cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Phase separation frustrated by the long range Coulomb interaction II: Applications
Creators: name: Lorenzana, J.
name: Castellani, C.
name: Di Castro, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory of first order density-driven phase transitions with frustration due to the long range Coulomb (LRC) interaction develop on paper I of this series is applied to the following physical systems: i) the low density electron gas ii) electronic phase separation in the low density three dimensional $t-J$ model iii) in the manganites near the charge ordered phase. We work in the approximation that the density within each phase is uniform and we assume that the system separates in spherical drops of one phase hosted by the other phase with the distance between drops and the drop radius much larger than the interparticle distance. For i) we study a well known apparent instability related to a negative compressibility at low densities. We show that this does not lead to macroscopic drop formation as one could expect naively and the system is stable from this point of view. For ii) we find that the LRC interaction significantly modifies the phase diagram favoring uniform phases and mixed states of antiferromagnetic (AF) regions surrounded by metallic regions over AF regions surrounded by empty space. For iii) we show that the dependence of local densities of the phases on the overall density found in paper I gives a non-monotonous behavior of the Curie temperature on doping in agreement with experiments.
description: Second part of cond-mat/0010092 12 pages, 12 figures
MOESM1 of Factors associated with the rates of coronary artery bypass graft and percutaneous coronary intervention
Creators: name: Agnus Kim
name: Park, Jong
name: Seongcheol Cho
name: Sungchan Kang
name: Yoon, Tae
name: Kim, Yoon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Absolute frequency of coronary artery bypass graft and percutaneous coronary intervention according to diagnostic groups. Table S2. Characteristics of the independent variables.
Consumer Response to Food Contamination and Recalls: Findings from a National Survey
Creators: name: Godwin, Sandria L.
name: Coppings, Richard C.
name: Kosa, Katherine M.
name: Cates, Sheryl C.
name: Godwin, Sandria L.
name: Coppings, Richard C.
name: Kosa, Katherine M.
name: Cates, Sheryl C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food recalls
subject: food tampering
subject: consumer response to recalls

description: Food tampering is a great concern to many in the food safety industry. Deliberate contamination of food in the United States has occurred and could happen again. Upon discovery, the company may voluntary recall the unsafe product or it may be recalled by the government. Food recalls are announced on television and radio, in newspapers, and on the internet at www.foodsafety.gov among others. Indeed thousands of recalls occur each year, often resulting in millions of dollars in cost to the food industry. Since 9/11, the U.S. government has worked with the food industry to anticipate and prevent threats to the food supply. Consumers, however, also have a part to keep food safe before, during, and after possible acts of foodborne bioterrorism. We conducted a national survey of 1,011 adults, which asked respondents how likely they would be to follow specific government recommendations regarding foodborne illness, recalls, and intentional acts of contamination. Forty-two percent of respondents reported they thought it was very likely or likely that there would be a possible terrorist attack on the U.S. food supply in the next 10 years, and 62% reported they would not be very prepared or not at all prepared for one. In the event of a possible terrorist attack, 28% of respondents stated they would stock more food and water in their homes. Additionally, in our study, most (86%) of the respondents reported they would be very likely or likely to contact their local health department or law enforcement agency if they suspected a food product had been intentionally tampered with, and 96% reported they would be very likely or likely to return a recalled food product to the place of purchase or discard it. It is important for consumers to do their part to be prepared in the event of an intentional attack on the U.S. food supply, and to be aware of possible deliberate contamination and food recalls should they occur.
Probing X-ray emission in different modes of PSR J1023+0038 with a radio pulsar scenario
Creators: name: Campana, S.
name: Zanon, A. Miraval
name: Zelati, F. Coti
name: Torres, D. F.
name: Baglio, M. C.
name: Papitto, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transitional pulsars provide us with a unique laboratory to study the physics of accretion onto a magnetic neutron star. PSR J1023+0038 (J1023) is the best studied of this class. We investigate the X-ray spectral properties of J1023 in the framework of a working radio pulsar during the active state. We modelled the X-ray spectra in three modes (low, high, and flare) as well as in quiescence, to constrain the emission mechanism and source parameters. The emission model, formed by an assumed pulsar emission (thermal and magnetospheric) plus a shock component, can account for the data only adding a hot dense absorber covering ~30% of the emitting source in high mode. The covering fraction is similar in flaring mode, thus excluding total enshrouding, and decreases in the low mode despite large uncertainties. This provides support to the recently advanced idea of a mini-pulsar wind nebula (PWN), where X-ray and optical pulsations arise via synchrotron shock emission in a very close (~100 km, comparable to a light cylinder), PWN-like region that is associated with this hot absorber. In low mode, this region may expand, pulsations become undetectable, and the covering fraction decreases.
