cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Complexity of All-switches Strategy Improvement
Creators: name: Fearnley, John
name: Savani, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Strategy improvement is a widely-used and well-studied class of algorithms for solving graph-based infinite games. These algorithms are parameterized by a switching rule, and one of the most natural rules is "all switches" which switches as many edges as possible in each iteration. Continuing a recent line of work, we study all-switches strategy improvement from the perspective of computational complexity. We consider two natural decision problems, both of which have as input a game $G$, a starting strategy $s$, and an edge $e$. The problems are: 1.) The edge switch problem, namely, is the edge $e$ ever switched by all-switches strategy improvement when it is started from $s$ on game $G$? 2.) The optimal strategy problem, namely, is the edge $e$ used in the final strategy that is found by strategy improvement when it is started from $s$ on game $G$? We show $\mathtt{PSPACE}$-completeness of the edge switch problem and optimal strategy problem for the following settings: Parity games with the discrete strategy improvement algorithm of Vöge and Jurdziński; mean-payoff games with the gain-bias algorithm [14,37]; and discounted-payoff games and simple stochastic games with their standard strategy improvement algorithms. We also show $\mathtt{PSPACE}$-completeness of an analogous problem to edge switch for the bottom-antipodal algorithm for finding the sink of an Acyclic Unique Sink Orientation on a cube.
title: Modeling of the Processes of Formation and Effective Use of Financial Resources at Higher Education Institutions
Creators: name: Chyrva, Olha
name: Yashchuk, Tetiana
name: Pacheva, Nataliia
name: Berzhanir, Anatolii
name: Berzhanir, Inna
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2020

description: The problem of higher education funding has been urgent due to insufficient funds allocated by the state. The state is moving from the policy of comprehensive support for higher education as a public institute that provides educational, scientific and cultural development of the country to determining itself as a customer of educational services through educational establishments. Level of funding plays an important role in the system of factors affecting the effectiveness and competitiveness of educational services. The problem of optimal allocation and the use of state funds for education remain urgent. In order to ensure the efficient formation and use of financial resources, it is important to determine their predictions through modelling.
Breisacher Münster - Künstlerische Sicht
Creators: name: Johanßen, Henning
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2017

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 54 (2017): Unser Münster: Meisterliche Altäre
The effects of industrial land market reform on the local governments’ land supply decision in China
Creators: name: Yang, Minghao
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: industrial land market
subject: China's local governments

description: This study examines the effect of industrial land market reform on the local governments' land supply decision in China. Since 2007, the central government has required that each land parcel for sale must be sold to a proposed industry through public auction. The unit transaction price of these sales (yuan per square meter) must be higher than the county-level minimum price, unless permitted by the central government. Therefore, the local governments are no longer able to sell industrial land parcels at low prices to attract firms and are forced to consider the comparative advantages of their land for particular industries. In order to analyze the local governments' land supply decision after the reform, I develop a theoretical model in which I treat the local governments as monopolist land suppliers subject to the central government's auction and minimum price restrictions. The model predicts that the local governments are responsive to the comparative advantages. In addition, when the relationship between the transaction price and the minimum price changes, the local governments can be more or less responsive to their comparative advantages, depending on the revenue from land sale, the positive externalities from the firms, and the reference of the central government. I employ detailed parcel-, county-, and industry- level data to test the model predictions. My empirical findings suggest that a one percentage point increase in the employment share of an industry leads to a 1.3% - 1.6% increase in the land supplied to that industry ceteris paribus. Moreover, the local governments become more responsive to the comparative advantages when the transaction price is lower than the minimum price. These findings verify the implications of the theoretical model. Furthermore, the effects are heterogeneous among counties; the local governments of more developed counties are more responsive to the comparative advantages.
Y-junction splitting spin states of moving quantum dot
Creators: name: Hiltunen, Tuukka
name: Harju, Ari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of a working quantum computer utilizing electron spin states as qubits is a major goal for many theorists and experimentalists. The future applications of quantum information technology would also require a reliable method for the transportation of quantum information. A promising such method is the propagation of electrons by a surface acoustic wave (SAW). In this paper, we simulate the SAW transfer of two interacting electrons through a Y-shaped junction. Our results show that the singlet and triplet states can be differentiated in the Y-junction by an electrostatic detuning potential, an effect that could be used in for example measuring the state of a two-spin qubit.
title: Development of Android App to Assist High School Students in Learning Physics Quantities and Measurement Principles
Creators: name: Herwinarso, Herwinarso
name: Untung, Budijanto
name: V.D. Wirjawan, Johannes
name: Pratidhina, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2020

description: Most of the time, students need to do selfstudy in order to understand the physics material completely. Knowledge about physical quantities and measurement is a pre-requisite for experiment-based physics class. Thus, students need to master it well. In this project, we develop supporting multimedia in the form of android app to assist students in doing selfstudy on topics regarding the physical quantities and measurement. Android app platform is chosen because it can provide interactive text, illustration and video. It is also popular among students, and it can be used easily by students everywhere and every time. The android app contains explanations, discussions, video demonstrations, exercises and quizzes. Field testing has been conducted to evaluate the effectivity of the android app to improve the students’ conceptual understanding. According to field testing, the use of the android app in self-study is potential to enhance students’ conceptual understanding of physical quantities and measurement principles.
Benefizveranstaltungen in Breisach
Creators: name: Hau, Martin
Publisher: name: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V.
Year: 2017

description: Unser Münster / Die Informationsschrift des Münsterbauvereins Breisach e.V., Nr. 54 (2017): Unser Münster: Meisterliche Altäre
Inverse of the Vandermonde and Vandermonde confluent matrices
Creators: name: Moya-Cessa, Héctor
name: Soto-Eguibar, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inverse of the Vandermonde and confluent Vandermonde matrices are presented. In the case of the Vandermonde matrix, we present a decomposition in three factors, one of them a diagonal matrix. The evaluation of such inverse matrices is a key point to find functions of a matrix, namely exponential functions (evolution operators)and logarithmic functions (entropies) in quantum mechanical topics.
description: Published as: Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences 5(3) (2011), 361-366
Change of theta dependence in 4D SU(N) gauge theories across the deconfinement transition
Creators: name: Bonati, Claudio
name: D'Elia, Massimo
name: Panagopoulos, Haralambos
name: Vicari, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dependence of four-dimensional SU(N) gauge theories on the topological theta term at finite temperature and, in particular, across the deconfinement transition. For this purpose, we exploit the lattice formulation of the theory and present numerical results for the expansion of the free energy up to O(theta^6), for N=3 and N=6. Our numerical analysis shows that the theta dependence of 4D SU(N) gauge theory experiences a drastic change across the deconfinement transition: the low-temperature phase is characterized by a large-N scaling with theta/N as relevant variable, while in the high-temperature phase the scaling variable is just theta and the free energy is essentially determined by the instanton-gas approximation. The crossover between the two different behaviours gets sharper with increasing N, suggesting that the instanton-gas regime sets in just above Tc at large N.
description: 6 pages, final version with a few more refs
Extension Complexity, MSO Logic, and Treewidth
Creators: name: Kolman, Petr
name: Koutecký, Martin
name: Tiwary, Hans Raj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the convex hull $P_φ(G)$ of all satisfying assignments of a given MSO formula $φ$ on a given graph $G$. We show that there exists an extended formulation of the polytope $P_φ(G)$ that can be described by $f(|φ|,τ)\cdot n$ inequalities, where $n$ is the number of vertices in $G$, $τ$ is the treewidth of $G$ and $f$ is a computable function depending only on $φ$ and $τ.$ In other words, we prove that the extension complexity of $P_φ(G)$ is linear in the size of the graph $G$, with a constant depending on the treewidth of $G$ and the formula $φ$. This provides a very general yet very simple meta-theorem about the extension complexity of polytopes related to a wide class of problems and graphs. As a corollary of our main result, we obtain an analogous result % for the weaker MSO$_1$ logic on the wider class of graphs of bounded cliquewidth. Furthermore, we study our main geometric tool which we term the glued product of polytopes. While the glued product of polytopes has been known since the '90s, we are the first to show that it preserves decomposability and boundedness of treewidth of the constraint matrix. This implies that our extension of $P_φ(G)$ is decomposable and has a constraint matrix of bounded treewidth; so far only few classes of polytopes are known to be decomposable. These properties make our extension useful in the construction of algorithms.
description: Final version accepted by DMTCS
Elaboration of a Benzofuran Scaffold and Evaluation of Binding Affinity and Inhibition of Escherichia coli DsbA: A Fragment-Based Drug Design Approach to Novel Antivirulence Compounds
Creators: name: Duncan, Luke
name: Wang, Geqing
name: Ilyichova, Olga V
name: Dhouib, Rabeb
name: Totsika, Makrina
name: Scanlon, Martin J
name: Heras, Begoña
name: Abbott, Belinda
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description supplied
Valentin Katzer, »L’Algérie, c’est la France«. Die französische Nordafrikapolitik zwischen Anspruch und Realität (1946–1962), Stuttgart (Franz Steiner Verlag) 2016
Creators: name: Cahn, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: Valentin Katzer, »L’Algérie, c’est la France«. Die französische Nordafrikapolitik zwischen Anspruch und Realität (1946–1962), Stuttgart (Franz Steiner Verlag) 2016, 429 p., 2 b/w ill. (Studien zur modernen Geschichte, 61), ISBN 978-3-515-11353-3, EUR 66,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
Elaboration of a Benzofuran Scaffold and Evaluation of Binding Affinity and Inhibition of Escherichia coli DsbA: A Fragment-Based Drug Design Approach to Novel Antivirulence Compounds
Creators: name: Duncan, Luke
name: Wang, Geqing
name: Ilyichova, Olga V
name: Dhouib, Rabeb
name: Totsika, Makrina
name: Scanlon, Martin J
name: Heras, Begona
name: Abbott, Belinda
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3404
subject: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry
classificationCode: 3405
subject: Organic chemistry

description: Bacterial thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase DsbA is essential for bacterial virulence factor assembly and has been identified as a viable antivirulence target. Herein, we report a structure-based elaboration of a benzofuran hit that bound to the active site groove of Escherichia coli DsbA. Substituted phenyl groups were installed at the 5- and 6-position of the benzofuran using Suzuki-Miyaura coupling. HSQC NMR titration experiments showed dissociation constants of this series in the high µM to low mM range and X-ray crystallography produced three co-structures, showing binding in the hydrophobic groove, comparable with that of the previously reported benzofurans. The 6-(m-methoxy)phenyl analogue (2b), which showed a promising binding pose, was chosen for elaboration from the C-2 position. The 2,6-disubstituted analogues bound to the hydrophobic region of the binding groove and the C-2 groups extended into the more polar, previously un-probed, region of the binding groove. Biochemical analysis of the 2,6-disubsituted analogues showed they inhibited DsbA oxidation activity in vitro. The results indicate the potential to develop the elaborated benzofuran series into a novel class of antivirulence compounds.
Equivalence of the filament and overlap graphs of subtrees of limited trees
Creators: name: Enright, Jessica
name: Stewart, Lorna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The overlap graphs of subtrees of a tree are equivalent to subtree filament graphs, the overlap graphs of subtrees of a star are cocomparability graphs, and the overlap graphs of subtrees of a caterpillar are interval filament graphs. In this paper, we show the equivalence of many more classes of subtree overlap and subtree filament graphs, and equate them to classes of complements of cochordal-mixed graphs. Our results generalize the previously known results mentioned above.
Claudia Feller, Christian Lackner (Hg.), »Manu propria«. Vom eigenhändigen Schreiben der Mächtigen (13.–15. Jahrhundert), Köln, Weimar, Wien (Böhlau) 2016
Creators: name: Barret, Sébastien
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: Claudia Feller, Christian Lackner (Hg.), »Manu propria«. Vom eigenhändigen Schreiben der Mächtigen (13.–15. Jahrhundert), Köln, Weimar, Wien (Böhlau) 2016, 316 S., 115 Abb. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 67), ISBN 978-3-205-20401-5, EUR 60,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
Elaboration of a Benzofuran Scaffold and Evaluation of Binding Affinity and Inhibition of Escherichia coli DsbA: A Fragment-Based Drug Design Approach to Novel Antivirulence Compounds
Creators: name: Duncan, Luke
name: Wang, Geqing
name: Ilyichova, Olga V
name: Dhouib, Rabeb
name: Totsika, Makrina
name: Scanlon, Martin J
name: Heras, Begona
name: Abbott, Belinda
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology
classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 3404
subject: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry
classificationCode: 3405
subject: Organic chemistry

description: No description supplied.
Tunable electromagnetic environment for superconducting quantum bits
Creators: name: Jones, P. J.
name: Huhtamäki, J. A. M.
name: Salmilehto, J.
name: Tan, K. Y.
name: Möttönen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a setup which realises a tunable engineered environment for experiments in circuit quantum electrodynamics. We illustrate this concept with the specific example of a quantum bit, qubit, in a high-quality-factor cavity which is capacitively coupled to another cavity including a resistor. The temperature of the resistor, which acts as the dissipative environment, can be controlled in a well defined manner in order to provide a hot or cold environment for the qubit, as desired. Furthermore, introducing superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) into the cavity containing the resistor, provides control of the coupling strength between this artificial environment and the qubit. We demonstrate that our scheme allows us to couple strongly to the environment enabling rapid initialization of the system, and by subsequent tuning of the magnetic flux of the SQUIDs we may greatly reduce the resistor-qubit coupling, allowing the qubit to evolve unhindered.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, final version
Alison Gascoigne, Leonie V. Hicks, Marianne O’Doherty (ed.), Journeying along Medieval Routes in Europe and the Middle East, Turnhout (Brepols) 2016
Creators: name: Schmieder, Felicitas
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: Alison Gascoigne, Leonie V. Hicks, Marianne O’Doherty (ed.), Journeying along Medieval Routes in Europe and the Middle East, Turnhout (Brepols) 2016, XII–296 p., 15 ill. (Medieval Voyaging, 3), ISBN 978-2-503-54173-0, EUR 85,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
Partitioning the vertex set of $G$ to make $G\,\Box\, H$ an efficient open domination graph
Creators: name: Šumenjak, Tadeja Kraner
name: Peterin, Iztok
name: Rall, Douglas F.
name: Tepeh, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C76, 05C69

description: A graph is an efficient open domination graph if there exists a subset of vertices whose open neighborhoods partition its vertex set. We characterize those graphs $G$ for which the Cartesian product $G \Box H$ is an efficient open domination graph when $H$ is a complete graph of order at least 3 or a complete bipartite graph. The characterization is based on the existence of a certain type of weak partition of $V(G)$. For the class of trees when $H$ is complete of order at least 3, the characterization is constructive. In addition, a special type of efficient open domination graph is characterized among Cartesian products $G \Box H$ when $H$ is a 5-cycle or a 4-cycle.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
title: Inclusive Development of the Ukrainian Economy
Creators: name: Hutorov, Andrii
name: Lupenko, Yurii
name: Zakharchuk, Oleksandr
name: Hutorova, Olena
name: Dorokhov, Oleksandr
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2020

description: It is determined that inclusive development comprises processes of economic growth and development, inclusiveness as a system of inclusions, takes into account the anthropogenic burden on the ecosystem, as well as the relational nature of socio-economic transformations. Inclusive growth is based on the concepts of sustainable development of the knowledge economy, human centrism, neo-industrialization, green economy, neuralism. The methodology of the World Economic Forum for assessing the inclusive development level has been adapted to the conditions of the regional economy of Ukraine. The inclusive development level of the regional economy in 2013-2017 is analyzed, the main imperatives of inclusive growth in Ukraine are determined.
title: An Evaluation of Management Options for the Clover Root Curculio (Sitona hispidulus), a Pest of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) in the Intermountain West
Creators: name: Rim, Kaitlin A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The clover root curculio (CRC) is an important forage pest throughout North America. Extensive larval feeding on host roots has been associated with reduced stand establishment, disruption of nutrient and water uptake, increased secondary plant pathogen infection, decreased winter plant survival, and reductions in forage quality and yield. Due to the hidden nature of larvae in the soil, CRC is often overlooked and integrated pest management programs are limited as there is a lack of management options. First, I surveyed northern Utah alfalfa for CRC natural enemies, particularly insect-attacking nematodes and fungi (entomopathogens) that could be used in biological control programs against CRC larvae. I found Beauveria spp. fungi most commonly infecting CRC larvae belowground. Next, I used recent information on the CRC life cycle in the Intermountain West to test multiple field applications of soil-active biological insecticides (entomopathogenic nematodes, fungi, and bacteria) and a synthetic systemic insecticide, flupyradifurone. Although these insecticides were compatible with spray equipment and alfalfa production, applications of these products did not reduce CRC larval populations or root damage in my studies. Further, the two application timings tested (before larval peak and during larval peak) did not increase application effectiveness. However, evaluating CRC suppression in the field was challenging because they are hidden in the soil, have patchy distributions, and were observed in low numbers. Lastly, I tested existing root-pathogen resistant alfalfa varieties for potential cross-resistance to CRC, and evaluated alfalfa currently being bred at Cornell University for specific resistance to CRC larvae. Although commercial root-pathogen resistant alfalfa had no effect on CRC, the CRC-resistant alfalfa developed at Cornell University may alleviate the impact of CRC larval damage through increased nodule production. This research provides the groundwork for finding effective and long-term management solutions for CRC in the Intermountain West and will assist in the continued development of insecticide application programs and resistant host plants to ultimately improve alfalfa production.
title: Pollution Prevention and Water Reuse at Utah Department of Transportation Facilities
Creators: name: Stoudt, Amanda
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: As stormwater flows over roads, sidewalks, and other impervious surfaces, it picks up pollutants that are deposited on these surfaces. One common pollutant transported by stormwater is road salt. While the application of road salt is crucial for wintertime public safety, road salt has a host of negative environmental impacts. Road salt has been linked to increasing levels of dissolved solids in groundwater, vegetation damage, and behavioral changes in aquatic organisms. Studies have shown that these impacts are concentrated around salt storage facilities. As a result, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued many state departments of transportation municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) permits. In Utah, road salt is stored at Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) maintenance stations, which are regulated by a Phase I MS4 permit. To comply with their MS4 permit, UDOT constructed retention ponds to capture salt-laden stormwater and truck wash water. However, without information and established maintenance and management plans informing pond design, these retention ponds suffer from design issues such as overflow throughout the winter season. Through pollution prevention assessments, pond and tap water analysis, pond sediment analysis, and surface water quality modeling at 11 UDOT maintenance stations, this project provides UDOT with site design guidelines and best management practices to ultimately reduce the impact of UDOT road salt facilities on the environment.
title: Determination of Gas Emission Characteristics from Animal Wastes Using a Multiplexed Portable FTIR-Surface Chamber System
Creators: name: Sutitarnnontr, Pakorn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Livestock production is a growing source of air pollution at regional, national, and global scales. Improved livestock manure management has the potential to reduce environmental impacts; however, there is an urgent need for cost-efficient, reliable, and easy to maintain measurement and monitoring capabilities to precisely quantify emissions from livestock manure. This research describes and evaluates a novel measurement method based on the multiplexed portable Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy analyzer - surface chamber techniques for continuous measurements and monitoring gas emissions from manure sources. The multiplexing system was designed and developed to automate the chamber network, controlling the movement of chambers and accurately managing chamber air flow distribution. The measurement accuracy of the developed system was evaluated under controlled laboratory conditions. The result of the statistical hypothesis testing showed that there is no statistically significant differences among the measurement results from each of the twelve chambers.
While microbial activity is a key factor for formation of gaseous compounds in manure, the magnitude of gas exchange between manure and the atmosphere largely depends on manure physical characteristics. A series of soil science measurement and modeling techniques were applied to determine a set of fundamental physical, hydraulics, and thermal properties of cattle manure to support advanced modeling of gas emissions from manure sources. The liquid water retention characteristic for cattle manure was found to be close to that of organic peat soils. The results also suggested that Richards equation can describe the hydrodynamics taking place in cattle manure relevant to natural drying processes. However, the uncertainties of the measurement results could be due to the complexity of shrinkage, surface crust formation, and shrinkage cracks.
Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and ammonia (NH3) emissions were estimated and characterized in field plots using the developed gas emission measurement system. The measurements included four treatments; beef manure, dairy manure, beef compost, and dairy compost. The estimated CO2, CH4, and NH3 emissions from the surface application with dairy manure were the highest among other treatments, while those from the surface application with beef compost were the lowest. Impacts of temperature and water content on gaseous emissions were found to be correlated significantly. Overall, this dissertation provides a solid foundation upon which future research can build in better understanding and modeling animal waste emission processes that impact the environment.
title: Abstention and Costly Information Acquisition in Elections
Creators: name: Meyer, Jacob
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Voter turnout rates are low in the United States. Even among citizens who show up to the polls, many do not vote in every race on the ballot. This is especially true for low-profile elections, and races where political party is not on the ballot. Both low turn out and incomplete ballots could be caused by high costs of information. Voters and non-voters have time constraints that can prevent them from researching every candidate or proposition on the ballot. One proposed solution to increase citizen informedness is to make voting mandatory. Mandatory voting imposes a penalty (usually a fine) if a citizen fails to turn out on election day. While the introduction of mandatory voting may increase turnout rates, it is unclear if it will lead to a more informed electorate. I explore the effects of mandatory voting on information acquisition by developing a model that compares citizen informedness in a costly election under both mandatory and optional voting schemes. I find that optional voting results in a more informed electorate, unless information acquisition is free or extremely cheap relative to the cost of voting. The model predicts that moderate citizens are less likely to learn about candidate preferences, compared to citizens with more extreme preferences.
Additional file 1 of Cardiovascular events and mortality in chronic kidney disease in primary care patients with previous type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension. A population-based epidemiological study (KIDNEES)
Creators: name: Cunillera-Puértolas, Oriol
name: Vizcaya, David
name: Cerain-Herrero, M. Jesús
name: Gil-Terrón, Neus
name: Cobo-Guerrero, Silvia
name: Salvador-González, Betlem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Further Evidence for Lattice-Induced Scaling
Creators: name: Horowitz, Gary T.
name: Santos, Jorge E.
name: Tong, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue our study of holographic transport in the presence of a background lattice. We recently found evidence that the presence of a lattice induces a new intermediate scaling regime in asymptotically $AdS_4$ spacetimes. This manifests itself in the optical conductivity which exhibits a robust power-law dependence on frequency, $σ\sim ω^{-2/3}$, in a "mid-infrared" regime, a result which is in striking agreement with experiments on the cuprates. Here we provide further evidence for the existence of this intermediate scaling regime. We demonstrate similar scaling in the thermoelectric conductivity, find analogous scalings in asymptotically $AdS_5$ spacetimes, and show that we get the same results with an ionic lattice.
description: 19 pages, 12 figures
Thomas Lau, Helge Wittmann, Gérald Chaix (Hg.), Reichsstadt im Religionskonflikt. 4. Tagung des Mühlhäuser Arbeitskreises für Reichsstadtgeschichte. Mühlhausen 8. bis 10. Februar 2016, Petersberg (Michael Imhof Verlag) 2017
Creators: name: Wüst, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2017

description: Thomas Lau, Helge Wittmann, Gérald Chaix (Hg.), Reichsstadt im Religionskonflikt. 4. Tagung des Mühlhäuser Arbeitskreises für Reichsstadtgeschichte. Mühlhausen 8. bis 10. Februar 2016, Petersberg (Michael Imhof Verlag) 2017, 400 S., zahlr. Abb. (Studien zur Reichsstadtgeschichte, 4), ISBN 978-3-7319-0457-1, EUR 29,95.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2017/4
Zur Zeitstellung des frühchristlichen Taufbrunnens bei St. Johannis in Augsburg
Creators: name: Hübener, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2017

description: -
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 34, Nr. 1/2 (1956)
Symmetry based parameterizations of the lepton mixing matrix
Creators: name: Kumar, Sanjeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are many mixing schemes based upon flavor symmetries that predict a vanishing $θ_{13}$. These mixing schemes need corrections or modifications to account for recent experimental measurements of non-zero $θ_{13}$. We propose new parameterizations for the lepton mixing matrix to quantify the minimal modifications needed in these mixing schemes. The parameterizations can be factorized in two parts: $U_{0}(a,b)$ and $R(θ,ϕ)$. The first factor can be viewed as a zeroth order mixing matrix coming from some flavor symmetry. It reproduces the popular mixing schemes based upon flavor symmetries for suitable values of $a$ and $b$. The second factor can be interpreted as a minimal modification to the mixing matrix and is responsible for non zero $θ_{13}$, non-maximal $θ_{23}$ and CP violation. We also find the experimentally allowed parameter space for the parameters $a$ and $b$ and compare it with the symmetry based values for these parameters.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, version to appear in Physical Review D
Snow Leopard Permutations and Their Even and Odd Threads
Creators: name: Egge, Eric S.
name: Rubin, Kailee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A05, 05A15

description: Caffrey, Egge, Michel, Rubin and Ver Steegh recently introduced snow leopard permutations, which are the anti-Baxter permutations that are compatible with the doubly alternating Baxter permutations. Among other things, they showed that these permutations preserve parity, and that the number of snow leopard permutations of length $2n-1$ is the Catalan number $C_n$. In this paper we investigate the permutations that the snow leopard permutations induce on their even and odd entries; we call these the even threads and the odd threads, respectively. We give recursive bijections between these permutations and certain families of Catalan paths. We characterize the odd (resp. even) threads which form the other half of a snow leopard permutation whose even (resp. odd) thread is layered in terms of pattern avoidance, and we give a constructive bijection between the set of permutations of length $n$ which are both even threads and odd threads and the set of peakless Motzkin paths of length $n+1$.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures. Version 3 is modified to use standard Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science but is otherwise unchanged
Superpotential de-sequestering in string models
Creators: name: Berg, Marcus
name: Conlon, Joseph P.
name: Marsh, David
name: Witkowski, Lukas T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-perturbative superpotential cross-couplings between visible sector matter and Kähler moduli can lead to significant flavour-changing neutral currents in compactifications of type IIB string theory. Here, we compute corrections to Yukawa couplings in orbifold models with chiral matter localised on D3-branes and non-perturbative effects on distant D7-branes. By evaluating a threshold correction to the D7-brane gauge coupling, we determine conditions under which the non-perturbative corrections to the Yukawa couplings appear. The flavour structure of the induced Yukawa coupling generically fails to be aligned with the tree-flavour structure. We check our results by also evaluating a correlation function of two D7-brane gauginos and a D3-brane Yukawa coupling. Finally, by calculating a string amplitude between n hidden scalars and visible matter we show how non-vanishing vacuum expectation values of distant D7-brane scalars, if present, may correct visible Yukawa couplings with a flavour structure that differs from the tree-level flavour structure.
description: 37 pages + appendices, 8 figures
Variance and Covariance of Several Simultaneous Outputs of a Markov Chain
Creators: name: Kropf, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60C05, 60J10, 05C20, 05C30, 68Q45, 60F05, 05A16

description: The partial sum of the states of a Markov chain or more generally a Markov source is asymptotically normally distributed under suitable conditions. One of these conditions is that the variance is unbounded. A simple combinatorial characterization of Markov sources which satisfy this condition is given in terms of cycles of the underlying graph of the Markov chain. Also Markov sources with higher dimensional alphabets are considered. Furthermore, the case of an unbounded covariance between two coordinates of the Markov source is combinatorically characterized. If the covariance is bounded, then the two coordinates are asymptotically independent. The results are illustrated by several examples, like the number of specific blocks in $0$-$1$-sequences and the Hamming weight of the width-$w$ non-adjacent form.
title: The Timing and Magnitude of Channel Adjustments in the Upper Green River Below Flaming Gorge Dam in Browns Park and Lodore Canyon, Colorado: An Analysis of the Pre- and Post-Dam River Using High-Resolution Dendrogeomorphology and Repeat Topographic Surveys
Creators: name: Alexander, Jason S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2007

description: Channel narrowing on the Green River in Utah and Colorado has been well documented by several authors and has been attributed to reductions in flow after 1930, the construction of Flaming Gorge Dam (FGD), and the invasion of the woody riparian plant Tamarisk (tamarix ramosissima) . Narrowing has occurred through the deposition of inset floodplains, which have vertically accreted within a previously larger active channel. Prior to closure of FGD, lower magnitude floods aggraded surfaces in the areas of the channel that had the highest divergence in the velocity flow field (i.e. bars and banks). These surfaces later became the platforms for deposition of large volumes of sediment by lower frequency, big floods. FGD began regulation immediately after a big flood, which had vertically accreted active bars within the channel and near the banks. The large reduction in annual peak flows after closure of FGD abandoned these surfaces, causing them to shift, nearly instantaneously, from active channel to floodplain. The process of floodplain building after the closure of FGD was similar to that of the pre-dam, but large floods became more infrequent, allowing lower elevation floodplains to aggrade within the pre-dam channel. These surfaces were vegetated and stable when bypass flooding during the 1980's deposited up to 90 cm of sediment, raising the elevation of the floodplains beyond the post-dam active hydrologic environment.
The reduction in active channel width from floodplain building has reduced in-channel aquatic habitat, while providing substrate for the establishment of Tamarisk, which has proliferated in the regulated Green River. Controlled flooding is a potential remediation strategy to reactivate stabilized channel features, and control the spread of Tamarisk, but managed flooding is expensive, political, and its potential success is unknown. Large floods have occurred in the post-dam era as hydrologic emergencies and, although they are not planned, the adjustments to the channel during these floods are a proxy for the potential of controlled floods to rehabilitate the Green River. Channel adjustments have been monitored at permanent cross sections in Browns Park and Lodore Canyon since 1994. We use 12 years of monitoring data, which includes four bypass floods, to calculate metrics of fine sediment storage at 36 locations along the river. We combine metrics at each site using a weighting procedure to estimate the general pattern and trend of channel adjustments in these reaches since 1994. These metrics are compared to similar metrics published for the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, a river with similar geologic controls and similar management challenges, but a different sediment supply condition.
$n$-permutability and linear Datalog implies symmetric Datalog
Creators: name: Kazda, Alexandr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68Q17, 68R05, 03C05

description: We show that if $\mathbb A$ is a core relational structure such that CSP($\mathbb A$) can be solved by a linear Datalog program, and $\mathbb A$ is $n$-permutable for some $n$, then CSP($\mathbb A$) can be solved by a symmetric Datalog program (and thus CSP($\mathbb A$) lies in deterministic logspace). At the moment, it is not known for which structures $\mathbb A$ will CSP($\mathbb A$) be solvable by a linear Datalog program. However, once somebody obtains a characterization of linear Datalog, our result immediately gives a characterization of symmetric Datalog.
title: Aggressive, Assertive and Non-confrontational Forms of Defending: Differentiation of Forms and Consequences of Defending
Creators: name: Meter, Diana
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The factor structure of the newly created Enacted Defending Scale (EDS) was investigated to better understand what strategies of defending children and adolescents enact to defend their peers from peer victimization. This investigation resulted in a 5-factor model, representative of assertive, overt aggressive, relationally aggressive, and two non-confrontational strategies of defending, telling an adult and comforting the victim. Aggressive forms of defending could be differentiated; whether the defending strategy was enacted in response to overt or relational victimization could not be differentiated. In general, aggressive strategies were associated with dependent variables indicative of poorer adjustment, while assertive and non-confrontational strategies were either related to positive dependent variables or unrelated to the psychosocial adjustment outcomes. Only one of the associations varied by age. The results suggest, first, that attention must be given to multiple forms of defending and that not all defending of peer victimization may have a prosocial effect, and second, that there is a need to carefully consider the potential consequences of defending for defenders themselves.
The hyperfine structure in the rotational spectrum of CF+
Creators: name: Guzmán, V.
name: Roueff, E.
name: Gauss, J.
name: Pety, J.
name: Gratier, P.
name: Goicoechea, J. R.
name: Gerin, M.
name: Teyssier, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. CF+ has recently been detected in the Horsehead and Orion Bar photo-dissociation regions. The J=1-0 line in the Horsehead is double-peaked in contrast to other millimeter lines. The origin of this double-peak profile may be kinematic or spectroscopic. Aims. We investigate the effect of hyperfine interactions due to the fluorine nucleus in CF+ on the rotational transitions. Methods. We compute the fluorine spin rotation constant of CF+ using high-level quantum chemical methods and determine the relative positions and intensities of each hyperfine component. This information is used to fit the theoretical hyperfine components to the observed CF+ line profiles, thereby employing the hyperfine fitting method in GILDAS. Results. The fluorine spin rotation constant of CF+ is 229.2 kHz. This way, the double-peaked CF+ line profiles are well fitted by the hyperfine components predicted by the calculations. The unusually large hyperfine splitting of the CF+ line therefore explains the shape of the lines detected in the Horsehead nebula, without invoking intricate kinematics in the UV-illuminated gas.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in A&A
Optimizing the search for resources by sharing information: Mongolian gazelles as a case study
Creators: name: Martínez-García, Ricardo
name: Calabrese, Justin M.
name: Mueller, Thomas
name: Olson, Kirk
name: López, Cristóbal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigate the relationship between communication and search efficiency in a biological context by proposing a model of Brownian searchers with long-range pairwise interaction. After a general study of the properties of the model, we show an application to the particular case of acoustic communication among Mongolian gazelle, for which data are available, searching for good habitat areas. Using Monte Carlo simulations and density equations, our results point out that the search is optimal (i.e. the mean first hitting time among searchers is minimum) at intermediate scales of communication, showing that both an excess and a lack of information may worsen it.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Status of invisible Higgs decays
Creators: name: Belanger, G.
name: Dumont, B.
name: Ellwanger, U.
name: Gunion, J. F.
name: Kraml, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the extent to which the LHC and Tevatron results as of the end of 2012 constrain invisible (or undetected) decays of the Higgs boson-like state at ~ 125 GeV. To this end we perform global fits for several cases: 1) a Higgs boson with Standard Model (SM) couplings but additional invisible decay modes; 2) SM couplings to fermions and vector bosons, but allowing for additional new particles modifying the effective Higgs couplings to gluons and photons; 3) no new particles in the loops but tree-level Higgs couplings to the up-quarks, down-quarks and vector bosons, relative to the SM, treated as free parameters. We find that in the three cases invisible decay rates of 23%, 61%, 88%, respectively, are consistent with current data at 95% confidence level (CL). Limiting the coupling to vector bosons, CV, to CV < 1 in case 3) reduces the allowed invisible branching ratio to 56% at 95% CL. Requiring in addition that the Higgs couplings to quarks have the same sign as in the SM, an invisible rate of up to 36% is allowed at 95% CL. We also discuss direct probes of invisible Higgs decays, as well as the interplay with dark matter searches.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures; v2: extended discussion on ZH associated production, references added, minor corrections; v4: matches final version published in Phys. Lett. B
Inkdots as advice for finite automata
Creators: name: Küçük, Uğur
name: Say, A. C. Cem
name: Yakaryılmaz, Abuzer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We examine inkdots placed on the input string as a way of providing advice to finite automata, and establish the relations between this model and the previously studied models of advised finite automata. The existence of an infinite hierarchy of classes of languages that can be recognized with the help of increasing numbers of inkdots as advice is shown. The effects of different forms of advice on the succinctness of the advised machines are examined. We also study randomly placed inkdots as advice to probabilistic finite automata, and demonstrate the superiority of this model over its deterministic version. Even very slowly growing amounts of space can become a resource of meaningful use if the underlying advised model is extended with access to secondary memory, while it is famously known that such small amounts of space are not useful for unadvised one-way Turing machines.
description: 14 pages
Frühe Griffzungenschwerter
Creators: name: Schauer, Peter
Publisher: name: Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz
Year: 2017
Subjects: Bronzezeit; Hügelgräberbronzezeit; Mitteleuropa; Metallfunde; Typologie; Waffen

description: [nicht vorhanden / not available]
description: Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz, Bd. 19 (1972)