cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Role of Specialized Agricultural Credit Institutions in the Development of the Rural Finance Sector of Armenia: Case of Credit Clubs
Creators: name: Urutyan, Vardan E.
name: Aleksandryan, Mariana
name: Hovhannisyan, Vardges
name: Urutyan, Vardan E.
name: Aleksandryan, Mariana
name: Hovhannisyan, Vardges
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: credit clubs
subject: rural finance
subject: agricultural credit
subject: cooperatives

description: The paper aims at studying the challenges of agricultural finance in Armenia. Strengthening the rural credit markets and institutions in Armenia is of paramount importance. The study reviews and analyzes the outcomes of the Agricultural Credit Club Program implemented by the US Department of Agriculture Marketing Assistance Program in Armenia. The study identifies the attitudes and perceptions of member farmers relating to the level of interest rates and access to credit. The findings provided clear indications of the challenges facing the improvement or even development of rural financial markets and agricultural credit institutions from the demand side of agricultural credits. The study concentrates on several important issues like: problems with loan collateralization in rural areas, land reform and property rights, transaction costs for monitoring rural credits, the role of government in rural credit and finance markets, and the role of specialized agricultural credit institutions like credit clubs. The research was based on surveys and interviews. Surveys have been conducted among credit club members to identify and measure the benefits of such a rural credit cooperative initiative. Based on findings, certain recommendations have been proposed regarding the rural finance and credit mechanisms.
Electro-Magnetic Energy Extraction from Rotating Black Holes in AdS
Creators: name: Callebaut, Nele
name: Rodriguez, Maria J.
name: Verlinde, Herman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Force-Free Electrodynamics for black holes in Anti de Sitter is considered. We present new, energy extracting solutions of Force-Free Electrodynamics in Anti de Sitter - Near Horizon Extremal Kerr and Super-Entropic Near Horizon Extremal Kerr geometries. The relevant equations of motion are derived from an action for force-free plasma surrounding spinning black holes with generic asymptotics. We consider the energy flux of electrodynamic fields in rotating frames to argue that the correct measure for energy extraction is the energy flux measured by a rotating observer in the near horizon region. We illustrate this procedure by application to near horizon solutions in Kerr, AdS-Kerr and BTZ.
description: 29 pages + appendices, 6 figures
Hawking Radiation of the Brane-Localized Graviton from a $(4+n)$-dimensional Black Hole
Creators: name: Park, D. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the Regge-Wheeler algorithm, we derive a radial equation for the brane-localized graviton absorbed/emitted by the $(4+n)$-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole. Making use of this equation the absorption and emission spectra of the brane-localized graviton are computed numerically. Existence of the extra dimensions generally suppresses the absorption rate and enhances the emission rate as other spin cases. The appearance of the potential well, however, when $n > \sqrt{\ell (\ell + 1) -2} - 1$ in the effective potential makes the decreasing behavior of the total absorption with increasing $n$ in the low-energy regime. The high-energy limit of the total absorption cross section seems to coincide with that of the brane-localized scalar cross section. The increasing rate of the graviton emission is very large compared to those of other brane-localized fields. This fact indicates that the graviton emission can be dominant one in the Hawking radiation of the higher-dimensional black holes when $n$ is large.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, V2: Most part is revised except title, V3: The derivation of the effective potential is explained in some more detail. The assumption used in the paper is commented V4: CQG accepted
Autonomy and Unmanned Vehicles Augmented Reactive Mission-Motion Planning Architecture for Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: MahmoudZadeh, Somaiyeh
name: Powers, David MW
name: Zadeh, Reza Bairam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Advances in hardware technology have facilitated more integration of sophisticated software toward augmenting the development of Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) and mitigating constraints for onboard intelligence. As a result, UVs can operate in complex missions where continuous trans-formation in environmental condition calls for a higher level of situational responsiveness and autonomous decision making. This book is a research monograph that aims to provide a comprehensive survey of UVs autonomy and its related properties in internal and external situation awareness to-ward robust mission planning in severe conditions. An advance level of intelligence is essential to minimize the reliance on the human supervisor, which is a main concept of autonomy. A self-controlled system needs a robust mission management strategy to push the boundaries towards autonomous structures, and the UV should be aware of its internal state and capabilities to assess whether current mission goal is achievable or find an alternative solution. In this book, the AUVs will become the major case study thread but other cases/types of vehicle will also be considered. In-deed the research monograph, the review chapters and the new approaches we have developed would be appropriate for use as a reference in upper years or postgraduate degrees for its coverage of literature and algorithms relating to Robot/Vehicle planning, tasking, routing, and trust.
