cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Search for CP-Violation in KS -> 3pi0 decays with the NA48 detector
Creators: name: Cartiglia, Nicolò
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay KS -> 3pi0 is forbidden by CP conservation. Using a sample of more than 6 million K -> 3pi0 decays, the NA48 Collaboration has improved the limit on eta_{000} = A(KS -> 3pi0)/A(KS -> 3pi0) and on the branching ratio Br(KS -> 3pi0) by about one order of magnitude. Using this result and the Bell-Steinberger relation, a new limit on the equality of the K0 and K0bar masses is obtained improving by about 40% the test of CPT conservation in the mixing of neutral kaons.
Consistent particle-based algorithm with a non-ideal equation of state
Creators: name: Ihle, Thomas
name: Tuzel, Erkan
name: Kroll, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A thermodynamically consistent particle-based model for fluid dynamics with continuous velocities and a non-ideal equation of state is presented. Excluded volume interactions are modeled by means of biased stochastic multiparticle collisions which depend on the local velocities and densities. Momentum and energy are exactly conserved locally. The equation of state is derived and compared to independent measurements of the pressure. Results for the kinematic shear viscosity and self-diffusion constants are presented. A caging and order/disorder transition is observed at high densities and large collision frequency.
description: 7 pages including 4 figures
Initial and Boundary Value Problems for the Caputo Fractional Self-Adjoint Difference Equations
Creators: name: Ahrendt, Kevin
name: DeWolf, Lydia
name: Mazurowski, Liam
name: Mitchell, Kelsey
name: Rolling, Tim
name: Veconi, Dominic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 39A10, 39A70

description: In this paper we develop the theory of initial and boundary value problems for the self-adjoint nabla fractional difference equation containing a Caputo fractional nabla difference that is given by \[ \nabla[p(t+1)\nabla_{a*}^νx(t+1)] + q(t)x(t) = h(t), \] where $0 < ν\leq 1$. We give an introduction to the nabla fractional calculus with Caputo fractional differences. We investigate properties of the specific self-adjoint nabla fractional difference equation given above. We prove existence and uniqueness theorems for both initial and boundary value problems under appropriate conditions. We introduce the definition of a Cauchy function which allows us to give a variation of constants formula for solving initial value problems. We then show that this Cauchy function is important in finding a Green's function for a boundary value problem with Sturm-Liouville type boundary conditions. Several inequalities concerning a certain Green's function are derived. These results are important in using fixed point theorems for proving the existence of solutions to boundary value problems for nonlinear fractional equations related to our linear self-adjoint equation.
What Prohibit CSA Membership Renewals? Identifying Barriers of CSA Participation
Creators: name: Chen, Junhong
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Zhang, Lisha
name: Chen, Junhong
name: Gao, Zhifeng
name: Zhang, Lisha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Community-Supported-Agriculture (CSA)
subject: consumer behavior
subject: membership

