cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An investigation into sugar cane and wood fiber paper at UBC
Creators: name: Gerun, Scott
name: Rios, Martin
name: Muscroft, Scott
name: Almansour, Ahmed
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a front-runner and showcase of sustainable living. Currently, the university is using 30% post-consumer recycled, wood fiber paper, purchased from OfficeMax Grand and Toy, in all faculty and department offices. As an attempt to further UBC sustainable image, Supply Management is considering a shift to paper made from sugar canes utilizing TreeFrog as a sole supplier. A triple bottom line assessment is presented in this report showing that sugar cane paper is more sustainable, environmentally friendly and socially accepted compared to the current wood fiber paper. The main downfall of sugar cane paper is that it will cost UBC approximately $1.75 more, per 500 sheet package, for a similar performing paper compared to wood fiber paper. Social, environmental and economic aspects were all taken into consideration and analyzed in detail. Social indicators used include labor conditions, a social “license” of shifting to sugar cane paper, and the sustainable image of UBC. Raw materials, energy consumption/emissions of all aspects of production and transportation and recycling feasibility were used as environmental indicators. The economic assessment was heavily based on the purchasing prince of the paper and the effect on both domestic and international economies involved in each paper producing/distributing method (sugar cane and wood fiber) This report recommends that UBC Supply Management should alter its paper provider and begin to use sugar cane paper despite of the small increase in cost. The importance of cost may outweigh the social and environmental benefits, however, that is to be deemed by UBC Supply Management and beyond the scope of this investigation. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
On the Colour Suppressed Decay Modes B^0 --> D_s^+ D_s^- and B_s^0 --> D^+ D^-
Creators: name: Eeg, J. O.
name: Fajfer, S.
name: Hiorth, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that the decay modes B^0 --> D_s^+ D_s^- and B_s^0 --> D^+ D^- have no factorized contribution. At quark level these dacays can only proceed through the annihilation mechanism, which in the factorized limit give zero amplitude due to current conservation. In this paper, we identify the dominating non-factorizable (colour suppressed) contributions in terms of two chiral loop contributions and one soft gluon emission contribution. The latter contribution can be calculated in terms of the (lowest dimension) gluon condensate within a recently developed heavy-light chiral quark model. We find braching ratios BR(B^0 --> D_s^+ D_s^-) = 7*10^-5 and BR(B^0_s --> D^+ D^-) = 1*10^-3.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
The Whitham Equation with Surface Tension
Creators: name: Dinvay, Evgueni
name: Moldabayev, Daulet
name: Dutykh, Denys
name: Kalisch, Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The viability of the Whitham equation as a nonlocal model for capillary-gravity waves at the surface of an inviscid incompressible fluid is under study. A nonlocal Hamiltonian system of model equations is derived using the Hamiltonian structure of the free surface water wave problem and the Dirichlet-Neumann operator. The system features gravitational and capillary effects, and when restricted to one-way propagation, the system reduces to the capillary Whitham equation. It is shown numerically that in various scaling regimes the Whitham equation gives a more accurate approximation of the free-surface problem for the Euler system than other models like the KdV, and Kawahara equation. In the case of relatively strong capillarity considered here, the KdV and Kawahara equations outperform the Whitham equation with surface tension only for very long waves with negative polarity.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, 36 references. Other author's papers can be downloaded at http://www.denys-dutykh.com/. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.8299
A STUDY OF THE NATURE OF THE ORNAMENT OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH PORTALS OF ROUEN CATHEDRAL
Creators: name: Auth, Catherine
name: Turak, Theodore
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
Fiscal Decentralization: A Political Economy Perspective
Creators: name: Lockwood, Ben
name: Lockwood, Ben
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Fiscal decentralization
subject: political economy
subject: local public goods

description: This paper surveys recent contributions to the study of fiscal decentralization which adopt a political economy approach. It is argued that this approach can capture, in a variety of formal models, the plausible and influential ideas (increasingly, supported by empirical evidence) that fiscal decentralization can lead to improved preference-matching and accountability of government. In particular, recent work on centralized provision of public good provision via bargaining in a legislature shows how centralization reduces preference-matching, and recent work using "electoral agency" models formalizes the accountability argument. These models also provide insights into when decentralization may fail to deliver these benefits.
