cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the position uncertainty measure on the circle
Creators: name: Trifonov, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New position uncertainty (delocalization) measures for a particle on the circle are proposed and illustrated on several examples, where the previous measures (based on 2pi-periodic position operators) appear to be unsatisfactory. The new measures are suitably constructed using the standard multiplication angle operator variances. They are shown to depend solely on the state of the particle and to obey uncertainty relations of the Schroedinger-Robertson type.
description: Latex 2e, 7 pages, 1 .ps figure
Additional file 2 of Simultaneous determination of five essential amino acids in plasma of Hyperlipidemic subjects by UPLC-MS/MS
Creators: name: Zhibin Chen
name: Feiyan Lin
name: Xuemei Ye
name: Yuqian Dong
name: Lufeng Hu
name: Aifang Huang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 2 Supplement Table 2 The extraction recovery, matrix effect and stability of 5 AA in human plasma (n = 3)
Additional file 2 of Early prediction of blood stream infection in a prospectively collected cohort
Creators: name: Nestor, David
name: Andersson, Hanna
name: Kihlberg, Pernilla
name: Olson, Sara
name: Ziegler, Ingrid
name: Gunlög Rasmussen
name: Källman, Jan
name: Cajander, Sara
name: Mölling, Paula
name: Sundqvist, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Material 2.
Cosmology and neutrino masses - an update
Creators: name: Hannestad, Steen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Present cosmological observations yield an upper bound on the neutrino mass which is significantly stronger than laboratory bounds. However, the exact value of the cosmological bound is model dependent and therefore less robust. Here, I review the current status of cosmological neutrino mass bounds and also discuss implications for sterile neutrinos and LSND in particular.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, invited talk at neutrino session, EPS 2003 meeting in Aachen
The relationship between selected status factors and certain educational difficulties of a sample of male Arab students in five selected universities
Creators: name: Addou, Ibrahim Hassan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine the extent of difficulty a sample of degree seeking, male, Arab students attending five Washington D.C. area universities experience in each of three educational areas, namely, English language proficiency, academic performance, and academic resources; (2) to determine the relationship between the difficulties reported for each of the three areas and the following five personal characteristics: age, marital status, length of stay in the U.S., academic classification, and major area; and (3) to draw implications from the findings regarding the need for institutional services and programs intended to serve the needs of this special population. Study subjects were 400 degree-seeking, male, Arab students. They were selected on a convenience basis to complete two research instruments, the Personal Data Inventory (PDI) and Educational Difficulty Checklist (EDC), developed by the researcher. Data collection was undertaken in the fall semester of the 1988-89 academic year. Fifteen hypotheses were postulated each of which pertained to the relationship between one of the three areas of educational difficulty (dependent variable) and one of five personal characteristics (independent variable). Hypothesis testing was done through the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) program using the analysis of variance (ANOVA). Five of fifteen hypotheses were confirmed. The accepted hypotheses provided evidence that there is a significant relationship between difficulty in English language and the students' current age, length of stay in the U.S., and marital status. Also, academic performance difficulty was significantly related to the students' length of stay in the U.S, and marital status. Specifically, older students (over 28 years), married students, and students with shortest stay in the U.S. (24 months or under) reported more English language difficulty. In addition to the language difficulty, married students, and students with the shortest length of stay experienced greater academic performance difficulty. The single most troublesome difficulty reported by the study subjects among the twenty-two items on the EDC considered is "Opportunity for practical training". It was reported by over half of the study sample (52%) as a matter causing them some or much difficulty.