description: Accepted in A&A Letter. 5 pages, 1 figure
Mixing autoencoder with classifier: conceptual data visualization
Creators: name: Hartono, Pitoyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this short paper, a neural network that is able to form a low dimensional topological hidden representation is explained. The neural network can be trained as an autoencoder, a classifier or mix of both, and produces different low dimensional topological map for each of them. When it is trained as an autoencoder, the inherent topological structure of the data can be visualized, while when it is trained as a classifier, the topological structure is further constrained by the concept, for example the labels the data, hence the visualization is not only structural but also conceptual. The proposed neural network significantly differ from many dimensional reduction models, primarily in its ability to execute both supervised and unsupervised dimensional reduction. The neural network allows multi perspective visualization of the data, and thus giving more flexibility in data analysis. This paper is supported by preliminary but intuitive visualization experiments.
The Volatility of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum
Creators: name: Ghaiti, Khaoula
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash
Litecoin
Dogecoin
Ethereum
GARCH(1,1)
IGARCH(1,1)
EGARCH(1,1)
TGARCH(1,1)
CGARCH(1,1)
Day-of-the-Week Effect

description: The purpose of this paper is to select the best GARCH-type model for modelling the volatility of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum. GARCH (1,1), IGARCH(1,1), EGARCH(1,1), TGARCH(1,1) and CGARCH(1,1) are used on the cryptocurrencies closing day return. We select the model with the highest Maximum Likelihood and run an OLS regression on the conditional volatility to measure the day-of-the-week effect. The findings show that EGARCH(1,1) model best suits Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum data and that the GARCH(1,1) model suits best Bitcoin data. The results show a significant presence of day-of-the-week effects on the conditional volatility of some days for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum. Wednesday has a significant negative effect on Bitcoin conditional volatility. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are found to be significant and positive on Bitcoin Cash conditional volatility. Finally, Saturday is found to be significant and positive on Ethereum conditional volatility.
Self-consistency and vertex corrections beyond the GW approximation
Creators: name: Schindlmayr, Arno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The good performance of the GW approximation for band-structure calculations in solids was long taken as a sign that the sum of self-energy diagrams is converged and that all omitted terms are small. However, with modern computational resources it has now become possible to evaluate self-consistency and vertex corrections explicitly, and the numerical results show that they are, in general, not individually negligible. In this review the available data is examined, and the implications for practical calculations and the theoretical foundation of the GW approximation are discussed.
description: 10 pages including 1 figure, LaTeX
Assessment, Development and Implementation of Training Materials for Food Defense/Safety, Biosecurity, and Traceability within the Catfish Industry
Creators: name: Hood, Anna F.
name: Williams, J. Byron
name: Crist, Courtney
name: Hood, Anna F.
name: Williams, J. Byron
name: Crist, Courtney
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Catfish
subject: Food Defense
subject: Biosecurity
subject: Traceability
subject: Education

description: The objective of this research and subsequent training sessions was to assess food defense in the catfish industry, promote awareness and educate catfish farmers and processors on the principles of food defense, biosecurity and traceability of agricultural commodities and ingredients used in human food production. In the catfish processing chain, preliminary investigations have indicated that there are areas throughout production, processing and distribution that are susceptible to potential terrorism. Records for complete traceability were also found to be inadequate. At the training sessions participants were asked a series of questions covering different areas of food defense/safety, biosecurity and traceability. Of those surveyed, 74% said they have a food defense plan; 48% had a working traceability plan; and 52% had a biosecurity plan. Pre- and post-assessments were given to evaluate the effectiveness of the training sessions. Overall 68% of participants scored equal or higher on the post-assessment as compared to pre-assessment. While many larger catfish processors were found to be more prepared on certain principles, there is a need to advance training and knowledge further into their sector of the industry. Through effective food defense training and education, farmers and food processors are able to better assess all vulnerable points to develop food defense plan and traceability measures that are best suited for their operations. With proper training and awareness, farmers and others throughout the food distribution chain are better prepared to continue and even increase the security of our food supply.
