cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
UK Corporate Acquisitions in Latin America in the 1990s: Lost Opportunities in a New Economic Environment?
Creators: name: Amann, Edmund
name: De Paula, Germano Mendes
name: Ferraz, Joao Carlos
name: Amann, Edmund
name: De Paula, Germano Mendes
name: Ferraz, Joao Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Over the 1990s foreign direct investment (FDI) flowed into Latin America at an unprecedented rate. During this period, capital inflows associated with privatisations and private mergers and acquisitions (M&As) rose especially steeply. Drawing on original firm- level transactions data, this article examines the extent to which UK enterprises participated in the Latin American privatisation and private M&A boom. The authors conclude that, relative to their counterparts in many other major industrial countries, UK enterprises adopted a cautious posture, largely eschewing privatisation opportunities and concentrating M&A activities across relatively few operations, sectors and countries, in order to strength product and market positions. Moreover, the strategic logic guiding the most important corporate acqusitions centered on gaining access to domestic markets rather than attempting to create global export platforms.
A Remark on Boundary Effects in Static Vacuum Initial Data sets
Creators: name: Miao, Pengzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Let (M, g) be an asymptotically flat static vacuum initial data set with non-empty compact boundary. We prove that (M, g) is isometric to a spacelike slice of a Schwarzschild spacetime under the mere assumption that the boundary of (M, g) has zero mean curvature, hence generalizing a classic result of Bunting and Masood-ul-Alam. In the case that the boundary has constant positive mean curvature and satisfies a stability condition, we derive an upper bound of the ADM mass of (M, g) in terms of the area and mean curvature of the boundary. Our discussion is motivated by Bartnik's quasi-local mass definition.
description: 10 pages, to be published in Classical and Quantum Gravity
A method to find quantum noiseless subsystems
Creators: name: Choi, Man-Duen
name: Kribs, David W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a structure theory for decoherence-free subspaces and noiseless subsystems that applies to arbitrary (not necessarily unital) quantum operations. The theory can be alternatively phrased in terms of the superoperator perspective, or the algebraic noise commutant formalism. As an application, we propose a method for finding all such subspaces and subsystems for arbitrary quantum operations. We suggest that this work brings the fundamental passive technique for error correction in quantum computing an important step closer to practical realization.
description: 5 pages, to appear in Physical Review Letters
旋律概形を用いた作曲支援システムの研究
Creators: name: 土屋 裕一
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: 旋律概形、作曲支援システム

description: 本論文では, 音楽の非専門家が旋律を編集するための, 音符によらない旋律表現 を提案する. 現在では,様々な自動作曲システムが開発されているものの,作成さ れた楽曲に納得いかない場合に専門的知識を持たないユーザがその楽曲を自由に 編集できるシステムはほとんどない. 一般的に MIDI データの編集は MIDI シーケ ンサなどに搭載されているピアノロールで行われるが,音楽経験が少ないユーザ が利用することは困難である. 我々は, まず旋律を旋律概形と呼ばれる曲線に変換し, その旋律概形上での旋律 編集を行う手法を提案する. 旋律概形は, 旋律の音高の時系列に対してフーリエ変 換を行い, 低次のフーリエ係数を抽出することで得ることができる. 抽出された旋 律概形は,マウスのドラッグ操作で簡単に書き換えることができる. その編集され た旋律概形を用いて,音符列に逆変換を行う. 再生成の際は,隠れマルコフモデル を用いて音階にできるだけ合った旋律のみを出力する. これにより,旋律概形を用 いた旋律編集手法は,音楽的経験が少ないユーザにとって,旋律編集の試行錯誤 が容易にできる. 本論文では,2章で関連研究について述べる. 3章では,具体的な提案手法につ いて述べる. ここでは,旋律から旋律概形への変換・再変換方法を中心に記する. 4,5,6章では,提案手法を実装したシステムの試用実験について述べる. 4 章は,旋律概形を用いた旋律編集システムと,DTM ソフトウェアに用いられてい るピアノロールを用いたシステムの比較実験について述べる. 5章は,旋律概形 を用いた旋律編集システムの長期試用実験についての結果と考察を中心に記する.6章は,前章で行った実験の考察から,旋律概形とピアノロールを統合して使用 すると良い効果が得られると考え,そのシステムの概要と試用実験について述べ る. 7章は,音符を単位としない旋律編集についてまとめ,システムの改良点や今 後の課題についてまとめる.
Composition and Size Dependent Sorting in Preplanetary Growth: Seeding the Formation of Mercury-like Planets
Creators: name: Kruss, Maximilian
name: Wurm, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an earlier work, we found that large metallic iron fractions in dust aggregates and strong magnetic fields boost preplanetary growth. This sets an initial bias for the formation of Mercury-like planets in the inner part of protoplanetary disks. We extended these experiments here by adding pure quartz aggregates to the iron-rich aggregates. Magnetic boost still leads to the formation of larger clusters of aggregates. These clusters now include silicate aggregates, which can also be connecting bridges between chains. However, at least a certain fraction of iron-rich aggregates are needed to trigger magnetic boost. Without a magnetic field, the sticking properties of the aggregates and their constituents determine the composition of clusters of a given size. This introduces a new fractionation and sorting mechanism by cluster formation at the bouncing barrier.
Brazilian Regulatory Agencies: Early Appraisal and Looming Challenges
Creators: name: Goldstein, Andrea
name: Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares
name: Goldstein, Andrea
name: Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Brazil is going through an institutional transition in the provision of public services, which had historically been supplied by State monopolies. A core element in this process is been the creation of a new form of public sector institutions - regulatory agencies with operational and financial autonomy. In this paper we identify their most important decisions and provide detailed analysis of the economic and political context in which they have been taken. We then compare Brazil with some of its peers and argue that its regulatory performance has been rather satisfactory so far, although four main problems must be solved: a. clear governance inadequacies in the coordination between different bodies; b. unclear definition of their respective competencies; c. lack of regulatory sovereignty; and d. inadequacies in design of the new antitrust agency.
Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations with Spectral Neutrino Transport II. Models for Different Progenitor Stars
Creators: name: Buras, R.
name: Janka, H. -Th.
name: Rampp, M.
name: Kifonidis, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 1D and 2D supernova simulations for stars between 11 and 25 solar masses are presented, making use of the Prometheus/Vertex neutrino-hydrodynamics code, which employs a full spectral treatment of the neutrino transport. Multi-dimensional transport aspects are treated by the ``ray-by-ray plus'' approximation described in Paper I. Our set of models includes a 2D calculation for a 15 solar mass star whose iron core is assumed to rotate rigidly with an angular frequency of 0.5 rad/s before collapse. No important differences were found depending on whether random seed perturbations for triggering convection are included already during core collapse, or whether they are imposed on a 1D collapse model shortly after bounce. Convection below the neutrinosphere sets in about 40 ms p.b. at a density above 10**12 g/cm^3 in all 2D models, and encompasses a layer of growing mass as time goes on. It leads to a more extended proto-neutron star structure with accelerated lepton number and energy loss and significantly higher muon and tau neutrino luminosities, but reduced mean energies of the radiated neutrinos, at times later than ~100 ms p.b. In case of an 11.2 solar mass star we find that low (l = 1,2) convective modes cause a probably rather weak explosion by the convectively supported neutrino-heating mechanism after ~150 ms p.b. when the 2D simulation is performed with a full 180 degree grid, whereas the same simulation with 90 degree wedge fails to explode like all other models. This sensitivity demonstrates the proximity of our 2D models to the borderline between success and failure, and stresses the need of simulations in 3D, ultimately without the axis singularity of a polar grid. (abridged)
description: 42 pages, 44 figures; revised according to referee comments; accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
Deliverable 4.2 Management Tool
Creators: name: Ferrer, Jordi
name: Fabrega, David
name: Mir, Jordi
name: Sánchez, Sergio
name: Garcia, Susanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Control and Monitoring System (CMS)
architecture

description: The monitoring and visualization is a very important component of any system since what is not measured and monitored cannot be managed and improved1. This report (D4.2) describes the implemented monitoring and control architecture for the CHESS SETUP and it can be treated as the CMS (Control and Monitoring System) User’s Manual of the HMI (Human Machine Interface) for the system operators and administrators.
Additional file 1 of “I want to really crack this nut”: an analysis of parent-perceived policy needs surrounding food allergy
Creators: name: Abrams, Elissa M.
name: Simons, Elinor
name: Gerdts, Jennifer
name: Nazarko, Orla
name: Povolo, Beatrice
name: Protudjer, Jennifer L. P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Content questions from the interview guide
Regulatory Governance and the Improvement of Public Services
Creators: name: Minogue, Martin
name: Minogue, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Public Economics

description: This paper examines the relationships between public services improvement, and public management reforms, including regulatory governance, in the context of the dominant reform models promoted globally. Emphasis is placed upon the contested nature of the central concepts dominant in such analysis, inconsistencies in the assumptions that inform them, and the critique of them offered by research findings on empirical practice. It is argued that current reform initiatives in these areas in developing countries are closely interlinked, but are likely to be ineffective because they embody models that do not engage accurately with the real economic and political conditions of these countries. The implications for attempts to create new mechanisms of public services delivery are considered. The approach advocated is a cautious treatment of so-called "best practice" models, allowing for adaptive responses that are rooted in local conditions and assume variations in political and bureaucratic cultures, in the belief that this more versatile approach is less of a hostage to crude and contextless global blueprints. Ultimately, the provision of desired and effective public goods and services to all citizens will be determined by a resolution of the most appropriate relationships between state, market and civil society, rather than by technical and managerial fixes. The choices involved are political choices.
