cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gender issues and women's participation in irrigated agriculture: The case of two private irrigation canals in Carchi, Ecuador
Creators: name: Bastidas, Elena P.
name: Bastidas, Elena P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Women in development
subject: Gender
subject: Labor
subject: Privatization
subject: Households
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Irrigation canals
subject: Water users' associations
subject: Participatory management
subject: Water allocation
subject: Case studies

description: Defines the degree of women's involvement in irrigated agriculture and water users associations in two private irrigation canals in Ecuador and identifies factors that limit their involvement. Analyzes the effects of intra-household dynamics and the women's urban/rural backgrounds on participation.
Parametrization of Neutrino Mixing Matrix in Tri-bimaximal Mixing Pattern
Creators: name: Li, Nan
name: Ma, Bo-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutrino mixing matrix is expanded in powers of a small parameter $λ$ in tri-bimaximal mixing pattern. We also present some applications of this parametrization, such as to the expression of the Jarlskog parameter $J$. Comparing with other parametrizations (such as the parametrization in bimaximal mixing pattern), this parametrization converges more quickly, but is of less symmetry.
description: 4 Latex pages, no figure, Version to appear in PRD
Assessment of participatory management of irrigation schemes in Sri Lanka: Partial reforms, partial benefits
Creators: name: Samad, Madar
name: Vermillion, Douglas Lynn
name: Samad, Madar
name: Vermillion, Douglas Lynn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Privatization
subject: Policy
subject: Performance evaluation
subject: Indicators
subject: Operating costs
subject: Irrigation management
subject: Economic aspects
subject: Returns
subject: Participatory management
subject: Farmer participation
subject: Government managed irrigation systems
subject: Small scale systems
subject: Large-scale systems
subject: Regression analysis
subject: Models

description: Describes the application of a standard methodology developed by IWMI to assess the impact of irrigation management transfer on the performance of irrigation schemes. Includes detailed analysis of the effects of participatory management on the performance of irrigation schemes in Sri Lanka.
The Bell Theorem as a Special Case of a Theorem of Bass
Creators: name: Hess, Karl
name: Philipp, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theorem of Bell states that certain results of quantum mechanics violate inequalities that are valid for objective local random variables. We show that the inequalities of Bell are special cases of theorems found ten years earlier by Bass and stated in full generality by Vorob'ev. This fact implies precise necessary and sufficient mathematical conditions for the validity of the Bell inequalities. We show that these precise conditions differ significantly from the definition of objective local variable spaces and as an application that the Bell inequalities may be violated even for objective local random variables.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Survey # 89
Creators: name: Institut Für Demoskopie Allensbach
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Anticipation for 1956 (1); dreams (2); German national flag (3); book clubs (6); knowledge of brand name products (4); product colors (4); reading newspapers or magazines (3); beer (5); who cooks in house (1); dough products (11); radio listening (3); brand recognition (3); chocolate (2); smoking habits (18); support for Konrad Adenauer's policies (1); Adenauer negotiating with Russians about reunification (2); recognizing Eastern Zone (1); Russia cooperation (1); Thomas Dehler (2); price changes (1); economic situation (1); dangerous business boom (2); son becoming politician (1); politician qualities (1); Christian workers union (4); pedestrian crosswalks (2); France-Morocco situation (2); housing styles and planned builds (12); hair problems (3).
Die Kirchenbauten Jersusalems im vierten Jahrhundert in bildlicher Darstellung
Creators: name: Stegensek, Augustin
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 9 (1911): Oriens christianus, Band 9
Effects of Universal Extra Dimensions on Higgs signals at LHC
Creators: name: Rai, Santosh Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A major focus at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be Higgs boson studies and it would be an interesting prospect to simultaneously probe for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) in the Higgs signals. In this work we show as to what extent, the effects of Universal Extra Dimension (UED) can be isolated at the LHC through the Higgs signals. By doing a detailed study of the different uncertainties involved in the measurement of the rates for the process pp --> h --> gamma gamma we estimate the extent to which these uncertainties can mask the effects of the contributions coming from UED.
description: 13 pages, LateX, Title changed, text and figures modified. Version to appear in IJMPA
Additional file 1 of Peer pressure and alcohol consumption in adults living in the UK: a systematic qualitative review
Creators: name: Morris, Hannah
name: Larsen, John
name: Catterall, Emma
name: Moss, Antony C.
name: Dombrowski, Stephan U.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Full database search strategy.
Institutional change and shared management of water resources in large canal systems: Results of an action research program in Pakistan
Creators: name: Bandaragoda, Don Jayatissa
name: Bandaragoda, Don Jayatissa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Land Economics/Use