MOESM2 of Changes in total and segmental bioelectrical resistance are correlated with whole-body and segmental changes in lean soft tissue following a resistance training intervention
Creators: name: Tinsley, Grant
name: Harty, Patrick
name: M. Moore
name: Grgic, Jozo
name: Analiza Silva
name: Sardinha, Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Pearson correlations between changes in bioelectrical resistance and changes in dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry body composition
title: Network calculations for r-process nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Petermann, I.
name: Martínez-Pinedo, G.
name: Arcones, A.
name: Hix, W. R.
name: Kelić, A.
name: Langanke, K.
name: Panov, I.
name: Rauscher, T.
name: Schmidt, K.-H.
name: Thielemann, F.-K.
name: Zinner, N.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: The r-process is known to be responsible for the synthesis of about half of the elements heavier than iron, nevertheless its astrophysical site has not yet been clearly ascertained, but observations indicate that at least two possible sites should contribute to the solar system abundance of r-process elements. The r-process being responsible for the production of elements heavier than Z = 56 operates rather robustly always resulting in a similar relative abundance pattern. From the nuclear-physics point of view the r-process requires the knowledge of a large number of reaction rates involving exotic nuclei that are not accessible by experiment and data have to be provided by theoretical predictions. We have developed for the first time a complete database of reaction rates that in addition to neutron-capture rates and β-decay half-lives includes the dominant reactions that can induce fission (neutron-capture, β-decay and spontaneous fission) and the corresponding fission yields. In addition, we have implemented these reaction rates in a fully implicit reaction network. The influence of the nuclear physics input constituted in the reaction rates based on the two mass models FRDM and ETFSI and on the astrophysical conditions simulating a cold or hot environment are examined.
Point particle in general background fields vs. free gauge theories of traceless symmetric tensors
Creators: name: Segal, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Point particle may interact to traceless symmetric tensors of arbitrary rank. Free gauge theories of traceless symmetric tensors are constructed, that provides a possibility for a new type of interactions, when particles exchange by those gauge fields. The gauge theories are parameterized by the particle's mass m and otherwise are unique for each rank s. For m=0, they are local gauge models with actions of 2s-th order in derivatives, known in d=4 as "pure spin", or "conformal higher spin" actions by Fradkin and Tseytlin. For nonzero m, each rank-s model undergoes a unique nonlocal deformation which entangles fields of all ranks, starting from s. There exists a nonlocal transform which maps m > 0 theories onto m=0 ones, however, this map degenerates at some m > 0 fields whose polarizations are determined by zeros of Bessel functions. Conformal covariance properties of the m=0 models are analyzed, the space of gauge fields is shown to admit an action of an infinite-dimensional "conformal higher spin" Lie algebra which leaves gauge transformations intact.
description: 21 pages, remarks on nonlinear generalization added, a mistake in the discussion of degenerate solutions corrected
MOLIYAVIY TAHLILNI TASHKIL ETISH VA UNI O'TKAZISH TARTIBINI TAKOMILLASHTIRISH
Creators: name: Boltaev, Abror
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur tezisda xo‘jalik yurituvchi sub’ektlarda moliyaviy tahlilni tashkil etish va uni o‘tkazish tartibi iqtisodchi olimlarning yondashuvlari asosida tadqiq qilib o‘rganilgan. Moliyaviy tahlilni o‘tkazish bosqichlari taklif etilgan va shu asosda xulosa shakllantirilgan.
High-energy emission from GRBs: 10 years with Fermi-LAT
Creators: name: Bissaldi, Elisabetta
name: Axelsson, Magnus
name: Omodei, Nicola
name: Vianello, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 2018, the Fermi mission celebrated its first decade of operation. In this time, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been very successful in detecting the high-energy emission (>100 MeV) from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The analysis of particularly remarkable events - such as GRB 080916C, GRB 090510 and GRB 130427A - has been presented in dedicated publications. Here we present the results of a new systematic search for high-energy emission from the full sample of GRBs detected in 10 years by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor, as well as Swift, AGILE, Integral and IPN bursts, featuring a detection efficiency more than 50\%\ better than previous works, and returning 186 detections during 10 years of LAT observations. This milestone marks a vast improvement from the 35 events contained in the first LAT GRB catalog (covering the first 3 years of Fermi operations). We assess the characteristics of the GRB population at high energy with unprecedented sensitivity, covering aspects such as temporal properties, energetics and spectral index of the high-energy emission. Finally, we show how the LAT observations can be used to inform theory, in particular the prospects for very high-energy emission.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019)
The SED of the TeV BLLac 1ES 1426+428 after correction for the TeV--IR absorption
Creators: name: Costamante, L.