Youssef, Youhanna Nessim (Ed.): A Homily on Severus of Antioch by a Bishop of Assiut (XV century)
Creators: name: Kaufhold, Hubert
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 92 (2008): Oriens christianus, Band 92
Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction: The Case of Mexico
Creators: name: Soloaga, Isidro
name: Soloaga, Isidro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
International Development

description: Poverty levels have been diminishing in Mexico since the late 90's, although several regions still show high levels of poverty, and they are extremely high in some rural areas. This paper have addressed the issue of the linkages between sectoral growth (urban/rural) and poverty levels. It was found that although both types of growth impacted negatively on poverty levels in Mexico, rural growth seems to have a higher power in improving consumption per capita of the poorest among the poor people. Moreover, the only inter-sector linkage found was the one that connects rural growth with urban poverty for those people above the food -poverty line but below the moderate poverty line. Exploring plausible channels, we have found that rural growth enhances equality of income distribution at total and urban levels, while urban growth does exactly the opposite. But this is still a general equilibrium effect. Thus, we further explored labor market issues. We found that rural growth impacted positively on labor demand for unskilled worker: on this base, ceteris paribus it is better for poverty alleviation to have rural growth. We have also explored the issue of relative prices, although no impact of rural/urban growth was found here. Everything seems to be driven by the real exchange rate behavior. The share of agriculture in total income is relatively more important for poor people in rural areas, and most of the food poor people live in rural areas. This may be at the root of our findings.
La lengua española en los Estados Unidos
Creators: name: Sun, Wei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Speakers of Spanish in the United States are living perhaps the most interesting linguistic experience in the entire Hispanic world. The present study deals with the theme of the Spanish language in contact with English and the problems related with social bilingualism. The first part of Chapter I recounts the principal incidents in the history of Spanish expansion, and outlines the route of the advance of the Spanish language throughout the American continent. The second part of Chapter I presents statistical tables pertaining to immigrants, and explains the geographic and demographic distribution of Hispanics in the United States. Chapter II is a linguistic study of the varieties of Spanish found in the United States, along with lexical examples from daily use, and grammatical characteristics. Chapter III provides an academic classification according to the sociolinguistic and sociocultural factors which affect the Spanish language. Chapter IV presents the linguistic deviations produced by factors at the phonological, morphological, syntactical, lexical, semantic and grammatical level. Chapter V concentrates on the bilingual element of U.S. society. Three tables demonstrate the distribution of English and Spanish according to the sociolinguistic context and the type of text involved. In addition, three studies are presented to deepen our knowledge of bilingualism, as well as its causes and consequences. The conclusion must take into account the fact that it will not be possible to assimilate Hispanics as easily as has been done with people of other cultures in the United States, since the group renews itself continuously through the presence of recently arrived Hispanic immigrants, and those who have recently returned.
An Economic Analysis of Bushfires Management Programs
Creators: name: Ganewatta, Gaminda
name: Grahlmann, Linda
name: Handmer, John
name: Ganewatta, Gaminda
name: Grahlmann, Linda
name: Handmer, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Allocating scare resources for fire management strategies requires information on the extent of economic losses from bushfires and the efficiency of alternatives. Despite the severity of bushfires, there is no agreed approach in Australia for estimating economic losses from fires nor for evaluating the economic efficiency of alternative suppression strategies. The poster proposes approaches to assess the economic effects of bushfires on local and state economies and sets out models to evaluate the economic efficiency of two key bushfire management strategies: presuppression and suppression. The first model arises from questions concerning the value of pre-suppression (before the fire) fuel reduction activities, and the estimation of an economically optimal fire management budget. The fuel reduction burning aims to reduce losses from a major fire event. To determine how the budget should be allocated, a modification of the Cost plus Net Value Change model is being used. This model has the advantage that each of the influencing parameters is easy to adjust or even change for different areas in Australia. The second model allows straightforward comparisons of approaches to bushfire suppression, through a fire simulation model. The simulation allows comparisons of alternative strategies under similar fire conditions. The economic utility in suppression of fire engines, dozers and aircraft is evaluated using Cost Benefit Analysis and a Cost plus Loss framework. The paper presents useful tools for decision makers to make damage assessment from fire, resource allocation on pre-suppression and guidelines for operational decision making on suppression approaches.
The Physical, Social, and Cultural Determinants of Obesity: An Empirical Study of the U.S.
