cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Image Demoireing: Methods and Results
Creators: name: Yuan, Shanxin
name: Timofte, Radu
name: Leonardis, Ales
name: Slabaugh, Gregory
name: Luo, Xiaotong
name: Zhang, Jiangtao
name: Qu, Yanyun
name: Hong, Ming
name: Xie, Yuan
name: Li, Cuihua
name: Xu, Dejia
name: Chu, Yihao
name: Sun, Qingyan
name: Liu, Shuai
name: Zong, Ziyao
name: Nan, Nan
name: Li, Chenghua
name: Kim, Sangmin
name: Nam, Hyungjoon
name: Kim, Jisu
name: Jeong, Jechang
name: Cheon, Manri
name: Yoon, Sung-Jun
name: Kang, Byungyeon
name: Lee, Junwoo
name: Zheng, Bolun
name: Liu, Xiaohong
name: Dai, Linhui
name: Chen, Jun
name: Cheng, Xi
name: Fu, Zhenyong
name: Yang, Jian
name: Lee, Chul
name: Vien, An Gia
name: Park, Hyunkook
name: Nathan, Sabari
name: Beham, M. Parisa
name: Roomi, S Mohamed Mansoor
name: Lemarchand, Florian
name: Pelcat, Maxime
name: Nogues, Erwan
name: Puthussery, Densen
name: S, Hrishikesh P
name: C, Jiji
name: Sinha, Ashish
name: Zhao, Xuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper reviews the Challenge on Image Demoireing that was part of the New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement (NTIRE) workshop, held in conjunction with CVPR 2020. Demoireing is a difficult task of removing moire patterns from an image to reveal an underlying clean image. The challenge was divided into two tracks. Track 1 targeted the single image demoireing problem, which seeks to remove moire patterns from a single image. Track 2 focused on the burst demoireing problem, where a set of degraded moire images of the same scene were provided as input, with the goal of producing a single demoired image as output. The methods were ranked in terms of their fidelity, measured using the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) between the ground truth clean images and the restored images produced by the participants' methods. The tracks had 142 and 99 registered participants, respectively, with a total of 14 and 6 submissions in the final testing stage. The entries span the current state-of-the-art in image and burst image demoireing problems.
Dynamics of Heterogeneous Congestion Tolerance in the Location Choices of U.S. Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishermen
Creators: name: Ran, Tao
name: Keithly, Walter R.
name: Kazmierczak, Richard F.
name: Ran, Tao
name: Keithly, Walter R.
name: Kazmierczak, Richard F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: location choice
subject: congestion
subject: mixed logit
subject: shrimp fishery

description: Location choice is one of the most important short-run decisions made by commercial fishermen. Previous studies of location choice by commercial fishermen have focused primarily on site fidelity, profit-maximization behavior, and risk attitudes as factors influencing their location choice behavior. Although the recreational literature gives extensive consideration to the influence of congestion on site selection, few studies have considered the influence of congestion tolerance on site selection in the commercial fishing sector. This study uses a mixed logit model to analyze the heterogeneous congestion tolerance in location choice among U.S. Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishermen. The dynamics of fishermen responses to economic conditions are compared and contrasted for two periods; the first period coinciding with relative economic stability in the industry and the second period coinciding with deteriorating economic conditions. Results suggest that congestion externalities have significant influence on the location choice of shrimp fishermen, but that congestion tolerance level differs among them. A better understanding of heterogeneous congestion tolerance should aid the implementation of management tools such as area closures.
Bayesian Estimation of The Impacts of Food Safety Information on Household Demand for Meat and Poultry
Creators: name: Taylor, Mykel R.
name: Phaneuf, Daniel J.
name: Taylor, Mykel R.
name: Phaneuf, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food safety
subject: panel data
subject: Gibbs sampler
subject: component error

description: Consumer reaction to changes in the amount of food safety information on beef, pork, and poultry available in the media is the focus of this study. Specifically, any differences in consumer reactions due to heterogeneous household characteristics are investigated. The data used in this study are monthly data from the Nielsen Homescan panel and cover the time period January 1998 to December 2005. These panel data contain information on household purchases of fresh meat and poultry as well as demographic characteristics of the participating households. The data used to describe food safety information were obtained from searches of newspapers using the Lexis-Nexis academic search engine. Consumer reactions are modeled in this study using a demand system that allows for both discrete and continuous choice situations. A seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) tobit model is estimated using a Gibbs sampler with data augmentation. A component error structure (random effects model) is incorporated into the SUR tobit model to account for unobserved heterogeneity of households making repeated purchases over time. Estimates of food safety elasticities calculated from the random effects SUR tobit model suggest that food safety information does not have a statistically or economically significant effect on household purchases of meat and poultry.
