cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Economics of Agricultural Land Use Dynamics in Coconut Plantations of Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Marawila, T.D.
name: Ancev, Tihomir
name: Odeh, Inakwu O.A.
name: Marawila, T.D.
name: Ancev, Tihomir
name: Odeh, Inakwu O.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In this study a spatially explicit economic analysis was employed to determine the land use change in a traditional coconut growing district of Sri Lanka. From a theoretical model of land use, an econometric framework was developed to incorporate spatial and individual effects that would affect the land use decision. Markovian transition probabilities derived from the econometric analysis and spatial analysis was used to predict the land use change over the next 30 years. The results revealed that the fragmentation and conversion of coconut lands to urban continue in the areas close to the urban centre and also with less productive lands. Spatial analysis provides further evidence of the positive trend of conversion of coconut lands to urban uses close to the urban areas.
Modulation induced splitting of the magnetic resonance
Creators: name: Behera, Rita
name: Pradhan, Swarupananda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The splitting of magnetic resonance induced by a linearly polarized frequency comb is presented for Hanle experimental configuration. The experiment is carried out with thermal Rubidium atoms in an anti-relaxation coated glass cell. The observed splitting corresponds to steady-state behaviour of the system over an integrated time scale that is longer than the modulation frequency. The splitting is only observed for dark resonances, with left and right circularly polarized light simultaneously coupled to the atomic system. The missing alternate split components at single photon resonance is consistent with the theoretical calculation. The different components of the split profile have distinct response to the direction of the transverse magnetic field. The response is captured by the theoretical calculation and the underlying physical mechanism is discussed. These studies will be useful in metrology and advancement of vector atomic magnetometer.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
The Luminosity Functions of the Galaxy Cluster MS1054-0321 at z=0.83 based on ACS Photometry
Creators: name: Goto, Tomotsugu
name: Postman, Marc
name: Cross, Nicholas J. G.
name: Illingworth, G. D.
name: Tran, K.
name: Magee, D.
name: Franx, M.
name: Benitez, N.
name: Bouwens, R. J.
name: Demarco, R.
name: Ford, H. C.
name: Homeier, N. L.
name: Martel, A. R.
name: Menanteau, F.
name: Clampin, M.
name: Hartig, G. F.
name: Ardila, D. R.
name: Bartko, F.
name: Blakeslee, J. P.
name: Bradley, L. D.
name: Broadhurst, T. J.
name: Brown, R. A.
name: Burrows, C. J.
name: Cheng, E. S.
name: Feldman, P. D.
name: Golimowski, D. A.
name: Gronwall, C.
name: Holden, B.
name: Infante, L.
name: Jee, M. J.
name: Krist, J. E.
name: Lesser, M. P.
name: Mei, S.
name: Meurer, G. R.
name: Miley, G. K.
name: Motta, V.
name: Overzier, R.
name: Sirianni, M.
name: Sparks, W. B.
name: Tran, H. D.
name: Tsvetanov, Z. I.
name: White, R. L.
name: Zheng, W.
name: Zirm, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new measurements of the galaxy luminosity function (LF) and its dependence on local galaxy density, color, morphology, and clustocentric radius for the massive z=0.83 cluster MS1054-0321. Our analyses are based on imaging performed with the ACS onboard the HST in the F606W, F775W and F850LP passbands and extensive spectroscopic data obtained with the Keck LRIS. Our main results are based on a spectroscopically selected sample of 143 cluster members with morphological classifications derived from the ACS observations. Our three primary findings are (1) the faint-end slope of the LF is steepest in the bluest filter, (2) the LF in the inner part of the cluster (or highest density regions) has a flatter faint-end slope, and (3) the fraction of early-type galaxies is higher at the bright end of the LF, and gradually decreases toward fainter magnitudes. These characteristics are consistent with those in local galaxy clusters, indicating that, at least in massive clusters, the common characteristics of cluster LFs are established at z=0.83. We also find a 2sigma deficit of intrinsically faint, red galaxies (i-z>0.5, Mi>-19) in this cluster. This trend may suggest that faint, red galaxies (which are common in z<0.1 rich clusters) have not yet been created in this cluster at z=0.83. The giant-to-dwarf ratio in MS1054-0321 starts to increase inwards of the virial radius or when Sigma>30 Mpc^-2, coinciding with the environment where the galaxy star formation rate and the morphology-density relation start to appear. (abridged)
description: ApJ in press, references updated
Proton Extraction from IHEP Accelerator Using Bent Crystals
Creators: name: Afonin, A. G.
name: Baranov, V. T.
name: Biryukov, V. M.
name: Chepegin, V. N.
name: Chesnokov, Yu. A.
name: Fedotov, Yu. S.
name: Kardash, A. A.
name: Kotov, V. I.
name: Maisheev, V. A.
name: Terekhov, V. I.
name: Troyanov, E. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IHEP Protvino has pioneered the wide practical use of bent crystals as optical elements in high-energy beams for beam extraction and deflection on permanent basis since 1989. In the course of IHEP experiments, crystal channeling has been developed into efficient instrument for particle steering at accelerators, working in predictable, reliable manner with beams of very high intensity over years. Crystal systems extract 70 GeV protons from IHEP main ring with efficiency of 85% at intensity of 1.E12, basing on multi-pass mechanism of channeling proposed theoretically and realised experimentally at IHEP. Today, six locations on the IHEP 70-GeV main ring of the accelerator facility are equipped by crystal extraction systems, serving mostly for routine applications rather than for research and allowing a simultaneous run of several particle physics experiments, thus significantly enriching the IHEP physics program. The long successful history of large-scale crystal exploitation at IHEP should help to incorporate channeling crystals into accelerator systems worldwide in order to create unique systems for beam delivery. We report recent results from the research and exploitation of crystal extraction systems at IHEP.
description: Invited talk at the International workshop "Relativistic Channeling and Related Coherent Phenomena", Frascati (Rome) 23-26 March 2004
Changing the direction of environmental investment in Australia: Learnings from implementing INFFER
Creators: name: Marsh, Sally P.
name: Curatolo, April
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Park, Geoff
name: Roberts, Anna M.
name: Alexander, Jennifer
name: Marsh, Sally P.
name: Curatolo, April
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Park, Geoff
name: Roberts, Anna M.
name: Alexander, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: NRM investment planning
subject: NRM investment prioritisation
subject: regional catchment management organisations
subject: NRM policy
subject: environmental planning
subject: environmental prioritisation
subject: environmental policy

description: Investment in natural resource management (NRM) by regional organisations in Australia has been widely criticised for failing to achieve substantial environmental outcomes. The Investment Framework for Environmental Resources (INFFER) is a tool for developing and prioritising projects to address environmental issues such as water quality, biodiversity decline, environmental pest impacts and land degradation. INFFER is an asset-based, targeted, and outcome-focussed approach to environmental investment, and as such is a very different and more rigorous approach to prioritising possible environmental projects than used previously by most catchment management organisations (CMOs) in Australia. From 2008 to 2010 INFFER has been trialled with CMOs. Evaluation and benchmarking data obtained at 2-day INFFER training sessions with seven CMOs in three eastern Australia states are reported. Before commencing to use INFFER, CMO staff are generally confident about the current decision-making processes for environmental investment used within their organisation. In some cases, this initial perception challenges their acceptance of a new approach to investment decisionmaking. Key issues when implementing INFFER include concerns about changing the direction of CMO investment, concerns about compatibility with funder requirements, and various issues associated with specific aspects of the Framework. Perceived complexity of INFFER, existing institutional arrangements, and the legacy of past institutional arrangements remain serious barriers to the adoption of methods to improve environmental outcomes from NRM investment. Despite these difficulties INFFER is being used by a number of CMOs. However, it is likely that widespread adoption of INFFER, or indeed any other transparent and robust process, will only occur with greater requirement from governments for environmental decision making by regional NRM bodies that is more focused on outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
Modelling heterogeneity in response behaviour towards a sequence of discrete choice questions: a probabilistic decision process model
Creators: name: McNair, Ben J.
name: Heshner, David A.
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: McNair, Ben J.
name: Heshner, David A.
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Choice experiment
subject: decision process
subject: ordering effects
subject: strategic response
subject: willingness to pay

description: There is a growing body of evidence in the non-market valuation literature suggesting that responses to a sequence of discrete choice questions tend to violate the assumptions typically made by analysts regarding independence of responses and stability of preferences. Decision processes (or heuristics) such as value learning and strategic misrepresentation have been offered as explanations for these results. While a few studies have tested these heuristics as competing hypotheses, none has investigated the possibility that each explains the response behaviour of a subgroup of the population. In this paper, we make a contribution towards addressing this research gap by presenting a probabilistic decision process model designed to estimate the proportion of respondents employing defined heuristics. We demonstrate the model on binary and multinomial choice data sources and find three distinct types of response behaviour. The results suggest that accounting for heterogeneity in response behaviour may be a better way forward than attempting to identify a single heuristic to explain the behaviour of all respondents.
