cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tōkaidō bungen no zu, 1
東海道分間之圖 壹
Creators: name: Hishikawa, Moronobu, Approximately 1618-Approximately 1694
Publisher: name: Edo Shin-izumi-machi : Hangiya Shichirobē
Year: 2015

description: First edition, second printing. Scale 3 bu to 1 chō : [1:12,000]. Cover attached; cover title same as map. Roads, towns, castles depicted. First edition, but second printing, as there is no inscription of the rates between each post-town. Eshi 菱川吉兵衛 Hishikawa Kichibē is the famous ’Ukiyoe’ artist 菱川師宣Hishikawa Moronobu. Contents : vol.1, Edo to Odawara (24 folds); vol.2 Odawara to Fuchū (25 folds); vol.3 Fuchū to Yoshida (29 folds); vol.4 Yoshida to Kameyama (29 folds); vol.5 Kameyama to Kyōto (24 folds). Reproductions: a portion near Hara is reproduced in Beans, suppl. A facing p. 11; three sections in Kurita, no. 74; see also Toda, pp. 109-110 & Hall, p. 152. Cited in: WSN; 33
Nigeria: A Land Sinking in Oil
Creators: name: Langburd, Nataliya
name: Langburd, Nataliya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: International Development
International Relations/Trade

description: Prior to 1973, Nigeria’s largely agricultural economy was sustained by 90% of its population, its subsistence farmers. Since then, Nigeria has suffered a case of Dutch Disease where the dependence on oil has crowded out the agricultural sector from the market. Rather than responding to the needs of the population, the Nigerian government has focused on the interests of the profitable Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Despite Nigeria’s great GDP growth earning the title of an “emerging economy,” its population’s standard of living has deteriorated. In this paper, I argue that the shift from oil to small‐scale farming would allow Nigeria to establish an economy resilient in the face of price fluctuations, employ its comparative advantage in agricultural capital and labor force, and make the government directly accountable to the people.
The Future of the Family Farm: A Case Study for a Starting Family‐Run Operation
Creators: name: Smithheisler, Paula
name: Smithheisler, Paula
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Farm Management
Production Economics

description: Family farms are unusual management situations. Not only is the manager focused on building a profitable enterprise, he or she is also aiming to create one so profitable that it supports the family that owns and works it. Also, production agriculture has extremely high barriers to entry, including specialized knowledge, significant capital investments, variable prices of product and costs of inputs, and long production cycles. Although these difficulties are factors in the declining number of agricultural producers in the United States, young people are still returning to the family farm. This case study analyzes one young couple’s whole farm management plan for starting their own operation in northeast Oklahoma, including accounting projections and financial ratio analysis. With Integrated Farm Financial Statements, software developed by Agricultural Economics Extension at Oklahoma State University, enterprise budgets and whole‐farm financial statements were constructed for the intended enterprise, and also for three alternative scenarios.
Superstring with Extrinsic Curvature Action
Creators: name: Savvidy, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest supersymmetric extension of conformally invariant string theory which is exclusively based on extrinsic curvature action. At the classical level this is a tension-less string theory. The absence of conformal anomaly in quantum theory requires that the space-time should be 6-dimensional.
description: 10 pages, LaTex, 1 figure
Determinants of Residential Water Pricing in the Metro Atlanta Region
Creators: name: Voyles, Travis A.
name: Voyles, Travis A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: Water scarcity is one of the greatest growing social and economic concerns for many regions around the world. The State of Georgia has experienced these concerns first‐hand within the metro Atlanta region and the Chattahoochee River basin. The residential consumers of the water supplied by the local water systems have endured this water crisis with their own livelihoods depending on the supply of the water resource. The way the individual water systems have handled the growth and security problems differently by adopting different programs and systems has created different costs to each water system. Higher prices for the water resource result in a higher bill for the residential consumers. Understanding and analyzing the variation in the different variables chosen help to determine what factors lead to changes in pricing for the used water resource. The population, income and educational program variable were found to have the largest influence on the used regression equations. These variables agree with most economic theory and social expectations. The most significant finding was the great significance the educational program variable was found to represent, describing a situation where a more social aspect variable of the regression model was found to be the most influential.
Still a Barrier to Trade? A Review of
Creators: name: Westra, Sabrina
name: Westra, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Since the FDA’s adoption of HACCP standards in 1997, there has been concern that these standards have continuously acted as a barrier to trade for seafood exports from developing countries. This study compares trade data of seafood exports to the U.S with the refusal data from the FDA, in order to determine if there is a continuous negative effect of the FDA’s stringent standards on trade across the top seafood exporting countries to the U.S. Overall, it is found that the bulk of seafood refusals are from developing countries, notably a small group of lower‐middle income Asian countries who are also some of the largest exporters of seafood to the U.S. Relative to how much they trade, developing countries actually have had better or roughly equivalent compliance rates at the U.S border, and there were no differential effects found on the impact of refusals on trade for any of the top seafood exporting countries. Learning was not observed with this data for any of the top exporting countries to the U.S, implying more research may be required at the firm level in these countries to continue studying ‘standards as barriers’.
Eupholidoptera cypria Ramme 1951
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera cypria

