cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Influence of the particle shape on the equilibrium morphologies of supracolloidal magnetic filaments
Creators: name: Pyanzina, E. S.
name: Novak, E. V.
name: Rozhkov, D. A.
name: Gudkova, A. V.
name: Sánchez, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the equilibrium morphologies of linear and ring-shaped magnetic filaments made from crosslinked ferromagnetic spherical or ellipsoidal colloidal particles. Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we calculate the radius of gyration and total magnetic moment of a single filament at zero field and different temperatures, analyzing the influence of the particles shape, the strength of their magnetic moment and the filament length. Our results show that, among such parameters, the shape of the particles has the strongest qualitative impact on the equilibrium behavior of the filaments.
Pass-through, profits and the political economy of regulation
Creators: name: Grey, F.
name: Ritz, Robert
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cost pass-through
regulation
carbon pricing
airlines
political economy

description: Government regulation, such as the pricing of externalities, often raises the unit costs of regulated firms, and its impact on their profits is important to its political economy. We introduce a reduced-form model (“GLM”) that nests existing models of imperfect competition under weaker assumptions. We show how a firm's cost passthrough is a sufficient statistic for the profit impact of regulation. We apply the GLM to carbon pricing for US airlines. We find large inter-firm heterogeneity in pass-through, even for a uniform cost shock. The GLM allows us to sidestep estimation of a consumer demand system, firm markups and conduct parameters. We derive the second-best emissions tax including lobbying a government “for sale”.
Determining the Weak Phase $γ$ in the Presence of Rescattering
Creators: name: Agashe, K.
name: Deshpande, N. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a new technique to determine the CKM phase $γ$ {\em without} neglecting the (soft) final state rescattering effects. We use (time integrated) $B$ meson decay rates to $π$'s and $K$'s. A set of 5 $ΔS = 0$ (or 1 $ΔS =0$ and 4 $ΔS= 1$) decay rates is used to compute the strong phases and magnitudes of the tree level and penguin contributions as functions of $γ$. These are used to {\em predict} a $ΔS = 1$ $(ΔS = 0) B_{d/s}$ decay rate as a function of $γ$ (using SU(3) symmetry). The measurement of this decay rate then gives $γ$. We illustrate this technique using different cases. Most of the decay modes we use are expected to be accessible at the B-factories (e^+ e^- or hadron machines).
description: LaTeX file, 15 pages including 2 figures. Replacing an earlier version. In version 4, we have corrected some typographic errors. We have also clarified which decay modes require external tagging and have changed/added some comments
Tricritical universality in a two-dimensional spin fluid
Creators: name: Wilding, N. B.
name: Nielaba, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monte Carlo simulations are used to investigate the tricritical point properties of a 2d spin fluid. Measurements of the scaling operator distributions are employed in conjunction with a finite-size scaling analysis to locate the tricritical point and determine the directions of the relevant scaling fields and their associated tricritical exponents. The scaling operator distributions and exponents are shown to match quantitatively those of the 2d Blume-Capel model, confirming that both models belong to the same universality class. Mean-field calculations of the tricritical point properties are also compared with the simulation measurements.
description: 9 pages Revtex, 7 ps figures (uuencoded). Phys. Rev. E. (in press). Paper also available from http://moses.physik.uni-mainz.de/~wilding/home_wilding.html
Additional file 2: of Patient experiences of a lifestyle program for metabolic syndrome offered in family medicine clinics: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Klein, Jennifer
name: Brauer, Paula
name: Royall, Dawna
name: Israeloff-Smith, Maya
name: Klein, Doug
name: Tremblay, Angelo
name: Dhaliwal, Rupinder
name: Rheaume, Caroline
name: Mutch, David
name: Jeejeebhoy, Khursheed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Focus Group questions. (DOCX 13Â kb)
Illegal Drugs and Public Corruption: Crack Based Evidence from California
Creators: name: Flamini, A.
name: Jahanshahi, B.
name: Mohaddes, K.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: Public corruption
crack cocaine
synthetic control
illegal drugs
law enforcement

description: Do illegal drugs foster public corruption? To estimate the causal effect of drugs on public corruption in California, we adopt the synthetic control method and exploit the fact that crack cocaine markets emerged asynchronously across the United States. We focus on California because crack arrived here in 1981, before reaching any other state. Our results show that public corruption more than tripled in California in the first three years following the arrival of crack cocaine. We argue that this resulted from the particular characteristics of illegal drugs: a large trade-off between profits and law enforcement, due to a cheap technology and rigid demand. Such a trade-off fosters a convergence of interests between criminals and corrupted public officials resulting in a positive causal impact of illegal drugs on corruption.
Does environmental heterogeneity affect the productive efficiency of grid utilities in China?
