cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effects of the FTAA on the Organization of the Eastern Caribbean States
Creators: name: Jolly, Curtis M.
name: Kudos Almarwani, Abdul
name: Jolly, Curtis M.
name: Kudos Almarwani, Abdul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has recently experienced serious economic and structural changes resulting from the World Trade Organization (WTO) rulings on their major export crops. With a declining agricultural industry and generally depressed economies, the countries are forced to decide whether they become part of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), or remain out of the proposed union. These countries have been conducting both internal and external evaluations to determine the economic direction to follow to bolster their economies. The islands face dilemmas if they become members of the FTAA. One of the dilemmas we will examine here is the loss of welfare from the reduction of export subsidies on imports from the United States and its probable impact on OECS economies and intra -regional trade once the OECS becomes a member of the FTAA. The formation of the FTAA and the adoption of a common external tariff (CET) may force members of the OECS to buy high-priced goods from member countries. Using rice as a case in point we show that the most efficient producers of rice are Vietnam and Thailand. Vietnam produces rice at US$110 per ton, whereas Guyana has an average cost of US$144.00 per ton compared to Arkansas and Texas, with average costs of US$205.22 and US$247.68, respectively. Under a free trade scenario, in the absence of transport cost, assuming that rice is a homogeneous product, and that Vietnam can supply the world deficit at constant cost, Vietnam will become the ultimate supplier of rice. With the Common external tariff (CET), the FTAA becomes trade-diverting because it limits imports from more efficient rice producers, such as Thailand and Vietnam, in favor of rice from Guyana. The decision to purchase rice from Guyana only depends on whether all trade promotion activities that include elements of export subsidies are eliminated.
Environmental Issues in the FTAA
Creators: name: Colyer, Dale
name: Colyer, Dale
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: Environmental issues have become important in trade agreement negotiations. NAFTA explicitly includes environmental provisions and they are affecting ongoing WTO and FTAA negotiations. The final role of the environment in the FTAA is uncertain, given opposition by most of the members. The draft FTTA agreement does not contain a separate section on the environment, but a US position paper indicates that environmental provisions are important and that US negotiators will seek to incorporate environmental concerns into specific chapters such those on investment and agriculture. The large number and varied economic and environmental conditions of the several countries in the FTAA, will make it difficult to include meaningful environmental provisions in the agreement, but environmentalists are seeking and the inclusion of such provisions in the NAFTA and WTO agreements will tend to make it difficult to get approval of future agreements that do not address environmental issues or at least that do not guard against creating pollution havens or that encourage laxness in environmental protection. This paper examines environmental and trade issues in the context of the FTAA negotiations including analyses of environmental conditions in the region and the pros and cons of their inclusion in the FTAA and other trade agreements.
The United States Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002: Implications for CARICOM Sugar Producers
Creators: name: Evans, Edwards A.
name: Rankine, Lloyd B.
name: Evans, Edwards A.
name: Rankine, Lloyd B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: Trading Issues: Future of Export Agriculture — Traditional and Non-traditional Although the final version of the 2002 US Farm Bill, dubbed, The Farm Security Act of 2001, has not yet been agreed upon, on the basis of the versions submitted by the US House of Senate there are likely to be major changes to the US sugar program that will undoubtedly impact the Caribbean sugar producers. Such changes are aimed at bolstering the ailing US sugar program that is proving to be both difficult and expensive to administer in a manner that continues to provide stability to the US growers at minimum cost to the government treasury. Expanding domestic production, increasing imports and international commitments under the WTO and NAFTA have within recent years severely weakened the effectiveness of the Program and have wreaked havoc in the industry. Among the changes proposed are the following: (a) increasing the minimum level of sugar imports from 1.13 million metric tons (MMT) to 1.38; (b) providing the US Secretary of Agriculture with the discretion to adjust the loan rates; (c) requiring that the program be administered at no net cost to the Federal government; and (d) reinstating the marketing allotment for domestically grown sugar. With the use of a modified version of a World Sugar Policy Simulation Model the impacts of these likely changes on US domestic consumption and production of sugar are analyzed and implications drawn fro the CARICON-US sugar quota holders.