description: Demonstrates the viability of farmers organizations for managing parts of the water resource system to achieve efficient and equitable use of water in a hierarchical society such as Pakistan. Suggests a successful conceptual and methodological framework for taking a bottom-up approach to the formation of water users associations and identifies possible constraints on its wider application.
Assessing irrigation performance with comparative indicators: The case of the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, Mexico
Creators: name: Kloezen, Wim H.
name: Garces-Restrepo, Carlos
name: Kloezen, Wim H.
name: Garces-Restrepo, Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Irrigation management
subject: Irrigation scheduling
subject: Water allocation
subject: Water distribution
subject: Case studies
subject: Institutional constraints
subject: Operation
subject: Monitoring
subject: Indicators
subject: Performance indexes
subject: Water rights
subject: Economic aspects
subject: Data collection
subject: Environmental effects
subject: Performance evaluation
subject: Water use efficiency

description: Describes and evaluates the application of IWMI's minimum set of performance indicators to the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, and compares this with the application of a small set of process performance indicators.
Indicators for comparing performance of irrigated agricultural systems
Creators: name: Molden, David J.
name: Sakthivadivel, Ramasamy
name: Perry, Christopher J.
name: De Fraiture, Charlotte
name: Kloezen, Wim H.
name: Molden, David J.
name: Sakthivadivel, Ramasamy
name: Perry, Christopher J.
name: De Fraiture, Charlotte
name: Kloezen, Wim H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Irrigation systems
subject: Indicators
subject: Performance indexes
subject: Financing
subject: Crop production
subject: Water demand
subject: Water requirements
subject: Prices

description: Outlines IWMI's external and other comparative performance indicators that allow for analysis of irrigation performance across systems. The purpose of these indicators is to understand the current situation with respect to productive utilization of land and water, to compare relative performance of systems, and to identify where performance can be improved.
Farmer response to rationed and uncertain irrigation supplies
Creators: name: Perry, Christopher J.
name: Narayanamurthy, S.G.
name: Perry, Christopher J.
name: Narayanamurthy, S.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Water resource management
subject: Water use efficiency
subject: Evapotranspiration
subject: Agricultural production
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Irrigation scheduling
subject: Water allocation
subject: Water supply
subject: Water scarcity
subject: Water delivery
subject: Reservoirs
subject: Uncertainty
subject: Yield

description: Explores the theoretical and actual responses of farmers faced with irrigation supplies that are limited in relation to available land and labor resources, and where the actual schedule and available volume for delivery are uncertain.
Additional file 1 of Recovery services and expectation of consumers and mental health professionals in community-based residential facilities of Ghana
Creators: name: Gyamfi, Naomi
name: Badu, Eric
name: Wisdom Kwadwo Mprah
name: Mensah, Isaac
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questions covered in the interview guide.
Spectral transitions and universal steady states in random Kraus maps and circuits
Creators: name: Sá, Lucas
name: Ribeiro, Pedro
name: Can, Tankut
name: Prosen, Tomaž
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of dissipation and decoherence in generic open quantum systems recently led to the investigation of spectral and steady-state properties of random Lindbladian dynamics. A natural question is then how realistic and universal those properties are. Here, we address these issues by considering a different description of dissipative quantum systems, namely, the discrete-time Kraus map representation of completely positive quantum dynamics. Through random matrix theory (RMT) techniques and numerical exact diagonalization, we study random Kraus maps, allowing for a varying dissipation strength, and their local circuit counterpart. We find the spectrum of the random Kraus map to be either an annulus or a disk inside the unit circle in the complex plane, with a transition between the two cases taking place at a critical value of dissipation strength. The eigenvalue distribution and the spectral transition are well described by a simplified RMT model that we can solve exactly in the thermodynamic limit, by means of non-Hermitian RMT and quaternionic free probability. The steady state, on the contrary, is not affected by the spectral transition. It has, however, a perturbative crossover regime at small dissipation, inside which the steady state is characterized by uncorrelated eigenvalues. At large dissipation (or for any dissipation for a large-enough system), the steady state is well described by a random Wishart matrix. The steady-state properties thus coincide with those already observed for random Lindbladian dynamics, indicating their universality. Quite remarkably, the statistical properties of the local Kraus circuit are qualitatively the same as those of the nonlocal Kraus map, indicating that the latter, which is more tractable, already captures the realistic and universal physical properties of generic open quantum systems.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures. v2: additional details, version as published
Cylindrical Korteweg-de Vries solitons on a ferrofluid surface
Creators: name: Rannacher, D.
name: Engel, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear and non-linear surface waves on a ferrofluid cylinder surrounding a current-carrying wire are investigated. Suppressing the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of the fluid column by the magnetic field of a sufficiently large current in the wire axis-symmetric surface deformations are shown to propagate without dispersion in the long wavelength limit. Using multiple scale perturbation theory the weakly non-linear regime may be described by a Korteweg-de Vries equation with coefficients depending on the magnetic field strength. For different values for the current in the wire hence different solutions such as hump or hole solitons may be generated. The possibility to observe these structures in experiments is also elucidated.
A dynamic model of oligopoly in the coffee export market
Creators: name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Karp, Larry S.
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: export marketing
subject: mathematical models

