cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deliverable 5.7 Report1 on communication, dissemination and exploitation activities
Creators: name: Winkelmann, Ricarda
name: Langebroek, Petra
name: Jørund Raukleiv Strømsøe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The TiPACCs Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation (CDE) Plan was designed and produced by the Coordinators and Leads of WP4 and WP5 based on the feedback and assistance given by the EU Commissioner during the TiPACCs Kick-Off meeting (October 2-4, 2019) in Bergen, Norway.
Level-rank duality of untwisted and twisted D-branes
Creators: name: Naculich, Stephen G.
name: Schnitzer, Howard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Level-rank duality of untwisted and twisted D-branes of WZW models is explored. We derive the relation between D0-brane charges of level-rank dual untwisted D-branes of su(N)_K and sp(n)_k, and of level-rank dual twisted D-branes of su(2n+1)_2k+1. The analysis of level-rank duality of twisted D-branes of su(2n+1)_2k+1 is facilitated by their close relation to untwisted D-branes of sp(n)_k. We also demonstrate level-rank duality of the spectrum of an open string stretched between untwisted or twisted D-branes in each of these cases.
description: 20 pages. v2: minor clarification and added references
Flexible Bayesian Modelling for Nonlinear Image Registration
Creators: name: Brudfors, Mikael
name: Balbastre, Yaël
name: Flandin, Guillaume
name: Nachev, Parashkev
name: Ashburner, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We describe a diffeomorphic registration algorithm that allows groups of images to be accurately aligned to a common space, which we intend to incorporate into the SPM software. The idea is to perform inference in a probabilistic graphical model that accounts for variability in both shape and appearance. The resulting framework is general and entirely unsupervised. The model is evaluated at inter-subject registration of 3D human brain scans. Here, the main modeling assumption is that individual anatomies can be generated by deforming a latent 'average' brain. The method is agnostic to imaging modality and can be applied with no prior processing. We evaluate the algorithm using freely available, manually labelled datasets. In this validation we achieve state-of-the-art results, within reasonable runtimes, against previous state-of-the-art widely used, inter-subject registration algorithms. On the unprocessed dataset, the increase in overlap score is over 17%. These results demonstrate the benefits of using informative computational anatomy frameworks for nonlinear registration.
description: Accepted for MICCAI 2020
BREEDING INCENTIVE PROGRAMS AND DEMAND FOR CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED RACING: THE TRADEOFF BETWEEN QUANTITY AND QUALITY
Creators: name: Smith, Martin D.
name: Smith, Martin D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Both quantity of horses and quality stimulate demand for horse race gambling. This paper addresses the potential for a quantity/quality tradeoff due to breeding incentives for California thoroughbreds. Econometric analysis is used to assess the demand for quality and quantity of horses, and results suggest the likely net benefit of breeding incentives on the industry at large.
A Dynamical 2-dimensional Fuzzy Space
Creators: name: Buric, M.
name: Madore, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The noncommutative extension of a dynamical 2-dimensional space-time is given and some of its properties discussed. Wick rotation to euclidean signature yields a surface which has as commutative limit the doughnut but in a singular limit in which the radius of the hole tends to zero.
description: 13 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
Impact of stochastic gas motions on galaxy cluster abundance profiles
Creators: name: Rebusco, P.
name: Churazov, E.
name: Boehringer, H.
name: Forman, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of stochastic gas motions on the metal distribution in cluster core is evaluated. Peaked abundance profiles are a characteristic feature of clusters with cool cores and abundance peaks are likely associated with the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) which dwell in cluster cores. The width of the abundance peaks is however significantly broader than the BCG light distribution, suggesting that some gas motions are transporting metals originating from within the BCG. Assuming that this process can be treated as diffusive and using the brightest X-ray cluster A426 (Perseus) as an example, we estimate that a diffusion coefficient of the order of $2 10^{29} {\rm cm^2 s^{-1}}$ is needed to explain the width of the observed abundance profiles. Much lower (higher) diffusion coefficients would result in too peaked (too shallow) profiles. Such diffusion could be produced by stochastic gas motions and our analysis provides constraints on the product of their characteristic velocity and their spatial coherence scale. We speculate that the activity of the supermassive black hole of the BCG is driving the stochastic gas motions in cluster cores. When combined with the assumption that the dissipation of the same motions is a key gas heating mechanism, one can estimate both the velocity and the spatial scale of such a diffusive processes.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS typos corrected, references updated
Linearized spectral decimation in fractals
Creators: name: Iliasov, Askar A.
name: Katsnelson, Mikhail I.
name: Yuan, Shengjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we study the energy level spectrum of fractals which have block-hierarchical structures. We develop a method to study the spectral properties in terms of linearization of spectral decimation procedure and verify it numerically. Our approach provides qualitative explanations for various spectral properties of self-similar graphs within the theory of dynamical systems, including power-law level-spacing distribution, smooth density of states and effective chaotic regime.