Observations of Binary Stars with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument. IX. Observations of Known and Suspected Binaries, and a Partial Survey of Be Stars
Creators: name: Horch, Elliott P.
name: van Belle, Gerard T.
name: Davidson,, James W.
name: Willmarth, Daryl
name: Fekel, Francis C.
name: Muterspaugh, Matthew
name: Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I.
name: Hahne, Frederick W.
name: Granucci, Nicole M.
name: Clark, Catherine
name: Winters, Jennifer G.
name: Rupert, Justin D.
name: Weiss, Samuel A.
name: Colton, Nicole M.
name: Nusdeo, Daniel A.
name: Henry, Todd J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report 370 measures of 170 components of binary and multiple star systems, obtained from speckle imaging observations made with the Differential Speckle Survey Instrument at Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope in 2015 through 2017. Of the systems studied, 147 are binary stars, 10 are seen as triple systems, and 1 quadruple system is measured. Seventy-six high-quality non-detections and fifteen newly resolved components are presented in our observations. The uncertainty in relative astrometry appears to be similar to our previous work at Lowell, namely linear measurement uncertainties of approximately 2 mas, and the relative photometry appears to be uncertain at the 0.1 to 0.15 magnitude level. Using these measures and those in the literature, we calculate six new visual orbits, including one for the Be star 66 Oph, and two combined spectroscopic-visual orbits. The latter two orbits, which are for HD 22451 (YSC 127) and HD 185501 (YSC 135), yield individual masses of the components at the level of 2 percent or better, and independent distance measures that in one case agrees with the value found in the Gaia DR2, and in the other disagrees at the 2-$σ$ level. We find that HD 22451 consists of an F6V+F7V pair with orbital period of $2401.1 \pm 3.2$ days and masses of $1.342 \pm 0.029$ and $1.236 \pm 0.026$ $ M_{\odot}$. For HD 185501, both stars are G5 dwarfs that orbit one another with a period of $433.94 \pm 0.15$ days, and the masses are $0.898 \pm 0.012$ and $0.876 \pm 0.012$ $ M_{\odot}$. We discuss the details of both the new discoveries and the orbit objects.
Role of Modified Chaplygin Gas in Accelerated Universe
Creators: name: Debnath, Ujjal
name: Banerjee, Asit
name: Chakraborty, Subenoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we have considered a model of modified Chaplygin gas and its role in accelerating phase of the universe. We have assumed that the equation of state of this modified model is valid from the radiation era to $Λ$CDM model. We have used recently developed statefinder parameters in characterizing different phase of the universe diagrammatically.
description: RexTex, 7 figures, 8 pages
Benefit Evaluation of the Country of Origin Labeling in Taiwan: Results from Auction Experiment
Creators: name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Chang, Chun-Yu
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Chang, Chun-Yu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: country-of-origin labeling
subject: experimental auction
subject: Tobit model
subject: contingent valuation method
subject: logit model
subject: multinomial logit model
subject: willingness to pay

description: This research is aimed at investigating the consumer’s preference for food produced in Taiwan and the economic benefits for the country of origin labeling. The study uses both experimental auction and contingent valuation method (CVM) to investigate factors that affect the consumer’s willingness to pay (WTP) for products under country-of-origin labeling (COOL). Experimental auctions of Taiwan and China preserved olives as well as Taiwan, China and Vietnam oolong teas were conducted using the Vickrey’s second price sealed bid auction. For CVM, the study used the double-bounded dichotomous choice method in which we started assuming the same base price for all products in the first question and then varied the prices in the second CV question. The products not chosen in the first question were offered with a discount in a range from 10% to 50% in the following question. Based on auction data, the Tobit model shows that the estimated premiums are 58.1%, 78.15% and 98.13% for Taiwan products over their alternatives of China olives, China oolong tea, and Vietnam oolong tea, respectively. Based on the CVM, the estimated premiums for Taiwan over China olives from a Logit model is 67%, and the premiums for Taiwan produced oolong tea should lie between 50% to an unknown upper bound over China and Vietnam alternatives as the Multinomial Logit model cannot be successfully estimated due to too few choice switches with discounted prices. The study thus demonstrates the superiority of the experimental auction over the CVM in eliciting the WTP for foods produced in Taiwan. The study concludes that enacting a COOL law would increase economic benefits to consumers in Taiwan, and at the same time, placing the imported products in the level playing field.