Creators: name: Chang, Tangel
name: Barrett, James M.
name: Vosti, Stephen A.
name: Chang, Tangel
name: Barrett, James M.
name: Vosti, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: I0
subject: D1
subject: J2

description: During the past three decades, levels of excess weight and obesity have risen significantly in the United States. The reasons are physical, economical and sociological. The second half of the twentieth century is characterized by changes in the diets and levels of activity in the American society. Recent studies that focus on simple explanations that are based on a few determinants or classes of determinants are inadequate in explaining the recent rise in obesity. Cross-sectional and time series data are analyzed with a variety of statistical techniques. This paper empirically examines the factors correlated with the drastic increase in excess weight in the United States. Demographic characteristics (e.g., race and gender) and income level are significantly related to obesity. Controlling for these factors, energy expenditure in physical exercise are also linked to obesity. This study suggests that policies that merely target on food consumption and physical exercise levels are likely to be inadequate. Successful policies will have to produce specific messages that are relevant for distinct cultural, racial, gender, and income groups. Examples of such group-specific messages are provided.
Pselaphaulax undetermined
Creators: name: Löbl, Ivan
name: Kodada, Ján
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphaulax
Pselaphaulax undetermined

description: Pselaphaulax sp. Material examined. 4 ♀, NEPAL, Koshi Zone, Panchthar District, Dorpar Kharka, mature Rhododendron -Lithocarpus forest, 2700 m, 13.-16.IV.1988, J. Martens & W. Schawaller (SMNS, MHNG).
description: Published as part of Löbl, Ivan & Kodada, Ján, 2021, On the Himalayan Pselaphini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), pp. 349-368 in Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya VII, Erfurt :Naturkundemuseum on page 356, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5793818
Additional file 17 of Differences between predicted outer membrane proteins of genotype 1 and 2 Mannheimia haemolytica
Creators: name: Clawson, Michael L.
name: Gennie Schuller
name: Dickey, Aaron M.
name: Bono, James L.
name: Murray, Robert W.
name: Sweeney, Michael T.
name: Apley, Michael D.
name: DeDonder, Keith D.
name: Capik, Sarah F.
name: Larson, Robert L.
name: Lubbers, Brian V.
name: White, Brad J.
name: Blom, Jochen
name: Chitko-McKown, Carol G.
name: Brichta-Harhay, Dayna M.
name: Smith, Timothy P. L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 17: Figure S12. Alignment of adhesin B isoforms observed in genotype 2 M. haemolytica. The alignment contains adhesin B isoforms observed in genotype 2 M. haemolytica. Within it, the arrow points to the site where a single genotype 2 strain (GenBank# CP017521) has a stop codon consistent with genotype 1 strains. Prior to the stop codon, the adhesin B sequence for GenBank# CP017521 is an exact match with Gen 2 isoform 1. Areas of 51% chemical identity or greater are indicated with grey boxes.
Solving the SUSY CP problem with flavor breaking F-terms
Creators: name: Diaz-Cruz, J. Lorenzo
name: Ferrandis, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersymmetric flavor models for the radiative generation of fermion masses offer an alternative way to solve the SUSY-CP problem. We assume that the supersymmetric theory is flavor and CP conserving. CP violating phases are associated to the vacuum expectation values of flavor violating susy-breaking fields. As a consequence, phases appear at tree level only in the soft supersymmetry breaking matrices. Using a U(2) flavor model as an example we show that it is possible to generate radiatively the first and second generation of quark masses and mixings as well as the CKM CP phase. The one-loop supersymmetric contributions to EDMs are automatically zero since all the relevant parameters in the lagrangian are flavor conserving and as a consequence real. The size of the flavor and CP mixing in the susy breaking sector is mostly determined by the fermion mass ratios and CKM elements. We calculate the contributions to epsilon, epsilon^{prime} and to the CP asymmetries in the B decays to psi Ks, phi Ks, eta^{\prime} Ks and Xs gamma. We analyze a case study with maximal predictivity in the fermion sector. For this worst case scenario the measurements of Delta mK, Delta mB and epsilon constrain the model requiring extremely heavy squark spectra.
description: 21 pages, RevTex4
Learning Colour Representations of Search Queries
Creators: name: Maheshwari, Paridhi
name: Ghuhan, Manoj
name: Vinay, Vishwa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image search engines rely on appropriately designed ranking features that capture various aspects of the content semantics as well as the historic popularity. In this work, we consider the role of colour in this relevance matching process. Our work is motivated by the observation that a significant fraction of user queries have an inherent colour associated with them. While some queries contain explicit colour mentions (such as 'black car' and 'yellow daisies'), other queries have implicit notions of colour (such as 'sky' and 'grass'). Furthermore, grounding queries in colour is not a mapping to a single colour, but a distribution in colour space. For instance, a search for 'trees' tends to have a bimodal distribution around the colours green and brown. We leverage historical clickthrough data to produce a colour representation for search queries and propose a recurrent neural network architecture to encode unseen queries into colour space. We also show how this embedding can be learnt alongside a cross-modal relevance ranker from impression logs where a subset of the result images were clicked. We demonstrate that the use of a query-image colour distance feature leads to an improvement in the ranker performance as measured by users' preferences of clicked versus skipped images.