The Beginnings of Syriac Apologetic Literature in Response to Islam
Creators: name: Reinink, Gerrit J.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 77 (1993): Oriens christianus, Band 77
3-CO Interview Series with Nelo Emerencia (Emerencia Consulting) on the crucial impact of social innovation on the uptake of innovative products and processes
Creators: name: Schwarzenberger, Anke
name: Banduka, Dušica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Certification
Social Innovation
BioEconomy
BioBased
BioBased Products
Consumer Preferences
Innovation

description: The 3-CO interview series features consortium and external-advisory-board members of the 3-CO project.

This episode features Nelo Emerecia, Director Human Capital & Stakeholder Relations for the Bio-based Industries Consortium and Owner.In today’s rapidly evolving world, innovation is often synonymous with technological advancements and cutting-edge products. However, there is a crucial aspect of innovation that focuses on societal impact and human well-being and that can significantly foster the uptake of innovative products and processes: social innovation. Defined as the development and implementation of new solutions to address pressing social needs and challenges, social innovation can transform the way societies tackle issues ranging from healthcare and education to environmental sustainability and social equity.

Consumers play an essential role in the successful transition to a circular bio-based economy. To make informed and conscious buying decisions, consumers rely on labels and certification schemes (LCS).

The 3-CO project will support consumers’ purchasing decisions towards more sustainable solutions by improving the communication of LCS on a Business-to-Consumers (B2C) level. To unlock the full potential of the bioeconomy and industrial bio-based products (BBPs) 3-CO will establish a supportive framework and develop actionable guidelines for LCS owners that reflect consumers’ and other stakeholders’ needs.

Meanwhile intense consumer involvement and digital tools will demonstrate their viability.
Additional file 1 of Longitudinal impact of changes in the residential built environment on physical activity: findings from the ENABLE London cohort study
Creators: name: Clary, Christelle
name: Lewis, Daniel
name: Limb, Elizabeth
name: Nightingale, Claire M.
name: Ram, Bina
name: Page, Angie S.
name: Cooper, Ashley R.
name: Ellaway, Anne
name: Giles-Corti, Billie
name: Whincup, Peter H.
name: Rudnicka, Alicja R.
name: Cook, Derek G.
name: Owen, Christopher G.
name: Cummins, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Trade Barriers in a Global Perspective
Creators: name: Raihan, Selim
name: Raihan, Selim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This article develops an index of trade barrier for 119 countries by using the tariff and the import data from TRAINS database of UNCTAD at 6-digit level of HS classifications. Bivariate as well as multivariate econometric models have been estimated to explain cross-country variations in the constructed trade barrier indices. The results show that cross-country variations in trade barrier indices are much influenced by variations in per capita income, population and literacy rate. This article considers Bangladesh as an example and finds that at disaggregated levels of commodity classification, there are significant differences among trade barrier indices across commodities and cross-country rankings of trade barrier indices are not necessarily consistent with the rankings of trade barrier indices in the cross-industry context.
Development of the Soft X-ray AGM-AGS RIXS Beamline at Taiwan Photon Source
Creators: name: Singh, A.
name: Huang, H. Y.
name: Chu, Y. Y.
name: Hua, C. Y.
name: Lin, S. W.
name: Fung, H. S.
name: Shiu, H. W.
name: Chang, J.
name: Li, J. H.
name: Okamoto, J.
name: Chiu, C. C.
name: Chang, C. H.
name: Wu, W. B.
name: Perng, S. Y.
name: Chung, S. C.
name: Kao, K. Y.
name: Yeh, S. C.
name: Chao, H. Y.
name: Chen, J. H.
name: Huang, D. J.
name: Chen, C. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the development of a high-resolution and highly efficient beamline for soft-X-ray resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) located at Taiwan Photon Source. This beamline adopts an optical design that uses an active grating monochromator (AGM) and an active grating spectrometer (AGS) to implement the energy compensation principle of grating dispersion. Active gratings are utilized to diminish defocus, coma and higher-order aberrations as well as to decrease the slope errors caused by thermal deformation and optical polishing. The AGS is mounted on a rotatable granite platform to enable momentum-resolved RIXS measurements with scattering angle over a wide range. Several high-precision instruments developed in house for this beamline are briefly described. The best energy resolution obtained from this AGM-AGS beamline was 12.4 meV at 530 eV, achieving a resolving power 42,000, while the bandwidth of the incident soft X-rays was kept at 0.5 eV. To demonstrate the scientific impacts of high-resolution RIXS, we present an example of momentum-resolved RIXS measurements on a high-temperature superconducting cuprate, La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$. The measurements reveal the A$_{1g}$ apical oxygen phonons in superconducting cuprates, opening a new opportunity to investigate the coupling between these phonons and charge density waves.