Deliverable 5.10 Report 1 on coordination with other relevant projects
Creators: name: Langebroek, Petra
name: Østerhus, Svein
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In the first reporting period of the TiPACCs project (18 months), we connected and consolidated collaboration with several relevant Horizon 2020 projects and other large initiatives.
 The other Tipping Point projects (COMFORT and TIPES) started at a similar time and are therefore in a similar phase of their projects. We allign with these projects towards a general understanding of tipping points in the Earth’s system. Strong ties are present with the SO-CHIC project, where we link understanding of observational records (SO-CHIC) with process understanding through numerical modelling (TiPACCs) in the Southern Ocean. Another tightly linked project is PROTECT, which studies all components relevant for sea-level rise. Joint researchers work on understanding the tipping point processes (TiPACCs) and its impact on sea-level rise (PROTECT). Coordination with Blue-Action is primarily on linking Arctic climate change to lower latitudes and on Dissemination activities. TiPACCs researchers and project office furthermore actively participate in other networking projects, such as FRISP, EU Polar Cluster and EU PolarNet.
DEMAND FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC INFORMATION
Creators: name: Wu, Steven Y.
name: Just, David R.
name: Zilberman, David
name: Wolf, Steven A.
name: Wu, Steven Y.
name: Just, David R.
name: Zilberman, David
name: Wolf, Steven A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: information
subject: bounded rationality

description: Using data gathered in two surveys we analyze the movement of information in agriculture. The relative importance of varying classes of information providers are assessed by classes of users. A network based framework expands models of human capital and bounded rationality to assess the calculus of choice of information.
Deliverable 5.13 Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation Plan
Creators: name: Winkelmann, Ricarda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The CDE Plan was designed and produced by the Coordinators and Leads of WP4 and WP5 based on the feedback and assistance given by our EU project advisor during the TiPACCs Kick-Off meeting (October 2-4, 2019) in Bergen. In the plan we have defined the audiences we want to reach with the CDE activities scheduled for the project and want to cover a span from the general public (e.g. through press releases and project website) to stakeholders and policy makers (stakeholder event in Bremen) as well as the scientific community with publishing of our results in relevant scientific journals. We have divided the activities into three main sections (Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation) and subsequently into tasks with a defined lead from one of the institutions.
Orbital-selective Mott-Hubbard transition in the two-band Hubbard model
Creators: name: Arita, R.
name: Held, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in the field of quantum Monte Carlo simulations for impurity problems allow --within dynamical mean field theory-- for a more thorough investigation of the two-band Hubbard model with narrow/wide band and SU(2)-symmetric Hund's exchange. The nature of this transition has been controversial, and we establish that an orbital-selective Mott-Hubbard transition exists. Thereby, the wide band still shows metallic behavior after the narrow band became insulating -not a pseudogap as for an Ising Hund's exchange. The coexistence of two solutions with metallic wide band and insulating or metallic narrow band indicates, in general, first-order transitions.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; 2nd version as published in Phys. Rev. B (R); minor corrections, putting more emphasis on differences in spectra when comparing SU(2) and Ising Hund's exchange
Localized pore evolution assisted densification during spark plasma sintering of nanocrystalline W-5wt.%Mo alloy
Creators: name: Srivastav, Ajeet K.
name: Chawake, Niraj
name: Yadav, Devinder
name: Karthiselva, N. S.
name: Murty, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present work reports the role of different atomic mobility induced localized pore evolution on densification during spark plasma sintering of nanocrystalline W-Mo alloy powder. The shrinkage (or expansion) behavior of cold compacted milled powders was studied using dilatometry during non-isothermal sintering up to 1600 °C. Subsequently, the milled powders were densified to ~95% relative density using spark plasma sintering up to 1600 °C. The enhanced localized Joule heating due to dynamically evolved porous structure could be attributed for the densification during spark plasma sintering.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
TOWARDS MEASURING PRODUCER WELFARE UNDER OUTPUT PRICE UNCERTAINTY AND RISK NON-NEUTRALITY
Creators: name: Bullock, David S.
name: Shin, Kie-Yup
name: Garcia, Philip
name: Bullock, David S.
name: Shin, Kie-Yup
name: Garcia, Philip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Producer welfare
subject: price uncertainty
subject: risk

description: We combine theory with numerical integration methods to show that for any form of uncompensated supply, compensating variation of a change in higher moments of an output price distribution can be numerically derived.