description: Accepted as a full paper at SIGIR 2020
Additional file 18 of Differences between predicted outer membrane proteins of genotype 1 and 2 Mannheimia haemolytica
Creators: name: Clawson, Michael L.
name: Gennie Schuller
name: Dickey, Aaron M.
name: Bono, James L.
name: Murray, Robert W.
name: Sweeney, Michael T.
name: Apley, Michael D.
name: DeDonder, Keith D.
name: Capik, Sarah F.
name: Larson, Robert L.
name: Lubbers, Brian V.
name: White, Brad J.
name: Blom, Jochen
name: Chitko-McKown, Carol G.
name: Brichta-Harhay, Dayna M.
name: Smith, Timothy P. L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 18: Figure S13. Alignment of adhesin G isoforms observed in genotype 2 M. haemolytica strains. The alignment contains adhesin G isoforms observed in genotype 2 M. haemolytica strains. Areas of 51% chemical identity or greater are indicated with grey boxes.
Study Protocol: False Positivity and Effect Size Misestimation in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Drug Approvals
Creators: name: Bittlinger, Merlin
name: Kimmelman, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Clinical trials
subject: Effect Size Shrinkage
subject: False Positive Error
subject: FDA
subject: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

description: This study protocol describes the rationale, objectives, methods, and pilot results for a study that investigates two primary objectives: First, to determine the amount of efficacy misestimation in pivotal trials by applying the statistical concept of “shrinkage” to the entire drug trial portfolio of registered and completed ICI trials (with published results). Second, to determine the FWER-controlled risk of incorrectly declaring that an FDA-approved Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (ICI) drug is efficacious when in fact all ICI drugs are inefficacious. For the registered protocol see the linked pdf. At time of registration, data has been piloted and but neither completed nor analyzed.
Clustering as a Way to Lower Capital Barriers: The Case of the Cashmere Sweater Cluster in Zhejiang
Creators: name: Ruan, Jianqing
name: Wei, Longbao
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
name: Ruan, Jianqing
name: Wei, Longbao
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Industrial Organization

description: Understanding how small enterprises overcome capital barriers is the key to understanding China's rapid development. The literature traditionally emphasizes the development of financial market to raise small amount of loan. By studying the division of labor in the cashmere sweater cluster in Puyuan and the cash flow in the course of daily operation, this paper, argues instead that industry clusters lower capital entry access through the division of labor; various entities in the cluster obtain the capital required for daily operation by taking advantage of individual social capital and endogenous capital in the cluster.
A possible 0^{-+} glueball candidate X(1835)
Creators: name: Li, Bing An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of X(1835) as a 0^{-+} glueball is investigated.
description: 19 pages
Momentum-resolved measurement of electronic nematic susceptibility in the FeSe$_{0.9}$S$_{0.1}$ superconductor
Creators: name: Cai, C.
name: Han, T. T.
name: Wang, Z. G.
name: Chen, L.
name: Wang, Y. D.
name: Xin, Z. M.
name: Ma, M. W.
name: Li, Yuan
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unveiling the driving force for a phase transition is normally difficult when multiple degrees of freedom are strongly coupled. One example is the nematic phase transition in iron-based superconductors. Its mechanism remains controversial due to a complex intertwining among different degrees of freedom. In this paper, we report a method for measuring the nematic susceptibly of FeSe$_{0.9}$S$_{0.1}$ using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and an $in$-$situ$ strain-tuning device. The nematic susceptibility is characterized as an energy shift of band induced by a tunable uniaxial strain. We found that the temperature-dependence of the nematic susceptibility is strongly momentum dependent. As the temperature approaches the nematic transition temperature from the high temperature side, the nematic susceptibility remains weak at the Brillouin zone center while showing divergent behavior at the Brillouin zone corner. Our results highlight the complexity of the nematic order parameter in the momentum space, which provides crucial clues to the driving mechanism of the nematic phase transition. Our experimental method which can directly probe the electronic susceptibly in the momentum space provides a new way to study the complex phase transitions in various materials.
description: 5 pages, 4 figurs, See Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.180501
Sharp estimates for the number of degrees of freedom for the damped-driven 2D Navier--Stokes equations
Creators: name: Ilyin, Alexei A.
name: Titi, Edriss S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q30, 76D05, 76U05,76E20, 86A05, 86A10

description: We derive upper bounds for the number of asymptotic degrees (determining modes and nodes) of freedom for the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes system and Navier-Stokes system with damping. In the first case we obtain the previously known estimates in an explicit form, which are larger than the fractal dimension of the global attractor. However, for the Navier--Stokes system with damping our estimates for the number of the determining modes and nodes are comparable to the sharp estimates for the fractal dimension of the global attractor. Our investigation of the damped-driven 2D Navier--Stokes system is inspired by the Stommel--Charney barotropic model of ocean circulation where the damping represents the Rayleigh friction. We remark that our results equally apply to the Stommel--Charney model.
Additional file 19 of Differences between predicted outer membrane proteins of genotype 1 and 2 Mannheimia haemolytica
Creators: name: Clawson, Michael L.
name: Gennie Schuller
name: Dickey, Aaron M.
name: Bono, James L.
name: Murray, Robert W.
name: Sweeney, Michael T.
name: Apley, Michael D.
name: DeDonder, Keith D.
name: Capik, Sarah F.
name: Larson, Robert L.
name: Lubbers, Brian V.
name: White, Brad J.
name: Blom, Jochen
name: Chitko-McKown, Carol G.
name: Brichta-Harhay, Dayna M.
name: Smith, Timothy P. L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 19: Figure S14. Alignment of all unique genotype 2 adhesin B, D, and G isoforms observed in this study. The alignment contains all unique genotype 2 adhesin B, D, and G isoforms observed in this study. The one genotype 2 “like” adhesin G isoform observed in a genotype 1 strain (GenBank# CP0175216) is also included in the alignment. The conserved RGD motif is highlighted with a bracket. Areas of 51% chemical identity or greater are indicated with grey boxes.
title: Financial Crisis Interventions
Creators: name: Schroth, Josef
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2016

description: This paper develops a model of an economy where bank credit supports both productive investment and individual consumption smoothing in the face of idiosyncratic income risk. Bank credit is constrained by bank equity capital. When policy-makers inject equity capital during financial crises, they trade off stimulating credit supply immediately against long-term distortions related to funding equity injections. I calibrate my model and show that the bank equity capital injection that maximizes average utilitarian welfare redistributes from the poor to the wealthy. While wealthy savers benefit immediately from an increased supply of safe assets, less affluent borrowers and savers suffer from long-term distortions.
description: L’auteur élabore un modèle d’une économie où le crédit bancaire soutient à la fois l’investissement productif et le lissage de la consommation individuelle face à un risque idiosyncrasique pesant sur les revenus. Le crédit qu’une banque peut octroyer est limité par ses capitaux propres. Lorsque, durant une crise financière, les autorités monétaires injectent des liquidités à l’appui des fonds propres bancaires, elles effectuent un arbitrage entre l’effet stimulant immédiat de cette mesure sur l’offre de crédit et les distorsions à long terme qui en résultent. L’auteur étalonne son modèle et montre qu’une injection d’argent frais dans les banques qui maximise le bien-être utilitaire moyen entraîne une redistribution de la richesse des plus pauvres vers les plus riches. Alors que les épargnants aisés profitent immédiatement d’un apport accru d’actifs sûrs, les emprunteurs et les épargnants moins nantis souffrent des distorsions à long terme.
Parametric and Non-Parametric Estimation of Soil Conservation Impact on Productivity in the Northwestern Ethiopian Highlands
Creators: name: Kassie, Menale
name: Holden, Stein T.
name: Kassie, Menale
name: Holden, Stein T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Yield decomposition
subject: soil conservation
subject: switching regression
subject: stochastic dominance analysis
subject: matching methods

description: The impact of fanya juu bunds on productivity in a high rainfall area in the Ethiopian highlands is analyzed based on data from a cross section household survey with multiple plot observations per household. The results from parametric and non-parametric analysis indicated that productivity from conserved plots was lower than from non-conserved plots. The Oaxaca-Blinder productivity decomposition results showed that there was little difference in plot characteristics between conserved and non-conserved plots, however the returns to those characteristics were higher for non-conserved plots. The sensitivity analysis, increasing fodder grass production on bunds, suggests that there are possibilities to make conserved plots as productive as non-conserved ones. The findings imply that fanya juu bunds may be inappropriate to the local conditions under the existing condition. Farmers in the study area reported that these bunds h ave problem of water-logging, reduce land available for production, and create difficulties in turning the ox-drawn plough due to narrow bund sp acing. Apart from these, there is no attempt made to integrate these bunds with soil fertility management techniques. Overall, these results yield important lessons for future design of conservation technologies that have both physical and economic benefits as well as that are best suited to the local conditions.
Anomalous spectral weight transfer in the nematic state of iron-selenide superconductor
Creators: name: Cai, C.
name: Han, T. T.
name: Wang, Z. G.
name: Chen, L.
name: Wang, Y. D.
name: Xin, Z. M.
name: Ma, M. W.
name: Li, Yuan
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nematic phase intertwines closely with high-Tc superconductivity in iron-based superconductors. Its mechanism, which is closely related to the pairing mechanism of superconductivity, still remains controversial. Comprehensive characterization of how the electronic state reconstructs in the nematic phase is thus crucial. However, most experiments focus only on the reconstruction of band dispersions. Another important characteristic of electronic state, the spectral weight, has not been studied in details so far. Here, we studied the spectral weight transfer in the nematic phase of FeSe$_{0.9}$S$_{0.1}$ using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and in-situ detwinning technique. There are two elliptical electron pockets overlapping with each other orthogonally at the Brillouin zone corner. We found that, upon cooling, one electron pocket loses spectral weight and fades away, while the other electron pocket gains spectral weight and becomes pronounced. Our results show that the symmetry breaking of electronic state is manifested by not only the anisotropic band dispersion but also the band-selective modulation of spectral weight. Our observation completes our understanding of the nematic electronic state, and put strong constraints on the theoretical models. It further provide crucial clues to understand the gap anisotropy and orbital-selective pairing in iron-selenide superconductors.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
The Carnegie Supernova Project: The Low-Redshift Survey
Creators: name: Hamuy, Mario
name: Folatelli, Gastón
name: Morrell, Nidia I.
name: Phillips, Mark M.
name: Suntzeff, Nicholas B.
name: Persson, S. E.
name: Roth, Miguel
name: Gonzalez, Sergio
name: Krzeminski, Wojtek
name: Contreras, Carlos
name: Freedman, Wendy L.
name: Murphy, D. C.
name: Madore, Barry F.
name: Wyatt, P.
name: Maza, José
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Li, Weidong
name: Pinto, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supernovae are essential to understanding the chemical evolution of the Universe. Type Ia supernovae also provide the most powerful observational tool currently available for studying the expansion history of the Universe and the nature of dark energy. Our basic knowledge of supernovae comes from the study of their photometric and spectroscopic properties. However, the presently available data sets of optical and near-infrared light curves of supernovae are rather small and/or heterogeneous, and employ photometric systems that are poorly characterized. Similarly, there are relatively few supernovae whose spectral evolution has been well sampled, both in wavelength and phase, with precise spectrophotometric observations. The low-redshift portion of the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) seeks to remedy this situation by providing photometry and spectrophotometry of a large sample of supernovae taken on telescope/filter/detector systems that are well understood and well characterized. During a five-year program which began in September 2004, we expect to obtain high-precision u'g'r'i'BVYJHKs light curves and optical spectrophotometry for about 250 supernovae of all types. In this paper we provide a detailed description of the CSP survey observing and data reduction methodology. In addition, we present preliminary photometry and spectra obtained for a few representative supernovae during the first observing campaign.
description: 45 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables, accepted by PASP
Quantum corrections to spin effects in general relativity
Creators: name: Kirilin, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum power corrections to the gravitational spin-orbit and spin-spin interactions, as well as to the Lense-Thirring effect, were found for particles of spin 1/2. These corrections arise from diagrams of second order in Newton gravitational constant G with two massless particles in the unitary cut in the t-channel. The corrections obtained differ from the previous calculation of the corrections to spin effects for rotating compound bodies with spinless constituents.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Pselaphogenius Reitter 1910
Creators: name: Löbl, Ivan
name: Kodada, Ján
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Pselaphogenius

description: Pselaphogenius Reitter, 1910 This genus comprises 76 species (NEWTON 2020), many of them described from the temperate part of the Euro -Asian continent. The group was redefined by NOMURA (1998) and its east Asian members were keyed in NOMURA (2003). Two species have been collected in Nepal, one is described below, the second represented by two females, is probably also new. We decline to describe it in absence of at least one available male.