description: 9 pages, p figures, submitted to J. of Synchrotron Radiation. Revise expression
Determination of Cepheid parameters by light-curve template-fitting
Creators: name: Tanvir, N. R.
name: Hendry, M. A.
name: Watkins, A.
name: Kanbur, S. M.
name: Berdnikov, L. N.
name: Ngeow, C. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe techniques to characterise the light-curves of regular variable stars by applying principal component analysis (PCA) to a training set of high quality data, and to fit the resulting light-curve templates to sparse and noisy photometry to obtain parameters such as periods, mean magnitudes etc. The PCA approach allows us to efficiently represent the multi-band light-curve shapes of each variable, and hence quantitatively describe the average behaviour of the sample as a smoothly varying function of period, and also the range of variation around this average. In this paper we focus particularly on the utility of such methods for analysing HST Cepheid photometry, and present simulations which illustrate the advantages of our PCA template-fitting approach. These are: accurate parameter determination, including light-curve shape information; simultaneous fitting to multiple passbands; quantitative error analysis; objective rejection of variables with non Cepheid-like light-curves or those with potential period aliases. We also use PCA to confirm that Cepheid light-curve shapes are systematically different (at the same period) between the Milky Way (MW) and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC, SMC), and consider whether light-curve shape might therefore be used to estimate the mean metallicities of Cepheid samples, thus allowing metallicity corrections to be applied to derived distance estimates.
description: MNRAS in press: revised in light of referees comments
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS - SUGARCANE, LOUISIANA, 2001.
Creators: name: Breaux, Janis B.
name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Breaux, Janis B.
name: Salassi, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This report presents estimates of costs and returns associated with sugarcane production practices in Louisiana for 2001. It is part of a continuing effort to provide farmers, researchers, extension personnel, lending agencies and others working in agriculture and/or agribusiness timely planning information. Sugarcane production is unique in that it is a perennial crop grown in a rotation; processing, storage and marketing services are provided by a single entity and payments for said services are "in kind." Further, the large majority of growers are tenants, paying approximately 20 percent of the "after milling crop proceeds" (12.2% of gross production) for land. Returns shown in Table 1A-3C and in the whole farm analysis in Appendix A reflect returns to management and risk. No charges for family living expenses or management are included as a cost in this analysis.
[Letter from Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup]
Creators: name: Steenstrup, Knud Johannes Vogelius
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1907

description: Expresses gratitude for the photographs taken of the seaweed. They show that there has not been any change from 1905 to 1906 in the height of the seaweed limit. Such photos can be used to measure the sea level.
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS - RICE, LOUISIANA, 1997; PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS - SOYBEANS, CORN, MILO, WHEAT, AND WHEAT-SOYBEAN DOUBLE CROP, SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA, 1997
Creators: name: Giesler, G. Grant
name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Giesler, G. Grant
name: Salassi, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Farmers are annually faced with critical management decisions that impact the employment of production inputs for various crop enterprises and the combination of crops that will be assembled into a cropping system. The need for reliable information is crucial if sound production decisions are t o be made. Planning information plays a pivotal role in the development of 1997 production plans by farmers and is important in supporting their efforts to secure the necessary resources to carry out their plans. In addition, information regarding production alternatives and costs and returns for major crop enterprises is needed by extension personnel, researchers, lending institutions, and others involved in agriculture or agribusiness. This information has become all the more critical with the enactment of Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act in 1996. The purpose of this report is to provide for tenant and owner operator situations the 1997 projected cost and return estimates for the following enterprises: rice in Southwest, Central, and Northeast Louisiana and soybean, corn, milo, wheat, and wheat-soybean double crop in Southwest Louisiana.