Additional file 1 of Age effect on in vitro fertilization pregnancy mediated by anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) and modified by follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Creators: name: Han-Chih Hsieh
name: Su, Jia-Ying
name: Shunping Wang
name: Yen-Tsung Huang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1 Sensitivity analyses, in order to assess the robustness of our estimates.
Implications of Modernizing the Sugar Industry of Belize
Creators: name: Parham, Wendel D.J.
name: Parham, Wendel D.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Sugar Industry
subject: Challenges
subject: Trade liberalization
subject: Preferential Markets
subject: Poor Organizational Framework
subject: Modernization
subject: Restructure
subject: Competitive

description: The sugar industry of Belize is faced with challenges from within and without. Trade liberalization and policy adjustment measures, on the international front, brought increased pressures on the preferential markets for sugar affecting both volume and price levels. The internal challenges are related to a poor organizational framework, outdated legislation, low productivity and efficiency of sugarcane production, harvesting and delivery, a high level of indebtedness and an associated low level of investment. The paper will present the status of the sugar industry of Belize, the rationale for the modernization of the sugar industry, the steps being taken to modernize the sugar industry and the implications of the modernization process for the sugar sector and the economy of Belize. There is an urgent need to drastically restructure the industry in order to make it more competitive and to ensure its growth and survival as a solid economic pillar in Belize's development.
Education, awareness and re-localization of the UBC Food System
Creators: name: Bawa, Renu
name: Chu, Bonnie
name: Gobes, Monique
name: Lee, Eun-Ae
name: Nguyen, Linda
name: Sproule, Flora
name: Yau, Kathleen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Re-localization of the University of British Columbia’s food system will enable it to become more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable. There are many benefits to consuming locally grown or processed foods over items that travel great distances. We define our local food system to be within the province of British Columbia. Currently, there is relatively little awareness and support for re-localization from the consumers who purchase food at UBC. A successful food system re-localization program must address consumer education, through targeting different student, staff, and faculty populations. The findings of previous groups of the UBC Food System Project, as well as survey results and additional literature reviews by this team, have been used to help us develop strategies that can be implemented to educate consumers. Social marketing and other theories of behaviour change can also be used as a theoretical framework to develop our plans. Any recommendations that we wish to implement must have some evidence that it will be effective in reaching our target populations within UBC consumers. We must also appreciate financial constraints since the food system must remain economically viable. Some recommendations that we believe would be effective include promoting the Buy BC marketing campaign, the use of well-developed, aesthetically pleasing visuals, stickers and pamphlets, holding an awareness-building Food Week targeting new undergraduate students, and promoting other food-related events. Finally, it is important to work collaboratively with our partners, UBC Food Services and AMS Food and Beverage. A successful re-localization campaign at UBC must address the consumers using multiple strategies. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Measuring the Competitiveness of Sugar
Creators: name: Hibbert, Barrington
name: Johnson-Miller, Carol
name: Hibbert, Barrington
name: Johnson-Miller, Carol
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: Competitiveness is important for Jamaica's agriculture and specifically sugar, as the instruments of protection are gradually being removed. Sugar producers and sugar interests in Jamaica are concerned that one day they may not benefit from the present preferential agreements for sugar sales to the European community and the United States. A new agreement reached in the year 2000 with the European Union extends Jamaica's preferential treatment to 2008. The study used two indicators namely: "Relative Quasi-tents" and Nominal Rate of Protection" to measure competitiveness. Results of this study suggests that 92% of the farms with 3.3 hectares or less of sugar realized modest quasi-rents that were only about 1.6 times the opportunity cost of owner-operator labour. The comparable figure for producers of 16 hectares of sugarcane was 7.3 times the opportunity cost of owner operator labour. Nominal rates of protection estimated here for the 1990-2000 period indicate that domestic producers have been receiving prices for sugarcane that are about two times the equivalent free market world prices. This is a result of the country's preferential marketing agreement with the European community and the United States. The study points out that Jamaica's sugarcane yields are low, the sugar content of the cane is low, production costs are high and cane ills are currently inefficient.
First Observation of a Upsilon(1D) State
Creators: name: Bonvicini, G.
name: Collaboration, CLEO
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first evidence for the production of Upsilon(1D) states in the four-photon cascade, Upsilon(3S)-->gamma chib(2P), chib(2P)-->gamma Upsilon(1D), Upsilon(1D)-->gamma chib(1P), chib(1P)-->gamma Upsilon(1S), followed by the Upsilon(1S) annihilation into e+e- or mu+mu-. The signal has a significance of 10.2 standard deviations. The measured product branching ratio for these five decays, (2.5+-0.5+-0.5)x10^(-5), is consistent with the theoretical estimates. The data are dominated by the production of one Upsilon(1D) state consistent with the J=2 assignment. Its mass is determined to be (10161.1+-0.6+-1.6) MeV, which is consistent with the predictions from potential models and lattice QCD calculations. We also searched for Upsilon(3S)-->gammachib(2P), chib(2P)-->gammaUpsilon(1D), followed by either Upsilon(1D)-->eta Upsilon(1S) or Upsilon(1D)-->pi+pi- Upsilon(1S). We find no evidence for such decays and set upper limits on the product branching ratios.
description: 12 pages postscript,also available through this http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS/, submitted to PRD
The Broiler Industry in St. Lucia: Status, Competitiveness and Development Policies
Creators: name: Fevrier, Lench
name: Fevrier, Lench
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: Local production of Poultry products in St. Lucia is uncompetitive. However, the industry does have the potential to contribute meaningfully to, amongst other things, Gross Domestic Product and employment. An comparison of the cost of producing broiler meat in St Lucia with producing it in Trinidad and Tobago enables the identification of key cost disadvantages, such as feed and packaging costs, which, if improved, could enhance the competitiveness of the local industry significantly. St. Lucia remains generally uncompetitive with regards to imports from the USA even after adjustment for cost disadvantages. However, the competitive position as was indicated by the Nominal Protection Coefficient (NPC), improved significantly vis-à-vis imports of broiler products from Trinidad and Tobago after adjustments for cost disadvantages were made. The recommendations include improving plant capacity utilisation, the procurement of packaging materials, feed and chicks from cheaper sources and at bulk rates. The development of pluck shops would reduce significant costs such as electricity. Recommendations also included policies changes such as the removal of the current 20% import regime, the commissioning of a study to determine the optimum market structure of the broiler industry, and the development of niche marketing strategies.
Screening of sources in higher representations of SU(N) gauge theories at zero and finite temperature
Creators: name: Gliozzi, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Completion of the Svetitsky-Yaffe conjecture in some (2+1) dimensional SU(N) gauge theories allows mapping Polyakov loops in higher representations of the gauge group into suitable conformal operators of the corresponding 2D CFT. As a consequence, the critical exponents of the correlators of these Polyakov loops are determined. The functional form of these correlators suggests a general Ansatz to describe the large-distance screening of higher-representation sources at zero temperature in any space-time dimension. A generalised Wilson loop in which along part of its trajectory a source is converted in a gauge invariant way into higher representations with same N-ality could be used to estimate the decay scale of the unstable strings
description: Talk presented at Lattice2005 (Finite Temperature and Density), Dublin, July 25-30, 2005; 6 pages, 1 figure, uses PoS.cls; to appear in Proceedings of Science
Back-reaction in strong field QED: a toy model
Creators: name: Ekman, Robin
name: Ilderton, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a toy model for QED in strong background fields, we consider the impact of back-reaction and loop effects on scattering processes in quantum optics. We show that neglecting back-reaction misses qualitative and quantitative features of strong-field physics. We are able to study an analogue of the Narozhny-Ritus conjecture on the scaling of higher loop diagrams with intensity: we prove that there is no corresponding behaviour in our model. Implications for QED are identified and discussed.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. v2: typo corrected
Une region explicite sans zero pour la fonction Zeta de Riemann
Creators: name: Kadiri, Habiba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M26

description: The Riemann Zeta function $ζ(s)$ never vanishes in the region : $$ \Re s \ge 1- \frac1{5.70176 \log |\Im s|} \quad \quad (|\Im s| \ge 2). $$
description: 32 pages
An Optimal Solution for Dynamic Polar Diagram
Creators: name: Ehsanfar, Ebrahim
name: Bigham, Bahram Sadeghi
name: Najmeh Madadi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Science

description: The Polar Diagram [1] of a set of points (i.e. sites) is a partition of the plane. It is a locus approach for problems processing angles. Also, Dynamic Polar Diagram problem is a problem in which some points can be added to or removed from the point set of the Polar Diagram. Sadeghi et al. [4] introduced this problem and solved it using an algorithm which is optimal in the case that some points are deleted from the set. But this algorithm is not optimal when some new points are inserted into the diagram. In this paper, we present an algorithm to solve the Dynamic Polar Diagram in optimal time in which we insert some new points into the diagram one by one. Our approach applies only on the regions that would be changed and solves the problem for each insertion in O(k + log n) time, in which 1 ≤ k≤n is the number of the sites which their regions would be changed.