Quantum criticality in the spin-isotropic pseudogap Bose-Fermi Kondo model: entropy, scaling, and the g-theorem
Creators: name: Yu, Zuodong
name: Zamani, Farzaneh
name: Ribeiro, Pedro
name: Kirchner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behavior of the entropy of the pseudogap Bose-Fermi Kondo model within a dynamical large-$N$ limit, where $N$ is related to the symmetry group of the model. This model is a general quantum impurity model that describes a localized level coupled to a fermionic bath having a density of states that vanishes in a powerlaw fashion near the Fermi energy and to a bosonic bath possessing a powerlaw spectral density below a cutoff energy. As a function of the couplings to the baths various quantum phase transitions can occur. We study how the impurity entropy changes across these zero-temperature transitions and compare our results with predictions based on the g-theorem. This is accomplished by an analysis of the leading and sub-leading scaling behavior. Our analysis shows that the $g$-theorem does not apply to the pseudogap Bose-Fermi Kondo model at the large-N level. This inapplicability originates from an anomalous contribution to the scaling function in the hydrodynamic regime where $k_B T>\hbar ω$ which is absent in the quantum coherent regime, i.e., for $k_B T
Constraints on the charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos
Creators: name: Li, Tong
name: Ma, Xiao-Dong
name: Schmidt, Michael A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the implication of low-energy precision measurements on the quark-lepton charged currents in general neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in effective field theories. The physics in low-energy measurements is described by the low-energy effective field theory extended with sterile neutrinos (LNEFT) defined below the electroweak scale. We also take into account renormalization group running and match the LNEFT onto the Standard Model (SM) effective field theory with sterile neutrinos (SMNEFT) to constrain new physics (NP) above the electroweak scale. The most sensitive low-energy probes are from leptonic decays of pseudoscalar mesons and hadronic tau lepton decays in terms of precise decay branching fractions, the lepton flavor universality and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) unitarity. We also consider other constraints including nuclear beta decay. The constraints on charged current operators are generally stronger than the ones for quark-neutrino neutral current operators. We find that the most stringent bounds on the NP scale of lepton-number-conserving and lepton-number-violating operators in SMNEFT are 74 (110) TeV and 9.8 (13) TeV, respectively, for the operators with down (strange) quark.
description: 34 pages, 12 tables. Version accepted by JHEP
Noiseless limit of a ferrofluid ratchet
Creators: name: Becker, Volker
name: Engel, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The noiseless limit of a thermal ratchet device using ferrofluids is studied in detail. Contrary to previous claims it is proved that no directed transport can occur in this model in the absence of fluctuations.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 2 of Comparative analysis of somatic variant calling on matched FF and FFPE WGS samples
Creators: name: Brienen, Louise De Schaetzen Van
name: Larmuseau, Maarten
name: Eecken, Kim Van Der
name: Ryck, Frederic De
name: Robbe, Pauline
name: Schuh, Anna
name: Fostier, Jan
name: Ost, Piet
name: Marchal, Kathleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Figures. This document contains all the figures supplementary to the main manuscript.
Constructing Farm Level Yield Densities from Aggregated Data: Analysis and Comparison of Approaches
Creators: name: Cooper, Joseph C.
name: Langemeier, Michael R.
name: Schnitkey, Gary D.
name: Zulauf, Carl R.
name: Cooper, Joseph C.
name: Langemeier, Michael R.
name: Schnitkey, Gary D.
name: Zulauf, Carl R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Yield variability
subject: crop insurance
subject: corn
subject: wheat
subject: soybeans

description: Yield variability can be significantly higher at the farm level than at more aggregated levels, including the county. However, due to a dearth of available farm level data, much stochastic analysis involving farm yields utilizes more aggregated yield data as a proxy for the farm level. We empirically evaluate farm-level variability using longitudinal farm level data sets available from the Kansas Farm Management Association and the Illinois Farm Business and Farm Management Association. For corn, soybeans, and wheat, we compare the farm level yield variability obtained from this data to that inferred from Federal crop insurance premiums. The farm management data exhibit lower yield variability than are implied by the crop insurance premiums.