description: Published as part of Löbl, Ivan & Kodada, Ján, 2021, On the Himalayan Pselaphini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), pp. 349-368 in Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya VII, Erfurt :Naturkundemuseum on page 357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5793818
description: {"references": ["NEWTON, A. F. (2020): StaphBase: Staphyliniformia world catalog da- tabase (version Nov 2018). In: ROSKOV, Y.; G. OWER, T. ORRELL, D. NICOLSON, N. BAILLY, P. M. KIRK, T. BOURGOIN, R. E. DEWALT, W. DECOCK, E. VAN NIEUKERKEN, J. ZARUCCHI & L. PENEV (eds.): Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist. Species 2000. - Leiden, Naturalis. (Digital resource at www. cata- logueoflife. org / annual-checklist / 2020).", "NOMURA, S. (1998): A taxonomic study of the genus Dicentrius from Japan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae). Part 1. The Tsushi- ma and Goto Islands. - Memoirs of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 30: 29 - 35.", "- (2003): Taxonomic notes on the east Asian species of the genus Pselaphogenius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae). Pp. 458 - 482. - In: CUCCODORO, G. & R. A. B. LESCHEN (eds): Systematics of Coleoptera: Papers celebrating the retirement of Ivan LObl. - Me- moirs on Entomology, International 17: [6] + 955 pp."]}
Braik, Miḫā'īl: al-Ḥaqā'iq al-wafīya fī tārīḫ, baṭārikat al-kanīsa al-anṭākīya
Creators: name: Walbiner, Carsten-Michael
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 92 (2008): Oriens christianus, Band 92
On the Micro-Structure of the German Export Boom: Evidence from Establishment Panel Data, 1995 - 2002
Creators: name: Wagner, Joachim
name: Wagner, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Exports
subject: business cycle
subject: establishment panel data

description: This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German federal state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001/02 it is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants starts and stops exporting in each year, but that most of the export dynamics is due to positive and negative changes of exports in plants that continue to export. A small fraction made of four to five percent of all exporting plants is responsible for around 70 to 80 percent of the gross increase in exports. Firms with expanding and contracting exports are found simultaneously in all broad sectors, technology classes and firm size classes. Patterns of export behavior differ widely between the plants over the periods investigated.
Stationary distributions of multi-type totally asymmetric exclusion processes
Creators: name: Ferrari, Pablo A.
name: Martin, James B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35 (Primary) 82C22, 90B22 (Secondary)

description: We consider totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes with n types of particle and holes ($n$-TASEPs) on $\mathbb {Z}$ and on the cycle $\mathbb {Z}_N$. Angel recently gave an elegant construction of the stationary measures for the 2-TASEP, based on a pair of independent product measures. We show that Angel's construction can be interpreted in terms of the operation of a discrete-time $M/M/1$ queueing server; the two product measures correspond to the arrival and service processes of the queue. We extend this construction to represent the stationary measures of an n-TASEP in terms of a system of queues in tandem. The proof of stationarity involves a system of n 1-TASEPs, whose evolutions are coupled but whose distributions at any fixed time are independent. Using the queueing representation, we give quantitative results for stationary probabilities of states of the n-TASEP on $\mathbb {Z}_N$, and simple proofs of various independence and regeneration properties for systems on $\mathbb {Z}$.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117906000000944 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Interest Groups and Efficient Design of the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol
Creators: name: Dutschke, Michael
name: Michaelowa, Axel
name: Dutschke, Michael
name: Michaelowa, Axel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The implementation of activities aimed to mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions is more cost-efficient in developing countries than in most of the industrialized world. A Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is to assure that the interests of all parties implicated in Joint Implementation between industrialized and developing countries be equally represented. This mechanism was decided upon on the Kyoto Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, but no provisions on the construction of the CDM were taken. The authors propose it to take the form of a clearinghouse and a project fund. In the light of game-theoretical analysis and practical experience collected during the pilot phase for Activities Implemented Jointly which started in 1995, they advocate a clearly defined set of rules and incentives in order to balance the variety of interests involved and at the same time make the CDM an efficient instrument in preventing man-made climate change.
Additional file 16 of Differences between predicted outer membrane proteins of genotype 1 and 2 Mannheimia haemolytica
Creators: name: Clawson, Michael L.
name: Gennie Schuller
name: Dickey, Aaron M.
name: Bono, James L.
name: Murray, Robert W.
name: Sweeney, Michael T.
name: Apley, Michael D.
name: DeDonder, Keith D.
name: Capik, Sarah F.
name: Larson, Robert L.
name: Lubbers, Brian V.
name: White, Brad J.
name: Blom, Jochen
name: Chitko-McKown, Carol G.
name: Brichta-Harhay, Dayna M.
name: Smith, Timothy P. L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 16: Figure S11. Alignment of adhesin D isoforms observed in genotype 2 M. haemolytica strains and one genotype 1 strain. The alignment contains adhesin D isoforms observed in genotype 2 M. haemolytica strains and one genotype 1 strain. Areas of 51% chemical identity or greater are indicated with grey boxes.
I-BiDaaS - D6.4: Experiments implementation
Creators: name: Spennacchio, Giuseppe Danilo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This deliverable provides a detailed description of the experiments’ implementation following the line of D6.2 [1] and taking into consideration the progress of the work done from M19 to M32 concerning the experimental protocol alignment of task 6.1, the implementation of the real-life industrial experiments of task 6.2 and the evaluation and impact analysis of task 6.3. Each experiment is described in terms of generated datasets, workflow and goals, by reporting the experimental indicators and associated metrics for all experiments. Furthermore, the deliverable reports on the impact analysis and external stakeholders’ involvement during the progress of the project from M23 to M32.