Additional file 3 of Including oxygen supplement in the early warning score: a prediction study comparing TOKS, modified TOKS and NEWS in a cohort of emergency patients
Creators: name: Skov, Juhl
name: Dynesen, Jacob
name: Jessen, Marie K.
name: Liesanth, Janet Yde
name: Mackenhauer, Julie
name: Kirkegaard, Hans
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 3 : Figure S1 Distribution of EWS and mortality in the study population
A Trade Competitiveness Study of the Vegetable and Fruit Industry of Trinidad and Tobago
Creators: name: Seepersad, Govind
name: Seepersad, Govind
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: The vegetable industry in Trinidad and Tobago provides more than 75% of the fresh vegetables consumed in this country. Vegetables are produced using intensive, semi-intensive and subsistence systems and most are traded at the wholesale and municipal markets located in the main towns and cities. Some fruits, such as watermelon and pineapples are also produced using intensive systems, while others such as citrus use both intensive and semi-intensive systems. The industry employs a significant number of rural, sub-urban and urban residents in production, marketing and other facilitating services. It also plays a strategic role in the nutrition of the nation given the high per capita consumption and the capacity of the local industry to satisfy this demand: In the Uruguay Round of the WTO that was implemented in January 1995, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago adopted a system of relatively low tariffs that offered very little protection to the local industry against competition from imports. Additionally, during the period of structural adjustment of the economy that included liberalisation of the domestic market, the industry adjusted to a system of reduced support and increased competition. This has led to the production and sale of vegetables and fruits at some of the lowest prices in the CARICOM region Within recent years however, there has been significant increases in the importation of certain fresh vegetables, some of which are produced locally. This has lead farmers to express their concern and dismay, given that the country has the production capability. The Nominal Protection Coefficient was computed using prices for fresh agricultural produce from Miami Terminal Market, as well as domestic wholesale market prices during 2000/01. This was used to assess the price competitiveness of the domestic fresh produce industry against imports. From the results obtained, a 68% tariff (maximum) will be required to protect the cauliflower industry against imports from the USA. The other commodities of the study (tomato, melongene, cabbage, pineapples and papaya) are quite competitive and no tariff protection is required, except for tomato during certain short periods of scarcity. Given these results, it will be difficult to support an argument against free trade or to ask for protection for the vegetable industry in Trinidad and Tobago in the upcoming WTO negotiations.
Two-chamber lattice model for thermodiffusion in polymer solutions
Creators: name: Luettmer-Strathmann, Jutta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a temperature gradient is applied to a polymer solution, the polymer typically migrates to the colder regions of the fluid as a result of thermal diffusion (Soret effect). However, in recent thermodiffusion experiments on poly(ethylene-oxide) (PEO) in a mixed ethanol/water solvent it is observed that for some solvent compositions the polymer migrates to the cold side, while for other compositions it migrates to the warm side. In order to understand this behavior, we have developed a two-chamber lattice model approach to investigate thermodiffusion in dilute polymer solutions. For a short polymer chain in an incompressible, one-component solvent we obtain exact results for the partitioning of the polymer between a warm and a cold chamber. In order to describe mixtures of PEO, ethanol, and water, we have extended this simple model to account for compressibility and hydrogen bonding between PEO and water molecules. For this complex system, we obtain approximate results for the composition in the warmer and cooler chambers that allow us to calculate Soret coefficients for given temperature, pressure, and solvent composition. The sign of the Soret coefficient is found to change from negative (polymer enriched in warmer region) to positive (polymer enriched in cooler region) as the water content of the solution is increased, in agreement with experimental data. We also investigate the temperature dependence of the Soret effect and find that a change in temperature can induce a change in the sign of the Soret coefficient. We note a close relationship between the solvent quality and the partitioning of the polymer between the two chambers, which may explain why negative Soret coefficients for polymers are so rarely observed.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Excited meson spectroscopy with chirally improved fermions
Creators: name: Burch, T.
name: Gattringer, C.
name: Glozman, L.
name: Hagen, C.
name: Hierl, D.
name: Lang, C. B.
name: Schäfer, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present excited meson masses from quenched calculations using chirally improved (CI) quarks at pion masses down to 350 MeV. The salient features of our analysis are the use of a matrix of correlators from various source and sink operators and a basis which includes quark sources with different spatial widths, thereby improving overlap with states exhibiting radial excitations.
description: 6 pages, Lattice 2005 parallel talk
Design of Compact Huygens' Metasurface Pairs with Multiple Reflections for Arbitrary Wave Transformations
Creators: name: Ataloglou, Vasileios G.
name: Dorrah, Ayman H.
name: Eleftheriades, George V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Huygens' metasurfaces have demonstrated a remarkable potential to perform wave transformations within a subwavelength region. In particular, omega-bianisotropic Huygens' metasurfaces have allowed for the passive implementation of any wave transformation that conserves real power locally. Previous reports have also shown that Huygens' metasurface pairs are capable of realizing transformations that break the local power conservation requirement by redistributing the total power, while the wave propagates between the two metasurfaces. However, the required separation distance overshadows the low-profile characteristics of the individual metasurfaces and leads to bulky designs, especially for lower frequencies. In this work, we develop a method of designing omega-bianisotropic Huygens' metasurface pairs, relying on a point-matching process of the real power at the two metasurfaces. We highlight the versatility of our method by presenting two variations of the configuration, depending on whether the electromagnetic source is located within or outside the metasurface pair. Based on the examples of a cylindrical-wave to plane-wave transformation and a beam expander, we examine the impact of multiple reflections, as a way to overcome the size limitations and design compact structures. Moreover, we explore possible beamforming applications through an example of a Taylor-pattern antenna with a single feed-point between the two metasurfaces.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures
Food Security: A Neglected Dimension of Caribbean Agriculture Policy
Creators: name: Thomas, Clive Y.
name: Thomas, Clive Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
International Development

description: At the World Food Summit in 1996, 186 countries including those of CAR1COM adopted the "Rome Declaration", which among other things expressed the: "Commitment to achieving food security for all and to an ongoing effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015". The number of such persons was then estimated at 840 million and the target of 400 million persons was set for 2015. Five years later the Summit recently re-convened in (June 2002) to evaluate the progress or lack of it in meeting this target. Despite the unprecedented character of these conferences and the undoubted political weight attached to them, they have barely found echoes in public debates in the Caribbean. This paper explores issues of food security as they concern the Region. It does so from two vantage points namely, (1) by reconnoitering global efforts and targets aimed at reducing food insecurity and (2) by drawing attention to the prevailing conditions and policy responses to agricultural decline and stagnation along with the persistence of strong pockets of poverty, high levels of inequality and the consequent impact on the state of hunger, nutrition, and food insecurity.
MSLED: A Minimal Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions Scenario
Creators: name: Burgess, C. P.
name: Matias, J.
name: Quevedo, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a framework for the low-energy realization of supersymmetry which is very predictive, but differs radically in its phenomenological implications from the supersymmetric Standard Model (minimal or otherwise). The proposal consists of a supersymmetric version of the Large-Extra-Dimensions scenario, with the Standard Model living on a 3-brane, coupled to a bulk sector consisting of six-dimensional supergravity. This picture is motivated by a promising recent attempt (hep-th/0304256) to naturally understand the observed dark energy density, and this connection with dark energy prevents making the extra dimensions smaller than of order 5 $μ$m. The resulting inability to change this size makes the model very predictive, and easily falsifiable within the near future. Being supersymmetric, it may plausibly be embedded into a more fundamental theory such as string theory, in which case an additional 4 compact dimensions may also be present having inverse radii at the TeV scale or higher. The model is close to, but consistent with, current experimental constraints. We outline possible phenomenological implications for particle physics (both at accelerators and elsewhere), for precision tests of gravity, for astrophysics and for cosmology.
description: 34 pages, added references
Additional file 2 of Including oxygen supplement in the early warning score: a prediction study comparing TOKS, modified TOKS and NEWS in a cohort of emergency patients
Creators: name: Skov, Juhl
name: Dynesen, Jacob
name: Jessen, Marie K.
name: Liesanth, Janet Yde
name: Mackenhauer, Julie
name: Kirkegaard, Hans
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2 : Table S2 National Early Warning Score – NEWS
Scaling relations in equilibrium nonextensive thermostatistics
Creators: name: Abe, Sumiyoshi
name: Rajagopal, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The forms of Euler and Gibbs-Duhem relations discussed in thermodynamics of extensive systems are shown to hold also for nonextensive systems with long-range interactions with a novel interpretation of entities appearing therein. In this way, the principles underlying Tsallis' scaling relations in equilibrium nonextensive thermostatistics are clarified.
description: 10 pages, no figures, Eqs. (4)-(7) are corrected
Deep Autotuner: a Pitch Correcting Network for Singing Performances
Creators: name: Wager, Sanna
name: Tzanetakis, George
name: Wang, Cheng-i
name: Kim, Minje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We introduce a data-driven approach to automatic pitch correction of solo singing performances. The proposed approach predicts note-wise pitch shifts from the relationship between the respective spectrograms of the singing and accompaniment. This approach differs from commercial systems, where vocal track notes are usually shifted to be centered around pitches in a user-defined score, or mapped to the closest pitch among the twelve equal-tempered scale degrees. The proposed system treats pitch as a continuous value rather than relying on a set of discretized notes found in musical scores, thus allowing for improvisation and harmonization in the singing performance. We train our neural network model using a dataset of 4,702 amateur karaoke performances selected for good intonation. Our model is trained on both incorrect intonation, for which it learns a correction, and intentional pitch variation, which it learns to preserve. The proposed deep neural network with gated recurrent units on top of convolutional layers shows promising performance on the real-world score-free singing pitch correction task of autotuning.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1902.00956
LONG-RUN SIMULATIONS WITH GTAP: Illustrative Results from APEC Trade Liberalisation
Creators: name: Walmsley, Terrie L.
name: Walmsley, Terrie L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: In static applied general equilibrium models, the exogenous/endogenous split between variables (or closure) is used to infer the time frame over which the effects of a shock are simulated. This paper introduces a longrun closure for the GTAP model (Hertel and Tsigas, 1997) and uses this closure to simulate and compare the short-run and long-run effects of Asia- Pacific trade liberalisation. The approach explored here incorporates some relatively minor changes to existing GTAP theory in order to define a steady state in which growth rates of all real variables are uniform. Such uniformity must apply in the initial database (as well as in the post-shock solution). So to implement the new long run in GTAP a new initial database must first be• created. Details concerning the creation of the new database are given, and results under the new approach are compared with those obtained under the old. The emphasis of this paper is on the development of a long-run closure in which the percentage change form equations of the model and the relationships between the levels variables in the GTAP database are consistent. Further research is required into these types of long-run closures to incorporate changes in ownership of capital to ensure that changes in welfare are adequately modelled. In the results reported here, GDP is not a useful guide to national welfare. The long-run closures introduced here are also compared with another comparative static long-run closure developed for GTAP by Francois, MacDonald and Nordstrom (1996).
Kraus representation of destruction of states for one qudit
Creators: name: Caban, P.
name: Smolinski, K. A.
name: Walczak, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum operations arise naturally in many fields of quantum information theory and quantum computing. One of the simplest example of quantum operation is the von Neumann-Lueders measurement. Destruction of states in quantum mechanics can be treated as a supplement to the von Neumann-Lueders measurement [P. Caban, J. Rembielinski, K. A. Smolinski and Z. Walczak, J. Phys. A 35, 3265 (2002)]. We show that destruction of states in one-qudit system is a quantum operation by finding its Kraus representation.
description: 2 pp
Rotation of the Universe and the angular momenta of celestial bodies
Creators: name: Godlowski, Wlodzimierz
name: Szydlowski, Marek
name: Flin, Piotr
name: Biernacka, Monika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the equation of motion of the rotating homogenous and isotropic model of the Universe. We show that the model predicts the presence of a minimum in the relation between the mass of an astronomical object and its angular momentum. We show that this relation appears to be universal, and we predict the masses of structures with minimal angular momenta in agreement with observations. In such a manner we suggest the possibility at acquirement of angular momenta of celestial bodies during their formation from the global rotation of the Universe.
description: 10 pages 2 figures
SARS: molecular evidence for an unnatural origin
Creators: name: Jankovic, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: SARS is shown to have a recombinant ancestry comprised of a backbone from a Chinese/South East Asian lineage bat virus, and the Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) from a virus of African or European lineage. Aside from the geographical hurdle of such a union occurring naturally, the RBD incorporates additional substitutions and insertions that appear designed to enhance binding affinity non-specifically, disproportionately favoring residues that form strong hydrogen bonds and salt bridges. Few of these are conserved in related bat coronaviruses and there are additional indications that they may have been introduced artificially.
Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge-Based Modeling for Scalable Forecasting and Subgrid-Scale Closure of Large, Complex, Spatiotemporal Systems
Creators: name: Wikner, Alexander
name: Pathak, Jaideep
name: Hunt, Brian
name: Girvan, Michelle
name: Arcomano, Troy
name: Szunyogh, Istvan
name: Pomerance, Andrew
name: Ott, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the commonly encountered situation (e.g., in weather forecasting) where the goal is to predict the time evolution of a large, spatiotemporally chaotic dynamical system when we have access to both time series data of previous system states and an imperfect model of the full system dynamics. Specifically, we attempt to utilize machine learning as the essential tool for integrating the use of past data into predictions. In order to facilitate scalability to the common scenario of interest where the spatiotemporally chaotic system is very large and complex, we propose combining two approaches:(i) a parallel machine learning prediction scheme; and (ii) a hybrid technique, for a composite prediction system composed of a knowledge-based component and a machine-learning-based component. We demonstrate that not only can this method combining (i) and (ii) be scaled to give excellent performance for very large systems, but also that the length of time series data needed to train our multiple, parallel machine learning components is dramatically less than that necessary without parallelization. Furthermore, considering cases where computational realization of the knowledge-based component does not resolve subgrid-scale processes, our scheme is able to use training data to incorporate the effect of the unresolved short-scale dynamics upon the resolved longer-scale dynamics ("subgrid-scale closure").
description: 45 pages, 15 figures
Intreegrated: A Comprehensive Strategy for Value-Driven Utilisation of Douglas-fir Small Diameter Roundwood
Creators: name: Brander, Conrad
name: Brooks, Dallin
name: Davis, Bryan
name: Sinayov, Lori
name: Tesfaye, Anteneh
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Black like me? embedding 2-tiered procedural rhetoric in a critical game
Creators: name: Grace, Lindsay
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper describes the theory and implementation of a 2-tiered procedural rhetoric game. The game, Black Like Me, employs critical design to encourage players toward situational analysis instead of mere attribute matching. Players are presented with a color matching game at the surface, but the game is designed to reward players for holistically evaluating a scene and subverting the explicitly suggested game rules. The game is designed to train players toward perceiving ambiguity and employing alternative play strategies.
Leucosia singaporensis H.-L. & Ng 2003, new species
Creators: name: H. - L., Chen
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2003
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Leucosiidae
Leucosia
Leucosia singaporensis

description: Leucosia singaporensis, new species
(Figs. 1G, H, 5)
 Material examined. – Holotype - male (28.0 by 24.0 mm) (ZRC 1965.10.13.49), Singapore, coll. 13 Oct.1965.
Paratype – 1 female (32.0 by 26.3 mm) (ZRC 1965.10.13.50), same data as holotype.