name: Aharonian, F.
name: Ghisellini, G.
name: Horns, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent HEGRA detection and spectrum of 1ES 1426+428 at TeV energies, once corrected for absorption using present estimates of the diffuse extragalactic IR background, suggest that the high energy peak of the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) could be much higher than the synchrotron one ($L_c/L_s>10$), and lie at energies above 8-10 TeV. To see if such an SED could be accounted for, we have applied a "finite injection time" SSC model, and present here some preliminary results. Within this model, we found the need of an external ("ambient") contribution to the energy density of seed photons, in order to account for both the high Compton dominance and the hard spectrum.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Relativistic jets in the Chandra and XMM era", Bologna, 23-27/9/02 (New Astr. Rev.)
MOESM1 of Changes in total and segmental bioelectrical resistance are correlated with whole-body and segmental changes in lean soft tissue following a resistance training intervention
Creators: name: Tinsley, Grant
name: Harty, Patrick
name: M. Moore
name: Grgic, Jozo
name: Analiza Silva
name: Sardinha, Luis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Resistance training program
Slow relaxation in the large N model for phase ordering
Creators: name: Corberi, Federico
name: Lippiello, Eugenio
name: Zannetti, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The basic features of the slow relaxation phenomenology arising in phase ordering processes are obtained analytically in the large $N$ model through the exact separation of the order parameter into the sum of thermal and condensation components. The aging contribution in the response function $χ_{ag}(t,t_w)$ is found to obey a pattern of behavior, under variation of dimensionality, qualitatively similar to the one observed in Ising systems. There exists a critical dimensionality $(d=4)$ above which $χ_{ag}(t,t_w)$ is proportional to the defect density $ρ_D(t)$, while for $d<4$ it vanishes more slowly than $ρ_D(t)$ and at $d=2$ does not vanish. As in the Ising case, this behavior can be understood in terms of the dependence on dimensionality of the interplay between the defect density and the effective response associated to a single defect.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication on Phys.Rev.E
U.S. Consumer Demand for Organic Fluid Milk by Fat Content
Creators: name: Li, Xianghong
name: Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa
name: Xia, Tian
name: Li, Xianghong
name: Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa
name: Xia, Tian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Demand
subject: organic milk
subject: fat content
subject: elasticity

description: This study examined consumer demand for organic fluid milk in the current maturing organic market using a nationwide weekly retail scanner data set. An Almost Ideal Demand System in which both organic milk and conventional milk were further decomposed into products with different fat content was estimated. The demand for organic milk was shown to be price elastic. The results also revealed substitutions between organic milk and conventional milk products differing in fat content. The substitution pattern was asymmetric and there was greater movement toward organic milk than back toward conventional milk for the same relative change in price.
Evaluating the contributions of strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the healthcare setting: A modelling study
Creators: name: X Qiu
name: Miller, Joel
name: DR MacFadden
name: WP Hanage
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Introduction Since its onset, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant morbidity and mortality worldwide, with particularly severe outcomes in healthcare institutions and congregate settings. To mitigate spread, healthcare systems have been cohorting patients to limit contacts between uninfected patients and potentially infected patients or healthcare workers (HCWs). A major challenge in managing the pandemic is the presence of currently asymptomatic/presymptomatic individuals capable of transmitting the virus, who could introduce COVID-19 into uninfected cohorts. The optimal combination of personal protective equipment (PPE), testing and other approaches to prevent these events is unclear, especially in light of ongoing limited resources. Methods Using stochastic simulations with a susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered dynamic model, we quantified and compared the impacts of PPE use, patient and HCWs surveillance testing and subcohorting strategies. Results In the base case without testing or PPE, the healthcare system was rapidly overwhelmed, and became a net contributor to the force of infection. We found that effective use of PPE by both HCWs and patients could prevent this scenario, while random testing of apparently asymptomatic/presymptomatic individuals on a weekly basis was less effective. We also found that even imperfect use of PPE could provide substantial protection by decreasing the force of infection. Importantly, we found that creating smaller patient/HCW-interaction subcohorts can provide additional resilience to outbreak development with limited resources. Conclusion These findings reinforce the importance of ensuring adequate PPE supplies even in the absence of testing and provide support for strict subcohorting regimens to reduce outbreak potential in healthcare institutions.
