Kehlbacher, Ariane
name: Srinivasan, C.S.
name: McCloy, Rachel
name: Tiffin, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: dietary guidelines
subject: household food consumption
subject: segmentation
subject: - nite mixtures
subject: demand model

description: Excess weight is a problem affecting over half of the British population, with some categories being more at risk than others, in particular in lower socio-economic groups. In that respect, differentiated dietary behaviours are known to contribute to inequalities in health outcomes. Segmentation is increasingly employed as a means of better targeting policy interventions. While conventional segmentation methods divide the population according to their dietary choices or according to socio-demographic characteristics, a potential flaw in this approach is that people may choose to consume a bad diet for entirely different reasons, or that people from different socio-demographic groups may behave in a similar fashion. We use a novel alternative approach which seeks to segment according to peoples dietary preferences. The method estimates a finite mixture of AIDS. We identify segments which have a degree of homogeneity in their food purchases, while remaining heterogeneous in terms of their socio-demographics. The homogeneity of food purchases within components is less than within components identified using k-means clustering of food choices. We argue that this approach will lead to more effective targeted interventions because they would appeal to the reasons for bad dietary choices rather than the choices themselves.
Testing the effect of new neighboring open space on development
Creators: name: Towe, Charles
name: Towe, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Use
subject: Policy Evaluation
subject: Open Space Amenities
subject: Propensity Score Matching

description: We examine both the short- and long-term effects of newly preserved open space in an exurban landscape. The open space is secured via voluntary perpetual easements that sever the development right from the land. We find mixed results with significant impacts on developable neighboring parcels, both on their likelihood of subdividing and on their likelihood of entering a preservation easement. We show that subdivision and preservation activity disproportionately locates near past neighboring preservation easement activity. The first outcome is an unintended consequence in contrast to policy objectives while the latter is, in fact, a policy induced effect. The analysis relies on a unique spatially explicit parcel-level dataset documenting residential development and preservation activity for almost 30 years, the primary objective is to test for interaction effects among parcels which would be impossible with any other sort of data and the results are robust across models addressing endogeneity concerns.
Variability in active galactic nuclei: confrontation of models with observations
Creators: name: Hawkins, M. R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) has long held the promise of shedding light on their detailed structure, and possibly other astrophysical phenonema. Different emission mechanisms lead to different patterns of variability in flux which are in principle easily distinguishable. Recent predictions for the expected spectrum of variations for various models are now in such a form that they can be compared with the observed statistical properties of AGN light curves from large scale monitoring programmes. In this paper, we use the results of a long term monitoring programme of a large sample of quasars and Seyfert galaxies, as well as individual light curves from the literature, to distinguish between the various model predictions. The results favour a model based on accretion disc instability over the starburst model where the variation comes from a succession of supernova bursts, but it also appears that much of the observed variation in quasars is due to gravitational microlensing.
description: 12 pages including 10 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Macrocalymma Perkins 1908
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Macrocalymma

description: Genus Macrocalymma Perkins
Macrocalymma Perkins 1908: 28, 31, genus.
Type species: Macrocalymma smithianum Perkins 1908, by monotypy.
Taxonomy: Bohart & Stange 1965: 10 (key to genera of Discoeliinae).— Giordani Soika 1969: 96 (key to species).— Cardale 1985: 180–181 (cat.).
Distribution: Australia.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Exact Calculation of Ring Diagrams and the Off-shell Effect on the Equation of State
Creators: name: Liao, Jinfeng
name: Zhu, Xianglei
name: Zhuang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The partition function with ring diagrams at finite temperature is exactly caluclated by using contour integrals in the complex energy plane. It contains a pole part with temperature and momentum dependent mass and a phase shift part induced by off-shell effect in hot medium. The thermodynamic potentials for $ϕ^4$ and $ϕ^3$ interactions are calculated and compared with the quasi-particle (pole) approximation. It is found that the off-shell effect on the equation of state is remarkable.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures, refereces added, final version to appear in PRD
title: Литературное творчество как особая «форма религиозности» (Л.И.Бородин)
Creators: name: Еремеева, Юлия
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Л.И.Бородин в своих произведениях говорил о сакральной природе слова, о бережном к нему отношении. Художественное видение автора направлено на раскрытие связи земного мира с Горним. В статье исследуются представления Л.И.Бородина о сущности творчества, его целях и задачах.
Revisiting Quality-Adjusted Price and Quantity Indices for Pesticides
Creators: name: Nehring, Richard F.
name: Hallahan, Charlie
name: Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge
name: Wang, Sun-Ling
name: Wechsler, Seth
name: Hart, Jarrett
name: Mosheim, Roberto
name: Nehring, Richard F.
name: Hallahan, Charlie
name: Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge
name: Wang, Sun-Ling
name: Wechsler, Seth
name: Hart, Jarrett
name: Mosheim, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Key Words: hedonic estimation
subject: pesticide quality
subject: corn
subject: soybeans
subject: cotton
subject: sorghum

description: This study extends previous research, which calculated quality-adjusted price and quantity indices for the pesticides applied to corn, soybeans, cotton, and sorghum using hedonic methods (Fernandez-Cornejo and Jans, 1995). We extend the analysis through 2008 and make several econometric improvements. The analysis proceeds as follows: First, Zivot-Andrews tests are used to determine whether there are structural breaks in the data generating process. Next, we use hedonic regressions to control for pesticide quality characteristics including potency, toxicity, and persistence across active ingredients. Finally, the regression results are used to obtain preliminary estimates of the quality-adjusted price and quantity indices.
An Alternative Construction of the Quantum Action for Supergravity
Creators: name: Djeghloul, N.
name: Tahiri, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a method to derive the on-shell invariant quantum action of the supergravity in such a way that the quartic ghost interaction term is explicity determined. First, we reinvestigate the simple supergravity in terms of a principal superfibre bundle. This gives rise to the closed geometrical BRST algebra. Therefore we determine the open BRST algebra, which realizes the invariance of the classical action. Then, given a prescription to build the full quantum action, we obtain the quantum BRST algebra. Together with the constructed quantum action this allows us to recover the auxiliary fields and the invariant extension of the classical action.
description: 17 pages, No figures
ATFaceGAN: Single Face Image Restoration and Recognition from Atmospheric Turbulence
Creators: name: Lau, Chun Pong
name: Souri, Hossein
name: Chellappa, Rama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image degradation due to atmospheric turbulence is common while capturing images at long ranges. To mitigate the degradation due to turbulence which includes deformation and blur, we propose a generative single frame restoration algorithm which disentangles the blur and deformation due to turbulence and reconstructs a restored image. The disentanglement is achieved by decomposing the distortion due to turbulence into blur and deformation components using deblur generator and deformation correction generator respectively. Two paths of restoration are implemented to regularize the disentanglement and generate two restored images from one degraded image. A fusion function combines the features of the restored images to reconstruct a sharp image with rich details. Adversarial and perceptual losses are added to reconstruct a sharp image and suppress the artifacts respectively. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed restoration algorithm, which achieves satisfactory performance in face restoration and face recognition.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Section 32(1) of the Charter: Confining Statutory Discretions Compatibly with Charter Rights?
Creators: name: Chen, Bruce
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Parliament frequently enacts legislation which confers broad discretionary powers on decision-makers. Such statutory discretions are not at large — they are conﬁned by principles of statutory interpretation. In Victoria, the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic) (‘Charter’) has a role to play in interpreting statutes. Section 32(1) of the Charter provides that so far as it is possible consistently with their purpose, all statutory provisions must be interpreted in a way that is compatible with human rights. A question therefore arises as to whether discretions conferred by Victorian statutory provisions must be interpreted so that they may only be exercised compatibly with the human rights protected by the Charter. This article explores the issue. The answer is not as straightforward as it might ﬁrst seem.
Macrocalymma aliciae Meade-Waldo 1914
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Macrocalymma
Macrocalymma aliciae

description: aliciae Meade-Waldo
Macrocalymma aliciae Meade Waldo, 1914: 459, female—“S.W. Australia: Yallingup” (London, type no. 18.119).—
Bequaert 1928b: 150 (note on type).— Bohart & Stange 1965: 11 (examined).— Giordani Soika 1969: 97 (key), 99.— Cardale 1985: 180 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Robust Almost Global Splay State Stabilization of Pulse Coupled Oscillators
Creators: name: Ferrante, Francesco
name: Wang, Yongqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This technical note deals with the problem of asymptotically stabilizing the splay state configuration of a network of identical pulse coupled oscillators through the design of the their phase response function. The network of pulse coupled oscillators is modeled as a hybrid system. The design of the phase response function is performed to achieve almost global asymptotic stability of a set wherein oscillators' phases are evenly distributed on the unit circle. To establish such a result, a novel Lyapunov function is proposed. Robustness with respect to frequency perturbation is assessed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed methodology is shown in an example.
description: V1 corrects some (minor) typos in the proof of Proposition 3 in the published paper. In V2 the corrections included in V1 are colored in blue
On the interpretation of the burst structure of GRBs
Creators: name: Ruffini, R.
name: Bianco, C. L.
name: Chardonnet, P.
name: Fraschetti, F.
name: Xue, S. -S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given the very accurate data from the BATSE experiment and RXTE and Chandra satellites, we use the GRB 991216 as a prototypical case to test the EMBH theory linking the origin of the energy of GRBs to the electromagnetic energy of black holes. The fit of the afterglow fixes the only two free parameters of the model and leads to a new paradigm for the interpretation of the burst structure, the IBS paradigm. It leads as well to a reconsideration of the relative roles of the afterglow and burst in GRBs by defining two new phases in this complex phenomenon: a) the injector phase, giving rise to the proper-GRB (P-GRB), and b) the beam-target phase, giving rise to the extended afterglow peak emission (E-APE) and to the afterglow. Such differentiation leads to a natural possible explanation of the bimodal distribution of GRBs observed by BATSE. The agreement with the observational data in regions extending from the horizon of the EMBH all the way out to the distant observer confirms the uniqueness of the model.
description: AASTeX, 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Ap. J. Lett
Energy Price Transmission and Retail Milk Prices
Creators: name: Li, Xun
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
name: Li, Xun
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: food
subject: milk
subject: energy
subject: pricing
subject: pass-through