 Diagnosis. – Carapace rhomboidal, smooth (except dorsum which may be pitted); regions indistinct. Hepatic region weakly elevated, median portion very convex. Front slightly projected, with 3 teeth: median tooth longer than weak lateral teeth. Behind front, median line with longitudinal smooth ridge, lateral areas depressed. Anterolateral margin shorter than posterolateral margin, without granules, latter with fine granules. Posterior carapace margin convex medially, both sides slightly convex. Exopod of third maxilliped narrow, 3 times as long as broad; merus narrowly triangular, longer than ischium, female ischium with tooth subdistally, inner side with longitudinal row of setae which extends to base of merus, male ischium without tooth, glabrous. Male abdomen with 5 free segments; segments 3-5 fused, basal half with shallow median groove, both sides strongly convex, median part of distal half convex, sides depressed; segment 1 very narrow transversely; segment 2 very narrow transversely, segment 6 1.4 times as long as broad, median part of basal one-third with small dent; telson triangular. Female abdomen longitudinally ovate, elevated medially, with 4 free segments (segments 3-6 fused), median portion of segments 1 and 2 convex posteriorly; telson slightly longer than broad, distal end bluntly rounded. G1 stout, long, distal part broadly membranous, surrounded by long setae, with hook-like process curving inwards.
 Etymology. – The species is named after its type locality, Singapore.
 Remarks. – This new species closely resembles Leucosia magna Tyndale-Biscoe & George, 1962, and Leucosia major, new species, in the shape of the carapace and form of the thoracic sinus. The differences between these three species are summarised in Table 1.
description: Published as part of H. - L., Chen & Ng, Peter K. L., 2003, On New Species Of Leucosiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) From Singapore And The South China Sea, pp. 61-69 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (1) on pages 67-69, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619317
Black like me? embedding 2-tiered procedural rhetoric in a critical game
Creators: name: Grace, Lindsay
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4607
subject: Graphics, augmented reality and games

description: This paper describes the theory and implementation of a 2-tiered procedural rhetoric game. The game, Black Like Me, employs critical design to encourage players toward situational analysis instead of mere attribute matching. Players are presented with a color matching game at the surface, but the game is designed to reward players for holistically evaluating a scene and subverting the explicitly suggested game rules. The game is designed to train players toward perceiving ambiguity and employing alternative play strategies.
Can Tax Reform Work in an Economy Where Tax Avoidance and Evasion are Endemic?
Creators: name: Ginting, Edimon
name: Ginting, Edimon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: In this model firms seek to minimise their tax liabilities by purchasing rent seeking services from a provider who also sells legitimate public services to the government. The provider enjoys economies of scope — its two outputs are produced jointly. Tax reform in this setting can increase both government revenue and the efficiency of the economy because a type of Laffer curve is operational and because such reform can lead to resources being moved out of rent-seeking activity. Later this partial equilibrium framework will be embedded within a conventional general equilibrium model.
Quantum and classical localization in the lowest Landau level
Creators: name: Sandler, N.
name: Maei, H.
name: Kondev, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatial correlations of occupation probabilities, if their decay is not too fast, can change the critical exponents for classical percolation. From numerical studies of electron dynamics in the lowest Landau level (LLL) we demonstrate the quantum analog of this effect. Similar to classical percolation, we find that the extended Harris criterion applies to localization in the LLL. These results suggest experiments that might probe new quantum critical points in the integer quantum Hall setting.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Incorporating International Capital Ownership into the GTAP Model: Results for Asia-Pacific Trade Liberalisation
Creators: name: Walmsley, Terrie Louise
name: Walmsley, Terrie Louise
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: International Development
International Relations/Trade

description: In this paper, some major modifications are made to the existing GTAP structure and database to incorporate a long-run closure in which changes in the ownership of capital stocks are determined endogenously and income earned on endowment commodities accrues to the owners of those endowments. This long-run closure assumes that in the long run all economies are growing at a common steady-state rate of growth, determined by the rate of population and technological growth. In order to ensure valid comparative statics the underlying growth rate in the database must equal this steady-state rate of growth. Shocks are imposed to equate the growth rates of capital across regions and thus create a steady-state database. Once the GTAP model and database have been modified, they are then used to simulate the long-run effects of Asia-Pacific trade liberalisation on welfare and gross national product. It is found that the foreign ownership of assets does have a significant effect on the projected outcome of trade liberalisation in the Asia- Pacific region.