cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC REPORT 2004 OF THE NETHERLANDS: SUMMARY
Creators: name: Berkhout, Petra
name: Van Bruchem, Cees
name: Berkhout, Petra
name: Van Bruchem, Cees
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This report offers an English summary of the Landbouw-Economisch Bericht 2004. It presents a survey of the economic state of Dutch agribusiness. First, attention is paid to general economic and political developments and to the developoment of the agricultural complex. Next, the report deals with the rural area and with environmental issues. Following a description of the production structure and production factors in agriculture, profitability and income formation in the various sub-sectors are analysed.
Census Household Panel Sample Design – Using the Auxiliary Data to Stratify the Master Address File
Creators: name: Hornick, David
name: Hunter Childs, Jenny
name: Fields, Jason
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Research and development work conducted both at the Census Bureau and throughout the field has demonstrated the value of a high-quality panel survey to improve representativeness and significantly reduce burden on households in the interests of collecting high-frequency data. The Census Bureau launched initial recruitment of the Census Household Panel (CHP) in September of 2023. The initial sample was carefully selected and recruited by the Census Bureau to reflect the diversity of our nation’s population. Panel participants were asked to respond to an initial “baseline” questionnaire as well as various monthly survey requests, referred to as “topical collections.” This paper outlines the CHP sample design, covering the stratification used in selecting the initial sample. We used information from the Census Bureau’s demographic frame, a person-level frame based on administrative records and the Census Bureau’s Planning Database to stratify the housing units on the Master Address File.

 

This paper also discusses the CHP sample size targets, “baseline” and “topical” weights and initial demographic distributions from the initial sample respondents and first few “topical” collections.
Kaluza-Klein Mesons in Universal Extra Dimensions
Creators: name: De Pree, Erin
name: Sher, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In models with universal extra dimensions, the isosinglet Kaluza-Klein (KK) quarks, q^1, have very narrow widths, of O(5-10) MeV, and will thus hadronize. Studies of KK-quarkonia, \bar{q}^1 q^1, show very sharp resonances and dramatic signatures at the Linear Collider. In this Brief Report, we consider the possibility of detecting KK-mesons, \bar{q}^1 q, and show that detection at a Linear Collider is unlikely.
description: One paragraph regarding KK-meson annihilation added. Version to appear in Physical Review D
1600 Jahrfeier Ephräms des Syrers vom 14. X. - 20. X. 1973 in Kaslik/Libanon
Creators: name: Schmidt, Margot
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 58 (1974): Oriens christianus, Band 58
AN EVALUATION OF CONSUMER PESTICIDE RESIDUE CONCERNS AND RISK INFORMATION SOURCES
Creators: name: Byrne, Patrick J.
name: Gempesaw, Conrado M.
name: Toensmeyer, Ulrich C.
name: Byrne, Patrick J.
name: Gempesaw, Conrado M.
name: Toensmeyer, Ulrich C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Marginal probability effects of demographic variables on consumer concerns about pesticide residues were assessed as well as the likelihood of consumer beliefs given different channels of information on produce safety and risks. This was done using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of ordered logit models. The empirical results showed that pesticide residue concern levels appeared to be lower for more highly educated and high income households. Safety information from the academic community was found to have the highest likelihood of acceptance by consumers.
The Trinity & how it Relates to God's Mercy in the Christian Bible
Creators: name: Elliott, Lucas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 220401 Christian Studies (incl. Biblical Studies and Church History)
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: A theological paper discussing the Trinity and how it is a tool God uses throughout the Bible to share his mercy.
Data management plan
Creators: name: Milenkovic, Jovana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The task T9.5, deals with Knowledge Management in which Data Management Plan (DMP) document will be
 delivered due M06 describing how acquired data and knowledge will be shared, made open and how it will be
 maintained and preserved. Identifiable project data will be provided in a manner to define relevant knowledge,
 increase partners’ awareness, validate the result and timeframe of actions. During the proposal phase it was
 specified that all partners will be responsible for updating the knowledge management system periodically,
 with outcomes of research work conducted by other groups adding any new patents, in order to ensure ongoing
 relevant technological developments and innovations that are identified, analysed and built upon during the
 course of IQONIC project. This research will be published in confidential reports, the Plan for Exploitation
 and Dissemination of Results (PEDR). In particular, each partner will characterise their produced data and
 associated software and/or used in the project whether these are: Discoverable (means of an identification mechanism such as Digital Object Identifier). Accessible (in what modalities, scope, licenses, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)). Assessable and intelligible (they allow third parties to make assessments about their reliability and the competence of the creators. Useable beyond the original purpose for which it was collected are usable to third parties after the collection of the data for long periods (repositories, preservation and curation). Interoperable to specific quality standards allow data exchange between researchers, institutions, organisations, countries, re-combinations with different datasets, data exchange, compliant with available software applications.