description: A linear-quadratic, dynamic feedback oligopoly model that nests various market structures is used to estimate the degree of competitiveness and the adjustment paths of the two largest coffee exporters, Brazil and Colombia. Their estimated behavior is relatively competitive. This subgame perfect dynamic model is-compared to a standard static oligopoly model and the open-loop model (the dynamic generalization of the standard static model). Both classical and Bayesian tests of open-loop and feedback dynamic models are reported.
Clustering of test scenes by use of Wasserstein metric and analysis of tracking quality in optically degraded videos
Creators: name: Kowalczyk, Paweł
name: Bugiel, Paulina
name: Izydorczyk, Jacek
name: Szelest, Marcin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The goal of this paper is to present results of analysis of the impact of artificially generated disturbances imitating real defects that may occur in the process of testing autonomous vehicles both during rides and later, in vehicle software simulation.
 We will focus on one perception module responsible for detection of other moving vehicles on the road. Injected
 faults are Gaussian blur, obliteration by particles and gray level resolution degradation. At the same time, we want to propose
 an examination approach scheme that will provide detailed information about distribution of quality in this comparative
 experiment and which can be reused for different perception modules, faults, scene sets and also in order to compare new
 releases of main recognition software. To do so we will combine statistical methods (Welch’s ANOVA) and topological analysis
 (Clusterization over space of distributions, Wasserstein metric). Results include summary of experiment for all used data and
 described by mentioned tools examples of certain cases that illustrate general conclusions and less standard outcomes.
Viscous Properties of a Degenerate One-Dimensional Fermi Gas
Creators: name: DeGottardi, Wade
name: Matveev, K. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the viscous properties of a system of weakly interacting spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fermions in one dimension. Accounting for the effect of interactions on the quasiparticle energy spectrum, we obtain the bulk viscosity of this system at low temperatures. Our result is valid for frequencies that are small compared with the rate of fermion backscattering. For frequencies larger than this exponentially small rate, the excitations of the system become decoupled from the center of mass motion, and the fluid is described by two-fluid hydrodynamics. We calculate the three transport coefficients required to describe viscous dissipation in this regime.
description: 5 pages, no figures
Additional file 1 of Classification of long-term very long period (VLP) volcanic earthquakes at Whakaari/White Island volcano, New Zealand
Creators: name: Park, Iseul
name: Jolly, Arthur
name: Lokmer, Ivan
name: Kennedy, Ben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. A list of triggered time (UTC: dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss), peak-to-peak (P2P) amplitude (μm/s), event order in the cluster tree, and family index (F1, F2 and U) for VLPs recorded at WIZ and WSRZ stations. This table supports Fig. 2.
HYREC-2: a highly accurate sub-millisecond recombination code
Creators: name: Lee, Nanoom
name: Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the new recombination code HYREC-2, holding the same accuracy as the state-of-the-art codes HYREC and COSMOREC and, at the same time, surpassing the computational speed of the code RECFAST commonly used for CMB-anisotropy data analyses. HYREC-2 is based on an effective 4-level atom model, accounting exactly for the non-equilibrium of highly excited states of hydrogen, and very accurately for radiative transfer effects with a correction to the Lyman-$α$ escape rate. The latter is computed with the original HYREC, and tabulated, as a function of temperature, along with its derivatives with respect to the relevant cosmological parameters. This enables the code to keep the same accuracy as the original HYREC-2 over the full 99.7% confidence region of cosmological parameters currently allowed by Planck, while running in under one millisecond on a standard laptop. Our code leads to no noticeable bias in any cosmological parameters even in the case of an ideal cosmic-variance limited experiment up to $\ell$ = 5000. Beyond CMB anisotropy calculations, HYREC-2 will be a useful tool to compute various observables that depend on the recombination and thermal history, such as the recombination spectrum or the 21-cm signal.
description: 14pages, 7 Figures, version accepted for publication in PRD