Dialogue Concerning Two Views on Quantum Coherence: Factist and Fictionist
Creators: name: Bartlett, Stephen D.
name: Rudolph, Terry
name: Spekkens, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A controversy that has arisen many times over in disparate contexts is whether quantum coherences between eigenstates of certain quantities are fact or fiction. We present a pedagogical introduction to the debate in the form of a hypothetical dialogue between proponents from each of the two camps: a factist and a fictionist. A resolution of the debate can be achieved, we argue, by recognizing that quantum states do not only contain information about the intrinsic properties of a system but about its extrinsic properties as well, that is, about its relation to other systems external to it. Specifically, the coherent quantum state of the factist is the appropriate description of the relation of the system to one reference frame, while the incoherent quantum state of the fictionist is the appropriate description of the relation of the system to another, uncorrelated, reference frame. The two views, we conclude, are alternative but equally valid paradigms of description.
description: 14 pages, Contribution to the Int. J. of Quant. Info. issue dedicated to the memory of Asher Peres; v2 updated summary and critique of prior literature
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS FOR CRAWFISH AND CATFISH PRODUCTION IN LOUISIANA, 2001.
Creators: name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Aquaculture production enterprises, like other farm enterprises, require advanced planning to make production and marketing management decisions that are likely to result in profits. The purpose of this report is to provide production cost estimates for selected aquaculture enterprises to assist aquaculture producers in making production decisions and obtaining adequate financing. Aquaculture enterprises and their associated costs differ considerably among producers and resource situations. The projected costs presented here should not be interpreted as averages for producers in the industry. The purpose of the cost projections is to provide guidelines whereby producers and others with an interest in aquaculture production costs can make cost estimates appropriate to their unique situation that will facilitate sound management decisions. Data used in development of the budgets is a combination of information obtained directly from producers, Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service Specialists and Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station Scientists. Current machinery and other input price data were combined with production practice data using the Microcomputer Enterprise Budget Generator developed at Mississippi State University. Fixed costs were estimated based on typical rates of use and sizes of operations. Production budget estimates are presented on a 'per acre' basis to facilitate using the estimates for different size operations. Overhead costs associated with operation of the farm business have been allocated as a residual claimant on a per acre basis in the enterprise budgets, but have not been included in the computation of breakeven selling prices.
Additional file 3 of Perspectives and practices of health workers around diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in hospitals in a resource-poor setting – modern diagnostics meet age-old challenges
Creators: name: Oliwa, Jacquie Narotso
name: Odero, Sabina Adhiambo
name: Nzinga, Jacinta
name: Hensbroek, Michaël Boele Van
name: Jones, Caroline
name: English, Mike
name: Hoog, Anja Van’t
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Influencers of case detection and use of diagnostic tests.
Rheology of Hard Glassy Materials
Creators: name: Zaccone, Alessio
name: Terentjev, Eugene M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glassy solids may undergo a fluidization (yielding) transition upon deformation whereby the material starts to flow plastically. It has been a matter of debate whether this process is controlled by a specific time scale, from among different competing relaxation/kinetic processes. Here, two constitutive models of cage relaxation are examined within the microscopic model of nonaffine elasto-plasticity. One (widely used) constitutive model implies that the overall relaxation rate is dominated by the fastest between the structural ($α$) relaxation rate and the shear-induced relaxation rate. A different model is formulated here which, instead, assumes that the slowest (global) relaxation process controls the overall relaxation. We show that the first model is not compatible with the existence of finite elastic shear modulus for quasistatic (low-frequency) deformation, while the second model is able to describe all key features of deformation of `hard' glassy solids, including the yielding transition, the nonaffine-to-affine plateau crossover, and the rate-stiffening of the modulus. The proposed framework provides an operational way to distinguish between `soft' glasses and `hard' glasses based on the shear-rate dependence of the structural relaxation time.
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS - COTTON, SOYBEANS, CORN, MILO AND WHEAT, NORTHEAST LOUISIANA, 2001
Creators: name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: A detailed survey of farmers in the Macon Ridge area was conducted during the summer of 1990. A similar survey of farmers in the remainder of northeast Louisiana was conducted in 1991. In 1995 a state-wide survey of production practices for cotton was conducted. Data from all these sources as well as the annual survey of input suppliers was used to develop budgets in this publication.
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS - COTTON, SOYBEANS, CORN, MILO AND WHEAT, RED RIVER AND CENTRAL AREAS, LOUISIANA, 2001
Creators: name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
name: Paxton, Kenneth W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The enterprise budgets for owner-operators and tenant-operators are presented in two formats. One format is a summary of costs and returns for the enterprise. This format presents costs by broad categories such as herbicides, insecticides, etc. The other format presents a detailed listing of the operations, the equipment size and the associated power unit along with the date performed and the associated costs for tractor, machinery and materials. Together these formats provide the detailed information necessary to adjust budgets to individual situations. In addition, the appendix to this report contains detailed cost estimates for an extensive list of equipment, irrigation systems, and operating inputs. These may also be used to modify budgets contained in this report or construct new enterprise budgets.
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS FOR CRAWFISH AND CATFISH PRODUCTION IN LOUISIANA, 1997
Creators: name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Gillespie, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Aquaculture production enterprises, like other farm enterprises, require advanced planning to make production and marketing management decisions that are likely to result in profits. The purpose of this report is to provide production cost estimates for selected aquaculture enterprises to assist aquaculture producers in making production decisions and obtain adequate financing. Aquaculture enterprises and their associated costs differ considerably among producers and resource situations. The projected costs presented here should not be interpreted as averages for producers in the industry. The purpose of the cost projections is to provide some guidelines whereby producers and others with an interest in aquaculture production costs can make cost estimates appropriate to their unique situation that will facilitate sound management decisions.
How to quantize the antibracket
Creators: name: Leites, Dimitry
name: Shchepochkina, Irina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17A70 (Primary) 17B35 (Secondary)

description: The uniqueness of (the class of) deformation of Poisson Lie algebra has long been a completely accepted folklore. Actually, it is wrong as stated, because its validity depends on the class of functions that generate Poisson Lie algebra, Po(2n): it is true for polynomials but false for Laurent polynomials. We show that unlike the Lie superalgebra Po(2n|m), its quotient modulo center, the Lie superalgebra H(2n|m) of Hamiltonian vector fields with polynomial coefficients, has exceptional extra deformations for (2n|m)=(2|2) and only for this superdimension. We relate this result to the complete description of deformations of the antibracket (also called the Schouten or Buttin bracket). The representation of the deform (the result of quantization) of the Poisson algebra in the Fock space coincides with the simplest space on which the Lie algebra of commutation relations acts. This coincidence is not necessary for Lie superalgebras
description: 27 pages, Latex; a hopefully clearer version of a published paper
Fractionalized Spin Excitations in the Edge Ferromagnetic State of Graphene: Signature of the Ferromagnetic Luttinger Liquid
Creators: name: Dong, Zhao-Yang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Gu, Zhao-Long
name: Yu, Shun-Li
name: Li, Jian-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The elementary excitations from the conventional magnetic ordered states, such as ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, are magnons. Here, we elaborate a case where the well-defined magnons are absent completely and the spin excitation spectra exhibit an entire continuum in the itinerant edge ferromagnetic state of graphene arising from the flatband edge electronic states. Based on the further studies of the entanglement entropy and finite-size analysis, we show that the continuum other than the Stoner part results from the spin-1/2 spinons deconfined from magnons. The spinon continuum in a magnetically ordered state is ascribed to a ferromagnetic Luttinger liquid in this edge ferromagnet. The investigation is carried out by using the numerical exact diagonalization method with a projection of the interacting Hamiltonian onto the flat band.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 4 of Perspectives and practices of health workers around diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in hospitals in a resource-poor setting – modern diagnostics meet age-old challenges
Creators: name: Oliwa, Jacquie Narotso
name: Odero, Sabina Adhiambo
name: Nzinga, Jacinta
name: Hensbroek, Michaël Boele Van
name: Jones, Caroline
name: English, Mike
name: Hoog, Anja Van’t
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Summary of interviewees.
New York Times Upshot/Siena College: October 2018 North Carolina 09 Poll
Creators: name: New York Times
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Likelihood of voting in 2018 election (2); opinion of various public figures (2); North Carolina Congressional District 09 (1); Democratic Candidate Dan McCready (1); Republican Candidate Mark Harris (1); vote for Democrat/Republican for Congress (1); respondent would like Democrats/Republicans to control House of Representatives (1); President Donald Trump job performance (1); support/oppose positions on various issues (2); agree/disagree with various statements (2); prefer representative in Congress supports/serves as check on Trump (1); political partisanship (1).
EXPORT BEHAVIOR OF LOUISIANA AGRIBUSINESS FIRMS
Creators: name: Hughes, Karol W.
name: Kennedy, P. Lynn
name: Ortego, Albert
name: Hughes, Karol W.
name: Kennedy, P. Lynn
name: Ortego, Albert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Agribusiness

description: The United States is a party to several trading blocks, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, and is a signatory to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The impact of the new trading environment on the agribusiness sector depends on the business activities of individual firms. A survey of agribusiness firms was undertaken to gather information on their exporting experience and plans. The responses of exporters and non-exporters are presented. The likelihood of exporting increased with the size of a firm, both in terms of employee numbers an annual sales. The survey showed that for the majority of firms, exports accounted for less than 10% of total sales and that only a small number of companies had used government programs intended to aid exporters. These results indicate that agribusiness firms could benefit from programs that educate them on sources of export assistance.
On Fair Selection in the Presence of Implicit Variance
Creators: name: Emelianov, Vitalii
name: Gast, Nicolas
name: Gummadi, Krishna P.
name: Loiseau, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quota-based fairness mechanisms like the so-called Rooney rule or four-fifths rule are used in selection problems such as hiring or college admission to reduce inequalities based on sensitive demographic attributes. These mechanisms are often viewed as introducing a trade-off between selection fairness and utility. In recent work, however, Kleinberg and Raghavan showed that, in the presence of implicit bias in estimating candidates' quality, the Rooney rule can increase the utility of the selection process. We argue that even in the absence of implicit bias, the estimates of candidates' quality from different groups may differ in another fundamental way, namely, in their variance. We term this phenomenon implicit variance and we ask: can fairness mechanisms be beneficial to the utility of a selection process in the presence of implicit variance (even in the absence of implicit bias)? To answer this question, we propose a simple model in which candidates have a true latent quality that is drawn from a group-independent normal distribution. To make the selection, a decision maker receives an unbiased estimate of the quality of each candidate, with normal noise, but whose variance depends on the candidate's group. We then compare the utility obtained by imposing a fairness mechanism that we term $γ$-rule (it includes demographic parity and the four-fifths rule as special cases), to that of a group-oblivious selection algorithm that picks the candidates with the highest estimated quality independently of their group. Our main result shows that the demographic parity mechanism always increases the selection utility, while any $γ$-rule weakly increases it. We extend our model to a two-stage selection process where the true quality is observed at the second stage. We discuss multiple extensions of our results, in particular to different distributions of the true latent quality.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures, Economics and Computation (EC'20)
PTF11rka: an interacting supernova at the crossroads of stripped-envelope and H-poor super-luminous stellar core collapses
Creators: name: Pian, Elena
name: Mazzali, Paolo A.
name: Moriya, Takashi J.
name: Rubin, Adam
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Ben-Ami, Sagi
name: Blagorodnova, Nadia
name: Bufano, Milena
name: Filippenko, Alex V.
name: Kasliwal, Mansi
name: Kulkarni, Shri R.
name: Lunnan, Ragnhild
name: Manulis, Ilan
name: Matheson, Tom
name: Nugent, Peter E.
name: Ofek, Eran
name: Perley, Dan A.
name: Prentice, Simon J.
name: Yaron, Ofer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hydrogen-poor supernova PTF11rka (z = 0.0744), reported by the Palomar Transient Factory, was observed with various telescopes starting a few days after the estimated explosion time of 2011 Dec. 5 UT and up to 432 rest-frame days thereafter. The rising part of the light curve was monitored only in the R_PTF filter band, and maximum in this band was reached ~30 rest-frame days after the estimated explosion time. The light curve and spectra of PTF11rka are consistent with the core-collapse explosion of a ~10 Msun carbon-oxygen core evolved from a progenitor of main-sequence mass 25--40 Msun, that liberated a kinetic energy (KE) ~ 4 x 10^{51} erg, expelled ~8 Msun of ejecta (Mej), and synthesised ~0.5 Msun of 56Nichel. The photospheric spectra of PTF11rka are characterised by narrow absorption lines that point to suppression of the highest ejecta velocities ~>15,000 km/s. This would be expected if the ejecta impacted a dense, clumpy circumstellar medium. This in turn caused them to lose a fraction of their energy (~5 x 10^50 erg), less than 2% of which was converted into radiation that sustained the light curve before maximum brightness. This is reminiscent of the superluminous SN 2007bi, the light-curve shape and spectra of which are very similar to those of PTF11rka, although the latter is a factor of 10 less luminous and evolves faster in time. PTF11rka is in fact more similar to gamma-ray burst supernovae (GRB-SNe) in luminosity, although it has a lower energy and a lower KE/Mej ratio.
description: 18 page, 9 figures, MNRAS, in press
Brief Aithallahas, des Bischofs von Edessa (Urhai), an die Christen des Perserlandes über den Glauben
Creators: name: Bruns, Peter
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 77 (1993): Oriens christianus, Band 77
[Letter from Nils Svedelius]
Creators: name: Svedelius, Nils
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1907
Subjects: Kjellman, Frans Reinhold

description: Writes that Professor Kjellman has died and his funeral has taken place. Kjellman's algae collection will go to the University, and Foslie will have to wait a while to get the algae he has requested.
Structurally assisted melting of excitonic correlations in 1T-TiSe2
Creators: name: Burian, Max
name: Porer, Michael
name: Mardegan, Jose R. L.
name: Esposito, Vincent
name: Parchenko, Sergii
name: Burganov, Bulat
name: Gurung, Namrata
name: Ramakrishnan, Mahesh
name: Scagnoli, Valerio
name: Ueda, Hiroki
name: Francoual, Sonia
name: Fabrizi, Federica
name: Tanaka, Yoshikazu
name: Togashi, Tadashi
name: Kubota, Yuya
name: Yabashi, Makina
name: Rossnagel, Kai
name: Johnson, Steven L.
name: Staub, Urs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simultaneous condensation of electronic and structural degrees of freedom gives rise to new states of matter, including superconductivity and charge-density-wave formation. When exciting such a condensed system, it is commonly assumed that the ultrafast laser pulse disturbs primarily the electronic order, which in turn destabilizes the atomic structure. Contrary to this conception, we show here that structural destabilization of few atoms causes melting of the macroscopic ordered charge-density wave in 1T-TiSe2. Using ultrafast pump-probe non-resonant and resonant X-ray diffraction, we observe full suppression of the Se 4p orbital order and the atomic structure at excitation energies more than one order of magnitude below the suggested excitonic binding energy. Complete melting of the charge-density wave occurs 4-5 times faster than expected from a purely electronic charge-screening process, strongly suggesting a structurally assisted breakup of excitonic correlations. Our experimental data clarifies several questions on the intricate coupling between structural and electronic order in stabilizing the charge-density-wave in 1T-TiSe2. The results further show that electron-phonon-coupling can lead to different, energy dependent phase-transition pathways in condensed matter systems, opening new possibilities in the conception of non-equilibrium phenomena at the ultrafast scale.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 5 of Perspectives and practices of health workers around diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in hospitals in a resource-poor setting – modern diagnostics meet age-old challenges
Creators: name: Oliwa, Jacquie Narotso
name: Odero, Sabina Adhiambo
name: Nzinga, Jacinta
name: Hensbroek, Michaël Boele Van
name: Jones, Caroline
name: English, Mike
name: Hoog, Anja Van’t
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5. Patient Flow in a typical Kenyan county hospital.
Dynamical Tidal Locking Theory: A new source of the Spin of Dark Matter Halos
Creators: name: Ebrahimian, E.
name: Abolhasani, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the question of what mechanism is responsible for the spins of halos of dark matter. The answer to this question is of high importance for modeling galaxy intrinsic alignment, which can potentially contaminate current and future lensing data. In particular, we show that when the dark matter halos pass nearly by each other in dense environments-- namely halo assemblies-- they swing and spin each other via exerting mutual tidal torques. We show that this has a significant contribution to the spin of dark matter halos comparable to that of calculated by the so-called tidal torque theory (TTT). We use the results of state-of-the-art simulation of Illutris to check the prediction of this theory against the simulation data.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
PROJECTED COSTS AND RETURNS - SUGARCANE, LOUISIANA, 1997
Creators: name: Champagne, Lonnie P.
name: Salassi, Michael E.
name: Champagne, Lonnie P.
name: Salassi, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This report presents estimates of costs and returns associated with sugarcane production practices in Louisiana for 1997. It is part of a continuing effort to provide farmers, researchers, extension personnel, lending agencies and others working in agriculture and/or agribusiness timely planning information.
PROJECTED CASH FLOWS AND PROFITABILITY FOR REPRESENTATIVE LOUISIANA FARMS, 2001.
Creators: name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Vandeveer, Lonnie R.
name: Boucher, Robert W.
name: Vandeveer, Lonnie R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Changes in commodity prices and input costs along with adjustments in capital structure significantly affect farm cash flow requirements and whole farm profitability. These changes coupled with crop yield and price variability increase the need for farm business cash flow and profitability planning on a whole farm basis. Planning for profits is expected to affect both the short and long run success of the business and cash flow planning is expected to allow the manager to establish farm business cash needs for a specified period of time (production period) so that cash commitments are met as they come due. Furthermore, agricultural lenders have become increasingly concerned with loan repayment capacity and are placing relatively more emphasis on cash flow analysis in the loan evaluation process. In general, farm managers who develop cash flow and profitability projections should find it easier to justify and to secure adequate financing for their businesses. The purpose of this report is to supplement the series of annual cost projections for enterprises by providing profitability and cash flow projections for several whole farm situations throughout the state. Whole farm projections of returns and expenses are expected to provide information regarding the relative profitability of individual farming situations throughout the state. Estimates from cash flow projections provide information concerning the timing of cash flows and the distribution of cash flows for individual farm situations and comparison of estimates for these situations provide an indication of the relative cash flow positions of farms across the state. These projections are expected to be of value to farmers, agricultural credit agencies, extension personnel, researchers, and other professionals with an interest in the agricultural production industry. This report is organized into three general parts. Data sources and procedures used in the study are presented in the first section. In the second section, projected income and cash flow statements for representative farms in major crop producing areas of the state are presented and discussed. The final section summarizes the financial projections for representative farms considered in the study.