Evaluating the impact of international training for development in Zaire: A case study of the studies and planning service, the Department of Agriculture, Zaire
Creators: name: Gulley, James Lee
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The impact of international training for development was assessed with a research strategy which combined elements of a case study approach and a quasi-experimental design. Data collection and analysis were carefully documented to allow verification from beginning to end. The aim was to create a case providing substantive results on impact of training while testing the methodology in a way that would allow comparison in the future and with other cases. The research focused on training in the U.S. for fifty-three staff members of the Studies and Planning Service, Department of Agriculture, Zaire, in the U.S. between 1977 and 1983. The participant-trainees studied at U.S. universities and/or the International Statistics Program Center, the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The majority earned masters degrees in either agricultural economics or agricultural statistics. The results indicate that international training has had an impact at three levels hypothesized--individual, organizational and institutional--and also beyond the Studies and Planning Service. Individuals inside and outside the organization confirmed that the knowledge and skills of the trainees were enhanced by training. Data were collected from multiple sources using multiple methods in order to create a "chain of evidence" which helped to show the role of training, particularly in producing the outputs of the organization. Although the Studies and Planning Service has lost some technical capacity as trainees have moved on to new positions, SPS has gained influence at the policy level and in program and project management in the agricultural sector through the trainees who have taken significant positions within the agricultural sector. Macro-economic policies and the lack of agricultural policy in Zaire have severely constrained micro-institutions, such as the Studies and Planning Service, from realizing their potential. However, this study confirms that it is possible to develop and to sustain an increasingly productive organization--a microclimate of development--within a harsh and hostile environment. Without policy changes, the sustainability of such micro-institutions is unlikely.
Using acoustic distance and acoustic absement to quantify lexical competition
Creators: Matthew C. Kelley
Benjamin V. Tucker
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Using phonological neighborhood density has been a common method to quantify lexical competition. It is useful and convenient but has shortcomings that are worth reconsidering. The present study quantifies the effects of lexical competition during spoken word recognition using acoustic distance and acoustic absement rather than phonological neighborhood density. The indication of a word's lexical competition is given by what is termed to be its acoustic distinctiveness, which is taken as its average acoustic absement to all words in the lexicon. A variety of acoustic representations for items in the lexicon are analyzed. Statistical modeling shows that acoustic distinctiveness has a similar effect trend as that of phonological neighborhood density. Additionally, acoustic distinctiveness consistently increases model fitness more than phonological neighborhood density regardless of which kind of acoustic representation is used. However, acoustic distinctiveness does not seem to explain all of the same things as phonological neighborhood density. The different areas that these two predictors explain are discussed in addition to the potential theoretical implications of the usefulness of acoustic distinctiveness in the models. The present paper concludes with some reasons why a researcher may want to use acoustic distinctiveness over phonological neighborhood density in future experiments.
Evaluating the impact of international training for development in Zaire: A case study of the studies and planning service, the Department of Agriculture, Zaire
Creators: name: Gulley, James Lee
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The impact of international training for development was assessed with a research strategy which combined elements of a case study approach and a quasi-experimental design. Data collection and analysis were carefully documented to allow verification from beginning to end. The aim was to create a case providing substantive results on impact of training while testing the methodology in a way that would allow comparison in the future and with other cases. The research focused on training in the U.S. for fifty-three staff members of the Studies and Planning Service, Department of Agriculture, Zaire, in the U.S. between 1977 and 1983. The participant-trainees studied at U.S. universities and/or the International Statistics Program Center, the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The majority earned masters degrees in either agricultural economics or agricultural statistics. The results indicate that international training has had an impact at three levels hypothesized--individual, organizational and institutional--and also beyond the Studies and Planning Service. Individuals inside and outside the organization confirmed that the knowledge and skills of the trainees were enhanced by training. Data were collected from multiple sources using multiple methods in order to create a "chain of evidence" which helped to show the role of training, particularly in producing the outputs of the organization. Although the Studies and Planning Service has lost some technical capacity as trainees have moved on to new positions, SPS has gained influence at the policy level and in program and project management in the agricultural sector through the trainees who have taken significant positions within the agricultural sector. Macro-economic policies and the lack of agricultural policy in Zaire have severely constrained micro-institutions, such as the Studies and Planning Service, from realizing their potential. However, this study confirms that it is possible to develop and to sustain an increasingly productive organization--a microclimate of development--within a harsh and hostile environment. Without policy changes, the sustainability of such micro-institutions is unlikely.
Incremental decision-making: United States military presence in the Indian Ocean, 1977--1981
Creators: name: Hahn, Keith Dennis
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Since the mid-1970s, U.S. decisionmakers have often focused their attention on events in the northwestern Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. During the four year period between early 1977 and early 1981, which roughly corresponded to the Carter Administration, U.S. responses to a series of crises and conflicts determined the nature of subsequent U.S. policy toward the region. At the outset of his administration, President Carter sought to minimize the confrontational relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union by proposing that both countries lower their military presence in the Indian Ocean. Between his initial proposal to "demilitarize" the Indian Ocean in 1977 and his declaration that the region was "vital" to the U.S. in 1980, President Carter made a number of incremental decisions which facilitated a significant shift in policy, including the sale of arms to Somalia and North Yemen, the formation of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, negotiations for access to regional port and air facilities, and efforts to include U.S. allies in responses to regional crises. This study uses open source literature, declassified documents and a measure of deductive, as well as inductive reasoning, to trace the evolution of U.S. policy toward the region through the Indian Ocean Arms Limitation Talks, the Somali/Ethiopian conflict of 1977-1978, the Yemen "crisis" of 1978, the Iranian Revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to identify those incremental steps that led to the declaration of the Carter Doctrine. It also poses three questions that decisionmakers might ask--the incremental, sequential, and analytical questions--during an extended series of crises to best apply the incremental approach to decisionmaking. The study concludes that incremental decisionmaking is not only inevitable during an extended crisis, but in many respects it is also desireable. The Carter Administration's transition from arms control to a major military presence in the Indian Ocean provides several examples of both the advantages and the hazards associated with the incremental approach to decisionmaking.
Additional file 1 of Simultaneous determination of five essential amino acids in plasma of Hyperlipidemic subjects by UPLC-MS/MS
Creators: name: Zhibin Chen
name: Feiyan Lin
name: Xuemei Ye
name: Yuqian Dong
name: Lufeng Hu
name: Aifang Huang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1 Supplement Table 1 The equation of calibration curves of 5 AAs in human plasma
Suppressed Black Hole Production from Minimal Length
Creators: name: Hossenfelder, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large extra dimensions lower the Planck scale to values soon accessible. Motivated by string theory, the models of large extra dimensions predict a vast number of new effects in the energy range of the lowered Planck scale, among them the production of TeV-mass black holes. But not only is the Planck scale the energy scale at which effects of modified gravity become important. String theory as well as noncommutative quantum mechanics suggest that the Planck length acts a a minimal length in nature, providing a natural ultraviolet cutoff and a limit to the possible resolution of spacetime. The minimal length effects thus become important in the same energy range in which the black holes are expected to form. In this paper we examine the influence of the minimal length on the expected production rate of the black holes.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Incremental decision-making: United States military presence in the Indian Ocean, 1977--1981
Creators: name: Hahn, Keith Dennis
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Since the mid-1970s, U.S. decisionmakers have often focused their attention on events in the northwestern Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. During the four year period between early 1977 and early 1981, which roughly corresponded to the Carter Administration, U.S. responses to a series of crises and conflicts determined the nature of subsequent U.S. policy toward the region. At the outset of his administration, President Carter sought to minimize the confrontational relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union by proposing that both countries lower their military presence in the Indian Ocean. Between his initial proposal to "demilitarize" the Indian Ocean in 1977 and his declaration that the region was "vital" to the U.S. in 1980, President Carter made a number of incremental decisions which facilitated a significant shift in policy, including the sale of arms to Somalia and North Yemen, the formation of the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, negotiations for access to regional port and air facilities, and efforts to include U.S. allies in responses to regional crises. This study uses open source literature, declassified documents and a measure of deductive, as well as inductive reasoning, to trace the evolution of U.S. policy toward the region through the Indian Ocean Arms Limitation Talks, the Somali/Ethiopian conflict of 1977-1978, the Yemen "crisis" of 1978, the Iranian Revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to identify those incremental steps that led to the declaration of the Carter Doctrine. It also poses three questions that decisionmakers might ask--the incremental, sequential, and analytical questions--during an extended series of crises to best apply the incremental approach to decisionmaking. The study concludes that incremental decisionmaking is not only inevitable during an extended crisis, but in many respects it is also desireable. The Carter Administration's transition from arms control to a major military presence in the Indian Ocean provides several examples of both the advantages and the hazards associated with the incremental approach to decisionmaking.
Additional file 3 of Early prediction of blood stream infection in a prospectively collected cohort
Creators: name: Nestor, David
name: Andersson, Hanna
name: Kihlberg, Pernilla
name: Olson, Sara
name: Ziegler, Ingrid
name: Gunlög Rasmussen
name: Källman, Jan
name: Cajander, Sara
name: Mölling, Paula
name: Sundqvist, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Material 3.
Radii in weakly-bound light halo nuclei
Creators: name: Yamashita, M. T.
name: Tomio, Lauro
name: Frederico, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic study of the root-mean-square distance between the constituents of weakly-bound nuclei consisting of two halo neutrons and a core is performed using a renormalized zero-range model. The radii are obtained from a universal scaling function that depends on the mass ratio of the neutron and the core, as well as on the nature of the subsystems, bound or virtual. Our calculations are qualitatively consistent with recent data for the neutron-neutron root-mean-square distance in the halo of $^{11}$Li and $^{14}$Be nuclei.
Patrick Pearse and the politics of redemption: The mind of the Easter Rising, 1916
Creators: name: Moran, Sean Farrell
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Previous historical analysis of Patrick Pearse and his participation in Dublin's Easter Rising of 1916 has failed to explain how it was that Pearse came to have such an unlikely role. This dissertation considers Pearse's life psychoanalytically within the context of contemporary Irish nationalism to explain how he became the spokesman for the most violent forces within the nationalist movement. An examination of Pearse's psychological development, his speeches, poetry, and political writings and his careers as an important Irish journalist, educator, and artist, reveals that he was unprepared for adulthood. He sought to resolve this crisis in some type of resolute act that would redeem himself as a person. In the search for psychological resolution Pearse spoke to his culture and time. His personal quest coincided with the failure of the Gaelic Revival, constitutional politics, and the Irish Republican tradition to bring forth Ireland's independence from Great Britain and her culture. Failure to realize independence led many Irish nationalists to embrace a theology of violence through which self-immolation, violence, and defeat could be justified. It was Pearse's identification and articulation of that theology in mythic terms which mobilized republicans into a doomed insurrection that promised eternal victory over the enemy. Pearse's achievement has had a lasting impact on the course of subsequent Irish politics. Pearse has been enshrined as an Irish patriot and his theological legacy has continued to provide both motivation and justification to generations of members of the Irish Republican Army. His contribution to that history should not, however, eclipse the fact that Pearse brought to Irish politics concerns which were not limited to Ireland. Patrick Pearse was not a parochial enigma: like many of his generation, he was deeply concerned that the modern age's culture of reason as represented by Britain was a threat to Irish values and culture. By embracing the subjectivity of myth over the dictates of reason and pragmatism, Pearse came to articulate the Irish rejection of modernity at a critical moment in European history.
Patrick Pearse and the politics of redemption: The mind of the Easter Rising, 1916
Creators: name: Moran, Sean Farrell
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Previous historical analysis of Patrick Pearse and his participation in Dublin's Easter Rising of 1916 has failed to explain how it was that Pearse came to have such an unlikely role. This dissertation considers Pearse's life psychoanalytically within the context of contemporary Irish nationalism to explain how he became the spokesman for the most violent forces within the nationalist movement. An examination of Pearse's psychological development, his speeches, poetry, and political writings and his careers as an important Irish journalist, educator, and artist, reveals that he was unprepared for adulthood. He sought to resolve this crisis in some type of resolute act that would redeem himself as a person. In the search for psychological resolution Pearse spoke to his culture and time. His personal quest coincided with the failure of the Gaelic Revival, constitutional politics, and the Irish Republican tradition to bring forth Ireland's independence from Great Britain and her culture. Failure to realize independence led many Irish nationalists to embrace a theology of violence through which self-immolation, violence, and defeat could be justified. It was Pearse's identification and articulation of that theology in mythic terms which mobilized republicans into a doomed insurrection that promised eternal victory over the enemy. Pearse's achievement has had a lasting impact on the course of subsequent Irish politics. Pearse has been enshrined as an Irish patriot and his theological legacy has continued to provide both motivation and justification to generations of members of the Irish Republican Army. His contribution to that history should not, however, eclipse the fact that Pearse brought to Irish politics concerns which were not limited to Ireland. Patrick Pearse was not a parochial enigma: like many of his generation, he was deeply concerned that the modern age's culture of reason as represented by Britain was a threat to Irish values and culture. By embracing the subjectivity of myth over the dictates of reason and pragmatism, Pearse came to articulate the Irish rejection of modernity at a critical moment in European history.
Additional file 1 of Hellinger distance-based stable sparse feature selection for high-dimensional class-imbalanced data
Creators: name: Fu, Guang-Hui
name: Yuan-Jiao Wu
name: Zong, Min-Jie
name: Jianxin Pan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supporting information is provided in a PDF file, in which the results on SRBCT, CAR and GLIOMA datasets are reposited.
Additional file 2 of Core Rehabilitation Outcome Set for Single Sided Deafness (CROSSSD) study: protocol for an international consensus on outcome measures for single sided deafness interventions using a modified Delphi survey
Creators: name: Katiri, Roulla
name: Hall, Deborah A.
name: Buggy, Nora
name: Hogan, Nicholas
name: Horobin, Adele
name: Heyning, Paul Van De
name: Firszt, Jill B.
name: Bruce, Iain A.
name: Kitterick, Pádraig T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2. Core Outcome Set-STAndardised Protocol Items (COS-STAP) Checklist.
Critical phenomena and phase transitions of condensable gases
Creators: name: Salvino, Liming Wang
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of the phase transition of a condensable gas is conducted from the thermodynamic and microscopic points of view. The essential component of this study is the numerical solution of a set of recursion relations which yields the equation of state in the form of pressure and chemical potential isotherms. The thermodynamics of fluid systems is developed in some detail with particular reference to the thermodynamic description of phase transitions. The statistical mechanics of classical fluids is presented to give a traditional microscopic interpretation to the recursion relations. The classical mean field theory of fluids is presented both because of its simplicity and because it is the starting point for the recursion process. The renormalization group approach is briefly discussed as an introduction to the extended renormalization group technique here called the theory of condensable gases. The recursion relations of the theory are then presented in an heuristic manner. The numerical solutions of the recursion relations are described and presented in the form of pressure and chemical potential isotherms. The critical isotherm for the pressure is seen to reproduce the data for simple fluids over a large range of density and pressure quite well. The critical isotherm exponent $\delta$ was obtained from the chemical potential isotherm and found to be 4.76 $\pm$ 0.10 which is in good agreement with simple fluid data. The isotherms for T both above and below the critical isotherm are also presented. The coexistence curve is generated by equating chemical potentials and pressures for the two fluid phases. The agreement with simple fluid data is good for the low density to moderately high density range. In particular, the agreement in the critical region is quite good and yields an order parameter exponent $\beta$ of 0.338 $\pm$ 0.010.
Critical phenomena and phase transitions of condensable gases
Creators: name: Salvino, Liming Wang
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A study of the phase transition of a condensable gas is conducted from the thermodynamic and microscopic points of view. The essential component of this study is the numerical solution of a set of recursion relations which yields the equation of state in the form of pressure and chemical potential isotherms. The thermodynamics of fluid systems is developed in some detail with particular reference to the thermodynamic description of phase transitions. The statistical mechanics of classical fluids is presented to give a traditional microscopic interpretation to the recursion relations. The classical mean field theory of fluids is presented both because of its simplicity and because it is the starting point for the recursion process. The renormalization group approach is briefly discussed as an introduction to the extended renormalization group technique here called the theory of condensable gases. The recursion relations of the theory are then presented in an heuristic manner. The numerical solutions of the recursion relations are described and presented in the form of pressure and chemical potential isotherms. The critical isotherm for the pressure is seen to reproduce the data for simple fluids over a large range of density and pressure quite well. The critical isotherm exponent $\delta$ was obtained from the chemical potential isotherm and found to be 4.76 $\pm$ 0.10 which is in good agreement with simple fluid data. The isotherms for T both above and below the critical isotherm are also presented. The coexistence curve is generated by equating chemical potentials and pressures for the two fluid phases. The agreement with simple fluid data is good for the low density to moderately high density range. In particular, the agreement in the critical region is quite good and yields an order parameter exponent $\beta$ of 0.338 $\pm$ 0.010.
Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Programming with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Creators: name: Zhao, Shipu
name: You, Fengqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel deep learning based data-driven optimization method. A novel generative adversarial network (GAN) based data-driven distributionally robust chance constrained programming framework is proposed. GAN is applied to fully extract distributional information from historical data in a nonparametric and unsupervised way without a priori approximation or assumption. Since GAN utilizes deep neural networks, complicated data distributions and modes can be learned, and it can model uncertainty efficiently and accurately. Distributionally robust chance constrained programming takes into consideration ambiguous probability distributions of uncertain parameters. To tackle the computational challenges, sample average approximation method is adopted, and the required data samples are generated by GAN in an end-to-end way through the differentiable networks. The proposed framework is then applied to supply chain optimization under demand uncertainty. The applicability of the proposed approach is illustrated through a county-level case study of a spatially explicit biofuel supply chain in Illinois.
Additional file 1 of Clinical efficacy of transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS) versus sham therapy (part I) and TTNS versus percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) (part II) on the short term in children with the idiopathic overactive bladder syndrome: protocol for part I of the twofold double-blinded randomized controlled TaPaS trial
Creators: name: Ghijselings, Lynn
name: Renson, Catherine
name: Van De Walle, Johan
name: Everaert, Karel
name: Anne-Françoise Spinoit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Foreign capital inflows, growth, and debt servicing capacity: The case of South Korea (1957-1984)
Creators: name: Teclay, Kifle
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The present study deals with the analysis of the investment and debt roles of capital inflows in the growth process of the Korean economy for the period 1957-1984. The growth effect of the investment role of capital inflows is analyzed within the framework of a two-gap model oriented toward South Korea. In order to establish the reliability of the growth effect the structure of the model was extended to incorporate CES production functions in terms of which the plausibility of the no substitution assumptions between factors underlying them are verified empirically. An interesting side light to these analyses is the investigation of the issue of whether or not Korea experienced changes in the structure of its economy within the framework of an output exports function. From this we tried to show if it is possible to draw the inference that capital inflows contributed to bringing changes in the structure of the economy. Capital inflows have debt effect. This effect has adverse consequences on growth. Hence only if a foreign capital dependent economy succeeds in maintaining continued high growth by sustaining a satisfactory debt service capacity can one argue that the economy benefited by the capital inflows. For this reason we examined its debt role in the context of Korea's experience within the framework of a multidimensional indicator-based model which involves three interrelated analytic schemes: the individual ratio analysis, the paired ratio analysis and the decomposition analysis. The growth effect of capital inflows was quantitatively determined by estimating the structural equations of the Korean dual gap model. Our results seem to suggest that it played a positive role. The low measures of elasticity of substitution between factors we obtained seem to support the reliability of this finding. Also the plausibility of the fact that Korea experienced structural change is confirmed by our finding. And our analysis of the debt role of capital inflows in Korea suggests that its debt service capacity had been satisfactory. From all this we concluded that Korea made a productive use of capital inflows by increasing aggregate output levels and by changing its structure. The present study suggests that this was made possible by a shift in economic policies the most notable of which were in fiscal policy, exchange rate and trade policy and in interest rate policy. Nevertheless, this was counterbalanced by the conclusion that in the future policy changes will have to be made to correct the growth imbalances created between sectors and regions over the last three decades.
Additional file 1 of Integrated early childhood development policy in Iran: a qualitative policy process analysis
Creators: name: Omolbanin Atashbahar
name: Sari, Ali Akbari
name: Amirhossein Takian
name: Alireza Olyaeemanesh
name: Efat Mohamadi
name: Sayyed Hamed Barakati
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Option Pricing by the Nonrenewable Resource Extracting Firm Facing Output Price Uncertainty
Creators: name: Hartwick, John M.
name: Hartwick, John M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: We establish a general preference for price uncertainty by the pricetaking, risk neutral, nonrenewable resource extracting firm with orthodox convex extraction costs. Option prices for delivery of a ton at a particular date in the future exceed the expected dollar return from the purchase of the option. The dependence of option price on initial stock size takes a simple form. Other comparative static results are reported.
Illegal Aliens, Unemployment and Immigration Policy
Creators: name: Djajic, Slobodan
name: Djajic, Slobodan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital

description: This paper develops a simple two-country model of illegal immigration in an attempt to examine the interaction among variables such as the stock of migrant labor, the unemployment rates of the two economies, and the rate of spending by the host country on the enforcement of its immigration restrictions. The focus of the analysis is on the dynamics of immigration policy and on its role in determining the nature of the mechanism by which disturbances to the labor market of one economy are transmitted to that of the other in the short run and in the long run.
The dust-enshrouded microquasar candidate AX J1639.0-4642 = IGR J16393-4643
Creators: name: Combi, J. A.
name: Ribo, M.
name: Mirabel, I. F.
name: Sugizaki, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multiwavelength study of the field containing the unidentified X-ray source AX J1639.0-4642, discovered with the ASCA observatory and recently detected with the IBIS telescope, onboard the INTEGRAL satellite, dubbed IGR J16393-4643. The huge hydrogen column density towards the source, the hard spectral index in the 0.7-10 keV band and its flux variability suggest that the source is a High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) enshrouded by dust. Our search reveals the presence of a non-thermal radio counterpart within the X-ray error box. After a study of the broadband emission from X-rays to the radio domain, we propose that AX J1639.0-4642 is a dust-enshrouded Microquasar (MQ) candidate. In addition, the X-ray source is well within the 95% location contour of the unidentified gamma-ray source 3EG J1639-4702. The main properties of AX J1639.0-4642/3EG J1639-4702 are consistent with those of two other MQs previously proposed to display high-energy gamma-ray emission.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. Title and discussion on the possible NIR counterpart have been modified
Fiscal Policy and the Real Exchange Rate Queen's Discussion Paper
Creators: name: Devereux, Michael
name: Purvis, Douglas D.
name: Devereux, Michael
name: Purvis, Douglas D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: This paper reconsiders some conventional notions about fiscal policy under flexible exchange rates using an extended version of the well-known Dornbusch ',overshooting" model. Three widely held views are challenged. These are: (1) the Mundell-Fleming result that fiscal policy is ineffective under flexible exchange rates; (2) that real shocks (including fiscal policy) do not cause exchange rate overshooting; and (3) that real shocks are not important in explaining high exchange rate variability. In our model output is affected by fiscal policy both in the short run and long run". It is possible for unanticipated fiscal policy to cause perverse output effects in the short run; anticipated future fiscal policy necessarily leads to a fall in current output. Our results also show that fiscal policy can lead to exchange rate overshooting even in the case where monetary policy also does. Further, in this model both fiscal and monetary policy must cause either nominal exchange rate overshooting or perverse domestic interest rate effects. Finally, the results suggest that real shocks are a potential source of exchange rate variability.
Foreign capital inflows, growth, and debt servicing capacity: The case of South Korea (1957-1984)
Creators: name: Teclay, Kifle
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: The present study deals with the analysis of the investment and debt roles of capital inflows in the growth process of the Korean economy for the period 1957-1984. The growth effect of the investment role of capital inflows is analyzed within the framework of a two-gap model oriented toward South Korea. In order to establish the reliability of the growth effect the structure of the model was extended to incorporate CES production functions in terms of which the plausibility of the no substitution assumptions between factors underlying them are verified empirically. An interesting side light to these analyses is the investigation of the issue of whether or not Korea experienced changes in the structure of its economy within the framework of an output exports function. From this we tried to show if it is possible to draw the inference that capital inflows contributed to bringing changes in the structure of the economy. Capital inflows have debt effect. This effect has adverse consequences on growth. Hence only if a foreign capital dependent economy succeeds in maintaining continued high growth by sustaining a satisfactory debt service capacity can one argue that the economy benefited by the capital inflows. For this reason we examined its debt role in the context of Korea's experience within the framework of a multidimensional indicator-based model which involves three interrelated analytic schemes: the individual ratio analysis, the paired ratio analysis and the decomposition analysis. The growth effect of capital inflows was quantitatively determined by estimating the structural equations of the Korean dual gap model. Our results seem to suggest that it played a positive role. The low measures of elasticity of substitution between factors we obtained seem to support the reliability of this finding. Also the plausibility of the fact that Korea experienced structural change is confirmed by our finding. And our analysis of the debt role of capital inflows in Korea suggests that its debt service capacity had been satisfactory. From all this we concluded that Korea made a productive use of capital inflows by increasing aggregate output levels and by changing its structure. The present study suggests that this was made possible by a shift in economic policies the most notable of which were in fiscal policy, exchange rate and trade policy and in interest rate policy. Nevertheless, this was counterbalanced by the conclusion that in the future policy changes will have to be made to correct the growth imbalances created between sectors and regions over the last three decades.
Entanglement Production and Convergence Properties of the Variational Quantum Eigensolver
Creators: name: Woitzik, Andreas J. C.
name: Barkoutsos, Panagiotis Kl.
name: Wudarski, Filip
name: Buchleitner, Andreas
name: Tavernelli, Ivano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a systematic investigation of variational forms (wave function Ansätze), to determine the ground state energies and properties of two-dimensional model fermionic systems on triangular lattices (with and without periodic boundary conditions), using the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm. In particular, we focus on the nature of the entangler blocks which provide the most efficient convergence to the system ground state inasmuch as they use the minimal number of gate operations, which is key for the implementation of this algorithm in NISQ computers. Using the concurrence measure, the amount of entanglement of the register qubits is monitored during the entire optimization process, illuminating its role in determining the efficiency of the convergence. Finally, we investigate the scaling of the VQE circuit depth as a function of the desired energy accuracy. We show that the number of gates required to reach a solution within an error $\varepsilon$ follows the Solovay-Kitaev scaling, $\mathcal{O}(\log^c(1/\varepsilon))$, with an exponent $c = 1.31 {\rm{\pm}}0.13$.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
The effects of chlordiazepoxide and Ro 15-1788 on preference for punished and unpunished response alternatives
Creators: name: Thomas, David Alan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Male, food-restricted, hooded rats were trained to respond on a two-component multiple schedule. Reinforcement density was several times higher in one component than in the other component, but responses were intermittently punished with shock in the richer reinforcement component (conflict situation). Half of the rats controlled which component was operating (Preference Group), while half did not (Yoked Group). The effects of the benzodiazepine chlordiazepoxide (CDZ; 1, 3 and 10 mg/kg; i.p.) on component preference was measured. Also examined were the effects of CDZ on food-reinforced responding that was either punished (in the conflict situation) or not punished. CDZ increased both time spent in a punished component and response rate in that component. These findings are consistent with similar findings from concurrent schedules and for the first time demonstrate this relationship in a paradigm that does not invariably generate a positive correlation between response rate and preference. Response rates were also increased in the unpunished response alternative, but to a lesser degree than in the conflict situation. These effects of CDZ were at least partially mediated by the benzodiazepine receptor given that CDZ's effects were diminished by Ro 15-1788 (10 mg/kg; i.p.), a benzodiazepine antagonist. Further, CDZ's effects on response rates and preference were not mimicked by removing the shock contingency in the conflict situation. This supports the argument that CDZ was not acting via analgesic actions.
Additional file 1 of Occurrence of Escherichia coli non-susceptible to quinolones in faecal samples from fluoroquinolone-treated, contact and control pigs of different ages from 24 Swiss pig farms
Creators: name: Amsler, Morena
name: Zurfluh, Katrin
name: Hartnack, Sonja
name: Sidler, Xaver
name: Stephan, Roger
name: Kümmerlen, Dolf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin and counts of colony forming units of 254 randomly selected Escherichia coli isolates of faecal samples of pigs of G1-G5 at different ages