cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Large deviation asymptotics for occupancy problems
Creators: name: Dupuis, Paul
name: Nuzman, Carl
name: Whiting, Phil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10, 65K10, 49N99 (Primary)

description: In the standard formulation of the occupancy problem one considers the distribution of r balls in n cells, with each ball assigned independently to a given cell with probability 1/n. Although closed form expressions can be given for the distribution of various interesting quantities (such as the fraction of cells that contain a given number of balls), these expressions are often of limited practical use. Approximations provide an attractive alternative, and in the present paper we consider a large deviation approximation as r and n tend to infinity. In order to analyze the problem we first consider a dynamical model, where the balls are placed in the cells sequentially and ``time'' corresponds to the number of balls that have already been thrown. A complete large deviation analysis of this ``process level'' problem is carried out, and the rate function for the original problem is then obtained via the contraction principle. The variational problem that characterizes this rate function is analyzed, and a fairly complete and explicit solution is obtained. The minimizing trajectories and minimal cost are identified up to two constants, and the constants are characterized as the unique solution to an elementary fixed point problem. These results are then used to solve a number of interesting problems, including an overflow problem and the partial coupon collector's problem.
description: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000135
PROGRAM OCHRONY ZASOBÓW GENETYCZNYCH OWIEC CZYNNIKIEM STYMULUJĄCYM ROZWÓJ OWCZARSTWA W POLSCE
Creators: name: Borecka, Anna
name: Sowula-Skrzyńska, Elżbieta
name: Szumiec, Anna
name: Borecka, Anna
name: Sowula-Skrzyńska, Elżbieta
name: Szumiec, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: genetic resources conservation programme
subject: raise native breeds of sheep
subject: economic effectiveness

description: The aim of the study was to analyse the economic efficiency of farms enrolled in the sheep genetic resources conservation programme. The study involved 65 farms participating in the conservation programme in Subcarpathia, Podlasie and Lower Silesia regions in the years 2011-2013. Payments to conserve local sheep breeds are an incentive for producers of fattened lambs to maintain these breeds. These payments caused the income of analysed farms to increase by 128.23% on average.
Supplementary Material from Climatological, virological and sociological drivers of current and projected dengue fever outbreak dynamics in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Wagner, Caroline E.
name: Hooshyar, Milad
name: Baker, Rachel E.
name: Wenchang Yang
name: Arinaminpathy, Nimalan
name: Vecchi, Gabriel
name: C. Jessica E. Metcalf
name: Porporato, Amilcare
name: Grenfell, Bryan T.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 40107 Meteorology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The largest ever Sri Lankan dengue outbreak of 2017 provides an opportunity for investigating the relative contributions of climatological, epidemiological and sociological drivers on the epidemic patterns of this clinically important vector-borne disease. To do so, we develop a climatologically driven disease transmission framework for dengue virus using spatially resolved temperature and precipitation data as well as the time-series susceptible-infected-recovered model. From this framework, we first demonstrate that the distinct climatological patterns encountered across the island play an important role in establishing the typical yearly temporal dynamics of dengue, but alone are unable to account for the epidemic case numbers observed in Sri Lanka during 2017. Using a simplified two-strain SIR model, we demonstrate that the re-introduction of a dengue virus serotype that had been largely absent from the island in previous years may have played an important role in driving the epidemic, and provide a discussion of the possible roles for extreme weather events and human mobility patterns on the outbreak dynamics. Lastly, we provide estimates for the future burden of dengue across Sri Lanka using the Coupled Model Intercomparison Phase 5 climate projections. Critically, we demonstrate that climatological and serological factors can act synergistically to yield greater projected case numbers than would be expected from the presence of a single driver alone. Altogether, this work provides a holistic framework for teasing apart and analysing the various complex drivers of vector-borne disease outbreak dynamics.
Concurrent Segmentation and Object Detection CNNs for Aircraft Detection and Identification in Satellite Images
Creators: name: Grosgeorge, Damien
name: Arbelot, Maxime
name: Goupilleau, Alex
name: Ceillier, Tugdual
name: Allioux, Renaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Detecting and identifying objects in satellite images is a very challenging task: objects of interest are often very small and features can be difficult to recognize even using very high resolution imagery. For most applications, this translates into a trade-off between recall and precision. We present here a dedicated method to detect and identify aircraft, combining two very different convolutional neural networks (CNNs): a segmentation model, based on a modified U-net architecture, and a detection model, based on the RetinaNet architecture. The results we present show that this combination outperforms significantly each unitary model, reducing drastically the false negative rate.
D3.2 TOPOS development
Creators: name: Spanidis, Pavlos
name: Giannakari, Olga
name: Garcia, Clara
name: Anagnostopoulou, Afroditi
name: Bardi, Alessia
name: Dimitropoulos, Harry
name: Foufoulas, Yannis
name: Baglioni, Miriam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Be open
Transport
transport research
Open science
Open access