F-quasigroups and generalized modules
Creators: name: Kepka, Tomáš
name: Kinyon, Michael
name: Phillips, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20N05

description: In math.GR/0510298, we showed that every F-quasigroup is linear over a special kind of Moufang loop called an NK-loop. Here we extend this relationship by showing an equivalence between the equational class of (pointed) F-quasigroups and the equational class corresponding to a certain notion of generalized module (with noncommutative, nonassociative addition) for an associative ring.
description: 9 pages, refers to math.GR/0510298
EFFICIENCY MEASURES USING THE RAY-HOMOTHETIC FUNCTION: A MULTIPERIOD ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Neff, David L.
name: Garcia, Philip
name: Hornbaker, Robert H.
name: Neff, David L.
name: Garcia, Philip
name: Hornbaker, Robert H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Recent investigations have provided mixed assessments of farm firm efficiency. This analysis examined the efficiency of a homogeneous sample of central Illinois grain farms over a six-year period. A best-practice frontier was constructed using the ray-homothetic function, which allowed optimal farm output to vary with factor intensity. Efficiency measures were found to increase with temporal aggregation. The ray-homothetic approach was found to attribute high scale inefficiencies to larger sample farms in cases where the factor shares did not vary appreciably across farms. The findings suggest that policy recommendations regarding farm efficiency must be made with care.
Identified Particle Spectra and Jet Interactions with the Medium
Creators: name: Sorensen, P. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through a combination of detector upgrades and advancements in analysis techniques, physicist at RHIC are extending their ability to identify particles at high pT . With these new capabilities some outstanding questions are being addressed: particularly regarding baryon production. Here I present an overview of new data on identified particle elliptic flow (v2), identified particle pT spectra and identified hadron-hadron correlations. The observed phenomena provide insights into hard parton interactions with the bulk matter created in heavy-ion collisions and the relevant degrees-of-freedom during its early stages.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, proceedings for Quark Matter 2005
Extracting the jet transport coefficient of cold nuclear matter from world data
Creators: name: Ru, Peng
name: Kang, Zhong-Bo
name: Wang, Enke
name: Xing, Hongxi
name: Zhang, Ben-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first global extraction of the jet transport coefficient ($\hat q$) for cold nuclear matter within the framework of higher-twist expansion. The analysis takes into account the world data on transverse momentum broadening in semi-inclusive $e$-A deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and in Drell-Yan dilepton and heavy quarkonium production in $p$-A collisions, as well as the nuclear modification of the structure functions in DIS. The results of this work provide the first quantitative evidence for the universality and non-trivial scale dependence of the medium transport property, similar to that for nucleon structure as encoded in the standard parton distribution functions. We expect the extracted scale dependence of $\hat q$ for cold nuclear matter can be extended to precisely identify the fundamental property of quark gluon plasma.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, talk presented by Hongxi Xing at Quark Matter 2019 conference
Competencias docentes en psicología: Potenciando el aprendizaje a través de un programa de intervención
Creators: name: Zamora Garcés, Brian
name: Alzate Ortiz, Faber Andrés
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Teaching competencies
higher education
psychology
active methodologies
teaching-learning

description: El presente trabajo académico tiene como objetivo diseñar un programa de intervención para fortalecer las competencias docentes en el programa de Psicología de la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, sede Cali, en respuesta a los desafíos contemporáneos de la educación superior y la Sociedad del Conocimiento, se propone un enfoque basado en competencias y metodologías activas para mejorar los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje.El diseño del programa está estructurado en tres etapas: diagnóstico, implementación y evaluación. En la etapa de diagnóstico, se propone realizar encuestas, entrevistas y observaciones en el aula para evaluar las competencias docentes y las metodologías empleadas por el profesorado en psicología. La implementación del programa incluirá la capacitación docente mediante talleres, seminarios y actividades prácticas diseñadas específicamente para enfocarse en la mejora de habilidades pedagógicas y técnicas del claustro docente adaptándose a las áreas de mejora identificadas en el diagnóstico. Posteriormente, se expone la evaluación del programa mediante el uso de métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos para asegurar su efectividad en la mejora de la calidad educativa al medir el impacto en las competencias docentes y los resultados de aprendizaje de los estudiantes.Finalmente se concluye que el diseño de la propuesta de intervención permite la planificación flexible de una alternativa metodológica desde modelos integrales y constructivistas basados en competencias y centrados en el aprendizaje para potenciar el perfil del profesorado en psicología dentro de la educación superior.
