cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
REDD in the Carbon Market: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Creators: name: Bosello, Francesco
name: Eboli, Fabio
name: Parrado, Ramiro
name: Rosa, Renato
name: Bosello, Francesco
name: Eboli, Fabio
name: Parrado, Ramiro
name: Rosa, Renato
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Forestry
subject: Avoided Deforestation
subject: Climate Change
subject: Emission Trading
subject: General Equilibrium Modelling

description: Deforestation is a major source of CO2 emissions, accounting for around 17% of total annual anthropogenic carbon release. While the cost estimates of reducing deforestation rates vary considerably depending on model assumptions, it is widely accepted that emissions reductions from avoided deforestation consist of a relatively low cost mitigation option. Halting deforestation is therefore not only a major ecological challenge, but also a great opportunity to cost effectively reduce climate change negative impacts. In this paper we analyze the impact of introducing avoided deforestation credits into the European carbon market using a multiregional Computable General Equilibrium model – the ICES model (Inter-temporal Computable Equilibrium System). Taking into account political concerns over a possible “flooding” of REDD credits, various limits to the number of REDD allowances entering the carbon market are considered. Finally, unlike previous studies, we account for both direct and indirect effects occurring on land and timber markets resulting from lower deforestation rates. We conclude that avoided deforestation notably reduces climate change policy costs - by approximately 80% with unlimited availability of REDD credits - and may drastically reduce carbon prices. Policy makers may, however, effectively control for these imposing limits to avoided deforestation credits use. Moreover, avoided deforestation has the additional positive effect of reducing carbon leakage of a unilateral European climate change policy. This is good news for the EU, but not necessarily for REDD regions. Indeed we show that REDD revenues are not sufficient to compensate REDD regions for a less leakage-affected and more competitive EU in international markets. In fact, REDD regions would prefer to free ride on the EU unilateral mitigation policy.
Consumer perception of the circular economy and the cocoa value chain in Côte d'Ivoire
Creators: name: Human, Simeon
name: Owoeye, Ayodeji
name: Bozward, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: We determine how consumers perceive the cocoa value chain (CVC) in Côte d'Ivoire. Based on our findings, recommendations are made to reduce inequality through the theoretical lens of the circular economy (CE). This paper is informed by a literature review followed by a survey. Circular business models operate at each of the seven levels of the chocolate industry: the farmer level by improving soil health through agroforestry, the transporter level by accounting for transport costs to make the model profitable, the grinder level by utilizing polyphenols drawn from cocoa bean shells and cocoa pod husks, the manufacturer level by using previously wasted fruit pulp to produce a beverage, the trader level by governing the value chain according to the CE framework, the retailer level by improving traceability systems with Internet-of-Things -based logistics systems, and finally at the consumer level by slowly but surely adapting towards circular purchasing behaviour. The CE is defined as a socio-economic business eco-system that efficiently uses materials and finance through the optimisation of waste and disposal, which enables sustainable development using business models and innovation. In this paper we consider cocoa exported from Côte d'Ivoire only and exclude other producing countries. Furthermore, there is a scarcity of government data on the living income of cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire, which could impede the representativeness of the secondary data used. Consequently, this could limit the paper's accuracy in determining the potential effect of implementing circularity on living income levels. This paper can be a useful tool for policymakers and analysts since it identifies problems in the CVC. The circular economy is a potential way of achieving living income for cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire. We respond to a call in the literature for empirical analysis of consumer views on the CE. Additionally, we contextualise the CE along the CVC in Côte d'Ivoire.
Keywords: Circular Economy; Consumer Perception; Cocoa; Value Chain; Côte d'Ivoire.
Study of the e^+e^- --> Z gamma Process at LEP and Limits on Triple Neutral-Gauge-Boson Couplings
Creators: name: L3 Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process e^+e^- --> Z gamma, where the Z boson decays into hadrons or neutrinos, is studied with data collected with the L3 detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies from 189 GeV up to 209 GeV. The cross sections are measured and found to be in agreement with the Standard Model predictions. Limits on triple neutral-gauge-boson couplings, forbidden in the Standard Model at tree level, are derived. Limits on the energy scales at which the anomalous couplings could be manifest are set. They range from 0.3 TeV to 2.3 TeV depending on the new physics effect under consideration.
title: Local Planning Response for Enhancing Resilience in Drought-prone Small Cities and Towns