description: This deliverable describes the design and implementation of the TOPOS forum and observatory. More analytically, it describes the methodology selected for each particular tool together with the technologies that have been used for the implementation of these tools. D3.2 is organized in 8 chapters. The first one is an introductory chapter presenting the aim and objectives of the current deliverable, the second describes the interconnection between Task 3.1 and Task 3.2. Chapter 3 deals with the TOPOS Gateway while Chapters 4 and 5 present the actual tools that have been developed (Observatory and Forum). Deliverable’s conclusions are hosted in the last chapter.
description: {"references": ["Spanidis Pavlos, Giannakari Olga, Garcia Clara, Anagnostopoulou Afroditi, Bardi Alessia, Dimitropoulos Harry, Foufoulas Yannis, & Baglioni Miriam. (2021). D3.2 TOPOS development. Zenodo."]}
CZYNNIKI OGRANICZAJĄCE ORAZ DZIAŁANIA POPRAWIAJĄCE KONKURENCYJNOŚĆ GOSPODARSTW UŻYTKUJĄCYCH ZWRSP W WOJEWÓDZTWIE WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIM
Creators: name: Chrobocińska, Katarzyna
name: Chrobocińska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: competitiveness
subject: factors limiting competitiveness
subject: actions to improve competitiveness

description: This study attempts to identify the most important limiting factors and the activities that support the creation of competitiveness of agricultural enterprises using in the production resources of state land, with particular emphasis on the participation of the assets acquired from state land in the value of assets. The results show that in the studied population the share of assets acquired from state land contributed to the definition of respondents in each group a different set of limiting factors and activities that help to improve their competitiveness.
Heterogeneity and feedback in an agent-based market model
Creators: name: Ghoulmie, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author: it was a too preliminary version.
description: This paper has been withdrawn
ŹRÓDŁA UTRZYMANIA I LOKALIZACJA MIEJSC PRACY MIESZKAŃCÓW STREFY PODMIEJSKIEJ WARSZAWY
Creators: name: Drejerska, Nina
name: Drejerska, Nina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Warsaw suburban area
subject: labour market
subject: source of livelihood
subject: commuting

description: Suburban areas are connected to central cities by many complex social and economic relations. Labour market, especially commuting, is one of a such dimension. The aim of the paper is to determine sources of income and to identify relations between educational attainments as well as sex and workplace localization in the investigated group. Results confirm that there exists a wider functional area for those of a higher educational attainment. This functional area is also wider for male than for female. However this last relations was proven by a lower correlation coefficient and not in all distinguished subareas. Communes neighbouring Warsaw as well as towns near to Warsaw were identified also as important localizations of workplaces in the investigated group.
Genetic characterization of a multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Agona isolated from a dietary supplement in Germany
Creators: name: Bartsch, Lee Julia
name: Borowiak, Maria
name: Deneke, Carlus
name: Gruetzke, Josephine
name: Hammerl, Jens-Andre
name: Malorny, Burkhard
name: Szabo, Istvan
name: Alter, Thomas
name: Nguyen, Kim Katherine
name: Fischer, Jennie
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Salmonella Agona
subject: dietary supplement
subject: whole genome sequencing
subject: antimicrobial resistance
subject: plasmid
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Agona has a history of causing food-borne outbreaks and any emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) isolates in novel food products is of concern. Particularly, in food products frequently consumed without sufficient heating prior to consumption. Here, we report about the MDR isolate, 18-SA00377, which had been isolated from a dietary supplement in Germany in 2018 and submitted to the German National Reference Laboratory for Salmonella. WGS-based comparative genetic analyses were conducted to find a potential reservoir of the isolate itself or mobile genetic elements associated with MDR. As a phylogenetic analysis did not yield any closely related S. Agona isolates, either globally or from Germany, a detailed analysis of the largest plasmid (295,499 bp) was performed as it is the main carrier of resistances. A combined approach of long-read and short-read sequencing enabled the assembly of the isolate’s chromosome and its four plasmids. Their characterization revealed the presence of 23 different antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), conferring resistance to 12 different antibiotic drug classes, as well as genes conferring resistance to six different heavy metals. The largest plasmid, pSE18-SA00377-1, belongs to the IncHI2 plasmid family and carries 16 ARGs, that are organized as two distinct clusters, with each ARG associated with putative composite transposons. Through a two-pronged approach, highly similar plasmids to pSE18-SA00377-1 were identified in the NCBI database and a search for Salmonella isolates with a highly similar ARG resistance profile was conducted. Mapping and structural comparisons between pSE18-SA00377-1 and these plasmids and Salmonella isolates showed that both the plasmid backbone and identical or similar ARG clusters can be found not only in Salmonella isolates, originating mostly from a wide variety of livestock, but also in a diverse range of bacterial genera of varying geographical origins and isolation sources. Thus, it can be speculated that the host range of pSE18-SA00377-1 is not restricted to Salmonella and its spread already occurred in different bacterial populations. Overall, this hints at a complex history for pSE18-SA00377-1 and highlights the importance of surveilling multidrug-resistant S. enterica isolates, especially in novel food items that are not yet heavily regulated.
Figure S1 from Coupling protocol of interlocked feedback oscillators in circadian clocks
Creators: name: Md. Mamunur Rashid
name: Kurata, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60113 Synthetic Biology

description: Robustness of the anti-phase ACO and in-phase RCO with respect to multi-parameter random perturbations. We explicitly indicated the SD values of the phase difference, period and amplitude profiles of the anti-phase ACO and in-phase RCO in Figure 4. The SDs of the phase difference, period and amplitude of the anti-phase ACO were equal to or more than those of the in-phase RCO in respective regions of Kc.
Efficient classical algorithms for simulating symmetric quantum systems
Creators: name: Anschuetz, Eric R.
name: Bauer, Andreas
name: Kiani, Bobak T.
name: Lloyd, Seth
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: classical algorithms
subject: simulation
subject: quantum systems
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: In light of recently proposed quantum algorithms that incorporate symmetries in the hope of quantum advantage, we show that with symmetries that are restrictive enough, classical algorithms can efficiently emulate their quantum counterparts given certain classical descriptions of the input. Specifically, we give classical algorithms that calculate ground states and time-evolved expectation values for permutation-invariant Hamiltonians specified in the symmetrized Pauli basis with runtimes polynomial in the system size. We use tensor-network methods to transform symmetry-equivariant operators to the block-diagonal Schur basis that is of polynomial size, and then perform exact matrix multiplication or diagonalization in this basis. These methods are adaptable to a wide range of input and output states including those prescribed in the Schur basis, as matrix product states, or as arbitrary quantum states when given the power to apply low depth circuits and single qubit measurements.
ESM3_Experimental system_Cartmell et al from On the modelling and testing of a laboratory-scale Foucault pendulum as a precursor for the design of a high-performance measurement instrument
Creators: name: Cartmell, Matthew P.
name: Faller, James E.
name: Lockerbie, Nicholas A.
name: Handous, Eva
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mechanics
subject: General Relativity
subject: Special Relativity
subject: 10599 Mathematical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This files shows key features of the experimental system
SZACOWANIE PODSTAWY OPODATKOWANIA W PODATKU OD DOCHODÓW OSOBISTYCH JAKO FORMA WSPARCIA ROLNICTWA – PRZYKŁAD NIEMIEC
Creators: name: Dziemianowicz, Ryta
name: Budlewska, Renata
name: Dziemianowicz, Ryta
name: Budlewska, Renata
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: taxation of agriculture
subject: income tax
subject: estimating of tax base
subject: tax expenditures

description: The purpose of this paper is to assess the selected tax expenditures in German personal income tax aimed to support farmers. German system of tax preferences is undoubtedly one of the most interesting examples of agricultural tax expenditures in the member states of the European Union. The paper is also an attempt to answer the question, whether method applied to estimate agricultural production income in the German personal income tax, in fact, lowers the tax burden of farms owners and, secondly, what are the consequences of this instrument for agriculture sector? The conducted study confirmed that the introduction of this tax expenditure has resulted in a simplification of the tax accountancy obligations of farmers. However, at the same time due to the reduction of the fiscal burden, there is significant inhibition of transformation of the area structure of farms in Germany.
WPŁYW SEKTORA DOSTAWCY NA AKTYWNOŚĆ INNOWACYJNĄ PRZEMYSŁU SPOŻYWCZEGO W ZACHODNIEJ POLSCE W LATACH 2009-2012
Creators: name: Dzikowski, Piotr
name: Dzikowski, Piotr
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: food industry
subject: innovation activity
subject: sector
subject: supplier
subject: innovation

description: The paper presents the results of a study aimed at determining the impact of supplier’s sector and its technology level on innovation activity of the food industry in western Poland in the years 2009-2012. It is assumed that the higher technology level and variety of suppliers the greater innovation activity. The survey shows that the greatest number of relationships is associated with manufacture of rubber and plastic products sector whereas the greatest positive influence concerns innovative cooperation.
Type IIP Supernovae as Cosmological Probes: A SEAM Distance to SN 1999em
Creators: name: Baron, E.
name: Nugent, Peter
name: Branch, David
name: Hauschildt, Peter H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to their intrinsic brightness, supernovae make excellent cosmological probes. We describe the SEAM method for obtaining distances to Type IIP supernovae (SNe IIP) and present a distance to SN 1999em for which a Cepheid distance exists. Our models give results consistent with the Cepheid distance, even though we have not attempted to tune the underlying hydrodynamical model, we have simply chosen the best fits. This is in contradistinction to the expanding photosphere method (EPM) which yields a distance to SN 1999em that is 50% smaller than the Cepheid distance. We emphasize the differences between SEAM and EPM. We show that the dilution factors used in the EPM analysis were systematically too small at later epochs. We also show that the EPM blackbody assumption is suspect. Since SNe IIP are visible to redshifts as high as z less than about 6, with the JWST, SEAM may be a valuable probe of the early universe.
description: 10 pages, 3 color figures, ApJ Letters, in press
Evaluation of eLearning - A study of Undergraduate Agricultural Economics course
Creators: name: Wocken, Meike
name: Jens-Peter, Loy
name: Wocken, Meike
name: Jens-Peter, Loy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: evaluation methodologies
subject: eLearning process management
subject: teaching / learning strategies