The Role of Online Influencer’s Characteristics in Attitude towards the Brand and Purchase Intention: A Case Study on the L’Oréal Brand
Creators: name: Bhoomi Wadhwa
Publisher: name: Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Source characteristics
Consumer attitude
Consumer purchase intention
L’Oréal brand

description: Communication and Media in Asia Pacific, 4, 2, 21-32
Rigorous Dynamics and Radiation Theory for a Pauli-Fierz Model in the Ultraviolet Limit
Creators: name: Bertini, Massimo
name: Noja, Diego
name: Posilicano, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present paper is devoted to the detailed study of quantization and evolution of the point limit of the Pauli-Fierz model for a charged oscillator interacting with the electromagnetic field in dipole approximation. In particular, a well defined dynamics is constructed for the classical model, which is subsequently quantized according to the Segal scheme. To this end, the classical model in the point limit is reformulated as a second order abstract wave equation, and a consistent quantum evolution is given. This allows a study of the behaviour of the survival and transition amplitudes for the process of decay of the excited states of the charged particle, and the emission of photons in the decay process. In particular, for the survival amplitude the exact time behaviour is found. This is completely determined by the resonances of the systems plus a tail term prevailing in the asymptotic, long time regime. Moreover, the survival amplitude exhibites in a fairly clear way the Lamb shift correction to the unperturbed frequencies of the oscillator.
description: Shortened version. To appear in J. Math. Phys
Quelus Spiritual Retreat Centre
Creators: name: Wiens, Josephine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Growing up in a small community in south-eastern Manitoba has had a great deal of influence in my life. I grew up surrounded by religion, accepting it, questioning it, examining it and exploring it. Through life experiences, especially travel, I have been open to many ideas and feel they all have merit and need to be treated with respect. The opportunity to explore spirituality in the landscape is an idea that has interested me for years. How people find meaning in the landscape and how the landscape is given meaning is fascinating to me, thus the idea of a retreat centre seemed to be the coming together of these two concepts and a way of answering the initial question. This design thesis begins with a background of the goals of interfaith dialogue. It leads into a discussion of the spirituality of the site on Galiano Island. The program is outlined and the design project is detailed. The retreat centre design includes a plan for the larger trail system of the site and the connections that are made from it, an overall site plan for the centre, a detailed site plan of the Main Centre and central axis, including sections, and detailed drawings of the program areas. These sections and detailed drawings include the waterfront, the orchard and garden terraces, the entry plaza, the spiritual area, and the accommodations. Each aspect of the design references the overall goal and objectives developed for the project.
Do star formation rates of galaxy clusters depend on mass?: blue/late-type fractions, total star formation rates of 115 galaxy clusters as a function of cluster virial mass
Creators: name: Goto, Tomotsugu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been plenty of observational evidence of cluster galaxy evolution such as the Butcher-Oemler effect and the decrease in S0 fraction with increasing redshift. As a modern version, the redshift evolution of total star formation rate (SFR) in clusters has been actively debated recently. However, these studies of redshift trend have been always hampered by the possible mass dependence; due to the observational selection effects, clusters found at higher redshift inevitably tend to be more massive and luminous than local counterparts. Consequently, one has to correct for the mass trend before interpreting the redshift trend. As an attempt to break this degeneracy, we investigate the mass dependence of blue/late-type fractions and total SFR of 115 clusters at $z\leq 0.09$ selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We find that none of blue/late-type fractions, total SFR and total SFR normalized by cluster mass shows significant dependence on cluster virial mass. The scatter is much larger at each cluster mass than a possible trend. Our results indicates that physical mechanisms that depend on cluster mass (such as the ram-pressure stripping) are not likely to be solely responsible for cluster galaxy evolution. Our results also provide an excellent low redshift comparison sample for future high redshift cluster SFR studies.
description: MNRAS Letters in press
A Weakly-Interacting Many-Body System of Rydberg Polaritons Based on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Creators: name: Kim, Bongjune
name: Chen, Ko-Tang
name: Hsiao, Shih-Si
name: Wang, Sheng-Yang
name: Li, Kai-Bo
name: Ruseckas, Julius
name: Juzeliunas, Gediminas
name: Kirova, Teodora
name: Auzinsh, Marcis
name: Chen, Ying-Cheng
name: Chen, Yong-Fan
name: Yu, Ite A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We proposed utilizing a medium with a high optical depth (OD) and a Rydberg state of low principal quantum number, $n$, to create a weakly-interacting many-body system of Rydberg polaritons, based on the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). We experimentally verified the mean field approach to weakly-interacting Rydberg polaritons, and observed the phase shift and attenuation induced by the dipole-dipole interaction (DDI). The DDI-induced phase shift or attenuation can be viewed as a consequence of the elastic or inelastic collisions among the Rydberg polaritons. Using a weakly-interacting system, we further observed that a larger DDI strength caused a width of the momentum distribution of Rydberg polaritons at the exit of the system to become notably smaller as compared with that at the entrance. In this study, we took $n =32$ and the atomic (or polariton) density of 5$\times10^{10}$ (or 2$\times10^{9}$) cm$^{-3}$. The observations demonstrate that the elastic collisions are sufficient to drive the thermalization process in this weakly-interacting many-body system. The combination of the $μ$s-long interaction time due to the high-OD EIT medium and the $μ$m$^2$-size collision cross section due to the DDI suggests a new and feasible platform for the Bose-Einstein condensation of the Rydberg polaritons.
Late Universe expansion dominated by domain walls and dissipative dark matter
Creators: name: del Campo, Sergio
name: Herrera, Ramon
name: Pavon, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that a universe dominated by two components, namely domain walls and dissipative dark matter such that the former slowly decays into the latter may drive power law cosmological acceleration consistent with the high redshift supernovae data, while the ratio between the energy densities of both components remains fixed at late times thus solving the coincidence problem of present acceleration. Likewise, we estimate the aforesaid ratio at early times.
description: 15 pages, 2 eps figures, uses revtex4, to be published in Physical Review D
Pulsars and Their Nebulae as EGRET Sources
Creators: name: Roberts, Mallory S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At the end of the EGRET mission, only 6-8 Galactic sources had been identified as young pulsars. Since then, several energetic pulsars have been discovered in EGRET error boxes along the Galactic plane, as well as several pulsar wind nebulae from which pulsations have not yet been discovered. Some of these nebulae are associated with moderately variable EGRET sources, suggesting that the gamma-ray emission might be coming from the nebula rather than from the pulsar magnetosphere. There is also a population of unidentified EGRET sources at mid-Galactic latitudes which have been proposed to be either nearby middle-aged pulsars or millisecond pulsars. I review the current status of observational studies of pulsars associated with EGRET sources and what they suggest the upcoming AGILE and GLAST gamma-ray missions might observe.
description: 11 pages, proceedings of talk given at "Young Neutron Stars and Supernova Remnants" session of 35th COSPAR meeting held in Paris, France. To appear in Advances in Space Research
WWF Risk Filter Suite 101 Guidance
Creators: name: World Wide Fund for Nature
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document provides a general overview of the WWF Risk Filter Suite and its tools, being especially useful for new users who want to be introduced to the platform. It provides a basic understanding on the main modules (Inform, Explore, Assess), risk hyerarchy (risk types, risk categories, indicators and metrics), coverage of industry sectors and main limitations of the tool.
La generación distribuida como modelo de adaptación al Cambio Climático (WEBINAR 23/09/2020)
Creators: name: Henríquez, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Presentación en webinar de SOCLIMPACT el 23/09/2020 para la comunidad online Principales temas: Riesgos energéticos por cambio climático. (Cadenas de impacto) Estrategia para la maximización de EERR Metodología general para realizar estudios eléctricos de potencia (Estudio de estabilidad) Modelado de redes eléctricas Análisis para el estudio de eventos derivados del cambio climático
Multidimensional play operators with arbitrary BV inputs
Creators: name: Recupero, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47J20, 34C55, 26A45

description: In this paper we provide an integral variational formulation for a vector play operator where the inputs are allowed to be arbitrary functions with (pointwise) bounded variation, not necessarily left or right continuous. We prove that this problem admits a unique solution, and we show that in the left continuous and right continuous cases it reduces to the well known existing formulations.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1707.09765
I am Don Quixote the Trio Likay: A Soul-searching Content within Thai Popular Performance
Creators: name: Sukanya Sompiboon
Publisher: name: Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Don Quixote of La Mancha
Likay Performance
Popular theatre
Popular-based contemporary performance

description: Communication and Media in Asia Pacific, 4, 2, 45-53
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Analysis of the Web‐based Social Media with Regard to the Image of the Agri‐food Sector in Germany
Creators: name: Kayser, Maike
name: Boehm, Justus
name: Spiller, Achim
name: Kayser, Maike
name: Boehm, Justus
name: Spiller, Achim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Agri‐Food Industry
subject: Framing
subject: Image
subject: Issue Management
subject: Social Media

description: The agri‐food industry has improved its productivity, especially in developed countries, in an unparalleled way. This development has, however, estranged the agri‐food sector in parts from society over the years. Never before has food been as safe and secure, but simultaneously, society has become increasingly critical towards agricultural and food related issues. In the following, this two‐sided development between society and agribusiness ‐ the existence of two sides of the same coin ‐ will be analyzed using framing theory, which is based on media research that complex issues are simplified and reduced in order to improve understanding. An innovative technique was applied, analyzing the web‐based social media in Germany. 50,931 web posts were collected in German web discussion forums and weblogs covering 21 issues identified as relevant in the public discourse with regard to the agri‐food sector. All posts were analyzed with quantitative semantic software to characterize the respective framing. The results show that all contentious issues are mainly framed in a two‐sided way. The modern productivity‐driven agrifood industry is judged as a negative development, and trends returning towards a more natural food production are seen as positive.
GPR-based Subsurface Object Detection and Reconstruction Using Random Motion and DepthNet
Creators: name: Feng, Jinglun
name: Yang, Liang
name: Wang, Haiyan
name: Song, Yifeng
name: Xiao, Jizhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is one of the most important non-destructive evaluation (NDE) devices to detect the subsurface objects (i.e. rebars, utility pipes) and reveal the underground scene. One of the biggest challenges in GPR based inspection is the subsurface targets reconstruction. In order to address this issue, this paper presents a 3D GPR migration and dielectric prediction system to detect and reconstruct underground targets. This system is composed of three modules: 1) visual inertial fusion (VIF) module to generate the pose information of GPR device, 2) deep neural network module (i.e., DepthNet) which detects B-scan of GPR image, extracts hyperbola features to remove the noise in B-scan data and predicts dielectric to determine the depth of the objects, 3) 3D GPR migration module which synchronizes the pose information with GPR scan data processed by DepthNet to reconstruct and visualize the 3D underground targets. Our proposed DepthNet processes the GPR data by removing the noise in B-scan image as well as predicting depth of subsurface objects. For DepthNet model training and testing, we collect the real GPR data in the concrete test pit at Geophysical Survey System Inc. (GSSI) and create the synthetic GPR data by using gprMax3.0 simulator. The dataset we create includes 350 labeled GPR images. The DepthNet achieves an average accuracy of 92.64% for B-scan feature detection and an 0.112 average error for underground target depth prediction. In addition, the experimental results verify that our proposed method improve the migration accuracy and performance in generating 3D GPR image compared with the traditional migration methods.
Food Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Analysis and Learning
Creators: name: Duncan, Jessica
name: Hatt, Ken
name: Duncan, Jessica
name: Hatt, Ken
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper introduces an innovative, interdisciplinary food systems programme based on an open‐source pedagogical model that facilitates learning through the use of technology developed at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). We begin by explaining the structure and goals of the UOC and briefly introduce the UOC’s e‐learning model. We then consider the development of the Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society and explain our rational for focussing on food governance. We focus primarily on a set of mandatory introductory courses for the Master’s Diploma in Food, Society and International Food Governance. These courses, which make up a certificate in Food Systems Analysis, lay out the fundamentals of our approach to the study of food systems. Finally, we consider an analytical framework used to examine the socio‐political context of contemporary food systems. Here, food systems are approached as an arrangement of activities clustered around trade liberalization, neoliberalized social formations, and a condensed state, which produce complex forms of food governance.
Modulation of probe signal in coherent phonon detection revisited: Analytical and first-principles computational analyses
Creators: name: Yamada, Atsushi
name: Yabana, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modulation of probe signal in pump-probe measurements of coherent phonons in dielectrics, with and without spectral resolution, are investigated theoretically taking diamond as an example. Analytical investigation as well as first-principles calculations based on time-dependent density functional theory is utilized to clarify the mechanism of the modulation of the probe signals. Boundary and bulk effects are investigated systematically, putting emphasis on the phase relation between the modulation and the atomic motion of the coherent phonon. They are summarized as follows: Modulation by the boundary effect is in phase with the coherent phonon amplitude, while that by the bulk effect shows $π/2$ phase difference. Strong frequency dependence appears in the modulation by the bulk effect, while no frequency dependence by the boundary effect. First-principles calculations support the reliability of the analytical result.