Since When Have FOREX Markets Incorporated EMU into Currency Pricing? Evidence from Four Exchange Rate Series
Creators: name: Wilfling, Bernd
name: Wilfling, Bernd
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: EMU
subject: exchange rate policy
subject: volatility
subject: regime-switching GARCH models

description: Recent theory on exchange rate dynamics suggests that the mere announcement of regime switching from floating to fixed rates at a given future date triggers a reduction in exchange rate volatility during the interim period. Using a Markov-switching GARCH model this paper estimates the volatility processes of four EMU exchange rate returns vis-à-vis the German mark using daily data for the time prior to Stage III of EMU. Statistical inference yields the dates at which financial markets began to incorporate the expected EMU participation of each country into currency pricing. The data exhibits strong econometric evidence for two distinct views concerning the ultimate EMU membership: (1) Finland and France were considered irrefutable EMU members long before any official announcements. (2) At first, the markets did not reckon with the participation of Italy and Portugal for a long time, but then suddenly reversed their assessment more or less at a stroke. Neuere Theorien zur Wechselkursdynamik implizieren, daß bereits die bloße Ankündigung eines Regimewechsels von flexiblen zu festen Kursen zu einem vorgegebenen Zukunftsdatum eine Verringerung der Wechselkursvolatilität während der Interimsphase bewirkt. Auf der Basis eines Markov-Switching GARCH Modells schätzt diese Arbeit die Volatilitätsprozesse von vier EWU-Wechselkursrendite-Zeitreihen gegenüber der DM für die Zeit vor der 3. Stufe der Europäischen Währungsunion. Hieraus lassen sich durch statistische Inferenz die Zeitpunkte ermitteln, ab denen die Finanzmärkte begannen, die erwartete EWU-Teilnahme der betreffenden Staaten in ihrer Kursbildung zu berücksichtigen. Die Daten liefern starke ökonometrische Evidenz für zwei qualitativ unterschiedliche Marktbeurteilungen im Hinblick auf die letztendliche EWU-Teilnahme: (1) Finnland und Frankreich wurden bereits weit vor jeglicher offiziellen Ankündigung als definitive EWU-Teilnehmer eingestuft. (2) Zunächst rechneten die Märkte für lange Zeit nicht mit einer Teilnahme Italiens und Portugals, um diese Einschätzung dann jedoch schlagartig zu revidieren.
Regionalpolitische Implikationen Der Neuen Okonomischen Geographie
Creators: name: Lammers, Konrad
name: Stiller, Silvia
name: Lammers, Konrad
name: Stiller, Silvia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Dieses Papier untersucht die regionalpolitischen Implikationen der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie. Erstens werden der allgemeine Modellrahmen der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie und eine für die Politikanalyse geeignete Modellvariante erläutert. Zweitens wird untersucht, ob regionale Integration nach Maßgabe des gewählten Modellrahmens politischen Handlungsbedarf anzeigt. Die Analyse ergibt, dass die möglichen räumlichen Gleichgewichte politische Interventionen aufgrund von ökonomischen Effizienzzielen nicht begründen. Das Modell zeigt jedoch politischen Handlungsbedarf bei Orientierung an ökonomischen Ausgleichszielen auf, denn unter bestimmten Bedingungen zieht regionale Integration räumliche Einkommensdisparitäten nach sich. Deshalb wird drittens untersucht, welche Politikgestaltung geeignet ist, die Gefahr von regionalen Einkommensdisparitäten im Zuge von Integrationsprozessen zu reduzieren. Das Papier schließt mit einer Zusammenfassung der wesentlichen Ergebnisse der Untersuchung. This paper looks at regional policy from the perspective of the New Economic Geography. Firstly, the general framework of the New Economic Geography and one for the policy analysis adequate model approach are outlined. Secondly, the paper studies whether, according to the chosen theoretical framework, regional integration gives reasons for political interventions. The analysis shows that there are no hints that any of the potential equilibriums is bad from the aspect of efficiency. But the model implies policy interventions on equity grounds as integration entails the risk of widening economic inequalities between regions. Therefore it is thirdly examined which policy design should be chosen when aiming at avoiding interregional income disparities while reinforcing integration. The paper concludes with a summary of the main results.
Ğabbūr, Makāriyūs: Aqdam kanīsa ra'awīya li r-rūm al-kātulīk fi s̆-s̆arq
Creators: name: Walbiner, Carsten-Michael
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 92 (2008): Oriens christianus, Band 92