Entanglement distillation by adiabatic passage in coupled quantum dots
Creators: name: Fabian, Jaroslav
name: Hohenester, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adiabatic passage of two correlated electrons in three coupled quantum dots is shown to provide a robust and controlled way of distilling, transporting and detecting spin entanglement, as well as of measuring the rate of spin disentanglement. Employing tunable interdot coupling the scheme creates, from an unentangled two-electron state, a superposition of spatially separated singlet and triplet states. A single measurement of a dot population (charge) collapses the wave function to either of these states, realizing entanglement to charge conversion. The scheme is robust, with the efficiency close to 100%, for a large range of realistic spectral parameters.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
A STUDY ON INVESTMENT PREFERENCES AMONG PLANTATION WORKERS IN IDUKKI DISTRICT
Creators: name: Geetha M* & Dr. U. Thaslim Ariff**
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study explores the investment preferences among plantation workers in Idukki District, focusing on their financial behaviors and decision-making processes. With a growing recognition of the importance of financial literacy and investment, this research aims to identify the various avenues in which these workers choose to invest their savings. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire administered to a sample of plantation workers, analyzing factors such as income levels, age, educational background, and risk appetite. The findings indicate that the majority of respondents prefer traditional investment options, including bank deposits and savings schemes, primarily due to their perceived safety and stability. Additionally, the study highlights a significant gap in awareness regarding more complex investment avenues, such as equity markets and mutual funds. The research emphasizes the need for targeted financial education programs to enhance investment knowledge and promote diverse investment strategies among plantation workers, ultimately contributing to their financial well-being.
Endogeneity of acreage choices in input allocation equations: implied problems and a solution
Creators: name: Letort, Elodie
name: Carpentier, Alain
name: Letort, Elodie
name: Carpentier, Alain
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: input allocation
subject: multi-output econometric model
subject: control function approach

description: Standard farm-level data used for crop choice modelling are farm accountancy data providing detailed data with respect to production (crop areas and production) but only providing variable input use (pesticides, fertilizers, …) data at the farm level. Allocation of variable input uses to crops appears useful for several reasons: it is necessary to compute gross margins at the crop level and may be used to investigate the empirical validity of multi-crop econometric models. The contribution of this research is threefold. First it shows that the standard regression based approaches for allocating variable input uses to crops are potentially biased due to the (partial) simultaneity of the (expected) crop variable input and acreage choices. Second, it proposes a econometric multi-crop model which is consistent with respect to its deterministic and random parts, for defining these biases and for providing potential solutions. Third, it proposes approaches to eliminate these biases. These approaches are based on the use of correction or control functions (Imbens and Wooldridge 2007; Wooldridge 2008).
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 07/10/09.
Structure of smectic defect cores: an X-ray study of 8CB liquid crystal ultra-thin films
Creators: name: Michel, Jean-Philippe
name: Lacaze, Emmanuelle
name: Goldmann, Michel
name: Gailhanou, Marc
name: De Boissieu, Marc
name: Alba, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the structure of very thin liquid crystal films frustrated by antagonistic anchorings in the smectic phase. In a cylindrical geometry, the structure is dominated by the defects for film thicknesses smaller than 150 nm and the detailed topology of the defects cores can be revealed by x-ray diffraction. They appear to be split in half tube-shaped Rotating Grain Boundaries (RGB). We determine the RGB spatial extension and evaluate its energy per unit line. Both are significantly larger than the ones usually proposed in the literature
description: 4 pages
Additional file 2 of Impact of the COVID-19 virus outbreak on movement and play behaviours of Canadian children and youth: a national survey
Creators: name: Moore, Sarah A.
name: Faulkner, Guy
name: Rhodes, Ryan E.
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Chulak-Bozzer, Tala
name: Ferguson, Leah J.
name: Raktim Mitra
name: Norm O’Reilly
name: Spence, John C.
name: Vanderloo, Leigh M.
name: Tremblay, Mark S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2:. STROBE statement checklist of items for cross-sectional studies.
MiniBooNE Status
Creators: name: Raaf, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MiniBooNE, the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, will confirm or refute the existence of the neutrino oscillation signal seen by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) Experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The experiment will search for the appearance of electron neutrinos in a beam of muon neutrinos. This work presents preliminary results from the first round of analyses of charged current quasi-elastic events, neutral current pi0 events, and neutral current elastic events. The neutrino oscillation analysis is not presented in this work; it is a blind analysis which will not be presented until the full set of data has been collected.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the NOON2004 Workshop (5th Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and their Origin, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 11-15, 2004)
Additional file 3 of Impact of the COVID-19 virus outbreak on movement and play behaviours of Canadian children and youth: a national survey
Creators: name: Moore, Sarah A.
name: Faulkner, Guy
name: Rhodes, Ryan E.
