cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L' énigme des prophéties et oracles à portée "Macchabéenne" et leur application ek prosōpu selon l'exégèse antiochienne
Creators: name: Macina, Robert
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 70 (1986): Oriens christianus, Band 70
Genetic algorithm for feature selection and weighting for off-line character recognition
Creators: name: Hussein, Faten T.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Computer-based pattern recognition is a process that involves several sub-processes, including pre-processing, feature extraction, classification, and post-processing. This thesis is involved with feature selection and feature weighting processes. Feature extraction is the measurement of certain attributes of the target pattern. Classification utilizes the values of these attributes to assign a class to the input pattern. In our view, the selection and weighting of the right set of features is the hardest part of building a pattern recognition system. The ultimate aim of our research work is the automation of the process of feature selection and weighting, within the context of character/symbol recognition systems. Our chosen optimization method for feature selection and weighting is the genetic algorithm approach. Feature weighting is the general case of feature selection, and hence it is expected to perform better than or at least the same as feature selection. The initial purpose of this study was to test the validity of this hypothesis within the context of character recognition systems and using genetic algorithms. However, our study shows that this is not true. We carried two sets of experimental studies. The first set compares the performance of Genetic Algorithm (GA)-based feature selection to GA-based feature weighting, under various circumstances. The second set of studies evaluates the performance of the better method (which turned out to be feature selection) in terms of optimal performance and time. The results of these studies also show that (a) in the presence of redundant or irrelevant features, feature set selection prior to classification is important for k-nearest neighbor classifiers; and (b) that GA is an effective method for feature selection and the performance obtained using genetic algorithms was comparable to that of exhaustive search. However, the scalability of GA to highly dimensional problems, although far superior to that of exhaustive search, is still an open problem.
Erratum to Three Papers on the beta-Pyrochlore Oxide Superconductors
Creators: name: Hiroi, Zenji
name: Yonezawa, Shigeki
name: Yamaura, Jun-Ichi
name: Muramatsu, Takaki
name: Matsushita, Yoshitaka
name: Muraoka, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnitude of magnetic fields given in the three papers that report on the superconductivity of the beta-pyrochlore oxides is corrected.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure. to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Additional file 3 of Sensory stimulation in the treatment of children with sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder: a feasibility and acceptability study
Creators: name: Sluijs, Rachel M. Van
name: Wilhelm, Elisabeth
name: Rondei, Quincy J.
name: Jäger, Lukas
name: Gall, Markus
name: Garn, Heinrich
name: Achermann, Peter
name: Jenni, Oskar G.
name: Riener, Robert
name: Hill, Catherine M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Supplemental information document 3. The Rhythmic Movement Disorder Questionnaire. A structured interview for diagnosis of sleep-related rhythmic movement disorder in children
Dynamics of Quintessence with Thermal Interactions
Creators: name: Liu, Dao-jun
name: Li, Xin-zhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmological dynamics of minimally coupled scalar field that couple to the background matter with thermal interactions is investigated in exponential potential. The conditions for the existence and stability of various critical points as well as their cosmological implications are obtained. Although we show that the effects of thermal interaction such as depressing the equation-of-state parameter of quintessence, is only important at the early time, the evolution of equation-of-state parameter of quintessence is manifested. The upper bound is required on the coupling between quintessence and relativistic relic particles such as photons and neutrinos.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, Accepted version for publication in PLB
Quantum tunneling of semifluxons
Creators: name: Goldobin, E.
name: Vogel, K.
name: Crasser, O.
name: Walser, R.
name: Schleich, W. P.
name: Koelle, D.
name: Kleiner, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a system of two semifluxons of opposite polarity in a 0-pi-0 long Josephson junction, which classically can be in one of two degenerate states: up-down or down-up. When the distance $a$ between the 0-pi boundaries (semifluxon's centers) is a bit larger than the crossover distance $a_c$, the system can switch from one state to the other due to thermal fluctuations or quantum tunneling. We map this problem to the dynamics of a single particle in a double well potential and estimate parameters for which quantum effects emerge. We also determine the classical-to-quantum crossover temperature as well as the tunneling rate (energy level splitting) between the states up-down and down-up.