Dark matter minispike: a significant enhancement of eccentricity for intermediate-mass-ratio-inspirals
Creators: name: Yue, Xiao-Jun
name: Cao, Zhoujian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a stellar massive compact object, such as a black hole (BH), inspirals into an intermediate massive black hole (IMBH), an intermediate-mass-ratio-inspiral (IMRI) system forms. Such kind of systems are important sources for space-based gravitational wave detectors including LISA, Taiji and Tianqin. Dark matter (DM) minispikes may form around IMBHs. We study the effect of dynamical friction against DM minispike on the evolution of eccentric IMRI. For such investigation we construct the dynamical equations which describes the evolution of eccentric IMRI under the effect of dynamical friction. As dynamical friction is large for small velocity, the dissipation of energy near apastron is more than that near periastron. This will greatly enhance the eccentricity. For instance, with an initial semi-latus rectum of $1\rm AU$, even a moderate DM minispike can make the eccentricity grow from $0.3$ to $0.85$. In the extremal case the eccentricity could be enhanced to near $1$. We also study a specific case which corresponds to an IMRI in the center of a globular cluster (GC) and find the eccentricity can keep its value above $0.95$ until the IMRI enters LISA band. These gravitational wave with enhanced eccentricity by DM minispikes can be easly distinguished from that without DM at $10^{-3}\rm Hz$ due to the eccentricity difference. These anticipations can be tested by future space-based GW detectors such as LISA.
description: 8pages,4figures
Az ökológiai rendszerszemlélet térnyerése és a pszichológia útjai a 21. század elején
Creators: name: Szokolszky, Ágnes
Publisher: name: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Pedagógiai és Pszichológiai Kar
Year: 2021

description: Alkalmazott Pszichológia, vol. 21. issue 3. ISSN 1419-872X
Consumer choice of electricity supplier: Investigating preferences for attributes of electricity services.
Creators: name: Ndebele, T.
name: Marsh, Dan
name: Ndebele, T.
name: Marsh, Dan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: electricity suppliers
subject: environmental attitude
subject: choice experiments
subject: latent class model
subject: willingness to pay

description: The retail electricity market in New Zealand is evolving as the government continues to promote the development of a competitive and efficient market. Encouraging consumer switching through the “What’s My Number” campaign is expected to put pressure on electricity retailers to reduce prices. Recent reports indicate that relatively few customers have switched supplier in the past two years despite potential average savings of NZ$165 per year per household. This suggests that non-price factors are also important determinants of switching behavior. We use choice experiments to investigate residential consumers’ preferences for the attributes of electricity suppliers and the possible role of attitudes in explaining preference heterogeneity among the sampled respondents. Data required for the study was collected through a web survey administered to an online panel of bill payers in New Zealand. Willingness to pay (WTP) is estimated for attributes of electricity suppliers such as renewable portfolio, local ownership, discount rates, fixed rate plan, loyalty rewards and supplier type. WTP estimates indicate the importance of the attributes and hence provide guidance to suppliers in designing their price and service offers. Knowledge of how attitudes influence switching behavior may inform future policy directed at stimulating competition in the retail market.
$^{105}$Pd NMR and NQR study of the cubic heavy fermion system Ce$_3$Pd$_{20}$Si$_6$
Creators: name: Jakovac, Ivan
name: Horvatić, Mladen
name: Schwier, Eike F.
name: Prokofiev, Andrey
name: Paschen, Silke
name: Mitamura, Hiroyuki
name: Sakakibara, Toshiro
name: Grbić, Mihael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report $^{105}$Pd NMR and NQR measurements on a single crystal of Ce$_3$Pd$_{20}$Si$_6$, where antiferroquadrupolar and antiferromagnetic orders develop at low temperature. From the analysis of NQR and NMR spectra, we have determined the electric field gradient (EFG) tensors and the anisotropic Knight shift ($K$) components for both inequivalent Pd sites - Pd($32f$) and Pd($48h$). The observed EFG values are in excellent agreement with our state-of-the-art DFT calculations. The principal values of the quadrupolar coupling are $(20.37 \pm 0.02)$ MHz and $(5.45 \pm 0.02)$ MHz, for the Pd($32f$) and Pd($48h$) site, respectively, which is large compared to the Larmor frequency defined by the gyromagnetic constant $γ= 1.94838$ MHz/T for $^{105}$Pd. Therefore, the complete knowledge of $K$ and the EFG tensors is crucial to establish the correspondence between NMR spectra and crystallographic sites, which is needed for a complete analysis of the magnetic structure, static spin susceptibility, and the spin-lattice relaxation rate data and a better understanding of the groundstate of Ce$_3$Pd$_{20}$Si$_6$.
description: 7 pages; 6 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Dynamics of a single vortex line in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Rosenbusch, P.
name: Bretin, V.
name: Dalibard, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study experimentally the line of a single quantized vortex in a rotating prolate Bose-Einstein condensate confined by a harmonic potential. In agreement with predictions, we find that the vortex line is in most cases curved at the ends. We monitor the vortex line leaving the condensate. Its length is measured as a function of time and temperature. For a low temperature, the survival time can be as large as 10 seconds. The length of the line and its deviation from the center of the trap are related to the angular momentum per particle along the condensate axis.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL
MOESM1 of An alarming rise of non-albicans Candida species and uncommon yeasts in the clinical samples; a combination of various molecular techniques for identification of etiologic agents
Creators: name: Monireh Taei
name: Chadeganipour, Mostafa
name: Rasoul Mohammadi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Agarose gel electrophoresis photos of PCR–RFLP taken from primary screening and repeat experiments. Fig S1. Agarose gel electrophoresis for PCR–RFLP; from left to right: C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. glabrata, C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. albicans, C. glabrata, and 100 bp DNA size Marker. Fig S2. Agarose gel electrophoresis for PCR–RFLP; from left to right: C. glabrata, C. parapsilosis, C. tropicalis, C. albicans, C. albicans, No band, C. albicans, C. albicans (dim band), and 100 bp DNA size Marker. Fig S3. Agarose gel electrophoresis for PCR–RFLP; from left to right: C. albicans, C. tropicalis, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, Mixed bands (C. albicans, and C. kefyr), C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. glabrata, C. tropicalis, C. albicans, and 100 bp DNA size Marker. Fig S4. Agarose gel electrophoresis for PCR–RFLP; from left to right: C. parapsilosis, C. parapsilosis, C. parapsilosis, C. parapsilosis, C. parapsilosis, No band, and 100 bp DNA size Marker. Fig S5. Agarose gel electrophoresis for PCR–RFLP; from left to right: C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, C. albicans, and 100 bp DNA size Marker. Fig S6. Agarose gel electrophoresis for PCR–RFLP; from left to right: C. tropicalis, C. parapsilosis, C. albicans, albicans, albicans, and 100 bp DNA size Marker.
Additional file 3: of Photoperiodic diapause in a subtropical population of Aedes albopictus in Guangzhou, China: optimized field-laboratory-based study and statistical models for comprehensive characterization
Creators: name: Xia, Dan
name: Guo, Xiang
name: Hu, Tian
name: Li, Li
name: Teng, Ping-Ying
name: Yin, Qing-Qing
name: Luo, Lei
name: Xie, Tian
name: Wei, Yue-Hong
name: Yang, Qian
name: Li, Shu-Kai
name: Wang, Yu-Ji
name: Xie, Yu
name: Li, Yi-Ji
name: Wang, Chun-Mei
name: Yang, Zhi-Cong
name: Chen, Xiao-Guang
name: Zhou, Xiao-Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Table S2. Egg number/day/trap as determined using Mosq-ovitraps and improved ovitraps in the field in Guangzhou between September 2016 and February 2017. (DOCX 17 kb)
Hellwigiella dichromoptera
Creators: name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ameri, Ali
name: Riedel, Matthias
name: Talebi, Ali Asghar
name: Ebrahimi, Ebrahim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Hellwigiella
Hellwigiella dichromoptera

description: Hellwigiella dichromoptera (Costa. 1886)
Fig. 23A
 Ophion dichromopterus Costa 1886: 324. Lectotype ♀ from Italy in CMSNF, not examined.
 Material examined: IRAN: 1♀, Kermanshah Province, Ghasr-e Shirin, 34°30'16.71"N, 45°34'49.05"E, Mar. 1974, 345m. a. s., Fassihi leg. (HMIM); 1♀, Lorestan Province, 10 km, SW Dorud, 33˚27"N, 49˚05"E, 1520 m. a. s., 27 May 2014, J. Halada leg. (OÖLM).