Creators: name: Rai, Pranjali
Publisher: name: University of Washington
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00cvxb145
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Intensifying droughts due to climate change are increasing competition for water among different uses in communities. This growing competition will have implications for local development and sustainability. Among all actions related to water-sensitive growth, water conservation is most indicative of local response to drought risk, and its consideration in comprehensive plans suggests the community’s commitment towards building resilience to future water shortages. This research focuses on planning response for building resilience to droughts in the context of small cities and towns. It includes a study of water conservation consideration in comprehensive plans from a representative sample of 114 drought-prone small cities and towns in the contiguous US. It uses content analysis comprising of alternate approaches to resource-intensive manual-based coding for identifying water conservation discussion in local plans and includes a descriptive analysis of the nature of this discussion. It also applies inferential analysis to determine potential factors that can inform the level of water conservation consideration in the plans. Analyses in this research demonstrate the utility of Efficiency and Convergence measures to compare alternate coding methods and to determine the most suitable approach for identifying references related to a concept in plans. These findings will facilitate the use of less resource-intensive coding approaches in plan analysis, allowing larger sample sizes to improve the generalizability of results. Examination of the nature of water conservation discussion reveals a much higher proportion of references related to policies and implementation mechanisms than supporting information, with a potential disconnect between policies/implementation discussion and supporting information for some water conservation concepts indicating implications for plan quality. The analysis also reveals patterns in the utilization of implementation mechanisms and provision of implementation details for water conservation strategies that can affect their application in smaller jurisdictions. Finally, findings from regression analysis suggest economic vulnerability, local capacity, and the state’s focus on drought mitigation as potential factors that affect the level of water conservation consideration in the plans. These findings have implications for how long-term planning for water conservation should be approached and enabled in smaller jurisdictions to improve resilience in the face of growing water scarcity.
The Stabilizing Effect of Gravity Made Simple
Creators: name: Espinosa, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new approach to vacuum decay in quantum field theory, based on a simple variational formulation in field space using a tunneling potential, is ideally suited to study the effects of gravity on such decays. The method allows to prove in new and simple ways many results, among others, that gravitational corrections tend to make Minkowski or Anti de Sitter false vacua more stable semiclassically or that higher barriers increase vacuum lifetime. The approach also offers a very clean picture of gravitational quenching of vacuum decay and its parametric dependence on the features of a potential and allows to study the BPS domain-walls between vacua in critical cases. Special attention is devoted to supersymmetric potentials and to the discussion of near-critical vacuum decays, for which it is shown how the new method can be usefully applied beyond the thin-wall approximation.
description: 27 pages, LaTeX
Carbon-fiber reinforced cement based sensors
Creators: name: Chacko, Rose Mary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The addition of carbon fibers has proved to be one of the most effective ways of improving the electrical conductivity of ordinary cement pastes. Numerous studies have been conducted toward using this property for measurement of strain, temperature change and chloride penetration in concrete. In the present study, a small carbon fiber reinforced cement specimen with rectangular cross section was positioned in a 60 Hz, ± 10 V AC circuit with a data acquisition system in order to monitor the changes in its electrical resistivity under the influence of different parameters. The parameters studied included fiber content, water-cement ratio, moisture content, alkali concentration, temperature, compressive loading, and flexural loading. The influence of method of curing the specimen on its electrical resistivity over 28 days was also studied. It was seen that a high fiber fraction and low moisture content makes the specimen act like a pure resistor with negligible capacitance or inductance associated with it. Air curing was preferred over moist curing because the increase in resistivity over time was lesser for air-cured specimens. It was also observed that electronic conduction was dominant over electrolytic conduction in a mix proportion with high fiber volume fraction and low water to cement ratio. The influence of temperature on the electrical resistivity of pastes with large amount of fiber was barely significant. The resistivity was found to steadily decrease under compressive loading and then increase during the formation of macro-cracks. It has long been established that carbon