A TARGET MOTAD ANALYSIS OF SWEET POTATO MARKETING
Creators: name: Bauer, Larry L.
name: Bauer, Larry L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Decisions regarding when to harvest and when to sell sweet potatoes are more complex than for other crops because yields continue to increase after the crop is initially ready for harvest, and sweet potatoes can either be sold at harvest or cured and stored for later sale. The optimum marketing decision, based on expected net revenue, is dependent on yield and prices and their variability, and on costs of storage. A marketing strategy is developed using Target MOTAD and data covering 21 years.
INCORPORATING THE IMPACTS OF UNCERTAIN FIELDWORK TIME ON WHOLE-FARM RISK-RETURN LEVELS: A TARGET MOTAD APPROACH
Creators: name: Misra, Sukant K.
name: Spurlock, Stanley R.
name: Misra, Sukant K.
name: Spurlock, Stanley R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Given an equipment complement, a specific crop mix has a probability distribution for whole-farm net returns. Increasing crop acreage while holding the set of equipment constant will reduce fixed costs per acre, but it will also increase the length of time required to complete crucial field operations such as planting and harvesting. Thus, the probability of encountering weather-related delays in fieldwork will increase. This increase in delays may cause a decline in yields and changes in the distribution of net returns. This paper develops a Target MOTAD model capable of capturing intra-year impacts on profit that arise from the timing of planting and harvesting operations as well as inter-year impacts on profits that are due to variations in economic and weather-related factors. The model relies on estimates of available fieldwork time and a crop's harvestable yield in different time periods throughout the harvest season.
High-Voltage Honeycomb Layered Oxide Positive Electrodes for Rechargeable Sodium Batteries
Creators: name: Chen, Chih-Yao
name: Rizell, Josef
name: Kanyolo, Godwill Mbiti
name: Masese, Titus
name: Sassa, Yasmine
name: Mansson, Martin
name: Kubota, Keigo
name: Matsumoto, Kazuhiko
name: Hagiwara, Rika
name: Xu, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Natural abundance, impressive chemical characteristics and economic feasibility have rekindled the appeal for rechargeable sodium (Na) batteries as a practical solution for the growing energy demand, environmental sustainability and energy independence. However, the scarcity of viable positive electrode materials remains a huge impediment to the actualization of this technology. In this paper, we explore honeycomb layered oxides adopting the composition Na$_2$Ni$_{2-x}$Co$_x$TeO$_6$ ($x = 0, 0.25$ and $0.50$) as feasible positive electrode (cathode) materials for rechargeable sodium batteries at both room- and elevated temperatures using ionic liquids. Through standard galvanostatic assessments and analyses we demonstrate that substitution of nickel with cobalt in Na$_2$Ni$_2$TeO$_6$ leads to an increase in the discharge voltage to nearly $4$ V (versus Na$^+$ / Na) for the Na$_2$Ni$_{2-x}$Co$_x$TeO$_6$ family of honeycomb layered oxide materials, which surpasses the attained average voltages for most layered oxide positive electrode materials that facilitate Na-ion desertion. We also verify the increased kinetics within the Na$_2$Ni$_{2-x}$Co$_x$TeO$_6$ honeycomb layered oxides during operations at elevated temperatures which lead to an increase in reversible capacity of the rechargeable Na battery. This study underpins the doping of congener transition metal atoms to the honeycomb structure of Na$_2$Ni$_2$TeO$_6$ in addition to elevated-temperature operation as a judicious route to enhance the electrochemical performance of analogous layered oxides.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, 1 cover art (Electronic Supplementary Information: 10 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables)
MARKET STRUCTURE AND SPATIAL PRICE DYNAMICS
Creators: name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Grant, Warren R.