description: Eupholidoptera cypria Ramme, 1951
(Figures 17, 62, 108, 154, 198, 234, 237, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera cypria Ramme, 1951: 201.
 Type information: Holotype F, CYPRUS («Cypern»): Agios Joannis 4000 ft, 9.1930, Mavromoustakis (ZMB).
 Material examined: CYPRUS: Holotype 1M; 3M, 4F, Agios Andreas, Kyrenia dist., 6.7.1952 (A. R. Waterston); 3M, 3F, Agios Andreas, Kyrenia dist., 19.6.1952 (A. R. Waterston); 1M, 1F, Mesopotamus, Mt. Troodos, 3000 ft., 7.1949 (G.A. Mavromoustakis); 1F, Mesopotamus, Troodos Mt., 5500 ft., 13.8.1948 (G.A. Mavromoustakis); 1F, Saettas, 8.1949 (G.A. Mavromoustakis); 1F, Myztus, Zakaki Meadow, 27.6.1945 (G.A. Mavromoustakis); 4F, Phasoion, 6.7.1925 (G.A. Mavromoustakis); 1M (nymph) Akamas, 31.5.1946 (G.A. Mavromoustakis); 1F, Mandria, 2500 ft., 26.7.1937 (G.A. Mavromoustakis); 1M, Limasol, 5.6.1926 (G.A. Mavromoustakis); 5M, 19F, Cyprus, Crete (?), nr. Asomatos, 4.7.1937 (G.A. Mavromoustakis) (possibly ‘ Crete’ here indicates a locality in Cyprus, not in the island of Crete since this species not known there; Willemse & Heller 2001) (all previous NHM); 1M (nymph), Paphos, Anarita (34°45'N, 32°32'E), 28.4.2001 (K.-G. Heller) (CH); 1M, Paphos, Farangi Avgas (34°55'N, 32°22'E), 24.4.2001 (K.-G. Heller) (CH) (sound record); 1M, 1F, Paphos, Polis: Umg. Neo Chorio (35°1'N, 32°20'E), 26.4.2001 (K.-G. Heller) (CH) (sound record); 2F, Lemesos, Chandria (34°57'N, 33°0'E), 26.4.2001 (K.-G. Heller) (CH); 1M, 1 F, O v. Kirenia, 1.6.1971 (M.J. & J.P. Duffels) (CW). SYRIA: 1M, 1F, North of Latakia, 850 m, 35º51’N, 35º58’E 1– 3.8.1953 (K. Christiansen) (NHM); TURKEY: 7M, Hatay, Yayladaǧı, Kışlak Köyü, 730 m, 18.6.1995; 1M, 1F, Dursunlu Köyü, 100 m, 18.6.1995 (B. Çıplak) (both AUZM).
 Other published localities: Salman (1983), Massa (1994), Tumbrinck (2006), Ünal (2006).
 Distribution: This species is represented in Cyprus, Turkey and Syria. The mainland part of the range covers the most southern part of Turkey (Gaziantep and Hatay provinces) and nearby territories of Syria (Latakia).
 Remarks: The most important autapomorphies of Eupholidoptera cypria are the typical triangular and apically pointed lobes of female subgenital plate. Salman (1983) discovered a population possessing this typical characteristic in Turkey and described it as a different subspecies (Eupholidoptera cypria turcica Salman, 1983: 328). During this study some specimens from Latakia, Syria showing characteristics of the Anatolian population were examined in NHM.
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 23
A description of entanglement in terms of quantum phase
Creators: name: Sanchez-Soto, Luis L.
name: Delgado, Julian
name: Klimov, Andrei B.
name: Bjork, Gunnar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the role played by the phase in an accurate description of the entanglement of bipartite systems. We first present an appropriate polar decomposition that leads to a truly Hermitian operator for the phase of a single qubit. We also examine the positive operator-valued measures that can describe the qubit phase properties. When dealing with two qubits, the relative phase seems to be a natural variable to understand entanglement. In this spirit, we propose a measure of entanglement based on this variable.
description: 11 pages, previous title has changed, new section added, corrected typos, no figures
Flavor of Georgia: Entrepreneurship and Value Added Products
Creators: name: Cantrell, Colby
name: Cantrell, Colby
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Small business is considered the backbone of the American economy. The University of Georgia’s Flavor of Georgia program coordinated through the College of Agriculture’s Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development offers small businesses wider public exposure for their locally produced barbecue sauces, jellies, preserves, cheeses, and meats. The program helps small agricultural producers get their products evaluated by food science professionals and marketers. During a statewide competition, entrants’ products are evaluated by people from around the state including the governor at a final judging event held in Atlanta each year. This allows small businesses the chance for increased business connections, networking, and to obtain public feedback on their Georgia products. Seventy-seven percent of the 2013 Flavor of Georgia finalists reported increased interest in their products while 86% reported more business contacts according to survey results. Forty-five percent of the finalists reported an increase in sales while 27% reported an increase in profits. Moreover, 5% of the firms indicate that due to the program, they have an increase in employees. Clearly, the Flavor of Georgia has an economic impact primarily in rural Georgia.
Tuning the nonlinear dispersive coupling of nanomechanical string resonators
Creators: name: Gajo, K.
name: Rastelli, G.
name: Weig, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate nonlinear dispersive mode coupling between the flexural in- and out-of-plane modes of two doubly clamped, nanomechanical silicon nitride string resonators. As the amplitude of one mode transitions from the linear response regime into the nonlinear regime, we find a frequency shift of two other modes. The resonators are strongly elastically coupled via a shared clamping point and can be tuned in and out of resonance dielectrically, giving rise to multimode avoided crossings. When the modes start hybridizing, their polarization changes. This affects the nonlinear dispersive coupling in a non-trivial way. We propose a theoretical model to describe the dependence of the dispersive coupling on the mode hybridization.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Counting tree diagrams: asymptotic results for QCD-like theories
Creators: name: Draggiotis, P. D.
name: Kleiss, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the enumeration of Feynman diagrams at tree order for processes with external lines of different types. We show how this can be done by iterating algebraic Schwinger-Dyson equations. Asymptotic estimates for very many external lines are derived. Applications include QED, QCD and scalar QED, and the asymptotic estimates are numerically confronted with the exact results.
description: 16 pages
Welfare Reform’s Effect on State Public Welfare Budget Shares
Creators: name: Compton, Andrew D.
name: Compton, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Security and Poverty