fiber reinforced cement paste specimens have the ability to monitor its own state under various conditions by exhibiting a variation in its resistivity values. However no work has been carried out to show how such a specimen would behave if embedded in a concrete member. For this reason, the resistivity versus load behavior of such specimens embedded in concrete cylinders and beams under compressive and flexural loading were also studied. In flexure, resistivity of an embedded specimen showed a slight increase few minutes prior to the formation of the first crack in the beam. There was a steep increase in resistivity on further widening of the crack leading to believe that in flexural members this sensor may perform well as a crack sensor than as a strain sensor. It was observed that the sensor would more accurately mirror the strain in the concrete member it is attached to in its resistivity readings, if it is a resilient material with high yield strength and low modulus of elasticity.
Retarded Functions in Noncommutative Theories
Creators: name: Reichenbach, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The perturbative approach to quantum field theory using retarded functions is extended to noncommutative theories. Unitarity as well as quantized equations of motion are studied and seen to cause problems in the case of space-time noncommutativity. A modified theory is suggested that is unitary and preserves the classical equations of motion on the quantum level.
description: 12 pages, minor corrections and additions, journal reference added
3-D Kinematics of the HH 110 jet
Creators: name: Lopez, Rosario
name: Estalella, Robert
name: Raga, Alejandro C.
name: Riera, Angels
name: Reipurth, Bo
name: Heathcote, Steve R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new results on the kinematics of the jet HH 110. New proper motion measurements have been calculated from [SII] CCD images obtained with a time baseline of nearly fifteen years. HH 110 proper motions show a strong asymmetry with respect to the outflow axis, with a general trend of pointing towards the west of the axis direction. Spatial velocities have been obtained by combining the proper motions and radial velocities from Fabry-Perot data. Velocities decrease by a factor ~3 over a distance of ~10$^{18}$ cm, much shorter than the distances expected for the braking caused by the jet/environment interaction. Our results show evidence of an anomalously strong interaction between the outflow and the surrounding environment, and are compatible with the scenario in which HH 110 emerges from a deflection in a jet/cloud collision.
description: (1)Universitat de Barcelona; (2)UNAM; (3)UPC; (4)University of Hawaii; (5)Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope. 9 pages; 7 Figures Accepted by A&A
Detection of steam in the circumstellar disk around a massive Young Stellar Object
Creators: name: Thi, W. -F.
name: Bik, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the observation of hot water vapor (steam) in the inner AU of a young massive star located in the star-forming region IRAS 08576-4334. The water lines are detected in a medium resolution (R=10,000) K-band spectrum taken by the infrared spectrometer ISAAC mounted on the VLT-ANTU. The water vapor is at a mean temperature of 1565+/-510 K, cooler than the hot CO found in the same object, which is at 1660K and the column density is N(H2O)=(2.5 +/- 0.4)x1E18 cm-2. The profile of both H2O and CO lines is best reproduced by the emission from a Keplerian disk. To interpret the data, we also investigate the formation of molecules and especially CO and water vapor in the inner hot and dense part of disks around young high mass stars using a pseudo time-dependent gas-phase chemical model. Molecules are rapidly photodissociated but this destruction is compensated by an efficient formation due to fast neutral-neutral reactions. The ability of CO molecules to self-shield significantly enhances its abundance. Water molecules are sufficiently abundant to be detectable. The observed H2O/CO ratio is reproduced by gas at 1600K and an enhanced UV field over gas density ratio I_UV/nH=1E(-4)- 1E(-6). The simulations support the presence of CO and H2O molecules in the inner disks around young massive stars despite the strong UV radiation and show that the OH radical plays an essential role in hot gas chemistry.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, Accepted to A&A
Dirac formulation for universal quantum gates and Shor's integer factorization in high-frequency electric circuits
Creators: name: Ezawa, Motohiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computation may well be performed with the use of electric circuits. Especially, the Schrödinger equation can be simulated by the lumped-element model of transmission lines, which is applicable to low-frequency electric circuits. In this paper, we show that the Dirac equation is simulated by the distributed-element model, which is applicable to high-frequency electric circuits. Then, a set of universal quantum gates (the Hadamard, phase-shift and CNOT gates) are constructed by networks made of transmission lines. We demonstrate Shor's prime factorization based on electric circuits. It will be possible to simulate any quantum algorithms simply by designing networks of metallic wires.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Qué es y cómo se elabora un currículum narrativo
Creators: name: Delgado-Vázquez, Ángel M.
Publisher: name: INCLIVA
Year: 2025

description: Presentación utilizada en el curso impartido a investigadores afiliados al Institito de Investigación Sanitaria INCLIVA, de Valencia.

El panorama de la evaluación académica ha evolucionado, y los modos y herramientas tradicionales, como el acopio de microméritos inconexos o el uso indiscriminado de los índices de citación y los rankings, ya no son suficientes para capturar la complejidad y el impacto real del trabajo académico. El currículum narrativo y la bibliometría narrativa ofrecen un enfoque cualitativo complementario, proporcionando una visión más rica del impacto de las contribuciones científicas. Este curso breve introduce estas herramientas, explicando su uso en el contexto de la evaluación de la actividad investigadora.  

   

OBJETIVOS  

  

Entender los conceptos básicos de currículum narrativo y bibliometría narrativa. 

Identificar las ventajas y limitaciones de estos enfoques frente a las métricas tradicionales. 

Aprender a elaborar un currículum narrativo efectivo y relevante. 

Explorar ejemplos y buenas prácticas en la aplicación de la bibliometría narrativa. 

Reflexionar sobre cómo estos enfoques pueden mejorar la evaluación científica y fomentar una investigación más diversa e inclusiva. 

 

 

 

 
description: PROGRAMA  

 

Introducción a la evaluación científica tradicional  

Métricas convencionales: índices de impacto, h-index, citaciones. 

Limitaciones de los enfoques cuantitativos. 

La nueva evaluación científica a la luz de DORA y CoARA 

Principios y objetivos 

Otros movimientos de interés 

Impacto en la evaluación de la investigación 

Currículum narrativo 

Definición y propósito. 

Elementos clave de un currículum narrativo. 

Ejemplos de uso en convocatorias y procesos de evaluación. 

Bibliometría narrativa 

¿Qué es la bibliometría narrativa? 

Diferencias con la bibliometría tradicional. 

Aplicaciones en la evaluación del impacto de la investigación. 

Ejemplos prácticos 

Redacción de un currículum narrativo personal. 

Análisis de un caso de bibliometría narrativa aplicada.
Plights and Countermeasures for the Development of Rural Labor Broker—Based on the Investigation of Rural Labor Brokers in Chongqing Munitipality
Creators: name: Hu, Tongze
name: Li, Na
name: Li, Jing
name: Hu, Tongze
name: Li, Na
name: Li, Jing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural labor broker
subject: developmental plights
subject: Countermeasures
subject: China

description: Based on the investigation into the rural labor brokers in Chongqing Municipality, the developmental momentum of rural labor brokers in Chongqing Municipality is introduced. The valid questionnaires show that the main factors which limit the development of rural labor brokers in Chongqing Municipality are the scant effective information, low quality, insufficient education and training, absent of specialized policies and regulations, low degree of organization, and low social recognition. The requirements for the healthy development of rural labor brokers are concluded, which include healthy policies and regulations, healthy social culture and the external support from the government. Besides, the rural labor brokers should have high competence, high professional ethnics, strong awareness of law and relatively high educational level. At last, the targeted countermeasures are put forward, which cover strengthening the construction of rural infrastructure; perfecting the information platform; enhancing training efforts and improving the competence of labor brokers; establishing and consolidating laws and regulations, and fostering well legal atmosphere; paying attention to the construction of organization and trying to famous the famous brands of rural labors; intensifying the promotion and creating favorable cultural environment. These countermeasures aim at enhancing the capability of attracting rural surplus labors, accelerating the structure of income distribution and coordinating the urban and rural development.
Consumption Status of Rural Residents in Shanxi Province
Creators: name: Liu, Min
name: Fang, Yafeng
name: Feng, Xu-Fang
name: Liu, Min
name: Fang, Yafeng
name: Feng, Xu-Fang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural residents
subject: Consumption
subject: Shanxi province
subject: China

description: After the analysis on the consumption changes of rural residents in Shanxi Province during the 30 years since the reform and opening up, it indicates that, their consumption scale has been expanding, the consumption level have been greatly promoted, the consumption structure has been gradually becoming reasonable and the consumption quality have been obviously improved. An analysis is also conducted on the influencing factors constraining the consumption demand of rural residents, mainly including the farmers’ lack of capacity to increase income and inadequate support for consumption; heavy burdens on farmers and instable income expectation; bad consumption environment and increasing constraints on consumption demand; less consumption goods suitable for farmers; unsound security system which affects the immediate consumption of farmers; backward consumption concept which restricts the improvement of consumption level. At last some corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are proposed, namely, maintaining the constant income growth of farmers so as to improve their purchasing power; establishing modern circulation network in rural areas so as to ensure a smooth channel for commodity market; enhancing the rural infrastructure construction so as to improve the consumption environment of rural residents; producing marketable commodities so as to meet rural market demand; perfecting social security system so as to improve the consumer tendency of farmers.
Compilation and R-matrix analysis of Big Bang nuclear reaction rates
Creators: name: Descouvemont, Pierre
name: Adahchour, Abderrahim
name: Angulo, Carmen
name: Coc, Alain
name: Vangioni-Flam, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the R-matrix theory to fit low-energy data on nuclear reactions involved in Big Bang nucleosynthesis. A special attention is paid to the rate uncertainties which are evaluated on statistical grounds. We provide S factors and reaction rates in tabular and graphical formats.
description: 40 pages, accepted for publication at ADNDT, web site at http://pntpm3.ulb.ac.be/bigbang
Spin transport in a tunable Heisenberg model realized with ultracold atoms
Creators: name: Jepsen, Niklas
name: Amato-Grill, Jesse
name: Dimitrova, Ivana
name: Ho, Wen Wei
name: Demler, Eugene
name: Ketterle, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simple models of interacting spins play an important role in physics. They capture the properties of many magnetic materials, but also extend to other systems, such as bosons and fermions in a lattice, systems with gauge fields, high-Tc superconductors, and systems with exotic particles such as anyons and Majorana fermions. In order to study and compare these models, a versatile platform is needed. Realizing such a system has been a long-standing goal in the field of ultracold atoms. So far, spin transport has only been studied in the isotropic Heisenberg model. Here we implement the Heisenberg XXZ model with adjustable anisotropy and use this system to study spin transport far from equilibrium after quantum quenches from imprinted spin helix patterns. In the non-interacting XX model, we find ballistic behavior of spin dynamics, while in the isotropic XXX model, we find diffusive behavior. For positive anisotropies, the dynamics ranges from anomalous super-diffusion to sub-diffusion depending on anisotropy, whereas for negative anisotropies, we observe a crossover in the time domain from ballistic to diffusive transport. This behavior contrasts with expectations for the linear response regime and raises new questions in understanding quantum many-body dynamics far away from equilibrium.
Plans for the LIGO-TAMA Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts
Creators: name: Sutton, Patrick J.
name: Ando, Masaki
name: Brady, Patrick
name: Cadonati, Laura
name: Di Credico, Alessandra
name: Fairhurst, Stephen
name: Finn, Lee Samuel
name: Kanda, Nobuyuki
name: Katsavounidis, Erik
name: Klimenko, Sergey
name: Lazzarini, Albert
name: Marka, Szabolcs
name: McNabb, John W. C.
name: Majumder, Saikat Ray
name: Saulson, Peter R.
name: Tagoshi, Hideyuki
name: Takahashi, Hirotaka
name: Takahashi, Ryutaro
name: Tatsumi, Daisuke
name: Tsunesada, Yoshiki
name: Whitcomb, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the plans for a joint search for unmodelled gravitational wave bursts being carried out by the LIGO and TAMA collaborations using data collected during February-April 2003. We take a conservative approach to detection, requiring candidate gravitational wave bursts to be seen in coincidence by all four interferometers. We focus on some of the complications of performing this coincidence analysis, in particular the effects of the different alignments and noise spectra of the interferometers.
description: Proceedings of the 8th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, USA. 10 pages, 3 figures, documentclass ``iopart''
Typical Survey and Research on Returning-home Migrant Workers’ Entrepreneurship in Jiangxi Province under Post-financial Crisis
Creators: name: Ouyang, Zhangsun
name: Zhang, Xinzhi
name: Wang, Runqun
name: Luo, Feng
name: Shen, Aiguo
name: Wu, Xingxin
name: Ouyang, Zhangsun
name: Zhang, Xinzhi
name: Wang, Runqun
name: Luo, Feng
name: Shen, Aiguo
name: Wu, Xingxin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Post-financial crisis
subject: Returning-home migrant workers’ entrepreneurship
subject: Typical survey
subject: Entrepreneurial motivation
subject: Jiangxi Province
subject: China

description: In order to study the entrepreneurship situation of Jiangxi return migrant workers after the financial crisis, we have conducted a survey on 107 entrepreneurial return migrant workers in 6 counties of Jiangxi Province. The results show that the return of migrant workers is mainly attributed to personal factors, while social factors are also very important. The major difficulties facing return migrant workers is the funding difficulties, complicated formalities to start a business, difficulty in safeguarding their rights and interests, their own low quality and so on. The support needed by the return migrant workers from the government is manifested in five aspects, say, to improve the service and management for the entrepreneurship of migrant workers, to provide financing policy support, to increase the preferential fiscal and taxation policies, to enhance the entrepreneurship training and to provide preference for the return migrant workers to use land.
Chiral cosmic strings in supergravity
Creators: name: Jeannerot, Rachel
name: Postma, Marieke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider F and D-term cosmic strings formed in supersymmetric theories. Supersymmetry is broken inside the string core, but restored outside. In global SUSY, this implies the existence of goldstino zero modes, and the string potentially carries fermionic currents. We show that these zero modes do not survive the coupling to gravity, due to the super Higgs mechanism. Therefore the superconductivity and chirality properties are different in global and local supersymmetry. For example, a string formed at the end of D-term inflation is chiral in supergravity but non-chiral in global SUSY.
description: 14 pages, no figures
Fate of a soliton matter upon symmetry-breaking ferroelectric order
Creators: name: Sunami, K.
name: Takehara, R.
name: Katougi, A.
name: Miyagawa, K.
name: Horiuchi, S.
name: Kato, R.
name: Miyamoto, T.
name: Okamoto, H.
name: Kanoda, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a one-dimensional (1D) system with degenerate ground states, their domain boundaries, dubbed solitons, emerge as topological excitations often carrying unconventional charges and spins; however, the soliton excitations are only vital in the non-ordered 1D regime. Then a question arises; how do the solitons conform to a 3D ordered state? Here, using a quasi-1D organic ferroelectric, TTF-CA, with degenerate polar dimers, we pursue the fate of a spin-soliton charge-soliton composite matter in a 1D polar-dimer liquid upon its transition to a 3D ferroelectric order by resistivity, NMR and NQR measurements. We demonstrate that the soliton matter undergoes neutral spin-spin soliton pairing and spin-charge soliton pairing to form polarons, coping with the 3D order. The former contributes to the magnetism through triplet excitations whereas the latter carries electrical current. Our results reveal the whole picture of a soliton matter that condenses into the 3D ordered state.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Supplemental Material is available from K. Sunami
The Dense Molecular Cores in the IRAS 21391+5802 region
Creators: name: Beltran, Maria T.
name: Girart, Josep M.
name: Estalella, Robert
name: Ho, Paul T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed kinematical study and modeling of the emission of the molecular cores at ambient velocities surrounding IRAS 21391+5802, an intermediate-mass protostar embedded in IC 1396N. The high-density gas emission is found in association with three dense cores associated with the YSOs BIMA 1, BIMA 2, and BIMA 3. The CS (5-4) and CH3OH (5-4) emission around BIMA 1 has been modeled by considering a spatially infinitely thin ring seen edge-on by the observer. From the model we find that CS is detected over a wider radii range than CH3OH. A bipolar outflow is detected in the CS (2-1) line centered near BIMA 1. This outflow could be powered by a yet undetected YSO, BIMA 1W, or alternatively could be part of the BIMA 1 molecular outflow. The CS and CH3OH emission associated with the intermediate-mass protostar BIMA 2 is highly perturbed by the bipolar outflow even at cloud velocities, confirming that the protostar is in a very active stage of mass loss. For YSO BIMA 3 the lack of outflow and of clear evidence of infall suggests that both outflow and infall are weaker than in BIMA 1, and that BIMA 3 is probably a more evolved object.
description: 19 pages, including 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A (July 2); available at http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~mbeltran/i21391-core.ps
Hydraulics of East Creek, British Columbia : a headwater stream with high relative roughness
Creators: name: Perkins, Tobiah John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Headwater streams provide important aquatic habitat, link hillslope sediments with lowland systems, and are an extensive and important component of the fluvial system. Headwater streams are characterised by steep gradients, poorly sorted sediments, large roughness elements and often exhibit diverse morphologies, described as step-pool, rapid or riffle-pool. Despite their importance, headwater streams have received relatively little attention compared to lowland systems and analysis has centred on approaches developed lowland rivers assuming hydrostatic pressure distributions and low channel gradients. In order to investigate the applicability of these methods in a small headwater streams, two hydrodynamic models were applied. The 1-dimensional model, HEC-RAS and 2-dimensional model, River 2D were use to characterise the hydraulics of East Creek, British Columbia. Two reaches, one with rifflepool morphology, the other with rapid morphology were studied. Both reaches exhibit high relative roughness. The hydrodynamic models were calibrated to observed water surface data by adjusting the roughness coefficient employed by the model and the results were compared to observed depths and velocities. Two bedload transport formulae were used in conjunction with the models to provide an indirect test of the hydraulic results. Both hydrodynamic models were able to replicate the observed conditions with a reasonable degree of accuracy, although extensive calibration was required, particularly in HEC-RAS and the roughness coefficient incorporated many resistance components (e.g grain roughness, form roughness). Similar results were found in certain areas with River 2D. When applied predicatively, neither model accurately captured the variation in flow resistance and thus calculated results deviated from the observed conditions. It was also found that River 2D was unable to model very low flows were form resistance from large bed material was high. Results of the sediment transport analysis were also poor, but further consideration of both hydrodynamic and bedload transport model resolution may provide more reliable results.
Analysis on Characteristics and Functions of the Peasant Workers’ Returning Home for Venturing in Shaanxi Province
Creators: name: Yan, Yu-Jie
name: Wang, Cong-Ying
name: Yan, Yu-Jie
name: Wang, Cong-Ying
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Shaanxi Province
subject: Returned migrant workers
subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: Feature
subject: Effect
subject: China

description: Features and effects of returned migrant workers’ entrepreneurship in Shaanxi Province are analyzed. Returned migrant workers’ entrepreneurship in Shaanxi Province depends on traditional agriculture to develop the quantitative business of planting and breeding, local resources to develop the processing of building material and agricultural products, small towns to develop service industry such as catering and tourism and the capital accumulated when working in the outside to achieve the transformation from an ordinary worker to an entrepreneur. Returned migrant workers’ entrepreneurship in Shaanxi Province promotes the employment and expends ways of transferring rural labor force and increasing incomes. Advantages recourses are attracted to the rural and underdeveloped areas, which is beneficial to narrowing the gap between the urban and rural areas. It can also promote the transformation of agricultural developmental methods and speed the pace of building modern agriculture. And a group of talents with higher qualities are provided for new rural construction through the modeling and leading role. Entrepreneurship and urbanization are combined together to advance the process of rural urbanization.
Euclidean Mahler measure and twisted links
Creators: name: Silver, Daniel S
name: Stoimenow, Alexander
name: Williams, Susan G
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 37B40

description: If the twist numbers of a collection of oriented alternating link diagrams are bounded, then the Alexander polynomials of the corresponding links have bounded euclidean Mahler measure (see Definition 1.2). The converse assertion does not hold. Similarly, if a collection of oriented link diagrams, not necessarily alternating, have bounded twist numbers, then both the Jones polynomials and a parametrization of the 2-variable Homflypt polynomials of the corresponding links have bounded Mahler measure.
description: This is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 7 April 2006
Empirical Study on the Relationship between Farmers’ Human Capital Investment and Rural Poverty
Creators: name: Li, Cuijin
name: Li, Cuijin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Human capital investment
subject: Rural poverty
subject: VAR model
subject: China

description: Literatures about the relationship between human capital investment and rural poverty are reviewed. According to the time-series data from 1990 to 2007, VAR model and variance research are used to study the relationship between household human capital investment and rural poverty. Results shows that there is long-run equilibrium relationship between household capital investment and rural poverty. Educational investment and health investment have significant impacts on the alleviation of rural poverty; while migration investment does not have significant impact on the alleviation of rural poverty. Among the factors causing poverty fluctuations, educational investment has greater impacts on poverty fluctuations than health investment in the short run, but health investment has greater impacts on poverty fluctuations than educational investment in the long run. Based on this, related countermeasures are put forward, such as further increasing the investment in education and health, implementing the compulsory education and social security system, considering the rural cooperative medical care, improving the retirement pension system in rural areas, and perfecting the training and technical extension system for population under the poverty line.
The microcanonical thermodynamics of finite systems: The microscopic origin of condensation and phase separations; and the conditions for heat flow from lower to higher temperatures
Creators: name: Gross, D. H. E.
name: Kenney, J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microcanonical thermodynamics allows the application of statistical mechanics both to finite and even small systems and also to the largest, self-gravitating ones. However, one must reconsider the fundamental principles of statistical mechanics especially its key quantity, entropy. Whereas in conventional thermostatistics, the homogeneity and extensivity of the system and the concavity of its entropy are central conditions, these fail for the systems considered here. For example, at phase separation, the entropy, S(E), is necessarily convex to make exp[S(E)-E/T] bimodal in E. Particularly, as inhomogeneities and surface effects cannot be scaled away, one must be careful with the standard arguments of splitting a system into two subsystems, or bringing two systems into thermal contact with energy or particle exchange. Not only the volume part of the entropy must be considered. As will be shown here, when removing constraints in regions of a negative heat capacity, the system may even relax under a flow of heat (energy) against a temperature slope. Thus the Clausius formulation of the second law: ``Heat always flows from hot to cold'', can be violated. Temperature is not a necessary or fundamental control parameter of thermostatistics. However, the second law is still satisfied and the total Boltzmann entropy increases. In the final sections of this paper, the general microscopic mechanism leading to condensation and to the convexity of the microcanonical entropy at phase separation is sketched. Also the microscopic conditions for the existence (or non-existence) of a critical end-point of the phase-separation are discussed. This is explained for the liquid-gas and the solid-liquid transition.
description: 23 pages, 2 figures, Accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics
Additional file 8 of Proteomic signatures of metronidazole-resistant Trichomonas vaginalis reveal novel proteins associated with drug resistance
Creators: name: Hsin-Chung Lin
name: Lichieh Julie Chu
name: Po-Jung Huang
name: Cheng, Wei-Hung
name: Yu-Hsing Zheng
name: Ching-Yun Huang
name: Hong, Shu-Wen
name: Lih-Chyang Chen
name: Hsin-An Lin
name: Jui-Yang Wang
name: Ruei-Min Chen
name: Lin, Wei-Ning
name: Tang, Petrus
name: Huang, Kuo-Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8: Table S7. Enriched downregulated GO functional annotations in the MTZ-R proteome in response to MTZ treatment.
Economic Growth and Agro-environmental Fragility——Based on the Provincial Panel Data Analysis
Creators: name: Xiong, Wen
name: Xiong, Wen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Economic growth
subject: Agro-environmental fragility
subject: Principal component analysis， China

description: The agro-environmental fragility of 31 provinces and regions (except Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) of our country during the years 1978-2004 is measured by adopting the method of principal component analysis. With the support of analytical model of panel data, regressive analysis is achieved from the aspects of introducing regional differences, not introducing regional differences, existing industrial differences and not existing industrial differences respectively. The conclusion points out that there are both industrial and regional differences in the economic growth effect on the environmental fragility; these differences are reflected on the industrial or regional development levels. The higher the development level it is, the less the effect it is when the economic growth effect on the environmental fragility is negative, the more when the effect is positive, and it will change from being negative to positive when on the critical point; and vice versa.
Additional file 7 of Proteomic signatures of metronidazole-resistant Trichomonas vaginalis reveal novel proteins associated with drug resistance
Creators: name: Hsin-Chung Lin
name: Lichieh Julie Chu
name: Po-Jung Huang
name: Cheng, Wei-Hung
name: Yu-Hsing Zheng
name: Ching-Yun Huang
name: Hong, Shu-Wen
name: Lih-Chyang Chen
name: Hsin-An Lin
name: Jui-Yang Wang
name: Ruei-Min Chen
name: Lin, Wei-Ning
name: Tang, Petrus
name: Huang, Kuo-Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Table S6. Enriched upregulated GO functional annotations in the MTZ-R proteome in response to MTZ treatment.
Power Law Inflation and the Cosmic No Hair Theorem in Brane World
Creators: name: Paul, B. C.
name: Beesham, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cosmic no hair theorem is studied in anisotropic Bianchi brane models which admit power law inflation with a scalar field. We note that all Bianchi models except Bianchi type IX transit to an inflationary regime and the anisotropy washes out at a later epoch. It is found that in the brane world, the anisotropic universe approaches the isotropic phase via inflation much faster than that in the general theory of relativity. The modification in the Einstein field equations on the brane is helpful for a quick transition to an isotropic era from the anisotropic brane. We note a case where the curvature term in the field equation initially drives power law inflation on the isotropic brane which is however not permitted without the brane framework.
description: 11 pages, no fig. submitted to PRD
Non-professional Agricultural Production Villages Establishing a New Rural Cooperative
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuexiang
name: Ding, Jing
name: Zhang, Yuexiang
name: Ding, Jing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Fenghua City
subject: Non-professional agricultural production villages
subject: New rural cooperative
subject: China

description: The article analyses problems in the agricultural development of non-professional agricultural production villages of Fenghua City. Firstly, low technical and scientific content of production and low standardization level. Secondly, scattered sales and non-fixed marketing channels. Thirdly, difficulties in group cooperation of farm crops with special benefits. Fourthly, imperfect service of rural committees of non-professional agricultural production villages in Fenghua City. A new rural cooperative is to be founded to help villagers in non-professional agricultural production villages of Fenghua City to be engaged in agricultural production and management activities, and to improve their overall incomes. On the one hand, a perfect and scientific cooperative operating system is to be built specifically including three functions. Firstly, fully playing the leading and bridging role of rural primary organizations. Seconding, fully carrying out the pushing role of capable persons in the administrative village. Lastly, fully playing the role of active participation and cooperation of villagers. On the other hand, constructions of normalization, standardization and brand orientation with special emphasis should be achieved under the guidance of local governments. The key of building a cooperative of non-professional agricultural production villages in Fenghua City is discussed. One is that rural cadres should have strong awareness of serving the people. The other is that governments at all levels should energetically support the establishment and management of rural cooperatives.
Geometric Transitions
Creators: name: Rossi, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14D06, 14E15 (Primary); 53Z05 (Secondary)

description: The purpose of this paper is to give, on one hand, a mathematical exposition of the main topological and geometrical properties of geometric transitions, on the other hand, a quick outline of their principal applications, both in mathematics and in physics.
description: 44 pages