Exploring Rich and Efficient Spatial Temporal Interactions for Real Time Video Salient Object Detection
Creators: name: Chen, Chenglizhao
name: Wang, Guotao
name: Peng, Chong
name: Zhang, Dingwen
name: Fang, Yuming
name: Qin, Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The current main stream methods formulate their video saliency mainly from two independent venues, i.e., the spatial and temporal branches. As a complementary component, the main task for the temporal branch is to intermittently focus the spatial branch on those regions with salient movements. In this way, even though the overall video saliency quality is heavily dependent on its spatial branch, however, the performance of the temporal branch still matter. Thus, the key factor to improve the overall video saliency is how to further boost the performance of these branches efficiently. In this paper, we propose a novel spatiotemporal network to achieve such improvement in a full interactive fashion. We integrate a lightweight temporal model into the spatial branch to coarsely locate those spatially salient regions which are correlated with trustworthy salient movements. Meanwhile, the spatial branch itself is able to recurrently refine the temporal model in a multi-scale manner. In this way, both the spatial and temporal branches are able to interact with each other, achieving the mutual performance improvement. Our method is easy to implement yet effective, achieving high quality video saliency detection in real-time speed with 50 FPS.
Additional file 2 of Classification of long-term very long period (VLP) volcanic earthquakes at Whakaari/White Island volcano, New Zealand
Creators: name: Park, Iseul
name: Jolly, Arthur
name: Lokmer, Ivan
name: Kennedy, Ben
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2. A dendrogram based on the absolute value of correlation coefficient. Two families (F1 and F2) belong to a cluster (orange lines) except for one low SNR waveform, and all U events denote black lines.
Embedding Java Classes with code2vec: Improvements from Variable Obfuscation
Creators: name: Compton, Rhys
name: Frank, Eibe
name: Patros, Panos
name: Koay, Abigail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic source code analysis in key areas of software engineering, such as code security, can benefit from Machine Learning (ML). However, many standard ML approaches require a numeric representation of data and cannot be applied directly to source code. Thus, to enable ML, we need to embed source code into numeric feature vectors while maintaining the semantics of the code as much as possible. code2vec is a recently released embedding approach that uses the proxy task of method name prediction to map Java methods to feature vectors. However, experimentation with code2vec shows that it learns to rely on variable names for prediction, causing it to be easily fooled by typos or adversarial attacks. Moreover, it is only able to embed individual Java methods and cannot embed an entire collection of methods such as those present in a typical Java class, making it difficult to perform predictions at the class level (e.g., for the identification of malicious Java classes). Both shortcomings are addressed in the research presented in this paper. We investigate the effect of obfuscating variable names during the training of a code2vec model to force it to rely on the structure of the code rather than specific names and consider a simple approach to creating class-level embeddings by aggregating sets of method embeddings. Our results, obtained on a challenging new collection of source-code classification problems, indicate that obfuscating variable names produces an embedding model that is both impervious to variable naming and more accurately reflects code semantics. The datasets, models, and code are shared for further ML research on source code.
description: In 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea. 11 pages
Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG at the first epidemic peak in French Guiana, July 2020.
Creators: name: Flamand, Claude
name: Alves Sarmento, Christelle
name: Enfissi, Antoine
name: Bailly, Sarah
name: Beillard, Emmanuel
name: Gaillet, Mélanie
name: Michaud, Céline
name: Servas, Véronique
name: Clement, Nathalie
name: Perilhou, Anaïs
name: Carage, Thierry
name: Musso, Didier
name: Carod, Jean-François
name: Eustache, Stéphanie
name: Tourbillon, Céline
name: Boizon, Elodie
name: James, Samantha
name: Djossou, Félix
name: Salje, Henrik
name: Cauchemez, Simon
name: Rousset, Dominique
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Research Article
Biology and life sciences
Medicine and health sciences
Research and analysis methods