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Chulak-Bozzer, Tala
name: Ferguson, Leah J.
name: Raktim Mitra
name: Norm O’Reilly
name: Spence, John C.
name: Vanderloo, Leigh M.
name: Tremblay, Mark S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table 1. Inside and outside hobbies during COVID-19 virus outbreak. Table 2. New or returning family hobbies during the COVID-19 virus outbreak. Table 3. Use of online resources during the COVID-19 virus outbreak.
Towards inflation and dark energy cosmologies from modified Gauss-Bonnet theory
Creators: name: Neupane, Ishwaree P
name: Carter, Benedict M N
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a physically viable cosmological model that has a field dependent Gauss-Bonnet coupling in its effective action, in addition to a standard scalar field potential. The presence of such terms in the four dimensional effective action gives rise to several novel effects, such as a four dimensional flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe undergoing a cosmic inflation at early epoch, as well as a cosmic acceleration at late times. The model predicts, during inflation, spectra of both density perturbations and gravitational waves that may fall well within the experimental bounds. Furthermore, this model provides a mechanism for reheating of the early universe, which is similar to a model with some friction terms added to the equation of motion of the scalar field, which can imitate energy transfer from the scalar field to matter
description: 35 pages, 21 eps figs; section 6 expanded improving explanations, refs added, final in JCAP
Additional file 1 of Comparative analysis of somatic variant calling on matched FF and FFPE WGS samples
Creators: name: Brienen, Louise De Schaetzen Van
name: Larmuseau, Maarten
name: Eecken, Kim Van Der
name: Ryck, Frederic De
name: Robbe, Pauline
name: Schuh, Anna
name: Fostier, Jan
name: Ost, Piet
name: Marchal, Kathleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Tables. This document contains all the tables supplementary to the main manuscript.
Large-scalable fabrication of improved Bi-Te-based flexible thermoelectric modules using a semiconductor manufacturing process
Creators: name: Okawa, Kenjiro
name: Amagai, Yasutaka
name: Fujiki, Hiroyuki
name: Kaneko, Nobu-Hisa
name: Tsuchimine, Nobuo
name: Kaneko, Hiroshi
name: Tasaki, Yuzo
name: Ohata, Keiichi
name: Okajima, Michio
name: Nambu, Shutaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the several flexible thermoelectric modules in existence, sintered Bi-Te-based modules represent a viable option because of their high output power density and flexibility, which enables the use of arbitrary heat sources. We have fabricated Bi-Te-based modules with a large-scalable fabrication process and improved their output performance. The reduction in the interconnection resistance, using thick electrodes of the flexible printed circuit, significantly improves the module's output power to 87 mW/cm$^{2}$ at $ΔT$ = 70 K, which is 1.3-fold higher than a previous prototype module. Furthermore, the establishment of the fabrication for the top electrodes by using the surface mount technology makes it possible to realize a high-throughput manufacturing of the module. Our durability tests reveal that there is no significant change in the internal resistance of the module during 10000 cycles of mechanical bending test and 1000 cycles of thermal stress test.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
The Value of Countermarketing Information to Smokers: Evidence from Field Auctions
Creators: name: Rousu, Matthew C.
name: Nonnemaker, James
name: Farrelly, Matthew
name: Rousu, Matthew C.
name: Nonnemaker, James
name: Farrelly, Matthew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: field auctions
subject: value of information
subject: cigarettes

description: Information about cigarettes can help smokers come to an informed decision about what cigarettes to purchase. Countermarketing information, which helps counter potentially biased marketing information, can fill this void, but little is known about the value of this information to smokers. In this paper, we use data from experimental auctions to estimate the value of countermarketing information to smokers. We find that countermarketing information has significant value to smokers who have been exposed to marketing information from tobacco companies, but we find no evidence it provides value to smokers not exposed to marketing information
Dissociation of virtual photons in events with a leading proton at HERA
Creators: name: ZEUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ZEUS detector has been used to study dissociation of virtual photons in events with a leading proton, gamma^* p -> X p, in e^+p collisions at HERA. The data cover photon virtualities in two ranges, 0.031.5 GeV, where M_X is the mass of the hadronic final state, X. Events were required to have a leading proton, detected in the ZEUS leading proton spectrometer, carrying at least 90% of the incoming proton energy. The cross section is presented as a function of t, the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex, Phi, the azimuthal angle between the positron scattering plane and the proton scattering plane, and Q^2. The data are presented in terms of the diffractive structure function, F_2^D(3). A next-to-leading-order QCD fit to the higher-Q^2 data set and to previously published diffractive charm production data is presented.