Photon counting strategies with low light level CCDs
Creators: name: Basden, A. G.
name: Haniff, C. A.
name: Mackay, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low light level charge coupled devices (L3CCDs) have recently been developed, incorporating on-chip gain. They may be operated to give an effective readout noise much less than one electron by implementing an on-chip gain process allowing the detection of individual photons. However, the gain mechanism is stochastic and so introduces significant extra noise into the system. In this paper we examine how best to process the output signal from an L3CCD so as to minimize the contribution of stochastic noise, while still maintaining photometric accuracy. We achieve this by optimising a transfer function which translates the digitised output signal levels from the L3CCD into a value approximating the photon input as closely as possible by applying thresholding techniques. We identify several thresholding strategies and quantify their impact on photon counting accuracy and effective signal-to-noise. We find that it is possible to eliminate the noise introduced by the gain process at the lowest light levels. Reduced improvements are achieved as the light level increases up to about twenty photons per pixel and above this there is negligible improvement. Operating L3CCDs at very high speeds will keep the photon flux low, giving the best improvements in signal-to-noise ratio.
description: 7 pages, accepted by MNRAS
12158: A Farrant
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Charles is not a relative of A Farrant but he is the relative of Richard James East who owns the two medals:
VRL medal Kabul to Kandahar 1880, inscribed on the back: 1915 Private Artr Farrant 2/60 Foot. It is not known why this inscription would be on the back of this medal.
Afghanistan Medal 1878-79-80 with bars Kandahar & Ahmed Khel.
Isolation of bioactive components with soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibitory activity from Stachys sieboldii MiQ. by ultrasonic-assisted extraction optimized using response surface methodology
Creators: name: Gao, Dan
name: Ba, Vinh Le
name: Rustamov Rustam
name: Cho, Chong Woon
name: Yang, Seo Young
name: Su, Xiang Dong
name: Kim, Young Ho
name: Kang, Jong Seong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology

description: Stachys sieboldii MiQ (SSM) is an important food and medicinal herb in Korea, used to improve memory of patients with senile dementia and cardiovascular diseases. However, little information on bioactive components from SSM or standardized extraction methods for these components is available. This study isolated and purified major components from SSM for the first time, and assessed their ability to inhibit soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH). The results showed that acteoside is the most potent inhibitor of sEH, with an IC50 of 33.5 ± 0.5 μM. Additional active components, including harpagide, tryptophan, and 8-acetate-harpagide, along with acteoside, were tentatively identified using high‐performance liquid chromatography photodiode array tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC–PDA–MS/MS) and quantified using an ultraviolet detector at 210 nm. Further, an ultrasonic-assisted extraction technique for extraction of four bioactive compounds in SSM was developed and optimized using response surface methodology (RSM). The optimal extraction conditions were: extraction time, 30.46 minutes; extraction temperature, 67.95 °C, and methanol concentration 53.85%. The prediction model of RSM was validated with laboratory experiments. The similarity between predicted and actual values was 97.84%. The extraction method is thus a rapid, environment-friendly, energy-saving method can be applied to extract bioactive components from SSM in large quantities.
Communication Networks with Endogeneous Link Strength
Creators: name: Bloch, Francis
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Bloch, Francis
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: communication networks
subject: network reliability

description: This paper analyzes the formation of communication networks when players choose endogenously their investment on communication links. We consider two alternative deÖnitions of network reliability; product reliability, where the decay of information depends on the product of the strength of communication links, and min reliability where the speed of connection is a§ected by the weakest communication link. When investments are separable, the architecture of the e¢ cient network depends crucially on the shape of the transformation function linking investments to the quality of communication links. With increasing marginal returns to investment, the e¢ cient network is a star ; with decreasing marginal returns, the conáict between maximization of direct and indirect beneÖts prevents a complete characterization of e¢ cient networks. However, with min reliability, the e¢ cient network must be a tree. Furthermore, in the particular case of linear transformation functions, in an e¢ cient network, all links must have equal strength. When investments are perfect complements, the results change drastically: under product reliability, the e¢ cient network must contain a cycle, and is in fact a circle for small societies. With min reliability, the efficient network is either a circle or a line. As in classical models of network formation, e¢ cient networks may not be supported by private invesment decisions. We provide examples to show that the star may not be stable when the transformation functions is strictly convex. We also note that with perfect substitutes and perfect complements (when the e¢ cient network displays a very symmetric structure), the e¢ cient network can indeed be supported by private investments when the society is large.