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Grant, Warren R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Industrial Organization

description: A method was developed with time series models to test hypotheses about the relationship between market structure and spatial price dynamics. Long-run dynamic multipliers measuring the magnitude of lagged adjustments for spatial milled rice prices were calculated from the time series model and used as the dependent variable in a regression model that included a number of factors expected to influence price determination. Results show that price adjustments were slower as regional submarket concentration increased and were faster in the regions with a higher market share. Arkansas, the state with the largest market share, was consistently a price leader
Congestion Management for Mobility-on-Demand Schemes that use Electric Vehicles
Creators: name: Rigas, Emmanouil
name: Tsompanidis, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To date the majority of commuters use their privately owned vehicle that uses an internal combustion engine. This transportation model suffers from low vehicle utilization and causes environmental pollution. This paper studies the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs) operating in a Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) scheme and tackles the related management challenges. We assume a number of customers acting as cooperative agents requesting a set of alternative trips and EVs distributed across a number of pick-up and drop-off stations. In this setting, we propose congestion management algorithms which take as input the trip requests and calculate the EV-to-customer assignment aiming to maximize trip execution by keeping the system balanced in terms of matching demand and supply. We propose a Mixed-Integer-Programming (MIP) optimal offline solution which assumes full knowledge of customer demand and an equivalent online greedy algorithm that can operate in real time. The online algorithm uses three alternative heuristic functions in deciding whether to execute a customer request: (a) The sum of squares of all EVs in all stations, (b) the percentage of trips' destination location fullness and (c) a random choice of trip execution. Through a detailed evaluation, we observe that (a) provides an increase of up to 4.8% compared to (b) and up to 11.5% compared to (c) in terms of average trip execution, while all of them achieve close to the optimal performance. At the same time, the optimal scales up to settings consisting of tenths of EVs and a few hundreds of customer requests.
Zur Geschichte des armenischen Gottesdienstes im Hinblick auf den in mehreren Wellen erfolgten griechischen Einfluss
Creators: name: Winkler, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 58 (1974): Oriens christianus, Band 58
Empirical Study on Impact of China's Economic Growth on Agricultural Trade
Creators: name:  LIANG Dandan
name:  LIANG Dandan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Economic growth, Agricultural trade, Terms of trade

description: The proposal of "Belt and Road Initiative" has brought greater opportunities for the development of China's agricultural trade, but in recent years, China's agricultural trade deficit has shown a trend of gradually expanding. Based on the data of seven years from 2012 to 2018, this paper empirically analyzes the agricultural trade effect of China's economic growth. It is concluded that the consumption effect of agricultural trade in China's economic growth is anti-trade biased, the production effect and comprehensive effect of agricultural trade are pro-trade biased, and China's terms of trade of agricultural products tend to improve. This paper puts forward some relevant suggestions from the aspects of export structure, production mode, agricultural product processing, logistics mode, e-commerce system, inspection and quarantine and so on.
Functional Positioning of Pastoral Complex in the Context of Rural Revitalization Strategy: A Case Study of Pavlo Eco Valley in Gaoan City of Jiangxi Province
Creators: name:  ZHAO Hancheng
name:  ZHAO Hancheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural revitalization, Pastoral complex, Functional positioning

description: As a new form of industry proposed in the context of the rural revitalization strategy, the pastoral complex has sprung up under the support of various policies. However, there are also various problems in the development of pastoral complex. The functional positioning of pastoral complex is not proper and there is serious homogeneous problem. These greatly restrict the development of pastoral complex. This study, taking the rural revitalization strategy as the background, analyzed the functional positioning of pastoral complex from production, ecology, and living. Besides, taking Pavlo Eco Valley in Gaoan City of Jiangxi Province as an example, it studied its functional positioning and came up with pertinent recommendations for its further development.
Neutron powder diffraction study of NaMn$_2$O$_4$ and Li$_{0.92}$Mn$_2$O$_4$: New insights on spin-charge-orbital ordering
Creators: name: Matsubara, N.
name: Nocerino, E.
name: Kamazawa, K.
name: Forslund, O. K.
name: Sassa, Y.
name: Keller, L.
name: Sikolenko, V. V.
name: Pomjakushin, V.
name: Sakurai, H.
name: Sugiyama, J.