Simulations in Early Universe Theory
Creators: name: Smit, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an impression of the type of results that have been obtained with numerical lattice simulations of field theory in the early universe.
description: 19 pages, contribution to Lattice 2005
Risk Perceptions of Arsenic in Tap Water and Consumption of Bottled Water
Creators: name: Jakus, Paul M.
name: Shaw, W. Douglass
name: Nguyen, To N.
name: Walker, Mark
name: Jakus, Paul M.
name: Shaw, W. Douglass
name: Nguyen, To N.
name: Walker, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The demand for bottled water has increased rapidly over the past decade, but bottled water is extremely costly compared to tap water. The convenience of bottled water surely matters to consumers, but are others factors at work? This manuscript examines whether purchases of bottled water are associated with the perceived risk of tap water. All of the past studies on bottled water consumption have used simple scale measures of perceived risk that do not correspond to risk measures used by risk analysts. We elicit a probability-based measure of risk and find that as perceived risks rise, expenditures for bottled water rise.
Cosmography approach to dark energy cosmologies: new constrains using the Hubble diagrams of supernovae, quasars and gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Rezaei, Mehdi
name: Ojaghi, Saeed Pour
name: Malekjani, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of cosmography approach and using the data of Hubble diagram for supernovae, quasars and gamma-ray bursts, we study some DE parametrizations and also the concordance $Λ$CDM universe. Using the different combinations of data sample including ({\it i}) supernovae (Pantheon), ({\it ii}) Pantheon + quasars and ({\it iii}) Pantheon + quasars + gamma-ray bursts and applying the minimization of $χ^2$ function of distance modulus of data samples in the context of Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, we first obtain the constrained values of the cosmographic parameters in model independent cosmography scenario. We then investigate our analysis, for different concordance $Λ$CDM cosmology, $w$CDM, CPL and Pade parametrizations. Comparing the numerical values of the cosmographic parameters obtained for DE scenarios with those of the model independent method, we show that the concordance $Λ$CDM model has a serious tension when we involve the quasars and gamma-ray bursts data in our analysis. While the high redshift quasars and gamma-ray bursts can falsify the concordance model, our results of cosmography approach indicate that the other DE parametrizations are still consistent with these observations.
description: Accepted in ApJ
Frühchristlich-syrische Psalterillustration in einer byzantinischen Abkürzung
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. 5 (1905): Oriens christianus, Band 5
Magnetoresistance in the s-d Model with Arbitrary Impurity Spin
Creators: name: Ding, Kaihe
name: Zhao, Bao-Heng
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: The magnetoresistance, the number of the localized electrons, and the s-wave scattering phase shift at the Fermi level for the s-d model with arbitrary impurity spin are obtained in the ground state. To obtain above results some known exact results of the Bethe ansatz method are used. As the impurity spin S = 1/2, our results coincide with those obtained by Ishii \textit{et al%}. The compairsion between the theoretical and experimental magneticresistence for impurity S = 1/2 is re-examined.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Investigating F_L(x,Q2) at fixed energy in the color dipole formalism
Creators: name: Machado, Magno V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At small-x, the structure function F_L(x,Q2) is driven by the gluon content of the nucleon target and consequently it can unravel the underlying QCD dynamics in that region. In this work, one studies its behavior on photon virtuality Q2 at fixed energy within the color dipole formalism for models considering parton saturation effects. The reason is that they resum a wide class of higher-twist contributions, which have important influence in F_L description towards low Q2. It is shown that the geometric scaling property holds for the longitudinal cross section. Moreover, the effective anomalous dimension in scaling dipole cross sections can be investigated by studing both the turn over and the large Q2 regions of the recent experimental measurements.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures. Includes new analyzes as a comparison with NLO and NNLO QCD calculations. Some model predictions have been revised and title has a shorter version. Extended version to be published in European Physical Journal C
INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN FOREST PRODUCTS: AN OVERVIEW
Creators: name: Puttock, G. David
name: Sabourin, Marc
name: Meilke, Karl D.
name: Puttock, G. David
name: Sabourin, Marc
name: Meilke, Karl D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This report provides an overview of the current status of world trade in forest products. Global production and major trade flows are presented. Domestic policies affecting trade, tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, free trade agreements, and environmental issues and their potential implications for trade flows are also reviewed. Recent empirical approaches to modelling the spatial commodity and interregional trade in forest products are discussed. Finally, the report highlights significant gaps in our knowledge and understanding of the factors affecting trade flows and recommends areas for further research.