Eakins and Whitman Portrait of a Friendship
Creators: name: Hill, Kathleen M
name: Sellin, David
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
Thomas Eakins : His Relationship to Afro-American Art and Artists
Creators: name: Farrington, Lisa E
name: Sellin, David
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option. NOTE: this is a draft; American University does not have a completed draft of this capstone project.
Limits of (certain) CAT(0) groups, I: Compactification
Creators: name: Groves, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 20F67, 20E08, 57M07

description: The purpose of this paper is to investigate torsion-free groups which act properly and cocompactly on CAT(0) metric spaces which have isolated flats, as defined by Hruska. Our approach is to seek results analogous to those of Sela, Kharlampovich and Miasnikov for free groups and to those of Sela (and Rips and Sela) for torsion-free hyperbolic groups. This paper is the first in a series. In this paper we extract an R-tree from an asymptotic cone of certain CAT(0) spaces. This is analogous to a construction of Paulin, and allows a great deal of algebraic information to be inferred, most of which is left to future work.
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-52.abs.html
Additional file 5 of Google Health Trends performance reflecting dengue incidence for the Brazilian states
Creators: name: Romero-Alvarez, Daniel
name: Parikh, Nidhi
name: Osthus, Dave
name: Martinez, Kaitlyn
name: Generous, Nicholas
name: Valle, Sara Del
name: Manore, Carrie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Plots of multiple and simple linear models between Google Health Trends data and weekly dengue incidence for each of the 27 Brazilian states.
Thomas Eakins : His Relationship to Afro-American Art and Artists
Creators: name: Farrington, Lisa E
name: Sellin, David
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option. NOTE: this is a draft; American University does not have a completed draft of this capstone project.
Eakins Watercolors : Their Mechanics, Themes and Composition in Contemporary Use of the Medium
Creators: name: Kelly, Rosemary J
name: Sellin, David
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
Ultrafast Collective Dynamics in the Charge-Density-Wave Conductor K$_{0.3}$MoO$_{3}$
Creators: name: Ren, Yuhang
name: Xu, Zhu'an
name: L\U{fc}pke, Gunter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-energy coherent charge-density wave excitations are investigated in blue bronze (K$_{0.3}$MoO$_{3}$) and red bronze (K$_{0.33}$MoO$_{3}$) by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. A linear gapless, acoustic-like dispersion relation is observed for the transverse phasons with a pronounced anisotropy in K$_{0.33}$MoO$_{3}$. The amplitude mode exhibits a weak (optic-like) dispersion relation with a frequency of 1.67 THz at 30 K. Our results show for the first time that the time-resolved optical technique provides momentum resolution of collective excitations in strongly correlated electron systems.Low-energy coherent charge-density wave excitations are investigated in blue bronze (K$_{0.3}$MoO$_{3}$) and red bronze (K$_{0.33}$MoO$_{3}$) by femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. A linear gapless, acoustic-like dispersion relation is observed for the transverse phasons with a pronounced anisotropy in K$_{0.33}$MoO$_{3}$. The amplitude mode exhibits a weak (optic-like) dispersion relation with a frequency of 1.67 THz at 30 K. Our results show for the first time that the time-resolved optical technique provides momentum resolution of collective excitations in strongly correlated electron systems.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 4 of Google Health Trends performance reflecting dengue incidence for the Brazilian states
Creators: name: Romero-Alvarez, Daniel
name: Parikh, Nidhi
name: Osthus, Dave
name: Martinez, Kaitlyn
name: Generous, Nicholas
name: Valle, Sara Del
name: Manore, Carrie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Plots of multiple and simple linear models between Google Health Trends data and weekly dengue incidence for Brazil.
Heat and charge transport in H$_2$O at ice-giant conditions from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations
Creators: name: Grasselli, Federico
name: Stixrude, Lars
name: Baroni, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of the inner structure and thermal history of planets on their observable features, such as luminosity or magnetic field, crucially depends on the poorly known heat and charge transport properties of their internal layers. The thermal and electric conductivities of different phases of water (liquid, solid, and super-ionic) occurring in the interior of ice giant planets, such as Uranus or Neptune, are evaluated from equilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics, leveraging recent progresses in the theory and data analysis of transport in extended systems. The implications of our findings on the evolution models of the ice giants are briefly discussed
description: 9 pages, 3 figures; plus 4 pages of Supplemental Materials
Running C++ models undet the Swarm environment
Creators: name: Leow, Richard
name: Standish, Russell K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.5;D.2.3;I.2.11

description: Objective-C is still the language of choice if users want to run their simulation efficiently under the Swarm environment since the Swarm environment itself was written in Objective-C. The language is a fast, object-oriented and easy to learn. However, the language is less well known than, less expressive than, and lacks support for many important features of C++ (eg. OpenMP for high performance computing application). In this paper, we present a methodology and software tools that we have developed for auto generating an Objective-C object template (and all the necessary interfacing functions) from a given C++ model, utilising the Classdesc's object description technology, so that the C++ model can both be run and accessed under the Objective-C and C++ environments. We also present a methodology for modifying an existing Swarm application to make part of the model (eg. the heatbug's step method) run under the C++ environment.
Fluctuation-induced current from freestanding graphene: toward nanoscale energy harvesting
Creators: name: Thibado, P. M.
name: Kumar, P.
name: Singh, Surendra
name: Ruiz-Garcia, M.
name: Lasanta, A.
name: Bonilla, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At room temperature, micron-sized sheets of freestanding graphene are in constant motion even in the presence of an applied bias voltage. We quantify the out-of-plane movement by collecting the displacement current using a nearby small-area metal electrode and present a Langevin model for the motion coupled to a circuit containing diodes. The system reaches thermal equilibrium and the rates of heat, work, and entropy production tend quickly to zero. However, there is power generated by graphene which is equal to the power dissipated by the load resistor. The exact power formula is similar to Nyquist's noise power formula, except that the rate of change of diode resistance significantly boosts the output power, and the movement of the graphene shifts the power spectrum to lower frequencies.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Site occupation constraints in mean-field approaches of quantum spin systems at finite temperature
Creators: name: Dillenschneider, Raoul
name: Richert, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of site occupation on the description of quantum spin systems at finite temperature and mean-field level. We impose each lattice site to be occupied by a single electron. This is realized by means of a specific prescription. The outcome of the prescription is compared to the result obtained by means of a projection procedure which fixes the site occupation to one particle per site on an average. The comparison is performed for different representations of the Hamiltonian in Fock space leading to different types of mean-field solutions. The behaviour of order parameters is analyzed for each choice of the mean-field and constraint which fixes the occupation rate at each site. Sizable quantitative differences between the outcomes obtained with the two different constraints are observed.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures
Optimizing grinding operation with correlated uncertain parameters
Creators: name: Nagajyothi Virivinti
name: Budhaditya Hazra
name: Kishalay Mitra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Parameters appearing in deterministic optimization (DO) models are kept constant during optimization, though uncertainty in these parameters is an inherent and unavoidable. Investigations about the effect of these uncertain parameters (UP) on the final outcomes are, therefore, necessary. Chance-Constrained Programming (CCP) can handle such situations by introducing the probability of constraint satisfaction and converting optimization under uncertainty problems into an equivalent deterministic optimization problem (EDOP). However, the most popular variant of this method neglects the aspects of parameter dependency for the ease of the analysis. Under the conditions when the correlations exist among UPs, the use of joint CCP with parameter dependency information is necessary to avoid misleading results arising from the assumption of no correlation. To show the impact of dependency of UPs on the outcomes of optimization, joint CCP has been adopted in this study for an industrial grinding process (IGP), which is non-linear in nature in terms of its system states as well as UPs. The effects of both confidence level and correlation coefficient have been shown on the Pareto optimal (PO) front for different sets of distributions among UPs while handling a multi-objective optimization problem (MOOP) of the Grinding Process.
Local Network Externalities and Market Segmentation
Creators: name: Banerji, A.
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Banerji, A.
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: network structure
subject: network externalities
subject: price competition
subject: market segmentation

description: This paper models interaction between groups of agents by means of a graph where each node represents a group of agents and an arc represents bilateral interaction. It departs from the standard Katz-Shapiro framework by assuming that network benefits are restricted only amongst groups of linked agents. It shows that even if rival firms engage in Bertrand competition, this form of network externalities permits strong market segmentation in which firms divide up the market and earn positive profits. The analysis also shows that some graphs or network structures do not permit such segmentation, while for others, there are easy to interpret conditions under which market segmentation obtains in equilibrium.