name: Månsson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high-pressure synthesized quasi-one-dimensional compounds NaMn$_2$O$_4$ and Li$_{0.92}$Mn$_2$O$_4$ are both antiferromagnetic insulators, and here their atomic and magnetic structures were investigated using neutron powder diffraction. The present crystal structural analyses of NaMn2O4 reveal that Mn3+/Mn4+ charge-ordering state exist even at low temperature (down to 1.5 K). It is evident from one of the Mn sites shows a strongly distorted Mn3+ octahedra due to the Jahn-Teller effect. Above TN = 39 K, a two-dimensional short-range correlation is observed, as indicated by an asymmetric diffuse scattering. Below TN, two antiferromagnetic transitions are observed (i) a commensurate long-range Mn3+ spin ordering below 39 K, and (ii) an incommensurate Mn4+ spin ordering below 10 K. The commensurate magnetic structure (kC = 0.5, -0.5, 0.5) follows the magnetic anisotropy of the local easy axes of Mn3+, while the incommensurate one shows a spin-density-wave order with kIC = (0,0,0.216). For Li$_{0.92}$Mn$_2$O$_4$, on the other hand, absence of a long-range spin ordered state down to 1.5 K is confirmed.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Toward Campus Mail Delivery Using BDI
Creators: name: Onyedinma, Chidiebere
name: Gavigan, Patrick
name: Esfandiari, Babak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autonomous systems developed with the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture are usually mostly implemented in simulated environments. In this project we sought to build a BDI agent for use in the real world for campus mail delivery in the tunnel system at Carleton University. Ideally, the robot should receive a delivery order via a mobile application, pick up the mail at a station, navigate the tunnels to the destination station, and notify the recipient. We linked the Robot Operating System (ROS) with a BDI reasoning system to achieve a subset of the required use cases. ROS handles the low-level sensing and actuation, while the BDI reasoning system handles the high-level reasoning and decision making. Sensory data is orchestrated and sent from ROS to the reasoning system as perceptions. These perceptions are then deliberated upon, and an action string is sent back to ROS for interpretation and driving of the necessary actuator for the action to be performed. In this paper we present our current implementation, which closes the loop on the hardware-software integration, and implements a subset of the use cases required for the full system.
description: In Proceedings AREA 2020, arXiv:2007.11260
Visualizing droplet dispersal for face shields and masks with exhalation valves
Creators: name: Verma, Siddhartha
name: Dhanak, Manhar
name: Frankenfield, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several places across the world are experiencing a steep surge in COVID-19 infections. Face masks have become increasingly accepted as one of the most effective means for combating the spread of the disease, when used in combination with social-distancing and frequent hand-washing. However, there is an increasing trend of people substituting regular cloth or surgical masks with clear plastic face shields, and with masks equipped with exhalation valves. One of the factors driving this increased adoption is improved comfort compared to regular masks. However, there is a possibility that widespread public use of these alternatives to regular masks could have an adverse effect on mitigation efforts. To help increase public awareness regarding the effectiveness of these alternative options, we use qualitative visualizations to examine the performance of face shields and exhalation valves in impeding the spread of aerosol-sized droplets. The visualizations indicate that although face shields block the initial forward motion of the jet, the expelled droplets can move around the visor with relative ease and spread out over a large area depending on light ambient disturbances. Visualizations for a mask equipped with an exhalation port indicate that a large number of droplets pass through the exhale valve unfiltered, which significantly reduces its effectiveness as a means of source control. Our observations suggest that to minimize the community spread of COVID-19, it may be preferable to use high quality cloth or surgical masks that are of a plain design, instead of face shields and masks equipped with exhale valves.
description: To appear in 'Physics of Fluids'. 8 pages, 7 figures
IMPACT OF REDUCING FEDERAL ORDER CLASS I DIFFERENTIAL ON REPRESENTATIVE TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO DAIRY FARMS
Creators: name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Knutson, Ronald D.
name: Schwart, Robert B.
name: Holt, John
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Garis, Dalton H.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Knutson, Ronald D.
name: Schwart, Robert B.
name: Holt, John
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Garis, Dalton H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The General Accounting Office (GAO) recommended that the USDA substantially reduce or eliminate the extent of price discrimination practiced under federal milk marketing orders. The purpose of this study was to quantify the impacts of alternative means of implementing the GAO proposal on the economic viability of Texas and New Mexico dairy farms. Five dairy farms were simulated for six years under the current dairy policy and five alternative proposals. Results of the analyses indicate that large New Mexico dairies can remain economically viable under all of the alternatives. On the other hand, federal order policy changes would accelerate the loss of equity for moderate size Texas dairy farms.