Estimation of Treatment Effects of recombinant Bovine Somatotropin using Matching Samples
Creators: name: Tauer, Loren W.
name: Tauer, Loren W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Bovine Somatotropin
subject: BST
subject: Dairy
subject: Matching Samples
subject: Treatments

description: The production and profit impacts of recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbST) on select New York dairy farms were estimated using data over the years 1994 through 2004, by comparing matching farms which use and do not use rbST. The use of rbST increases milk production per cow and decreases the cost of production per hundredweight of milk. The cost penalty (cost reduction) is $0.39 per hundredweight for those currently using rbST to stop using rbST, while the average treatment effect is $0.73.
Observation of the vertex-rounding transition for a crystal in equilibrium: oxygen-covered tungsten
Creators: name: Szczepkowicz, Andrzej
name: Bryl, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equilibrium crystal shape of oxygen-covered tungsten is followed as a function of temperature using field ion microscopy. In the vicinity of the (111) region, at the temperature $970\pm70$ K, the system undergoes a phase transition from a polyhedral form (sharp edges and sharp vertex) to a rounded form (sharp edges, rounded vertex).
description: Experimental paper reporting microscopic observations, 4 pages, 3 figures. Phys. Rev. B, accepted for publication (2005)
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS ON THE EFFECT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS INFLUENCING TO BUY LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES FROM THE PUBLIC SECTOR LIFE INSURER
Creators: name: Dr. P. Kamaraj
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study employs multivariate analysis to examine how various socio-economic characteristics impact the purchase of life insurance policies from public sector insurers among rural residents. By analyzing multiple variables simultaneously, the research reveals complex relationships and patterns that inform the purchasing behavior, ultimately aiding insurers in developing more effective marketing strategies.
Theory of pressure-induced rejuvenation and strain-hardening in metallic glasses
Creators: name: Phan, Anh D.
name: Zaccone, Alessio
name: Lam, Vu D.
name: Wakabayashi, Katsunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate high-pressure effects on the atomic dynamics of metallic glasses. The theory predicts compression-induced rejuvenation and the resulting strain hardening that have been recently observed in metallic glasses. Structural relaxation under pressure is mainly governed by local cage dynamics. The external pressure restricts the dynamical constraints and slows down the atomic mobility. In addition, the compression induces a rejuvenated metastable state (local minimum) at a higher energy in the free energy landscape. Thus, compressed metallic glasses can rejuvenate and the corresponding relaxation is reversible. This behavior leads to strain hardening in mechanical deformation experiments. Theoretical predictions agree well with experiments.
The diversity of Type Ia Supernovae: evidence for systematics?
Creators: name: Benetti, S.
name: Cappellaro, E.
name: Mazzali, P. A.
name: Turatto, M.
name: Altavilla, G.
name: Bufano, F.
name: Elias-Rosa, N.
name: Kotak, R.
name: Pignata, G.
name: Salvo, M.
name: Stanishev, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photometric and spectroscopic properties of 26 well observed Type Ia Supernovae (SNeIa) were analyzed with the aim to explore SNIa diversity. The sample includes (Branch-)normal SNe as well as extreme events like SNe 1991T and 1991bg, while the truly peculiar SNIa, SN2000cx and SN2002cx are not included in our sample . A statistical treatment reveals the existence of three different groups. The first group (FAINT) consists of faint SNeIa similar to SN1991bg, with low expansion velocities and rapid evolution of SiII velocity. A second group consists of ``normal'' SNeIa, also with high temporal velocity gradient (HVG), but with brighter mean absolute magnitude =-19.3 and higher expansion velocities than the FAINT SNe. The third group includes both ``normal'' and SN1991T-like SNeIa: these SNe populate a narrow strip in the SiII velocity evolution plot, with a small velocity gradient (SVG), but have absolute magnitudes similar to HVGs. While the FAINT and HVG SNeIa together seem to define a relation between RSi(II) and Dm15(B), the SVG ones either do not conform with that relation or define a new, looser one. The RSi(II) pre-maximum evolution of HVGs is strikingly different from that of SVGs. The impact of this evidence on the understanding of SNIa diversity, in terms of explosion mechanisms, degree of ejecta mixing, and ejecta-CSM interaction, is discussed.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication to ApJ; few referee's comments added
Additional file 1 of Impact of the COVID-19 virus outbreak on movement and play behaviours of Canadian children and youth: a national survey
Creators: name: Moore, Sarah A.
name: Faulkner, Guy
name: Rhodes, Ryan E.
name: Brussoni, Mariana
name: Chulak-Bozzer, Tala
name: Ferguson, Leah J.
name: Raktim Mitra
name: Norm O’Reilly
name: Spence, John C.
name: Vanderloo, Leigh M.
name: Tremblay, Mark S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1:. Complete children and youth movement and play behaviours survey items.
Additional file 1 of Comparative predictive ability of visit-to-visit HbA1c variability measures for microvascular disease risk in type 2 diabetes
Creators: name: Yang, Chen-Yi
name: Su, Pei-Fang
name: Jo-Ying Hung
name: Ou, Huang-Tz
name: Shihchen Kuo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional tables and figures.
Investigation of the conjectured nucleon deformation at low momentum transfer
Creators: name: Sparveris, N. F.
name: Collaboration, OOPS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report new precise H$(e,e^\prime p)π^0$ measurements at the $Δ(1232)$ resonance at $Q^2= 0.127$ (GeV/c)$^2$ using the MIT/Bates out-of-plane scattering (OOPS) facility. The data reported here are particularly sensitive to the transverse electric amplitude ($E2$) of the $γ^* N\toΔ$ transition. Analyzed together with previous data yield precise quadrupole to dipole amplitude ratios $EMR = (-2.3 \pm 0.3_{stat+sys} \pm 0.6_{model})%$ and $CMR = (-6.1 \pm 0.2_{stat+sys}\pm 0.5_{model})%$ and for $M^{3/2}_{1+} = (41.4 \pm 0.3_{stat+sys}\pm 0.4_{model})(10^{-3}/m_{π^+})$. They give credence to the conjecture of deformation in hadronic systems favoring, at low $Q^2$, the dominance of mesonic effects.
description: 4 pages, 1figure
Low-temperature antihydrogen-atom scattering
Creators: name: Jonsell, S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple method to include the strong force in atom-antiatom scattering is presented. It is based on the strong-force scatteringn length between the nucleon and antinucleon. Using this method elastic and annihilation cross sections are calculated for hydrogen-antihydrogen and helium-antihydrogen scattering. The results are compared to first-order perturbation theory using a pseudo potential. The pseudo-potential approach works fairly well for hydrogen-antihydrogen scattering, but fails for helium-antihydrogen scattering where strong-force effects are more prominent.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods B
Optical properties of exciton in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide nanobubbles
Creators: name: Smiri, Adlen
name: Amand, Thierry
name: Jaziri, Sihem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strain in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) has led to localized states with exciting optical properties, in particular in view of designing one photon sources. The naturally formed of the MoS2 monolayer deposed on hBN substrate leads to a reduction of the bandgap in the strained region creating a nanobubble. The photogenerated particles are thus confined in the strain-induced potential. Using numerical diagonalization, we simulate the spectra of the confined exciton states, their oscillator strengths and radiative lifetimes. We show that a single state of the confined exciton is optically active, which suggests that the MoS2/hBN nanobubble is a good candidate for the realisation of single-photon sources. Furthermore, the exciton binding energy, oscillator strength and radiative lifetime are enhanced due to the confinement effect.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
TESTING DYNAMIC SPECIFICATIONS FOR IMPORT DEMAND MODELS: THE CASE OF COTTON
Creators: name: Arnade, Carlos Anthony
name: Pick, Daniel H.
name: Vasavada, Utpal
name: Arnade, Carlos Anthony
name: Pick, Daniel H.
name: Vasavada, Utpal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: Error correction models impose few prior restrictions on dynamic model specification and allow the data to determine model structure. Despite this obvious advantage, few applications have adopted the error correction model to explain trade flows. An error correction model of cotton import demand is estimated for France, Japan, and Hong Kong. A variety of tests are applied to determine the dynamic structure of the model. We find the most general models are those that best fit the data for cotton import demand. Long-run elasticities from these general models are significantly different than elasticities derived from a comparable static model.