description: submitted to PRB, comments/questions are welcome
Additional file 1 of An exploratory qualitative study of health professional perspectives on clinical outcomes in UK orthotic practice
Creators: name: Hall, Natalie
name: Parker, Daniel
name: Williams, Anita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Effective dynamics of an electrically charged string with a current
Creators: name: Kazinski, P. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Equations of motion for an electrically charged string with a current in an external electromagnetic field with regard to the first correction due to the self-action are derived. It is shown that the reparametrization invariance of the free action of the string imposes constraints on the possible form of the current. The effective equations of motion are obtained for an absolutely elastic charged string in the form of a ring (circle). Equations for the external electromagnetic fields that admit stationary states of such a ring are revealed. Solutions to the effective equations of motion of an absolutely elastic charged ring in the absence of external fields as well as in an external uniform magnetic field are obtained. In the latter case, the frequency at which one can observe radiation emitted by the ring is evaluated. A model of an absolutely nonstretchable charged string with a current is proposed. The effective equations of motion are derived within this model, and a class of solutions to these equations is found.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, format changed, minor changes
Optimal Tree Topology for a Submarine Cable Network With Constrained Internodal Latency
Creators: name: Wang, Tianjiao
name: Wang, Zengfu
name: Moran, Bill
name: Zukerman, Moshe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper provides an optimized cable path planning solution for a tree-topology network in an irregular 2D manifold in a 3D Euclidean space, with an application to the planning of submarine cable networks. Our solution method is based on total cost minimization, where the individual cable costs are assumed to be linear to the length of the corresponding submarine cables subject to latency constraints between pairs of nodes. These latency constraints limit the cable length and number of hops between any pair of nodes. Our method combines the Fast Marching Method (FMM) and a new Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulation for Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) where there are constraints between pairs of nodes. We note that this problem of MST with constraints is NP-complete. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that ILP running time is adequate for the great majority of existing cable systems. For cable systems for which ILP is not able to find the optimal solution within an acceptable time, we propose an alternative heuristic algorithm based on Prim's algorithm. In addition, we apply our FMM/ILP-based algorithm to a real-world cable path planning example and demonstrate that it can effectively find an MST with latency constraints between pairs of nodes.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Novel candidate genes for ECT response prediction—a pilot study analyzing the DNA methylome of depressed patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy
Creators: name: Moschny, Nicole
name: Zindler, Tristan
name: Jahn, Kirsten
name: Dorda, Marie
name: Davenport, Colin F.
name: Wiehlmann, Lutz
name: Maier, Hannah B.
name: Eberle, Franziska
name: Bleich, Stefan
name: Neyazi, Alexandra
name: Frieling, Helge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
$B\to f_0(980)K$ Decays and Subleading Corrections
Creators: name: Cheng, Hai-Yang
name: Yang, Kwei-Chou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay $B\to f_0(980)K is studied within the framework of QCD factorization and the two-quark scenario for $f_0(980)$. There are two distinct penguin contributions and their interference depends on the unknown mixing angle $θ$ of strange and nonstrange quark contents of $f_0(980)$: destructive for $0
description: 28 pages, 10 figures. Experimental branching ratios of B-> f_0 K are updated, typos corrected and references added
Efficient ab initio calculation of electronic stopping in disordered systems via geometry pre-sampling: application to liquid water
Creators: name: Gu, Bin
name: Cunningham, Brian
name: Muñoz-Santiburcio, Daniel
name: Da Pieve, Fabiana
name: Artacho, Emilio
name: Kohanoff, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Knowledge of the electronic stopping curve for swift ions, $S_e(v)$, particularly around the Bragg peak, is important for understanding radiation damage. Experimentally, however, the determination of such feature for light ions is very challenging, especially in disordered systems such as liquid water and biological tissue. Recent developments in real-time time-dependent density functional theory (rt-TDDFT) have enabled the calculation of $S_e(v)$ along nm-sized trajectories. However, it is still a challenge to obtain a meaningful statistically averaged $S_e(v)$ that can be compared to observations. In this work, taking advantage of the correlation between the local electronic structure probed by the projectile and the distance from the projectile to the atoms in the target, we devise a trajectory pre-sampling scheme to select, geometrically, a small set of short trajectories to accelerate the convergence of the averaged $S_e(v)$ computed via rt-TDDFT. For protons in liquid water, we first calculate the reference probability distribution function (PDF) for the distance from the proton to the closest oxygen atom, $ϕ_R(r_{p{\rightarrow}O})$, for a trajectory of a length similar to those sampled experimentally. Then, short trajectories are sequentially selected so that the accumulated PDF reproduces $ϕ_R(r_{p{\rightarrow}O})$ to increasingly high accuracy. Using these pre-sampled trajectories, we demonstrate that the averaged $S_e(v_p)$ converges in the whole velocity range with less than eight trajectories, while other averaging methods using randomly and uniformly distributed trajectories require approximately ten times the computational effort. This allows us to compare the $S_e(v_p)$ curve to experimental data, and assess widely used empirical tables based on Bragg's rule.