Geometric description of lightlike foliations by an observer in general relativity
Creators: name: Bolós, V. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce new concepts and properties of lightlike distributions and foliations (of dimension and co-dimension 1) in a space-time manifold of dimension $n$, from a purely geometric point of view. Given an observer and a lightlike distribution $Ω$ of dimension or co-dimension 1, its lightlike direction is broken down into two vector fields: a timelike vector field $U$ representing the observer and a spacelike vector field $S$ representing the relative direction of propagation of $Ω$ for this observer. A new distribution $Ω_U^-$ is defined, with the opposite relative direction of propagation for the observer $U$. If both distributions $Ω$ and $Ω_U^-$ are integrable, the pair Ω,Ω_U^- $ represents the wave fronts of a stationary wave for the observer $U$. However, we show in an example that the integrability of $Ω$ does not imply the integrability of $Ω_U^-$.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Verification of Initial-State Opacity for Switched Systems: A Compositional Approach
Creators: name: Liu, Siyuan
name: Swikir, Abdalla
name: Zamani, Majid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The security in information-flow has become a major concern for cyber-physical systems (CPSs). In this work, we focus on the analysis of an information-flow security property, called opacity. Opacity characterizes the plausible deniability of a system's secret in the presence of a malicious outside intruder. We propose a methodology of checking a notion of opacity, called approximate initial-state opacity, for networks of discrete-time switched systems. Our framework relies on compositional constructions of finite abstractions for networks of switched systems and their so-called approximate initial-state opacity-preserving simulation functions (InitSOPSFs). Those functions characterize how close concrete networks and their finite abstractions are in terms of the satisfaction of approximate initial-state opacity. We show that such InitSOPSFs can be obtained compositionally by assuming some small-gain type conditions and composing so-called local InitSOPSFs constructed for each subsystem separately. Additionally, assuming certain stability property of switched systems, we also provide a technique on constructing their finite abstractions together with the corresponding local InitSOPSFs. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness of our results through an example.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
Upper Limit of D0 Production in Central Pb-Pb Collisions at 158A GeV
Creators: name: NA49 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are presented from a search for the decays D0 -> Kmin piplus and D0bar -> Kplus pimin in a sample of 3.8x10^6 central Pb-Pb events collected with a beam energy of 158A GeV by NA49 at the CERN SPS. No signal is observed. An upper limit on D0 production is derived and compared to predictions from several models.
description: REVTEX 5 pages, 4 figures
Missing Shapiro steps in topologically trivial Josephson Junction on InAs quantum well
Creators: name: Dartiailh, Matthieu C.
name: Cuozzo, Joseph J.
name: Mayer, William
name: Yuan, Joseph
name: Wickramasinghe, Kaushini S.
name: Rossi, Enrico
name: Shabani, Javad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Josephson junctions hosting Majorana fermions have been predicted to exhibit a 4$π$ periodic current phase relation. The experimental consequence of this periodicity is the disappearance of odd steps in Shapiro steps experiments. Experimentally, missing odd Shapiro steps have been observed in a number of materials systems with strong spin-orbit coupling and have been interpreted in the context of topological superconductivity. Here, we report on missing odd steps in topologically trivial Josephson junctions fabricated on InAs quantum wells. We ascribe our observations to the high transparency of our junctions allowing Landau-Zener transitions. The probability of these processes is found to be independent of the drive frequency. We analyze our results using a bi-modal transparency distribution which demonstrates that only few modes carrying 4$π$ periodic current are sufficient to describe the disappearance of odd steps. Our findings highlight the elaborate circumstances that have to be considered in the investigation of the 4$π$ Josephson junctions in relationship to topological superconductivity.
An investigation of patients admitted to Medium Secure Psychiatric Care over a 30 year period: Examining contemporary admission characteristics, reconviction, mortality and readmission outcomes.
Creators: name: Westhead, Jodie
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: AimsThe aim of this thesis is to add to the knowledge base surrounding the admission characteristics and outcomes of patients admitted to Medium Secure Psychiatric Care. Outcomes of focus include reconviction following discharge, mortality and readmission to psychiatric care.MethodThe background characteristics of a contemporary cohort of patients admitted to Arnold Lodge Medium Secure Unit between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2013 were obtained from medical records at Arnold Lodge. External data sources were used to obtain outcome data for this contemporary cohort and a cohort of patients admitted between July 1983 and June 30, 2013. The external sources used were the Police National Computer for reconviction data from the Ministry of Justice, Hospital Episode Statistics from NHS Digital to examine readmission outcomes and mortality data from the Office for National Statistics. This project obtained Section 251 support to permit the processing of confidential patient information without consent.ResultsThe contemporary cohort of patients admitted to the unit between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2013 (n = 314) presented with high levels of criminality and complex mental health needs. Prior to the census date of June 30, 2013, 909 patients were admitted to Arnold Lodge. The average length of follow-up for this 30-year admissions cohort was 13.3 years. Findings indicated that 135 patients had died (14.9%), 61.5% of whom (n = 83) had died from natural causes: 369 patients (43.8%) were reconvicted. Having a higher number of previous convictions and being younger when admitted to Arnold Lodge predicted reconviction following discharge. Five hundred and ten patients (60.1%) were readmitted to a psychiatric hospital at some point during the follow-up period.ConclusionPatients discharged from medium secure psychiatric care are at long-term risk of experiencing adverse outcomes. As such, they require ongoing support.
