cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agricultural Sector and Economic Growth in Tunisia: Evidence from Co-integration and Error Correction Mechanism
Creators: name: Chebbi, Houssem Eddine
name: Lachaal, Lassaad
name: Chebbi, Houssem Eddine
name: Lachaal, Lassaad
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: co-integration
subject: economic growth
subject: agricultural sector
subject: Tunisia

description: For the past two decades, Tunisia has been undertaken important structural reforms, which call in most cases for market and trade liberalization (agricultural structural adjustment program, GATT reforms, free trade area with the European Union). The private-led type of growth strategy with less government intervention has culminated these last years into a more rapid economic growth and openness. Within this context, this paper examines the agricultural sector role into the economic growth and its interactions with the other sectors using time-series co-integration techniques. We use annual data from 1961 to 2005 to estimate a VAR model that includes GDP indices of five sectors in Tunisian economy. Empirical results from this study indicate that in the long-run all economic sectors tend to move together (co-integrate). But, in the short-run, the agricultural sector seems to have a limited role as a driving force for the growth of the other sectors of the economy. In addition, growth of the agricultural output may not be conducive directly to non-agricultural economic sector in the short-run.
From Public to Private Governance in the Food Supply Chains of Emerging Economies
Creators: name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Maertens, Miet
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Maertens, Miet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Industrial Organization

description: Food and agricultural commodity value chains in developing and transition countries have undergone tremendous changes in the past decades. Companies and property rights have been privatized, markets liberalized, and economies integrated into global food systems. The liberalization and privatization initially caused the collapse of state-controlled vertical integration. More recently, private vertical coordination systems have emerged and are growing rapidly as a response to consumer demand for food quality and safety on the one hand and the farms' production constraints caused by factor market imperfections. In this paper we (a) demonstrate the importance of these changes, (b) discuss the implications for efficiency and equity and (c) provide empirical evidence on the effects in several developing and transition countries.
Angular analysis of $B_s\, \to\, f_{2}'\,(1525)\,(\to K^+\,K^-)\,μ^+ \,μ^-$ decays as a probe to lepton flavor universality violation
Creators: name: Rajeev, N
name: Sahoo, Niladribihari
name: Dutta, Rupak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The flavor anomalies reported in $R_K$, $R_{K^*}$, $P_{5}^{\prime}$ and $\mathcal{B}(B_s\, \to\, ϕ\, μ^+\, μ^-)$ indicate lepton flavor universality violation in $b \to s\,l^+\,l^-$ quark level transition decays. The deviation from the SM prediction reported in the underlying flavor observables currently stand at the level of $2.5σ$, $2.4σ$, $3.3σ$ and $3.7σ$, respectively. In this context, we perform an angular analysis of the four-body differential decay of $B_s\, \to\, f_{2}^{\prime}\,(1525)\,(\to K^+\,K^-)\,μ^+ \,μ^-$ in a model independent effective field theory framework. The decay mode $B_s\, \to\, f_{2}^{\prime}(1525)\,l^+\,l^-$ undergoes similar $b \to s$ neutral current quark level transition and, in principle, can provide complementary information regarding lepton flavor universality violation in $b \to s\,l^+\,l^-$ quark level transition decays. We give predictions of various physical observables such as the branching ratio, the longitudinal polarization fraction, the forward-backward asymmetry, the angular observables $P_1$, $P_2$, $P_{4}^{\prime}$, $P_{5}^{\prime}$ and also the lepton flavor sensitive observables such as the ratio of branching ratio $R_{f_{2}^{\prime}}$, $Q_{F_L}$, $Q_{A_{FB}}$, $Q_{1}$, $Q_{2}$, $Q_{4}^{\prime}$, $Q_{5}^{\prime}$ for $B_s\, \to\, f_{2}^{\prime}\,(1525)\,(\to K^+\,K^-)\,μ^+ \,μ^-$ decays in the standard model and in the presence of several 1D and 2D new physics scenarios.
description: 25 pages, 7 figures, additional details updated
h-vectors of Gorenstein polytopes
Creators: name: Bruns, Winfried
name: Roemer, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E99, 13C99, 52B20

description: We show that the Ehrhart h-vector of an integer Gorenstein polytope with a regular unimodular triangulation satisfies McMullen's g-theorem; in particular, it is unimodal. This result generalizes a recent theorem of Athanasiadis (conjectured by Stanley) for compressed polytopes. It is derived from a more general theorem on Gorenstein affine normal monoids M: one can factor K[M] (K a field) by a "long" regular sequence in such a way that the quotient is still a normal affine monoid algebra. This technique reduces all questions about the Ehrhart h-vector of P to the Ehrhart h-vector of a Gorenstein polytope Q with exactly one interior lattice point, provided each lattice point in a multiple cP, c in N, can be written as the sum of n lattice points in P. (Up to a translation, the polytope Q belongs to the class of reflexive polytopes considered in connection with mirror symmetry.) If P has a regular unimodular triangulation, then it follows readily that the Ehrhart h-vector of P coincides with the combinatorial h-vector of the boundary complex of a simplicial polytope, and the g-theorem applies.
description: 12 pages; besides minor modifications the main result needs the additional assumption that the polytope P has a regular unimodular triangulation. The extra hypothesis has been included as well as the crucial construction where it is used
[Pomo field notebook 20]
Creators: name: Halpern, Abraham M.
name: James, Mary
name: Parrish, Steve
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: kju
subject: Kashaya language
subject: poo
subject: Central Pomo language

description: Field notebook (numbered XX) containing vocabulary and texts. See index in Aoki.002.

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"Einheit in versöhnter Verschiedenheit" - "konziliare Gemeinschaft" - "organische Union"
Creators: name: Meyer, Harding
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 27 Nr. 3 (1978): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 27, Heft 3
Impacts of Collective Action on Smallholders' Commercialisation: Evidence from Dairy in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Francesconi, Gian Nicola
name: Ruben, Ruerd
name: Francesconi, Gian Nicola
name: Ruben, Ruerd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The impacts of collective action on smallholders' commercialisation are the subject of a heated global debate. This study aims at bringing some empirical evidence into this debate. To do so we collected a unique set of bio-economic data, in 2003 and 2006, comprising information from 50 cooperative farmers and 50 individual farmers located within the same milk-shed in proximity of Addis Ababa. This dataset allowed comparing commercial performance of individual and cooperative dairy farmers, across 2003 and 2006. The empirical findings obtained with an adapted difference in difference analysis suggest that dairy cooperative farmers outperform the otherwise similar individual producers in terms of quantitative performance (market access, herd size and productivity), but also that cooperatives have an overall negative impact on milk quality (fat and protein content) and safety (bacteria contamination) at the farm gate. Finally, between 2003 and 2006, cooperatives showed horizontal expansion (increased number of cooperative members and herds size), but coop-members appeared incapable to either upgrade or intensify their farming systems.
ROTSE observations of the young cluster IC 348
Creators: name: Kiziloglu, U.
name: Kiziloglu, N.
name: Baykal, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CCD observations of stars in the young cluster IC 348 were obtained from 2004 August to 2005 January with a 0.45 m ROTSEIIId robotic reflecting telescope at the Turkish National Observatory site, Bakirlitepe, Turkey. The timing analysis of selected stars whose X-Ray counterpart were detected by Chandra X-Ray Observatory were studied. The time series of stars were searched for rotational periodicity by using different period search methods. 35 stars were found to be periodic with periods ranging from 0.74 to 32.3 days. Eighteen of the 35 periodic stars were new detections. Four of the new detections were CTTSs and the others were WTTSs and G type (or unknown spectral class) stars. In this study, we confirmed the stability of rotation periods of TTauri stars. The periods obtained by Cohen et al. and us were different by 1%. We also confirmed the 3.24 h pulsation period of H254 which is a delta Scuti type star as noted by Ripepi et al. but the other periods detected by them were not found. We examined correlation between X-ray luminosity and rotational period of our sample of TTSs. There is a decline in the rotational period with X-ray luminosity for late type TTSs.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal
The influence of light and nutrients on interactions between a tadpole grazer and periphyton in two coastal streams
Creators: name: Kim, Micheline Agi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In small streams, shading from the riparian canopy can limit production by stream algae. Removal of the riparian canopy due to forest disturbance can alter light and nutrient regimes in small streams, which in turn may influence grazer-periphyton interactions within the stream community. To investigate the influence of forest disturbance on grazer-periphyton interactions, I conducted an experiment to test for the effects of light, nutrients, and grazing by tadpoles of the tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) on periphyton standing crop. Light, nutrients, and tadpole density were manipulated in replicated, in situ, flow-through enclosures in two streams using a complete block, fully-factorial design to test for effects on periphyton biomass measured as ash-free dry weight (AFDW), chlorophyll a, and individual tadpole relative growth rates. The experiment was conducted over a six-week period from August to September 1997. Light exerted a strong, positive effect on periphyton production resulting in a two to seven-fold increase in chlorophyll a abundance and a 30-40% increase in AFDW over the shaded treatment. The response of periphyton to light differed strikingly between the two study streams, with Dipper Creek responding more strongly than Klondike Creek. Nutrients had no significant effect on chlorophyll a, and a positive effect on periphyton biomass on cobbles but not on tiles. Tadpole grazing significantly decreased periphyton biomass across all densities at both streams. Tadpoles showed an absolute rate of increase of 13-17% in body weight over the sixweek period. Thirty percent of the variation in growth rates was attributable to differences between the two streams. Mean growth rate of tadpoles was 45% higher at Klondike Creek than at Dipper Creek. Light exerted a significant positive effect on tadpole growth resulting in a 14% increase over the shaded treatment. Tadpole density exerted a significantly negative effect on tadpole growth rate and accounted for a greater percentage (38%) of the overall variation than did light. Nutrient addition did not significantly influence tadpole growth rate. Periphyton production was found to be under simultaneous control by light and tadpole grazing. The strong, positive effect of light on periphyton production and tadpole relative growth rate indicates a tight trophic coupling between grazers and their algal food resource, and a potential positive direct effect of light on grazers. The decrease in individual tadpole growth rates with increasing tadpole density indicates that tadpoles are subject to intraspecific densitydependent interactions, probably resulting from food-limitation. This study demonstrates that several factors may act in unison to control periphyton production and grazer growth rate, and that the relative importance of these factors may vary significantly between nearby streams.
Valuing the Protection of Victorian Forests: Murray River Red Gums, and East Gippsland
Creators: name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Dumsday, Robert G.
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Dumsday, Robert G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: forests
subject: Victoria
subject: choice modeling
subject: benefit cost analysis