description: This paper estimates the pass-through between diesel fuel and retail milk prices at the product brand level, based on a random coefficient logit demand model along with a market channel marginal cost function in order to estimate energy price pass-through rates to the consumer. It takes into account the partial and net impact of energy prices through the multi-market effects on other inputs. It also exploits a natural experiment of energy hyperinflation and the great recession in 2008. Empirical results show that energy prices (e.g., diesel price) significantly impact the retail prices of milk products and are, therefore, an important determinant of food price inflation. Pass-through rates are estimated to be in the range from 0.15 to approximately 0.50 before March 2008 and from 0.09 to 0.19 after March 2009, with an average of 0.26. This indicates that a $1.00 per gallon increase in diesel prices would on average result in a 26¢ per gallon increase in the retail price of milk. Statistical test indicates pass-through rates before March 2008 are significantly higher than that after March 2008. Interestingly, private label brands have the lowest energy (diesel) pass-through rates, implying that compared to manufacturer brands, private label prices are more insulated from energy price shocks.
The Impact of Psychological Priming in the Context of Commecial Law Mediation
Creators: name: Carruthers, Amanda
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This content was published in the Monash University Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Monash Law School, managed by a team of student editors.
Computing controlled invariant sets from data using convex optimization
Creators: name: Korda, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This work presents a data-driven method for approximation of the maximum positively invariant (MPI) set and the maximum controlled invariant (MCI) set for nonlinear dynamical systems. The method only requires the knowledge of a finite collection of one-step transitions of the discrete-time dynamics, without the requirement of segments of trajectories or the control inputs that effected the transitions to be available. The approach uses a novel characterization of the MPI and MCI sets as the solution to an infinite-dimensional linear programming (LP) problem in the space of continuous functions, with the optimum being attained by a (Lipschitz) continuous function under mild assumptions. The infinite-dimensional LP is then approximated by restricting the decision variable to a finite-dimensional subspace and by imposing the non-negativity constraint of this LP only on the available data samples. This leads to a single finite-dimensional LP that can be easily solved using off-the-shelf solvers. We analyze the convergence rate and sample complexity, proving probabilistic as well as hard guarantees on the volume error of the approximations. The approach is very general, requiring minimal underlying assumptions. In particular, the dynamics is not required to be polynomial or even continuous (forgoing some of the theoretical results). Detailed numerical examples up to state-space dimension ten with code available online demonstrate the method.
Parallel deployment of passive and composite samplers for surveillance and variant profiling of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage
Creators: name: Fischer, Jamie M
name: Brown, Joe
name: Djeddar, Naima
name: Kocaman, Kumru
name: Cha, Gyuhyon
name: Flores, Camryn I
name: Lindner, Blake G
name: Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T
name: Burton, Liza J
name: Spencer, John W
name: Graham, Katherine E
name: Pinto, Ameet
name: Bryksin, Anton
name: D'amico, Isabelle
name: Hatt, Janet K
name: Rao, Gouthami
name: Mascuch, Samantha J
name: Yathiraj, Pranav
name: Woo, Seongwook
name: Bingham, Lilia R
name: Zhu, Kevin J
name: Chung, Hayong
name: Biliya, Shweta
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2022

description:
Wastewater-based epidemiology during the COVID-19 pandemic has proven useful for public health decision-making but is often hampered by sampling methodology constraints, particularly at the building- or neighborhood-level. Time-weighted composite samples are commonly used; however, autosamplers are expensive and can be affected by intermittent flows in sub-sewershed contexts. In this study, we compared time-weighted composite, grab, and passive sampling via Moore swabs, at four locations across a college campus to understand the utility of passive sampling. After optimizing the methods for sample handling and processing for viral RNA extraction, we quantified SARS-CoV-2 N1 and N2, as well as a fecal strength indicator, PMMoV, by ddRT-PCR and applied tiled amplicon sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Passive samples compared favorably with composite samples in our study area: for samples collected concurrently, 42 % of the samples agreed between Moore swab and composite samples and 58 % of the samples were positive for SARS-CoV-2 using Moore swabs while composite samples were below the limit of detection. Variant profiles from Moore swabs showed a shift from variant BA.1 to BA.2, consistent with in-person saliva samples. These data have implications for the broader implementation of sewage surveillance without advanced sampling technologies and for the utilization of passive sampling approaches for other emerging pathogens.
Macrocalymma smithianum Perkins 1908
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Macrocalymma
Macrocalymma smithianum

description: smithianum Perkins
Macrocalymma smithianum Perkins 1908: 31, male—“ Queensland ” (London, type no. 18.118).—Meade Waldo, 1914: 460 (compared to M. aliciae Meade-Waldo).— Bequaert 1928b: 150 (distinct from aliciae).— Giordani Soika 1941: 212, fig. 16 (5) (female; Qld: Mackay).— Bohart & Stange 1965: 11 (holotype male examined).— Giordani Soika 1969: 97 (key), 98, figs. 54–55 (Qld.: Brisbane); 1973a: 28 (“Allotipo”).— Cardale 1985: 181 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Variability of accretion flow in the core of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151
Creators: name: Czerny, B.
name: Doroshenko, V. T.
name: Nikolajuk, M.
name: Schwarzenberg-Czerny, A.
name: Loska, Z.
name: Madejski, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze observations of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 covering 90 years in the optical band and 27 years in the 2-10 keV X-ray band. We compute the Normalized Power Spectrum Density (NPSD), the Structure Function (SF) and the Autocorrelation Function (ACF) for these data. The results show that the optical and X-ray variability properties are significantly different. X-ray variations are predominantly in the timescale range of 5 - 1000 days. The optical variations have also a short timescale component which may be related to X-ray variability but the dominant effect is the long timescale variability, with timescales longer than $\sim$ 10 years. We compare our results with observations of NGC 5548 and Cyg X-1. We conclude that the long timescale variability may be caused by radiation pressure instability in the accretion disk, although the observed timescale in NGC 4151 is by a factor of few longer than expected. X-ray variability of this source is very similar to what is observed in Cyg X-1 but scaled with the mass of the black hole, which suggests that the radiation pressure instability does not affect considerably the X-ray production.
description: 21 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Transitions between versions of the International Classification of Diseases and chronic disease prevalence estimates from administrative health data: a population-based study
Creators: name: Sanusi, Ridwan A.
name: Yan, Lin
name: Hamad, Amani F.
name: Ayilara, Olawale F.
name: Vasylkiv, Viktoriya
name: Jozani, Mohammad Jafari
name: Banerji, Shantanu
name: Delaney, Joseph
name: Hu, Pingzhao
name: Wall-Wieler, Elizabeth
name: Lix, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: U-Statistic Definition. Table S1. Summary of Hotelling’s T2 statistics for chronic health conditions in the transition periods. Figure S1. Goodness-of-fit statistics for negative binomial and Poisson regression models for 16 chronic health conditions. Figure S2. Chronic health conditions with significant changes in regression coefficients within the transition periods. Figure S3. Chronic health conditions with no significant changes in regression coefficients within the transition periods. Figure S4. Chronic health conditions with significant changes in regression model parameter estimates, physician billing claims. Figure S5. Chronic health conditions with no significant changes in regression model parameter estimates, physician billing claims. Figure S6. Chronic health conditions with significant changes in regression model parameter estimates, hospital records. Figure S7. Chronic health conditions with no significant changes in regression model parameter estimates, hospital records.
Economic shocks, governance and violence: A subnational level analysis of Africa
Creators: name: Kibriya, Shahriar
name: Xu, Zhicheng P.
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Kibriya, Shahriar
name: Xu, Zhicheng P.
name: Zhang, Yu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Political Economy
subject: conflict
subject: rainfall shocks
subject: institution

description: By using a geo-coded disaggregated dataset in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1997–2013, we exploit year-to-year rainfall variation as an instrumental variable to estimate the causal effect of economic shocks on civil conflict conditional on governance quality. We confirm earlier findings that adverse rainfall shocks increase the likelihood of conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. We also investigate the role of governance quality on conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. The results underscore that improvement of governance quality can effectively mitigate the detrimental effect of negative income shocks on regional peace. However, due to the limited penetration of countrywide governance structures, this effect of governance quality is more significant in areas closer from the capital cities than in the remote areas.