National Election Pool Poll: 2022 Ohio Election Day Exit Poll
Creators: name: ABC News
name: CBS News
name: CNN
name: National Election Pool (NEP)
name: NBC News
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2024

description: US Senate vote (9); gubernatorial vote (5); inflation/the economy (3); first time voting in midterms (2); President Joe Biden job approval (2); issues that matter most in deciding vote (5); crime (1); abortion (3); gun policy (1); immigration (1); 2020 presidential vote (1); candidate quality that mattered most in vote (2); opinion of Tim Ryan’s views (1); opinion of J.D. Vance’s views (1); confidence in fair elections (1); Governor Mike DeWine job approval (1); opinion of Donald Trump (1); Joe Biden 2024 run for presidency (1); Joe Biden legitimately won the presidency in 2020 (1); party control of the Senate (2); senatorial vote to support/oppose Joe Biden (2); senatorial vote to support/oppose Donald Trump (2).
Lie algebroids, Lie groupoids and TFT
Creators: name: Bonechi, Francesco
name: Zabzine, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the moduli spaces associated to the solutions of equations of motion (modulo gauge transformations) of the Poisson sigma model with target being an integrable Poisson manifold. The construction can be easily extended to a case of a generic integrable Lie algebroid. Indeed for any Lie algebroid one can associate a BF-like topological field theory which localizes on the space of algebroid morphisms, that can be seen as a generalization of flat connections to the groupoid case. We discuss the finite gauge transformations and discuss the corresponding moduli spaces. We consider the theories both without and with boundaries.
description: 21 pages
Regional alienation : understanding political culture, regionalism and discontent in western Canada
Creators: name: Portengen, Michael Bernard
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: While western regional alienation has been the subject of much scholarly and public debate in Canada, we still know relatively little about the factors driving the phenomenon. Relying upon survey data collected in the 1997 Canadian Election Study (CES), this study attempts to substantively quantify western regional alienation and identify its correlates. Using the existing literature as a starting point, the study examines how western regionalism and political culture are typically conceptualized and identifies several factors commonly said to propel regional unrest and western 'distinctiveness.' Regression analysis is used to systematically test the accuracy of existing theories concerning western regional alienation. The study contends that while the four western provinces do not hold a monopoly on feelings of regional alienation, levels of unrest are indeed higher in the West than in other parts of the country. Regional alienation is also distinguished from more general understandings of political apathy or cynicism. Finally, with respect to the factors said to propel regional unrest, antipathy towards Quebec and Outgroups are shown to be the most important predictors or regional alienation - while attitudes concerning the economy, populism, social programs, law and order and continentalism have a weaker effect. However, even after controlling for these factors, significant regional differences remain. Thus, other factors - as-of-yet unaccounted for - must also play a role.
From Credit Creation to Claiming Possession – A Critical Analysis of UK Mortgage Finance
Creators: name: O'Tierney, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis aims to empirically test the Credit Creation Theory of Banking by examining the practices at each stage of UK residential mortgage lending, from the sale of the loan to litigation following default, in order to probe whether banks literally lend money.In examining this chain of events, I employ a modified variant of Renner's (1949) theory of legal concepts as empty frames. This involves an evaluation of the legal concept of the mortgage based on its origins, juridical content and the related contemporary social, economic and procedural practices.This evaluation is paired with positive law analysis and an ethnomethodological approach combining a Latourian perspective with that of Lynch and Bogen (1996) to analyse fieldwork observations of possession action litigation.I find that legislative non-compliance by brokers, lenders and solicitors gave rise to four causes of action for mortgagors which I conclude altered the juridical content of mortgages.My findings in respect to the Credit Creation Theory are consistent with those of Werner (2014a; 2016), and though I have not established proof positive in support of the theory, I have not found evidence of a pre-existing source for the loaned funds, and contend that the absence of evidence of such an origin point is tentative evidence of its absence. I therefore conclude that the observations are weakly supportive of the Theory. However, the absence of a signed letter of offer in many cases means that a key element of Minsky's (2008[1986]) variant of the theory is absent. An alternative view is speculated upon; that the legally invalid power of attorney universally present in loan terms and conditions is used by the lender to execute such a monetary instrument on behalf of the borrower.I argue that the findings present a moral imperative wherein possession proceedings are unfairly prejudicial to mortgagors.