description: This article examines the effect of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 on state budget shares for public welfare programs between 1991 and 2011. The model is a composite of prior research. In particular, I utilize a balance wheel model adjusted to model budget shares. This model shares many similarities with prior political economy model. Welfare Reform ended many traditional welfare programs and created new ones with more restrictions on recipients. Prior research shows that expenditures have fallen for traditional programs, but little is concluded about new programs and overall expenditures on public welfare programs as they relate to the total budget. The findings of this research are largely inconclusive, but more data and stronger tests could confirm or reject the null hypotheses with more robustness.
Black Hole Astrophysics in AdS Braneworlds
Creators: name: Emparan, Roberto
name: Garcia-Bellido, Juan
name: Kaloper, Nemanja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider astrophysics of large black holes localized on the brane in the infinite Randall-Sundrum model. Using their description in terms of a conformal field theory (CFT) coupled to gravity, deduced in Ref. [1], we show that they undergo a period of rapid decay via Hawking radiation of CFT modes. For example, a black hole of mass ${\rm few} \times M_\odot$ would shed most of its mass in $\sim 10^4 - 10^5$ years if the AdS radius is $L \sim 10^{-1}$ mm, currently the upper bound from table-top experiments. Since this is within the mass range of X-ray binary systems containing a black hole, the evaporation enhanced by the hidden sector CFT modes could cause the disappearance of X-ray sources on the sky. This would be a striking signature of RS2 with a large AdS radius. Alternatively, for shorter AdS radii, the evaporation would be slower. In such cases, the persistence of X-ray binaries with black holes already implies an upper bound on the AdS radius of $L \la 10^{-2}$ mm, an order of magnitude better than the bounds from table-top experiments. The observation of primordial black holes with a mass in the MACHO range $M \sim 0.1 - 0.5 M_\odot$ and an age comparable to the age of the universe would further strengthen the bound on the AdS radius to $L \la {\rm few} \times 10^{-6} $ mm.
description: 14 pages, latex, no figures v2: added references
Opportunities for Water Conservation in Georgia: Alternative Energy Technologies in Planned Generation Facilities
Creators: name: Hatzenbuhler, Heather
name: Hatzenbuhler, Heather
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Water scarcity is a problem of increasing concern for the state of Georgia. For the last three decades the state has experienced droughts that have reached extreme conditions on many occasions. Georgia released a comprehensive water plan in 2008 that outlined historical and projected water use for various sectors of the economy. Water use for energy generation has the largest by volume consumptive use of water in the state. The report outlined plans for future energy generating facilities in order to meet the projected demand increase for electricity due to population growth over the next 30 years. The planned technologies for these power plants relied mostly on conventional fossil fuel generators with tower cooling systems. From a water consumption standpoint these facilities are highly inefficient compared to currently available technologies. Though a quantitative analysis of the median water consumption rates of alternative fuel sources and cooling technologies and a qualitative analysis of the feasibility of these alternatives from a geographical perspective, it was determined that concentrated solar power and adoption of dry cooling technology for conventional combustion generators provided the greatest water savings (96-99% on average) relative to other generation technologies. It was also concluded that the choice in cooling technology had nearly as much impact on water consumption by a power plant as did the choice of a fuel source.
Optical response of two-dimensional electron fluids beyond the Kohn regime: strong non-parabolic confinement and intense laser light
Creators: name: Santer, M.
name: Mehlig, B.
name: Moseler, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the linear and non-linear optical response of two-dimensional (2D) interacting electron fluids confined by a strong non-parabolic potential. We show that such fluids may exhibit higher-harmonic spectra under realistic experimental conditions. Higher harmonics arise as the electrons explore anharmonicities of the confinement potential (electron-electron interactions reduce this non-linear effect). This opens the possibility of controlling the optical functionality of such systems by engineering the confinement potential. Our results were obtained within time-dependent density-functional theory, employing the adiabatic local-density approximation. A classical hydrodynamical model is in good agreement with the quantum-mechanical results.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Latin American Agriculture in a World of Trade Agreements
Creators: name: Josling, Tim
name: Paggi, Mechel
name: Wainio, John
name: Yamazaki, Fumiko
name: Josling, Tim
name: Paggi, Mechel
name: Wainio, John
name: Yamazaki, Fumiko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agribusiness
International Development
International Relations/Trade

description: Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have been among the most active participants in the negotiation of regional and bilateral FTAs. The countries of the region are members of 73 of the 259 FTAs notified to the WTO as currently in force with 29 of these agreements containing tariff concessions made to one or more Latin American partners: the remaining 44 are between an LAC member country and a third country. Among LAC countries already linked by an FTA a large percentage of agricultural tariffs are already duty free. But the progress in this direction seems to have stalled with continued tensions in MERCOSUR and political difficulties in the Andean Community. Negotiation of the proposed Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA) has been shelved and the MERCOSUR-EU negotiations are moving at an imperceptible speed. Meanwhile other countries are moving ahead rapidly by negotiating ambitious mega-agreements particularly the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP). The only LAC countries actively involved in the TPP talks are Mexico Chile and Peru. If either or both of these mega-agreements are concluded the impacts on the region could be significant. These impacts include trade diversion and preference erosion in major import markets as competitors improve their market access. They could also involve the de facto acceptance of regulatory decisions made by the mega-agreement partners. The Latin American strategies toward these potentially significant agreements and the impacts of the TPP and T-TIP on Latin American agriculture have so far gone largely unstudied. Several possible avenues exist for Latin American countries to counter the impact of a TPP and TTIP on agricultural exports. One possible avenue would be to strengthen existing bilateral trade agreements within the region and to rely on multilateral trade negotiations to improve market access in other regions. Another possible strategy would be to link existing multi-country agreements such as MERCOSUR and the Pacific Alliance to NAFTA in effect reviving the idea for a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) under a different structure. Another possibility would be to complete and expand the scope of the MERCOSUR-EU FTA talks to include other LAC countries. A fourth possible action would be for those countries that are not yet part of the negotiations to “sign on” to the TPP in so far as it is an “open access” agreement.
Quantization-based Bermudan option pricing in the $FX$ world
Creators: name: Fayolle, Jean-Michel
name: Lemaire, Vincent
name: Montes, Thibaut
name: Pagès, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper proposes two numerical solution based on Product Optimal Quantization for the pricing of Foreign Echange (FX) linked long term Bermudan options e.g. Bermudan Power Reverse Dual Currency options, where we take into account stochastic domestic and foreign interest rates on top of stochastic FX rate, hence we consider a 3-factor model. For these two numerical methods, we give an estimation of the $L^2$-error induced by such approximations and we illustrate them with market-based examples that highlight the speed of such methods.
Ingrid Cutler & Alexander Petrov: "Fight academic apartheid to advance equality and quality in the sciences". An interview with Prof Rune Nilsen on 23 November 2015. Professor Emeritus in Global Health Rune Nilsen (Bergen, Norway) on Open Access, University politics and Global health.
Creators: name: Petrov, Alexander
name: Cutler, Ingrid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160503 Communications and Media Policy
subject: 160506 Education Policy
subject: 160508 Health Policy
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Science Policy

description: Europe's Open Access Champions, Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access & what still needs to be done.
Professor Emeritus in Global Health Rune Nilsen (Bergen, Norway) on Open Access, University politics and Global health.
Tōkaidō bungen no zu, 4
東海道分間之圖四
Creators: name: Hishikawa, Moronobu, Approximately 1618-Approximately 1694
Publisher: name: Edo Shin-izumi-machi : Hangiya Shichirobē
Year: 2015

description: First edition, second printing. Scale 3 bu to 1 chō : [1:12,000]. Cover attached; cover title same as map. Roads, towns, castles depicted. First edition, but second printing, as there is no inscription of the rates between each post-town. Eshi 菱川吉兵衛 Hishikawa Kichibē is the famous ’Ukiyoe’ artist 菱川師宣Hishikawa Moronobu. Contents : vol.1, Edo to Odawara (24 folds); vol.2 Odawara to Fuchū (25 folds); vol.3 Fuchū to Yoshida (29 folds); vol.4 Yoshida to Kameyama (29 folds); vol.5 Kameyama to Kyōto (24 folds). Reproductions: a portion near Hara is reproduced in Beans, suppl. A facing p. 11; three sections in Kurita, no. 74; see also Toda, pp. 109-110 & Hall, p. 152. Cited in: WSN; 33
Faster and Simpler SNN Simulation with Work Queues
Creators: name: Bautembach, Dennis
name: Oikonomidis, Iason
name: Kyriazis, Nikolaos
name: Argyros, Antonis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a clock-driven Spiking Neural Network simulator which is up to 3x faster than the state of the art while, at the same time, being more general and requiring less programming effort on both the user's and maintainer's side. This is made possible by designing our pipeline around "work queues" which act as interfaces between stages and greatly reduce implementation complexity. We evaluate our work using three well-established SNN models on a series of benchmarks.
description: Camera-ready version, as accepted by IJCNN 2020
The Hidden Cost of Regulation: Emotional Responses to Command and Control
Creators: name: Just, David
name: Hanks, Andrew
name: Just, David
name: Hanks, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Political Economy
Production Economics
Public Economics

description: In economic models of behavior consumers are assumed to value the goods and services they purchase based on stable preferences over externally identifiable attributes such as quality. These models predict that consumers will respond to changes in price in a way that is independent of the source of the price change. Yet research in the behavioral sciences indicates that consumers that are emotionally attached to a consumption good or other behavior might respond with resistance when policies threaten their consumption or behavior. Moreover, policies that in fact validate some emotional attachments can stir a stronger preference for the good or behavior. Reviewing both survey and experimental data from the literature, we demonstrate how such emotional responses can create hidden costs to policy implementation that could not be detected using standard welfare economic techniques. Building upon Rabin’s work on fairness in games, we propose a partial equilibrium model of emotional response to policy whereby preferences are endogenous to policy choices. In accordance with evidence both from our own analysis and the field, we propose that confrontational policies (such as a sin tax) increase the marginal utility for a good, and that validating policies (such as a subsidy) also increases the marginal utility for a good. A social planner that ignores potential emotional responses to policy changes may unwittingly induce significant dead weight loss. Using our model, we propose a feasible method to determine if emotional deadweight costs exist, and to place a lower bound on the size of these costs.
The marine ornamental fish trade in Switzerland and Europe
Creators: name: Biondo, Monica Virginia
Publisher: name: Universität Bern
Year: 2019
Subjects: 570 Life sciences; biology

description: Coral reef ecosystems are one of the most biologically rich and diverse environments on the planet. Unfortunately, coral reefs are at risk from several threats such as global warming and ocean acidification (Hughes et al., 2017; Gattuso et al., 2014; Hoegh-Guldberg, 2007), and also from overexploitation, for example, by trade (Baillie et al., 2004). The trade in marine ornamental fishes originated in the 1930s with a few coral reef fishes being caught to be kept in aquariums. Today, about 40 million specimens are traded annually and the commerce expands over at least 50 exporting countries from (mainly) South East Asia, with most importing countries situated in the Western Hemisphere. This trade involves more than half the known 4,000 species of coral reef fishes (Rhyne et al., 2017), expands worldwide, and is worth billions of US$ each year (Leal et al., 2015; Dee et al., 2014; Monticini, 2010; Smith et al., 2008; Wabnitz et al., 2003). Historically, individual attempts have been conducted to monitor trade, although no global monitoring systems have emerged. This dissertation focuses on the marine ornamental fish trade as well as aspects of its management in Switzerland, Europe and globally, along with impacts on species and the environment. The monitoring of this trade is challenging because so many species and specimens are involved, and the supply chain, from wild-capture to the aquarium holder, is also very extensive (Rhyne et al., 2017; Wabnitz et al., 2003). Almost no relevant fish species breeds in captivity (Sweet, 2017; Penning et al., 2009), and therefore supply originates from wild sources, which are coral reefs. Furthermore, there are concerns amongst scientists regarding the sustainability of this trade, due to the high mortality of specimens in the supply chain (Stevens et al., 2017; Vagelli, 2011; Wabnitz et al., 2003). The purpose of this study was to review the existing data on the marine ornamental fish trade to Switzerland and Europe as well as its global implication. The first study examined Switzerland's role in the European and the global marine aquarium trade, and provided basic information on numbers of specimens traded and their diversity by using data from customs documents from 2009. The second and third studies used electronic data from the European Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) for the years 2014 to 2017 for Switzerland and the European Union (EU). TRACES is in use for disease prevention where animal and plants or their products are imported to Europe. This data produced meaningful information for imports to Switzerland and the EU, although TRACES is not specifically created to monitor the marine ornamental fish trade. It was possible to yield useful information on the volumes, diversity and trends in number of fish specimens traded. These studies offered tangible ideas on how to adapt the TRACES to adequately collect species data.
Photon statistics and dynamics of nanolasers subject to intensity feedback
Creators: name: Wang, T.
name: Deng, Z. L.
name: Sun, J. C.
name: Wang, X. H.
name: Puccioni, G. P.
name: Wang, G. F.
name: Lippi, G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a fully stochastic numerical scheme, we investigate the behaviour of a nanolaser in the low-coherence regime at the transition between spontaneous emission and lasing under the influence of intensity feedback. Studying the input-output curves as well as the second order correlations for different feedback fractions, we obtain an insight on the role played by the fraction of photons reinjected into the cavity. The interpretation of the observation is strengthened through the comparison with the temporal traces of the emitted photons and with the radiofrequency power spectra. The results give insight into the physics of nanolasers as well as validate the use of the second order autocorrelation as a sufficient tool for the interpretation of the dynamics. This confirmation offers a solid basis for the reliance on autocorrelations in experiments studying the effects of feedback in nanodevices.
Eupholidoptera leucasi Willemse 1980
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera leucasi

description: Eupholidoptera leucasi Willemse, 1980
(Figures 22, 67, 113, 159, 203, 234, 238, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera leucasi Willemse, 1980: 50–52.
 Type information: Holotype, M, and 9M, 17F paratypes, GREECE, N. Levkados, Levkas, Ano Exanthia, 600 m, 15.7.1976 (F. & L. Willemse & J. Tilmans) (CW) and paratypes from other localities.
 Material examined: GREECE: Lefkas: Holotype and paratypes from type locality; paratypes 4M, 3F, Nikiana, N. of Nidhrion, 5 m, 14.7.1976 (F. & L. Willemse & J. Tilmans) (CW); paratype 1M, 5. km to Nikiana (N. of Nidrion), 14.7.1976 (F. & L. Willemse & J. Tilmans) (NHM); paratype 1F, 600 m, Ano Exhatia, 15.7.1976 (F. & L. Willemse & J. Tilmans) (NHM); 4M, 1F, oberhalb der Stadt Lefkas (38°49'N, 20°42'E), 50–100 m, 1.7. 1986 (K.-G. Heller) (CH); 1M, Umg. der Stadt Lefkas (38°49'N, 20°42'E), 100 m, 1.7.1986 (K.-G. Heller) (CH) (sound record).
 Distribution: This species is endemic to the island of Lefkas in the North-east Ionian Sea (Fig. 239; map in Willemse & Willemse, 2004).
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 48
Eupholidoptera hesperica La Greca 1959
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera hesperica

description: Eupholidoptera hesperica La Greca, 1959
(Figures 23, 68, 114, 160, 238, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera hesperica La Greca, 1959: 64.
 Type information: Holo- and paratype 2M, ITALY: Atella (Potenza), 12.7.1957 (La Greca, 1959).
 Material examined: ITALY: 1M, Basilicata, Maratea (Pianeta M.), 50 m, (gariga costiera), 25.6.2000 (P. Fontana) (CW).
 Distribution: E. hesperica is restricted to the Calabrian part of Italy (Figure 239; using data from Ruffo & Stoch, 2005).
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 48
Twist-4 photon helicity-flip amplitude in DVCS on a nucleon in the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation
Creators: name: Kivel, N.
name: Mankiewicz, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We computed twist-4 part of the photon spin-flip amplitude in deeply virtual Compton scattering on a nucleon in the Wandzura-Wilczek approximation. We found a factorizable contribution, which arises from photon scattering on quarks with non-zero angular momentum along the collision axis. As the genuine twist-2 amplitude arises at the NLO, for moderate virtualities of the hard photon, $Q^2 \le 10$ GeV$^2$, kinematical twist-4 correction can give numerically important contribution to the photon helicity-flip amplitude.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, added qualitative estimate of the magnitude of twist-4 correction which seems to be large
Eupholidoptera epirotica
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera epirotica

description: Eupholidoptera epirotica (Ramme, 1927)
(Figures 24, 69, 115, 161, 204, 232, 238, Appendix)
 Pholidoptera epirotica Ramme, 1927: 132.
 Pholidoptera schmidti epirotica Ramme, 1927; Ramme, 1930: 812.
 Eupholidoptera epirotica (Ramme, 1927); Ramme, 1951: 198.
 Eupholidoptera schmidti epirotica (Ramme, 1927); Harz, 1969: 371–372.
 Type information: Holotype M, GREECE, Epirus (labelled as Erber leg., Coll. Br. v.W., Pholidoptera epirotica Ramme det.) (NMW); 3M, 2F paratypes.
 Material examined: GREECE: Holotype, paratypes; 1F, Kerkira (= Corfu) (Werner) (NMW); Aitolia / Akarnania: 11M, 3F, Loutrakion, 70 m 1.7.1986 (CW); 3M 1F, Babini (W of Agrinion,) 23.6.1986 (2m); Drimos (E of Vonitsa) 2.7.1986 (Willemse) (CW); 6M 1F, Aktion (NW of Vonitsa) 1.7.1986 (Willemse) (CW); 9M, 3F, Mitikas (S of Vonitsa) 10m 23.6.1986 and 1F, 9.7.1986 (Willemse) (CW); 1M, surr. Monastirakion 200m 9.7.1986 (Willemse) (CW); 19M, 5 F, Mt. Akarnanika above Thirion 800–1380m 27.7.1987 (Willemse) (CW) (sound record); 2M, 2F, surr. Thirion 300m 11.7.1986 (Willemse) (CW); 6M, 3 F, Mt. Akarnanika 1000–1450m 9– 10.7.1986 (Willemse) (CW); 5M, 4 F, Mt. Akarnanika, 1 km N of Thirion 400m 18.7.2000 (Willemse) (CW); 5M, 1F, below Thirion (38°52'N, 20°58'E), 3.8.2003 (K.-G.& M. Heller & M. Volleth) (CH); 3M,1F, Mt. Akarnania above Thirion (38°48'N, 20°58'E), 1400 m, 3.8.2003 (K.-G. & M. Heller & M. Volleth) (CH) (sound record).
 Distribution: It is known from a restricted area in central Greece on the coast of the Ionian Sea (see Willemse & Willemse 2004; Figure 239).
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on page 48
N=4 gauged supergravity and a IIB orientifold with fluxes
Creators: name: D'Auria, Riccardo
name: Ferrara, Sergio
name: Vaula', Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the properties of a spontaneously broken D=4, N=4 supergravity without cosmological constant, obtained by gauging translational isometries of its classical scalar manifold. This theory offers a suitable low energy description of the super-Higgs phases of certain Type-IIB orientifold compactifications with 3-form fluxes turned on. We study its N=3,2,1,0 phases and their classical moduli spaces and we show that this theory is an example of no-scale extended supergravity.
description: Misprints corrected. Version appeared on NJP 4 (2002)71
Blow-Up Profile of 2D Focusing Mixture Bose Gases
Creators: name: Nguyen, Dinh-Thi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81V70, 35J50, 35J61, 35J47, 47J30, 35Q40

description: We study the collapse of a many-body system which is used to model two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive intra-species interactions and either attractive or repulsive inter-species interactions. Such a system consists a mixture of two different species for $N$ identical bosons in $\mathbb R^2$, interacting with potentials rescaled in the mean-field manner $-N^{2β-1}w^{(σ)}(N^βx)$ with $\int_{\mathbb R^{2}}w^{(σ)}(x){\rm d}x=1$. Assuming that $0
Are Migrant Agricultural Workers Replacing the Local Workforce?
Creators: name: Kimhi, Ayal
name: Kimhi, Ayal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural Finance
Labor and Human Capital

description: Migration patterns in Israeli agriculture have gone through different phases. Labor flowed into farming until the country became self‐sufficient in terms of food supply. Then, self‐employed farmers exited gradually while production continued to increase, destined for export markets. This process intensified considerably when foreign labor was allowed to enter the country. Traditional production theory predicts that migrant workers will drive local workers to lose their jobs, but the Israeli data show that the number of Israeli hired farm workers has actually increased since the arrival of foreign labor. This paper develops a modified theoretical model in which farm labor is heterogeneous, so that changes in the number of foreign and local hired workers are not necessarily opposite in sign. The results of the model are consistent with the observation that the availability of foreign labor has led to an increase in the production and export of labor‐intensive horticultural products. Farms have become larger and more specialized, and this has led to labor specialization, with foreign workers performing the manual tasks and Israeli hired employees performing the managerial and professional ones. We conclude that the inflow of foreign workers has led to an irreversible structural change in Israeli agriculture. Surrendering to the popular demand to reduce the number of foreign workers for the benefit of local workers will actually lessen the demand for local farm workers.
Import Penetration, Intermediate Inputs and Firms’ Productivity in the EU Food Industry
Creators: name: Olper, Alessandro
name: Curzi, Daniele
name: Raimondi, Valentina
name: Olper, Alessandro
name: Curzi, Daniele
name: Raimondi, Valentina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Production Economics
subject: import penetration
subject: intermediate inputs
subject: firm-level TFP
subject: food industry

description: The aim of this contribution is to study empirically the effect of trade liberalization on productivity growth exploiting a large micro-dataset of more than 20,000 French and Italian food firms, over the 2004-2012 period. This relationship has been studied focusing on import penetration at both industry and upstream sectors level, to investigate the role played by imports in intermediate inputs. Main findings show that import penetration in both final products and intermediate inputs systematically contributed to firm-level productivity growth. Yet, the productivity growth effect induced by import penetration in upstream sectors is 10 times higher than the one at the industry level. Horizontal import competition coming from the EU15 and OECD countries exerts the strongest effect on productivity growth. By contrast, when vertical import penetration is considered, also sourcing intermediate inputs from emerging markets appears important for firms’ productivity growth. Finally, we also find a strong confirmation that the effects of import penetration are increasing with the initial level of firms’ productivity. All these stylized facts may have interesting policy implications.
The Relationship among Ethanol, Sugar and Oil Prices in Brazil: Cointegration Analysis with Structural Breaks
Creators: name: Chen, Bo
name: Saghaian, Sayed
name: Chen, Bo
name: Saghaian, Sayed
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biofuel
subject: Break Points
subject: Cointegration
subject: Ethanol
subject: Oil
subject: Sugarcane
subject: Price

description: Ethanol has gradually gain momentum in the world’s energy market in recent decades with Brazil the largest producers. The issue of price linkage among ethanol, sugar and oil is particular interesting and important in the context of Brazilian sugarcane sector. By accounting for the possible structural breaks in the data, we investigate the price linkage of the three commodities and discover that prices are not cointegrated in the first sub-periods but cointegrated in the second sub-period. Also oil price demonstrates weakly exogenous to the prices of the other two commodities; sugar prices appears to drive the ethanol price in the first sub-periods while in the second sub-period, they influence one another.
Eupholidoptera cephalonica Willemse & Willemse 2004
Creators: name: Ciplak, Battal
name: Heller, Klaus-Gerhard
name: Willemse, Fer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera cephalonica

description: Eupholidoptera cephalonica Willemse & Willemse, 2004
(Figures 25, 70, 116, 162, 205, 238, Appendix)
 Eupholidoptera cephalonica Willemse & Willemse, 2004: 471–473.
 Type information: Holotype M and 4M, 1F paratypes, GREECE, Kefallinia, Mt. Ainos, plateau W of Tsarkanianas 550 m, 3.7.1986 (L. Willemse) and additional paratypes.
 Material examined: GREECE: Kefallinia: Holotype and paratypes 4M, 1F; paratypes 3M, 100 m, Limni, Avikon (A. Nikolaos), 5.7.1986 (L. Willemse): 1M, 1F, 3–5 km S of Sami, 4.7.1986 (L. Willemse); 2F, surr. Patrikata 500 m, 4.7.1986; 1F, surr. Neokhorion 400 m 6.7.1986 (L. Willemse); 2M, 1F, surr. Dhavgata, 7 km N of Argostolion, 250 m 4.7.1986 (L. Willemse); 1M (nymph), Mt. Ainos, 1000–1300 m, 2– 3. 7.1986 (all in CW).
 Distribution: It is endemic to the Ionian island Kefallinia in Greece (see Willemse & Willemse 2004; Figure 239).
description: Published as part of Ciplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Willemse, Fer, 2009, 2156, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 2156 on pages 51-52
Tōkaidō bungen no zu, 3
東海道分間之圖三
Creators: name: Hishikawa, Moronobu, Approximately 1618-Approximately 1694
Publisher: name: Edo Shin-izumi-machi : Hangiya Shichirobē
Year: 2015

description: First edition, second printing. Scale 3 bu to 1 chō : [1:12,000]. Cover attached; cover title same as map. Roads, towns, castles depicted. First edition, but second printing, as there is no inscription of the rates between each post-town. Eshi 菱川吉兵衛 Hishikawa Kichibē is the famous ’Ukiyoe’ artist 菱川師宣Hishikawa Moronobu. Contents : vol.1, Edo to Odawara (24 folds); vol.2 Odawara to Fuchū (25 folds); vol.3 Fuchū to Yoshida (29 folds); vol.4 Yoshida to Kameyama (29 folds); vol.5 Kameyama to Kyōto (24 folds). Reproductions: a portion near Hara is reproduced in Beans, suppl. A facing p. 11; three sections in Kurita, no. 74; see also Toda, pp. 109-110 & Hall, p. 152. Cited in: WSN; 33
Weighing in on black hole binaries with BPASS: LB-1 does not contain a 70M$_{\odot}$ black hole
Creators: name: Eldridge, J. J.
name: Stanway, E. R.
name: Breivik, K.
name: Casey, A. R.
name: Steeghs, D. T. H.
name: Stevance, H. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent identification of a candidate very massive 70 M(Sun) black hole is at odds with our current understanding of stellar winds and pair-instability supernovae. We investigate alternate explanations for this system by searching the BPASS v2.2 stellar and population synthesis models for those that match the observed properties of the system. We find binary evolution models that match the LB-1 system, at the reported Gaia distance, with more moderate black hole masses of 4 to 7 M(Sun). We also examine the suggestion that the binary motion may have led to an incorrect distance determination by Gaia. We find that the Gaia distance is accurate and that the binary system is consistent with the observation at this distance. Consequently it is highly improbable that the black hole in this system has the extreme mass originally suggested. Instead, it is more likely to be representative of the typical black hole binary population expected in our Galaxy.
description: Accepted for MNRAS, 10 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables