cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Russian Electricity Supply Industry: from Reform to Reform?
Creators: name: Chernenko, N.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: reform 2003-11
restructuring
market liberalisation
capacity markets

description: The paper looks at the development of the industry in the post-Soviet Russia, starting from the early 1990s. The main focus is on the last reform 2003-11 and the relationship of cost, prices and investment. In particular, the author examines the new designs for the electricity and capacity markets and their impact on incentives for short-run production and long-term planning and construction. The author defends the pro-competitive approach to the electricity industry reform in Russia and traces the roots of its success and failures.
In Search of Recent Disruption of (3200) Phaethon: Model Implication and Hubble Space Telescope Search
Creators: name: Ye, Quanzhi
name: Wiegert, Paul A.
name: Hui, Man-To
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon is notable for its association to a strong annual meteor shower, the Geminids, indicative of one or more episodes of mass ejection in the past. The mechanism of Phaethon's past activity is not yet understood. Here we present a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) search of meter-sized fragments in the vicinity of Phaethon, carried out during Phaethon's historic approach to the Earth in mid-December of 2017. Numerical simulation conducted to guide HST's pointing also show that the dynamical evolution of Phaethon-originated particles is quick, as ejected materials take no longer than $\sim250$ yr to spread to the entire orbit of Phaethon. Our search was completed down to 4-meter-class limit (assuming Phaethon-like albedo) and was expected to detect 0.035% particles ejected by Phaethon in the last several decades. The negative result of our search capped the total mass loss of Phaethon over the past few dozen orbits to be $10^{12}$ kg at $3σ$ level, taking the best estimates of size power-law from meteor observations and spacecraft data. Our result also implies a millimeter-sized dust flux of $<10^{-12} \mathrm{m^{-2} s^{-1}}$ within 0.1 au of Phaethon, suggesting that any Phaethon-bound mission is unlikely to encounter dense dust clouds.
description: ApJL in press
Additional file 1: of Academic institutional entrepreneurs in Germany: navigating and shaping multi-level research commercialization governance
Creators: name: LeiĹĄytÄ, Liudvika
name: Sigl, Lisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Translation of the abstract into Arabic. (PDF 42 kb)
Socially Responsible Investment and Market Performance: The Case of Energy and Resource Firms
Creators: name: McIntosh, G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2016
Subjects: Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
SRI Stocks
Energy Stocks
Stock Market Returns
Dividends

description: Energy and resource companies have a crucial role in achieving future sustainable economies. We investigate the performance of international Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) energy and resource companies on the stock market over a 10-year period (February 2005-January 2015). We select portfolios of established energy and resource stocks with substantial environmental and social responsibility activities. Our findings demonstrate that the annual average performance of the energy and resource SRI portfolio was superior to returns of different benchmark indices. The energy and resource SRI stock investments were also more profitable on the risk-adjusted basis. Additionally, we applied Fama-French and Carhart four factor models and found that the returns of our portfolios are more consistently explained by the market factor than by other factors. We also show that oil price has a statistically significant influence on the returns of the SRI energy and resource stocks. However, the performance of the energy and resource SRI portfolio was no longer superior when dividends were excluded from the calculation of total returns. Indeed, the performance of portfolios without dividends was poor compared to the benchmark indices in most sub-periods, in the sub-samples of bullish and bearish markets and in the full sample. This finding demonstrates the importance of dividends in the investment performance of the energy and resource SRI stocks.
title: Policy Watch: America, Russia and Iran
Creators: name: Katz, Mark N.
Publisher: name: UPI.com (United Press International, Inc.)
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International affairs
subject: Ballistic missile defenses

description: © 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.
description: Vladimir Putin's offer to contribute the Soviet-era radar installation in Azerbaijan to a ballistic missile defense system aimed at rogue states was not only a surprise to the United States, but also to Iran.
The Strategic Robustness of Mark-up Equilibria
Creators: name: Newbery, D. M.
name: Greve, T.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: oligopoly
agent-based modelling
learning

description: This paper is an extension of the paper 'The Robustness of Agent-Based Models of Electricity Wholesale Markets', EPRG1213 which was motivated by the problem of analysing market power in liberalised electricity markets. That paper examined two particular forms of agent-based models commonly used in electricity market modelling, and showed that while these mark-up equilibria are robust against Nash deviations. This paper extends the earlier results to explain why these equilibria are robust to single firm Nash Cournot deviations but shows they are vulnerable to more sophisticated deviations.
title: ADCO, Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 400
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 400, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Sixième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1662), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 30 (G 133), 441 folios, f. 400, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Fiscal Policy in an Unemployment Crisis
Creators: name: Rendahl, P.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2014
Subjects: Liquidity trap
Unemployment inertia

description: This paper studies a model of equilibrium unemployment in which the efficacy of scal policy increases markedly in times of crises. A sudden rise in pessimism leads households to save rather than to spend, causing a fall in output and rising unemployment But as a persistent rise in unemployment fuels pessimism, the economy is set on a downward spiral in which thrift reinforces thrift. The government can put this process to an end. An expansion in public spending bolsters demand and lowers the unemployment rate both in the present and in the future. Pessimism is replaced by optimism and the vicious cycle is turned into a virtuous. The marginal impact of government spending on output is negative during normal times. But in a severe recession the scal multiplier rises to about three, and expansionary scal policy is unambiguously Pareto improving.
Additional file 1: of Human NK cells adapt their immune response towards increasing multiplicities of infection of Aspergillus fumigatus
Creators: name: Marischen, Lothar
name: Englert, Anne
name: Anna-Lena Schmitt
name: Einsele, Hermann
name: Juergen Loeffler
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S1. Dot Plot visualizing the purity of NK cells after negative isolation by MACS. PBMCs before (PBMC) and after (PBMC w/o NK cells) NK cell isolation were analyzed for NKp46 (NK cells), CD14 (MĂ ), CD3 (T cells) and CD19 (B cells) expression. Isolated NK cells were also included in the analysis before subsequent experiments. One representative result is shown, results were rounded to the nearest whole number. Purity of isolated NK cells was always above 95%. (PDF 1454 kb)
Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? Electrical Power as a case study
Creators: name: Ristuccia, C. A.
name: Solomou, S.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economic History
Productivity
Long Swings

description: Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in economies? The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the USA, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many existing GPT models. Using the case of the diffusion of electrical power in the early twentieth century this paper shows that there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The productivity gains from this GPT varied widely across economies and industries, suggesting that the power of GPTs to predict aggregate or sectoral growth is limited.
Optimal Altruism in Public Good Provision
Creators: name: Hahn, R.
name: Ritz, Robert
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2014
Subjects: crowding out
public goods

description: We present a model of altruistically-minded-yet rational-players contributing to a public good. A key feature is the tension between altruism and "crowding-out" effects (players' efforts are strategic substitutes). We find that more altruistic behaviour can raise or reduce welfare, depending on the fine details of the environment. It is almost always optimal for a player to act more selfishly than her true preference. We discuss applications to a range of public good problems, including global climate policy. Our results highlight that it may be difficult to infer social preferences from observed behaviour.
To Ban or Not to Ban: Foreign Lobbying and Cross National Externalities
Creators: name: Aidt, Toke
name: Hwang, Uk
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2014

description: This paper studies the costs and benefits of foreign lobbying. We show how and when foreign lobbying can help internalize cross national externalities. We argue that this is an often overlooked benefit of foreign lobbying. We also study under what conditions a constitutional rule banning foreign lobbying is in the national interest of a country. A key factor in this calculus is whether the interests of foreign lobby groups and domestic unorganized groups coincide or not. We illustrate the logic with examples from trade policy and environmental regulation.
AKARI mid-infrared slitless spectroscopic survey of star-forming galaxies at $z\lesssim 0.5$
Creators: name: Ohyama, Y.
name: Wada, T.
name: Matsuhara, H.
name: Takagi, T.
name: Malkan, M.
name: Goto, T.
name: Egami, E.
name: Lee, H. M.
name: Im, M.
name: Kim, J. -H.
name: Pearson, C.
name: Inami, H.
name: Oyabu, S.
name: Usui, F.
name: Burgarella, D.
name: Mazyed, F.
name: Imanishi, M.
name: Jeong, W. -S.
name: Miyaji, T.
name: Tello, J. Díaz
name: Nakagawa, T.
name: Serjeant, S.
name: Takeuchi, T. T.
name: Toba, Y.
name: White, G. J.
name: Hanami, H.
name: Ishigaki, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep MIR surveys have revealed numerous strongly star-forming galaxies at redshift z~<2. Their MIR fluxes are produced by a combination of continuum and PAH emission features. The PAH features can dominate the total MIR flux, but are difficult to measure without spectroscopy. We aim to study star-forming galaxies by using a blind spectroscopic survey at MIR wavelengths to understand evolution of their star formation rate (SFR) and specific SFR up to z~=0.5, by paying particular attention to their PAH properties. We conducted a low-resolution (R~=50) slitless spectroscopic survey at 5-13um of 9um flux-selected sources (>0.3 mJy) around the North Ecliptic Pole with the Infrared Camera (IRC) onboard AKARI. After removing 11 AGN candidates by using the IRC photometry, we identified 48 PAH galaxies with PAH 6.2, 7.7, and 8.6um features at z<0.5. The rest-frame optical-MIR spectral energy distributions (SEDs) based on CFHT and AKARI/IRC imaging covering 0.37-18um were produced, and analysed in conjunction with the PAH spectroscopy. We defined the PAH enhancement by using the luminosity ratio of the 7.7um PAH feature over the 3.5um stellar component of the SEDs. The rest-frame SEDs of all PAH galaxies have a universal shape with stellar and 7.7um bumps, except that the PAH enhancement significantly varies as a function of the PAH luminosities. We identified a PAH-enhanced population at z~>0.35, whose SEDs and luminosities are typical of luminous infrared galaxies. They show particularly larger PAH enhancement at high luminosity, implying that they are vigorous star-forming galaxies with elevated specific SFR. Our composite starburst model that combines a very young and optically very thick starburst with a very old population can successfully reproduce most of their SED characteristics, although we could not confirm this optically thick component from our spectral analysis.
description: 61 pages, 24 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
National mini-public report: Poland
Creators: name: Styczyńska, Natasza
name: Zubek, Marcin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: citizens' jury
mini-public
deliberative democracy
political trust
Covid-19 pandemic

description: This report provides an overview of the Polish mini-public on knowledge communication, disinformation, the role of experts, and trust in politics during the Covid-19 pandemic, which was held in the framework of the Horizon Europe research project REGROUP. The participants of the citizens’ jury shared their experiences related to these themes in times of the pandemic to ultimately formulate concrete policy recommendations to help the EU in preparing for future pandemics.

The report discusses (1) organisational matters, (2) provides a summary of the discussion contents, (3) presents the jurors’ policy recommendations, (4) analyses the attitudinal participant surveys, and includes (5) citizens’ feedback, and a (6) self-evaluation.
title: Confederate officer's letter from Harper's Ferry
Creators: name: J., L.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Virginia
subject: Surgery--Vocational guidance

description: Public domain. There are no known use restrictions.
description: Letter from J. L. to his father explaining the military medical positions open to him. He is a part of the First Regiment Artillery under the command of Colonel Gordon, though he writes of a rumor that his regiment will soon be under the command of Colonel Jackson. He is mainly concerned though with job prospects and longs to have a temporary surgeon's assistant position that could pay as much as $12 a year, so that he may then move up. J. L. wishes to have his horse with him and asks his father if that could be arranged from Staunton, Virginia. In the post script J. L. learns that his regiment has no surgeon and that there are many applicants for the post of surgeon's assistant.
Price Discrimination and Limits to Arbitrage in Global LNG Markets
Creators: name: Ritz, Robert
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: LNG pricing
market power
natural gas
price discrimination

description: Gas prices around the world vary widely despite being connected by international trade of LNG Some industry observers argue hat major exporters g , Qatar) have acted irrationally by failing to engage in price arbitrage. This is also difficult to reconcile with a perfectly competitive model in which price differences exist solely because of transport costs we show that a model with market power can rationalize observed price differentials and trade flows. We highlight how different features of the LNG market limit the ability and/or incentive of other players to arbitrage, and discuss the potential impact of US LNG exports.
title: Press Release: Reston Land Corporation, "Mobil Foundation's Fifth Year Gift Enables YMCA to Expand Valuable Teenage Programs," May 26, 1989
Creators: name: Reston Land Corporation
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)

description: Textual: Press Release; staple holes and hole punched, 11" x 8.5" (29.7 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Press release from the Reston Land Corporation from May 26, 1989 entitled "Mobil Foundation's Fifth Year Gift Enables YMCA to Expand Valuable Teenage Programs." This release concerns a gift of one thousand dollars from the Mobil Foundation to YMCA Fairfax Branch earmarked for two programs, "Project Life" and "Looking Glass." "Project Life" is concerned with teenaged pregnancy issues, and "Looking Glass" is a program that works with juvenile authorities with crisis intervention and counseling. The Planned Community Archives Collection, 456.01
Experimental Bounds on Masses and Fluxes of Nontopological Solitons
Creators: name: Arafune, J.
name: Yoshida, T.
name: Nakamura, S.
name: Ogure, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have re-analyzed the results of various experiments which were not originally interested as searches for the Q-ball or the Fermi-ball. Based on these analyses, in addition to the available data on Q-balls, we obtained rather stringent bounds on flux, mass and typical energy scale of Q-balls as well as Fermi-balls. In case these nontopological solitons are the main component of the dark matter of the Galaxy, we found that only such solitons with very large quantum numbers are allowed. We also estimate how sensitive future experiments will be in the search for Q-balls and Fermi-balls.
description: 19 pages, 7 eps figures, RevTeX, psfig.sty
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0163
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0163, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Tontenant (c. 1504), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 184 (11 H 987), 105 folios, f. 0163, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Ehrenfest+R Dynamics II: A Semiclassical QED Framework for Raman Scattering
Creators: name: Chen, Hsing-Ta
name: Li, Tao E.
name: Sukharev, Maxim
name: Nitzan, Abraham
name: Subotnik, Joseph E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper, we introduced Ehrenfest+R dynamics for a two-level system and showed how spontaneous emission can be heuristically included such that, after averaging over an ensemble of Ehrenfest+R trajectories, one can recover both coherent and incoherent electromagnetic fields. In the present paper, we now show that Ehrenfest+R dynamics can also correctly describe Raman scattering, whose features are completely absent from standard Ehrenfest dynamics. Ehrenfest+R dynamics appear to be quantitatively accurate both for resonant and off-resonant Raman signals, as compared with Kramers-Heisenberg-Dirac (KHD) theory.
More on Mixed Boundary Conditions and D-branes Bound States
Creators: name: Sheikh-Jabbari, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, applying different types of boundary conditions; Dirichlet, Neumann, or Mixed, on open strings we realize various new brane bound states in string theory. Calculating their interactions with other D-branes, we find their charge densities and their tension. A novel feature of $(p-2,p)$ brane bound state is its "non-commutative" nature which is manifestly seen both in the open strings mode expansions and in their scattering off a $D_p$-brane. Moreover we study three or more object bound states in string theory language. Finally we give a M-theoretic picture of these bound states.
description: Latex file, pages, No Figures
Probing the phases in the MSSM via e^+ e^- \to h A
Creators: name: Demir, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the presence of the supersymmetric CP phases, e^+ e^- \to Z^{*} \to h A scattering is analyzed, with special emphasis on Z^{*} h A vertex, taking into account radiatve corrections due to dominant top quark and top squark loops in the Higgs sector as well as the vertex formfactors. It is found that the lightest Higgs remains essentially CP-even whereas the heavier ones mix with each other strongly. Moreover, the supersymmetric CP phases are found to create tree-level couplings between a pseudoscalar and identical sfermion mass eigenstates which, together with the radiative corrections in the Higgs sector, are found to enhance the vertex formfactors significantly.
description: 14 pp, 5 figs, additions to text, new figs
BPS Solutions in D=5 Dilaton-Axion Gravity
Creators: name: Kechkin, Oleg
name: Yurova, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the D=5 dilaton-axion gravity compactified on a 2-torus possesses the SL(4,R)/SO(4) matrix formulation. It is used for construction of the SO(2,2)-invariant BPS solution depended on the one harmonic function.
description: presented at GR15
title: Characterizing the Aquatic Locomotor Evolution of Archaeocetes Utilizing Post-Cranial Geometric Morphometrics
Creators: name: Levy, Andrew Evan
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Locomotion
subject: Paleontology
subject: Cetacean
subject: Morphology
subject: Archaeocete
subject: Morphometric

description: Cetaceans are one of the most unusual and divergent forms of mammals in terms of both their morphology and ecology (Uhen, 2010). Numerous methods have been used to characterize the locomotion and locomotor evolution of cetaceans, from comparing fossil morphology to modern mammalian analogues (Thewissen and Fish, 1997) to observing the microstructure and osteology of archaeocete postcrania (Houssaye et al., 2015). I used three-dimensional landmark-based geometric morphometrics to analyze and compare the shape of archaeocete innominata and to investigate the controls on their morphology. While I had hypothesized that the shape of the innominate was primarily driven by aquatic locomotory mode, my results indicated that neither locomotory mode, nor the secondary factors of phylogenetic affinity and robustness fully explained the shape variability. This suggests that more of the postcranial skeleton, such as the hindlimb and vertebral column, must be looked at in conjunction to comprehend the drivers of innominate shape change.
Additional file 2: of Acute histoplasmosis in immunocompetent travelers: a systematic review of literature
Creators: name: Staffolani, Silvia
name: Buonfrate, Dora
name: Angheben, Andrea
name: Gobbi, Federico
name: Giorli, Giovanni
name: Guerriero, Massimo
name: Bisoffi, Zeno
name: Barchiesi, Francesco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: COI disclosure of each Author. (DOCX 90 kb)
Mandatory vs voluntary Payment for Green Electricity
Creators: name: Akcura, E.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: Renewable Energy
Green Tariffs
willingness to Pay
Zero Inflated Ordered Probit Model

description: Renewable energy sources have a critical role to play in contributing to the diversity, sustainability and security of energy supplies. The main objectives of the paper is to gain an understanding of UK households' preferences for the type of mechanism that is used to support renewables. Two self-designed contingent valuation method (cvM) surveys are used to explore whether the type of payment option has an impact on households' willingness to pay for increasin9 share of renewable energy in electricity generation. The paper also investigates whether the type of payment mode affects respondents' self-reported certainty of paying their stated valuations.The results indicate that the likelihood of paying a positive amount for supporting renewable energy is higher under a mandatory scheme compared to a voluntary payment option in the UK. Respondents have a higher level of certainty in paying their stated WTP under a mandatory payment scheme.
title: Toward a Thicker Description of Virtual Worlds as Sites of Deep Play: Technological Mediation of the Expression of Intent and Interpretation of Meaning in World Of Warcraft's North American Servers
Creators: name: Lunsford, John P
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Ethnography
subject: Virtual worlds
subject: Mediation
subject: Gaming

description: This thesis seeks to articulate the diverse nature of experience, expression, and interpretation found amongst participants in Virtual Worlds by exploring the impact of technology on their production. Using World of Warcraft as an example, I draw upon theories that examine the implication of incorporating technology into society and link them to other theories that explore the intersection of disparate cultural structures. By bridging these perspectives and routing them through a brief historical account of communication technologies situated as sine qua non to the evolution of games as complex sites of study, I expose technology’s influence as necessitating an expansion of the tactics of ethnographic inquiry and propose a reworking of the depth and breadth of both their exploration and analysis. Through an implementation of these new techniques, this study utilizes interviews, surveys, and participant observation to explore the potential for this approach to more thickly describe World of Warcraft and validate technology’s role in shaping/directing agency, mediating experience, and facilitating depth.
Geometry and symmetry in quantum Boltzmann machine
Creators: name: Song, Hai-Jing
name: Song, Tieling
name: He, Qi-Kai
name: Liu, Yang
name: Zhou, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum Boltzmann machine extends the classical Boltzmann machine learning to the quantum regime, which makes its power to simulate the quantum states beyond the classical probability distributions. We develop the BFGS algorithm to study the corresponding optimization problem in quantum Boltzmann machine, especially focus on the target states being a family of states with parameters. As an typical example, we study the target states being the real symmetric two-qubit pure states, and we find two obvious features shown in the numerical results on the minimal quantum relative entropy: First, the minimal quantum relative entropy in the first and the third quadrants is zero; Second, the minimal quantum relative entropy is symmetric with the axes $y=x$ and $y=-x$ even with one qubit hidden layer. Then we theoretically prove these two features from the geometric viewpoint and the symmetry analysis. Our studies show that the traditional physical tools can be used to help us to understand some interesting results from quantum Boltzmann machine learning.
title: Challenges to Public Pension Systems
Creators: name: Brown, Caleb O
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Public pensions
subject: Public finance
subject: State pensions
subject: Kentucky Retirement Systems

description: The poor funding status and liability measurement of state and local public pensions could be the defining issue for state-level fiscal policy for the next several decades. These chapters attempt to address several problems associated with pension management and measurement. Chapter One details many aspects of Kentucky Retirement System that have contributed to its funding and management woes. Chapter Two details the purpose of discounting within pension funds and how an alternative discount rate would increase stated liabilities in one of Kentucky’s pension plans. Chapter Three details the transfer of market-related risks from pensioners to taxpayers and discusses the potential impact of a large and ongoing opportunity for arbitrage within most pension systems.
The Irreducible String and an Infinity of Additional Constants of Motion in a Deposition-Evaporation Model on a Line
Creators: name: Menon, M. K. Hari
name: Dhar, Deepak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a model of stochastic deposition-evaporation with recombination, of three species of dimers on a line. This model is a generalization of the model recently introduced by Barma {\it et. al.} (1993 {\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 70} 1033) to $q\ge 3$ states per site. It has an infinite number of constants of motion, in addition to the infinity of conservation laws of the original model which are encoded as the conservation of the irreducible string. We determine the number of dynamically disconnected sectors and their sizes in this model exactly. Using the additional symmetry we construct a class of exact eigenvectors of the stochastic matrix. The autocorrelation function decays with different powers of $t$ in different sectors. We find that the spatial correlation function has an algebraic decay with exponent 3/2, in the sector corresponding to the initial state in which all sites are in the same state. The dynamical exponent is nontrivial in this sector, and we estimate it numerically by exact diagonalization of the stochastic matrix for small sizes. We find that in this case $z=2.39\pm0.05$.
description: Some minor errors in the first version has been corrected
Formulario para SLR sobre ABC (Educación)
Creators: name: Díaz Herrero, Silvia
name: Gertrudix Barrio, Manuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: SLR
Análisis Sistemático de Literatura,
Formulario
ABC
Aprendizaje Basado en el Cine
Educación

description: Este formulario ha sido desarrollado para realizar el análisis sistemático de literatura sobre Aprendizaje Basado en el Cine (ABC). Facilita un vaciado analítico de las referencias documentales examinadas para el estado del arte.
Robustness of Various Capacity Mechanisms to Regulatory Errors
Creators: name: Winzer, C.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: Strategic Reserve
Reliability Contract
Capacity Payment
Regulatory Inefficiency

description: In the EU, several governments have introduced or are contemplating a capacity mechanism to ensure adequate investment in generation capacity. Previous research has focused on the impacts of capacity mechanisms on installed capacity and cost to consumers in case of efficient regulation. By contrast we find that the choice between capacity mechanisms may be influenced by the extent of regulatory errors as well as whether the mechanisms evaluated from the perspective of consumer cost or from a welfare perspective.
Implications of Δρand CHARM II data for Z' Physics
Creators: name: Demir, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the constraints on the Z' model parameters coming from Z- pole and low-energy ν_μ-e scattering data in the frame work of GUT- motivated models. We find that when the coupling constant of the extra U(1) is small (large) the parameter space is mainly determined by the Z-pole (the low-energy ν_μ-e scattering) data.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, new references added
title: Classes of High-Performance Quantum LDPC Codes From Finte Projective Geometries
Creators: name: Farinholt, Jacob M.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum error correction
subject: Error correcting codes
subject: Finite geometry

description: Due to their fast decoding algorithms, quantum generalizations of low-density parity check, or LDPC, codes have been invesitgated as a solution to the problem of decoherence in fragile quantum states [1, 2]. However, the additional twisted inner product requirements of quantum stabilizer codes force four-cycles and eliminate the possibility of randomly generated quantum LDPC codes. Moreover, the classes of quantum LDPC codes discovered thus far generally have unknown or small minimum distance, or a fixed rate (see [3, 4] and references therin). This paper presents several new classes of quantum LDPC codes constructed from finite projective planes. These codes have rates that increase with the block length n and minimum weights proportional to n1=2. For the sake of completeness, we include an introduction to classical error correction and LDPC codes, and provide a review of quantum communication, quantum stabilizer codes, and finite projective geometry.
Local Energy Policy and Managing the Low Carbon Transition: The Case of Leicester
Creators: name: Lemon, M.
name: Pollitt, M. G.
name: Steer, S. J.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: energy transition
cHP
intelligent metering.

description: This paper seeks to provide insights into the links between the local and national energy policy. Leicester City Council has sought to take a leadership role on implementing innovative energy policies within their city. consequently, this paper investigates the impact of national and local energy policy in Leicester. It examines the consumption of energy within city, the network of players within energy policy and two flagship aspects of the policy the district heating scheme and the use of smart metering. The paper concludes that energy policy looks very different at local and national levels.
Towards a Noncommutative Geometric Approach to Matrix Compactification
Creators: name: Ho, Pei-Ming
name: Wu, Yi-Yen
name: Wu, Yong-Shi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study generic M(atrix) theory compactifications that are specified by a set of quotient conditions. A procedure is proposed, which both associates an algebra to each compactification and leads deductively to general solutions for the matrix variables. The notion of noncommutative geometry on the dual space is central to this construction. As examples we apply this procedure to various orbifolds and orientifolds, including ALE spaces and quotients of tori. While the old solutions are derived in a uniform way, new solutions are obtained in several cases. Our study also leads to a new formulation of gauge theory on quantum spaces.
description: 25 pages, LaTeX; minor corrections
The LHC Drell-Yan Measurements as a Constraint for the Noncommutative Space-Time
Creators: name: Rezaei, Zahra
name: Mehdiabadi, Saeid Paktinat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LHC measurements of the differential cross section of the Drell-Yan process is used to constrain the noncommutative space-time (NCST) phase space. A $χ^2$ method is utilized to exclude the part of the parameters space which is not consistent with the LHC measurements. Depending on other NCST parameters, the scale can be pushed up to $Λ_{NC} > 655$ GeV. The effect of other parameters is also investigated. To our knowledge, it is the first time that a detailed statistical analysis is performed to compare the NCST results with the Hadron Collider measurements.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
MOESM1 of Seed-specific suppression of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in Camelina sativa increases seed size and weight
Creators: name: GunNam Na
name: Niranjan Aryal
name: Abdelhak Fatihi
name: Jinling Kang
name: Chaofu Lu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional figures and tables.
Dynamically Favored Chiral Symmetry Breakings in Supersymmetric Quantum Chromodynamics
Creators: name: Honda, Yasuharu
name: Yasue, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By the use of an effective superpotential in supersymmetric quantum chromodynamics (SQCD) with N_f flavors and N_c colors of quarks for N_f>=N_c+2, the influence of soft supersymmetry (SUSY) breakings is examined to clarify dynamics of chiral symmetry breakings near the SUSY limit. In case that SQCD triggers spontaneous chiral symmetry breakings, it is possible to show that our superpotential dynamically favors the successive formation of condensates, leaving either SU(N_f-N_c) or SU(N_f-N_c+1) unbroken as a chiral nonabelian symmetry.
description: 7 pages by RevTeX (with a note added)
Equilibrium Contracts and Firm-sponsored Training
Creators: name: Rendahl, P.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: Contracts and Reputations.

description: This paper studies a model of firm-sponsored investments in general human capital. When institutional settings permit simple contractual arrangements that are consistent with at-will employment, firms invest in a worker's general skills. And when market forces discipline contracts, the equilibrium level of training intimately relates to any match-specific component of surplus, such as mobility costs. If these relation-specific components are sufficiently large, all externalities may be internalized, and training attains the social optimum. In marked contrast to the existing literature, these predictions do not rely on complementarities between training and rents (e.g. “wage-compression"), and they are independent of the distribution of profits and wages.
Variational Schemes in the Fokker-Planck Equation
Creators: name: Blum, T.
name: McKane, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate variational methods for finding approximate solutions to the Fokker-Planck equation, especially in cases lacking detailed balance. These schemes fall into two classes: those in which a Hermitian operator is constructed from the (non-Hermitian) Fokker-Planck operator, and those which are based on soluble approximations to this operator. The various approaches are first tested on a simple quantum-mechanical problem and then applied to a toy Fokker-Planck equation. The problem of a particle moving in a potential and subject to external non-white noise is then investigated using the formalism developed earlier on in the paper.
description: 24 pages, revtex, 2 tables, figure available on request
Metric for Rotating object in Infrared Corrected Nonlocal Gravity Model
Creators: name: Kumar, Utkarsh
name: Panda, Sukanta
name: Patel, Avani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, we derive the metric for the spacetime around rotating object for the gravity action having nonlocal correction of $R\Box^{-2} R $ to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Starting with the generic stationary, axisymmetric metric, we solve the equations of motion in linearized gravity limit for the modified action including energy-momentum tensor of the rotating mass. We also derive the rotating metric from the static metric using the Demanski-Janis-Newmann algorithm. Finally, we obtain the constraint on the value of $M$ by calculating the frame dragging effect in our theory and comparing it with that of General Relativity and Gravity Probe B results, where $M$ is the mass scale of the theory.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Voter suffrage and the political budget cycle: evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902-1937
Creators: name: Aidt, Toke
name: Mooney, Graham
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2014
Subjects: suffrage
opportunistic political budget cycles
London

description: We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting evidence that the political budget cycle operates differently under the two types of suffrage. Taxpayer suffrage, where the right to vote and the obligation to pay local taxes are linked, encourages demands for retrenchment and the political budget cycle manifests itself in election year tax cuts and savings on administration costs. Universal suffrage, where all adult residents can vote irrespective of their taxpayer status, creates demands for productive public services and the political budget cycle manifests itself in election year hikes in capital spending and a reduction in current spending.
Returns to Tenure or Seniority
Creators: name: Buhai, S.
name: Portela, M.
name: Teulings, C.
name: Van Vuuren, A.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2013
Subjects: seniority
LIFO

description: This study documents two empirical facts using matched employer-employee data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last, are the first to leave the firm. Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker's tenure relative to the tenure of her colleagues). The identification problems for the wage return to tenure are shown not to apply to the return to seniority because seniority is not a deterministic function of time. Controlling for tenure, the probability of leaving the firm decreases with seniority. The increase in expected seniority with tenure explains a large part of the negative duration dependence of the hazard. Using a variety of estimation methods, we show that a 10% increase in seniority raises your wage by 0.1-0.2%, depending on the country and the method applied. Conditional on ten years of tenure, one standard deviation of seniority raises your wage by 0.5 to 1.6 percent. Forthcoming in Econometrica.
title: When the People Go Away
Creators: name: Dickson, Julie E
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Personal essay
subject: Short story
subject: Writing life
subject: Relationships
subject: Emotional distance
subject: Homelessness

description: This work was embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until April 2020.
description: When the People Go Away is a collection of thematically linked short stories and personal essays. In the stories, we follow characters through their various struggles with separation and self-actualization in worlds marked by homelessness, addiction, isolation, environmental destruction, and loss. In the personal essays, the author explores the distances in her own relationships, and how her need for understanding and connection reveals itself as both an obstacle to writing and its deepest motivating force.
Collider signals from slow decays in supersymmetric models with an intermediate-scale solution to the mu problem
Creators: name: Martin, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of the origin of the mu parameter in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model can be solved by introducing singlet supermultiplets with non-renormalizable couplings to the ordinary Higgs supermultiplets. The Peccei-Quinn symmetry is broken at a scale which is the geometric mean between the weak scale and the Planck scale, yielding a mu term of the right order of magnitude and an invisible axion. These models also predict one or more singlet fermions which have electroweak-scale masses and suppressed couplings to MSSM states. I consider the case that such a singlet fermion, containing the axino as an admixture, is the lightest supersymmetric particle. I work out the relevant couplings in several of the simplest models of this type, and compute the partial decay widths of the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle involving leptons or jets. Although these decays will have an average proper decay length which is most likely much larger than a typical collider detector, they can occasionally occur within the detector, providing a striking signal. With a large sample of supersymmetric events, there will be an opportunity to observe these decays, and so gain direct information about physics at very high energy scales.
description: 24 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures
Additional file 1: of Prevention of post-operative complications by using a HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor in patients undergoing one-lung ventilation for non-cardiac surgery: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Murali Shyamsundar
name: OâKane, Cecilia
name: Perkins, Gavin
name: Kennedy, Gavin
name: Campbell, Christina
name: Agus, Ashley
name: Phair, Glenn
name: McAuley, Danny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) 2013 Checklist: recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*. (PDF 86 kb)