Self-avoiding walks on scale-free networks
Creators: name: Herrero, Carlos P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several kinds of walks on complex networks are currently used to analyze search and navigation in different systems. Many analytical and computational results are known for random walks on such networks. Self-avoiding walks (SAWs) are expected to be more suitable than unrestricted random walks to explore various kinds of real-life networks. Here we study long-range properties of random SAWs on scale-free networks, characterized by a degree distribution $P(k) \sim k^{-γ}$. In the limit of large networks (system size $N \to \infty$), the average number $s_n$ of SAWs starting from a generic site increases as $μ^n$, with $μ= < k^2 > / < k > - 1$. For finite $N$, $s_n$ is reduced due to the presence of loops in the network, which causes the emergence of attrition of the paths. For kinetic growth walks, the average maximum length, $< L >$, increases as a power of the system size: $< L > \sim N^α$, with an exponent $α$ increasing as the parameter $γ$ is raised. We discuss the dependence of $α$ on the minimum allowed degree in the network. A similar power-law dependence is found for the mean self-intersection length of non-reversal random walks. Simulation results support our approximate analytical calculations.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
The Relationship between Innovation and Marketing in SMEs in the EU Food Sector
Creators: name: Banterle, Alessandro
name: Cavaliere, Alessia
name: Stranieri, Stefanella
name: Carraresi, Laura
name: Banterle, Alessandro
name: Cavaliere, Alessia
name: Stranieri, Stefanella
name: Carraresi, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: traditional food products
subject: innovation
subject: marketing management capabilities
subject: linear regression model

description: In the EU market small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the greater part of the food industry, specially with regard to traditional food products (TFPs). However, the growth of competition, connected mainly to globalisation, is making it very difficult for SMEs to survive. On the other hand, market opportunities for SMEs are connected to the evolution of consumer preferences toward food quality. To profit from such opportunities and to survive on the market, SMEs need to adapt their strategies, focusing on innovation aspects in order to meet consumer requirements and to compete on the market. The literature shows that firms’ market orientation and marketing capabilities are very important for innovation in food industries to guarantee that innovation reflects market needs. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the level of firm innovativeness and the different stages of marketing management process, in order to understand if good results in marketing management can affect firm innovation. An interactive questionnaire available on the web has been used for the data collection, with the aim of evaluating SME marketing management capabilities and innovation development. The survey was conducted on 468 EU country SMEs producing TFPs. Linear Regression was run to assess the link between marketing activities and the level of firm innovation. Our empirical analysis reveals that SME marketing management capabilities show significant and positive relationships with a firm’s innovation. This aspect reinforces our assumptions on the strategic role of marketing activities on a firm’s capacity to understand consumer needs, and thus its need to be innovative and market oriented.
Despliegue a gran escala de energías marinas como clave para la descarbonización de sistemas energéticos en Canarias. (WEBINAR 21/09/2020)
Creators: name: Rubio, Pedro Mayorga
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Presentación en webinar de SOCLIMPACT el 21/09/2020 para la comunidad online Principales temas: EnerOcean Profile. EnerOcean and W2Power. Offshore wind: Spreading success. Offshore wind: Islands, Climate Change and Marine Energy Main floater types and depth ranges W2Power: The lowest-cost floating solution Key technical specifications Key technology advantages: Lower energy cost Easy and cost-efficient maintenance Systematic step by step development W2Power prototype at sea Excellent results of prototype sea testing W2Power: Wind Energy and Aquaculture W2Power with fish farming, benefits. Summary
Robust Retinal Vessel Segmentation from a Data Augmentation Perspective
Creators: name: Sun, Xu
name: Fang, Huihui
name: Yang, Yehui
name: Zhu, Dongwei
name: Wang, Lei
name: Liu, Junwei
name: Xu, Yanwu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Retinal vessel segmentation is a fundamental step in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of various cardiovascular and ophthalmic diseases. Robustness is one of the most critical requirements for practical utilization, since the test images may be captured using different fundus cameras, or be affected by various pathological changes. We investigate this problem from a data augmentation perspective, with the merits of no additional training data or inference time. In this paper, we propose two new data augmentation modules, namely, channel-wise random Gamma correction and channel-wise random vessel augmentation. Given a training color fundus image, the former applies random gamma correction on each color channel of the entire image, while the latter intentionally enhances or decreases only the fine-grained blood vessel regions using morphological transformations. With the additional training samples generated by applying these two modules sequentially, a model could learn more invariant and discriminating features against both global and local disturbances. Experimental results on both real-world and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our method can improve the performance and robustness of a classic convolutional neural network architecture. The source code is available at \url{https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Research/tree/master/CV/robust_vessel_segmentation}.
Are E+A Galaxies Dusty-Starbursts?: VLA 20cm Radio Continuum Observation
Creators: name: Goto, Tomotsugu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: E+A galaxies are characterized as a galaxy with strong Balmer absorption lines but without any [OII] or Halpha emission lines. Strong Balmer absorption lines indicate that E+A galaxies have experienced a starburst within the last <1-1.5 Gyr. However, the lack of emission lines indicates that E+A galaxies do not have any on-going star formation. Therefore, E+A galaxies are interpreted as a post-starburst galaxy. However, it has been a mystery why E+A galaxies underwent a starburst then stopped abruptly. One possible explanation to E+A galaxies is the dusty starburst scenario, where E+A galaxies have on-going star formation, but optical emission lines are invisible due to the heavy obscuration by dust. To test this dusty starburst scenario, we have observed 36 E+A galaxies carefully selected from the SDSS DR1 in 20cm radio continuum using the VLA. Since the radio emission is not affected by the dust extinction, the SFR in dusty galaxies can be revealed by the 20 cm continuum. All of our 36 target E+A galaxies are selected to have HδEW greater than 6A and no detection of [OII] or Halpha emission lines within 1 sigma. These selection criteria are much stronger than previous E+A selections in our attempt to select galaxies in the pure post-starburst phase without any remaining star formation. Except for the two galaxies with a nearby radio source, none of our 34 E+A galaxies are detected in 20 cm continuum to the limits reported in Table 1. The obtained upper limits on the radio estimated SFR suggest that E+A galaxies do not possess strong starburst (> 100 Msun yr^-1) hidden by dust extinction for the whole sample while 15 (z<0.08) E+As have lower SFR upper limits of ~15 Msun yr^-1. (Abridged)
description: 2004, A&A, 427, 125
Additional file 1 of Pragmatic cluster randomized trial to evaluate effectiveness and implementation of enhanced EHR-facilitated cancer symptom control (E2C2)
Creators: name: Rutten, Lila J. Finney
name: Ruddy, Kathryn J.
name: Chlan, Linda L.
name: Griffin, Joan M.
name: Jeph Herrin
name: Leppin, Aaron L.
name: Pachman, Deirdre R.
name: Ridgeway, Jennifer L.
name: Rahman, Parvez A.
name: Storlie, Curtis B.
name: Wilson, Patrick M.
name: Cheville, Andrea L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
c-axis transport in highly anisotropic metals: role of small polarons
Creators: name: Ho, A. F.
name: Schofield, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show in a simple model of interlayer hopping of single electrons, that transport along the weakly coupled c-axis of quasi-two-dimensional metals does not always probe only the in-plane electron properties. In our model where there is a strong coupling between electrons and a bosonic mode that propagates in the $c$ direction only, we find a broad maximum in the c-axis resistivity at a temperature near the characteristic energy of the bosonic mode, while no corresponding feature appears in the $ab$ plane transport. At temperatures far from this bosonic energy scale, the c-axis resistivity does track the in-plane electron scattering rate. We demonstrate a reasonable fit of our theory to the apparent metallic to non-metallic crossover in the c-axis resistivity of the layered ruthenate $\rm Sr_2 Ru O_4$.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Version as published in PRB
Optimization at the boundary of the tensor network variety
Creators: name: Christandl, Matthias
name: Gesmundo, Fulvio
name: Franca, Daniel Stilck
name: Werner, Albert H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Tensor network states form a variational ansatz class widely used, both analytically and numerically, in the study of quantum many-body systems. It is known that if the underlying graph contains a cycle, e.g. as in projected entangled pair states (PEPS), then the set of tensor network states of given bond dimension is not closed. Its closure is the tensor network variety. Recent work has shown that states on the boundary of this variety can yield more efficient representations for states of physical interest, but it remained unclear how to systematically find and optimize over such representations. We address this issue by defining a new ansatz class of states that includes states at the boundary of the tensor network variety of given bond dimension. We show how to optimize over this class in order to find ground states of local Hamiltonians by only slightly modifying standard algorithms and code for tensor networks. We apply this new method to a different of models and observe favorable energies and runtimes when compared with standard tensor network methods.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures. Close to published version
«ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ СЕНСОРНОГО ИНТЕГРАЦИЯ ПРИ ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ КОММУНИКАТИВНЫХ НАВЫКОВ У ДОШКОЛЬНИКОВ С РАС: ОПЫТ ЗАРУБЕЖА И УЗБЕКИСТАН»
Creators: name: Худаярова, Дильноза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В статье рассматривается использование технологии сенсорной интеграции для формирования коммуникативных навыков у дошкольников с расстройствами аутистического спектра (РАС). Актуальность исследования обусловлена необходимостью адаптации современных коррекционных технологий для детей с РАС в Узбекистане на основе зарубежного опыта. Цель исследования — анализ применения сенсорной интеграции в образовательной системе Узбекистана и зарубежных стран, таких как США и Европа. В ходе исследования было выявлено положительное влияние сенсорной терапии на развитие коммуникативных навыков у детей с РАС. Сделаны выводы о необходимости улучшения подготовки специалистов и внедрения технологий сенсорной интеграции в образовательные учреждения Узбекистана.
Escenarios del Cambio Climático en Canarias y las energías marinas como clave para su mitigación (WEBINAR 21/09/2020)
Creators: name: Ruano, Santiago Díaz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Presentación en webinar de SOCLIMPACT el 21/09/2020 para la comunidad online Principales temas: Proyecto SOCLIMPACT. Transición energética - Canarias. Escenarios del Cambio Climático. Cadenas de impacto. Consecuencias del modelo energético actual. Necesidad de las energías marinas en Canarias. Potencial en EERR marinas de Canarias Estrategia para la maximización de EERR
A family of discrete-time exactly-solvable exclusion processes on a one-dimensional lattice
Creators: name: Roshani, Farinaz
name: Khorrami, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A two-parameter family of discrete-time exactly-solvable exclusion processes on a one-dimensional lattice is introduced, which contains the asymmetric simple exclusion process and the drop-push model as particular cases. The process is rewritten in terms of boundary conditions, and the conditional probabilities are calculated using the Bethe-ansatz. This is the discrete-time version of the continuous-time processes already investigated in [1-3]. The drift- and diffusion-rates of the particles are also calculated for the two-particle sector.
description: 10 pages
Power management for a biotelemetry tag
Creators: name: Sun, Jianzhong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Power management for a biotelemetry tag implanted into the body of a sealion with the body temperature around 40°C is proposed in the aim for sustaining the tag's operation for at least three years without changing power sources under the constraint of a bounded energy budget and low physical profiles of all electronic components. Various primary battery and capacitor technologies and converter topologies are studied and compared. Two types of commercially available batteries, a silver oxide battery and a lithium manganese dioxide battery, are discharged at several constant current levels and at two different temperatures to establish the Peukert equation with temperature dependence for each type of battery technology, I[sup n] x t = K[sub 0] ( 1 + α T). It is concluded that a silver oxide battery is a better battery technology in that it has a more flat discharge profile and can deliver higher power and energy when they are normalized (with respect to nominal power and energy), than lithium manganese dioxide battery does. The supercapacitor in parallel with battery cells is incorporated into the input power source to enhance the power capability required by electronic components when the battery cells alone cannot supply such high power. The supercapacitor is adopted for its highest volumetric efficiency among all capacitor technologies and relatively low leakage current, which is measured at 40°C and confirmed to be well under 0.5 μ A. A converter topology is necessary to meet different voltage requirements from all electronic components. For maximum simplicity, a converter topology using two silver oxide batteries in series producing an input voltage of 3V can involve only one boost converter in the topology based upon the unique characteristics of a silver oxide battery from test results. A commercially available compact boost converter including the battery stacks in parallel with the supercapacitor as the input power source is tested under the voltage and current requirement of a power amplifier. The result shows that the chosen boost converter can meet the input power requirement of the power amplifier. It is concluded that under the constraint of current energy budget the proposed converter topology will operate for at most 6 years with the duration between adjacent activations for a low noise amplifier to be 46 minutes.
An Optimal Rule for Switching over to Renewable fuels with Lower Price Volatility: A Case of Jump Diffusion Process
Creators: name: Sardana, Kavita
name: Bhattacharya, Subhra K.
name: Sardana, Kavita
name: Bhattacharya, Subhra K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This study investigates the optimal switching boundary to a renewable fuel when oil prices exhibit continuous random fluctuations along with occasional discontinuous jumps. In this paper, oil prices are modeled to follow jump diffusion processes. A completeness result is derived. Given that the market is complete the value of a contingent claim is risk neutral expectation of the discounted pay off process. Using the contingent claim analysis of investment under uncertainty, the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is derived for finding value function and optimal switching boundary. We get a mixed differential-difference equation which would be solved using numerical methods.
Nuclear time-reversal violation and the Schiff moment of 225Ra
Creators: name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: Engel, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive mean-field calculation of the Schiff moment of the nucleus 225Ra, the quantity which determines the static electric dipole moment of the corresponding atom if time-reversal (T) invariance is violated in the nucleus. The calculation breaks all possible intrinsic symmetries of the nuclear mean field and includes, in particular, both exchange and direct terms from the full finite-range T-violating nucleon-nucleon interaction, and the effects of short-range correlations. The resulting Schiff moment, which depends on three unknown T-violating pion-nucleon coupling constants, is much larger than in 199Hg, the isotope with the best current experimental limit on its atomic electric-dipole moment.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; this version (references added) to be published in PRL
Improving nutritional value of banana stem by using microorganism on chemical composition and digestibility of beef cattle using in vitro gas production technique
Creators: name: Sineenart Polyorach, Ronachai Sitthigripong
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: banana tree
microorganism
improving nutritional value
digestibility
in vitro gas production

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 50, 1, 1-8