 Remarks: New to Iran. Obviously a very rare diurnal species, previously known from the Mediterranean area (Yu et al. 2016, Lima 2018). The here presented records show that the distribution range extends at least into Western Iran.
description: Published as part of Johansson, Niklas, Ameri, Ali, Riedel, Matthias, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, 2021, Contribution to the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran with the description of 16 new species and an illustrated key to the Eremotylus of the Western Palaearctic, pp. 151-206 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 196, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5225655
Detection of Manufacturing Defects in Lithium-Ion Batteries-Analysis of the Potential of Computed Tomography Imaging
Creators: name: Evans, Daniel
name: Luc, Paul-Martin
name: Tebruegge, Claas
name: Kowal, Julia
Publisher: name: MDPI AG
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: inhomogeneity
subject: defect detection
subject: computed tomography
subject: lithium-ion batteries
subject: laser scanning microscope

description: Realising an ideal lithium-ion battery (LIB) cell characterised by entirely homogeneous physical properties poses a significant, if not an impossible, challenge in LIB production. Even the slightest deviation in a process parameter in its production leads to inhomogeneities and causes a deviation in performance parameters of LIBs within the same batch. The greater the number and/or intensity of inhomogeneities, the more they need to be avoided. Severe inhomogeneities (defects), such as metal particle contamination, significantly impact the cell’s performance. Besides electrical measurements, image-based measurement methods can be used to identify defects and, thus, ensure the production quality and safety of LIBs. While the applicability of computed tomography (CT) as an image-based measurement method for detecting defects has been proven, the limitations of this method still need to be determined. In this study, a systematic analysis of the capabilities of CT imaging was conducted. A multilayer pouch cell without an electrolyte was reassembled with several defects on one of the middle anodes. To investigate the boundaries of CT, defects such as a partial and complete removal of the coating, a cut, or a kink, as well as particle contaminations of various sizes and materials (aluminium, copper, iron) were chosen. By comparing the CT images of the cell using laser scanning microscope images of the defective anode, it could be proven that all selected defects except the kink were detectable.
Enhancing Smallholder Farmers Income and Food Security through Agricultural Research and Development in West Africa: Impact of the IAR4D1 in the KKM PLS.
Creators: name: Ayanwale, Adeolu B.
name: Olarinde, Luke O.
name: Oladunni, Olufemi A.
name: Nokoe, Kaku S.
name: Adekunle, Adewale A.
name: Fatunbi, Oluwole
name: Ayanwale, Adeolu B.
name: Olarinde, Luke O.
name: Oladunni, Olufemi A.
name: Nokoe, Kaku S.
name: Adekunle, Adewale A.
name: Fatunbi, Oluwole
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: IAR4D
subject: Propensity Score Method
subject: ARD
subject: Double Difference
subject: SSA CP

description: The Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) is the approach suggested by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) through the sub Saharan Africa Challenge Programme (SSA CP) to address the acknowledged shortcoming of African Agricultural Research and Development’s (ARD) failure to achieve impact on the farmer’s field. The IAR4D concept is being implemented in three Pilot Learning Sites (PLS) in eight countries across the continent. This paper focused on the Kano, Katsina and Maradi (KKM) PLS of the West Africa aspect of the programme, and made use of a panel data collected from 1800 households at both the baseline and midline surveys organized using the quasi experimental approach with two sets of counterfactuals, viz: the conventional (traditional ARD), and the clean sites where it was assumed there was no ARD at least two years prior to the commencement of the IAR4D. Using propensity score (PSM) and double-difference methods (DDM) to control for project placement and self selection biases, results show that IAR4D increased participants’ income by about 139%, and improved food security by about 229%. The PSM results indicated that participants in the IAR4D will likely be farmers with small household size, and considerable farming experience, with some level of productive assets, who reside near all weather roads, have low level of education and are more likely to reside in the Northern Guinea Savanna agro-ecological zone but less likely from the Sudan Savanna agro-ecological zone. It can be safely concluded from the results that the IAR4D enhances the income and food security status of the participants.
the impact of employee Assessment Measurement on Employee Job satisfaction in Banadir region administration, Somalia
Creators: name: Abdirashid, Abdullahi Hassan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Human Resource Management Business Thesis

description: ABSTRACT

The study aimed at examining the role of procurement practices and service delivery in Mogadishu, Somalia. The study was guided by three objectives that include; to examine the extent to which procurement practices are followed in Mogadishu, to examine the extent of service delivery in Mogadishu and finally to establish the relationship between procurement practices and service delivery in Mogadishu, Somalia. The study adopted a co-relational design with both qualitative and quantitative approaches. A sample of 104 respondents was established from a target population of 141 that included all selected departments in the local government, questionnaires and interviews were among the collection instruments used for data gathering and then the analysis was done with the help of SPSS version 20.0.
title: 02_1184
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Geometric actions and flat space holography
Creators: name: Merbis, Wout
name: Riegler, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we perform the Hamiltonian reduction of the action for three-dimensional Einstein gravity with vanishing cosmological constant using the Chern-Simons formulation and Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) boundary conditions. An equivalent formulation of the boundary action is the geometric action on BMS$_3$ coadjoint orbits, where the orbit representative is identified as the bulk holonomy. We use this reduced action to compute one-loop contributions to the torus partition function of all BMS$_3$ descendants of Minkowski spacetime and cosmological solutions in flat space. We then consider Wilson lines in the ISO$(2,1)$ Chern-Simons theory with endpoints on the boundary, whose reduction to the boundary theory gives a bilocal operator. We use the expectation values and two-point correlation functions of these bilocal operators to compute quantum contributions to the entanglement entropy of a single interval for BMS$_3$ invariant field theories and BMS$_3$ blocks, respectively. While semi-classically the BMS$_3$ boundary theory has central charges $c_1 = 0$ and $c_2 = 3/G_N$, we find that quantum corrections in flat space do not renormalize $G_N$, but rather lead to a non-zero $c_1$.
description: 61 pages, v2: typo's fixed and ref's added, v3: added comments and improved discussions. Matches version accepted for publication in JHEP
Determinants of Farmers' Preference for Sustainable Land Management Practices for Maize and Cassava Production in Ogun State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Babalola, D.A.
name: Olayemi, J.K.
name: Babalola, D.A.
name: Olayemi, J.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Sustainable land management practices
subject: logit model
subject: Ogun state

description: In order to ensure agricultural sustainability, as highlighted in the millennium development goals, it has become necessary to focus policies on enhancing sustainable land management, especially in vulnerable areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Hence there is the need for this study which was designed to analyze the determinants of farmers’ adoption of Sustainable Land Management Practices (SLMP) in the production of maize and cassava in Ogun State. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in this study. The data for study was collected from 338 farmers with the use of questionnaire. Information collected covered farmers’ socio-economic, institutional and farm level characteristics and specific SLMPs used. The SLMPs studied included Structural and Mechanical Erosion Control (SMEC), Agronomic Practices (AP), Cultivation Practices (CP) and Soil Management Practices (SMP). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the logit model. The farmers had an average of nine years of formal education, 54% participated in Community Based Organizations (CBOs), and 91% had access to extension education, 55% had land tenancy security 81% favoured the use of AP more than other SLMPs. About 47% of the farmers cultivated undulating farmlands which were vulnerable to degradation. Farmers’ level of education and their participation in CBOs positively influenced their adoption of the SLMPs. Overall results from this study show that the adoption of SLMPs can be enhanced by increasing farmers’ literacy level and encouraging them to participate more in community based organizations.
Adoption of Genetically Modified Crops in South Africa: Effects on wholesale maize prices
Creators: name: Abidoye, Babatunde O.
name: Mabaya, Edward
name: Abidoye, Babatunde O.
name: Mabaya, Edward
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Agribusiness
Crop Production/Industries

description: The ability of genetically modified (GM) crops to increase yields and reduce use of pesticides is well established. Based on food security needs and the central role of agriculture, Africa may stand to benefit from green biotechnology given the low agricultural productivity and the looming food crises in most urban areas. However, the adoption of GM crops in Africa has been slow and limited to a handful of countries. The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of GM maize adoption in South Africa by looking at wholesale spot prices. We are apply a threshold autoregressive model to time series data on price of maize and GM adoption rates in South Africa to address the following questions: (1) Does the adoption of GM maize excite the growth rate of price of maize in South Africa; (2) Does the error variance of the maize price growth rate exhibit regime-switching behavior to impact the volatility? The results shows evidence that the adoption of GM maize influences the dynamics of the maize price growth rate in South Africa. Further, there is strong evidence that the error variance exhibits regime-switching behavior with the posterior mean for the error variance in the first regime about twice as large as that of the second regime. The paper closes with some conclusions and summary of key points.