cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Optimization of the Oktay-Kronfeld Action Conjugate Gradient Inverter
Creators: name: Jang, Yong-Chull
name: Bailey, Jon A.
name: Lee, Weonjong
name: DeTar, Carleton
name: Oktay, Mehmet B.
name: Kronfeld, Andreas S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Improving the Fermilab action to third order in heavy quark effective theory yields the Oktay-Kronfeld action, a promising candidate for precise calculations of the spectra of heavy quark systems and weak matrix elements relevant to searches for new physics. We have optimized the bi-stabilized conjugate gradient inverter in the SciDAC QOPQDP library and are developing a GPU code. The action is rewritten and the needed gauge-link combinations are precalculated. In tests with a MILC coarse lattice, this procedure accelerates the inverter by a factor of four. The remaining floating-point operations are mostly simple matrix multiplications between gauge links and fermion vectors, which we accelerate by more than an order of magnitude by using CUDA. Further gains could be achieved by using QUDA.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, Lattice 2013 proceeding
Emerging topics in FXTAS
Creators: name: Hall, Deborah
name: Birch, Rachael
name: Anheim, Mathieu
name: Jønch, Aia
name: Pintado, Elizabeth
name: O’Keefe, Joanne
name: Trollor, Julian
name: Stebbins, Glenn
name: Hagerman, Randi
name: Fahn, Stanley
name: Berry-Kravis, Elizabeth
name: Leehey, Maureen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Nervous system--Degeneration
Movement disorders
Ataxia
Fragile X syndrome
Neurology

description: This paper summarizes key emerging issues in fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) as presented at the First International Conference on the FMR1 Premutation: Basic Mechanisms & Clinical Involvement in 2013.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1919-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
The adjoint Reidemeister torsion for the connected sum of knots
Creators: name: Porti, Joan
name: Yoon, Seokbeom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $K$ be the connected sum of knots $K_1,\ldots,K_n$. It is known that the $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{C})$-character variety of the knot exterior of $K$ has a component of dimension $\geq 2$ as the connected sum admits a so-called bending. We show that there is a natural way to define the adjoint Reidemeister torsion for such a high-dimensional component and prove that it is locally constant on a subset of the character variety where the trace of a meridian is constant. We also prove that the adjoint Reidemeister torsion of $K$ satisfies the vanishing identity if each $K_i$ does so.
Theses Ex Universa Theologia Mariano-Scotistica; [1752]
Creators: name: Octenier, Didymus
name: Holzleithner, Valerianus
name: Oettl, Heraclius
name: Duschl, Stanislaus
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2014

description: Kopftitel. - Kolophon: Landishuti Typis Josephi Davidis Schallnkammer.
The Lovasz-Bregman Divergence and connections to rank aggregation, clustering, and web ranking
Creators: name: Iyer, Rishabh
name: Bilmes, Jeff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We extend the recently introduced theory of Lovasz-Bregman (LB) divergences (Iyer & Bilmes, 2012) in several ways. We show that they represent a distortion between a 'score' and an 'ordering', thus providing a new view of rank aggregation and order based clustering with interesting connections to web ranking. We show how the LB divergences have a number of properties akin to many permutation based metrics, and in fact have as special cases forms very similar to the Kendall-$τ$ metric. We also show how the LB divergences subsume a number of commonly used ranking measures in information retrieval, like the NDCG and AUC. Unlike the traditional permutation based metrics, however, the LB divergence naturally captures a notion of "confidence" in the orderings, thus providing a new representation to applications involving aggregating scores as opposed to just orderings. We show how a number of recently used web ranking models are forms of Lovasz-Bregman rank aggregation and also observe that a natural form of Mallow's model using the LB divergence has been used as conditional ranking models for the 'Learning to Rank' problem.
description: 18 pages. A shorter version appeared in Proc. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)-2013, Bellevue, WA
Adapting continuing medical education for post-conflict areas: assessment in Nagorno Karabagh - a qualitative study
Creators: name: Balalian, Arin
name: Simonyan, Hambardzum
name: Hekimian, Kim
name: Crape, Byron
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Postwar reconstruction
Qualitative research
Medical education
Education, Higher
Public health