Three loop anomalous dimension of non-singlet quark currents in the RI' scheme
Creators: name: Gracey, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We renormalize QCD at three loops in the modified regularization invariant, RI', scheme in arbitrary covariant gauge and deduce that the four loop beta-function is equivalent to the MSbar result. The anomalous dimensions of the scalar, vector and tensor currents are then determined in the RI' scheme at three loops by considering the insertion of the operator in a quark two-point function. The expression for the scalar current agrees with the quark mass anomalous dimension and we deduce an expression for the four loop RI' mass anomalous dimension in arbitrary covariant gauge and for any Lie group.
description: 26 latex pages
Spatial Energy Efficiency Patterns in New York and Implications for Energy Demand and the Rebound Effect
Creators: name: Nyangon, Joseph
name: Byrne, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study uses a spatial Durbin error model (SDEM) approach to analyze adoption trends for residential energy-efficiency measures (EEMs) in New York state. Model results are based on socioeconomic, building, and household demographic characteristics during the 2012–2016 period. Our study’s results confirm that a positive correlation exists between EEM uptake and multifamily buildings, gas-heated homes, education effects, and spatial spillover effects among neighboring ZIP codes. The results show that building attributes hold a relatively high explanatory power over EEM adoption compared with socioeconomic characteristics. Our results show that energy-efficiency policies can create positive and significant neighborly effects in promoting EEM adoption. The developed SDEM methodological framework provides useful insights in identifying energy-efficiency opportunities that exist in rural, suburban, and urban communities, highlighting the need to review policy incentives periodically to address underlying changes in the built environment and spatial disparities in energy-efficiency investments.
11078: Invitation to House of Lords
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: David Hawkings (contributor) was passed a collection of photographs from Frederick J. Judd (his auntie's first husband (Mother's sister). These photographs were of the Conference of Versailles, at the end of World War One. David mentioned to a friend who worked at the Public Record Office that he had these photographs in his possession. The photographs were included in an exhibition held by the Public Record Office. After the exhibition David was contacted by the House of Lords and invited to a reception at the House of Lords on 25th June 1999.
Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia
Creators: name: Blanchflower, David G.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
name: Blanchflower, David G.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Well-being
subject: happiness
subject: HDI
subject: macroeconomics

description: According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and higher than all other English-speaking nations. This paper questions that assessment. It reviews work on the economics of happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well-being rankings. Using new data on approximately 50,000 randomly sampled individuals from 35 nations, the paper shows that Australians have some of the lowest levels of job satisfaction in the world. Moreover, among the sub-sample of English-speaking nations, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness indicators. The paper discusses this paradox. Our purpose is not to reject HDI methods, but rather to argue that much remains to be understood in this area.
A Note on the Hybrid Equilibrium in the Besley-Smart Model
Creators: name: Lockwood, Ben
name: Lockwood, Ben
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This note shows that there is always a non-empty set of parameter values for which the hybrid equilibrium in the Besley and Smart(2003) model is unstable in the sense of Cho and Kreps. This set may include all the parameter values for which a hybrid equilibrium exists. For these parameter values, it is shown that a fully separating equilibrium always exists, which is Cho-Kreps stable. In this equilibrium, the good incumbent distorts Öscal policy to signal his type. An implication is that equilibrium in their model is not (generically) unique.
How Does Marriage Affect Physical and Psychological Health? A Survey of the Longitudinal Evidence
Creators: name: Wilson, Chris M.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
name: Wilson, Chris M.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: mortality
subject: health
subject: marriage, happiness, longitudinal

description: This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although much remains to be understood about the physiological channels, we draw the judgment, after looking across many journals and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from marriage is remarkable. It may be as large as the benefit from giving up smoking.