description: In this study we evaluate the combination of traditional classroom education with additional content and support provided by an online Learn Content Management System (LCMS). Main focuses are individual learning characteristics and eLearning aspects. Findings are that not all dimensions of eLearning success meet the expected outcomes. Using achieved scores in examinations to measure successful application of eLearning is suitable only to a limited extent. eLearning objectives have to be defined with respect to eLearning's target group.
Remaking the ‘angry Narcanned subject’: Affording new subject positions through take-home naloxone training
Creators: name: Ferguson, Nyssa
name: Farrugia, Adrian
name: Moore, David
name: Fraser, Suzanne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Naloxone is a medication used to reverse opioid overdose. Alongside its lifesaving effects, it also has a reputation for producing distress, aggression and occasionally violence upon administration. This article analyses how take-home naloxone (THN) training initiatives address naloxone's reputation for producing aggression and conflict, and how new subject positions emerge in the context of this training. While the role of naloxone in producing aggression has been discussed in a range of research, this work emphasises that such conflict is neither inevitable nor even likely because it is contingent on several other issues such as administration practices. Building on this scholarship, we work with Bruno Latour's theorisation of technological ‘affordances’ to analyse THN as a socially co-produced technology that, rather than either determining or neutrally communicating actions and effects, ‘affords’ possibilities, capacities and subjects. Analysing data drawn from observations of THN training in Victoria, Australia, and in-depth interviews with training participants, we argue that the issue of conflict upon revival affords a subject position we term the ‘angry Narcanned subject’. This subject, we note, has come to hold a powerful position in understandings of naloxone, not least because it tends to accord with stereotypes of antisocial drug users. From here, we argue that a much of THN training is focused on challenging and reframing naloxone's reputation for conflict and questioning related subject positions, especially that of the angry Narcanned subject. We argue that this process of challenging and reframing affords two new subject positions for consumers: the ‘capable administrator’ and the ‘calmer revivee’. We conclude that while THN training affords multiple, potentially positive, subject positions, unless these initiatives are accompanied by broader interventions such as decriminalisation campaigns, they may inadvertently responsibilise people who consume opioids for addressing overdose and erase the role of prohibition, criminalisation and stigmatisation in producing overdose events.
title: Die Zukunft der Makler - Perspektiven von Multiple Listing Service (MLS) am österreichischen Wohnimmobilienmarkt
Creators: name: Bock, Sandra
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Immobilienmakler
subject: Immobilientreuhänder
subject: Bestellerprinzip
subject: Doppelvertretung
subject: Immobilienmakler
subject: Immobilientreuhänder
subject: Bestellerprinzip
subject: Doppelvertretung

description: Am österreichischen Wohnimmobilienmarkt übersteigt derzeit die Nachfrage das Angebot und führt so zu einer relativ leichten Verwertbarkeit von Objekten trotz Preissteigerungen. Immobilienmakler, die zumindest in jedem zweiten Immobilientransaktionsprozess involviert sind, erhalten nach erfolgreicher Vermittlung eine Erfolgsprovision von beiden Seiten, d.h. vom Abgeber und vom Abnehmer. Die Tatsache der Doppelvertretung und die Höhe des Provisionsanspruchs führt regelmäßig zu Diskussion, zumal Konsumenten im Zuge der Digitalisierung vermehrt selbstständig nach Immobilien suchen und der Notwendigkeit bzw. dem Mehrwert eines Immobilienmaklers kritisch gegenüberstehen. Die Politik nutzt diesen Umstand um sich positionieren, in dem Sie die Wohnkostenbelastung für Konsumenten teils zu Lasten der Immobilienmakler senken. Es stellt sich die Frage wie sich diese Situation in Zukunft entwickeln wird und wie Immobilienmakler ihre Stellung nachhaltig sichern können. MLS Multiple Listing Service ist ein angloamerikanisches Modell, das auf Gemeinschaftsgeschäften basiert und Konsumenten einen Mehrwert durch Inanspruchnahme von Immobilienmaklern bietet. Ziel der Arbeit ist, auf Basis einer eingehenden Literaturrecherche und einschlägigen Experteninterviews herauszufinden, ob das Multiple Listing Service ein anwendbares Konzept für den österreichischen Wohnimmobilienmarkt darstellt und welche Schritte zu einer erfolgreichen Implementierung dieses Systems erforderlich sind.
Have the effects of shocks to oil price expectations changed?: Evidence from heteroskedastic proxy vector autoregressions
Creators: name: Bruns, Martin
name: Lütkepohl, Helmut
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Structural vector autoregression
subject: Heteroskedastic VAR
subject: Proxy VAR
subject: Crude oil market
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::330 Wirtschaft

description: Studies of the crude oil market based on structural vector autoregressive (VAR) models typically assume a time-invariant model and transmission of shocks and possibly allow for heteroskedasticity by using robust inference procedures. We assume a heteroskedastic reduced-form VAR model with time-invariant slope coefficients and explicitly consider the possibility of time-varying shock transmission due to heteroskedasticity. We study a model for the global crude oil market that includes key world and U.S. macroeconomic variables and find evidence for changes in the transmission of shocks to oil price expectations during the last decades which can be attributed to heteroskedasticity.
The Transformation of the Agricultural Administration in East Germany Before and After Unification
Creators: name: Wolz, Axel
name: Wolz, Axel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: transition
subject: agricultural administration
subject: unification
subject: Germany

description: With the collapse of the socialist regime in East Germany in late 1989 and the rising political call for unification in early 1990, a deep change of the institutional structure became necessary. The (agricultural) administration had to be totally restructured. This referred not only to substance, functions and tasks which had to be adjusted – similar to all other transition economies - to the market-economic and pluralistic democratic system, but also the whole administrative set-up had to be re-established in line with the West German system. Hence, a new administrative system had to be built up from scratch in the East, while the socialist one had to be dismantled in a short period. Overall, this institutional change seems to have been accomplished successfully as billions of Deutsch Mark could be processed by the agricultural administration in 1990 in order to avoid an imminent collapse of the agricultural sector. This administrative transformation was characterised by few rules, but a “pioneer spirit” among the staff involved which allowed a large degree of liberty in decision-making. The staff had to improvise and act pragmatically in order to get the tasks accomplished
title: Das Bieterverfahren und dessen Anwendung auf den Wiener Immobilienmarkt als Vermarktungsinstrument bei Immobilientransaktionen
Creators: name: Lukanz, Barbara
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Verkaufsprozesß
subject: Europäische Grundstücksmitteilung
subject: Versteigerung
subject: Experteninterview
subject: Auktion
subject: Feilbietung
subject: Verkaufsprozesß
subject: Europäische Grundstücksmitteilung
subject: Versteigerung
subject: Experteninterview
subject: Auktion
subject: Feilbietung

description: Diese Masterarbeit (Stand April 2018) beschäftigt sich mit strukturierten Verkaufsprozessen und erläutert insbesondere die Anwendbarkeit des Bieterverfahrens am Wiener Immobilienmarkt. Der erste Teil der Arbeit gibt einen Einblick in Immobilientransaktionen und vermittelt hier konkret Hintergrundwissen über die Vermarktung von Immobilien unter der Anwendung von strukturierten Verkaufsverfahren. Im Detail wird hier das Bieterverfahren aufgegriffen, analysiert und die wichtigsten Differenzen zu anderen strukturierten Verfahren wie der Auktion oder freiwilligen Feilbietung herausgearbeitet. Sowohl über ein informelles, einfaches Bieterverfahren als auch über ein formelles, umfangreiches, nach der Europäischen Grundstücksmitteilung, wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit gesprochen. Die Mitteilung hat die Aufgabe sicherzustellen, dass öffentliches Eigentum nicht unter Marktwert verkauft wird und betrifft ausschließlich Verkäufe von Grundstücken oder Bauten durch die öffentliche Hand. Ein formelles Bieterverfahren lt. Grundstücksmitteilung wird verpflichtend dann eingesetzt, wenn die öffentliche Hand involviert ist. Andere Bieterverfahren, die in der Branche vor allem im gewerblichen Bereich eingesetzt werden, sind meist informelle, die an die Vorgaben der Grundstücksmitteilung angelehnt werden. Im privaten Bereich, ausgenommen dem Zinshausmarkt, welcher dem gewerblichen Bereich zugeordnet werden kann, werden meist sehr vereinfachte Bieterverfahren eingesetzt. Im zweiten Teil, dem eigentlichen Hauptteil der Arbeit, wird dieses Verfahren auf Basis der Erkenntnisse eines leitfadengestützten Interviews von acht Immobilienexperten diskutiert und erläutert. Die Ergebnisse werden im Anschluss anhand der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet um die zu Beginn der Arbeit aufgestellten Hypothesen zu beantworten. Nach Richtigstellen der Hypothesen wird die Forschungsfrage in der Conclusio beantwortet. Das Verfahren wird in einem kritischen Ausblick hinterfragt. Hierauf werden mögliche Verbesserungen des Verfahrens aufgezeigt.
Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics with Coherent State Pion and Its Application to Excited Spectrum of 12C
Creators: name: Isshiki, Akinori
name: Naito, Kenichi
name: Ohnishi, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have introduced coherent state neutral pion into Antisymmetrized Molecular Dynamics. With the aid of coherent state technique, it becomes possible to calculate transition matrix elements of the pion field operator and to study excited states containing pions. For large pion-nucleon coupling fpiN > 1.6, pions have a finite expectation value and bring large energy gain in 12C. We discuss two aspects of pionic effects in spectroscopy; the LS interaction like effect and the mixing of different nucleon parity states, which would modify low energy nuclear levels.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Practical Alternatives to Estimate Opportunity Costs of Forest Conservation
Creators: name: Wunscher, Tobias
name: Engel, Stefanie
name: Wunder, Sven
name: Wunscher, Tobias
name: Engel, Stefanie
name: Wunder, Sven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Numerous studies have shown the merits of targeting the costs of conservation besides environmental benefits and aligning payments for ecosystem services with incurred costs. However, cost-effective and precise estimation of site specific opportunity costs is a major challenge. In this paper we test two approaches to estimate opportunity costs of conservation: One approach derives opportunity costs from annual land rents, and the other models regresses opportunity costs on easily obtainable and difficult to manipulate spatial and socio-economic independent variables such as soil quality. None of these approaches appeared to estimate opportunity costs sufficiently well. But since this judgment is based on how well the estimates compare to the reference opportunity costs, which were computed from farm budgets, we also considered potential flaws in the reference data and tested their plausibility. The tests confirmed the plausibility of data. Based on the results presented in this paper none of the two cost estimation approaches can be recommended for practical application in conservation programs. Yet, further research is necessary to confirm these findings giving special attention to the techniques that are applied to deliver reference point data on opportunity costs.
Molecular survey on vector-borne pathogens in clinically healthy stray cats in Zaragoza (Spain)
Creators: name: Villanueva-Saz, Sergio
name: Martínez, Marivi
name: Nijhof, Ard M.
name: Gerst, Bastian
name: Gentil, Michaela
name: Müller, Elisabeth
name: Fernández, Antonio
name: González, Ana
name: Yusuf, Mohamed Sh. Mohamud
name: Greco, Grazia
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Arthropod-transmitted infections
subject: Feline vector-borne infections
subject: Laboratory diagnostics
subject: PCR
subject: Tick-transmitted infections
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Background In Europe, feline vector-borne infections are gaining importance because of the changing climate, expanding habitats of potential vectors and expanding pathogen reservoirs. The main objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of vector-borne pathogens (VBPs) in stray cats in Zaragoza, Spain, and to investigate potential risk factors for infection, including feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). Methods Blood samples from stray cats presented to the veterinary faculty in Zaragoza between February 2020 and 2022 were tested by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the presence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Anaplasma platys, Bartonella henselae, Ehrlichia canis, Rickettsia spp., haemotropic Mycoplasma spp., Hepatozoon spp., Leishmania infantum, piroplasms and microfilariae at the LABOKLIN laboratory. The cats were also tested for FeLV and FIV by PCR. Results Nearly half of the cats (158/332, 47.6%) were positive for at least one VBP. Hepatozoon spp. were detected in 25.6%, haemotropic Mycoplasma spp. in 22.9%, B. henselae in 9.3% and L. infantum in 2.1% of the cats. Male sex had a statistically significant association with test results for haemotropic Mycoplasma spp. (odds ratio 1.38 [1.21;1.57]); regionality with Hepatozoon spp., B. henseale and FIV; and seasonality with Hepatozoon spp., haemotropic Mycoplasma spp., L. infantum and FeLV (P ≤ 0.05 each). A strong positive correlation was reported for the amount of rainfall and the number of cats that tested positive for Hepatozoon spp. (ρ = 753, P = 0.05). None of the cats tested positive for A. phagocytophilum, A. platys, E. canis, Rickettsia spp., piroplasms, or microfilariae. Co-infections with multiple VBPs were detected in 56 out of 332 cats (16.9%). Thirty-one of the 332 cats included in the study (9.3%) tested positive for FeLV (6.9%) and for FIV (3.6%). In 20/31 cats (64.5%) that tested positive for FeLV/FIV, coinfections with VBP were detected (P = 0.048, OR 2.15 [0.99; 4.64]). Conclusions VBPs were frequently detected in stray cats in Zaragoza. In particular, regionality and seasonality had a statistically significant association with PCR results for most VBPs included in the study.
Opportunity Costs as a Determinant of Participation in Payments for Ecosystem Service Schemes
Creators: name: Wunscher, Tobias
name: Engel, Stefanie
name: Wunder, Sven
name: Wunscher, Tobias
name: Engel, Stefanie
name: Wunder, Sven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Landholders are generally assumed to be willing to participate in payments for ecosystem service (PES) schemes if the offered payment exceeds the opportunity cost of participation. The calculation of opportunity costs is often based on historic financial data such as net returns of the formerly practiced land use. Reliable estimates of opportunity costs are required especially in flexible, cost-aligned payment schemes with differentiated payments at the farm scale. We question whether opportunity cost estimates that do not consider personal landholder characteristics such as risk considerations, information access and non-monetary personal preferences (e.g. for traditional land use practices) are sufficient to explain a landholder's decision to enrol land in PES. To test these assumptions, a PES adoption model was developed for hypothetical adoption decisions by 178 landholders in Costa Rica. The model explained up to 73.5% (Nagelkerkes pseudo R2) of adoption variance. The results confirm that adoption is not determined by financial costs alone. Trust in state institutions, for example, was highly significant. The results call for more integrated methods of opportunity cost estimation such as inverse auctions. Their strength lies, among others, in that all adoption determinants are potentially expressed in the landholder's bid.
Constraining Nucleosynthesis in Two CEMP Progenitors Using Fluorine
Creators: name: Mura-Guzmán, A.
name: Yong, D.
name: Abate, C.
name: Karakas, A.
name: Kobayashi, C.
name: Oh, H.
name: Chun, S.
name: Mace, G.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new fluorine abundance estimations in two carbon enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars, HE 1429-0551 and HE 1305+0007. HE 1429-0551 is also enriched in slow neutron-capture process (s-process) elements, a CEMP-s, and HE 1305+0007 is enhanced in both, slow and rapid neutron-capture process elements, a CEMP-s/r. The F abundances estimates are derived from the vibration-rotation transition of the HF molecule at 23358.6 A using high-resolution infrared spectra obtained with the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) at the 4m-class Lowell Discovery Telescope. Our results include a F abundance measurement in HE 1429-0551 of A(F) = +3.93 ([F/Fe] = +1.90) at [Fe/H] = -2.53, and a F upper limit in HE 1305+0007 of A(F) < +3.28 ([F/Fe] < +1.00) at [Fe/H] = -2.28. Our new derived F abundance in HE 1429-0551 makes this object the most metal-poor star where F has been detected. We carefully compare these results with literature values and state-of-the-art CEMP-s model predictions including detailed AGB nucleosynthesis and binary evolution. The modelled fluorine abundance for HE 1429-0551 is within reasonable agreement with our observed abundance, although is slightly higher than our observed value. For HE 1429-0551, our findings support the scenario via mass transfer by a primary companion during its thermally-pulsing phase. Our estimated upper limit in HE 1305+0007, along with data from the literature, shows large discrepancies compared with AGB models. The discrepancy is principally due to the simultaneous s- and r-process element enhancements which the model struggles to reproduce.
description: 12 pages, 5 Figures -- Accepted in MNRAS
Is the Sicily Channel a simple Rifting Zone? New evidence from seismic analysis with geodynamic implications
Creators: name: Maiorana, Mariagiada
name: Artoni, Andrea
name: Le Breton, Eline
name: Sulli, Attilio
name: Chizzini, Nicolò
name: Torelli, Luigi
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sicily Channel
subject: Tectonic inversion
subject: Tectionic extension
subject: Rifting zone
subject: Volcanic manifestation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: The Sicily Channel is characterized by the presence of prominent WNW-oriented grabens (Pantelleria, Malta, Linosa Graben) which would point out a main extensional phase within this part of the northern African plate. However, the analysis of both seismic and wells data shows evidence of tectonic reactivation and contractional events in a N-S oriented band crossing the Gela Thrust System and the Malta and Linosa Grabens. We present and discuss the timing of the different deformation phases and their potential geodynamic framework with regard to the regional Africa and Europe convergence. We suggest four main deformation phases affecting the Sicily Channel in Neogene time: 1) a contractional phase, related to the thrusting of the Sicily Fold-and-Thrust Belt in the Upper Miocene, related to the evolution of the regional Western Mediterranean Subduction Zone, 2) an extensional phase with the opening of the main grabens in Lower Pliocene, related to the fast rollback of the Calabrian Slab to the East-Southeast of the Sicily Channel, 3) a Plio-Pleistocene contractional phase with inversion structures within the grabens and onset of transpressive deformation along the Capo Granitola-Sciacca Fault Zone (CGSFZ) and Scicli Ragusa Fault System (SRFS), related to the advance of the Gela Thrust System, and 4) a presently active, mild contractional phase affecting the area between the CGFFZ and SRFS, in particular the Malta and Linosa Graben, which might be related to a regional plate reorganization and potential subduction polarity switch north of Sicily.
Supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum mechanics in various dimensions
Creators: name: Wosiek, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent analytical and numerical solutions of the above systems are reviewed. Discussed results include: a) exact construction of the supersymmetric vacua in two space-time dimensions, and b) precise numerical calculations of the coexisting continuous and discrete spectra in the four-dimensional system, together with the identification of dynamical supermultiplets and SUSY vacua. New construction of the gluinoless SO(9) singlet state, which is vastly different from the empty state, in the ten-dimensional model is also briefly summarized.
description: Talk presented at the Eighth Workshop on Non-Perturbative QCD, Paris, June 2004; 8 pages, 4 figures
GLIDESCOPECLIP_3 (printed and tested in study).STL
Creators: name: Turkstra, Timothy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Anesthesiology

description: Clip to allow en bloc insertion of the ETT with the GlideScope Titanium. Avoids blind advancement of the ETT to prevent trauma. In testing, also averaged 5.8 seconds quicker intubation.
Generalized Bianchi identities in gauge-natural field theories and the curvature of variational principles
Creators: name: Francaviglia, M.
name: Palese, M.
name: Winterroth, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58A20;58A32;58E30

description: By resorting to Noether's Second Theorem, we relate the generalized Bianchi identities for Lagrangian field theories on gauge-natural bundles with the kernel of the associated gauge-natural Jacobi morphism. A suitable definition of the curvature of gauge-natural variational principles can be consequently formulated in terms of the Hamiltonian connection canonically associated with a generalized Lagrangian obtained by contracting field equations.
description: 12 pages, minor changes, references list updated; presented at XXXVI Symposium on Math. Phys., Torun 09/06-12/06/04; v4 to appear in Rep. Math. Phys
Magnetic-field-induced nontrivial electronic state in the Kondo-lattice semimetal CeSb
Creators: name: Fang, Y.
name: Tang, F.
name: Ruan, Y. R.
name: Zhang, J. M.
name: Zhang, H.
name: Gu, H.
name: Zhao, W. Y.
name: Han, Z. D.
name: Tian, W.
name: Qian, B.
name: Jiang, X. F.
name: Zhang, X. M.
name: Ke, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synergic effect of electronic correlation and spin-orbit coupling is an emerging topic in topological materials. Central to this rapidly developing area are the prototypes of strongly correlated heavy-fermion systems. Recently, some Ce-based compounds are proposed to host intriguing topological nature, among which the electronic properties of CeSb are still under debate. In this paper, we report a comprehensive study combining magnetic and electronic transport measurements, and electronic band structure calculations of this compound to identify its topological nature. Quantum oscillations are clearly observed in both magnetization and magnetoresistance at high fields, from which one pocket with a nontrivial Berry phase is recognized. Angular-dependent magnetoresistance shows that this pocket is elongated in nature and corresponds to the electron pocket as observed in LaBi. Nontrivial electronic structure of CeSb is further confirmed by first-principle calculations, which arises from spin splitting in the fully polarized ferromagnetic state. These features indicate that magnetic-field can induce nontrivial topological electronic states in this prototypical Kondo semimetal.
International Variability in Biofuel Trade: An Assessment of U.S. Policies
Creators: name: Yano, Yuki
name: Blandford, David
name: Surry, Yves R.
name: Yano, Yuki
name: Blandford, David
name: Surry, Yves R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Ethanol Exports
subject: Biofuel Policies
subject: Variability

description: Although the United States has typically been in a position to import ethanol, corn-based ethanol exports are surging as the domestic market becomes saturated and world prices rise due to high prices for sugar, the competing global feedstock. The U.S. is now the world’s leading ethanol producer but domestic demand is constrained because of technical limitations in the current vehicle fleet. Higher ethanol blends have been approved for use (15% rather than 10%) but a limited number of vehicles that can use such higher blends. Infrastructure constraints also affect the potential supply of higher ethanol blends. As a result of these factors, U.S. biofuel policies can have significant implications for the world ethanol market. Usage mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard, blender tax credits, and the blend wall can interact to generate excess supplies of ethanol that are likely to be diverted to the world market. This paper examines how fluctuations in corn yield and gasoline prices affect the excess supply of U.S. corn-based ethanol in the presence of alternative assumptions about the maximum amount of ethanol that can be consumed domestically. Using stochastic simulations we also explore the impact of current policies on the mean and variance of export supply. The results highlight the complex interaction between technological constraints, economic incentives, and government policies in the U.S. biofuels sector, and point to the potentially destabilizing effect of such policies in international markets.
Large Deviations for Random Power Moment Problem
Creators: name: Gamboa, Fabrice
name: Lozada-Chang, Li-Vang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10, 30E05. (Primary)

description: We consider the set M_n of all n-truncated power moment sequences of probability measures on [0,1]. We endow this set with the uniform probability. Picking randomly a point in M_n, we show that the upper canonical measure associated with this point satisfies a large deviation principle. Moderate deviation are also studied completing earlier results on asymptotic normality given by \citeauthorChKS93 [Ann. Probab. 21 (1993) 1295-1309]. Surprisingly, our large deviations results allow us to compute explicitly the (n+1)th moment range size of the set of all probability measures having the same n first moments. The main tool to obtain these results is the representation of M_n on canonical moments [see the book of \citeauthorDS97].
description: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000559