description: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) serves as platform for local producers, especially for small size farms, to sell local fresh products directly to local residents. Joining CSA will benefit the local economy as well as the local agriculture. Although CSA is widely accepted across the United States, the amount of CSA membership is still very low. Some people argue that the CSA membership is prevented by lack of choices in variety of products, or inconvenience of picking-up. In this study, we apply quantitative methods to identifying barriers that prohibit CSA participation or factors affecting unsubscribe of the CSA membership. We also compare characteristics and food perception of different consumers group (non-CSA members, previous CSA members and current CSA members). Based on the 780 responses collected from a consumer survey at the national level, our results show that only 6% of the total sample is current CSA members. The top two reasons for unsubscribing of the CSA membership are that they prefer farmer’s market and not cooking at home. On the other hand, the top two important factors for participation in CSA are supporting local and family farms.
Ultrasonic evidence of an uncorrelated cluster formation temperature in manganites with first-order magnetic transition at T_C
Creators: name: Mira, J.
name: Rivas, J.
name: Moreno-Gobbi, A.
name: Perez-Macho, M.
name: Rivadulla, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultrasonic attenuation and phase velocity measurements have been carried out in the ferromagnetic perovskites La_{2/3}Ca_{1/3}MnO_3 and La_{2/3}Sr_{1/3}MnO_3. Data show that the transition at the Curie temperature, T_C, changes from first- to second-order as Sr replaces Ca in the perovskite. The compound with first-order transition shows also another transition at a temperature T* > T_C. We interpret the temperature window T_C < T < T* as a region of coexistence of a phase separated regime of metallic and insulating regions, in the line of recent theoretical proposals.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Decoherence processes during active manipulation of excitonic qubits in semiconductor quantum dots
Creators: name: Wang, Q. Q.
name: Muller, A.
name: Bianucci, P.
name: Rossi, E.
name: Xue, Q. K.
name: Takagahara, T.
name: Piermarocchi, C.
name: MacDonald, A. H.
name: Shih, C. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using photoluminescence spectroscopy, we have investigated the nature of Rabi oscillation damping during active manipulation of excitonic qubits in self-assembled quantum dots. Rabi oscillations were recorded by varying the pulse amplitude for fixed pulse durations between 4 ps and 10 ps. Up to 5 periods are visible, making it possible to quantify the excitation dependent damping. We find that this damping is more pronounced for shorter pulse widths and show that its origin is the non-resonant excitation of carriers in the wetting layer, most likely involving bound-to-continuum and continuum-to-bound transitions.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
An Investigation of the Feasibility of A Ground Source Heat Pump for the New Student Union Building
Creators: name: Ramey, Angeleen
name: Helmer, Murray
name: Pereira, Alex
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
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title: Economic fundamentals of optimization and design of energy systems
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description: The training manual describes general issues of the theory and methods of energy system design. The manual is intended for Bachelorâs and Specialistâs degree students of full-time and extramural modes of study in the major 38.03.01_14 âEnergy Economicsâ.
title: Organic Material in Micrometeorites: Processes Affecting Its Delivery to Planetary Environments
Creators: name: Wilson, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: During their delivery to Earth, extraterrestrial dust particles (EDPs) are heated via aerodynamic braking in the upper atmosphere, liberating volatile and organic species. This study investigates the influence of atmospheric entry heating on this liberation process from Murchison (an EDP analogue), in order to assess the EDP contribution of biologically significant material to the early Earth.

Experimental simulations used a filament pulse pyrolyser to flash heat Murchison, replicating early Earth EDP atmospheric entry conditions. These simulations determined that the dehydration of phyllosilicates, the decomposition of organic and carbonate materials released H2O, organic carbon and CO2, respectively. Further characterisation of the released organic species (using GCxGC-TOFMS) identified a range of aliphatic, aromatic, PAH, O-bearing, S-bearing and N-bearing species; including biomolecule precursors. Relative abundances of these organic species were dependant not only on simulation peak temperature and duration, but also on their reaction with other fragments, which may have led to their production as secondary products.

In a complimentary study, comprehensive volatile organic analysis of Antarctic micrometeorites (AMMs) identified a range of aromatic, aliphatic, N-bearing, S-bearing, S-N-bearing and O-bearing species. Variations in the distribution of AMM aromatic species in comparison to the EDP analogue (as used in simulations) are consistent with i) the liberation of species during atmospheric entry heating ii) the alteration of organic material during Antarctic weathering processes and iii) a contribution from terrestrial sources. Alternatively, these deviations could reflect a different source (parent body) composition.

This investigation demonstrates that the abundance and composition of volatile and organic species liberated and retained in EDPs during entry heating (and their subsequent atmospheric reactions), may have played a role in atmospheric and climate development. EDPs additionally served as a source of prebiotic molecules and may have provided sites for chemical evolution.
Towards a Market Solution to Water Shortage: The Case of Lower Rio Grande Valley
Creators: name: Sinha, Nishita
name: Lacewell, Ronald D.
name: Ribera, Luis
name: Fipps, Guy
name: Sinha, Nishita
name: Lacewell, Ronald D.
name: Ribera, Luis
name: Fipps, Guy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: A well-defined market for tradable water rights can achieve allocative and productive efficiency. Allocative efficiency refers to water allocation to highest valued use, while productive efficiency allows for water conservation since conserved water can be sold in the market (McCann and Garrick, 2014). The issues surrounding water requirements in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in South Texas include rising water demand and falling supply levels from frequent droughts and under deliveries by Mexico. A probability distribution for water deliveries in the next delivery cycle (2021-2025) is developed using a multivariate time series model. Based on the model, it is highly likely that Mexico will under deliver in the next cycle. Consequently, a market solution called the Dry Year Option Program (DYOP) is proposed as a near-term solution while making gradual efforts to revise the delivery mechanism, and improve irrigation efficiency. DYOP will involve temporary “transfer” of water rights from agriculture to urban water users. The farmers, in turn, will receive payments per acre-feet of water right enrolled in the program. These payments equal the value of irrigation water, calculated using the Residual Imputation Method. The program will ensure water security for urban water users while helping farmers to minimize losses.
Formosargus James 1939
Creators: name: Lessard, Bryan D.
name: Yeates, David K.
name: Woodley, Norman E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Formosargus

description: Genus Formosargus James, 1939
Fig. 4
 Formosargus James, 1939: 35. Type species Formosargus kerteszi James, 1939 [DEI], by monotypy. See Woodley (2001: 190) for full list of synonymy.
 Diagnosis. Small (length 5–7 mm), yellowish brown species, similar to Ptecticus, but distinguished by the: frons wide and almost parallel in females; face slightly anteroventrally produced to form a small beak-like protuberance that is visible in profile; scutum with a distinct black medial stripe; wings with vein  M 1  and  M 3  extremely weak and nearly unpigmented between cells br and bm;  M 1  and  M 3  very weakly developed;  M 4  issued from discal cell (i.e.  dM 3+4  absent); alula reduced, almost linear; and lower calypter linear, without projecting process.
 Remarks. Regarding the New Guinean fauna, Chrysochlora lineata de Meijere, 1913, is congeneric with Formosargus, sharing the characters noted above in the diagnosis. Therefore, we propose moving the species into the latter genus, to become Formosargus lineata (de Meijere, 1913) new combination.
 Distribution. Northern Queensland, new distribution record (Fig. 2).
description: Published as part of Lessard, Bryan D., Yeates, David K. & Woodley, Norman E., 2020, Review of Australian Sarginae Soldier Fly Genera (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), with First Records of Cephalochrysa, Formosargus and Microchrysa, pp. 23-43 in Records of the Australian Museum 72 (2) on page 27, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1683, http://zenodo.org/record/4654320
Farmer’s Perceptions of Cost of Regulations in the Northeastern US
Creators: name: Brewer, Brady
name: Campbell, Ben
name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Russell, Levi
name: Brewer, Brady
name: Campbell, Ben
name: Rabinowitz, Adam
name: Russell, Levi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agriculture
subject: Production
subject: Regulation

description: Regulation and compliance are major issues within the agricultural industry. We attempt to gain a better understanding of the factors effecting the cost of compliance in the agricultural sector. We conducted an online survey during Fall 2014 on Northeastern agricultural producers. A total of 600 surveys were collected representing all types of agricultural production within the Northeastern U.S. We find producers perceive all regulations have increased since 2010, but environmental, food safety, and environmental regulations having been perceived to increase the most. Over half of the survey respondents indicated a significant increase in the cost of compliance for state regulations. However, fines after inspection was found to have little impact on the cost of compliance. We also find that older farmers have less costs of compliance and bigger farms have more costs of compliance.
Trididemnum sibogae
Creators: name: Kott, Patricia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Didemnidae
Trididemnum
Trididemnum sibogae

description: Trididemnum sibogae (Hartmeyer, 1910)
 Didemnum sibogae Hartmeyer, 1910: 1489.
 Trididemnum sibogae: Kott, 2001: 283 and synonymy.
 Distribution. New record: Victoria (Western Port, MV F68790). Previously recorded (see Kott, 2001): NW, southern and NE Australia.
 Description. The colony is an encrusting sheet, and the ridges and furrows on the surface appear to be the result of an uneven substratum over which it was growing, although in places it is over-growing its own surface. There is an extensive posterior abdominal common cloacal cavity. Large stellate spicules (to 0.1 mm diameter and more) have 7–11 long, pointed rays in optical transverse section. An endostylar eye was not detected on the zooids.
 Remarks. The species is distinguished from T. nobile by its larger spicules and longer more pointed rays, fewer vas deferens coils and four pairs of larval lateral ampullae.
 Trididemnum lapidosum Kott, 2001 has similar spicules but lacks the extensive posterior abdominal cloacal cavities of the present species and is harder, with spicules crowded throughout. Trididemnum caelatum Kott, 2001 has three ectodermal ampullae and more spicule rays than the present species.
description: Published as part of Kott, Patricia, 2004, New and little-known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (part I), pp. 731-774 in Journal of Natural History 38 (19) on pages 766-767, DOI: 10.1080/00222930310001647334, http://zenodo.org/record/4653689
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THE CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES FOR BUSINESSES AND THEIR IMPACT ON EQUITY
Creators: name: HACHEROVA, Zofia
name: HACHEROVA, Zofia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: equity
subject: balance sheet
subject: retained earning
subject: accumulated loss
subject: tax base

description: The financial accounting in accordance with the valid methods and principles ensures the demonstrable and true information about the process and results of business activities. This article is presenting the analysis of Accounting Procedures for Businesses and their Amendments from 1. 1. 2004, the impact of analysed changes on the equity for the accounting period of 2004 and the influence of analysed changes on income tax base. The legal adjustment contains the definition of contents of long term intangible assets, new definition of contents and structure of deferred charges, creation and using the provision for reconstruction of long term tangible assets. The application of changes in accounting standards will influence the value of equity of an enterprise as it is disclosed in the Balance Sheet namely the changes will have an impact on the item "income from previous years". The changes in the approach to the accounting as mentioned above will deepen the accumulated losses and decrease or increase the retained earnings from previous years. The application of changes in Accounting Procedures for Businesses will have influence on the financial situation of entrepreneurs, value of equity, capital structure, indicators of indebtedness and determination of tax basis and tax liability in accordance with the Income Tax Law 595/2003 Coll.
INFORMATIZACIA REZORTU PODOHOSPODARSTVA PO VSTUPE SLOVENSKA DO EUROPSKEJ UNIE
INFORMATIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AFTER ACCESSION OF SLOVAKIA TO THE EU
Creators: name: KUCERA, Milan
name: LATECKOVA, Anna
name: KUCERA, Milan
name: LATECKOVA, Anna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: information and communication technology
subject: software
subject: enterprise
subject: information system
subject: agriculture

description: Quality information and information services have nowadays a strategic economic and social importance. State management, management of large and small business entities in the information society is based on quality information. One of the goals of medium term agricultural policy for the years 2004-2006 is to finish and harmonise the information system of the sector. The program of information and communication technology itself consists of systematic part, specialisation part and integrated solutions. Information strategy in the individual companies should be realised in a way to be able to cope with new trends in the development of informative systems and technologies. One of the basic conditions to achieve the competitiveness of agro enterprises after the EU accession is to reassess the company information system architecture and enable the access of enterprises to current information in real time.
Performance of CDF for B physics
Creators: name: Oldeman, R. G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hadron colliders can be an abundant source of heavy flavor quarks, but pose a challenge to isolate the physics signals from the high backgrounds. The upgraded CDF II detector, with its precise tracking capabilities and powerful trigger system, is well equipped for this task. The detector is described with an emphasis on actual performance and on techniques to maximize the heavy flavor yield. Some first heavy flavor results are summarized.
description: Invited talk at the Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, IPPP Durham, April 2003 (eConf C0304052). 4 pages LaTeX, 2 eps figures
title: Changing Production Practices of News and New Audience Configurations at BBC World Service: A Case Study of BBC Hausa on Facebook
Creators: name: Andersson, Matilda
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: This study addresses whether social media like facebook is changing the relationship between audiences and producers of news. Using an ethnographic approach the research follows both the news production and the consumption of social media at the BBC Hausa service through observation and interviews with producers and through analysing facebook statistics and BBC in-house audience data. The study shows that the majority of facebook ‘fans’ are diasporic, younger and more male skewed than average for the BBC Hausa radio audience in Africa. Practically no women take part of the debates on BBC Hausa facebook that predominately evolve around football and politics. Despite the increased potential of interactivity on facebook due to reduced moderation compared to traditional BBC message boards, few ‘fans’ interact on a day-to-day basis and the majority of interactions are in response to traditional news content. The producers do not interact directly with fans but instead use facebook as a source of news, commentary for radio programmes and an address book for eyewitness accounts from all over the world. The study raises important issues about the extent to which social media have a democratising and empowering force for audiences in Africa and for the wider global Hausa diaspora.
Ogle-2018-blg-0677lb: A super earth near the galactic bulge
Creators: name: Herrera-Martín, Antonio
name: Albrow, M. D.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Gould, A.
name: Ryu, Y. -H.
name: Yee, J. C.
name: Chung, S. -J.
name: Han, C.
name: Hwang, K. -H.
name: Jung, Y. K.
name: Lee, C. -U.
name: Shin, I. -G.
name: Shvartzvald, Y.
name: Zang, W.
name: Cha, S. -M.
name: Kim, D. -J.
name: Kim, H. -W.
name: Kim, S. -L.
name: Lee, D. -J.
name: Lee, Y.
name: Park, B. -G.
name: Pogge, R. W.
name: Szymański, M. K.
name: Mróz, P.
name: Skowron, J.
name: Poleski, R.
name: Soszyński, I.
name: Kozłowski, S.
name: Pietrukowicz, P.
name: Ulaczyk, K.
name: Rybicki, K.
name: Iwanek, P.
name: Wrona, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-0677. A small feature in the light curve of the event leads to the discovery that the lens is a star-planet system. Although there are two degenerate solutions that could not be distinguished for this event, both lead to a similar planet-host mass ratio. We perform a Bayesian analysis based on a Galactic model to obtain the properties of the system and find that the planet corresponds to a super-Earth/sub-Neptune with a mass $M_{\mathrm{planet}} = {3.96}^{+5.88}_{-2.66}\mathrm{M_\oplus}$. The host star has a mass $ M_{\mathrm{host}} = {0.12}^{+0.14}_{-0.08}\mathrm{M_\odot}$. The projected separation for the inner and outer solutions are ${0.63}^{+0.20}_{-0.17}$~AU and ${0.72}^{+0.23}_{-0.19}$~AU respectively. At $Δχ^2=χ^2({\rm 1L1S})-χ^2({\rm 2L1S})=46$, this is by far the lowest $Δχ^2$ for any securely-detected microlensing planet to date, a feature that is closely connected to the fact that it is detected primarily via a "dip" rather than a "bump".
description: 15 page, 12 figures, Published in AJ
Additional file 17 of Household presentation of acute gastroenteritis in a primary care sentinel network: retrospective database studies
Creators: name: Lusignan, Simon De
name: Sherlock, Julian
name: Ferreira, Filipa
name: O’Brien, Sarah
name: Joy, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 17: Table S9. Variance inflationary factors associated with the Frailty Survival Model.
Simulating Solar Flare Irradiance with Multithreaded Models of Flare Arcades
Creators: name: Reep, Jeffrey W.
name: Warren, Harry P.
name: Moore, Christopher S.
name: Suarez, Crisel
name: Hayes, Laura A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding how energy is released in flares is one of the central problems of solar and stellar astrophysics. Observations of high temperature flare plasma hold many potential clues as to the nature of this energy release. It is clear, however, that flares are not composed of a few impulsively heated loops, but are the result of heating on many small-scale threads that are energized over time, making it difficult to compare observations and numerical simulations in detail. Several previous studies have shown that it is possible to reproduce some aspects of the observed emission by considering the flare as a sequence of independently heated loops, but these studies generally focus on small-scale features while ignoring the global features of the flare. In this paper, we develop a multithreaded model that encompasses the time-varying geometry and heating rate for a series of successively-heated loops comprising an arcade. To validate, we compare with spectral observations of five flares made with the MinXSS CubeSat as well as light curves measured with GOES/XRS and SDO/AIA. We show that this model can successfully reproduce the light curves and quasi-periodic pulsations in GOES/XRS, the soft X-ray spectra seen with MinXSS, and the light curves in various AIA passbands. The AIA light curves are most consistent with long duration heating, but elemental abundances cannot be constrained with the model. Finally, we show how this model can be used to extrapolate to spectra of extreme events that can predict irradiance across a wide wavelength range including unobserved wavelengths.
description: Accepted to ApJ. v2: Mistake in temperature plots in Figure 1 corrected
Constructing Love-Q-Relations with Gravitational Wave Detections
Creators: name: Samajdar, Anuradha
name: Dietrich, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-universal relations connecting the tidal deformability and the quadrupole moment of individual neutron stars are predicted by theoretical computations, but have not been measured experimentally. However, such relations are employed during the interpretation of gravitational waves and, therefore, have a direct impact on the interpretation of real data. In this work, we study how quasi-universal relations can be tested and measured from gravitational wave signals connected to binary neutron star coalescences. We study a population of $120$ binary neutron star systems and find that Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo at design sensitivity could find possible deviations of predicted relations if the observed neutron stars are highly spinning. In the future, a network of third generation (3G) detectors will be able to even allow a measurement of quasi-universal relations. Thus, the outlined approach provides a new test of general relativity and nuclear physics predictions.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title: An Analysis of English Philology Undergraduates' Compulsory Literature Reading Experiences at Polish Universities
Creators: name: Allington, Beata
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2011

description: The aim of this dissertation is to report and analyse how the students of English Philology at two Polish universities talk about their understanding and evaluation of the aims and outcomes of the teaching of the History of English Literature during their first year of study. I provide background information about the degree in English Philology, and the changing status of the English language and of English Philology graduates in Poland. My aim is to consider their experiences of the courses in comparison with the goals of those courses, and more general ideas about the value of an education in the Humanities.
On the Persistence of Particles
Creators: name: Butterfield, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is about the metaphysical debate whether objects persist over time by the selfsame object existing at different times (nowadays called `endurance' by metaphysicians), or by different temporal parts, or stages, existing at different times (called ` perdurance'). I aim to illuminate the debate by using some elementary kinematics and real analysis: resources which metaphysicians have, surprisingly, not availed themselves of. There are two main results, which are of interest to both endurantists and perdurantists. (1): I describe a precise formal equivalence between the way that the two metaphysical positions represent the motion of the objects of classical mechanics (both point-particles and continua). (2): I make precise, and prove a result about, the idea that the persistence of objects moving in a void is to be analysed in terms of tracking the continuous curves in spacetime that connect points occupied by matter. The result is entirely elementary: it is a corollary of the Heine-Borel theorem.
description: 31 pages Latex, no figures. Dedicated to the memory of James T. Cushing. Forthcoming in Foundations of Physics
A Distorted Black Ring
Creators: name: Abdolrahimi, Shohreh
name: Mann, Robert B.
name: Tzounis, Christos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how a static and neutral distribution of external matter distorts a 5-dimensional static black ring. We obtain a general expression for the distorted metric in terms of the background metric functions and the distortion fields, and find a multipole expansion for the latter. We demonstrate that the gravitational field of these external sources can be adjusted to remove the conical singularity of the undistorted black ring solution. We analyze properties of the distorted black ring for the specific cases of dipole and quadrupole distortions.
description: 16 pages and 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/0110258 by other authors
Oswaldella crassa Pena Cantero and Vervoort 1998
Creators: name: Peña Cantero, A. L.
name: Vervoort, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Kirchenpaueriidae
Oswaldella
Oswaldella crassa

description: Oswaldella crassa Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1998
 Oswaldella crassa Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1998: 33–35, figure 1; Peña Cantero and García Carrascosa, 1998: 178; 1999: 214; Peña Cantero and Marques, 1999: 85.
 Material examined. 6/428, Three stem fragments up to 35 mm long.
 Remarks. The material of this species was previously described and figured by Peña Cantero and Vervoort (1998). Oswaldella crassa is characterized by the absence of nematotheca in the hydrocladial internodes, the presence of two axillary nematophores and one ‘mamelon’ on the cauline apophyses, the shape of the hydrotheca, situated on the middle of the hydrocladial internodes, the strong development of the perisarc, the absence of node between cauline apophyses and hydrocladia, and the absence of internodes in the stem (cf. table 1).
 Ecology and distribution. Oswaldella crassa is known only from the Bransfield Strait area, where it was collected at depths from 662 to 1120 m in January (Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1998).
description: Published as part of Peña Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W., 2004, Species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Kirchenpaueriidae) from US Antarctic expeditions, with the description of three new species, pp. 805-861 in Journal of Natural History 38 on page 822
Determining the Location of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch in Old Stellar Populations: M33, Andromeda I & II
Creators: name: McConnachie, A. W.
name: Irwin, M. J.
name: Ferguson, A. M. N.
name: Ibata, R. A.
name: Lewis, G. F.
name: Tanvir, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The absolute bolometric luminosity of the point of core Helium ignition in old, metal poor, red-giant stars is of roughly constant magnitude, varying only very slightly with mass or metallicity. It can thus be used as a standard candle. Here, we review the main difficulties in measuring this location in any real dataset and develop an empirical approach to optimise it for tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) analysis. We go on to present a new algorithm for the identification of the TRGB in nearby metal poor stellar systems. Our method uses a least-squares fit of a data-adaptive slope to the luminosity function in 1 magnitude windows. This finds the region of the luminosity function that shows the most significant decline in star counts as we go to brighter magnitudes; the base of this decline is attributed as the location of the tip. This technique then allows for the determination of realistic uncertainties which reflect the quality of the luminosity function used, but which are typically ~0.02 mags rms + ~ 0.03 mags systematic, a significant improvement upon previous methods that have used the tip as a standard candle. Finally, we apply our technique to the Local Group spiral galaxy M33 and the dwarf galaxies And I & II, and derive distance modulii of 24.50 +/- 0.06 (794 +/- 23 kpc), 24.33 +/- 0.07 (735 +/- 23 kpc) and 24.05 +/- 0.06 (645 +/- 19 kpc) respectively. The result for M33 is in excellent agreement with the Cepheid distances to this galaxy, and makes the possibility of a significant amount of reddening in this object unlikely.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures (low resolution due to size constraints). Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Weakly nonlinear vertical dust grain oscillations in dusty plasma crystals in the presence of a magnetic field
Creators: name: Kourakis, Ioannis
name: Shukla, Padma Kant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The weakly nonlinear regime of transverse paramagnetic dust grain oscillations in dusty (complex) plasma crystals is discussed. The nonlinearity, which is related to the sheath electric/magnetic field(s) and to the inter--grain (electrostatic/magnetic dipole) interactions, is shown to lead to the generation of phase harmonics and, in the case of propagating transverse dust-lattice modes, to the modulational instability of the carrier wave due to self--interaction. The stability profile depends explicitly on the form of the electric and magnetic fields in the plasma sheath. The long term evolution of the modulated wave packet, which is described by a nonlinear Schrödinger--type equation (NLSE), may lead to propagating localized envelope structures whose exact forms are presented and discussed. Explicit suggestions for experimental investigations are put forward.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physics of Plasmas
FACTORS DETERMINING TRACTOR USE AMONG ARABLE CROP FARMERS OF THE OSUN STATE GOVERNMENT TRACTOR HIRING SCHEME, NIGERIA
Creators: name: Kehinde, A. L.
name: Kehinde, A. L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Tractors
subject: Arable Crop Farmers
subject: Osun State

description: The inability of Osun state government to sustain the various past mechanisation programmes and birth of a new tractor hire scheme alludes to poor policy implementation. This study examines the present tractor hire policy in the state. A multi-stage random sampling was used to select 266 arable crop farmers in the study area, while questionnaire and personal interviews were used to obtain information from them as well as from other stakeholders. Result from the logit regression reveals that farmers’ household size (P < 0.05), membership of ruling party (P < 0.10), land area cultivated (P < 0.01), crop output (P < 0.05) and extension contact (P < 0.05) were important determinants of tractor use and they increase the probability of tractor use by arable crop farmers in the state. Conversely, years of formal education (P < 0.05) and farm equipment (P < 0.05) were also important determinants of tractor use , but reduced the probability of tractor use . The study recommends that, tractor hire operators should de-emphasize political consideration as condition for access to tractor use while farmers need to increase their present farm sizes to justify tractor use.
Dynamics of non-equilibrium membrane bud formation
Creators: name: Sens, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The dynamical response of a lipid membrane to a local perturbation of its molecular symmetry is investigated theoretically. A density asymmetry between the two membrane leaflets is predominantly released by in-plane lipid diffusion or membrane curvature, depending upon the spatial extent of the perturbation. It may result in the formation of non-equilibrium structures (buds), for which a dynamical size selection is observed. A preferred size in the micrometer range is predicted, as a signature of the crossover between membrane and solvent dominated dynamical membrane response.
description: 7 pages 3 figures
An Investigation into the Feasibility of using the Red List of Materials
Creators: name: Abusbeaa, Almuthanna
name: Fong, Matthew
name: Lee, Herman
name: Lee, Laam
name: Otterman, Mark
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

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Supplementary information and figures_AGEs in adipocytes
Creators: name: Favaretto, Francesca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60104 Cell Metabolism
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Supplementary information and figures related to "In vitro chronic glycation induces AGEs accumulation reducing insulin stimulated glucose uptake and increasing GLP1R in adipocytes"
A FARM LEVEL SUSTAINABILITY INDICATOR FOR HORTICULTURAL CROP PRODUCERS IN FADAMA AREAS OF SOUTHERN GUINEA SAVANNAH OF NIGERIA
Creators: name: Lawal, A. F.
name: Omotesho, O. A.
name: Adewumi, M. O.
name: Lawal, A. F.
name: Omotesho, O. A.
name: Adewumi, M. O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Fadama
subject: Sustainability indicator
subject: Farming practices

description: A farm level sustainability indicator was determined within the framework of small-scale farming households utilizing Fadama for the cultivation of horticultural crops in the Southern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria. The study determined Indicators of Sustainable Agricultural Practices (ISAP) and identifies the critical farming practices to monitor in order to sustain productivity of Fadama land. A two- stage simple random sampling technique was used to obtain 180 horticultural crops producing households interviewed for the study. The data were collected for 2008 cropping season. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, scoring and weighting of farm practices and sustainability web. The Indicator of Sustainable Agricultural Practices (ISAP) mean score of 0.622 implied that crop production practices of sampled farming households were fairly sustainable. The study showed that methods of pest control, weed control, and soil fertility maintenance were the critical indices to monitor for the improvement of sustainability. In order to ensure sustainability of Fadama for horticultural crops production the study recommends increased, integrated pest management and regulated use of agro-chemical.
Environmental profile of buildings
Creators: name: Lam, Wai Chung
name: Trigaux, Damien
name: Servaes, Roos
name: Allacker, Karen
name: Debacker, Wim
name: Delem, Laetitia
name: De Nocker, Leo
name: De Troyer, Frank
name: Janssen, An
name: Peeters, Karolien
name: Spirinckx, Carolin
name: Van Dessel, Johan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Since February 2018 the online tool TOTEM (Tool to Optimise the Total Environmental impact of Materials) can be used by building professionals to acquire an insight into
the Environmental Performance of Materials used in Buildings and Building Elements (in Dutch: MMG: Milieugerelateerde Materiaalprestatie van Gebouw(element)en). With TOTEM it is possible to assess and communicate about the environmental performance of buildings and elements in a uniform and neutral way, adapted specifically to the Belgian building context. This publication offers an open and transparent presentation of the MMG assessment framework, the underlying methodology of TOTEM, and is an updated version of the publication dd March 2013. Although the presented building materials methodology is far from final, it is a dynamic assessment framework (and web tool) that will be fine-tuned and extended in the future. In that context, this publication should be perceived as a communication tool to facilitate the dialogue with stakeholders (architects, material producers, building owners) in the future.
MEM_GE: a new maximum entropy method for image reconstruction from solar X-ray visibilities
Creators: name: Massa, Paolo
name: Schwartz, Richard
name: Tolbert, A Kim
name: Massone, Anna Maria
name: Dennis, Brian R
name: Piana, Michele
name: Benvenuto, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 49N45, 94A08

description: Maximum Entropy is an image reconstruction method conceived to image a sparsely occupied field of view and therefore particularly appropriate to achieve super-resolution effects. Although widely used in image deconvolution, this method has been formulated in radio astronomy for the analysis of observations in the spatial frequency domain, and an Interactive Data Language (IDL) code has been implemented for image reconstruction from solar X-ray Fourier data. However, this code relies on a non-convex formulation of the constrained optimization problem addressed by the Maximum Entropy approach and this sometimes results in unreliable reconstructions characterized by unphysical shrinking effects. This paper introduces a new approach to Maximum Entropy based on the constrained minimization of a convex functional. In the case of observations recorded by the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), the resulting code provides the same super-resolution effects of the previous algorithm, while working properly also when that code produces unphysical reconstructions. Results are also provided of testing the algorithm with synthetic data simulating observations of the Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) in Solar Orbiter. The new code is available in the {\em{HESSI}} folder of the Solar SoftWare (SSW)tree.
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AND MITIGATION RESPONSE BY FARMERS IN DANKO/WASAGU LGA OF KEBBI STATE NIGERIA
Creators: name: Mailumo, S. S.
name: Adepoju, S. O.
name: Tankari, A. B.
name: Mailumo, S. S.
name: Adepoju, S. O.
name: Tankari, A. B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Mitigating
subject: Land degradation
subject: Danko/Wasagu

description: The paper assessed farmer’s mitigating practices to land degradation in Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kebbi State. Four (4) districts were randomly selected out of eight (8) districts that made up the LGA. They included Kainya, Ribah, Waji, and Wasagu. Random sampling technique was employed to select 20 farmers from each of the four (4) districts giving a sample size of 80 farmers. Data were collected using structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics and logit regression model. Result showed that 43% of the respondents experienced slightly severe degradation on their farmlands while 13% witnessed severe degradation. However, the study found that clearing and burning of shrubs on farms and planting of sole cereals were the major causes of land degradation (28%); and grazing by animals (25%). The logit regression model shows that water channels, level of education, planting of trees, mulching and land tenure arrangement had positive coefficients. Conversely, coefficients of farm size, family size and cover crops had inverse influence as practices to the mitigation of land degradation. The marginal effects of the independent variables on the dependent variable revealed that on the average, a 1 percent increase in the creation of water channels for example, leads to a 0.77 percent increase in the probability of applying land degradation measures in the study area, holding all else constant. To preserve the farm lands, the identified causes of land degradation should be remedied.
Convergence of ergodic-martingale paraproducts
Creators: name: Kovač, Vjekoslav
name: Stipčić, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note we introduce a sequence of bilinear operators that unify ergodic averages and backward martingales in a nontrivial way. We establish its convergence in a range of $L^p$-norms and leave its a.s. convergence as an open problem. This problem shares some similarities with a well-known unresolved conjecture on a.s. convergence of double ergodic averages with respect to two commuting transformations.
description: 8 pages; v2: references added and corrected following reviewer's report