Risks to health from ambient particulate matter (PM2.5) to the residents of Guwahati city, India: An analysis of prediction model
Creators: name: Abhishek Dutta
name: Wanida Jinsart
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The smaller cities in India are facing acute problems due to air pollution but remain unaccounted due to lack of effort in highlighting them through studies. Ambient pollution data and climate data of one tier 2 Indian city, Guwahati, were collected for three years, i.e., 2016–2018 and analyzed. It showed that the winter season was very harsh from the air pollution point of view as almost 99% of the time the ambient PM10 concentrations were recorded to be more than 100 µg m − 3. Based on a derived and validated MLR equation, the PM2.5 level for the non-monitored areas of the city was predicted. The non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of PM2.5 was done with the help of hazard quotients (HQs) of the city and presented as a GIS-based map. During the winter, the city faced acute health risks because the computed HQ values were found to be more than ‘1’ in most of the areas of the city. Considering the high mortality burden associated with air pollution exposure in India, the policy-makers need to initiate focused policy prescriptions to curb air pollution concentrations for the smaller cities as well.
11053: Arthur George Hawkings
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Arthur George Hawkings was in the 2nd/6th Gloucester Regiment. He was killed in action on 19th July 1916, aged 28 years. He is buried at Laventine Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Pas de Calais.
The French Influence in Colonial Virginia Architecture : 1610-1750
Creators: name: Kelly, Rosemary J
name: Turak, Theodore
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option
An investigation into sustainable paper alternatives for the UBC campus : (sugar cane versus wheat waste fibre)
Creators: name: Crompton, Andrew
name: Campbell, Kyle
name: Soderling, Roger
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The University of British Columbia has an initiative to come up with a viable paper alternative on campus to support their goal of sustainable development. This report will discuss the results of a triple bottom line assessment that compares the economic, environmental and social aspects of two paper alternatives made from sugar cane and wheat waste fibres. The sugar cane paper is manufactured in Columbia by a company called TreeZERO and is 100 percent tree free. The wheat waste paper is manufactured in India by a company called Prairie Pulp and Paper and is composed of 80 percent wheat waste and 20 percent tree fibres. The economic life cycle of each paper alternative was investigated along with the potential economic benefits associated with manufacturing each paper alternative in Canada. The carbon footprint associated with the processing, transporting, and recycling of each paper alternative was considered in the environmental section of the report. Lastly, the social indicators assessed the labours laws in the manufacturing countries and the social acceptance of each paper, which was determined through surveying students at the UBC campus. The information required to complete this assessment was obtained using scholarly peer reviewed journals and direct conversation with industry professionals. In particular, Mark Tracey, a sales representative from TreeZERO, provided the economics associated with the sugar cane paper. The results of the triple bottom line assessment showed that the sugar cane paper was the more sustainable paper source. The economic analysis showed that sugar cane paper is favoured due to its 7 percent lower purchasing cost and 50 percent lower transporting costs. From an environmental standpoint, the sugar cane paper has a 23 percent lower carbon footprint than the wheat waste paper, primarily associated with the transportation required. Socially, there was a public preference for the sugar cane paper due to it being 100 percent tree free and having a lower carbon footprint. Presently, it is advised that UBC Payment and Procurement further investigates the sugar cane paper as a sustainable alternative on the UBC campus. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Mean-field theory of interacting triplons in a two-dimensional valence-bond solid: stability and properties of many-triplon states
Creators: name: Doretto, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a system of interacting triplons (the elementary excitations of a valence-bond solid) described by an effective interacting boson model derived within the bond-operator formalism. In particular, we consider the square lattice spin-1/2 $J_1$-$J_2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model, focus on the intermediate parameter region, where a quantum paramagnetic phase sets in, and consider the columnar valence-bond solid phase. Within the bond-operator theory, the Heisenberg model is mapped into an effective boson model in terms of triplet operators $t$. The effective boson model is studied at the harmonic approximation and the energy of the triplons and the expansion of the triplon operators $b$ in terms of the triplet operators $t$ are determined. Such an expansion allows us to performed a second mapping, and therefore, determine an effective interacting boson model in terms of the triplon operators $b$. We then consider systems with a fixed number of triplons and determined the ground-state energy and the spectrum of elementary excitations within a mean-field approximation. We show that many-triplon states are stable, the lowest-energy ones are constituted by a small number of triplons, and the excitation gaps are finite. For $J_2=0.48 J_1$ and $J_2=0.52 J_1$, we also calculate spin-spin and dimer-dimer correlation functions, dimer order parameters, and the bipartite von Neumann entanglement entropy within our mean-field formalism in order to determine the properties of the many-triplon state as a function of the triplon number. We find that the spin and the dimer correlations decay exponentially and that the entanglement entropy obeys an area law, regardless the triplon number. Moreover, only for $J_2=0.48 J_1$, the spin correlations indicate that the many-triplon states with large triplon number might display a more homogeneous singlet pattern than the columnar valence-bond solid.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, final version
Additional file 2 of Google Health Trends performance reflecting dengue incidence for the Brazilian states
Creators: name: Romero-Alvarez, Daniel
name: Parikh, Nidhi
name: Osthus, Dave
name: Martinez, Kaitlyn
name: Generous, Nicholas
name: Valle, Sara Del
name: Manore, Carrie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Adjusted R squared between Google Health Trends and weekly incidence of dengue for Brazil and all the 27 states for individual search terms.
Dispersive Manipulation of Paired Superconducting Qubits
Creators: name: Zhou, Xingxiang
name: Wulf, Michael
name: Zhou, Zhengwei
name: Guo, Guangcan
name: Feldman, Marc J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine the ideas of qubit encoding and dispersive dynamics to enable robust and easy quantum information processing (QIP) on paired superconducting charge boxes sharing a common bias lead. We establish a decoherence free subspace on these and introduce universal gates by dispersive interaction with a LC resonator and inductive couplings between the encoded qubits. These gates preserve the code space and only require the established local symmetry and the control of the voltage bias.
description: 5 pages, incl. 1 figure
11055: J. B. Treasure - Mentioned in Despatches
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: J. B. Treasure was in the Royal Field Artillery (YF), A/Bomdr. In the 240th (S Mid) Brigade. He was mentioned in despatches four times, each time his cheerful disposition and energy were mentioned, an example to all.
Health risk assessment and source identification of groundwater arsenic contamination using agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis in selected sites from upper Eastern parts of Punjab province, Pakistan
Creators: name: Nisbah Mushtaq
name: Noshin Masood
name: Junaid Ali Khattak
name: Ishtiaque Hussain
name: Khan, Qasim
name: Farooqi, Abida
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Geogenic contamination of Arsenic (As) poses major health threat to people living in Indus Plain of Pakistan particularly in Punjab. In this paper, we described in detail the hydrogeochemistry of As contaminated groundwaters in selected sites from Lahore, Kasur and Okara districts and its associated potential health risks. Sampling was done in 2019 and 141 groundwater samples were collected. High variability in As concentrations was observed varying between below detection level (<0.1 µg/L) and 655 µg/L. More than 85% of these samples exceeded WHO limit of 10 µg/L while 30% exceeded national limit of 50 µg/L. The results of statistical analysis and agglomerative hierarchical cluster (HCA) analyses indicate mainly pH-dependent desorption of As from mineral oxide surfaces under alkaline conditions to be responsible for As pollution with some minor controls from NO3− and Fe-reduction in groundwaters was also seen. Furthermore, higher potential health risks were found to be associated with elevated As levels in terms of estimated average daily dosage (EDI), hazard quotient (HQ) and carcinogenic risk assessment (CR). The average values for HQ for adults, teenagers and children were found to be 9.06, 13.6 and 13.07, respectively. Meanwhile average CR values were found to be 0.004, 0.01, 0.006 mg/Kg/day in adults, teenagers and children respectively. These results suggest an increased risk of adverse health impacts in current study sites and require effective remedial measures at urgent basis.
Additional file 3 of Google Health Trends performance reflecting dengue incidence for the Brazilian states
Creators: name: Romero-Alvarez, Daniel
name: Parikh, Nidhi
name: Osthus, Dave
name: Martinez, Kaitlyn
name: Generous, Nicholas
name: Valle, Sara Del
name: Manore, Carrie A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Available, correlated and uncorrelated terms, and adjusted R squared for multiple linear models with their corresponding correlation plots.
EcoLab: Agent Based Modeling for C++ programmers
Creators: name: Standish, Russell K.
name: Leow, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.5;D.2.3;I.2.11

description: \EcoLab{} is an agent based modeling system for C++ programmers, strongly influenced by the design of Swarm. This paper is just a brief outline of \EcoLab's features, more details can be found in other published articles, documentation and source code from the \EcoLab{} website.
Neoplatonism : A Study of Renaissance Philosophy in Relation to Piero della Francesca
Creators: name: Vogelsong, Diana
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Research paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis option