cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The comparison of investment behaviors of Kazakhstani and German farmers: An experimental approach
Creators: name: Tubetov, Dulat
name: Maart, Syster Christin
name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Tubetov, Dulat
name: Maart, Syster Christin
name: Musshoff, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Experimental Economics
subject: Investment Timing
subject: Real Options
subject: Kazakhstan
subject: Germany

description: Kazakhstan and Germany have different development levels of the agricultural sector. One of the explanations for this fact might be the different investment behavior of farmers in the two countries. In this study, we experimentally compare the investment behavior of farmers in the two countries in a farmland investment treatment and a coin tossing game investment treatment. In addition, farmers were confronted with the two treatments in a different order. Results demonstrate that German farmers are more reluctant to make investment than Kazakhstani farmers. Moreover, results are independent from the framing of a farmland investment and a coin tossing game investment treatment. Furthermore, the investment behaviors of farmers were contrasted with normative benchmark of the classical investment theory and the real options theory. Our results show that both theories cannot exactly explain the investment behavior of farmers. However, farmers learn from former investment behavior and consider the value of waiting over time.
A pooled safety analysis of peficitinib (ASP015K) in Asian patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated over a median of 2 years
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Tsutomu
name: Tanaka, Yoshiya
name: Rokuda, Mitsuhiro
name: Izutsu, Hiroyuki
name: Kaneko, Yuichiro
name: Musashi Fukuda
name: Kato, Daisuke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: To evaluate the safety of peficitinib for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Asian patients. Safety data from one Phase 2b, two Phase 3, and one open-label long-term extension study [data cut-off 31 May 2018] were pooled into Phase 3 studies (peficitinib 100 and 150 mg/day, and placebo) and Phase 2/3 studies (all peficitinib-treated patients). Incidence rates per 100 patient-years (PY) of adverse events (AEs) of special interest were calculated. Overall, 1052 patients received peficitinib for 2336.3 PY of exposure (median 2.1 years); four deaths occurred, including one death after the studies. AE incidence was similar across peficitinib 100 and 150 mg/day groups (Phase 3 studies). Respective peficitinib and placebo incidence rates (95% confidence interval) per 100 PY were 2.9 (1.9, 4.6) and 0.0 for serious infections, 5.7 (4.2, 7.9) and 2.3 (0.6, 9.4) for herpes zoster-related disease, and 0.6 (0.2, 1.6) and 1.2 (0.2, 8.3) for malignancies (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) (Phase 3 studies), and 0.1 (0.0, 0.3) for venous thromboembolism in all peficitinib-treated patients (Phase 2/3 studies). Peficitinib was well tolerated in Asian patients with RA over a median of 2 years, with no observed dose or temporal dependency for AEs with prolonged administration.
Particle size analysis and characterization of nanodiamond dispersions in water and dimethylformamide by various scattering and diffraction methods
Creators: name: Kovářík, Tomáš
name: Belsky, Petr
name: Rieger, David
name: Ilavsky, Jan
name: Jandová, Věra
name: Maas, Michael
name: Šutta, Pavol
name: Pola, Michal
name: Medlín, Rostislav
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nanodiamonds
subject: Nanodispersions
subject: X-ray diffraction
subject: Static light scattering
subject: Dynamic light scattering
subject: Ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering
subject: Nanoscale instrumentation
subject: 600

description: Over the past few decades, detonation nanodiamonds (NDs) have gained increased attention due to their unique physicochemical properties. Various methods for preparation of ND suspensions have been introduced. This paper presents thermally annealed nanodiamonds dispersed via sonication and separated by centrifugation in deionized water and dimethylformamide in five weight concentrations ranging from 0.05 to 1 wt%. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were applied to study the thermal behavior of NDs. Crystallographic properties of air-annealed and dispersed NDs were examined by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD). Nanodiamond dispersions were analyzed by static light scattering (SLS), dynamic light scattering (DLS), ultra-small- and small-angle X-ray scattering (USAXS/SAXS), and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). SLS and DLS give similar results of ND− aggregates mean size between ~ 61 and 73 nm, regardless of solvent type and nanoparticle concentration. For dispersions with increasing concentrations of NDs, neither increased aggregate size nor different kinetics of separation during sonication and centrifugation were observed. USAXS/SAXS provided the aggregates size (2Rg) in the range from 57 to 65 nm and size of primary particles from 5.4 to 5.8 nm. HRTEM also showed presence of larger aggregates with tens of nanometers in size in both water and DMF dispersions, and size of primary particles ranging from 5.5 to 6 nm in very good agreement with SAXS.
Microscopic chaos and transport in thermostated dynamical systems
Creators: name: Klages, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental challenge is to understand nonequilibrium statistical mechanics starting from microscopic chaos in the equations of motion of a many-particle system. In this review we summarize recent theoretical advances along these lines. Particularly, we are concerned with nonequilibrium situations created by external electric fields and by temperature or velocity gradients. These constraints pump energy into a system, hence there must be some thermal reservoir that prevents the system from heating up. About twenty years ago a deterministic and time-reversible modeling of such thermal reservoirs was proposed in form of Gaussian and Nose-Hoover thermostats. This approach yielded simple relations between fundamental quantities of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and of dynamical systems theory. The main theme of our review is to critically assess the universality of these results. As a vehicle of demonstration we employ the driven periodic Lorentz gas, which is a toy model for the classical dynamics of an electron in a metal under application of an electric field. Applying different types of thermal reservoirs to this system we compare the resulting nonequilibrium steady states with each other. Along the same lines we discuss an interacting many-particle system under shear and heat. Finally, we outline an unexpected relationship between deterministic thermostats and active Brownian particles modeling biophysical cell motility.
description: review, 103 pages (revtex) with 24 figures (postscript); some figures are in reduced quality, see alternatively http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~rklages
Single-Shot Multi-Stage Damage and Ablation of Silicon by Femtosecond Mid-infrared Laser Pulses
Creators: name: Werner, Kevin
name: Gruzdev, Vitaly
name: Talisa, Noah
name: Kafka, Kyle
name: Austin, Drake
name: Liebig, Carl M.
name: Chowdhury, Enam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although ultrafast laser materials processing has advanced at a breakneck pace over the last two decades, most applications have been developed with laser pulses at near-IR or visible wavelengths. Recent progress in mid-infrared (MIR) femtosecond laser source development may create novel capabilities for material processing. This is because, at high intensities required for such processing, wavelength tuning to longer wavelengths opens the pathway to a special regime of laser-solid interactions. Under these conditions, due to the $λ^2$ scaling, the ponderomotive energy of laser-driven electrons may significantly exceed photon energy, band gap and electron affinity and can dominantly drive absorption, resulting in a paradigm shift in the traditional concepts of ultrafast laser-solid interactions. Irreversible high-intensity ultrafast MIR laser-solid interactions are of primary interest in this connection, but they have not been systematically studied so far. To address this fundamental gap, we performed a detailed experimental investigation of high-intensity ultrafast modifications of silicon by single femtosecond MIR pulses ($λ$ = 2.7 - 4.2 $μ$m). Ultrafast melting, interaction with silicon-oxide surface layer, and ablation of the oxide and crystal surfaces were ex-situ characterized by scanning electron, atomic-force, and transmission electron microscopy combined with focused ion-beam milling, electron diffractometry, and $μ$-Raman spectroscopy. Laser induced damage and ablation (LIDA) thresholds were measured as functions of laser wavelength. The traditional theoretical models did not reproduce the wavelength scaling of the damage thresholds. To address the disagreement, we discuss possible novel pathways of energy deposition driven by the ponderomotive energy and field effects characteristic of the MIR wavelength regime.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
title: 02_0949
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Feshbach resonances with large background scattering length: interplay with open-channel resonances
Creators: name: Marcelis, B.
name: van Kempen, E. G. M.
name: Verhaar, B. J.
name: Kokkelmans, S. J. J. M. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Feshbach resonances are commonly described by a single-resonance Feshbach model, and open-channel resonances are not taken into account explicitly. However, an open-channel resonance near threshold limits the range of validity of this model. Such a situation exists when the background scattering length is much larger than the range of the interatomic potential. The open-channel resonance introduces strong threshold effects not included in the single-resonance description. We derive an easy-to-use analytical model that takes into account both the Feshbach resonance and the open-channel resonance. We apply our model to $^{85}$Rb, which has a large background scattering length, and show that the agreement with coupled-channels calculations is excellent. The model can be readily applied to other atomic systems with a large background scattering length, such as $^6$Li and $^{133}$Cs. Our approach provides full insight into the underlying physics of the interplay between open-channel (or potential) resonances and Feshbach resonances.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A; v2: added references
Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile basin of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Di Falco, Salvatore
name: Veronesi, Marcella
name: Di Falco, Salvatore
name: Veronesi, Marcella
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: adaptation
subject: climate change
subject: downside risk exposure
subject: environmental risk
subject: Ethiopia

description: This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation on farm households’ downside risk exposure in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. The analysis relies on a moment-based specification of the stochastic production function. We use an empirical strategy that accounts for the heterogeneity in the decision on whether to adapt or not, and for unobservable characteristics of farmers and their farm. We find that (i) past adaptation to climate change adaptation reduces current downside risk exposure, and so the risk of crop failure; (ii) climate change adaptation would have been more beneficial to the nonadapters if they adapted, in terms of reduction in downside risk exposure; and (iii) climate change adaptation is a successful risk management strategy that makes the adapters’ more resilient to climatic conditions.
Particle-oriented peening as method to investigate the material dependent deformation behaviour
Creators: name: Wielki, Nicole
name: Sonnenberg, Heike
name: Meyer, Daniel
name: Clausen, Brigitte
Publisher: name: Elsevier Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Material characterization
subject: Particle-oriented peening
subject: Plastic deformation
subject: Universal micro hardness measurement
subject: Shot peening
subject: 600

description: The material and its microstructure define the behaviour of a part in a deformation process. A single particle deformation process is introduced as a rapid material characterization method extending already existing approaches. Particle-oriented peening is performed with spherical micro samples of the low carbon steel 100Cr6 (AISI 52100) and the martensitic stainless steel X46Cr13 (AISI 420). Three different diameters (0.6 mm, 0.8 mm and 1.0 mm) were chosen to investigate the impact of the material and the surface to volume ratio. By processing single particles, the mechanical and geometrical properties of the particle before and after the impact can be linked to the deformation behaviour during the peening process. The elastic and plastic material properties are revealed by studying the remaining plastic deformation of the particle and the velocity reduction as a result of the impact. Instrumented universal micro hardness measurements are carried out to determine the hardness of the particles and to correlate it with the behavior of the particles during the particle-oriented peening process. The plastic deformation work as a characteristic value of micro hardness measurements of the different material states is discussed. It is conceivable that the consideration of different material behaviour related values (so-called descriptors) may replace conventional material testing in the future. Using short-term characterization methods like the particle-oriented peening a fast determination of material properties is possible.
title: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f.144
Creators: name: Rouzeau, Benoît
name: Rouzeau, Benoît
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: cistercien
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains. Numérisation en mode image
description: Relation: https://cisterciensetressources.lamop.fr/
description: Bibliographic citation: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f.144, in Projet Cisterciens et Ressources [Ressource en ligne], https://cisterciensetressources.lamop.fr
description: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f. 144
IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CEREAL MARKET AND FOOD SECURITY IN SUDAN: STOCHASTIC APPROACH AND CGE MODEL
Creators: name: Sassi, Maria
name: Cardaci, Alberto
name: Sassi, Maria
name: Cardaci, Alberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Climate change
subject: Food Security
subject: Stochastic approach
subject: CGE
subject: Sudan

description: The paper aims at analysing the impact of the likely change in rainfall on food availability and access to food in Sudan. The empirical investigation is based on an integrated approach consisting on a stochastic method and CGE model. The former provides the likely changes in sorghum, millet and wheat productivity and their probability of occurrence according to rainfall predictions based on historical data. These results are at the basis of the shocks simulated in a standard CGE model augmented with a stochastic component. Achievements underline the negative impact on the two dimensions of food security taken into consideration, mainly due to a reduction in cereal supply, a marked cereal inflation pressure and income contraction; the grater negative effect on the poorest households; and a deterioration of the economic performance of the country. In this context, the paper stresses a strong interconnection among climate change, poverty and food insecurity and thus the need for an integrated policy-making approach.
Assessment of nanoparticle immersion depth at liquid interfaces from chemically equivalent macroscopic surfaces
Creators: name: Smits, Joeri
name: Giri, Rajendra Prasad
name: Shen, Chen
name: Mendonça, Diogo
name: Murphy, Bridget Mary
name: Huber, Patrick
name: Rezwan, Kurosch
name: Maas, Michael
Publisher: name: Elsevier Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Contact angle
subject: Nanoparticles
subject: Liquid surface/interface
subject: Immersion depth
subject: Zeta (electrokinetic) potential
subject: Electrophoretic mobility
subject: Sessile drop
subject: Atomic Force Microscopy
subject: Streaming current
subject: X-ray reflectivity
subject: 600

description: Hypothesis: We test whether the wettability of nanoparticles (NPs) straddling at an air/water surface or oil/water interface can be extrapolated from sessile drop-derived macroscopic contact angles (mCAs) on planar substrates, assuming that both the nanoparticles and the macroscopic substrates are chemically equivalent and feature the same electrokinetic potential. Experiments: Pure silica (SiO2) and amino-terminated silica (APTES-SiO2) NPs are compared to macroscopic surfaces with extremely low roughness (root mean square [RMS] roughness ≤ 2 nm) or a roughness determined by a close-packed layer of NPs (RMS roughness ∼ 35 nm). Equivalence of the surface chemistry is assessed by comparing the electrokinetic potentials of the NPs via electrophoretic light scattering and of the macroscopic substrates via streaming current analysis. The wettability of the macroscopic substrates is obtained from advancing (ACAs) and receding contact angles (RCAs) and in situ synchrotron X-ray reflectivity (XRR) provided by the NP wettability at the liquid interfaces. Findings: Generally, the RCA on smooth surfaces provides a good estimate of NP wetting properties. However, mCAs alone cannot predict adsorption barriers that prevent NP segregation to the interface, as is the case with the pure SiO2 nanoparticles. This strategy greatly facilitates assessing the wetting properties of NPs for applications such as emulsion formulation, flotation, or water remediation.
Behavioural Change through Agri-Environmental Policies ? – A Distance Function based Matching Approach
Creators: name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Walsh, John
name: Zilberman, David
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Walsh, John
name: Zilberman, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Agri-Environmental Policy
subject: PES
subject: Distance Function
subject: Propensity Score Matching

description: This empirical study investigates the effects of different agri-environmental schemes on individual producer behaviour. We consider the effects on production intensity, performance and structure for a sample of UK cereal farms for the period 2000 to 2009 and use the policy examples of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme (ESS) and the Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ). The econometric methodology is based on a directional distance function framework as well as the application of propensity score analysis by the use of matching estimators. We find that both schemes are effectively influencing production behaviour at individual farm level. However, agri-environmental schemes show only very minor effects on the technical and allocative efficiency of farms, hence, we can conclude that farms enrolled in agri-environmental schemes are efficiently adjusting their production decisions given the constraints by the respective scheme. Farms affected by these schemes indeed tend to become less specialised and more diversified with respect to their production structure. A voluntary type agrienvironmental scheme seems to signficantly influence producer behaviour at a far higher scale than a non-voluntary agri-environmental scheme. The methodological novelty of this research lies in the use of a sound production theory based multi-output multi-input approach to disentangle measures for production performance and structure which are then used as indicators for the robust treatment effects’ analyses.
Gamma-ray Emission of 60Fe and 26Al Radioactivities in our Galaxy
Creators: name: Wang, W.
name: Siegert, T.
name: Dai, Z. G.
name: Diehl, R.
name: Greiner, J.
name: Heger, A.
name: Krause, M.
name: Lang, M.
name: Pleintinger, M. M. M.
name: Zhang, X. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The isotopes $^{60}$Fe and $^{26}$Al originate from massive stars and their supernovae, reflecting ongoing nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy. We studied the gamma-ray emission from these isotopes at characteristic energies 1173, 1332, and 1809 keV with over 15 years of SPI data, finding a line flux in $^{60}$Fe combined lines of $(0.31\pm 0.06) \times 10^{-3}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ and the $^{26}$Al line flux of $(16.8\pm 0.7) \times 10^{-4}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ above the background and continuum emission for the whole sky. Based on the exponential-disk grid maps, we characterise the emission extent of $^{26}$Al to find scale parameters $R_0 =7.0^{+1.5}_{-1.0}$ kpc and $z_0=0.8^{+0.3}_{-0.2}$ kpc, however the $^{60}$Fe lines are too weak to spatially constrain the emission. Based on a point source model test across the Galactic plane, the $^{60}$Fe emission would not be consistent with a single strong point source in the Galactic center or somewhere else, providing a hint for a diffuse nature. We carried out comparisons of emission morphology maps using different candidate-source tracers for both $^{26}$Al and $^{60}$Fe emissions, and suggests that the $^{60}$Fe emission is more likely to be concentrated towards the Galactic plane. We determine the $^{60}$Fe/$^{26}$Al $γ$-ray flux ratio at $(18.4\pm4.2)\,\%$ , when using a parameterized spatial morphology model. Across the range of plausible morphologies, it appears possible that $^{26}$Al and $^{60}$Fe are distributed differently in the Galaxy. Using the best fitting maps for each of the elements, we constrain flux ratios in the range 0.2--0.4. We discuss its implications for massive star models and their nucleosynthesis.
description: 29 pages, 13 figures, 2 table, accept for the publication in ApJ
title: بطاقة وثائقية مبوّبة تنوّه بمجلة الإخوان المسلمين "النذير" عن القمع يمارسه حزب البعث
title: Fiche de documentation préclassifiée avec références au journal des Frères musulmans "Al-Nadhir", sur la répression exercée par le parti Baath
title: Pre-classified documentation sheet with references to the Muslim Brotherhood's newspaper "Al-Nadhir", about the repression by the Ba'th Party
Creators: name: Seurat, Michel
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Notes en français pour la rédaction d'un chapitre d'ouvrage ou de thèse (chapitre 2).
description: Notes in French for the writing of a chapter in a book or a thesis (Chapter 2).
description: مذكّرات في اللغة الفرنسية من أجل كتابة الفصل الثاني لكتاب أو لرسالة دكتوراه
Comunicação e Poesia
Creators: name: Seiça, Álvaro
Publisher: name: Blogger
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Poetry as Topic
subject: contemporary poetry
subject: Communication

description: Este ensaio aborda algumas funções da linguagem, focando-se nas relações contemporâneas entre poesia e comunicação. Tenta estabelecer, tanto quanto possível, uma aproximação ao tema da comunicação na sociedade actual e, posteriormente, propor a palavra poética como veículo de comunicação supremo. Ensaio escrito em junho de 2004 para a disciplina de Cultura Portuguesa Contemporânea, leccionada por Cecília Barreira na FCSH-UNL, durante a Licenciatura em Estudos Portugueses.
Higher Order Matrix SUSY Transformations in Two-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Cannata, F.
name: Ioffe, M. V.
name: Neelov, A. I.
name: Nishnianidze, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The iteration procedure of supersymmetric transformations for the two-dimensional Schroedinger operator is implemented by means of the matrix form of factorization in terms of matrix 2x2 supercharges. Two different types of iterations are investigated in detail. The particular case of diagonal initial Hamiltonian is considered, and the existence of solutions is demonstrated. Explicit examples illustrate the construction.
description: 15 p
Empirical Testing of the Five-Factor Model of Fama and French in Indonesia as an Emerging Capital Market
Creators: name: Mustaruddin Saleh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: This study was conducted to empirically examine the five-factor model of Fama and French in respect to stock returns of companies listed in the finance sector with 170 observations over the period 2012-2016. As a comparative analysis, this study is also conducted to examine CAPM and the three-factor model of Fama and French. The findings of the study revealed that the market return has a positive and partially significant impact on the stock return for CAPM. Specifically, both variables, small minus big (SMB) and high minus low (HML) have a positive and significant impact on stock returns in the three-factor model and five-factor model of Fama and French. In contrast to the research of Fama and French the explanation power of the five-factor model is lower than that of the three-factor model in this research.
Measurement and verification procedures for energy efficiency investments
Creators: name: Enright, Connor
name: Mayer, Armin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This deliverable addresses how one can determine the performance of buildings and energy improvement measures through the EN-TRACK platform. This deliverable does not choose a singular solution, instead hybridising automated and industry-standard manual approaches. This deliverable also gives a view of the resultant services from these implementations. The document describes the limitations and opportunities inherent within automated and manual measurement and verification (M&V) methods provided through the EN-TRACK platform. It is important to note that full M&V procedures are nuanced, and case-sensitive, and should be completed by an accredited professional where the outputs are going to inform key contracts, financing or service agreements. The deliverable describes the importance of wide-ranging data capture for these services. As such, it is proposed that the platform enables both automated synthesis of M&V outcomes (providing low transaction costs but lower data quality and fewer data features); alongside the manual input of M&V information, supported by automated data sufficiency checks, proposed guidance, and preliminary suggestions of specific IPMVP protocols. These two pathways are described in depth in Sections 5-6 with key supporting documentation, such as graphical process flows, presented in the Appendix. The deliverable then considers how best to integrate the latest modelling approaches, proposing methods for the selection of preliminary modelling approaches using industry standard model assessment metrics such as Mean Bias Error and the Coefficient of Variation (Root Mean Squared Error). The deliverable also discusses novel methods for the measurement and verification of Non- Energy Benefits through the COMBI and MBenefits approaches developed in partnership with the European Union. Decision trees and surveys for the selection of these approaches are provided alongside quantified increases in project value associated with specific non-energy benefits. The deliverable concludes with descriptions aiding the implementation of the above services.
Trascendencia actoral a partir de la película Max ha desaparecido (1995). Una visión internacional del actor, bailarín y coreógrafo Víctor Rojas
Creators: name: Delgado Del Aguila, Jesús Miguel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 360501
subject: Cinema studies
classificationCode: 440107
subject: Social and cultural anthropology

description: Delgado Del Aguila, Jesús Miguel (2024). «Trascendencia actoral a partir de la película Max ha desaparecido (1995). Una visión internacional del actor, bailarín y coreógrafo Víctor Rojas», en: ARTxt. Revista de Experimentación Artística. Málaga, España: Universidad de Málaga. N.° 4, pp. 71-76. Disponible en https://www.revistas.uma.es/index.php/ARTXT/article/view/Delgado
Libri-Light: A Benchmark for ASR with Limited or No Supervision
Creators: name: Kahn, Jacob
name: Rivière, Morgane
name: Zheng, Weiyi
name: Kharitonov, Evgeny
name: Xu, Qiantong
name: Mazaré, Pierre-Emmanuel
name: Karadayi, Julien
name: Liptchinsky, Vitaliy
name: Collobert, Ronan
name: Fuegen, Christian
name: Likhomanenko, Tatiana
name: Synnaeve, Gabriel
name: Joulin, Armand
name: Mohamed, Abdelrahman
name: Dupoux, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We introduce a new collection of spoken English audio suitable for training speech recognition systems under limited or no supervision. It is derived from open-source audio books from the LibriVox project. It contains over 60K hours of audio, which is, to our knowledge, the largest freely-available corpus of speech. The audio has been segmented using voice activity detection and is tagged with SNR, speaker ID and genre descriptions. Additionally, we provide baseline systems and evaluation metrics working under three settings: (1) the zero resource/unsupervised setting (ABX), (2) the semi-supervised setting (PER, CER) and (3) the distant supervision setting (WER). Settings (2) and (3) use limited textual resources (10 minutes to 10 hours) aligned with the speech. Setting (3) uses large amounts of unaligned text. They are evaluated on the standard LibriSpeech dev and test sets for comparison with the supervised state-of-the-art.
How Much Animal Product do the Chinese Consume? Empirical Evidence from Household Surveys
Creators: name: Wang, Ji-Min
name: Zhou, Zhang-Yue
name: Yang, Jun
name: Wang, Ji-Min
name: Zhou, Zhang-Yue
name: Yang, Jun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: animal product consumption
subject: China
subject: policy
subject: marketing
subject: SSB statistics

description: Reliable information about animal product consumption in China is extremely important for policy formulation and marketing activities. However, publications by China's State Statistical Bureau underestimate animal product consumption. Such underestimated statistics affect policy making and marketing initiatives and also lead to the estimation of distorted parameters that are crucial for other research work. Based on a large-scale household survey, this paper presents findings on animal product consumption in China. Our results show that the consumption of animal products in China has reached a much higher level than was previously held and the SSB statistics underestimate this consumption by as much as 30 to 60%. The paper also identifies the major factors that affect animal product consumption in China. Implications of the findings are discussed.
DC-transport properties of ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As semiconductors
Creators: name: Jungwirth, T.
name: Sinova, Jairo
name: Wang, K. Y.
name: Edmonds, K. W.
name: Campion, R. P.
name: Gallagher, B. L.
name: Foxon, C. T.
name: Niu, Qian
name: MacDonald, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dc transport properties of (Ga,Mn)As diluted magnetic semiconductors with Mn concentration varying from 1.5% to 8%. Both diagonal and Hall components of the conductivity tensor are strongly sensitive to the magnetic state of these semiconductors. Transport data obtained at low temperatures are discussed theoretically within a model of band-hole quasiparticles with a finite spectral width due to elastic scattering from Mn and compensating defects. The theoretical results are in good agreement with measured anomalous Hall effect and anisotropic longitudinal magnetoresistance data. This quantitative understanding of dc magneto-transport effects in (Ga,Mn)As is unparalleled in itinerant ferromagnetic systems.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Economic Valuation of Military Checkpoint-Induced Travel Time Variability in Abuja, Nigeria (2012-2017)
Creators: name: Umaru, Ibrahim Gerarh
name: Abubakar Mohammed Tanko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: Between 2009 and 2016, Nigeria witnessed insurgency attacks from such militant groups as Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and O'odua People's Congress (OPC). The most vicious and infamous threat yet was from the self-styled terrorist group going by the name, Jama'atuahlus-sunnah lid-da'awatiwal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram. The group claimed responsibility for spate of bombings recorded not only within the north-east region of the country but on private and public buildings, bus stations, shopping malls, recreation centres and markets in major cities such as Kaduna, Kano and Abuja, Nigeria. The apparent threat to national security and perhaps most importantly to lives in these cities led security operatives, especially the Military and the Police, to erect checkpoints at strategic locations along major arteries and roads adjudged to be of strategic interest to the terrorists as one of the effective measures to curtail the activity of the terror groups. One of the fallouts of this measure is the phenomenon of obstruction of traffic and delays in reaching travel destinations by commuters often referred to in technical terms as travel time variability. Using the Nolan and Small (1995) modified economic valuation model and the erection of military checkpoints on the three highways in Abuja-Nigeria between 2012 and 2016 as reference points, this study examines the implication of the travel time variability in the federal capital territory (FCT). The findings of the study show that the mounting of military checkpoints might have cost the FCT between N8.25 and N9.58 billion annually within the period. For the period under study (2012 - 2016), the FCT economy might have lost between N40 and N59 billion to obstruction and traffic congestion occasioned by the mounting of military checkpoints.
Prevention of bone loss and improvement of pain-related behavior in hind limb-unloaded mice by administration of teriparatide and bisphosphonate
Creators: name: Gaku Miyamura
name: Wakabayashi, Hiroki
name: Nobuto Nagao
name: Kato, Sho
name: Nakagawa, Taro
name: Naito, Yohei
name: Sudo, Akihiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer

description: There are few reports on the comparison between teriparatide (PTH) and bisphosphonate (BP) in terms of osteoporosis pain-related behavior and immunohistochemical findings. The aims of this study were to evaluate skeletal pain associated with osteoporosis and to examine the inhibitory effect of PTH and BP on pain and bone loss in hind limb-unloaded (HU) mice. The mechanism of osteoporotic pain in HU mice was evaluated by examining pain-related behavior and immunohistochemical findings. The effects of PTH and alendronate (ALN), a potent osteoclast inhibitor, on these parameters were also assessed. Eight-week-old male ddY mice were tail-suspended for 2 weeks and assigned to four groups: hind limb-loaded (HL) mice with only tail suspension treated with vehicle; HU mice with tail suspension treated with vehicle; HU mice treated with PTH; and HU mice treated with ALN. Starting immediately after reloading, vehicle, PTH, or ALN was injected subcutaneously. After a 2-week treatment, mechanical sensitivity was examined using von Frey filaments. Bilateral hind limbs were removed for micro-computed tomography, immunohistochemical analysis, and messenger RNA (mRNA) expression analysis. HU mice with tail suspension developed bone loss and mechanical hyperalgesia in the hind limbs. The HU mice showed an increased osteoclasts and sclerostin-positive cells in the hind limb bone. Furthermore, PTH and ALN both prevented HU-induced bone loss and mechanical hyperalgesia in the osteoporotic animal models. Histological examination of the hind limb bone revealed that, similar to ALN, PTH inhibited the osteoclasts and sclerostin-positive cells. The mRNA levels of TNFα and IL-6 tended to decrease with ALN or PTH treatment compared with those without any treatment. Treatment with PTH as well as BP prevented bone loss, mechanical hyperalgesia, osteoclast increase, and osteocyte increase. Similar to BP, the inhibitory effect of PTH on osteoclasts might contribute to the improvement of skeletal pain.
AGRICULTURAL PROCESSING AND THE WA ECONOMY: A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Johnson, Peter
name: Islam, Nazrul
name: Johnson, Peter
name: Islam, Nazrul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: agricultural processing
subject: Western Australia
subject: Computable General Equilibrium economic model of Western Australia
subject: WAM
subject: Gross State Product
subject: general equilibrium analysis

description: This paper investigates the impact of an expansion in agricultural processing on the Western Australian economy by modifying and applying a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) economic model of Western Australia (called WAM). WAM was used to simulate the effects of a $1 million expansion in eight agricultural processing industries. The results show that there is a range of positive impacts from agricultural processing. On average, a $1 million expansion in agricultural processing is estimated to increase the State's GSP (Gross State Product) by $649,000, and total output by $1.9 million. The expansion of the Wine and spirits industry is estimated to have the largest impact while the Textile fibres, yarns and woven fabrics industry has the smallest impact on the Western Australian economy.
Theoretical condition for switching the magnetization in a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnet via the spin Hall effect
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical formula is derived for the threshold current to switch a perpendicular magnetization in a ferromagnet by the spin Hall effect. The numerical simulation of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation indicates that magnetization switching is achieved when the steady-state solution of the magnetization in the presence of the current is outside an energetically unstable region. Based on the numerical result, an analytical theory deriving the threshold current is developed by focusing on the first-order perturbation to the unstable state. The analytical formula clarifies that the magnitude of the magnetic field applied to the current direction should be larger than 15\% of the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy field, and the current is less than the derived threshold value.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Analytical calculation of the solid angle subtended by a circular disc detector at a point cosine source
Creators: name: Prata, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive analytical expressions for the solid angle subtended by a circular disc at a point source with cosine angular distribution ($f(μ)=μ/π$)under the sole condition that the disc lies in the half-space illuminated by the source ($μ\geq 0$). The expressions are given with reference to two alternative coordinate systems (S and S'), S being such that the z axis is parallel to the symmetry axis of the disc and S' such that the $z'$ axis is aligned with the source direction. Sample plots of the expressions are presented.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, LaTex12 pages, 10 figures, LaTex. Minor changes from previous version: references added, english reshaping, the phrase "If beta=0.." (pag. 5 near eq. 20 in the old version) was corrected to "If beta=pi/2.."
Upadacitinib monotherapy versus methotrexate monotherapy in methotrexate-naïve Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a sub-analysis of the Phase 3 SELECT-EARLY study
Creators: name: Takeuchi, Tsutomu
name: Rischmueller, Maureen
name: Blanco, Ricardo
name: Xavier, Ricardo M
name: Yukitaka Ueki
name: Atsumi, Tatsuya
name: Chen, Su
name: Friedman, Alan
name: Pangan, Aileen L
name: Strand, Vibeke
name: Van Vollenhoven, Ronald F
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: To assess upadacitinib monotherapy versus methotrexate (MTX) in MTX-naïve Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the Phase 3 SELECT-EARLY study. Japanese patients were randomized 2:1:1:1 to upadacitinib 7.5, 15, or 30 mg daily or MTX 7.5 mg/week (titrated to ≤15 mg/week). Efficacy endpoints included the proportion of patients reporting 20% improvement in American College of Rheumatology criteria (ACR20) at week 12 and change from baseline in modified Total Sharp Score (mTSS) at week 24. Other efficacy outcomes were also assessed at weeks 12 and/or 24. Safety was assessed over 24 weeks. Of 138 Japanese patients enrolled, significantly more patients treated with upadacitinib 7.5 and 15 mg, but not 30 mg, reported ACR20 responses versus MTX at week 12. Significantly smaller changes from baseline in mTSS were observed with upadacitinib 15 and 30 mg, but not 7.5 mg, versus MTX at week 24. Upadacitinib demonstrated an acceptable safety profile; herpes zoster occurred in 3.6%, 7.4%, and 7.1% of patients treated with upadacitinib 7.5, 15, and 30 mg, respectively. Similar to the global study population, upadacitinib demonstrated clinical efficacy superior to placebo in the Japanese subpopulation. Among upadacitinib-treated patients, herpes zoster was least common with 7.5 mg.