Le Adversus Eunomium IV-V ou bien le Péri Arkhon de S. Basile?
Creators: name: Breydy, Michel
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 70 (1986): Oriens christianus, Band 70
Quantifying the thermal stability in perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic nanodisks with forward flux sampling
Creators: name: Desplat, L.
name: Kim, J. -V.
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: The thermal stability in nanostructured magnetic systems is an important issue for applications in information storage. From a theoretical and simulation perspective, an accurate prediction of thermally-activated transitions is a challenging problem because desired retention times are on the order of 10 years, while the characteristic time scale for precessional magnetization dynamics is of the order of nanoseconds. Here, we present a theoretical study of the thermal stability of magnetic elements in the form of perpendicularly-magnetized ferromagnetic disks using the forward flux sampling method, which is useful for simulating rare events. We demonstrate how rates of thermally-activated switching between the two uniformly-magnetized ``up'' and ``down'' states, which occurs through domain wall nucleation and propagation, vary with the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, which affect the energy barrier separating these states. Moreover, we find that the average lifetimes differ by several orders of magnitude from estimates based on the commonly assumed value of 1 GHz for the attempt frequency.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Contaminación provocada por la fabricación de los dispositivos electrónicos
Creators: name: Gutierrez Tibaduiza, Lina Daniela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Contaminación, dispositivos electrónicos, residuos electrónicos.

description: La adquisición de dispositivos electrónicos (teléfonos, audífonos, computadores, televisores, etc.) han contribuido con el crecimiento económico y social, además han permitido mejorar y disminuir los procesos repetitivos asi como facilitar la comunicación, a su vez el avance tecnológico ha aportado en la contaminación y en el cambio climático. Por ejemplo, en China se producen alrededor de 450 millones de teléfonos al año[4], esto conlleva gastos de energía, materiales, entre otros. De igual manera, el auge de la tecnología y el consumismo genera que su vida útil sea corta ocasionado gran cantidad de desechos electrónicos[5]. [4] N. Singh, H. Duan, O. A. Ogunseitan, J. Li, and Y. Tang, “Toxicity trends in E-Waste: A comparative analysis of metals in discarded mobile phones,” J. Hazard. Mater., vol. 380, p. 120898, Dec. 2019, doi: 10.1016/J.JHAZMAT.2019.120898. [5] X. Li, P. Ortiz, B. Kuczenski, D. Franklin, and F. T. Chong, “Mitigating the environmental impact of smartphones with device reuse,” Sustain. ICTs Manag. Syst. Green Comput., pp. 252–282, 2012, doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1839-8.CH011.
Additional file 1 of The length of ribosomal binding site spacer sequence controls the production yield for intracellular and secreted proteins by Bacillus subtilis
Creators: name: Volkenborn, Kristina
name: Kuschmierz, Laura
name: Nuka Benz
name: Lenz, Patrick
name: Knapp, Andreas
name: Karl-Erich Jaeger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Influence of spacer length on the production of target proteins. Fig. S2. Influence of spacer composition on the production of GFPmut3 and SPPel-Cut-11. Fig. S3. In silico analysis of mRNA secondary structures. Table S1. Primers used in this study. Table S2. Changes in transcript amounts of target genes with different spacer lengths.
Control of topography, stress and diffusion at molecule-metal interface
Creators: name: Zhitenev, Nikolai B.
name: Jiang, Weirong
name: Erbe, Artur
name: Bao, Zhenan
name: Garfunkel, Eric
name: Tennant, Donald M.
name: Cirelli, Raymond A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport properties of metal-molecule-metal junctions containing monolayer of conjugated and saturated molecules with characteristic dimensions in the range of 30-300 nm are correlated with microscopic topography, stress and chemical bonding at metal-molecule interfaces. Our statistically significant dataset allows us to conclude that the conductivity of organic molecules ~1.5 nm long is at least 4 orders of magnitude lower than is commonly believed.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Interfacing topological insulators and ferrimagnets: Bi$_2$Te$_3$ and Fe$_3$O$_4$ heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy
Creators: name: Pereira, V. M.
name: Wu, C. N.
name: Knight, C. -A.
name: Choa, A.
name: Tjeng, L. H.