Creators: name: Liu, X-Y.
name: Liu, L-Q.
name: Xie, B-C.
name: Pollitt, M.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: Grid industry
Efficiency estimation
Stochastic frontier analysis
Environmental heterogeneity
China

description: China’s electricity industry has experienced a reform whereby the generation sector is being opened up to competition but the transmission and distribution sectors are still regulated. Efficiency and benchmarking analyses are widely used for improving the performance of regulated segments, and the impact on efficiency of observable environmental factors, together with unobservable characteristics, has gained increasing attention in recent years. This study uses alternative stochastic frontier models combined with input distance functions to study the productive efficiency of 29 grid firms of China over the period 1993–2014 and investigates the effect of observed environmental factors and unobserved heterogeneity. The results indicate that efficiency is sensitive to model specification and illustrates the presence of observed and unobserved heterogeneity. The number of customers, power delivered and network length are demonstrated to have positive impacts on the utilities’ efficiency while adverse environmental conditions harm the operation of grid utilities, but policy regulations may offset the negative impact. Finally, we suggest that there is room for efficiency improvement in the distribution grid, which could be encouraged by incentive regulation, even taking due account of environmental heterogeneity.
On the dispersion decay for crystals in the linearized Schrödinger-Poisson model
Creators: name: Komech, Alexander
name: Kopylova, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Schrödinger-Poisson-Newton equations for crystals with a cubic lattice and one ion per cell are considered. The ion charge density is assumed i) to satisfy the Wiener and Jellium conditions introduced in our previous paper [28], and ii) to be exponentially decaying at infinity. The corresponding examples are given. We study the linearized dynamics at the ground state. The dispersion relations are introduced via spectral resolution for the non-selfadjoint Hamilton generator using the positivity of the energy established in [28]. Our main result is the dispersion decay in the weighted Sobolev norms for solutions with initial states from the space of continuous spectrum of the Hamilton generator. We also prove the absence of singular spectrum and limiting absorption principle. The multiplicity of every eigenvalue is shown to be infinite. The proofs rely on novel exact bounds and compactness for the inversion of the Bloch generators and on uniform asymptotics for the dispersion relations. We derive the bounds by the energy positivity from [28]. We also use the theory of analytic sets.
description: 17 pages
China’s Response to Nuclear Safety Post-Fukushima: Genuine or Rhetoric?
Creators: name: Lam, J.
name: Cheung, L.
name: Han, Y.
name: Wang, S.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: nuclear safety
media focus
computational text analysis
regulatory governance
safety management

description: The Fukushima crisis has brought the nuclear safety problem to the world’s attention. China is the most ambitious country in the world in nuclear power development. How China perceives and responds to nuclear safety issues carries significant implications on its citizens’ safety and security. This paper examines the Chinese government’s promised and actual response to nuclear safety following the Fukushima crisis, based on (1) statistical analysis of newspaper coverage on nuclear energy, and (2) review of nuclear safety performance and safety governance. Our analysis shows that (i) the Chinese government’s concern over nuclear accidents and safety has surged significantly after Fukushima, (ii) China has displayed strengths in reactor technology design and safety operation, and (iii) China’s safety governance has been continuously challenged by institutional fragmentation, inadequate transparency, inadequate safety professionals, weak safety culture, and ambition to increase nuclear capacity by three-fold by 2050. We suggest that China should improve its nuclear safety standards, as well as safety management and monitoring, reform institutional arrangements to reduce fragmentation, improve information transparency, and public trust and participation, strengthen the safety culture, introduce process-based safety regulations, and promote international collaboration to ensure that China’s response to nuclear safety can be fully implemented in real-life.
Consumer Engagement in Energy Markets: The Role of Information and Knowledge
Creators: name: He, X.
name: Reiner, D.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer switching
services market participation
household engagement
multivariate probit
UK retail gas and electricity markets
information and knowledge effects

description: External information (e.g., monetary and opportunity costs, retailer messaging), internal information (e.g., consumer knowledge, information processing), and the interaction between different forms of information can affect consumer engagement in markets. We employ an analytical framework which embraces both economic and psychological motives behind consumer behavior to investigate the motives and obstacles associated with household behavior in energy markets, using data from over 18,000 randomly selected responses drawn from three annual surveys of British households commissioned by the UK energy regulator. Three forms of household engagement – switching to a new electricity and/or gas supplier, changing electricity or/and gas tariffs, and changing payment methods of energy bills – are explored using a multiple-discrete choice framework. We find that internal information pathways have robust and strong effects on switching suppliers and tariffs. Concretely, a lack of belief in tariff differences discourages participation in energy markets. By contrast, professed knowledge of household energy spending and familiarity with energy tariffs drives consumer engagement. External information – supplier messages and Internet information may enhance each other in promoting market participation, conditional on message source and participation form. We also find that engagement by incumbent retailers (such as through consumer messages) can be effective in discouraging households from switching suppliers.
Campylopus lamellinervis Mitt.
Creators: name: J. Florschutz-de Waard
name: H. R. Zielman
name: M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga
Publisher: name: Kew Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Dicranaceae
Campylopus
Campylopus lamellinervis
Dicranum
Dicranum lamellinerve

description: 6. Campylopus lamellinervis (Müll. Hal.)Mitt., J. Linn. Soc Bot. 12: 82. 1869.
- Dicranum lamellinerve Müll. Hal., Syn. Musc. Frond. 1: 390. 1849. Type: Jamaica, Wilson s.n. (destroyed at B, isotypes not located). - Fig. 48
Robust plants growing in loose tufts. Stems to 8 cm long, seldom divided., densely tomentose in lower pan. Leaves squarrose-spreading, flexuose when dry, slenderly lanceolate, to 15 mm long, long-acuminate, margin sharply serrate in upper leaf half; costa filling ca. l/3 of leaf base, with conspicuous lamellae at back, excurrent and toothed at apex, in cross-section with groups of stereids at ventral and dorsal side, lamellae 2-3 cells high; alar cells inflated, brownish, forming distinct auricles, basal laminal cells elongate-rectangular, strongly incrassate and porose, towards margins narrower and not porose, forming a short hyaline border, laminal cells at midleaf incrassate, along the costa elongate-rectangular, towards margins and in the narrow upper lamina rectangular to quadrate with oval lumen. Sporophyte not seen.
Distribution: West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia Peru, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana.
Ecology: Terrestrial and epiphytic, in moist savanna forest, at higher altitudes.
Specimen examined: Guyana: Upper Mazaruni R., Karowtipu Mt. alt. 1000 m, Boom et al, 7620 (NY) _
Note: Buck (2003) reported C. lamellinervis var. exaltatus (Müll. Hal.) Frahm for French Guiana. This variety is distinguished from the species by straight, lanceolate leaves, 6- 10 mm long, serrulate at extreme apex.
description: Published as part of J. Florschutz-de Waard, H. R. Zielman & M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga, 2011, Flora of the Guianas, Series C, fascicle 2., Kew :Kew Publishing on pages 8-9
Reforming Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies: Policy Proposals
Creators: name: Mohaddes, K.
name: Nugent, J.
name: Selim, H.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: Fiscal policy
fiscal institutions
fiscal sustainability
public spending efficiency
budget transparency
fiscal rules
volatility
oil curse
Arab World
oil exporters
Middle East and North Africa.

description: This paper traces the evolution of fiscal institutions of Resource Rich Arab Economies (RRAEs) over time since their pre-oil days, through the discovery of oil to their build-up of oil exports. It then identifies challenges faced by RRAEs and variations in their severity among the different countries over time. Finally, it articulates specific policy reforms, which, if implemented successfully, could help to overcome these challenges. In some cases, however, these policy proposals may give rise to important trade-offs that will have to be evaluated carefully in individual cases.
Transverse Momentum Dependence of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal Effect
Creators: name: Wiedemann, Urs Achim
name: Gyulassy, Miklos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transverse momentum dependence of the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect in QED, starting from the high energy expansion of the solution of the Dirac equation in the presence of an external field. The angular integrated energy loss formula differs from an earlier expression of Zakharov by taking finite kinematical boundaries into account. In an expansion in powers of the opacity of the medium, we derive explicit expressions for the radiation cross section associated with N=1, 2 and 3 scatterings. We verify the Bethe-Heitler and the factorization limit, and we calculate corrections to the factorization limit proportional to the square of the target size. A closed form expression valid to arbitrary orders in the opacity is derived in the dipole approximation. The resulting radiation spectrum is non-analytic in the coupling constant which is traced back to the transverse momentum broadening of a hard parton undergoing multiple small angle Moliere scattering. In extending the results to QCD, we test a previously used dipole prescription by comparing to direct pQCD results for N=1 and 2. For N=1, the QCD dipole prescription reproduces exactly the Bertsch-Gunion radiation spectrum. For N=2, we find a sizeable correction which reduces to a multiplicative factor 17/8 at large separation.
description: 20 pages, Latex, 4 eps-figures, replaced by published version, minor typos corrected
On the relativistic field theory model of the deuteron II
Creators: name: Ivanov, A. N.
name: Troitskaya, N. I.
name: Faber, M.
name: Oberhummer, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relativistic field theory model of the deuteron is applied to the calculation of the cross sections of the low-energy radiative neutron-proton capture n + p -> D + gamma and the low-energy two-proton fusion p + p -> D + e^+ + nu_e. For the low-energy radiative neutron-proton capture n + p -> D + gamma our result agrees well with both the experimental data and the potential model prediction. In the case of the two-proton fusion the cross section obtained is 2.9 times as much as that given by the potential approach. The obtained result is discussed in connection with the solar neutrino problem. ERRATUM: We correct the value of the cross section for pp-fusion p + p -> D + e^+ + nu_e. We find a contribution to the astrophysical factor δS_pp(0) = 2.01 x 10^{-25} (1 +/- 0.30) MeV b which is obtained only due to weak and strong low-energy interactions of the protons and the deuteron when neglecting the Coulomb repulsion between protons in the intermediate state. Minor misprints are corrected.
description: 35 pages, LaTeX, plus 5 figures added as postscript files, ERRATUM: 3 pages, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A added at the end
Price discrimination and the modes of failure in deregulated retail electricity markets
Creators: name: Simshauser, P
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: Price discrimination
electricity prices
jawboning

description: In Australia, as with Great Britain, governments have shown rising concern with the health of competitive residential electricity markets. A core concern is the practice of price discrimination and the rising dispersion of prices. The State of Queensland implemented Full Retail Contestability in 2007, but held a regulated price cap in place until 2016, when it finally deregulated its residential electricity market. Almost simultaneously, the two jurisdictions that pioneered retail price deregulation, Great Britain and Victoria, were questioning their prior policy decision. Queensland makes for a fascinating case study because Southeast Queensland comprises a fully deregulated retail market while Regional Queensland is a regulated monopoly – with common input costs across both zones. Consequently, a regulated monopoly with a uniform tariff and 640,000 customers forms a very large control group, which can be directly compared to the competitive market of more than 1.3 million customers – making such analysis globally unique. Analysis of Queensland market conditions concludes the policy is welfare enhancing. To be clear, rising electricity prices are a problem, but price discrimination is not. The deregulated competitive market is, perhaps unsurprisingly, better at regulating the overall average tariff and consumer welfare has been enhanced by $184 million per annum – with some consumer segments very materially better off. However, certain modes of failure remain, viz. an inter-consumer misallocation problem and lack of transparency vis-à-vis the anchoring of discounts – known as the “discounts off what?” problem. Resolving the inter-consumer misallocation problem is relatively straight forward via ensuring energy retailers (voluntarily) move vulnerable customers onto a Benchmark-equivalent or suitably discounted tariff. Due to the non-linearity of tariffs and the rising mix of discrete metered loads, the latter can be best solved by producing a weighted average of Standing Offers, and using this as the benchmark.
Sphaleron rate in the symmetric electroweak phase
Creators: name: Moore, Guy D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Bodeker has presented an effective infrared theory for the dynamics of Yang-Mills theory, suitable for studying the rate of baryon number violation in the early universe. We extend his theory to include Higgs fields, and study how much the Higgs affects the baryon number violation rate in the symmetric phase, at the phase coexistence temperature of a first order electroweak phase transition. The rate is about 20% smaller than in pure Yang-Mills theory. We also analyze the sphaleron rate in the analytic crossover regime. Our treatment relies on the ergodicity conjecture for 3-D scalar $ϕ^4$ theory.
description: 23 pages including 4 figures, 2 appendices. Some derivations more careful and complete, conclusions unchanged
Additional file 1: of Patient experiences of a lifestyle program for metabolic syndrome offered in family medicine clinics: a mixed methods study
Creators: name: Klein, Jennifer
name: Brauer, Paula
name: Royall, Dawna
name: Israeloff-Smith, Maya
name: Klein, Doug
name: Tremblay, Angelo
name: Dhaliwal, Rupinder
name: Rheaume, Caroline
name: Mutch, David
name: Jeejeebhoy, Khursheed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Survey questionnaire. (DOCX 228Â kb)
Campylopus pilifer Brid.
Creators: name: J. Florschutz-de Waard
name: H. R. Zielman
name: M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga
Publisher: name: Kew Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Dicranaceae
Campylopus
Campylopus pilifer

description: 8. Campylopus pilifer Brid., Muscol. Recent, Suppl. 4: 72. 1819. Lectotype (Gradstein & Sipman 1978): Italy, Ischia, Bridel s.n. (B).
Slender plants growing in dense cushions. Stems to 5 cm high, equally foliate but often forming comal tufts with perichaetia or young innovations Stem leaves appressed when dry, erect when moist, lanceolate, 3-6 mm long, apex broad-acute, often appearing acuminate by the involute upper margins, Costa filling more than half213 of the leaf base, excurrent in a hyaline, serrate hairpoint (variable in length and often absent in older leaves) ln cross-section with ventral hyalocysts and dorsal Stereids, at back with prominent, 2-4 cell high lamellae; comal leaves broader, oblong, cuspidate or piliferous at apex; alar cells little differentiated, sometimes partly coloured and inflated; basal laminal cells hyaline, thin-walled, longrectangular, towards margins linear, in distal direction rather abruptly Changing in the small, oval or irregularly rhombic upper laminal cells. Sporophyte (description after Frahm 1991): seta 3-5 mm long, capsules 1.5 mm long, ovoid; calyptra fringed at base.
Distribution Tropical and warm-temperate regions in N and S America, Africa, India and Europe; in the Neotropics only at higher altitudes (to 4800 m)
Ecology: Commonly on exposed rocks or on dry soil of road banks; in the Guianas collected only once, on rotten log.
Specimen examined: Guyana, N slope of Mt. Roraima, alt. I 200- 1600 m, Gradstein 5293 (L).
Note: Variable in appearance; very typical if the spreading comal leaves are present at the end of the appressed-foliate stem, but not easy to recognize without comal; also the hyaline hairpoint is not always distinct. For differences with C. bryotropii see under that species.
description: Published as part of J. Florschutz-de Waard, H. R. Zielman & M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga, 2011, Flora of the Guianas, Series C, fascicle 2., Kew :Kew Publishing on page 9
Additional file 1: of An analysis of pharmacy workforce capacity in Nigeria
Creators: name: Aniekan Ekpenyong
name: Arit Udoh
name: Eneyi Kpokiri
name: Bates, Ian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Data set included as supplementary material (Appendix 1). (DOCX 38 kb)
Saturn northern aurorae at solstice from HST observations coordinated with Cassini Grand Finale
Creators: name: Lamy, L.
name: Prangé, R.
name: Tao, C.
name: Kim, T.
name: Badman, S. V.
name: Zarka, P.
name: Cecconi, B.
name: Kurth, W. S.
name: Pryor, W.
name: Bunce, E.
name: Radioti, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Throughout 2017, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observed the northern far-ultraviolet aurorae of Saturn at northern solstice, during the Cassini Grand Finale. These conditions provided a complete viewing of the northern auroral region from Earth and a maximal solar illumination, expected to maximize the ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling. In this study, we analyze 24 HST images concurrently with Cassini measurements of Saturn's Kilometric Radiation and solar wind parameters predicted by two MHD models. The aurorae reveal highly variable components, down to timescales of minutes, radiating 7 to 124 +/-11 GW. They include a nightside-shifted main oval, unexpectedly frequent and bright cusp emissions and a dayside low latitude oval. On average, these emissions display a strong Local Time dependence with two maxima at dawn and pre-midnight, the latter being newly observed and attributed to nightside injections possibly associated with solstice conditions. These results provide a reference frame to analyze Cassini in situ measurements, whether simultaneous or not.
Theoretical study of O adlayers on Ru(0001)
Creators: name: Stampfl, Catherine
name: Scheffler, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments performed at high pressures indicate that ruthenium can support unusually high concentrations of oxygen at the surface. To investigate the structure and stability of high coverage oxygen structures, we performed density functional theory calculations, within the generalized gradient approximation, for O adlayers on Ru(0001) from low coverage up to a full monolayer. We achieve quantitative agreement with previous low energy electron diffraction intensity analyses for the (2x2) and (2x1) phases and predict that an O adlayer with a (1x1) periodicity and coverage of 1 monolayer can form on Ru(0001), where the O adatoms occupy hcp-hollow sites.
description: RevTeX, 6 pages, 4 figures
Accelerating Test Automation through a Domain Specific Language
Creators: name: Dwarakanath, Anurag
name: Era, Dipin
name: Priyadarshi, Aditya
name: Dubash, Neville
name: Podder, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Test automation involves the automatic execution of test scripts instead of being manually run. This significantly reduces the amount of manual effort needed and thus is of great interest to the software testing industry. There are two key problems in the existing tools and methods for test automation - a) Creating an automation test script is essentially a code development task, which most testers are not trained on; and b) the automation test script is seldom readable, making the task of maintenance an effort intensive process. We present the Accelerating Test Automation Platform (ATAP) which is aimed at making test automation accessible to non-programmers. ATAP allows the creation of an automation test script through a domain specific language based on English. The English-like test scripts are automatically converted to machine executable code using Selenium WebDriver. ATAP's English-like test script makes it easy for non-programmers to author. The functional flow of an ATAP script is easy to understand as well thus making maintenance simpler (you can understand the flow of the test script when you revisit it many months later). ATAP has been built around the Eclipse ecosystem and has been used in a real-life testing project. We present the details of the implementation of ATAP and the results from its usage in practice.
description: Accepted at 10th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation
MOESM2 of Associations of clock genes polymorphisms with soft tissue sarcoma susceptibility and prognosis
Creators: name: Benna, Clara
name: Senthilkumar Rajendran
name: Spiro, Giovanna
name: Tropea, Saveria
name: Fiore, Paolo
name: Rossi, Carlo
name: Mocellin, Simone
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Statistical power for all the SNPs tested in this study in sarcoma patients.
Possible GeV counterpart at the ground level associated with Fermi LAT gamma-ray bursts
Creators: name: Augusto, C. R. A.
name: Navia, C. E.
name: de Oliveira, M. N.
name: Nepomuceno, A.
name: Kopenkin, V.
name: Sinzi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From June 2014 to February 2017, the Fermi LAT detected 46 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with photon energies above 20 MeV, and the trigger coordinates of seven of them were within the FoV of New-Tupi detector located in the central region of the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA). We show in this paper that two of these seven GRBs have a probable GeV counterpart observed at ground level by New-Tupi detector. The first is GRB 160609A, a short duration GRB with a bright emission of photons over a broad energy range extending up to GeV energies. The second is GRB 160625B, a very long duration GRB, for which the Fermi LAT detected more than 300 photons with energies above 100 MeV in the $\sim$ 1 ks interval after the GBM trigger. In the first case, the signal at New-Tupi has a nominal significance of $3.5σ$ in the counting rate time profiles, within the T90($=5.6$ s) duration on Fermi GBM. However, the effective significance is only $3.0σ$. In the second case, New-Tupi detector registered at least two excess (peaks) with a nominal statistical significance of $4.8σ$ and $5.0σ$ at 438 s and 558 s after the trigger. The first is within the $T90(=460$ s) on Fermi GBM. Even so, the effective significance is only $\sim 2.0σ$. In addition, from a Monte Carlo analysis, we show that the expected signal-to-noise ratio is compatible with the observation of GRB 160709A, only if the differential index of the GRB energy spectrum be equal or higher than -2.2 (a non-steep spectrum).
description: 25 pages, 14 figures. Accepted in J. Phys. Commun
Higher-Order Nuclear-Polarizability Corrections in Atomic Hydrogen
Creators: name: Friar, J. L.
name: Payne, G. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear-polarizability corrections that go beyond unretarded-dipole approximation are calculated analytically for hydrogenic (atomic) S-states. These retardation corrections are evaluated numerically for deuterium and contribute -0.68 kHz, for a total polarization correction of 18.58(7) kHz. Our results are in agreement with one previous numerical calculation, and the retardation corrections completely account for the difference between two previous calculations. The uncertainty in the deuterium polarizability correction is substantially reduced. At the level of 0.01 kHz for deuterium, only three primary nuclear observables contribute: the electric polarizability, $α_E$, the paramagnetic susceptibility, $β_M$, and the third Zemach moment, $< r^3 >_{(2)}$. Cartesian multipole decomposition of the virtual Compton amplitude and its concomitant gauge sum rules are used in the analysis.
description: 26 pages, latex, 1 figure -- Submitted to Phys. Rev. C -- epsfig.sty required
MOESM3 of Associations of clock genes polymorphisms with soft tissue sarcoma susceptibility and prognosis
Creators: name: Benna, Clara
name: Senthilkumar Rajendran
name: Spiro, Giovanna
name: Tropea, Saveria
name: Fiore, Paolo
name: Rossi, Carlo
name: Mocellin, Simone
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Upper panel: associations of circadian pathway genes with prognosis of sarcoma under 3 models of inheritance (additive, recessive, dominant); lower panel: association of circadian pathway genes with prognosis of liposarcoma and leiomyosarcoma in subgroups analysis under the additive genetic model.
Campylopus luteus Paris
Creators: name: J. Florschutz-de Waard
name: H. R. Zielman
name: M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga
Publisher: name: Kew Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Dicranaceae
Campylopus
Campylopus luteus
Thysanomitrium
Thysanomitrium luteum

description: 7. Campylopus luteus (Müll. Hal.) Paris, Index Bryol. 254. 1894.
- Thysanomitrium luteum Müll. Hal., Linnaea 42: 470. 1879. Lectotype (Frahm 1991): Venezuela, Tovar, Fendler 39 (H, BR) WW _
Robust plants growing in loose tufts. Stems 10 cm or more long, tomentose below. Leaves Spreading, to 12 mm long and 1.2 mm Wide, slenderly lanceolate With an ovate basal pan ca. l/4 of the leaf length, abruptly narrowed to a long, narrow subula; costa filling more than half the leaf base, excurrent and toothed at apex, in cross-section with wide hyalocysts ventrally and dense groups of stereids dorsally; alar cells inflated and Coloured forming large auricles, inner basal lamina] cells just above the auricles thin-Walled or slightly incrassate, rectangular, towards margin linear, forming il hyaline border along the basal lamina, Cells in upper part of the basal lamina incrassate, Sigmoid-oblong; upper lamina very narrow, 2-3 cells wide, extending nearly to apex, sharply serrate in upper pan Sporophyte (description after Frahm 1991); sera 8- 10 mm long, capsule curved, 2 mm long, Operculum obliquely rostrate; calyptra fringed at base.
Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia.
Ecology: Terrestrial, on wet rocks; collected in the Guianas only from a single locality in Guyana, at high altitude in humid mossy forest.
Specimens examined: Guyana: N slope of Mt. Roraima alt. 1200- 1 600 m, Aptroot 17112, Gradstein 5336, 5379 (L).
Note: This large moss with a predominant Andean distribution occurs in Guyana at the same elevation as the Neotropical C. subcuspidatus. It is similar in size but it is different in the more slender leaves with flexible subula and in the thin-walled basal laminal cells; the cells just above the auricles are thin-walled, but quickly become incrassate in distal direction.
description: Published as part of J. Florschutz-de Waard, H. R. Zielman & M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga, 2011, Flora of the Guianas, Series C, fascicle 2., Kew :Kew Publishing on page 9
Community Networks and the Growth of Private Enterprise in China
Creators: name: Dai, R.
name: Mookherjee, D.
name: Munshi, K.
name: Zhang, X.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: Community Networks
Entrepreneurship
Misallocation
Institutions
Growth and Development

description: This paper identifies and quantifies the role played by birth-county-based community networks in the growth of private enterprise in China. We develop a network-based model that generates predictions for the dynamics of firm entry, concentration, and firm size across birth counties with varying social connectedness (measured by population density). These predictions are verified over the 1990-2009 period with administrative data covering the universe of registered firms. Competing non-network-based explanations can explain some, but not all, of the results. Moreover, supplementary evidence indicates that network spillovers occur within the birth county and, going down even further, within clans within the county. Having validated the model, we estimate its structural parameters and conduct counter-factual simulations, which estimate that entry over the 1995-2004 period would have been 40% lower (with a comparable decline in the stock of capital) in the absence of community networks. Additional counter-factual simulations shed light on misallocation and industrial policy in economies where networks are active.
On the M_V -- Inclination Relationship for Nova-like Variables
Creators: name: Howell, Steve B.
name: Mason, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a sample of Nova-like stars from the Ritter and Kolb catalog, we examine the relationship between their Gaia determined absolute magnitude and the inclination of the binary system. Webbink et al. (1987) derived a relationship between these two variables that provides a good fit and allows differentiation between $\dot{M}$ (and possibly M_{WD}) as a function of inclination. We show that the spread in M_V, at a given i, is dominated by the mass transfer rate with only a small dependence on the white dwarf mass. The validated relation shows that present-day theoretical population studies of cataclysmic variables as well as model fits to observational data yield mass transfer rates and white dwarf masses consistent with the Gaia derived M_V for the nova-like stars.
description: Accepted to AJ
Campylopus richardii Bud.
Creators: name: J. Florschutz-de Waard
name: H. R. Zielman
name: M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga
Publisher: name: Kew Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Dicranaceae
Campylopus
Campylopus richardii

description: 9. Campylopus richardii Bud., Muscol. Recent. Suppl. 4: 73. 1819. Type: Guadeloupe, Parker s.n. (B).
- Campylopus atratus Broth., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. ser. 2, 6: 89. 1901. Type: Venezuela, Mt. Roraima, MCConnell & (BM). Quelch 527
Plants blackish with light-green tips, growing in dense tufts Stems 6 cm high, usually shorter, tomentose below. Stem leaves appressed, in to fertile plants more or less comose at the end of the Stem, lanceolate, 3 -8 mm long, tubulose at apex with a conspicuous hyaline, serrate hairpoint; Costa filling l/3- 1/2 of the leaf base, in upper pan ridged at back, in Cross-Section with stereids at dorsal and substereids at ventral side; alar cells coloured and inflated, laminal Cells all strongly incrassate and pitted, basal cells rectangular, narrower towards margin, sometimes forming a short hyaline border of 1 -2 cells wide, upper laminal cells oval-oblong or rhomboidal in oblique rows. Sporophyte (description after Frahm 199 I): seta Sinuose or curved, 7-8 mm long, capsule 1.5 mm long, scabrous at base, operculum short-rostrate, peristome teeth narrow, hyaline, filiform, split nearly to base; calyptra ciliate at base.
Neotropics, at higher altitudes (900-3700 m).
Ecology: Terrestrial on rock and exposed gravelly ridges; in the Guianas only known from Mt. Roraima.
Specimens examined: Guyana: N slope of Mt. Roraima, alt. 2000- 2300 m, Gradstein 5358 (L).
Note: This species, reported for Guyana as C. atratus in Musci I in Fl. Suriname 6: 73. 1964, was only known from the Venezuelan side of Mt. Roraima. The hyaline hairpoint, in combination with the rather homogeneous incrassate cell pattern, distinguish this species from other Guianan species with a hairpoint.
description: Published as part of J. Florschutz-de Waard, H. R. Zielman & M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga, 2011, Flora of the Guianas, Series C, fascicle 2., Kew :Kew Publishing on pages 9-11
Classical Sphaleron Rate on Fine Lattices
Creators: name: Moore, Guy D.
name: Rummukainen, Kari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the sphaleron rate for hot, classical Yang-Mills theory on the lattice, in order to study its dependence on lattice spacing. By using a topological definition of Chern-Simons number and going to extremely fine lattices (up to beta=32, or lattice spacing a = 1 / (8 g^2 T)) we demonstrate nontrivial scaling. The topological susceptibility, converted to physical units, falls with lattice spacing on fine lattices in a way which is consistent with linear dependence on $a$ (the Arnold-Son-Yaffe scaling relation) and strongly disfavors a nonzero continuum limit. We also explain some unusual behavior of the rate in small volumes, reported by Ambjorn and Krasnitz.
description: 14 pages, includes 5 figures
Additional file 1: of A randomized, blinded, controlled trial to assess sand fly mortality of fluralaner administered orally in dogs
Creators: name: Gomez, Sonia
name: Lucientes, Javier
name: Castillo, Juan
name: Peris, Maria
name: Delacour, Sarah
name: Ortega, Paula
name: Ronald-Vladimir Oropeza
name: Picado, Albert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Sand fly mortality, percentage, and 95% CI calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method from the mortality observed 24, 48, 72, 96 and 120 h after direct blood-feeding on dogs by treatment and sampling day. Table S2. Individual dog sand fly mortality and percentage observed 24 h after direct blood-feeding by treatment and sampling day. (DOCX 40 kb)
Campylopus savannarum Mitt.
Creators: name: J. Florschutz-de Waard
name: H. R. Zielman
name: M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga
Publisher: name: Kew Publishing
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Dicranaceae
Campylopus
Campylopus savannarum

description: 10. Campylopus savannarum (Müll. Hal.) Mitt., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 12: 85. 1869.
- Dicranum savannarum Müll. Hal., Syn. Musc. Frond. 2: 596. 1851. Type: Suriname, Kegel s.n. (L, BM).
- Campylopus bartlettii E.B. Bartram, J. Washington Acad. Sci. 221: 477. 1932.
- Campylopus savannarum (Müll. Hal.)Mitt. subsp. bartlettii (E.B. Bartram) Florsch., Fl. Suriname 6: 79. 1964. Type: Honduras, Bartlett 12973 (FH, NY).
Description see Musci I in Fl. Suriname 6: 78. 1964.
Distribution: Pantropics.
Ecology: Terrestrial and on rocks; in the Guianas rather common on white sand Savannas in xeromorphic scrub and light savanna forest.
Note: Subsp. bartlettii was described for specimens with short and rigidly appressed leaves with excurrent (sometimes hyaline) costa (Florschütz 1964). Frahm considered this as a modification in drier habitats, since all possible intergradations occur (Frahm & Gradstein 1987).
description: Published as part of J. Florschutz-de Waard, H. R. Zielman & M. A. Bruggeman- Nannenga, 2011, Flora of the Guianas, Series C, fascicle 2., Kew :Kew Publishing on page 11
Berends-Giele currents in Bern-Carrasco-Johansson gauge for $F^3$- and $F^4$-deformed Yang-Mills amplitudes
Creators: name: Garozzo, Lucia M.
name: Queimada, Leonel
name: Schlotterer, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct new representations of tree-level amplitudes in D-dimensional gauge theories with deformations via higher-mass-dimension operators $α' F^3$ and $α'^{2} F^4$. Based on Berends-Giele recursions, the tensor structure of these amplitudes is compactly organized via off-shell currents. On the one hand, we present manifestly cyclic representations, where the complexity of the currents is systematically reduced. On the other hand, the duality between color and kinematics due to Bern, Carrasco and Johansson is manifested by means of non-linear gauge transformations of the currents. We exploit the resulting notion of Bern-Carrasco-Johansson gauge to provide explicit and manifestly local double-copy representations for gravitational amplitudes involving $α' R^2$ and $α'^2 R^3$ operators.
description: 43+16 pages, 14 figures
Oil Price Volatility, Financial Institutions and Economic Growth
Creators: name: Jarrett, U.
name: Mohaddes, K.
name: Mohtadi, H.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2018
Subjects: Oil price volatility
financial institutions
economic growth and development
and the resource curse.

description: Theory attributes finance with the ability to both promote growth and reduce output volatility. But evidence is mixed in both regards, partly due to endogeneity effects. For example, financial institutions themselves might be a source of volatility, as the events of 2008 suggest. We address this endogeneity issue by using oil price volatility as a source of exogenous volatility, to study the effect of finance. To do this, we use two empirical methodologies. First, we develop a quasi-natural experiment by studying the dramatic decline of oil prices in 2014 and beyond, using a synthetic control methodology. Our hypothesis is that the ability of oil-rich countries to mitigate the effects of this decline rested on the quality of their financial institutions. We focus on 11 oil-rich countries between 1980 and 2014 that had “poor” measures of financial development (treatment group) out of 20 such countries and synthetically create counterfactuals from the remaining (control) group with “superior” financial development. We subject both to the oil price shock of 2014. We find evidence that better financial institutions do indeed reduce output volatility and mitigate its negative effect on growth in the year that showed a sustained decline of the oil price. To address any remaining potential endogeneity between oil prices and finance, we further examine our findings by using a Panel CS-ARDL approach with 30 oil producing countries in our sample (and data over the period 1980-2016), illustrating that the effect of oil price volatility on growth is mitigated with better financial institutions. Our results make a strong case for the support of the positive role of financial development in growth and development.