cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economic impacts of climate change on agrifood markets: A bio-economic approach with a focus on the EU
Creators: name: Blanco, Maria
name: Ramos, Fabien
name: Van Doorslaer, Benjamin
name: Blanco, Maria
name: Ramos, Fabien
name: Van Doorslaer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: climate change
subject: agrifood markets
subject: bio-economic modelling
subject: food prices

description: Projections for world food production and prices play a crucial role to evaluate and tackle future food security challenges. Understanding how these projections will be affected by climate change is the main objective of this study. By means of a bio-economic approach we assess the economic impacts of climate change on agrifood markets, providing both a global analysis and a regionalised evaluation within the EU. To account for uncertainty, we analyse the IPCC emission scenario A1B for the 2030 horizon under several simulation scenarios that differ in (1) the climate projection, from HadleyCM3 (warm) or ECHAM5 (mild) global circulation models; and (2) the influence of CO2 effects. Results of this study indicate that agrifood market projections to 2030 are very sensitive to climate change uncertainties and, in particular to the magnitude of the carbon fertilization effect.
Buckling of Particle-Laden Interfaces
Creators: name: Dias Kassuga, Theo
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: We study the buckling of an oil-water interface populated by micron-sized latex particles using a Langmuir trough. We extend pre-existing results to the micron-range with different capillary length and compare the experimental data to the existing theoretical framework. An unexpected trend for the dominant wavelength of buckling is observed, suggesting that there is a transition between regimes in the micron-range. A mechanism for the new regime is proposed. Cascading is reported, as well as novel kinds of transition between wavelengths within the same particle raft. Lastly, the effect of compression on the macroscopic arrangement of particles is investigated, as well as its effect on the buckling wavelength.
Benefits and cost of compliance of compliance of sanitary regulations in livestock markets: the case of Rift valley Fever in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Nin Pratt, A.
name: Bonnet, P.
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Ehui, Simeon K.
name: De Haan, C.
name: Nin Pratt, A.
name: Bonnet, P.
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Ehui, Simeon K.
name: De Haan, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: livestock
subject: market
subject: sanitary
subject: regulations
subject: Rift Valley Fever
subject: Somalia

description: A recent outbreak of Rift Valley fever in East Africa has led to an export ban by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries on livestock products from Ethiopia. An evaluation of the costs of the ban on Ethiopia’s main exporting region (Somali) and their distribution among different types of households, producers and traders is conducted using a standard Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Investment strategies to regain access to the Gulf market and reduce the probability of future bans are also evaluated. Results show that Somali Region’s GDP is reduced by 25% as a consequence of the ban. In addition, poor and better off producers experience total losses in value added of around 50% of their respective levels in a normal year. The evaluation of an animal health programme in the Somali Region to minimise the impact of future bans shows that its implementation is feasible and justifies further analysis focusing in the main factors driving the results. However, results of the analysis of different alternatives to charge producers for the equivalent amount of the cost of the programme show that distortions introduced by taxes and increased transaction costs affect the viability of the programme. Among these alternatives, increasing taxes on livestock sales offers the best prospect as the way to implement the health certification plan in the Somali Region given that it has pro-poor redistribution effects.
description: Jointly published with the World Bank
Measurement of the Xi^+_c Lifetime
Creators: name: CLEO Collaboration
name: Mahmood, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Xi^+_c lifetime is measured using 9.0 fb^-1 of e+e- annihilation data collected on and just below the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the CLEO II.V detector at CESR. This is the first measurement of the Xi^+_c lifetime from a collider experiment. Using an unbinned maximum likelihood fit, the Xi^+_c lifetime is measured to be 503 +/- 47 (stat.) +/- 18 (syst.) fs. The precision of this measurement is comparable to previous measurements carried out by fixed target experiments with different sources of systematic uncertainties.
description: 10 pages postscript, also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS, submitted to PRD, Rapid Communications
Electron paramagnetic resonance studies of the insulating ferromagnetic manganite Nd_0.8Pb_0.2MnO_3 above the transition temperature
Creators: name: Kumar, Anika
name: Ghosh, Nilotpal
name: Joshi, Janhavi P.
name: Bhat, H. L.
name: Bhat, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single crystals of Nd_{1-x}Pb_{x}MnO_{3} with x=0.2 are grown by high temperature solution growth technique using PbO-PbF_{2} flux. Magnetization studies on the samples show a transition to a ferromagnetic state below T_c ~ 125 K and the resistivity measurements show it to be an insulator throughout the temperature range 50 - 300 K. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance studies have been performed for T > T_{C} with a view to comparing the results with those on metallic ferromagnetic manganites. The temperature dependence of various parameters like g-value, linewidth and intensity has been studied in the temperature range 150 - 300 K. It is found that they behave in a manner similar to that exhibited by metallic ferromagnetic manganites.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Isolating a light Higgs boson from the di-photon background at the LHC
Creators: name: Bern, Zvi
name: Dixon, Lance
name: Schmidt, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the QCD corrections to the gluon fusion subprocess gg to gamma gamma, which forms an important component of the background to the search for a light Higgs boson at the LHC. We study the dependence of the improved pp to gamma gamma X background calculation on the factorization and renormalization scales, on various choices for photon isolation cuts, and on the rapidities of the photons. We also investigate ways to enhance the statistical significance of the Higgs signal in the di-photon channel.
description: Additional reference included, 17 pages, 16 figure files, revtex
Chargino Contributions to Epsilon and Epsilon-Prime
Creators: name: Khalil, S.
name: Lebedev, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the chargino contributions to the K-\bar K mixing and epsilon-prime in the mass insertion approximation and derive the corresponding bounds on the mass insertion parameters. We find that the chargino contributions can significantly enlarge the regions of the parameter space where CP violation can be fully supersymmetric. In principle, the observed values of epsilon and epsilon-prime may be entirely due to the chargino -- up-squark loops.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, to appear in PLB
CHIZMACHILIK FANININI O'QITISHNI YANGI BOSQICHGA OLIB CHIQISH MASALALARI
Creators: name: Madiyarova, R.R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Bu maqolada o'quvchining Сhizmachilik o'quv jarayonida egallagan bilimlaridan, kasbiy malakalari va ko'nikmalaridan hissiy qoniqish va undan quvonish hissini hosil qilish lozim. Сhizmachilik o'quvchilarining fazoviy tasavvurlarini shakillantirishda juda katta imkoniyatlarga ega.
title: 01_0072
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/
Embedding into flat spacetime and black hole thermodynamics
Creators: name: Govindarajan, T. R.
name: Chakraborty, Sumanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that static and spherically symmetric black hole solutions of general relativity in different spacetimes can be embedded into higher dimensional flat spacetime. Given this result, we have explored the thermodynamic nature of black holes á la its embedding into flat spacetime. In particular, we have explicitly demonstrated that black hole temperature can indeed be determined starting from the embedding and hence mapping of the static observers in black hole spacetime to Rindler observers in flat spacetime. Furthermore, by considering the dynamics of a scalar field in the flat spacetime it is indeed possible to arrive at the area scaling law for black hole entropy. Thus using flat spacetime field theory, one can indeed provide a thermodynamic description of black holes. Implications are also discussed.
description: Published version, 16 pages, no figures
Hunting the QCD-Odderon in hard diffractive electroproduction of two pions
Creators: name: Hägler, Ph.
name: Pire, B.
name: Szymanowski, L.
name: Teryaev, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charge asymmetries in diffractive electroproduction of two mesons are proportional to the interference of Pomeron and Odderon exchange amplitudes. We calculate in the framework of QCD and in the Born approximation a forward-backward charge asymmetry which turns out to be sizable in a kinematical domain accessible to HERA experiments. We predict a distinctive dependence of this asymmetry on the invariant mass of the two pions. Testing this prediction is a crucial step in the discovery of the QCD-Odderon.
description: 13 pages LATEX, 6 .eps figures, numerical error corrected, new figures,main conclusions not changed
A semiclassically entangled puzzle
Creators: name: Rios, Pedro de M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a maximally entangled eigenstate of a system of two non-interacting identical one dimensional harmonic oscilators, at the semiclassical level, it is not obviously true that a nonlinear interaction with one of the subsystems leaves the reduced semiclassical Wigner function of the other subsystem unaffected. Once stated, we advance some wild speculations regarding this seeming puzzle.
description: Letter, 5 pages
Policy and scale factors influencing efficiency in dairy and poultry production in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Islam, S.M.F.
name: Delgado, C.
name: Ehui, Simeon K.
name: Akanda, M.A.I.
name: Khan, M.I.
name: Kamruzzaman, M.
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Islam, S.M.F.
name: Delgado, C.
name: Ehui, Simeon K.
name: Akanda, M.A.I.
name: Khan, M.I.
name: Kamruzzaman, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: poultry
subject: dairy
subject: scale
subject: efficiency
subject: stochastic frontier
subject: Bangladesh

description: Stochastic frontier functions were used to assess the impact of a set of policy and scale factors on the efficiency of broiler, layer and dairy farms in Bangladesh and their implications for poverty alleviation.
Archery's Lasting Mark: A Biomechanical  Analysis of Archery
Creators: name: Dorshorst, Tabitha
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The physical demands of archery involve strenuous movements that place repetitive mechanical loads on the upper body. Given that bone remodels in response to mechanical loading (Ruff, 2008), it is reasonable to assume that repetitive bow and arrow use impacts upper limb bone morphology in predictable ways. The introduction and increased use of archery have been suggested to impact bilateral humeral asymmetry (Rhodes and Knüsel, 2005; Thomas, 2014). However, this claim is yet to be tested in vivo. This project aims to use kinematic and electromyographic approaches to validate claims inferring that, 1. archery places mechanical loading on the non-dominant arm resulting in lowered asymmetry, and 2. the dominant arm in archery has more mechanical loading placed in the anterior-posterior direction while the non-dominant arm has more mechanical loading placed in the medial-lateral direction.
Some muscles (i.e. Pectoralis major and posterior Deltoid) act symmetrically on both humeri, while most muscle groups (i.e. Biceps brachii, Triceps brachii, Deltoid (lateral), and Latissimus dorsi) are activated asymmetrically on the humerus. On the whole, asymmetrically acting muscle groups acting on separate arms result in similar overall directional bending. Therefore, the overall cross-sectional shape of the bone would be similar for the draw and bow arm. Repeated bow use would undoubtedly induce humeral modification consistent with increased non-dominant arm robusticity, which in turn would lower asymmetry. Findings from this project thus support the hypothesis that the adoption of the bow and arrow results in decreased humeral asymmetry and strengthen morphological approaches to behavioral reconstruction.
Trader behaviour and transactions costs in live animal marketing in Ethiopian highland markets
Creators: name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Benin, Samuel
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Benin, Samuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: transaction costs
subject: animal
subject: marketing
subject: Ethiopia

description: A survey of 131 livestock traders in 38 markets in the highlands of Ethiopia provided information on trader behaviour and transactions costs. The livestock market is characterised by non-standardised products and lack of information in the public domain about supply, demand and prices. Consequently, livestock trading is largely a personalised business though intermediaries, especially brokers, are used for trading in distant markets. Most traders use own capital as access to credit, especially formal credit, is very limited. Estimated costs and margins of case transactions show low returns and losses on investment in some cases. Analysis of the structure of variable costs show that most are physical marketing costs, transactions costs are smaller as most exchanges are conducted in physical presence of the parties. Unstable price, multiple taxes, non-transparent tax system, limited access to credit and weak demand for the products traded are perceived as major problems of marketing. All the problems are amenable to public policy for improving the market environment and marketing efficiency.
description: Published jointly by IFPRI, ILRI and Wageningen University
Sequential Encoding in Visual Working Memory: In the Absence of Structure, Recency Determines Performance
Creators: name: Durbin, Jeffery
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Most prior investigations of visual working memory (VWM) presented the to-be-remembered items simultaneously in a static configuration (e.g., Luck & Vogel, 1997). However, in everyday situations, such as driving on a busy multilane highway, items (e.g., cars) are presented sequentially and must be retained to support later actions (e.g., knowing if it’s safe to change lanes). In a simultaneous presentation, the relative positions of items are apparent but for sequential presentation, relative positions must be inferred in relation to the background structure (e.g., highway lane markings). To examine sequential encoding in VWM, we developed a novel task in which dots were presented slowly, one at a time, with each dot appearing in one of six boxes (Experiment 1), or in invisible boxes within a visible encompassing outer frame (Experiment 2). Experiment 1 found strong recency effects for judgments of color at the end of the sequence but not for the location of dots. In contrast, without dividing lines, Experiment 2 found strong recency effects for both color and location judgments. These results held true for accuracy, reaction time, and an integrated measure of speed and accuracy. We hypothesize that background structure allows the updating of VWM, slotting each new item into that structure to provide a new configuration that retains both old and new items, whereas in the absence of structure, VWM suffers from severe retroactive interference.
On Order-Disorder ($L2_1 \to B2^\prime$) Phase Transition in Ni$_{2+x}Mn_{1-x}$Ga Heusler Alloys
Creators: name: Khovailo, V. V.
name: Takagi, T.
name: Vasil'ev, A. N.
name: Miki, H.
name: Matsumoto, M.
name: Kainuma, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Order-disorder phase transition in Ni$_{2+x}Mn_{1-x}$Ga Heusler alloys has been studied. It was found that the $L2_1 \to B2^{\prime}$ phase transition in Ni2+xMn1-xGa (x = 0.16 - 0.20) Heusler alloys is of second order and the temperature of this transition decreases with Ni excess.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, revtex4
Livestock marketing in the Ethiopian highlands: Changesin structure and conduct since 1991 in
Creators: name: Benin, Samuel
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Ehui, Simeon K.
name: Benin, Samuel
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Ehui, Simeon K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: structure
subject: conduct
subject: livestock
subject: market
subject: Ethiopia

description: Current knowledge of the livestock marketing system in Ethiopia is poor and inadequate for designing policies and institutions to reduce inefficiencies in the system and improve the distribution of livestock. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by using survey data from 38 livestock markets conducted in 2002 in the highlands of Ethiopia to examine the structure and conduct of livestock markets. It also examines changes in the structure and conduct since 1991 when the agricultural development-led industrialization and market liberalization policies and strategies were launched. The findings suggest that improvement in stocking facilities can help to increase and sustain marketing activities throughout the year and, thus, reduce problems associated with seasonality and unstable prices. In addition, improvement in credit, licensing, and means of enforcing market contracts will also be important.
description: Jointly published by IFPRI, ILRI and Wageningen University
Modification of Gold Nanoparticles for SERS Application in Emulsion and Lipid Systems
Creators: name: Driver, Michael J.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Gold nanoparticles produced using the Turkevich method were able to have their hydrophobicity modified using octanethiol in a novel method for SERS application. Both amphiliphic GNPs and hydrophobic GNPs were produced and differentiated by Raman signals. The amphiliphic GNPs were able to enhance the SERS signals of the protein emulsifier in the emulsion in situ and the hydrophobic GNPs were able to enhance the SERS signals from canola oil. Further purification of the hydrophobic GNPs proved to have higher enhancement and sensitivity, but still poor consistency which is typical of SERS. Monitoring lipid oxidation using Raman and SERS using alternative approaches was the primary objective of the thesis. The purified GNPs were capable of enhancing the canola oil over two weeks, but the poor consistency led to no major trends. Using normal Raman, a triphenylphosphine oxidation reaction was capable of producing a peroxide value correlation in a very simple and rapid manor. Using a gold nanoparticle modified stainless steel wire, the headspace volatiles from canola oil oxidation were able to be enhanced, but with poor consistency. Silver dendrites were used to enhance the canola oil signal but with poor resolution. A combination of silver dendrites and GNPs were used to slightly improve enhancement, but not as strong as GNPs alone.
Spin-orbit-coupled quantum memory of a double quantum dot
Creators: name: Chotorlishvili, L.
name: Gudyma, A.
name: Wätzel, J.
name: Ernst, A.
name: Berakdar, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of quantum memory plays an incisive role in the quantum information theory. As confirmed by several recent rigorous mathematical studies, the quantum memory inmate in the bipartite system $ρ_{AB}$ can reduce uncertainty about the part $B$, after measurements done on the part $A$. In the present work, we extend this concept to the systems with a spin-orbit coupling and introduce a notion of spin-orbit quantum memory. We self-consistently explore Uhlmann fidelity, pre and post measurement entanglement entropy and post measurement conditional quantum entropy of the system with spin-orbit coupling and show that measurement performed on the spin subsystem decreases the uncertainty of the orbital part. The uncovered effect enhances with the strength of the spin-orbit coupling. We explored the concept of macroscopic realism introduced by Leggett and Garg and observed that POVM measurements done on the system under the particular protocol are non-noninvasive. For the extended system, we performed the quantum Monte Carlo calculations and explored reshuffling of the electron densities due to the external electric field.
description: accepted in Phys. Rev. B
It's the life in your years, not the years in your life — COMMENTARY
Creators: name: Leonard, Brian W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Behavioral Neuroscience
subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: AGE IDENTITY AND COGNITION IN OLD AGEWe read with great interest the research report by M.H. Schafer and T.P. Shippee in the January 2010 issue of The Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Schafer & Shippee, 2010). The authors contribute several key findings to the literature on age identity in middle-aged to younger-old subjects (55-74 years), perhaps the most important being that younger age identities lead to more optimistic per- sonal dispositions about cognitive aging. Over the past three years, we have anecdotally noted a similar phe- nomenon, in which subjects in our research program on healthy aging (O’Connor, et al., 2009; O’Connor, et al., 2015) report feeling much younger than their chronologi- cal age. We would like to use this commentary to report preliminary findings that compliment and extend the authors’ conclusions on age identity in healthy older individuals, those in their 80s, 90s, and 100s. In particu- lar, we present new data about actual cognitive perfor- mance and age identity in our group of very old subjects (Leonard, et al., 2010).In summary, similar to the Schafer and Shippee study (Schafer & Shippee, 2010), our preliminary data on age identity in the oldest of old individuals show that feeling much younger than one’s chronological age translates into a better disposition about one’s cognitive abilities. Here, and elsewhere, we also suggest that a younger age identity is more powerful: it translates into better objectively measured cognitive function (Leonard, et al., 2010; 2011), showing, perhaps, that what counts toward successful aging is the “life” in your years (Ryff, 1989).

© 2011 Brian W. Leonard
A Demonstration of Implication Logic Based on Volatile (Diffusive) Memristors
Creators: name: Pershin, Y. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Implication logic gates that are based on volatile memristors are demonstrated experimentally with the use of relay-based volatile memristor emulators of an original design. The fabricated logic circuit involves two volatile memristors and it is capable of performing four fundamental logic functions (two types of material implication and the negations thereof). Moreover, current-voltage characteristics of individual emulators are recorded and self-sustained oscillations in a resistor-volatile memristor circuit are found. The developed emulator offers a great potential for memristive circuit experiments because of its simplicity, similarity of response with volatile memristors, and low cost. Our findings, which are based on emulators, can easily be reproduced with physical volatile memristors and, thus, open up possibilities for emerging in-memory computing architectures.
Translation Issues in Modern Chinese Literature: Viewpoint, Fate and Metaphor in Xia Shang's "The Finger-Guessing Game"
Creators: name: Heinrichs, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: The Finger-Guessing Game is a novel with many layers of themes, characterization, and metaphor, and conveying all of these varied aspects requires a detailed, careful approach to translation. With this thesis I aim to show that strictly adhering to a singular translation method, such as “word-for-word” or “sense-for-sense,” will produce unsatisfactory results at certain points within the novel. This is accomplished by an overview of several different unique aspects of the writing style of this novel, viewpoint, the theme of fate, and the use of idioms and metaphors. Following this will be an analysis of these aspects’ functions within the novel, and how to best translate them to retain their original meaning. In the end, I advocate for a case-by-case approach to the translation of this novel, wherein each unit of translation is considered individually, and the translator judges how to translate it in the best way possible. Only in this way can the meaning present at all levels in the text, from the themes down to the very language used, be translated in a manner which both reads naturally in English and still carries as much of the original meaning as possible.
The Role of Windsor Castle during the English Civil Wars, 1642–1650
Creators: name: Kupfermann, Elias
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis examines the hitherto somewhat neglected but crucial role of the Windsor Castle garrison during the English Civil War and addresses three major themes: the role of garrison warfare, its logistics and supply, and portrayals of the garrison and its commanding officers in newsbooks and tracts of the time. Using uniquely surviving primary sources, it examines how well-administered and fortified the garrison was and will show how the castle was used as a defensive structure, a depot and a springboard for military campaigns to a prison for Royalists throughout the civil wars. This thesis questions the significance of Windsor’s role in aiding the Parliamentary war effort, looking at the supply of weaponry, arms, ammunition, clothing, transport links and food. It shows how Windsor and its garrison were portrayed in print through the medium of contemporary newsbooks and tracts and examines the accuracy of these accounts compared with other contemporary printed sources. It also looks at how events in Windsor were portrayed by rival Royalist and Parliamentarian sides, each with their own agendas, and how newsbooks were used to distort the truth and even change the nature of events. It assesses how news was transmitted to those who could not read, with evidence of how news spread in Windsor. At a broader level, this thesis shows how civil wars were fought and resources mobilised, sometimes challenging traditional historiography. In particular, the traditional historiography saw strategic decisions which took place on the battlefield as the main reason why the Civil-War was won by Parliament. This is challenged in this thesis to show that it was due to the control of resources within the garrison hinterland and the successful control and distribution of goods manufactured in London. The River Thames was key to this and Windsor was the key for its control. This detailed study, using surviving archival evidence, sheds light on garrison warfare more generally and is important for understanding how the Civil War was eventually won.
The Morality Of Chinese Legalism: Han Fei’s Advanced Philosophy
Creators: name: Ke, Yuan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: Legalism, as one of the most useful philosophies of government, has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention. The work of Han Fei—one of the most influential proponents of Legalism—has been scrutinized and critiqued for centuries as immoral. I intend to show Legalism, especially the Han Feizi, is moral through focusing on four aspects of Han Fei’s work. First, his understanding of human nature. Han Fei states people are born with a hatred of harm and a love of profit. This understanding of human nature can never lead to a cognitive distortions in governing. So it is a moral basic of a philosophy. The second element is a focus on the context of Han Fei’s writings. If his works are read in detail back to his age, one cannot reach an immorality conclusion. Then, based on his understanding of subjects and his correspondingly suggested strategies, his goal is moral because he wants to built a peaceful and stable society, which was unobtainable at that time. Finally, Han Fei’s conception of punishment, which has been thought of immoral, actually is a moral tool to protect the majority of subjects who are innocent.
Implications of feed scarcity for gender roles in ruminant livestock production
Creators: name: Tangka, Florence K.
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Tangka, Florence K.
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: feed
subject: scarcity
subject: gender
subject: livestock

description: Gender division of labor in ruminant livestock production systems varies across regions according to economic, socio-cultural factors. There is a distinct age and sex division of work in pastoral (nomadic and sedentary) systems. Men are in charge of general herd management and selling of livestock. Women carry out dairy-related activities and manage vulnerable animals (calves; small ruminants; sick, injured and pregnant animals). Children undertake most of the routine work such as herding. In the mixed systems both men and women take part in animal husbandry activities such as harvesting and transportation of feed, chaffing of fodder, feeding of animals, milking, cleaning of sheds and sale of milk. Their degrees of involvement in each activity vary from place to place. Processing of milk is solely women’s job. Children of both sexes tether and herd animals. Like in animal husbandry activities, crop cultivation tasks are shared among household members and also vary across regions. Feed scarcity increase work burden of all household members, but more for women and children in many situations. Feed scarcity reduces livestock, crop and non-farm productivity. It reduces availability and access to food, via decreased food supply and incomes and hence reduces food and nutrition security and consequently human welfare.
A Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering
Creators: name: NuTeV Collaboration
name: Zeller, G. P.
name: McFarland, K. S.
name: Adams, T.
name: Alton, A.
name: Avvakumov, S.
name: deBarbaro, L.
name: deBarbaro, P.
name: Bernstein, R. H.
name: Bodek, A.
name: Bolton, T.
name: Brau, J.
name: Buchholz, D.
name: Budd, H.
name: Bugel, L.
name: Conrad, J.
name: Drucker, R. B.
name: Fleming, B. T.
name: Frey, R.
name: Formaggio, J. A.
name: Goldman, J.
name: Goncharov, M.
name: Harris, D. A.
name: Johnson, R. A.
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Koutsoliotas, S.
name: Lamm, M. J.
name: Marsh, W.
name: Mason, D.
name: McDonald, J.
name: McNulty, C.
name: Naples, D.
name: Nienaber, P.
name: Romosan, A.
name: Sakumoto, W. K.
name: Schellman, H.
name: Shaevitz, M. H.
name: Spentzouris, P.
name: Stern, E. G.
name: Suwonjandee, N.
name: Tzanov, M.
name: Vakili, M.
name: Vaitaitis, A.
name: Yang, U. K.
name: Yu, J.
name: Zimmerman, E. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NuTeV collaboration has extracted sin^2theta_W from the ratios of neutral current to charged current neutrino and anti-neutrino cross-sections. Our value, sin^2theta_W(on-shell)=0.2277+/-0.0013(stat)+/-0.0009(syst), is three standard deviations above the standard model prediction. We also present a model independent analysis of the same data.
description: ReVTeX, 5 pp, 1fig; v2. revised SM prediction; v3. more sig. digits in Eqns 6-7, fix error in Eqn 8
Anaphothrips geleznowiae Mound & Masumoto 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Mound, Laurence A.
name: Masumoto, Masami
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Thripidae
Anaphothrips
Anaphothrips geleznowiae

description: Anaphothrips geleznowiae sp. n.
(Figs 86–87, 92)
 Female macroptera. Body, antennae and legs light brown, antennal segments I and III paler; fore wings weakly shaded; major setae on abdomen pale brown. Head slightly wider than long, with transverse anastomosing striae behind eyes (Fig. 92); eyes with 6 pigmented facets; ocellar setae III variable in position within triangle. Antennae 9-segmented, III–IV with slender forked sensorium; II without microtrichia; VI short, constricted at base but not pedicellate, suture oblique between VI–VII; IX longer than VIII (Fig. 86). Pronotum transverse, almost without sculpture medially. Metascutum reticulate, median setae not close to anterior margin, MCS present. Fore wing first vein setae irregular, about 8 setae basally, 2 medially and 2 distally; second vein with 12–14 setae including 1–2 basal to vein fork; clavus with 5–7 veinal setae and one at base. Abdominal tergites II–VIII with no sculpture medially; lateral sculpture lines with small microtrichia, not extending mesad of S2; posterior margin of VIII with about 10 microtrichia on median third but none laterally (Fig. 87). Sternites laterally with similar lines of sculpture to tergites.
 Measurements (holotype, in microns). Body length 1420. Head, length 115; width across eyes 160. Pronotum, length 115; maximum width 185. Fore wing, length 700; median width 60; first vein longest seta in basal row 15. Tergite IV S1 setae 10. Tergite IX, MD setae 10; PM S1 setae 95. Tergite X PM S1 setae 85. Antennal segments III–IX, 43, 32, 35, 35, 10, 7, 12.
 Male macroptera. Smaller and paler than female; tergite VIII comb apparently absent; IX with two pairs of short stout setae; sternites III–VII each with faint C-shaped pore plate.
 Specimens examined. Holotype female, Western Australia, West Binnu, 80km north-east of Geraldton, from Geleznowia verrucosa flowers (Rutaceae), 4.viii.1998 (A. Szitas).
 Paratypes: 5 females 3 males taken with holotype. Intercepted at Narita Airport, Japan, 2 females, 2 males from cut-flowers of Geleznowia imported from Australia, 23.vii.2001 (H. Kitamura, plant quarantine, Japan).
 Comments. The holotype and associated specimens have been remounted into Canada balsam from Hoyers Mountant, and are thus not entirely satisfactory. However, the form of the comb on tergite VIII in females is not found in any other species, although the presence in males of large C-shaped pore plates and two pairs of stout setae medially on tergite IX occurs in some other Australian species considered here.
description: Published as part of Mound, Laurence A. & Masumoto, Masami, 2009, Australian Thripinae of the Anaphothrips genus-group (Thysanoptera), with three new genera and thirty-three new species, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 2042 (1) on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2042.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5313983
Size-dependent spatial magnetization profile of manganese-zinc ferrite Mn0.2Zn0.2Fe2.6O4 nanoparticles
Creators: name: Bersweiler, Mathias
name: Bender, Philipp
name: Vivas, Laura G.
name: Albino, Martin
name: Petrecca, Michele
name: Mühlbauer, Sebastian
name: Erokhin, Sergey
name: Berkov, Dmitry
name: Sangregorio, Claudio
name: Michels, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of an unpolarized small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) study on Mn-Zn ferrite (MZFO) magnetic nanoparticles with the aim to elucidate the interplay between their particle size and the magnetization configuration. We study different samples of single-crystalline MZFO nanoparticles with average diameters ranging between 8 to 80 nm, and demonstrate that the smallest particles are homogeneously magnetized. However, with increasing nanoparticle size, we observe the transition from a uniform to a nonuniform magnetization state. Field-dependent results for the correlation function confirm that the internal spin disorder is suppressed with increasing field strength. The experimental SANS data are supported by the results of micromagnetic simulations, which confirm an increasing inhomogeneity of the magnetization profile of the nanoparticle with increasing size. The results presented demonstrate the unique ability of SANS to detect even very small deviations of the magnetization state from the homogeneous one.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures
Estimating the Effect of Government Programs on the Supply of Wheat in the United States
Creators: name: Neenan, Bernard F.
name: Blandford, David
name: Neenan, Bernard F.
name: Blandford, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use

description: Acreage functions for wheat, incorporating variables that reflect the value of voluntary acreage diversion programs to producers, are estimated fro 1962-76. The elasticities of response to such programs are generally low in comparison to those for market price, indicating that the reduction of production through voluntary diversion is relatively expensive.
Using Visual Media to Empower Citizen Scientists: A Case Study of the Outsmart App
Creators: name: Kierstead, Megan E
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

description: To be successful citizen science projects need to do two key things: (1) they need to meaningfully engage the public and they must also provide people with the tools, expertise, and/or training needed to participate in rigorous research that can be used by the scientific community. In some ways, these requirements are potentially at odds. Emphasis on rigor and expertise risks excluding members of the public who do not feel qualified to participate in esoteric or technically difficult scientific research. Conversely, projects that eschew rigorous methods in favor of wider participation might lead to bad data that cannot be used to draw any meaningful conclusions to expand scientific understanding. How then do those who are aiming to design successful citizen science programs create tools and processes that facilitate both active engagement and meaningful scientific results for perceived non-expert researchers?
This paper uses a case study of the Outsmart Invasive Species Project (Outsmart) to explore how visual media shape the experiences of citizen scientists participating in a data collection project. Outsmart uses visual media such as photographs and videos to train users in identifying invasive species, and asks them to submit their own location-tagged pictures to a central database for review by a trained research team. Using ethnographic field observation, we focused on how visual media serve to improve engagement in non-expert Outsmart users by building confidence and expertise. Our work can provide guidance to other citizen science projects in how to best use visual media to empower citizens and improve scientific outcomes.
Resummation of the hadronic tau decay width with the modified Borel transform method
Creators: name: Cvetic, Gorazd
name: Dib, Claudio
name: Lee, Taekoon
name: Schmidt, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A modified Borel transform of the Adler function is used to resum the hadronic tau decay width ratio. In contrast to the ordinary Borel transform, the integrand of the Borel integral is renormalization--scale invariant. We use an ansatz which explicitly accounts for the structure of the leading infrared renormalon. Further, we use judiciously chosen conformal transformations for the Borel variable, in order to map sufficiently away from the origin the other ultraviolet and infrared renormalon singularities. In addition, we apply Pade approximants for the corresponding truncated perturbation series of the modified Borel transform, in order to further accelerate the convergence. Comparing the results with the presently available experimental data on the tau hadronic decay width ratio, we obtain $α_s(M^z) = 0.1192 +- 0.0007_{exp.} +- 0.0010_{EW+CKM} +- 0.0009_{th.} +- 0.0003_{evol.}$. These predictions virtually agree with those of our previous resummations where we used ordinary Borel transforms instead.
description: 32 pages, 2 eps-figures, revtex; minor changes in the formulations; a typo in Eq.(47) corrected; version as appearing in Phys. Rev. D
From ~1.5 Ma to Today: Insights into the Southern San Andreas fault system from 3D Mechanical Models
Creators: name: Fattaruso, Laura
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Three-dimensional mechanical simulations of the San Andreas fault (SAF) within the Coachella Valley in California produce deformation that match geologic observations and demonstrate the impact of fault geometry on uplift patterns. Most models that include the Coachella Valley segment of the SAF have assumed a vertical orientation, but recent studies suggest that this segment dips 60-70° northeast. We compare models with varied fault geometry and evaluate how well they reproduce observed uplift patterns. Our model with a dipping SAF matches geologic observations, while models containing a vertical fault do not. This suggests that the active Coachella Valley segment of the SAF dips 60-70° northeast.
Since ~1.5 Ma, the SAF in this region has undergone a major reorganization that entailed initiation of the San Jacinto fault and termination of slip on the West Salton detachment fault. The trace of the SAF itself has also evolved, with several shifts in activity through the San Gorgonio Pass. Despite a rich geologic record of these changes, the mechanisms that controlled abandonment of faults, initiation of new strands, and shifting loci of uplift are poorly understood. We model snapshots in time through the evolution of the fault system, and assess the mechanical viability of our snapshots by comparison with uplift patterns inferred from the stratigraphic record. Model results are compared with vertical axis rotation. We examine incipient faulting using maps of strain energy density, and explore changes to the mechanical efficiency of the system to better understand the evolution of this fault system.