TESTING THE EFFECT OF AN ANTI-DUMPING DUTY: THE US SALMON MARKET
Creators: name: Asche, Frank
name: Asche, Frank
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: After holding a market share of over 50% for farmed salmon in USA, the market was closed for Norwegian salmon in 1991 when a countervailing duty was imposed. The objective for U.S. farmers was to increase prices and U.S. market shares. This paper investigates whether U.S. farmers reached these goals.
Hennings, Emmy: Der Schatten des Grafen von Narbona(Verso: Brieffragment "Liebe Frau Merian, soeben ist Trudy gegangen [...]"; "Hilflos war ich, m. den Flocken vom Himmel geweht [...]".)
Creators: name: Ball-Hennings, Emmy
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2024

description: Dokument
Semiparametric Estimation of the Distribution of Episodically Consumed Foods Measured with Error
Creators: name: Lemyre, Félix Camirand
name: Carroll, Raymond J.
name: Delaigle, Aurore
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Dietary data collected from 24-hour dietary recalls are observed with significant measurement errors. In the nonparametric curve estimation literature, much of the effort has been devoted to designing methods that are consistent under contamination by noise, and which have been traditionally applied for analysing those data. However, some foods such as alcohol or fruits are consumed only episodically, and may not be consumed during the day when the 24-hour recall is administered. These so-called excess zeros make existing nonparametric estimators break down, and new techniques need to be developed for such data. We develop two new consistent semiparametric estimators of the distribution of such episodically consumed food data, making parametric assumptions only on some less important parts of the model. We establish its theoretical properties and illustrate the good performance of our fully data-driven method in simulated and real data.
The past, present and future of the Proteomics Research Group: DIA, beer and glycoproteomics
Creators: name: Neely, Benjamin
name: Kirkpatrick, Joanna
name: Herring, Laura
name: Martin, Roy
name: Midha, Mukul
name: Shan, Baozhen
name: Stemmer, Paul
name: Wang, Yan
name: Ding, Hua
name: Kumar, Vikas
name: Polasky, Daniel
name: Schulz, Ben
name: Palmblad, Magnus
name: Phinney, Brett
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: ABRF
beer
proteomics
data-independent acquisition
glycoproteomics

description: Research Group Presentation at the 2021 Virtual Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) Annual Meeting. One of the primary missions of the Proteomics Research Group (PRG) is education and outreach through multi-laboratory studies. Here we discuss the status of past, present and future studies. The data from 45 participants in the 2019 DIA study is available on MassIVE, described on bioRxiv, and is currently in review. Last fall we engaged the community in a "bridge" study, resulting in 32 labs conducting beer proteomics and returning data, including that of a control beer. Finally, we are planning our next study that will focus on glycoproteomic methods and analysis. These studies highlight the engagement of the ABRF community, and future opportunities.
U.S. FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND TRADE: SUBSTITUTES OR COMPLEMENTS? THE CASE OF THE FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Bolling, H. Christine
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Bolling, H. Christine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Agribusiness
International Development
International Relations/Trade

description: The role of foreign direct investment as a complement or substitute to foreign trade continues to be debated in regard to the food processing industry. This study extends earlier work to demonstrate that FDI and trade depend on the stage and the similarities of the economic development of the host countries, as macroeconomic factors--such as exchange rate fluctuations and income growth-- act differently in developing vs. developed countries, and exporting vs. importing countries.
Toward High Precision Higgs-Boson Measurements at the International Linear e+e- Collider
Creators: name: Heinemeyer, S.
name: Kanemura, S.
name: Logan, H.
name: Raspereza, A.
name: Tait, T.
name: Baer, H.
name: Berger, E. L.
name: Birkedal, A.
name: Brient, J. -C.
name: Carena, M.
name: Cembranos, J. A. R.
name: Choi, S.
name: Godfrey, S.
name: Gunion, J.
name: Haber, H. E.
name: Han, T.
name: Heath, H.
name: Hesselbach, S.
name: Kalinowski, J.
name: Kilian, W.
name: Moortgat-Pick, G.
name: Moretti, S.
name: Mrenna, S.
name: Muhlleitner, M.
name: Petriello, F.
name: Reuter, J.
name: Ronan, M.
name: Skands, P.
name: Sopczak, A.
name: Spira, M.
name: Sullivan, Z.
name: Wagner, C.
name: Weiglein, G.
name: Zerwas, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This report reviews the properties of Higgs bosons in the Standard Model (SM) and its various extensions. We give an extensive overview about the potential of the ILC operated at centre-of-mass energies up to 1 TeV (including the gamma gamma option) for the determination of the Higgs boson properties. This comprises the measurement of the Higgs boson mass, its couplings to SM fermions and gauge bosons, and the determination of the spin and the CP quantum numbers of the Higgs. The extensions of the SM that are analyzed in more detail are heavy SM-like Higgs bosons, heavy Higgs bosons in the framework of Supersymmetry (SUSY) and further exotic scenarios. We review recent theoretical developments in the field of Higgs boson physics. The important question what the ILC can contribute to Higgs boson physics after the LHC, the LHC/ILC interplay and synergy is discussed. The impact of Higgs boson physics on cosmology in several SUSY frameworks is analyzed. The impact of the accelerator and dector performance on the precision of measurements are discussed in detail. We propose a strategy to optimize future analyses. Open questions arising for the various topics are listed, further topics of study and corresponding roadmaps are suggested.
description: 128 pages, lots of figures. One subsection added and other minor modifications
The space of print and printed spaces in restoration London 1660-1685
Creators: name: Monteyne, Joseph Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In his evocative account of walking through Restoration London, the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys conveys a vibrant city comprised of movement, exchange, and conflict. We follow Pepys, for example, into the coffee-house on his insatiable search for news and political argument. Within urban space he is equally persistent, noting the ritual demarcation of urban boundaries at moments of tension between London and the Crown, or describing how the city's spaces were alarmingly transformed by the presence of disease. This is hardly the London imagined by scholars of the Restoration, who have characterized this historical moment of the return of Charles II and restoration of monarchical government to England as a time of concord after the violent struggles resulting in civil war at mid-century. It is telling that one of the first strategies adopted by Charles IPs government to stabilize a volatile situation in London was to assert control over print. At this moment, though, print culture served to open up urban space in new ways, becoming a mode of opportunity for individuals like Pepys. My dissertation considers precisely the interrelation between these spaces and forms of print. Like Pepys, my thesis journeys through the city, stopping at the Restoration coffee-house. These spaces of congregation, where print was displayed and purchased, appeared in significant numbers around the Royal Exchange after 1660. The coffee-house has been given mythic proportions in the twentieth century as the foundation of a modern public sphere. However, as this thesis will show, instead of producing an abstract and universal realm of public opinion, the coffee-house was an actual space formed through contestation, and through a struggle taking place between an older form of subjectivity and a newer urban culture. Another site of urban contestation shaped through print was the street processions staged by Whigs during the Exclusion Crisis, a moment of increased City and Crown tensions. Within these political struggles, the unexpected also had its part to play. The crisis brought on by bubonic plague in 1665 generated prints mediating all kinds of conflicts, but especially the social practices of flight and quarantine. The sudden destruction of the city within the walls by fire in 1666 was met by mapping and picturing the ruins that struggled to account for the void in the urban centre. My dissertation concludes with a series of unique prints which represent an ephemeral city built on the in-between space of the frozen Thames. This unexpected suspension of the everyday rhythms of London led to its festive re-imagining. In conclusion, I address the significance of the location of both print and the coffeehouse at the very centre of this urban space.
The structure of general quantum Gaussian observable
Creators: name: Holevo, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure theorem is established which shows that an arbitrary multi-mode bosonic Gaussian observable can be represented as a combination of four basic cases, the physical prototypes of which are homodyne and heterodyne, noiseless or noisy, measurements in quantum optics. The proof establishes connection between the description of Gaussian observable in terms of the characteristic function and in terms of density of the probability operator-valued measure (POVM) and has remarkable parallels with treatment of bosonic Gaussian channels in terms of their Choi-Jamiolkowski form. Along the way we give the ``most economical'', in the sense of minimal dimensions of the quantum ancilla, construction of the Naimark extension of a general Gaussian observable. It is also shown that the Gaussian POVM has bounded operator-valued density with respect to the Lebesgue measure if and only if its noise covariance matrix is nondegenerate.
description: 13 pages, no figures
THE ROLE OF NON-PARAMETRIC APPROACH IN ADJUSTING PRODUCTIVITY MEASURES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
Creators: name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Perrin, Richard K.
name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Perrin, Richard K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Nonparametric
subject: Shadow price
subject: Productivity

description: This paper addresses the role of non-parametric analysis in adjusting agricultural productivity measures for environmental impacts. The modified Tornquist-Theil index computed using shadow prices derived from the programming procedures is compared and contrasted with a non-parametric hyperbolic graph productivity index for the case of Nebraska agriculture.
Heat transport in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection: Effect of finite top- and bottom-plate conductivity
Creators: name: Brown, Eric
name: Nikolaenko, Alexei
name: Funfschilling, Denis
name: Ahlers, Guenter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe three apparatus, known as the large, medium, and small apparatus, used for high-precision measurements of the Nusselt number N as a function of the Rayleigh number R for cylindrical samples of fluid and present results illustrating the influence of the finite conductivity of the top and bottom plates on the heat transport in the fluid. We used water samples at a mean temperature of 40 degrees C (Prandtl number sigma = 4.4). The samples in the large apparatus had a diameter D of 49.69 cm and heights L = 116.33, 74.42, 50.61, and 16.52 cm. For the medium apparatus we had D = 24.81 cm, and L = 90.20 and 24.76 cm. The small apparatus contained a sample with D = 9.21 cm, and L = 9.52 cm. For each aspect ratio Gamma = D/L the data covered a range of a little over a decade of R. The maximum R = 10^12 with Nusselt numbers N = 600 was reached for Gamma = 0.43. Measurements were made with both Aluminum and Copper top and bottom plates of nominally identical size and shape. For the large and medium apparatus the results with Aluminum plates fall below those obtained with Copper plates, thus confirming qualitatively the prediction by Verzicco that plates of finite conductivity diminish the heat transport in the fluid. The Nusselt number N_infinity for plates with infinite conductivity was estimated by fitting simultaneously Aluminum- and Copper-plate data sets to an effective powerlaw for N_infinity multiplied by a correction factor f(X) = 1 - exp[-(aX)^b] that depends on the ratio X of the thermal resistance of the fluid to that of the plates as suggested by Verzicco. Within their uncertainties the parameters a and b were independent of Gamma for the large apparatus and showed a small Gamma-dependence for the medium apparatus. The correction was larger for the large, smaller for the medium, and negligible for the small apparatus.
description: 35 pages, 11 figures. Under consideration for publication in Phys. of Fluids
Distribution-Free Multisample Tests Based on Optimal Matchings With Applications to Single Cell Genomics
Creators: name: Somabha Mukherjee
name: Divyansh Agarwal
name: Zhang, Nancy R.
name: Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
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
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this article, we propose a nonparametric graphical test based on optimal matching, for assessing the equality of multiple unknown multivariate probability distributions. Our procedure pools the data from the different classes to create a graph based on the minimum non-bipartite matching, and then utilizes the number of edges connecting data points from different classes to examine the closeness between the distributions. The proposed test is exactly distribution-free (the null distribution does not depend on the distribution of the data) and can be efficiently applied to multivariate as well as non-Euclidean data, whenever the inter-point distances are well-defined. We show that the test is universally consistent, and prove a distributional limit theorem for the test statistic under general alternatives. Through simulation studies, we demonstrate its superior performance against other common and well-known multisample tests. The method is applied to single cell transcriptomics data obtained from the peripheral blood, cancer tissue, and tumor-adjacent normal tissue of human subjects with hepatocellular carcinoma and non-small-cell lung cancer. Our method unveils patterns in how biochemical metabolic pathways are altered across immune cells in a cancer setting, depending on the tissue location. All of the methods described herein are implemented in the R package multicross. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
First Principle Simulation of Coated Hydroxychloroquine on Ag, Au and Pt Nanoparticle as a Potential Candidate for Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
Creators: name: Rezaee, Parham
name: Akbari, Mahmood
name: Morad, Razieh
name: Koochaki, Amin
name: Maaz, Malik
name: Jamshidi, Zahra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The {\it{in vitro}} antiviral activity of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) against SARS-CoV-2 from the first month of pandemic proposed these drugs as the appropriate therapeutic candidate, although their side effect directed the clinical test toward optimizing the safe utilization strategies. The noble metal nanoparticles (NP) as promising materials with antiviral and antibacterial properties can deliver the drug to the target agent and decrease the side effect. In this work, we have applied quantum mechanical and classical atomistic molecular dynamics computational approaches to demonstrate the adsorption properties of HCQ on Ag, Au, AgAu, and Pt nanoparticles. The adsorption energies (less than -30 kcal/mole) were established for HCQ, and the (non)perturbative effects of this drug on the plasmonic absorption spectra of AgNP and AuNP have characterized with time-dependent density functional theory. The effect of size and compositions of nanoparticle on the coating with HCQ and CQ have obtained and proposed the appropriate candidate for drug delivery. This kind of modeling could help the experimental groups to find the efficient and safe therapies.
PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS AND SELF-REGULATION IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
Creators: name: Zago, Angelo M.
name: Zago, Angelo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Industrial Organization

description: The analysis proposed in this paper is concerned with the welfare effects of self-regulation by Producer's Organizations (PO) as an alternative to market or public intervention. Using the advances of the economics of incentives, it studies the interaction of asymmetric information and the democratic process in the quality choices of a group of heterogenous producers. With a simple model of adverse selection it presents the pricing rules and the quality provision in a group of producers facing an opportunity to gain from their collective capacity to establish a reputation for their quality products. This paper explicitly considers the democratic process through which quality-based reward schemes are decided upon and enforced in the PO. It distinguishes between a constitutional phase, in which each potential participant votes on whether to form a PO and the rules by which the PO will be run, and a working phase, in which the rules, including quality regulation, are enforced by the PO.
Bulk viscosity of a gas of neutrinos and coupled scalar particles, in the era of recombination
Creators: name: Sawyer, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bulk viscosity may serve to damp sound waves in a system of neutrinos coupled to very light scalar particles, in the era after normal neutrino decoupling but before recombination. We calculate the bulk viscosity parameter in a minimal scheme involving the coupling of the two systems. We add some remarks on the bulk viscosity of a system of fully ionized hydrogen plus photons.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Distribution-Free Multisample Tests Based on Optimal Matchings with Applications to Single Cell Genomics
Creators: name: Somabha Mukherjee
name: Divyansh Agarwal
name: Zhang, Nancy R.
name: Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: In this paper we propose a nonparametric graphical test based on optimal matching, for assessing the equality of multiple unknown multivariate probability distributions. Our procedure pools the data from the different classes to create a graph based on the minimum non-bipartite matching, and then utilizes the number of edges connecting data points from different classes to examine the closeness between the distributions. The proposed test is exactly distribution-free (the null distribution does not depend on the distribution of the data) and can be efficiently applied to multivariate as well as non-Euclidean data, whenever the inter-point distances are well-defined. We show that the test is universally consistent, and prove a distributional limit theorem for the test statistic under general alternatives. Through simulation studies, we demonstrate its superior performance against other common and well-known multisample tests. The method is applied to single cell transcriptomics data obtained from the peripheral blood, cancer tissue, and tumor-adjacent normal tissue of human subjects with hepatocellular carcinoma and non-small-cell lung cancer. Our method unveils patterns in how biochemical metabolic pathways are altered across immune cells in a cancer setting, depending on the tissue location. All of the methods described herein are implemented in the R package multicross.
PRODUCTION STRUCTURE AND THE AUSTRALIAN SAWMILLING INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Bigsby, Hugh R.
name: Bigsby, Hugh R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: This paper examines the production structure of the Australian sawmilling sector over the period 1950-51 to 1984-85 using a translog cost function. The results show that the sawmilling industry is best represented by a production function which does not have any restrictions on functional form. Inputs, including capital, labour, materials and energy, are generally found to substitutable for one another, although the degree of substitutability is small. There have been economies of scale in the Australian sawmilling industry, and technological change has been capital and energy-using, and labour and materials-saving.
Three essays on education, epistemic legitimacy, and their relationship with social justice
Creators: name: Macklin, Simon
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2024
Subjects: Power
Legitimacy
Knowledge
Social Justice

description: This thesis draws attention to the contemporary (and historic) admiration for conceptions of ‘powerful knowledge’ (Young, 1995 [1971]) or ‘epistemic access’ (Morrow, 2009) in response to a public dismissal of intellectualism. This thesis argues that this focus, in educational theory and research, on power through access to, and participation in, a universal idea of knowledge does little to acknowledge that education, and particularly higher education, has not had many of the economic, political or social effects that this premise of ‘powerful knowledge’ proposes (for example, Hendel et al., 2005 ; Jencks, 2002 ; Roth, 2019 ; Wolf, 2002). This thesis argues that by expanding on discussions of ‘legitimacy’ as seen in the historic and contemporary literature on the social, political, and economic power of knowledge, that a distinct conception of ‘epistemic legitimacy’ can be created and utilised to theorise this gap. In this sense, ‘epistemic legitimacy’ is characterised as ‘the utility’ of knowledge for epistemic participation in the public sphere separate from any exercise of power or value. By using a history of ideas – from the three separate intellectual traditions of social, political and economic legitimacy – this thesis traces the interaction between these concepts, and argues that ‘epistemic legitimacy’ is a model which expands the ‘bureaucratic imaginary’ at the heart of Young and Muller’s conception of ‘powerful knowledge’ and contributes models for the development of the use of ‘powerful knowledge’ for the conception of a new reality, and the ‘authority of knowledge’ to affect an individual change or development in line with this reality. This view allows a conception of ‘powerful knowledge’ as part of the historic (and ongoing) struggle between institutional and structural knowledge (‘bureaucracy’) and the authority within the public sphere to enable action and change (‘entrepreneurship’), and therefore, in turn, informs our understanding of the gaps in social justice theories which presuppose a link between access to, and participation in education; and social, economic, and political effects – theories such as social mobility.
No universal connection between the vertical magnetic field and the umbra-penumbra boundary in sunspots
Creators: name: Löptien, B.
name: Lagg, A.
name: van Noort, M.
name: Solanki, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. It has been reported that the boundary between the umbra and the penumbra of sunspots occurs at a canonical value of the strength of the vertical magnetic field, independently of the size of the spot. This critical field strength is interpreted as to be the threshold for the onset of magnetoconvection. Aims. Here we investigate the reasons why this criterion, also called the Jurčák criterion in the literature, does not always identify the boundary between umbra and penumbra. Methods. We perform a statistical analysis of 23 sunspots observed with Hinode/SOT. We compare the properties of the continuum intensity and the vertical magnetic field between filaments and spines and how they vary between spots of different sizes. Results. We find that the inner boundary of the penumbra is not related to a universal value of the vertical magnetic field. The properties of spines and filaments vary between spots of different sizes. Both components are darker in larger spots and the spines exhibit stronger vertical magnetic field. These variations of the properties of filaments and spines with spot size are also the reason for the reported invariance of the averaged vertical magnetic field at 50% of the mean continuum intensity. Conclusions. The formation of filaments and the onset of magnetoconvection are not related to a canonical value of the strength of the vertical magnetic field. Such a seemingly unique magnetic field strength is rather an effect of the filling factor of spines and penumbral filaments.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
QUALITY PREMIUMS FOR AUSTRALIAN WHEAT IN THE GROWING ASIAN MARKETS
Creators: name: Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.
name: Stanmore, Roland G.
name: Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z.
name: Stanmore, Roland G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: An hedonic price function is applied to Australia's wheat exports to the growing Asian markets. The values for the quality characteristics in the wheat markets of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand are estimated. The data base for the study is from the Australian Wheat Board shipments over the period 1984 to 1991. The sample is divided into two separate time periods to test the consistency in demand for export wheat and to trace recent trends in quality premiums. The implications of the results for wheat marketing and trade are explored.
Hamilton's principle: why is the integrated difference of kinetic and potential energy minimized?
Creators: name: Rojo, Alberto G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present an intuitive answer to an often asked question: why is the integrated difference K-U between the kinetic and potential energy the quantity to be minimized in Hamilton's principle? Using elementary arguments, I map the problem of finding the path of a moving particle connecting two points to that of finding the minimum potential energy of a static string. The mapping implies that the configuration of a non--stretchable string of variable tension corresponds to the spatial path dictated by the Principle of Least Action; that of a stretchable string in space-time is the one dictated by Hamilton's principle. This correspondence provides the answer to the question above: while a downward force curves the trajectory of a particle in the (x,t) plane downward, an upward force of the same magnitude stretches the string to the same configuration x(t).
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to the American Journal of Physics
Likelihood-based Inference for Partially Observed Epidemics on Dynamic Networks
Creators: name: Bu, Fan
name: Aiello, Allison E.
name: Xu, Jason
name: Volfovsky, Alexander
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: We propose a generative model and an inference scheme for epidemic processes on dynamic, adaptive contact networks. Network evolution is formulated as a link-Markovian process, which is then coupled to an individual-level stochastic SIR model, in order to describe the interplay between the dynamics of the disease spread and the contact network underlying the epidemic. A Markov chain Monte Carlo framework is developed for likelihood-based inference from partial epidemic observations, with a novel data augmentation algorithm specifically designed to deal with missing individual recovery times under the dynamic network setting. Through a series of simulation experiments, we demonstrate the validity and flexibility of the model as well as the efficacy and efficiency of the data augmentation inference scheme. The model is also applied to a recent real-world dataset on influenza-like-illness transmission with high-resolution social contact tracking records.
UNDERINVESTMENT AND TIMBER RIGHTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE EARLY TASMANIAN AND VICTORIAN TIMBER INDUSTRIES
Creators: name: Pitchford, R.
name: Pitchford, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Productivity Analysis
Risk and Uncertainty

description: This paper distinguishes between the hypothesis that the Victorian government developed a reputation for easy renewal of timber rights, so that the lack of clearly defined site sizes and the short-term nature of these rights did not matter, and the hypothesis that tenure and site size as written in law was the major determinant. A model of a firm's investment choice when there is uncertain tenure is developed to examine the effect of changes in the tenure prospect on capital intensity. The predictions of this model are then used to assess the competing hypotheses with reference to data on capital labour ratios and legislation regarding tenure and site size laws in Victoria and Tasmania from 1890 to 1927.
CNN-based Speed Detection Algorithm for Walking and Running using Wrist-worn Wearable Sensors
Creators: name: Seethi, Venkata Devesh Reddy
name: Bharti, Pratool
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, there have been a surge in ubiquitous technologies such as smartwatches and fitness trackers that can track the human physical activities effortlessly. These devices have enabled common citizens to track their physical fitness and encourage them to lead a healthy lifestyle. Among various exercises, walking and running are the most common ones people do in everyday life, either through commute, exercise, or doing household chores. If done at the right intensity, walking and running are sufficient enough to help individual reach the fitness and weight-loss goals. Therefore, it is important to measure walking/ running speed to estimate the burned calories along with preventing them from the risk of soreness, injury, and burnout. Existing wearable technologies use GPS sensor to measure the speed which is highly energy inefficient and does not work well indoors. In this paper, we design, implement and evaluate a convolutional neural network based algorithm that leverages accelerometer and gyroscope sensory data from the wrist-worn device to detect the speed with high precision. Data from $15$ participants were collected while they were walking/running at different speeds on a treadmill. Our speed detection algorithm achieved $4.2\%$ and $9.8\%$ MAPE (Mean Absolute Error Percentage) value using $70-15-15$ train-test-evaluation split and leave-one-out cross-validation evaluation strategy respectively.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Dynamical Heterogeneity close to the Jamming Transition in a Sheared Granular Material
Creators: name: Dauchot, O.
name: Marty, G.
name: Biroli, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of a bi-dimensional dense granular packing under cyclic shear is experimentally investigated close to the jamming transition. Measurement of multi-point correlation functions are produced. The self-intermediate scattering function, displaying slower than exponential relaxation, suggests dynamic heterogeneity. Further analysis of four point correlation functions reveal that the grain relaxations are strongly correlated and spatially heterogeneous, especially at the time scale of the collective rearrangements. Finally, a dynamical correlation length is extracted from spatio-temporal pattern of mobility. Our experimental results open the way to a systematic study of dynamic correlation functions in granular materials.
description: 4 pages, final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Offline Model Guard: Secure and Private ML on Mobile Devices
Creators: name: Bayerl, Sebastian P.
name: Frassetto, Tommaso
name: Jauernig, Patrick
name: Riedhammer, Korbinian
name: Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza
name: Schneider, Thomas
name: Stapf, Emmanuel
name: Weinert, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Performing machine learning tasks in mobile applications yields a challenging conflict of interest: highly sensitive client information (e.g., speech data) should remain private while also the intellectual property of service providers (e.g., model parameters) must be protected. Cryptographic techniques offer secure solutions for this, but have an unacceptable overhead and moreover require frequent network interaction. In this work, we design a practically efficient hardware-based solution. Specifically, we build Offline Model Guard (OMG) to enable privacy-preserving machine learning on the predominant mobile computing platform ARM - even in offline scenarios. By leveraging a trusted execution environment for strict hardware-enforced isolation from other system components, OMG guarantees privacy of client data, secrecy of provided models, and integrity of processing algorithms. Our prototype implementation on an ARM HiKey 960 development board performs privacy-preserving keyword recognition using TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers in real time.
description: Original Publication (in the same form): DATE 2020