description: Funder: National Research Agency
description: Funder: Regional Health Agency of French Guiana
description: Funder: Institut Pasteur Urgence COVID-19 fundraising
description: BACKGROUND: While Latin America has been heavily affected by the pandemic, only a few seroprevalence studies have been conducted there during the first epidemic wave in the first half of 2020. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A cross-sectional survey was performed between 15 July 2020 and 23 July 2020 among individuals who visited 4 medical laboratories or 5 health centers for routine screening or clinical management, with the exception of symptomatic suggestive cases of covid-19. Samples were screened for the presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG directed against domain S1 of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein using the anti-SARS-CoV-2 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) from Euroimmun. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: The overall seroprevalence was 15.4% [9.3%-24.4%] among 480 participants, ranging from 4.0% to 25.5% across the different municipalities. The seroprevalence did not differ according to gender (p = 0.19) or age (p = 0.51). Among SARS-CoV-2 positive individuals, we found that 24.6% [11.5%-45.2%] reported symptoms consistent with COVID-19. Our findings revealed high levels of infection across the territory but a low number of resulting deaths, which can be explained by French Guiana's young population structure.
Ein apokryphes Herrenleben in mesopotamischen Federzeichnungen vom Jahre 1299
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 9 (1911): Oriens christianus, Band 9
Bullying in schools : how children think, feel, and respond
Creators: name: Funke, Kirstin A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Research has frequently documented significant associations between empathy and behaviour. Typically, empathy has been found to be higher in individuals who behave prosocially, and lower in individuals who behave aggressively. Extending this research, the present study examined links between empathy and bullying/victimization behavior, with particular interest in whether children who behave differently in the face of bullying (i.e., assume different participant roles) differ in the nature of empathy they experience. To this end, 409 students (210 females, 199 males) from grades 5 to 7 completed both peer-nominations and self-reports of various bullying participant role behaviours, as well as self-reports of tendencies to experience various facets of empathy. Results revealed that self-reports of empathic concern (i.e., empathy in the form of concern for others), and perspective-taking (i.e., empathy in the form of understanding others' perspectives) were significantly lower in children nominated by peers for roles that supported bullying, as compared to children who assumed roles that defended against or stayed away from bullying or who were victims of bullying. No significant differences were observed among participant roles for empathic distress (i.e., empathy in the form of personal distress). This pattern was evident regardless of whether more generic or dispositional forms of empathy were considered, or whether more specific forms of empathy in response to bullying situations were considered. Overall, females reported higher levels of all facets of empathy than males. Given these findings, empathy appears to be an important distinguishing factor among children who behave differently within bullying situations. In order to encourage children's prosocial responses to bullying, and discourage behaviours that support bullying, empathy appears to be an important variable to target in designing anti-bullying programs for schools.
Star Formation Efficiencies and Star Cluster Formation
Creators: name: Alvensleben, Uta Fritze -- v.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starbursts produce large numbers of Young Star Clusters (YSCs). Multi-color photometry in combination with a dedicated SED analysis tool allows to derive ages, metallicities, ${\rm E_{B-V}}$, and masses including $1 σ$ uncertainties for individual clusters and, hence, mass functions for YSC systems. The mass function, known to be Gaussian for old Globular Cluster (GC) systems, is still controversial for YSC systems. GC formation is expected in massive gas-rich spiral -- spiral mergers because of their high global star formation efficiencies and observed in $\geq 1$ Gyr old merger remnants. Yet it has not been possible to identify young GCs among YSC populations. We suggest a compactness parameters involving masses and half-light radii of YSCs to investigate if young GCs are formed in starbursts and if the ratio of young GCs to more loosely bound star clusters depends on galaxy type, mass, burst strength, etc.
description: 6 pages, to appear in ``Starbursts from 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies'', eds. R. de Grijs, R. M. Gonz\'alez Delgado, Astrophysics & Space Science Library Series, Kluwer (in press)
Wild Life Conservation in India
Creators: name: Rahul Mourya, Dr. S.K. Rewani, Dr. Ashok Baindha, Rohitash Kumar, Abhishek Gurjar, Rajesh Kumar Yadav
Publisher: name: trends in Agriculture Science
Year: 2024

description: Wildlife conservation is an activity in which humans make conscious efforts to protect plants and other animal species and their habitats. Wildlife conservation is very important because wildlife and wilderness play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance and contribute to human quality of life.
Numerical modeling of wing crack propagation accounting for fracture contact mechanics
Creators: name: Dang-Trung, Hau
name: Keilegavlen, Eirik
name: Berre, Inga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: As a consequence of shearing, wing cracks can emerge from pre-existing fractures. The process involves the interaction of sliding of the existing fracture surfaces and the tensile material failure that creates wing cracks. This work devises a numerical model to investigate how wing cracks emerge, propagate and connect pre-existing fractures under shear processes. A mathematical and numerical model for wing crack propagation based on linear elastic fracture mechanics that also accounts for fracture contact mechanics is presented. Computational efficiency is ensured by an adaptive remeshing technique. The numerical model is verified and validated through a comparison of the analytical and experimental results. Additional numerical examples illustrate the performance of the method for complex test cases where wing-cracks develop for multiple pre-existing and interacting fractures.
Soft annealing: A new approach to difficult computational problems
Creators: name: Sourlas, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I propose a new method to study computationally difficult problems. I consider a new system, larger than the one I want to simulate. The original system is recovered by imposing constraints on the large system. I simulate the large system with the hard constraints replaced by soft constraints. I illustrate the method in the case of the ferromagnetic Ising model and in the case the three dimensional spin-glass model. I show that in both models the phases of the soft problem have the same properties as the phases of the original model and that the softened model belongs to the same universality class as the original one. I show that correlation times are much shorter in the larger soft constrained system and that it is computationally advantageous to study it instead of the original system. This method is quite general and can be applied to many other systems.
Crop Revenue and Yield Insurance Demand: A Subjective Probability Approach
Creators: name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Baquet, Alan E.
name: Patrick, George F.
name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Knight, Thomas O.
name: Baquet, Alan E.
name: Patrick, George F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: crop insurance
subject: elasticities
subject: multinomial logit model
subject: revenue demand
subject: subjective elicitation
subject: survey

description: A multinomial logit is utilized to model the choice of whether to purchase yield or revenue insurance using subjectively elicited survey data. Our results indicate that the demand for crop insurance is inelastic (-0.40), consistent with most earlier yield elasticity estimates, but the elasticity for choices between yield and revenue insurance is found to be relatively more elastic (-0.88).
The Forrest Pincer Approach: A Metabolic-Based Strategy for Universal Cancer Treatment.
Creators: name: FORREST JR, RUSSELL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract

The Forrest Pincer Approach is a novel cancer treatment strategy that exploits the metabolic vulnerabilities of cancer cells, specifically their dependence on glucose and their altered waste production processes, known as the Warburg effect. This approach targets cancer through a three-phase process—Attack, Block, and Conquer (A.B.C.)—designed to overwhelm cancer cells by forcing them into metabolic overload, ultimately leading to their self-destruction. The approach is flexible, scalable, and adaptable for use in a wide range of environments, from high-tech hospitals to low-resource settings. This paper outlines the scientific foundation of the Forrest Pincer Approach, its practical applications, and its potential to provide an effective, globally adaptable solution to cancer treatment.
UHPLC-IMS-Q-ToF-MS analysis of Maradolipids, found exclusively in Caenorhabditis elegans dauer larvae
Creators: name: Witting, Michael
name: Schmidt, Ulrike
name: Knölker, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Presentation during Agilent OMICS seminar November 2020
Raman spectra in epitaxial thin films $La_{1-x}Ca_xMnO_3$ (x = 0.33, 0.5) grown on different substrates
Creators: name: Xiong, Y. M.
name: Chen, T.
name: Wang, G. Y.
name: Chen, X. H.
name: Chen, X.
name: Chen, C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Raman spectra of LCMO films grown on LAO (001), STO (001), and MgO (001) substrates were studied at different temperatures. The effect of temperature, doping level and strain on Raman spectra are discussed in detail. With decreasing temperature, the changes of Raman spectra are correlated with the disorder-order transition, shuch as: paramagnetism to ferromagnetism, and charge-ordering. The strain induced by lattice-substrate mismatch affects the Raman spectra strongly. The mode induced by disorder of oxygen defects is apparently observed in $La_{0.67}Ca_{0.33}MnO_3$ film on STO due to the larger tensile strain. While this mode can not be seen in the Raman spectra for the films on LAO and MgO. A strong unsigned mode at about 690 $cm^{-1}$ is observed in all films except for $La_{0.67}Ca_{0.33}MnO_3$ film on LAO, which is not observed in bulk sample easily. It suggests that the mode is closely related to the strain.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Magnetic Moment Formation in Quantum Point Contacts
Creators: name: Cornaglia, P. S.
name: Balseiro, C. A.
name: Avignon, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the formation of local magnetic moments in quantum point contacts. Using a Hubbard-like model to describe point contacts formed in a two dimensional system, we calculate the magnetic moment using the unrestricted Hartree approximation. We analyze different type of potentials to define the point contact, for a simple square potential we calculate a phase diagram in the parameter space (Coulomb repulsion - gate voltage). We also present an analytical calculation of the susceptibility to give explicit conditions for the occurrence of a local moment, we present a simple scaling argument to analyze how the stability of the magnetic moment depends on the point contact dimensions.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
SDSS-IV MaNGA: Excavating the fossil record of stellar populations in spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Peterken, Thomas
name: Merrifield, Michael
name: Aragón-Salamanca, Alfonso
name: Fraser-McKelvie, Amelia
name: Avila-Reese, Vladimir
name: Riffel, Rogério
name: Knapen, Johan
name: Drory, Niv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a "fossil record" analysis for ~800 low-redshift spiral galaxies, using STARLIGHT applied to integral field spectroscopic observations from the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey to obtain fully spatially-resolved high-resolution star formation histories (SFHs). From the SFHs, we are able to build maps indicating the present-day distribution of stellar populations of different ages in each galaxy. We find small negative mean age gradients in most spiral galaxies, especially at high stellar mass, which reflects the formation times of stellar populations at different galactocentric radii. We show that the youngest (<10^{8.5} years) populations exhibit significantly more extended distributions than the oldest (>10^{9.5} years), again with a strong dependence on stellar mass. By interpreting the radial profiles of "time slices" as indicative of the size of the galaxy at the time those populations had formed, we are able to trace the simultaneous growth in mass and size of the spiral galaxies over the last 10 Gyr. Despite finding that the evolution of the measured light-weighted radius is consistent with inside-out growth in the majority of spiral galaxies, the evolution of an equivalent mass-weighted radius has changed little over the same time period. Since radial migration effects are likely to be small, we conclude that the growth of disks in spiral galaxies has occurred predominantly through an inside-out mode (with the effect greatest in high-mass galaxies), but this has not had anywhere near as much impact on the distribution of mass within spiral galaxies.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures (including two animated figures which require Adobe Reader or similar to properly view). Accepted for publication in MNRAS
MnSb transport data summary for Zenodo
Creators: name: Holmes, Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This summary file contains magnetotransport data that is published in the following journal:

Applied Physics Letters Materials 12, 011107 (2024)

S. N. Holmes et al, Sb surface terminated MnSb devices in the niccolite phase

doi: 10.1063/5.0181131
Length scale dependent relaxation in colloidal gels
Creators: name: Del Gado, E.
name: Kob, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use molecular dynamics computer simulations to investigate the relaxation dynamics of a simple model for a colloidal gel at a low volume fraction. We find that due to the presence of the open spanning network this dynamics shows at low temperature a non-trivial dependence on the wave-vector which is very different from the one observed in dense glass-forming liquids. At high wave vectors the relaxation is due to the fast cooperative motion of the branches of the gel network, whereas at low wave vectors the overall rearrangements of the heterogeneous structure produce the relaxation process.
description: 4 pager, 4 figures, revised version
Valuing Transgenic Cotton Technologies Using a Risk/Return Framework
Creators: name: Bryant, Kelly J.
name: Reeves, Jeanne M.
name: Nichols, Robert L.
name: Greene, Jeremy K.
name: Tingle, Christopher H.
name: Studebaker, Glenn E.
name: Bourland, Fred M.
name: Capps, Charles D.
name: Groves, Frank E.
name: Bryant, Kelly J.
name: Reeves, Jeanne M.
name: Nichols, Robert L.
name: Greene, Jeremy K.
name: Tingle, Christopher H.
name: Studebaker, Glenn E.
name: Bourland, Fred M.
name: Capps, Charles D.
name: Groves, Frank E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: cotton
subject: financial risk
subject: market value
subject: SERF
subject: transgenic

description: Stochastic Efficiency with Respect to a Function (SERF) is used to rank transgenic cotton technology groups and place an upper and lower bound on their value. Yield and production data from replicated plot experiments are used to build cumulative distribution functions of returns for nontransgenic, Roundup Ready, Bollgard, and stacked gene cotton cultivars. Analysis of Arkansas data indicated that the stacked gene and Roundup Ready technologies would be preferred by a large number of risk neutral and risk averse producers as long as the costs of the technology and seed are below the lower bounds calculated in this manuscript.
The development of illness narrative in a structured cancer group
Creators: name: Wade, Spencer
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: How does an illness narrative develop in a structured cancer group? By using narrative analysis, informed by discourse analysis, this qualitative research project illuminated this endeavour by charting the development and evolution of illness narrative in a structured cancer group. What evolved from the participants' verbal interactions was an overarching narrative of struggle that is primarily moral in nature. This overarching narrative of struggle evolved from the nine themes that emerged from the participants' verbal interactions. These nine themes are getting "whackedon- the-side-of-the head", "information's power", "butchers" and "angels", "the guilt train", "how a::::re you?", the "wake-up call", making a "breakthrough", the "hard work" of cancer, and the "gift-of-cancer". The participants co-constructed this narrative by drawing upon a variety of linguistic resources and interpretative practices as they negotiated the moral challenges of their relationships with self and the larger social sphere, brought forth by their status and experiences as individuals with cancer. This study also demonstrated that what are commonly referred to as discourses are used flexibly in the participants' moral struggles. By examining how group participants use language, perspectives on how coping is accomplished are broadened beyond traditional notions of the acquisition of coping skills.
Valuing the Changes in Herbicide Risks Resulting from Adoption of Roundup Ready Soybeans by U.S. Farmers: A Revealed-Preference Approach
Creators: name: Sydorovych, Olha
name: Marra, Michele C.
name: Sydorovych, Olha
name: Marra, Michele C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: pesticide human and environmental risks
subject: revealed preferences
subject: Roundup Ready soybeans

description: Valuing the Changes in Herbicide Risks Resulting from Adoption of Roundup Ready Soybeans by U.S. Farmers: A Revealed-Preference Approach
Predicting the Quality of Compressed Videos with Pre-Existing Distortions
Creators: name: Yu, Xiangxu
name: Birkbeck, Neil
name: Wang, Yilin
name: Bampis, Christos G.
name: Adsumilli, Balu
name: Bovik, Alan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Over the past decade, the online video industry has greatly expanded the volume of visual data that is streamed and shared over the Internet. Moreover, because of the increasing ease of video capture, many millions of consumers create and upload large volumes of User-Generated-Content (UGC) videos. Unlike streaming television or cinematic content produced by professional videographers and cinemagraphers, UGC videos are most commonly captured by naive users having limited skills and imperfect technique, and often are afflicted by highly diverse and mixed in-capture distortions. These UGC videos are then often uploaded for sharing onto cloud servers, where they further compressed for storage and transmission. Our paper tackles the highly practical problem of predicting the quality of compressed videos (perhaps during the process of compression, to help guide it), with only (possibly severely) distorted UGC videos as references. To address this problem, we have developed a novel Video Quality Assessment (VQA) framework that we call 1stepVQA (to distinguish it from two-step methods that we discuss). 1stepVQA overcomes limitations of Full-Reference, Reduced-Reference and No-Reference VQA models by exploiting the statistical regularities of both natural videos and distorted videos. We show that 1stepVQA is able to more accurately predict the quality of compressed videos, given imperfect reference videos. We also describe a new dedicated video database which includes (typically distorted) UGC reference videos, and a large number of compressed versions of them. We show that the 1stepVQA model outperforms other VQA models in this scenario. We are providing the dedicated new database free of charge at https://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/onestep/index.html