name: Altendorf, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relying on the magnetism induced by the proximity effect in heterostructures of topological insulators and magnetic insulators is one of the promising routes to achieve the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here we investigate heterostructures of Bi$_2$Te$_3$ and Fe$_3$O$_4$. By growing two different types of heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy, Fe$_3$O$_4$ on Bi$_2$Te$_3$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$ on Fe$_3$O$_4$, we explore differences in chemical stability, crystalline quality, electronic structure, and transport properties. We find the heterostructure Bi$_2$Te$_3$ on Fe$_3$O$_4$ to be a more viable approach, with transport signatures in agreement with a gap opening in the topological surface states.
description: accepted for publication in APL Materials
Quark confinement and curved spaces
Creators: name: Barros, Celso de Camargo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work it will be shown how quark confinement appears when wave equations derived in curved spaces are considered. First, the equations and their solutions for Coulomb-like potentials will be presented, and then, how this theory leads to quark confinement. A comparison between different models of confinement will be also made.
Shadow-wall lithography of ballistic superconductor-semiconductor quantum devices
Creators: name: Heedt, Sebastian
name: Quintero-Pérez, Marina
name: Borsoi, Francesco
name: Fursina, Alexandra
name: van Loo, Nick
name: Mazur, Grzegorz P.
name: Nowak, Michał P.
name: Ammerlaan, Mark
name: Li, Kongyi
name: Korneychuk, Svetlana
name: Shen, Jie
name: van de Poll, May An Y.
name: Badawy, Ghada
name: Gazibegovic, Sasa
name: van Hoogdalem, Kevin
name: Bakkers, Erik P. A. M.
name: Kouwenhoven, Leo P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The realization of a topological qubit calls for advanced techniques to readily and reproducibly engineer induced superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires. Here, we introduce an on-chip fabrication paradigm based on shadow walls that offers substantial advances in device quality and reproducibility. It allows for the implementation of novel quantum devices and ultimately topological qubits while eliminating many fabrication steps such as lithography and etching. This is critical to preserve the integrity and homogeneity of the fragile hybrid interfaces. The approach simplifies the reproducible fabrication of devices with a hard induced superconducting gap and ballistic normal-/superconductor junctions. Large gate-tunable supercurrents and high-order multiple Andreev reflections manifest the exceptional coherence of the resulting nanowire Josephson junctions. Our approach enables, in particular, the realization of 3-terminal devices, where zero-bias conductance peaks emerge in a magnetic field concurrently at both boundaries of the one-dimensional hybrids.
Additional file 2 of The value of real-world testing: a qualitative feasibility study to explore staff and organisational barriers and strategies to support implementation of a clinical pathway for the management of anxiety and depression in adult cancer patients
Creators: name: Geerligs, Liesbeth
name: Shepherd, Heather L.
name: Rankin, Nicole M.
name: Masya, Lindy
name: Shaw, Joanne M.
name: Price, Melanie A.
name: Haryana Dhillon
name: Dolan, Colette
name: Prest, Gabrielle
name: Butow, Phyllis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Sample interview questions from moderator guide. Text data excerpt from interview guide (table form).
Mean-field driven first-order phase transitions in systems with long-range interactions
Creators: name: Biskup, Marek
name: Chayes, Lincoln
name: Crawford, Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B26; 82B05

description: We consider a class of spin systems on $\Z^d$ with vector valued spins $(\bS_x)$ that interact via the pair-potentials $J_{x,y} \bS_x\cdot\bS_y$. The interactions are generally spread-out in the sense that the $J_{x,y}$'s exhibit either exponential or power-law fall-off. Under the technical condition of reflection positivity and for sufficiently spread out interactions, we prove that the model exhibits a first-order phase transition whenever the associated mean-field theory signals such a transition. As a consequence, e.g., in dimensions $d\ge3$, we can finally provide examples of the 3-state Potts model with spread-out, exponentially decaying interactions, which undergoes a first-order phase transition as the temperature varies. Similar transitions are established in dimensions $d=1,2$ for power-law decaying interactions and in high dimensions for next-nearest neighbor couplings. In addition, we also investigate the limit of infinitely spread-out interactions. Specifically, we show that once the mean-field theory is in a unique ``state,'' then in any sequence of translation-invariant Gibbs states various observables converge to their mean-field values and the states themselves converge to a product measure.
description: 57 pages; uses a (modified) jstatphys class file
THE 2002 FARM ACT: PROVISIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMODITY MARKETS
Creators: name: Westcott, Paul C.
name: Young, C. Edwin
name: Price, J. Michael
name: Westcott, Paul C.
name: Young, C. Edwin
name: Price, J. Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm legislation
subject: 2002 Farm Act
subject: agricultural programs
subject: commodity programs
subject: marketing loans
subject: counter-cyclical payments
subject: direct payments
subject: planting flexibility
subject: base acres
subject: payment yields
subject: farm income
subject: risk management
subject: FAPSIM

description: The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (2002 Farm Act), which governs agricultural programs through 2007, was signed into law in May 2002. This report presents an initial evaluation of the new legislation's effects on agricultural commodity markets, based on sectorwide model simulations under alternative policy assumptions. The analysis shows that loan rate changes under the marketing assistance loan program of the 2002 Farm Act initially result in an increase in total planted acreage of eight major program crops. This increase in plantings, however, is relatively small (less than 1 percent), partly due to the inelasticity of acreage response in the sector. In the longer run, the simulations indicate that overall plantings of the eight program crops studied are lower under the 2002 Farm Act than under a continuation of the 1996 Farm Act. This result mostly reflects larger enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program and increased plantings of dry peas and lentils, although planted acreage for the eight program crops is reduced by less than 0.6 percent. The effects of the 2002 Farm Act on the livestock sector and retail food prices are relatively small. Farm income is increased, mostly due to higher government payments to the sector under the new law.
Investigations on single and multipolarization SAR image compression
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images provide important information about our living earth. However, there are problems associated with the storage and transmission of that data that are critical to extending their potential applications. To solve this problem we must find a suitable compression approach that can significantly decrease the volume of the data without losing any useful information that SAR images may provide. There are two main parts to this thesis. The first part is concerned with single channel SAR image compression. Here, single channel represents single polarization, which is used to obtain images, since for single channel SAR image compression, only one image is used, and this image is the amplitude image. We focus our investigation on transform coding, which is a very popular data compression approach; the particular transform we are interested in is the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). We want to find a way to improve the DWT based compression method to make it more suitable for SAR image compression. Based on experimental results, we find out that our goal can be achieved by adaptively adopting techniques, such as wavelet packet and block coding. The second part of the thesis involves the investigation of the compression of multipolarization SAR images, which include three intensity images and two phasedifference images as a whole data set. The compression method we are concerned with is called the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), a standard compression technique for hyperspectral image compression. Our experiment results show that PCA is less efficient for multipolarization image compression than for multiple hyperspectral images. This is because PCA is more efficient at compressing multiple images with higher correlation, which is not true for multipolarization SAR images. In this thesis, we suggest multipolarization SAR images should be compressed separately to achieve the best compression performance, instead of grouping them together.
title: Wildfire Climatology and Composites for Pattern Identification across New York State
Creators: name: Smith, Shawn
Publisher: name: NOAA National Weather Service Eastern Region
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02txa8h30
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.)) ; 2020-02
description: Although New York State is not typically thought of as an area prone to wildfires, statistics show that the state averages 182 Forest Ranger reported fires per year.  Thus, there is a need for meteorological composite patterns to identify and recognize the conditions affecting wildfire potential.  Wildfire data from 2000-2017 acquired from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers was examined and spatially plotted using GIS software to create a New York wildfire climatology.  While 32% of these wildfires were less than one acre, and nearly 89% were less than 10 acres, this study raises awareness of wildfires throughout every region across the Empire State. Graphs of annual and monthly occurrence, total acres burned, and wildfire cause (both frequency and location) are included in this examination. The top five most active New York wildfire days and top five days with the most acres burned during the 2000-2017 study period were used to build weather composites using the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR). Forecasters can use these composites of 500 hPa heights, mean sea level pressure, and 850 hPa vector wind to develop meteorological pattern recognition for potential wildfire activity in New York State.  This, combined with knowledge of the seasonal state of fuels together with historical wildfire sources and activity, may help to increase forecaster awareness to both potential Red Flag days and active wildfire days.
Gesteuertes Laden von Elektrofahrzeugen in Verteilnetzen mit hoher Einspeisung erneuerbarer Energien - Ein Beitrag zur Kopplung von Elektrizitäts- und Verkehrssektor
Creators: name: Ried, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2021

description: Aufgrund der angestrebten Klimaneutralität ist mit einer Fortsetzung des Ausbaus erneuerbarer Energien (EE) sowie des Markthochlaufs von Elektro-PKW (E-PKW) zu rechnen. Damit einher gehen Dezentralisierung und Volatilität der Stromerzeugung, räumliche Diskrepanz von Angebot und Nachfrage von Elektrizität sowie höhere Lastspitzen. Entstehende Netzengpässe werden u. a. durch die Abregelung von EE-Anlagen behoben. Dadurch können die vollständigen Potenziale der EE-Anlagen nicht genutzt werden, weshalb weniger EE-Strom produziert wird als möglich ist (sogenannter Überschussstrom). Das gesteuerte Laden von E-PKW stellt eine Chance dar, die Flexibilität der Fahrzeugbatterien z. B. zur Vermeidung dieser EE-Abregelung zu nutzen. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Quantifizierung dieses Flexibilitätspotenzials sowie der damit einhergehenden Kosten und Treibhausgasemissionen der Ladeenergie. Dafür wird erstmalig eine Methodik entwickelt, welche die Nutzung abgeregelter EE-Erzeugung in Verteilnetzen für das gesteuerte, auch bidirektionale Laden (Vehicle-to-Grid oder V2G) von E-PKW untersucht und dabei Lastverschiebepotenziale differenziert modelliert. Um die Wechselwirkungen zwischen dem Engpassmanagement eines Verteilnetzbetreibers und dem Lademanagement eines Aggregators abzubilden, werden drei Teilmodelle gekoppelt: Ein lastflussoptimierendes Engpassmanagementmodell für das 110 kV-Netz in Schleswig-Holstein wird um die elektrische Nachfrage der E-PKW und einen Peakshaving-Algorithmus erweitert. Das entwickelte gemischt-ganzzahlige Optimierungsmodell Curtailment-to-Vehicle ermöglicht das Laden der E-PKW mittels Überschussstrom und Strombezug über lokale Elektrizitätsmärkte. Dabei wird eine kosten- sowie eine überschussstromminimierende Ladestrategie untersucht. Basierend auf repräsentativen, empirischen Daten simuliert und aggregiert ein Bottom-Up-Modell die Flexibilitätspotenziale auf Flottenebene. Unsicherheiten hinsichtlich zukünftiger E-PKW-Flexibilitätspotenziale werden mit Szenarien für das Jahr 2030 analysiert. Modellgestützte Analysen für die Fallstudie Schleswig-Holstein zeigen, dass maximal 19 % der EE-Abregelung vermieden werden. Dennoch werden an Netzknoten mit EE-Abregelung und V2G durchschnittlich bis zu 65 % der Ladeenergie mit Überschussstrom gedeckt, an einzelnen Netzknoten sogar 95 %. Obwohl in den V2G-Szenarien die Kosten für den Strombezug durch Erlöse um bis zu 75 €/Jahr überkompensiert werden, sinken die jährlichen Gesamtladekosten aufgrund weiterer Strompreisbestandteile selbst an den Netzknoten mit Abregelung nur um durchschnittlich 20 – 27 %. Durch V2G können sich die durchschnittlichen jährlichen Batterievollzyklen verdoppeln. Ist Überschussstrom vorhanden, sinken die Treibhausgasemissionen von 69 auf rund 40 g CO2/km, an einzelnen Netzknoten auf bis zu 7 g CO2/km.
On the connectivity of some complete intersections
Creators: name: Dimca, Alexandru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F25; 14F35; 32S20

description: We show that the complement of a degree $d$ hypersurface in a projective complete intersection, whose defining equations have degrees strictly larger than $d$, has a rational connectivity higher than expected. The key new feature is that a positivity result replaces the usual transversality conditions needed to get such connectivity results.
title: The ecological rationality of decision criteria
Creators: name: Galeazzi, Paolo
name: Galeazzi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: ecological rationality
subject: evolutionary selection
subject: decision criteria
subject: population games
subject: 100

description: Standard evolutionary game theory investigates the evolutionary fitness of alternative behaviors in a fixed and single decision problem. This paper instead focuses on decision criteria, rather than on simple behaviors, as the general behavioral rules under selection in the population: the evolutionary fitness of classic decision criteria for rational choice is analyzed through Monte Carlo simulations over various classes of decision problems. Overall, quantifying the uncertainty in a probabilistic way and maximizing expected utility turns out to be evolutionarily beneficial in general. Minimizing regret also finds some evolutionary justifications in our results, while maximin seems to be always disadvantaged by differential selection.
UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF PRODUCE MARKETS: CONSUMPTION AND CONSOLIDATION GROW
Creators: name: Kaufman, Phillip R.
name: Handy, Charles R.
name: McLaughlin, Edward W.
name: Park, Kristen
name: Green, Geoffrey M.
name: Kaufman, Phillip R.
name: Handy, Charles R.
name: McLaughlin, Edward W.
name: Park, Kristen
name: Green, Geoffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: produce
subject: market channels
subject: fresh fruit and vegetables
subject: consumption
subject: foodstores
subject: foodservice
subject: food-at-home
subject: food-away-from-home
subject: wholesalers
subject: supermarkets
subject: consolidation

description: Mergers, acquisitions, and internal growth among grocery retailers, largely since 1996, have increased the share of grocery store sales accounted for by the largest 4, 8, and 20 food retailers nationwide. Similar consolidation is occurring among food wholesalers. At the same time, new packaged and branded produce items are gaining acceptance with consumers and vying for shelf space in the supermarket produce department. Growers, shippers, and their trade associations fear the possibility of fewer buyers for their products, particularly if new marketing and trade practices such as volume incentive rebates and slotting fees become widespread. This report uses data from the Censuses of Wholesale Trade and Retail Trade and industry sources to examine changes in produce markets and market channels from 1987 to 1997 in the United States. It is the first in a series of reports that will examine competitive behavior in the produce industry.
The Fecundity of Family Photography: Histories, Identities, Archival Relations
Creators: name: Ledezma, Deanna
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022

description: Commonplace to the extent that their existence is frequently taken for granted, the ubiquity of family photographs propels simplistic understandings of their forms, uses, and meanings. The reliance upon subject matter to delineate the category of family photography, for instance, perpetuates normative notions of family. “The Fecundity of Family Photography: Histories, Identities, Archival Relations” argues that neither image content, nor placement, nor a feeling of affiliation alone determines whether a photograph is, has been, or will become a family photograph. No photograph is fixed within a familial classification. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and concluding in the present day, the dissertation chapters are situated in multiple regions of the United States, including the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Southwest, and Texas Hill Country. Anticipating how superficial resemblances contribute to anachronistic correspondences and the erasure of meaningful differences concerning race, ethnicity, gender, and class, this dissertation analyzes the social and historical contexts in which photographic materials were produced, circulated, and continue to be seen. “The Fecundity of Family Photography: Histories, Identities, Archival Relations” explicates how the uses and ways of relating to photographs redefine and reframe what is regarded as a family photograph and what “counts” as family.
How Would Fundamental Tax Reform Affect Farmers?
Creators: name: Durst, Ron L.
name: Monke, James D.
name: Durst, Ron L.
name: Monke, James D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Public Economics

description: The Food and Rural Economics Division of ERS designed the following series of policy-oriented, timely publications to provide background and analysis for decision makers and others.
Predicting frequency changes of global-scale solar Rossby modes due to solar cycle changes in internal rotation
Creators: name: Goddard, C. R.
name: Birch, A. C.
name: Fournier, D.
name: Gizon, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Large-scale equatorial Rossby modes have been observed on the Sun over the last two solar cycles. Aims. We investigate the impact of the time-varying zonal flows on the frequencies of Rossby modes. Methods. A first-order perturbation theory approach is used to obtain an expression for the expected shift in the mode frequencies due to perturbations in the internal rotation rate. Results. Using the time-varying rotation from helioseismic inversions we predict the changes in Rossby mode frequencies with azimuthal orders from m = 1 to m = 15 over the last two solar cycles. The peak-to-peak frequency change is less than 1 nHz for the m = 1 mode, grows with m, and reaches 25 nHz for m = 15. Conclusions. Given the observational uncertainties on mode frequencies due to the finite mode lifetimes, we find that the predicted frequency shifts are near the limit of detectability.
Twistor String Theory and QCD
Creators: name: Dixon, Lance J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review recent progress in using twistor-inspired methods to compute perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theory, for application to collider physics.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures. Presented at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (Lisbon, July, 2005)
Scalable Method for Linear Optimization of Industrial Processes
Creators: name: Sokolinsky, Leonid B.
name: Sokolinskaya, Irina M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the development of industrial digital twins, the optimization problem of technological and business processes often arises. In many cases, this problem can be reduced to a large-scale linear programming (LP) problem. The article is devoted to the new method for solving large-scale LP problems. This method is called the "apex-method". The apex-method uses the predictor-corrector framework. The predictor step calculates a point belonging to the feasible region of LP problem. The corrector step calculates a sequence of points converging to the exact solution of the LP problem. The article gives a formal description of the apex-method and provides information about its parallel implementation in C++ language by using the MPI library. The results of large-scale computational experiments on a cluster computing system to study the scalability of the apex method are presented.
Nutrition and Health Characteristics of Low-Income Populations: Usual Nutrient Intakes
Creators: name: Ralston, Katherine L.
name: Ralston, Katherine L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The Nutrition and Health Characteristics of Low-Income Populations study examined longrun average, or "usual" intakes of 10 key nutrients and dietary components: energy intake, vitamin C, iron, zinc, calcium, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, and fiber. Results were estimated for participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Food Stamp Program (FSP) participants, school-age children, and older adults. Because the recommendations for nutrient intake have been under revision, intake distributions are useful for estimating the prevalence of adequate intake under different standards. The study provides a baseline from which to monitor the nutrition and health characteristics of each group over time and to identify priorities for further research.
Additional file 2 of Porcine circovirus type 2 upregulates endothelial-derived IL-8 production in porcine iliac artery endothelial cells via the RIG-I/MDA-5/MAVS/JNK signaling pathway
Creators: name: Fengyang Shi
name: Qiuming Li
name: Shiyu Liu
name: Fengying Liu
name: Jianfang Wang
name: Defeng Cui
name: Xiaolin Hou
name: Shuanghai Zhou
name: Yonghong Zhang
name: Li, Huanrong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2 The transfection efficiency of siRIG-I, siMDA-5 and siMAVS. PIECs were transfected with siRIG-I, siMDA-5, siMAVS or siNC for 24 h. Afterwards, all groups were infected with PCV2 (MOI = 0.5) for 1 h and then cultured for 24 h. The result of qPCR showed the mRNA level of RIG-I, MDA-5 or MAVS at 24 h (A). The result of Western blot showed the protein level of RIG-I (B), MDA-5 (C) or MAVS (D) at 48 h. siNC treatment was used as a negative control and untransfected PIEC was used as a blank control. Data are results of three independent experiments and are represented as the mean and standard deviation (error bars) for each group. **, P
Low-Income Households' Expenditures on Fruits and Vegetables
Creators: name: Blisard, Noel
name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Jolliffe, Dean
name: Blisard, Noel
name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Jolliffe, Dean
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Both public and private organizations have noted that Americans generally eat less fruits and vegetables than is recommended in the Food Guide Pyramid. For example, the Produce for Better Health Foundation found that only 38 percent of Americans consume the recommended number of servings of vegetables, while only 23 percent consume the recommended number of servings of fruit. Even more troubling, low-income households eat even less fruits and vegetables than higher income households.
On Bernstein's presentation of Iwahori-Hecke algebras and representations of split reductive groups over non-Archimedean local fields
Creators: name: Prasad, Amritanshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E50

description: This article gives conceptual statements and proofs relating parabolic induction and Jacquet functors on split reductive groups over a non-Archimedean local field to the associated Iwahori-Hecke algebra as tensoring from and restricting to parabolic subalgebras. The main tool is Bernstein's presentation of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra.
description: Presented at the International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Quantum Groups in Kochi, Jan 3-8, 2005
The USDA Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Program Evaluation
Creators: name: Buzby, Jean C.
name: Guthrie, Joanne F.
name: Buzby, Jean C.
name: Guthrie, Joanne F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: National data on the diets of U.S. children and adolescents indicate they are consuming more fat and saturated fat than recommended while their intakes of fruits and vegetables fall well below recommended levels.
Price and Quality of Pork and Broiler Products: What's the Role of Vertical Coordination?
Creators: name: Martinez, Stephen W.
name: Martinez, Stephen W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Industrial Organization

description: Significant changes in vertical coordination of the U.S. broiler industry many years ago may provide useful insight into the rapid changes occurring in today's pork industry. Under production contracts and vertical integration, the broiler industry developed and grew into the leader in U.S. meat production-outpacing beef and pork. Production efficiencies, quality assurances, and convenience in product offerings have led to falling chicken prices and rising per capita consumption. Incentives for contracting in the pork industry are similar to those in the broiler industry in many ways. The similarities suggest that consumers may also expect plentiful supplies of high-quality pork products at economical prices.
Strongly Coupled Gauge Mediation
Creators: name: Izawa, K. -I.
name: Yanagida, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model of gauge mediation with the gravitino mass of order 1eV is considered to motivate 100TeV colliders. Massive mediators with standard-model and supersymmetry-breaking gauge quantum numbers let low-scale dynamics induce sizable soft masses of the standard-model superpartners. We circumvent potential phenomenological difficulties that such low-scale models tend to cause.
description: 7 pages