Nonradiating toroidal structures
Creators: name: Boardman, A. D.
name: Marinov, K.
name: Zheludev, N.
name: Fedotov, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some basic properties of nonradiating systems are considered. A simple connection is established between the existence of residual electromagnetic potentials and the current density spectrum of the system. The properties of specific configurations based on toroidal and supertoroidal currents are modeled with the finite-difference time-domain method. Possible applications are discussed. A design of a new type of nonradiating system, based on a left-handed metamaterial is proposed and the system performance is modeled numerically.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Thoughts on Science and Technology Service in Agricultural Research Institutes: Taking Institute of Plant Protection of Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences as an Example
Creators: name: CHEN Zheng
name: CUI Lixian
name: LIU Chunhong
name: MA Guangyuan
name: CHEN Zheng
name: CUI Lixian
name: LIU Chunhong
name: MA Guangyuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Plant protection, Scientific and technology services, Agricultural research institutes

description: Scientific and technological services are necessary for strengthening agriculture. Under the new situation, agricultural research institutes should give full play to their advantages, strive to innovate scientific and technological services methods, and improve scientific and technological service levels. Combined with the practice of science and technology work of Institute of Plant Protection of Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, this paper made an in-depth analysis on the present situations and existing problems in the scientific and technological services of agricultural research institutes. Based on the analysis, it came up with recommendations including change ideological concepts, strengthening service awareness, adhering to people-oriented principle, enhancing the team building, improving mechanism construction, stimulating innovative vitality, exploring service methods, and enriching service connotation, so as to improve scientific and technological service works.
DETERMINANTS OF RESTRUCTURED FARM LOAN PERFORMANCE
Creators: name: Pederson, Glenn D.
name: Rao, Ananth
name: Boehlje, Michael
name: Pederson, Glenn D.
name: Rao, Ananth
name: Boehlje, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: A probabilistic model is applied to cross-sectional data to identify determinants of post-restructure performance of Federal Land Bank loans. The results indicate that restructured loans were sensitive to factors that determine the debt repayment burden and the repayment ability of the restructured farm operations. Loan performance is found to be relatively more sensitive to the levels of the post-restructure interest rate and cash farm income than to the financial structure and leverage position of the restructured farm. The relationships between the post-restructure interest rate, cash farm income level, and the probability of loan performance are illustrated.
Large Thermoelectric Effects and Inelastic Scattering in Unconventional Superconductors
Creators: name: Fogelstrom, Mikael
name: Lofwander, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermoelectric coefficient $η(T)$ in unconventional superconductors is enhanced below $T_c$ by intermediate strength impurity scattering that is intrinsically particle-hole asymmetric. We compute $η(T)$ for a strong-coupling d-wave superconductor and investigate the effects of inelastic scattering originating from electron-boson interactions. We show that $η(T)$ is severely suppressed at temperatures just below $T_c$ by a particle-hole symmetric inelastic scattering rate. At lower temperatures inelastic scattering is frozen out and $η(T)$ recovers and regains its large amplitude. In the limit $T\to 0$, we have $η(T)\sim η_{0} T+{\cal O}[T^3]$, where the slope $η_{0}$ contains information about the Drude plasma frequency, the details of impurity scattering, and the change in effective mass by electron-boson interactions. In this limit $η(T)$ can be used as a probe, complementary to the universal heat and charge conductivities, in investigations of the nature of nodal quasiparticles.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, submitted to 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics
AN ANALYSIS OF VALUE-ADDED AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS TO MIDDLE-INCOME DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF WHEAT AND BEEF PRODUCTS
Creators: name: Lee, Jung-Hee
name: Henneberry, David
name: Pyles, David
name: Lee, Jung-Hee
name: Henneberry, David
name: Pyles, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This study determined probable future directions in U.S. value-added agricultural exports to middle-income developing countries (MIDCs) under the assumption of continued income growth. Import share equations for U.S. bulk, semi-processed and value-added wheat or beef products, as a percent of total U.S. wheat or beef product exports to each MIDC, were econometrically estimated using the ordinary least squares (OLS) technique. The empirical results indicate that in most MIDCs, increases in real per capita income have negative effects on the import share of processed wheat products while having positive effects on the import share of bulk wheat. However, import shares of U.S. processed beef products are likely to increase with income growth in most MIDCs.
JAPANESE DEMAND FOR WHEAT PROTEIN QUANTITY AND QUALITY
Creators: name: Stiegert, Kyle W.
name: Blanc, Jean-Pierre
name: Stiegert, Kyle W.
name: Blanc, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Ladd and Martin's hedonic pricing model is extended to include the interactive effect of noncontracted characteristics on the value of contracted characteristics. Marginal values of wheat protein in the Japanese import market are estimated using the interactive effects of noncontracted dough/flour characteristics typically proxied by protein. Protein value is linked positively to farinograph stability, a prime factor in blending different flours. Three high protein wheats maintained about the same marginal value of protein. The marginal value for the two low protein wheats appear more end-use dependant. They varied in a $2.00/ton range depending on protein absorption, stability, and extensibility.