description: The Victorian Environmental Assessment Council, in developing recommendations for the Victorian Government on the future management of public lands forests along he Murray River, and in East Gippsland, commissioned an analysis of environmental protections values. This paper reports the results of a choice modeling application that provides that analysis. Values for improved environmental conditions, as described by attributes relating to the forest composition, its wildlife characteristics and recreational opportunities, were estimated for sub-samples of households in Melbourne and in various regions around Victoria. The usefulness of the results as inputs to benefit cost analyses of policy alternatives is assessed.
O'QUV JARAYONIDA PEDAGOGIK MAHORATNI SHAKLLANTIRISH VA TAKOMILLASHTIRISH
Creators: name: Otajanov, Islom
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: ushbu tezisda pedagogik mahoratni egallashning mohiyati, zaruriyati, yo'llari, faoliyat jarayonida pedagogik mahoratni shakllantirish yo'llari, bunda doimiy tadqiqotlar, kuzatishlar o'tkazish, tajribani o'rganish, tahlil qilish va xulosalar chiqarish zarurati, professionallik, tizimli bilimlarni olish qobiliyati, mashqlar, takrorlashlar, xulosalar chiqarish, natijalar asosida olingan xulosalar, falsafiy, pedagogik, psixologik, uslubiy bilimlarni olish, ta'lim mavzusi bo'yicha keng va chuqur bilimlarni olish va takomillashtirish orqali shakllanish mazmuni ochib beriladi.
Branching Fraction Measurements of psi(2S) Decay to Baryon-Antibaryon Final States
Creators: name: Pedlar, T. K.
name: Collaboration, CLEO
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using 3.08 million psi(2S) decays observed in e^+e^- collisions by the CLEO detector, we present the results of a study of the psi(2S) decaying into baryon-antibaryon final states. We report the most precise measurements of the following eight modes: proton-antiproton, lambda-antilambda, Xi^- antiXi^-, Xi^0-antiXi^0 (first observation), Sigma+-antiSigma^+ (first observation), and Sigma^0-antiSigma^0, and place upper limits for the modes, Xi^0*-antiXi^0* and Omega^- antiOmega^-.
description: 8 pages postscript,also available through http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS/2005/, submitted to PRL
XMM-Newton and Gemini Observations of Eight RASSCALS Galaxy Groups
Creators: name: Mahdavi, A.
name: Finoguenov, A.
name: Boehringer, H.
name: Geller, M. J.
name: Henry, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the distribution of gas pressure and entropy in eight groups of galaxies belonging to the ROSAT All-Sky Survey / Center for Astrophysics Loose Systems (RASSCALS). We use archival and proprietary XMM-Newton observations, supplementing the X-ray data with redshifts derived from the literature; we also list 127 new redshifts measured with the Gemini North telescope. The groups show remarkable self-similarity in their azimuthally averaged entropy and temperature profiles. The entropy increases with radius; the behavior of the entropy profiles is consistent with an increasing broken power law with inner and outer slope 0.92+0.04-0.05 and 0.42+0.05-0.04 (68% confidence), respectively. There is no evidence of a central, isentropic core, and the entropy distribution in most of the groups is flatter at large radii than in the inner region, challenging earlier reports as well as theoretical models predicting large isentropic cores or asymptotic slopes of 1.1 at large radii. The pressure profiles are consistent with a self-similar decreasing broken power law in radius; the inner and outer slopes are -0.78+0.04-0.03 and -1.7+0.1-0.3, respectively. The results suggest that the larger scatter in the entropy distribution reflects the varied gasdynamical histories of the groups; the regularity and self-similarity of the pressure profiles is a sign of a similarity in the underlying dark matter distributions.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Anomaly Detection in a Large-scale Cloud Platform
Creators: name: Islam, Mohammad Saiful
name: Pourmajidi, William
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Steinbacher, John
name: Erwin, Tony
name: Miranskyy, Andriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cloud computing is ubiquitous: more and more companies are moving the workloads into the Cloud. However, this rise in popularity challenges Cloud service providers, as they need to monitor the quality of their ever-growing offerings effectively. To address the challenge, we designed and implemented an automated monitoring system for the IBM Cloud Platform. This monitoring system utilizes deep learning neural networks to detect anomalies in near-real-time in multiple Platform components simultaneously. After running the system for a year, we observed that the proposed solution frees the DevOps team's time and human resources from manually monitoring thousands of Cloud components. Moreover, it increases customer satisfaction by reducing the risk of Cloud outages. In this paper, we share our solutions' architecture, implementation notes, and best practices that emerged while evolving the monitoring system. They can be leveraged by other researchers and practitioners to build anomaly detectors for complex systems.
description: A condensed version to appear in Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021)
Schlüssel oder Peitsche?
Creators: name: Felfe, Marc
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 400 Sprache

description: In this essay I understand school grammar as academic grammar for future teachers. It aims at linguistic awareness, not linguistic knowledge, which is an essential common ground with grammar lessons at school. It is about exciting insights into the structure of language. In the first section, the discourse on school grammar is examined. I will put a focus on the cultivated negative image of school grammar in history and then contrast it with practical expectations of use. Thereafter the essential linguistic foundations are outlined, which have been neglected in school grammar for far too long, being afraid of linguistic theory: valency and constituency. Afterwards, the area of tension between first and second language in terms of school grammar will be explored. Finally, I sketch school grammar as a basis for error correction and evaluation.
A model for the Singlet-Triplet Leptoquarks
Creators: name: Da Rold, Leandro
name: Lamagna, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The deviations of $B$-meson decays measured in $R_{D^{(*)}}^{τ\ell}$ and $R_{K^{(*)}}^{μe}$ can be explained by the presence of two scalar leptoquarks, a singlet $S_1$ and a triplet $S_3$, mostly coupled to the third generation. We consider a theory of resonances, as an effective description of a strongly interacting theory, that generates the leptoquarks and the Higgs as Nambu-Goldstone bosons, with the rest of the resonances at a scale of order $10-30\ {\rm TeV}$. We assume anarchic partial compositeness for the flavor of the SM fermions. Under these hypothesis we study whether it is possible to reproduce the deviations in the $B$-decays without being in conflict with flavor and electroweak bounds. We find a tension between $R_{D^{(*)}}^{τ\ell}$ and some flavor observables, dominated by flavor violating $τ$ decays and $Δm_{B_s}$, that require a tuning of order $10-25\%$. We also compute the potential of the scalars showing that leptoquarks with masses ${\cal}O(2-3)\ {\rm TeV}$ can be naturally expected in the model. We discuss briefly the phenomenology of the other resonances.
description: 45 pages, 6 figures. All comments welcome
Forest policy issues arising from legislation review in Western Australia
Creators: name: Feldman, David
name: Ghose, Ananda
name: Feldman, David
name: Ghose, Ananda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The separation of commercial forestry from forest conservation and the subsequent end to old-growth logging in Western Australia, created fundamental problems for the Forest Products Commission, leading to a review of its functions in 2006. The FPC response to constraints on its viability contrasts with other States' approaches where carbon caps and water markets were used to place values on land uses. The effectiveness of the FPC's main policy approach to capitalise on the environmental value of forest establishment for salinity reduction is addressed in the Department of Agriculture and Food's submission to the FPC review. The value of this approach not supported by DAFWA hydrology work which concludes that benefits are highly site-specific and there is insufficient selection for forest location by the proponents of broad scale forestry investment in low rainfall areas.
Small intestinal protein metabolism during cancer cachexia and chemotherapy in mice
Creators: name: Knowles, Andrew Llewellyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Cachexia is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cancer. Mechanisms The effects of cancer cachexia and chemotherapy on small intestinal protein metabolism and the mechanisms regulating recovery are currently not known. Compromises to small intestinal protein metabolism may impair normal digestive and immune functions within the intestine and may negatively impact the whole body. Colon 26 adenocarcinoma induces cancer cachexia in mice, characteristic to the human condition, and this tumour can be cured with 100% efficacy using the experimental alkylating agent, cystemustine. In the present study, both healthy mice and colon 26 adenocarcinoma bearing mice were given either a single i.p. injection of N-(2- Chloroethyl)-N-[2-(methylsulfonyl)ethyl]-N-nitrosourea (cystemustine)(20 mg/kg) or saline 3 d following the onset of cachexia in colon 26 adenocarcinoma bearing mice. The rate of protein synthesis was determined in vivo using the flooding dose method. The possible involvement of proteolysis was assessed through northern blot hybridization of mRNA encoding components of the major proteolytic systems (lysosomal, calcium dependent, ATP-ubiquitin dependent). Villus and crypt morphology was studied through histological analysis. In tumour bearing mice not treated with chemotherapy, cancer cachexia reduced the rate of protein synthesis in the small intestine relative to healthy mice on a fractional (-15 to -20%, P<O.05) and an absolute basis (-20 to -35%, P<O.05) resulting in a 25% loss of protein mass (P<0.05), and minor alterations to villus and crypt morphology. Northern blot hybridization suggested that protein degradation may not have contributed to wasting as an up-regulation in mRNA levels were not detected (P>0.05). In treated mice, acute cytotoxicity of chemotherapy did not promote further wasting of small intestinal protein mass, nor did it result in damage to intestinal morphology. In contrast, mucosal damage and a 17% reduction in small intestinal protein mass (P<0.05) was evident in healthy mice treated with cystemustine, suggesting that the small intestine in cachectic mice responds differently to chemotherapy than in normal healthy mice. Complete and rapid recovery of small intestinal protein mass in cured mice resulted from an increase in the rate of protein synthesis compared to healthy mice on a fractional (+25%, P<0.05) and absolute basis (+35%, P<0.05); northern blot hybridization suggested no involvement of proteolysis during recovery.
PHENIX measurements of open and hidden heavy flavor in p+p, p+Al and p/d/3He+Au collisions across a wide range of rapidity
Creators: name: Lim, Sanghoon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: qm17
phenix
heavy flavor
p+p
p+al
p+au
d+au
3he+au
muon arms
electron
vtx
fvtx
J/Ψ
small systems
forward-rapidity
mid-rapidity
backward-rapidity
dielectron
charm
bottom

description: Talk presented at the Quark Matter 2017 conference
Movie Recommendation Systems Using An Artificial Immune System
Creators: name: Chen, Qi
name: Aickelin, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We apply the Artificial Immune System (AIS) technology to the Collaborative Filtering (CF) technology when we build the movie recommendation system. Two different affinity measure algorithms of AIS, Kendall tau and Weighted Kappa, are used to calculate the correlation coefficients for this movie recommendation system. From the testing we think that Weighted Kappa is more suitable than Kendall tau for movie problems.
Can Regional NRM arrangements reduce net transaction costs by increasing social capital?
Creators: name: Yee, Shion
name: Rolfe, John
name: Yee, Shion
name: Rolfe, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In Australia significant resources are invested into Regional NRM arrangements where some authority and decision-making responsibilities are devolved to Regional NRM groups. However, little empirical evidence is available to guide policymakers in determining whether investments in such a governance regime will yield optimal outcomes. In this paper, we focus on exploring whether the Regional NRM model may result in a reduction in net transaction costs by generating social capital. By improving levels of trust and cooperation, and minimising levels of conflict between various stakeholders involved in NRM activities, costs such as those associated with monitoring and compliance can potentially be reduced. Evidence from a survey of landholders involved with NRM programs run by the Regional NRM group in the Central Queensland region suggests that social capital is generated under the Regional NRM governance model.
Developing a benefit transfer database for environmental values in Queensland
Creators: name: Windle, Jill
name: Rolfe, John
name: Windle, Jill
name: Rolfe, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: benefit transfer
subject: environmental valuation
subject: choice modelling

description: made in one situation to related circumstances. The benefit transfer process is typically reliant on the availability of a number of source studies which have appropriate levels of reliability and relevance to the issue of interest. However, the limited number of non-market valuation studies to draw on for source values currently limits the benefit transfer process. In this paper, an alternative approach to benefit transfer is outlined where a series of valuation studies were specifically performed to build a reference data base of values for benefit transfer purposes. The choice modelling technique was used to estimate community values for protecting soil, water and vegetation stocks in Queensland, Australia, where both state and regional populations were surveyed to generate value estimates in a variety of contexts. The results provide a database where government and natural resource management agencies can access generic estimates of environmental values.
[Pomo field notebook 17]
Creators: name: Burke, Annie
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
name: James, Mary
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: peq
subject: Southern Pomo language
subject: kju
subject: Kashaya language

description: Field notebook (numbered XVII) containing texts. See index in Aoki.002.

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Fermion mass hierarchies from vector-like families with an extended 2HDM and a possible explanation for the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments
Creators: name: Hernández, A. E. Cárcamo
name: King, S. F.
name: Lee, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an extended 2 Higgs doublet model (2HDM) in which the Standard Model (SM) Yukawa interactions are forbidden due to a global $U(1)^\prime$ symmetry, but may arise via mixing with vector-like families. In this model, the hierarchical structure of Yukawa couplings of quarks and leptons in the SM arises from the heavy masses of the fourth and fifth vector-like families. Within this model, we consider various non-standard contributions to the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments. We first consider the $W$ exchange at one-loop level, consistent with the $μ\rightarrow e γ$ constraint, and show that it yields a negligible contribution to both electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments. We then consider Higgs scalar exchange, together with vector-like leptons, at one-loop level and show that it is possible to have non-standard contributions to the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments within the $1σ$ constraint of certain experiments. We present some benchmark points for both the muon and the electron anomalies, together with some numerical scans around these points, which indicate the mass regions of the Higgs scalars of the 2HDM in this scenario.
description: 41 pages, 12 figures. References added, discussions enlarged. Matches published version in PRD
Racial Differences in the Propensity to Negotiate
Creators: name: Crosby, Brandon John Richburg
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Diversity
subject: Gender
subject: Negotiation
subject: Race

description: This research set out to examine the potential impact of race on the willingness to negotiate in the workplace.  Drawing on previous research on gender influences on the willingness to negotiate and research on race and workplace discrimination, it was predicted that Black employees would be less willing to negotiate as compared to Whites, yet that this relationship would be moderated by a positive climate for diversity. Findings from interview data and a survey with employed participants showed that Black participants were less likely to negotiate on various topics such as promotions, bonuses and stock options.  The ambiguity of these topics as well as climate for diversity were investigated further in a lab experiment designed to manipulate organizational factors that could impact one’s willingness to negotiate.  The manipulation for the ambiguous condition, climate for diversity nor the race of the participant impacted negotiation rates. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Merger-origin of radio galaxies investigated with H I observations
Creators: name: Emonts, B. H. C.
name: Morganti, R.
name: Oosterloo, T. A.
name: van der Hulst, J. M.
name: Tadhunter, C. N.
name: van Moorsel, G.
name: Holt, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of an HI study of a complete sample of nearby radio galaxies. Our goal is to investigate whether merger or interaction events could be at the origin of the radio-AGN activity. Around five of our radio galaxies, hosted mainly by early-type galaxies, we detect extended HI in emission. In most cases this HI is distributed in large (up to 190 kpc) and massive (up to M(HI) ~ 10^10 M(sun)) disk- or ring-like structures, that show fairly regular rotation around the host galaxy. This suggests that in these systems a major merger did occur, but at least several Gyr ago. For the HI-rich radio galaxy B2 0648+27 we confirm such a merger origin through the detection of a post-starburst stellar population that dominates the visible light throughout this system. The timescale of the current episode of radio-AGN activity in our HI-rich radio galaxies is many orders of magnitude smaller than the merger timescales. Therefore the radio-AGN activity either started late in the lifetime of the merger event, or is not directly related to the merger event at all. Another intriguing result is that the HI-rich (> 10^9 M(sun)) radio galaxies in our sample all have compact radio sources, while none of the extended radio sources contain these amounts of extended HI. This strongly suggests that there is a relation between the size of the radio jet and the presence of large amounts of neutral gas associated with the host galaxy.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the "Granada Workshop on High Redshift Radio Galaxies", Spain, April 18 - 20, 2005. To appear in AN, ed. M. Villar-Martin. A full resolution version can be found at http://www.astro.rug.nl/~emonts/emontsAN2005PS.ps.gz
Does transitioning to online classes mid-semester affect conceptual understanding?
Creators: name: Carleschi, Emanuela
name: Chrysostomou, Anna
name: Cornell, Alan S.
name: Naylor, Wade
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) can be used as an assessment tool to measure conceptual gains in a cohort of students. The FCI uses a conceptions/"misconceptions" lens rather than a context dependent perspective, such as "knowledge-in-pieces". In this study it was given to first year students ($N=256$ students) pre- and post-mechanics lectures, at the University of Johannesburg. From these results we examine the effect of switching mid-semester from traditional classes to online classes, as imposed by the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa. Overall results indicate no appreciable difference of gain, when bench-marked against previous studies using this assessment tool. When compared with $2019$ grades, the $2020$ semester grades do not appear to be greatly affected. Furthermore, statistical analyses also indicate a gender difference in mean gains in favour of females at the $95\%$ significance level (for paired data, $N=48$).
description: 17 pages, 6 figures, and 3 tables. To appear in the European Journal of Physics under the title, "Probing the effect on student conceptual understanding due to a forced mid-semester transition to online teaching"
ANFA NYC: A Neuroethical Architecture
Creators: name: Petrocelli, Luke Stephen
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Architecture
subject: Neuroscience

description: Our environments have a direct effect on our wellbeing. Science is starting to focus on the human brain and tell us why this is the case. This thesis concerns the integration of the neurosciences with architectural design. It is the stance of this thesis that architects have the responsibility to address the cognitive effects of the environments which they design in an effort to combat the so-called ‘diseases of civilization’.

The chosen site, South Point Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City, is proposed to be developed as a NeuroArchitecture research incubator, providing interested groups a place to study the consilience of neuroscience and architecture. Research will be applied through four venues: The chosen site and landscape, a NeuroArchitecture Incubator, Blackwell Tower, and the ruin of a mid-19th Century Smallpox Hospital.
Control of price related terms in standard form contracts : Spain
Creators: name: Elizalde, Francisco de
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Main terms
Transparency
Unfair terms
Standard form contracts
Price
Condiciones principales
Transparencia
Cláusulas abusivas
Contratos estándar
Precio

description: Este artículo examina la problemática jurídica que suscitan las cláusulas contractuales que contienen referencias a terceros, en particular, las que aluden a competidores o rivales de las partes contratantes para regular distintos aspectos de la relación contractual. La utilización de este tipo de cláusulas se ha multiplicado con el desarrollo de los mercados plataforma y el comercio digital en internet. Tras analizar la lógica económica que suele inspirar estos términos contractuales, particularmente sobre el precio, se consideran aquéllos supuestos en los que las circunstancias relativas a los bienes/servicios objeto de contrato y la posición de las partes contratantes en el mercado pueden hacer que estas cláusulas tengan un impacto negativo en el bienestar social y se consideren ilícitas. The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether Private law could determine the fate of the Circular Economy. The article will first assess the legal relationship that the service creates between the supplier and the consumer. This relationship establishes a contractual bond in which the quality of performance is at stake. Next, the paper moves on to the complex proprietary consequences of the service, an issue that is aggravated in the context of real estate. The erga omnes effects of property rights justify the chapter’s focus on the supplier-customer relationship but also on the interaction of third parties with the goods deployed in the service. Lastly, the article addresses an issue that affects both the contracting parties and third parties: non-performance and insolvency.
The Filamentary Large Scale Structure around the z = 2.16 Radio Galaxy PKS 1138-262
Creators: name: Croft, Steve
name: Kurk, Jaron
name: van Breugel, Wil
name: Stanford, S. A.
name: de Vries, Wim
name: Pentericci, Laura
name: Rottgering, Huub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PKS 1138-262 is a massive radio galaxy at z = 2.16 surrounded by overdensities of Lya emitters, Ha emitters, EROs and X-ray emitters. Numerous lines of evidence exist that it is located in a forming cluster. We report on Keck spectroscopy of candidate members of this protocluster, including nine of the 18 X-ray sources detected by Pentericci et al. (2002) in this field. Two of these X-ray sources (not counting PKS 1138-262 itself) were previously confirmed to be members of the protocluster; we have discovered that an additional two (both AGN) are members of a filamentary structure, at least 3.5 Mpc in projection, aligned with the radio jet axis, the 150 kpc-sized emission-line halo, and the extended X-ray emission around the radio galaxy. Three of the nine X-ray sources observed are lower redshift AGN, and three are M-dwarf stars.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, To appear in AJ, September 2005
Household resources, household composition, and child nutritional outcomes
Creators: name: Cameron, Michael P.
name: Lim, Steven
name: Cameron, Michael P.
name: Lim, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: migration
subject: household composition
subject: children
subject: Thailand

description: In many developing countries the composition of rural households is influenced by the migration of adult household members to urban locations in search of employment. Children may be left in the care of their mother alone, or in the care of grandparents when both parents have migrated. Using representative data from rural Northeast Thailand, this paper investigates whether household composition has any effect on the nutritional outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that household types other than nuclear families result in some significantly worse child nutritional outcomes. One implication is that governments should target programs to protect the welfare of the children of migrants in origin communities.
The Dirac-Hestenes Equation for Spherical Symmetric Potentials in the Spherical and Cartesian Gauges
Creators: name: da Rocha, Roldao
name: Rodrigues, Waldyr A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper using the apparatus of the Clifford bundle formalism we show how straightforwardly solve in Minkowski spacetime the Dirac-Hestenes equation -- which is an appropriate representative in the Clifford bundle of differential forms of the usual Dirac equation -- by separation of variables for the case of a potential having spherical symmetry in the Cartesian and spherical gauges. We show that contrary to what is expected at a first sight, the solution of the DHE in both gauges has exactly the same mathematical difficulty.
description: 13 pages, accepted for publication in Int.J.Mod.Phys.A
Historic Preservation and Sustainability in an Equestrian Center Revitalization
Creators: name: Rosenthal, Shira
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Barn
subject: Horses
subject: Preservation
subject: Sustainability

description: This thesis examines the history and types of American Horse Farms and Equestrian Centers. The design strategy will employ the best practices to create a proposal for revitalization of an historic horse farm, enhanced by the utilization of technology, sustainability practices, and preservation, all of which can be applied to any equestrian farm. By studying successful precedents and the current and projected best practices, the best practices can be applied to a proposed preservation and enhancement of the forty-four acre Reddemeade Equestrian Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Determinants of Institutional Success for Water in India: Results from a Study across Three States
Creators: name: Gandhi, Vasant P.
name: Crase, Lin
name: Herath, Gamini
name: Gandhi, Vasant P.
name: Crase, Lin
name: Herath, Gamini
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: There has been substantial focus on water resource development in India, but with emphasis mainly on the technical side. Development of institutions to manage the interactions and arrangements necessary has received little attention. The study uses the new institutional economics framework and governance theories to probe local institutions in water resource management. 29 institutions and 450 households are covered and the data analysed through univariate Anova and multivariate Tobit regressions. The results show the importance of technical, organizational and political governance provided by the institutions. Achievement of efficiency, equity, environment and finance objectives depends substantially on lowering transaction costs through advancing means such as clarity of objectives, good interaction, adaptability, appropriate scale, and compliance.
Existence and Construction of Exact FRG Flows of a UV-Interacting Scalar Field Theory
Creators: name: Ziebell, Jobst
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove the existence and give a construction procedure of Euclidean-invariant exact solutions to the Wetterich equation in $d > 2$ dimensions satisfying the naive boundary condition of a massive and interacting real scalar $ϕ^4$ theory in the ultraviolet limit as well as a generalised free theory in the infrared limit. The construction produces the momentum-dependent correlation functions to all orders through an iterative scheme, based on a self-consistent ansatz for the four-point function. The resulting correlators are bounded at all regulator scales and we determine explicit bounds capturing the asymptotics in the UV and IR limits. Furthermore, the given construction principle may be extended to other systems and might become useful in the study of general properties of exact solutions.
[Pomo field notebook 18]
Creators: name: Halpern, Abraham M.
name: James, Mary
name: Marrufo, Julia Pinola
name: Parrish, Steve
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: kju
subject: Kashaya language
subject: poo
subject: Central Pomo language

description: Field notebook (numbered XVIII) containing vocabulary. See index in Aoki.002.

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