description: Background: One of the major challenges in the current century is the increasing number of post-conflict states where infrastructures are debilitated. The dysfunctional health care systems in post-conflict settings are putting the lives of the populations in these zones at increased risk. One of the approaches to improve such situations is to strengthen human resources by organizing training programmes to meet the special needs in post-conflict zones. Evaluations of these training programmes are essential to assure effectiveness and adaptation to the health service needs in these conditions. Methods: A specialized qualitative evaluation was conducted to assess and improve a post-conflict continuing medical education (CME) programme that was conducted in Nagorno Karabagh. Qualitative research guides were designed for this post-conflict zone that included focus group discussions with physician programme participants and semi-structured in-depth interviews with directors of hospitals and training supervisors. Results: Saturation was achieved among the three participating groups in the themes of impact of participation in the CME and obstacles to application of obtained skills. All respondents indicated that the continuing medical education programme created important physician networks absent in this post-conflict zone, updated professional skills, and improved professional confidence among participants. However, all respondents indicated that some skills gained were inapplicable in Nagorno Karabagh hospitals and clinics due to lack of appropriate medical equipment, qualified supporting human resources and facilities. Conclusion: The qualitative research methods evaluation highlighted the fact that the health care human resources training should be closely linked to appropriate technologies, supplies, facilities and human resources available in post-conflict zones and identified the central importance of creating health professional networks and professional confidence among physicians in these zones. The qualitative research approach most effectively identifies these limitations and strengths and can directly inform the optimal adjustments for effective CME planning in these difficult areas of greatest need.
Residential and Regional Distribution of Benefits Under the Allowance for Basic Living Expenses (Able) Welfare Reform Proposal
Creators: name: Carlin, Thomas A.
name: Hendricks, Gary
name: Christian, Faye F.
name: Carlin, Thomas A.
name: Hendricks, Gary
name: Christian, Faye F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Security and Poverty
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: A broad-based welfare reform program, proposed in 1974 by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, is compared to the current Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Food Stamp programs. The proposal is termed ABLE (Allowance for Basic Living Expenses). The study finds that the primary impact of ABLE would be to increase substantially the number of welfare-eligible families without changing the distribution of eligible families among regions or urban and rural areas. However, there would be a substantial reduction in benefits to eligible families in the Northeast and to a lesser extent in the North Central region and the West. Eligible southern families would gain substantially. Metropolitan areas would lose benefits under ABLE, but rural areas, except in the Northeast, would gain.
Mock hyperbolic reflection spaces and Frobenius groups of finite Morley rank
Creators: name: Clausen, Tim
name: Tent, Katrin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20B07, 20A15, 03C45, 51B05

description: We define the notion of mock hyperbolic reflection spaces and use it to study Frobenius groups, in particular in the context of groups of finite Morley rank including the so-called bad groups. We show that connected Frobenius groups of finite Morley rank and odd type with nilpotent complement split or interpret a bad field of characteristic zero. Furthermore, we show that mock hyperbolic reflection spaces of finite Morley rank satisfy certain rank inequalities, implying in particular that any connected Frobenius group of odd type and Morley rank at most ten either splits or is a simple non-split sharply 2-transitive group of characteristic different from 2 and of Morley rank 8 or 10.
A positive vision of sustainability
Creators: name: Cohen, Steven Alan
name: DeFrancia, Kelsie
name: Martinez, Hayley
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sustainability
Urbanization
Renewable energy sources--Technological innovations
Renewable energy sources
Education

description: Growing population, increased urbanization, a growing global economy, and increased use of natural resources have created a demand for sustainability. Sustainability is an interdisciplinary field that requires collaboration from multiple perspectives. The planet’s resources are all being used at a ferocious pace. Energy is at the center of this issue; dependence on fossil fuels is causing extensive damage to ecosystems and public health and is a major cause of global climate change. The goal of a renewable resource-based economy is therefore important for the future, but rather than attacking the fossil fuel industry, it should be achieved through a positive vision of sustainability—one that includes the need to invest in basic and applied science of renewable energy in order to make renewables cheaper than fossil fuels. We will discuss the opportunities in sustainability-focused education and research that are needed for the transition to a renewable economy. We will also discuss the trend toward urbanization and the opportunities that exist in urban areas to close the cycle of production and consumption. Not only does most of the world’s population live in cities, but cities are paving the path toward a sustainable future. All of these factors contribute to a positive and creative vision of sustainability that focuses on building something new and clean rather than defeating something old and dirty.
Allocapnia ozarkana Ross 1964
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Kondratieff, Boris C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Capniidae
Allocapnia
Allocapnia ozarkana

description: Allocapnia ozarkana Ross (Figs. 25-30) Allocapnia ozarkana Ross 1964:172. Holotype ♂ (Illinois Natural History Survey), Cannon Creek, Madison Co., Arkansas Allocapnia ozarkana: Ross & Ricker, 1971:34. Material examined. Arkansas: Johnson Co., East Fork Horsehead Creek, Hwy 103, 16 January 1999, B. Stark, 1♂ (BPS). Male epiproct. Apical segment of upper limb ca. 183 μm long, swollen basolaterally but not bearing ear- like lobes; median field of apical segment bearing a patch of wave-like spikes ca. 150 μm long and divided along entire length by groove (Figs. 25-28); greatest width of apical segment ca. 175 μm, narrowed to 58 μm at apex (Fig. 26). Basal segment of upper limb ca. 343 μm long and ca. 97 μm wide at midlength; margins of basal segment lacking setae, median groove present, at least in basal half. Lower limb ca. 110 μm wide proximal to apical spoon. Male tergal process. Prominent raised structures on abdominal terga 7 and 8 (Figs. 25, 28-30). Process of tergum 7 ca. 72 μm wide and separated to base into a pair of small mounds (Figs. 29-30); apices of lobes appear smooth. Process of tergum 8 ca. 188 μm wide and divided to base by gap ca. 50 μm wide (Fig. 30); dorsal surface of lobes covered with scale-like structures.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Kondratieff, Boris C., 2012, Epiproct And Dorsal Process Structure In The Allocapnia Forbesi Frison, A. Pygmaea (Burmeister), And A. Rickeri Frison Species Groups (Plecoptera: Capniidae), And Inclusion Of A. Minima (Newport) In A New Species Group, pp. 45-77 in Illiesia 8 (5) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760725
description: {"references": ["Ross, H. H. 1964. New species of winter stoneflies of the genus Allocapnia (Plecoptera, Capniidae). Entomological News, 75: 169 - 177.", "Ross, H. H. & W. E. Ricker. 1971. The classification, evolution, and dispersal of the winter stonefly genus Allocapnia. Illinois Biological Monographs 45: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois. 166 pp."]}
The association between psychosocial and structural-level stressors and HIV injection drug risk behavior among Malaysian fishermen: A cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Michalopoulos, Lynn T. M.
name: Jiwatram-Negron, Tina
name: Choo, Martin K. K.
name: Kamarulzaman, Adeeba
name: El-Bassel, Nabila
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: HIV infections--Risk factors
Intravenous drug abuse--Health aspects
Fishers--Health and hygiene
Public health
Epidemiology

description: Background
Malaysian fishermen have been identified as a key-affected HIV population with HIV rates 10 times higher than national rates. A number of studies have identified that psychosocial and structural-level stressors increase HIV injection drug risk behaviors. The purpose of this paper is to examine psychosocial and structural-level stressors of injection drug use and HIV injection drug risk behaviors among Malaysian fishermen.

Methods
The study employs a cross-sectional design using respondent driven sampling methods. The sample includes 406 fishermen from Pahang state, Malaysia. Using multivariate logistic regressions, we examined the relationship between individual (depression), social (adverse interactions with the police), and structural (poverty-related) stressors and injection drug use and risky injection drug use (e.g.., receptive and non-receptive needle sharing, frontloading and back-loading, or sharing drugs from a common container).

Results
Participants below the poverty line had significantly lower odds of injection drug use (OR 0.52, 95 % CI: 0.27-0.99, p = 0.047) and risky injection drug use behavior (OR 0.48, 95 % CI: 0.25-0.93, p = 0.030). In addition, participants with an arrest history had higher odds of injection use (OR 19.58, 95 % CI: 9.81-39.10, p <0.001) and risky injection drug use (OR 16.25, 95 % CI: 4.73-55.85, p
Divestitures, privatization and corporate performance in emerging markets
Creators: name: Hanousek, Jan
name: Kočenda, Evžen
name: Svejnar, Jan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Corporate divestiture
Endogenous growth (Economics)
Privatization
Economics
Business

description: We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of firm divestitures and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature, we control for accompanying ownership changes and the fact that divestitures and ownership are potentially endogenous variables. We find that divestitures increase the firm's profitability but do not alter its scale of operations, while the effect of privatization depends on the resulting ownership structure – sometimes improving performance and sometimes bringing about decline. The effects of privatization are thus more nuanced than suggested in earlier studies. Methodologically, our study provides evidence that it is important to control for changes in ownership when analyzing divestitures and to control for endogeneity, selection and data attrition when analyzing the effects of divestitures and privatization.
Employment and wage behaviour of industrial enterprises in transition economies: The cases of Poland and Czechoslovakia
Creators: name: Basu, Swati
name: Estrin, Saul
name: Svejnar, Jan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1997
Subjects: Employment (Economic theory)
Wages--Economic aspects
Economics
Business

description: In this paper we use two very large panel datasets from Poland, 1988-90 and Czechoslovakia, 1990-1992 to explore the dynamics of employment and wage determination at the enterprise level in the early years of transition. The study is intended to assist in building a coherent picture of microeconomic adjustment in transition, a field which was not sufficiently explored in the early years of reform. We find that Polish firms were already to some extent responsive to market conditions pre-reform, notably to demand in determining employment. Czechoslovak firms, however, were largely unresponsive to such pressures in 1989-90. The elasticities rose significantly in both countries in the early years of reform, especially in Czechoslovakia which quickly attained initial Polish patterns of adjustment. Firms became much more responsive to sales and cost pressures in adjusting employment and to their own productivity in setting pay. Ownership effects in these early years were, however, much more modest, with state-owned firms adjusting employment more than their private counterparts, perhaps because over-manning was more serious in that sector.
Amplification without inversion, fast light and optical bistability in a duplicated two-level system
Creators: name: Zohravi, Lida Ebrahimi
name: Vafavard, Azar
name: Mahmoudi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical properties of a weak probe field in a duplicated two-level system are investigated in multiphoton resonance (MPR) condition and beyond it. It is shown that, by changing the relative phase of applied fields, the absorption switches to the amplification without inversion in MPR condition. By applying the Floquet decomposition to the equation of motion beyond MPR condition, it is shown that the phase-dependent behavior is valid only in MPR condition. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the group velocity of light pulse can be controlled by the intensity of applied fields and the gain-assisted superluminal light propagation (fast light) is obtained in this system. In addition, the optical bistability (OB) behavior of the system is studied beyond MPR condition. We apply an indirect incoherent pumping field to the system and it is found that the group velocity and OB behavior of the system can be controlled by incoherent pumping rate.
Grouped Feature Importance and Combined Features Effect Plot
Creators: name: Au, Quay
name: Herbinger, Julia
name: Stachl, Clemens
name: Bischl, Bernd
name: Casalicchio, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Interpretable machine learning has become a very active area of research due to the rising popularity of machine learning algorithms and their inherently challenging interpretability. Most work in this area has been focused on the interpretation of single features in a model. However, for researchers and practitioners, it is often equally important to quantify the importance or visualize the effect of feature groups. To address this research gap, we provide a comprehensive overview of how existing model-agnostic techniques can be defined for feature groups to assess the grouped feature importance, focusing on permutation-based, refitting, and Shapley-based methods. We also introduce an importance-based sequential procedure that identifies a stable and well-performing combination of features in the grouped feature space. Furthermore, we introduce the combined features effect plot, which is a technique to visualize the effect of a group of features based on a sparse, interpretable linear combination of features. We used simulation studies and a real data example from computational psychology to analyze, compare, and discuss these methods.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1920-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Rotational properties of Maria asteroid family
Creators: name: Kim, Myung-Jin
name: Choi, Young-Jun
name: Moon, Hong-Kyu
name: Byun, Yong-Ik
name: Brosch, Noah
name: Kaplan, Murat
name: Kaynar, Suleyman
name: Uysal, Omer
name: Guzel, Eda
name: Behrend, Raoul
name: Yoon, Joh-Na
name: Mottola, Stefano
name: Hellmich, Stephan
name: Hinse, Tobias C.
name: Eker, Zeki
name: Park, Jang-Hyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Maria family is regarded as an old-type (~3 +/- 1 Gyr) asteroid family which has experienced substantial collisional and dynamical evolution in the Main-belt. It is located nearby the 3:1 Jupter mean motion resonance area that supplies Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) to the inner Solar System. We carried out observations of Maria family asteroids during 134 nights from 2008 July to 2013 May, and derived synodic rotational periods for 51 objects, including newly obtained periods of 34 asteroids. We found that there is a significant excess of fast and slow rotators in observed rotation rate distribution. The two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test confirms that the spin rate distribution is not consistent with a Maxwellian at a 92% confidence level. From correlations among rotational periods, amplitudes of lightcurves, and sizes, we conclude that the rotational properties of Maria family asteroids have been changed considerably by non-gravitational forces such as the YORP effect. Using a lightcurve inversion method (Kaasalainen & Torppa 2001; Kaasalainen et al. 2001), we successfully determined the pole orientations for 13 Maria members, and found an excess of prograde versus retrograde spins with a ratio (N_p/N_r) of 3. This implies that the retrograde rotators could have been ejected by the 3:1 resonance into the inner Solar System since the formation of Maria family. We estimate that approximately 37 to 75 Maria family asteroids larger than 1 km have entered the near-Earth space every 100 Myr.
description: 83 pages, 8 figures, 63 figures in Appendix A. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Cash flow vs. collateral-based credit: Performance of micro, small and medium-sized firms in transition economies
Creators: name: Cassano, Francesca
name: Jõeveer, Karin
name: Svejnar, Jan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Commercial loans
Loans--Government policy
Small business--Finance
Economics
Business
Finance

description: We study factors affecting micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) receiving loans and the effect of these loans on MSMEs performance. We study two types of loans – a new type based on cash flows and a traditional-style loan based on collateral. We use unique surveys of MSMEs from Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. We find that MSMEs receiving a cash flow or collateral loan in the past are more likely to receive the same type of loan (and larger sized) in the future and that cash flow loans may be the preferred form of credit. Both types of loans are related positively to most performance indicators, enabling the MSMEs for instance to be more profitable and expand production. The cash flow loans also appear to be particularly attractive credit delivery schemes for micro and small enterprises. Finally, the effects of the smallest loans are often negative, suggesting that the minimum loan size is an important policy issue.
Origin and concentration: Corporate ownership, control and performance in firms after privatization
Creators: name: Hanousek, Jan
name: Kočenda, Evžen
name: Svejnar, Jan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Stock ownership
Corporate governance
Privatization
Economics
Business

description: We analyse the effects of different types and concentration of ownership on performance using a large population of firms in the Czech Republic after mass privatization. Specifications based on first-differences combined with instrumental variables show that the performance effects of different types and concentration of ownership are limited when compared to earlier studies. Often, concentrated ownership has a positive effect, a finding that supports the agency theory. The positive effect of foreign ownership is detected primarily for majority ownership and for ownership by foreign industrial firms. The state as a holder of the golden share has a positive effect on employment and sometimes, also on output and profitability. Overall, our results highlight the benefits of strategic restructuring accompanied by an inflow of new capital and managerial culture.
Climate Change and Human Trafficking After the Paris Climate Agreement
Creators: name: Gerrard, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Emigration and immigration
Refugees
Human trafficking
Climatic changes
Environmental law

description: Climate change is a major contributor to migration and displacement. Persistent drought forced as many as 1.5 million Syrian farmers to move to overcrowded cities, contributing to social turmoil and ultimately a civil war that drove hundreds of thousands of people to attempt to cross the Mediterranean into Europe. Drought also worsened refugee crises in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and other parts of the continent. Climate change can cause displacement in multiple ways. No reliable estimates exist of the number of people who will be displaced partly or wholly by climate change, due to uncertainties concerning the rate of climate change, the ability of different societies to cope with this change, and other factors. However, several estimates put the number of people in the hundreds of millions in the latter part of this century. It is well documented that displacement leads to a considerable increase in human trafficking.
Comma but Differentiated Responsibilities: Punctuation and 30 Other Ways Negotiators Have Resolved Issues in the International Climate Change Regime
Creators: name: Biniaz, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: International law
International law--Language
Treaties
Climatic changes
Environmental law

description: International climate change negotiations have a long history of being contentious, and much has been written about the grand trade-offs that have allowed countries to reach agreement. Issues have often involved, for example, the level of ambition, differentiated treatment of Parties, and various forms of financial assistance to developing countries. This compendium of textual examples focuses on smaller, language-based tools negotiators have used to resolve differences. Presented in roughly chronological order, these examples are drawn from my personal involvement in international climate negotiations -- and are by no means exhaustive. It is hoped that the examples may be of interest to those who follow climate change in particular, as well as of potential use to those who work in other international fields.
Probing dynamical criticality near quantum phase transitions
Creators: name: Dağ, Ceren B.
name: Wang, Yidan
name: Uhrich, Philipp
name: Na, Xuesen
name: Halimeh, Jad C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reveal a prethermal temporal regime upon suddenly quenching to the vicinity of a quantum phase transition in the time evolution of 1D spin chains. The prethermal regime is analytically found to be self-similar, and its duration is governed by the ground-state energy gap. Based on analytical insights and numerical evidence, we show that this critically prethermal regime universally exists independently of the location of the probe site, the presence of weak interactions, or the initial state. Moreover, the resulting prethermal dynamics leads to an out-of-equilibrium scaling function of the order parameter in the vicinity of the transition.
description: Revised with an analytical theory and improved presentation. Main text: 4 Pages, 2 Figures; Supplementary: 6 Pages, 5 Figures
Tropical Lagrangian multi-sections and toric vector bundles
Creators: name: Suen, Yat-Hin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce the notion of tropical Lagrangian multi-sections over a fan and study its relation with toric vector bundles. We also introduce a "SYZ-type" construction for toric vector bundles which gives a reinterpretation of Kaneyama's linear algebra data. In dimension 2, such "mirror-symmetric" approach provides us a pure combinatorial condition for checking which rank 2 tropical Lagrangian multi-section arises from toric vector bundles.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures, comments are welcome. The notion "regularity" is renamed as "separable". Section 4 and 5 is combined. All the results about localization will be moved to another upcoming work. Comments are welcome!
Harvesting low-grade heat energy using thermo-osmotic vapour transport through nanoporous membranes
Creators: name: Straub, Anthony P.
name: Yip, Ngai Yin
name: Lin, Shihong
name: Lee, Jongho
name: Elimelech, Menachem
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Osmosis
subject: Thermodynamic potentials
subject: Nanostructured materials
subject: Renewable energy sources--Technological innovations
subject: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: Chemical engineering
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Low-grade heat from sources below 100 ∘C offers a vast quantity of energy. The ability to extract this energy, however, is limited with existing technologies as they are not well-suited to harvest energy from sources with variable heat output or with a small temperature difference between the source and the environment. Here, we present a process for extracting energy from low-grade heat sources utilizing hydrophobic, nanoporous membranes that trap air within their pores when submerged in a liquid. By driving a thermo-osmotic vapour flux across the membrane from a hot reservoir to a pressurized cold reservoir, heat energy can be converted to mechanical work. We demonstrate operation of air-trapping membranes under hydraulic pressures up to 13 bar, show that power densities as high as 3.53 ± 0.29 W m−2 are achievable with a 60 ∘C heat source and a 20 ∘C heat sink, and estimate the efficiency of a full-scale system. The results demonstrate a promising process to harvest energy from low-temperature differences (<40 ∘C) and fluctuating heat sources.
NPLinker eScience Workshop on Natural Product Genome & Metabolome Mining Materials
Creators: name: Van Der Hooft, Justin J.J.
name: Medema, Marnix H.
name: Weber, Tilmann
name: Leao, Tiago
name: Navarro-Muñoz, Jorge C.
name: Schmid, Robin
name: Brungs, Corinna
name: Zdouc, Mitja M.
name: Terlouw, Barbara
name: Barona-Gómez, Paco
name: Geng, Cunliang
name: Caesar, Lindsay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: genomics
metabolomics
integrative omics
mass spectrometry
sequencing
data analysis
workshop
materials
genome mining
metabolome mining
natural products
discovery
explorative data analysis

description: These materials were used as a part of the NPLinker eScience Workshop on Natural Product Genome & Metabolome Mining: https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/chair-groups/plant-sciences/bioinformatics/teaching/nplinker_workshop.htm Most materials are available in a format facilitating its reuse. When doing so, we kindly ask you to - where possible and appropriate - acknowledge and credit those that put effort in creating the slides and developing the methods. You will find information in the slide decks to do so. Please note that the materials also have a DOI through this Zenodo link that can be used to credit the workshop material. Thanks in advance on behalf of the instructors and organizers of the workshop. Whilst natural products discovery was a prime application area for the workshop, we do note that both genome mining and especially metabolome mining do have other application areas for which - sometimes with some modifications - the materials could be reused. We hope that this initiative will help to further foster teaching the future generation of omics miners, to aid in setting up teaching materials for genome mining, metabolomics, and metabolome mining, and to promote discussions in between and bring together the fields of genome mining and metabolome mining.
description: This workshop was funded by a Netherlands eScienceCenter Open eScience Call: NLESC.OEC.2021.002
Echimys blainvillei
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Echimyidae
Echimys
Echimys blainvillei

description: Echimys blainvillei (F. Cuvier, 1837). Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris Zool., ser. 2, 8:371. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Bahia, Isla de Deos. DISTRIBUTION: S.E. Brazil, mainland and coastal islands. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410029005002001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 587, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Characterizing a collective and dynamic component of chromatin immunoprecipitation enrichment profiles in yeast
Creators: name: Ward, Lucas
name: Wang, Junbai
name: Bussemaker, Harmen J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Protein binding
subject: Transcription factors
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: Recent chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) experiments in fly, mouse, and human have revealed the existence of high-occupancy target (HOT) regions or “hotspots” that show enrichment across many assayed DNA-binding proteins. Similar co-enrichment observed in yeast so far has been treated as artifactual, and has not been fully characterized. Results: Here we reanalyze ChIP data from both array-based and sequencing-based experiments to show that in the yeast S. cerevisiae, the collective enrichment phenomenon is strongly associated with proximity to noncoding RNA genes and with nucleosome depletion. DNA sequence motifs that confer binding affinity for the proteins are largely absent from these hotspots, suggesting that protein-protein interactions play a prominent role. The hotspots are condition-specific, suggesting that they reflect a chromatin state or protein state, and are not a static feature of underlying sequence. Additionally, only a subset of all assayed factors is associated with these loci, suggesting that the co-enrichment cannot be simply explained by a chromatin state that is universally more prone to immunoprecipitation. Conclusions: Together our results suggest that the co-enrichment patterns observed in yeast represent transcription factor co-occupancy. More generally, they make clear that great caution must be used when interpreting ChIP enrichment profiles for individual factors in isolation, as they will include factor-specific as well as collective contributions.
Thermal Radiation from Nanophotonic Structures: Theory, Numerical Simulation and Applications
Creators: name: Jiayu Li
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Thermal radiation manifests a ubiquitous aspect of nature. Any object with a finite temperature emits thermal radiation due to the thermally induced motion of charged particles or quasiparticles. The blackbody radiation model put forward by Max Planck sets the limit for the thermal radiation in terms of intensity and directionality. The ability to manipulate thermal radiation to achieve desired radiative properties lays the foundation for many promising applications such as radiative cooling, infrared sensing and thermophotovoltaic device. Nanophotonic structures prove to be the ideal platform to control thermal radiation. However, the understanding of the thermal radiation from nanophotonic structures is still relatively immature in the aspects of numerical modeling, theoretical description and experimental demonstrations and characterization.In this dissertation, we systematically investigate the thermal radiation from nanophotonic structures such as metamaterial, 2D materials, plasmonic emitters, etc. We develop and implement highly efficient numerical tools to directly calculate the thermal radiation from arbitrary geometries based on the fluctuational electrodynamics. With these numerical tools, we investigate the thermal radiation of complex nanophotonic structures, and propose a set of general theories to explain and predict the thermal radiation from nanophotonic structures. Finally, we demonstrate the spectral, directional and active control of the thermal radiation from nanophotonic structures verified through numerical simulation, theoretical prediction and experiments by using the nano-fabrication techniques. In addition, we also manage to extract near-field thermal radiation from nanostructures via optical waveguide.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1919-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Classical dynamics of particles with non-abelian gauge charges
Creators: name: van Holten, Jan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical dynamics of particles with (non-)abelian charges and spin moving on curved manifolds is established in the Poisson-Hamilton framework. Equations of motion are derived for the minimal quadratic Hamiltonian and some extensions involving spin-dependent interactions. It is shown that these equations of motion coincide with the consistency conditions for current and energy-momentum conservation. The classical equations cannot be derived from an action principle without extending the model. One way to overcome this problem is the introduction of anticommuting Grassmann co-ordinates. A systematic derivation of constants of motion based on symmetries of the background fields is presented.
description: 7 pages + references
Wavelet-Based Network For High Dynamic Range Imaging
Creators: name: Dai, Tianhong
name: Li, Wei
name: Cao, Xilei
name: Liu, Jianzhuang
name: Jia, Xu
name: Leonardis, Ales
name: Yan, Youliang
name: Yuan, Shanxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High dynamic range (HDR) imaging from multiple low dynamic range (LDR) images has been suffering from ghosting artifacts caused by scene and objects motion. Existing methods, such as optical flow based and end-to-end deep learning based solutions, are error-prone either in detail restoration or ghosting artifacts removal. Comprehensive empirical evidence shows that ghosting artifacts caused by large foreground motion are mainly low-frequency signals and the details are mainly high-frequency signals. In this work, we propose a novel frequency-guided end-to-end deep neural network (FHDRNet) to conduct HDR fusion in the frequency domain, and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is used to decompose inputs into different frequency bands. The low-frequency signals are used to avoid specific ghosting artifacts, while the high-frequency signals are used for preserving details. Using a U-Net as the backbone, we propose two novel modules: merging module and frequency-guided upsampling module. The merging module applies the attention mechanism to the low-frequency components to deal with the ghost caused by large foreground motion. The frequency-guided upsampling module reconstructs details from multiple frequency-specific components with rich details. In addition, a new RAW dataset is created for training and evaluating multi-frame HDR imaging algorithms in the RAW domain. Extensive experiments are conducted on public datasets and our RAW dataset, showing that the proposed FHDRNet achieves state-of-the-art performance.
A Lyapunov type theorem from Kadison-Singer
Creators: name: Akemann, Charles
name: Weaver, Nik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 05A99, 11K38, 46L05

description: Marcus, Spielman, and Srivastava recently solved the Kadison-Singer problem by showing that if u_1, ..., u_m are column vectors in C^d such that \sum u_iu_i^* = I, then a set of indices S \subseteq {1, ..., m} can be chosen so that \sum_{i \in S} u_iu_i^* is approximately (1/2)I, with the approximation good in operator norm to order ε^{1/2} where ε= \max \|u_i\|^2. We extend their result to show that every linear combination of the matrices u_iu_i^* with coefficients in [0,1] can be approximated in operator norm to order ε^{1/8} by a matrix of the form \sum_{i \in S} u_iu_i^*.
description: 9 pages
Nucleon Electric Dipole Moments and the Isovector Parity- and Time-Reversal-Odd Pion-Nucleon Coupling
Creators: name: Seng, Chien-Yeah
name: de Vries, Jordy
name: Mereghetti, Emanuele
name: Patel, Hiren H.
name: Ramsey-Musolf, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The isovector time-reversal- and parity-violating pion-nucleon coupling $\bar{g}_π^{(1)}$ is uniquely sensitive to dimension six interactions between right-handed light quarks and the Standard Model Higgs doublet that naturally arises in left-right symmetric models. Recent work has used the $\bar{g}_π^{(1)}$-induced one-loop contribution to the neutron electric dipole moment $d_n$, together with the present experimental $d_n$ bound, to constrain the CP-violating parameters of the left-right symmetric model. We show that this and related analyses are based on an earlier meson theory $d_n$ computation that is not consistent with the power-counting appropriate for an effective field theory. We repeat the one-loop calculation using heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory and find that the resulting $d_n$ sensitivity to $\bar{g}_π^{(1)}$ is suppressed, implying more relaxed constraints on the parameter space of the left-right symmetric model. Assuming no cancellations between this loop contribution and other contributions, such as the leading order EDM low-energy constant, the present limit on $d_n$ implies $|\bar{g}_π^{(1)}| \lesssim 1.1\times 10^{-10}$.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures