cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Review of the Changes in the Environment and Natural Resources
Creators: name: Markandya, Anil
name: Chou, Wan-Jung
name: Markandya, Anil
name: Chou, Wan-Jung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: Environmental Record
subject: Public Health

description: This paper reviews the environmental record of the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia since the fall of the Berlin Wall, with a focus on areas of key concern to public policy at the present time. With the impacts of environment on public health being given the highest priority, we examined several associated health indicators at the national level, as well as looking at important environmental issues at the local level. In this respect, we focus on environmental problems related to air and water quality, land contamination, and solid waste management. Despite showing a highly differentiated performance across the region, the results suggest that inadequate environmental management seen in several of the transition countries in the past 20 years has put people’s health and livelihood under huge threats. Moreover, this paper looks at the development of policy responses and resources, i.e. environmental expenditures, in these countries, during the process of transiting from centrally planned economies to market-based one. Similarly, we identify various degrees of progress across the region. The findings reinforce the need for better coherence between national environmental expenditure and international environmental assistance, as well as the actual enforcement of national regulations and international agreements in those non-EU transition countries.
Gaussian limits for random measures in geometric probability
Creators: name: Baryshnikov, Yu.
name: Yukich, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F05,, 60D05 (Primary) . (Secondary)

description: We establish Gaussian limits for general measures induced by binomial and Poisson point processes in d-dimensional space. The limiting Gaussian field has a covariance functional which depends on the density of the point process. The general results are used to deduce central limit theorems for measures induced by random graphs (nearest neighbor, Voronoi and sphere of influence graph), random sequential packing models (ballistic deposition and spatial birth-growth models) and statistics of germ-grain models.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051604000000594 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Context and the VSL: Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Alberini, Anna
name: Scasny, Milan
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Scasny, Milan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: VSL
subject: Conjoint Choice Experiments
subject: Mortality Risk Reductions
subject: Cost-benefit Analysis
subject: Forced Choice Questions

description: We report on the results of a survey based on conjoint choice experiments that was specifically designed to investigate the effect of context on the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL), an important input into the calculation of the mortality benefits of environmental policies that reduce premature mortality. We define “context” broadly to include i) the cause of death (respiratory illness, cancer, road traffic accident), ii) the beneficiary of the risk reduction (adult v. child), and iii) the mode of provision of the risk reduction (public program v. private good). The survey was conducted following similar protocols in Italy and the Czech Republic. When do not distinguish for the cause of death, child and adult VSL are not significantly different from one another in Italy, and the difference is weak in the Czech sample. When we distinguish for the cause of death, we find that child and adult VSLs are different at the 1% level for respiratory illnesses and road-traffic accidents, but do not differ for cancer risks. We find evidence of a “cancer premium” and a “public program premium.” In both countries, the marginal utility of income is about 20% lower among wealthier people, which makes the VSL about 20% higher among respondents with incomes above the sample average. The discount rate implicit in people‘s choices is effectively zero. We conclude that there is heterogeneity in the VSL, and that such heterogeneity is primarily driven by risk characteristics and mode of delivery of the risk reduction, rather than by individual characteristics of the respondent (e.g., income and education). For the most part, our results do not disagree with environmental policy analyses that use the same VSL for children and adults, and that apply a cancer premium.
The Thermodynamic Pressure of a Dilute Fermi Gas
Creators: name: Seiringer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a gas of fermions with non-zero spin at temperature $T$ and chemical potential $μ$. We show that if the range of the interparticle interaction is small compared to the mean particle distance, the thermodynamic pressure differs to leading order from the corresponding expression for non-interacting particles by a term proportional to the scattering length of the interparticle interaction. This is true for any repulsive interaction, including hard cores. The result is uniform in the temperature as long as $T$ is of the same order as the Fermi temperature, or smaller.
description: LaTeX, 37 pages
A framework of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. I. Role and type of fluctuations
Creators: name: Öttinger, Hans Christian
name: Peletier, Mark A.
name: Montefusco, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the fluctuations by which phenomenological evolution equations with thermodynamic structure can be enhanced is the key to a general framework of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. These fluctuations provide an idealized representation of microscopic details. We consider fluctuation-enhanced equations associated with Markov processes and elaborate the general recipes for evaluating dynamic material properties, which characterize force-flux constitutive laws, by statistical mechanics. Markov processes with continuous trajectories are conveniently characterized by stochastic differential equations and lead to Green-Kubo-type formulas for dynamic material properties. Markov processes with discontinuous jumps include transitions over energy barriers with the rates calculated by Kramers. We describe a unified approach to Markovian fluctuations and demonstrate how the appropriate type of fluctuations (continuous versus discontinuous) is reflected in the mathematical structure of the phenomenological equations.
description: This paper and its continuation (II) replace the previous paper arXiv:1809.07253. Now the content and the presentation style are more targeted to physicists, with particular emphasis on the applications to specific physical systems. The theoretical and the practical aspects have been separated from each other in the two papers
Single and Double Peripheral Production of Sigmas in Proton Proton Collisions
Creators: name: Kisslinger, Leonard S.
name: Ma, Wei-hsing
name: Shen, Pengnian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Pomeron, which dominates high energy elastic and diffractive hadronic processes, must be largely gluonic in nature. We use a recent picture of a scalar glueball/sigma system with coupling of the sigma to glue determined from experiment to predict strong peripheral sigma production in the pp$π^0π^0$ and double sigma production in the pp$π^0π^0π^0π^0$ channels.
description: Revtex4 file, 8 Figures
Jet quenching of massive quarks in a nuclear medium
Creators: name: Zhang, Ben-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Utilizing the generalized factorization of twist-4 processes, we derive the modified heavy quark fragmentation function after considering the gluon radiation induced by multiple scattering in DIS. It is found that the mass effects of heavy quark may reduce the gluon formation time and change the medium size dependence of heavy quark energy loss. The radiative energy loss is also significantly suppressed relative to a light quark due to the dead-cone effect.
description: Talk at the "32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics", August 16 - 22, 2004, Beijing, China. To appear in the proceedings of ICHEP'04. 4 pages, 4 figures
An analogue study of traumatic intrusions
Creators: name: Laposa, Judith Megan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: According to cognitive theorists, intrusive memories of traumatic events have their origin in how information during the event is processed. In order to investigate functional cognitive strategies during medical crises, two studies were conducted. The first study consisted of interviews with 20 health care professionals. Results from the interviews highlighted the use of strategies designed to maintain a medical orientation towards the event. Placing such strategies in the context of cognitive theories of peritraumatic processing, an experimental study using the distressing film paradigm was conducted with 68 psychology and 68 nursing undergraduates. The study examined the effect of adopting a medical cognitive strategy on intrusion development, memory disorganization, and anxiety. The results suggested that it was possible to manipulate a functional cognitive strategy. Participants in the experimental condition reported fewer intrusions than those in the control group. The manipulation did not affect memory disorganization or anxiety, and psychology and nursing students were comparable on all dependant variables. Discussion focuses on implications for cognitive theories of intrusion development.
Left/right entanglement and thermalization of time dependent plane wave Green-Schwarz superstring
Creators: name: Marchioro, Dáfni F. Z.
name: Nedel, Daniel Luiz
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
subject: 81T30

description: In this work we study new issues involving the type IIB superstring in a time dependent plane wave background with a constant self-dual Ramond-Ramond 5-form and a linear dilaton in the light-like direction. We construct a unitary Bogoliubov generator which relates the asymptotically flat superstring Hilbert space to the finite time Hilbert space. The time dependent vacuum is a superposition of $SU(1, 1)\times SU(2)$ coherent states, which has a particular structure of excitation, characterized by a condensation of right and left moving supertring modes. We calculate the time dependent left/right entanglement entropy and carry out the summation over the oscillator modes of the superstring two-point function. We show that, close to the null singularity, the entanglement entropy is well-behaved. In particular, for asymptotically flat observers, the closed superstring vacuum close to the singularity appears as superstring thermal vacuum, which is unitarily inequivalent to the asymptotically flat vacuum. Actually, we show that close to the singularity the superstring thermalizes and the entanglement entropy becomes a thermodynamical entropy for a supersymmetric two-dimensional gas.
Designing and Realization of Database Platform of County Agricultural Production Technology in Yunnan Province
Creators: name: Zhang, Li-Lian
name: Li, Wen-Feng
name: Peng, Ling
name: Zhang, Li-Lian
name: Li, Wen-Feng
name: Peng, Ling
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural production technology
subject: Database platform
subject: B/S structure
subject: China

description: According to the objective reality in Yunnan Province, such as great difference of weather, a great proportion of minorities, and technological backwardness of agricultural production, low conversion rate of research accomplishments and a limited number of agricultural technical personnel, ASP, NET technique and SQL Server 2005 database technique are adopted. Database techniques are adopted. Database platform of county agricultural production technology in Yunnan Province is established by using B/S structure. This platform includes presentation layer, application layer, and data layer, involving regional information, technology column information, technology classification information, technology content and other database. It has six functional modules, namely information browse, system management, regional maintenance, technical section maintenance, category maintenance and technical information release, integrating crop cultivation, livestock breeding, economic forest management, plant protection, agricultural products processing, agricultural machinery use and other agricultural technical information. This platform can exchange information dynamically with the client, perform the query request from users, and send the results to users. This database platform has friendly interface, profuse information, high pertinency and so on, which offers rich and reliable information resources to farmers, agricultural technical personnel, and government. At present, this platform has been popularized in some areas of Yunnan Province and has obtained good results.
Formation of magnetized spatial structures in the Beta Lyrae system II. Reflection of magnetically controlled structures in the visible spectrum
Creators: name: Skulskyy, M. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article proposes a picture of magnetized accretion structures formed during the mass transfer in the Beta Lyrae system. It is shown that the structure of the gaseous flows between the donor and the gainer is due to the spatial configuration of the donor magnetic field. Its dipole axis is deviated substantially from the line joining the centers of the components and is inclined to the orbital plane of the binary system; the center of the magnetic dipole is displaced from the donor center toward the gainer. The surface around the donor magnetic pole, which is close to the gainer, is a region of an additional matter loss from the donor surface. The effective collision of the magnetized plasma with the accretion disk is enhanced by the fast counter-rotation of this disk, especially in the secondary quadrature phases, in which the high-temperature medium and the system of formed accretion flows are observed. This concept is demonstrated, primarily, in the obvious correlations between the phase variability of the donor magnetic field and the corresponding variability of the dynamic and energy characteristics of the various complex lines. This refers to the behavior of the radial velocity curves of the emission-absorption lines formed in the gaseous structures of type H$α$, HeI $λ$ 7065, or the variability of their equivalent width and intensity, and the variability of conventional absorption lines of the donor atmosphere. This is true for the phase variability of the absolute flux in the H$α$ emission line and the fast varying of the continuum in the H$α$ region as certain parameters, which reflect the phase variability of the donor magnetic field. This approach made it possible to determine the phase boundaries of the location of the magnetic polar region on the donor surface above which the matter outflows are formed.
Analysing and mapping of current institutional qualifications for continuing education and professional development and micro-credentials in the MCE partnership. (Research Report No. 3.2)
Creators: name: Weiß, Mareike
name: Zeman, Mirna
name: Elsholz, Uwe
name: Hutgens, Rahel
name: Antonaci, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: micro-credentials
modular education
MCE
online distance education

description: More and more small learning opportunities, so-called micro-credentials, are being developed across Europe and the world. Yet to date, a common definition and standards to describe, design and recognise micro-credentials are missing. What is more, higher education institutions act within very different contexts and may aim to achieve various objectives relating to micro-credentials.

In this deliverable we map and analyze existing institutional qualifications for continuing education and professional development (CEPD) and depict assumed learner's aspirations and preferences in the partnership. The 10 project partners were asked to fill out a comprehensive questionnaire on institutional, quality and funding policies regarding micro-credentials. The answers to questions aimed at current institutional qualifications and supposed learner's motivation are analysed in relation to definitions of micro-credentials offered by the “e-SLP project” (2018-2020), reports of the “Microcredentials in Higher Education Consultation Group” (2021), the “Microbol project” (2021) and “Proposal for a Council Recommendation on a European approach to micro-credentials for lifelong learning and employability“ (2022).

Six out of ten partners already use the term “micro-credential”. In addition, a variety of other designations is used for short learning opportunities. “Certificate”, “short learning program” and “professional course” are the most widespread, along with eight other denominations, e.g., “diploma”, “continuing education with certificate of attendance,” “certified continuing education program”, “MOOC,” “open teaching.” All these terms are understood quite differently with regard to the number of ECTS credits, number of study hours, EQF level, diploma supplement, stackability, etc.

In comparison to heterogeneity of answers regarding current institutional qualifications, there is relative consistency when it comes to the assumed motivations of learners. Most of the partners maintain that the majority of their micro-credentials-students are lifelong learners. The main motivations – in line with the EC Recommendation – are expected to be the wish to ensure employability and career progression and to use the micro-credential for up- or reskilling to better fit labour market needs.

In light of the variations regarding denominations and diverse characteristics, a narrow definition of what micro-credentials are, seems (yet) challenging to impossible. Broad definitions and umbrella of opportunities for individual institutions and countries that come with micro-credentials are still good starting points for further development of micro-credentials.
Probing the light neutral Higgs boson scenario of the CP-violating MSSM Higgs sector at the LHC
Creators: name: Ghosh, Dilip Kumar
name: Moretti, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the CP-violating Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), for certain values of the CP-violating phases associated to the universal trilinear couplings $(A_t, A_b)$ and the gluino mass $(M_{\tilde g})$, e.g., $Φ_{\rm{CP}} = 60^\circ$ or $90^\circ$, for $M_{H^+} \lsim 140 $ GeV and $\tan β\sim 2-5 $, the lightest Higgs boson mass ($M_{H_1}$) is $\lsim 50 $ GeV. This mass interval is still allowed from standard LEP Higgs searches because of a strongly suppressed $H_1ZZ$ coupling. However, in the same region of parameter space in which these two conditions occur, the $H_1 H^\mp W^\pm $ coupling is enhanced because the two mentioned sets of couplings satisfy a sum rule. In this paper we probe such a light Higgs scenario at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by studying $H^\pm H_1$ associate production, leading to a $4b + \ell^\pm + \mET $ signal. We show that the latter is readily accessible at the CERN hadron collider, upon the application of suitable selection cuts against the Standard Model (SM) backgrounds. Our parton level Monte Carlo (MC) analysis yields $\sim 15-45 $ signal events, completely free of SM background, for ${\cal L} = 10-30 {\rm fb}^{-1}$ of accumulated luminosity, after taking into account the overall efficiency for tagging four $b$-jets.
description: 14 pages, 5 postscript figures. One sentence added, typo corrected
Supplementary Tables and Figures from Adaptive zones shape the magnitude of premating reproductive isolation in Timema stick insects
Creators: name: Muschick, Moritz
name: Soria-Carrasco, Víctor
name: Feder, Jeffrey L.
name: Gompert, Zach
name: Nosil, Patrik
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Tables S3 and S6; Figures S1-S3
A framework of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. II. Coarse-graining
Creators: name: Montefusco, Alberto
name: Peletier, Mark A.
name: Öttinger, Hans Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a given thermodynamic system, and a given choice of coarse-grained state variables, the knowledge of a force-flux constitutive law is the basis for any nonequilibrium modeling. In the first paper of this series we established how, by a generalization of the classical fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT), the structure of a constitutive law is directly related to the distribution of the fluctuations of the state variables. When these fluctuations can be expressed in terms of diffusion processes, one may use Green-Kubo-type coarse-graining schemes to find the constitutive laws. In this paper we propose a coarse-graining method that is valid when the fluctuations are described by means of general Markov processes, which include diffusions as a special case. We prove the success of the method by numerically computing the constitutive law for a simple chemical reaction $A \rightleftarrows B$. Furthermore, we show that one cannot find a consistent constitutive law by any Green-Kubo-like scheme.
description: This paper and its precursor (I) replace the previous paper arXiv:1809.07253. Now the content and the presentation style are more targeted to physicists, with particular emphasis on the applications to specific physical systems. The theoretical and the practical aspects have been separated from each other in the two papers
An Exploratory Analysis of Cooperative Model Change in the Process of Tomato Industrialization in Xinjiang, China
Creators: name: He, Zhen
name: He, Zhen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrialization
subject: Cooperation model
subject: Change
subject: China

description: The cooperation models appeared in the process of tomato industrialization in Xinjiang include orders, intermediary agencies and work-shops. The cooperation content, the closeness and the cooperation stability of these models are different from each other. From the local to the Corps in Xinjiang, the cooperation model has undergone corresponding changes. The internal interest mechanism, the constraint mechanism and the protection mechanism have also undergone some changes. In order to make a breakthrough in tomato industrialization in Xinjiang, the cooperation model should be changed from the loose and semi-compact type to the high-compact type. The interest mechanism, the constraint mechanism and the protection mechanism between famers and companies will be strengthened.
XXZ Bethe states as highest weight vectors of the $sl_2$ loop algebra at roots of unity
Creators: name: Deguchi, Tetsuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that every regular Bethe ansatz eigenvector of the XXZ spin chain at roots of unity is a highest weight vector of the $sl_2$ loop algebra, for some restricted sectors with respect to eigenvalues of the total spin operator $S^Z$, and evaluate explicitly the highest weight in terms of the Bethe roots. We also discuss whether a given regular Bethe state in the sectors generates an irreducible representation or not. In fact, we present such a regular Bethe state in the inhomogeneous case that generates a reducible Weyl module. Here, we call a solution of the Bethe ansatz equations which is given by a set of distinct and finite rapidities {\it regular Bethe roots}. We call a nonzero Bethe ansatz eigenvector with regular Bethe roots a {\it regular Bethe state}.
description: 40pages; revised version
Interacting Phantom Energy
Creators: name: Guo, Zong-Kuan
name: Zhang, Yuan-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role of a suitable interaction between a matter fluid and a phantom field for the coincidence problem. There exists a stationary scaling solution which is a stable attractor at late times. Furthermore, the cosmic doomsday is avoided in one region of the parameter space.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX
Demonstration and Radiation Extension Mode of Agricultural Technology - A Case of Science and Technology Project of High Yield in Hebei Province
Creators: name: Wang, Xiao-Ying
name: Shi, Zheng
name: Yang, Ying-Guang
name: Zhao, Hui-Feng
name: Wang, Xiao-Ying
name: Shi, Zheng
name: Yang, Ying-Guang
name: Zhao, Hui-Feng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Science and technology project of high yield
subject: Demonstration and radiation
subject: Agricultural extension mode
subject: China

description: Firstly, relying on the science and technology project of high yield in Hebei Province, connotation of agricultural technology demonstration and extension modes and the grain yield project in Hebei Province is introduced. Extension mode of agricultural technology demonstration and radiation is constructed. Agricultural technology demonstration and radiation mode includes the radiation center, primary irradiation and secondary irradiation. Secondly, management system and operational mechanism of agricultural technology demonstration and radiation mode are discussed, mainly expressed in establishing leading group of demonstration counties (cities), implementing responsibility system of department leaders, setting up expert advisory instruction group, subject technology expert group and the leading group of radiation zone, carrying out the chief expert responsibility system and the technicians matrix responsibility system, establishing the operating mechanism of “open, flow, competition and collaboration” with "test area — expert two-way selection " as the core content. Finally, countermeasures to improve the agricultural technology demonstration and radiation model is put forward, such as establishing the rural technology and demonstration base, strengthening cooperation with enterprises, and adopting flexible technical training, so as to promote the communication of agricultural high-tech, to increase the contribution rate of agricultural technology, and to offer ideas for agricultural extension model at the new era.
BLAZE: Blazing Fast Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Creators: name: Patra, Arpita
name: Suresh, Ajith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning tools have illustrated their potential in many significant sectors such as healthcare and finance, to aide in deriving useful inferences. The sensitive and confidential nature of the data, in such sectors, raise natural concerns for the privacy of data. This motivated the area of Privacy-preserving Machine Learning (PPML) where privacy of the data is guaranteed. Typically, ML techniques require large computing power, which leads clients with limited infrastructure to rely on the method of Secure Outsourced Computation (SOC). In SOC setting, the computation is outsourced to a set of specialized and powerful cloud servers and the service is availed on a pay-per-use basis. In this work, we explore PPML techniques in the SOC setting for widely used ML algorithms-- Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, and Neural Networks. We propose BLAZE, a blazing fast PPML framework in the three server setting tolerating one malicious corruption over a ring (\Z{\ell}). BLAZE achieves the stronger security guarantee of fairness (all honest servers get the output whenever the corrupt server obtains the same). Leveraging an input-independent preprocessing phase, BLAZE has a fast input-dependent online phase relying on efficient PPML primitives such as: (i) A dot product protocol for which the communication in the online phase is independent of the vector size, the first of its kind in the three server setting; (ii) A method for truncation that shuns evaluating expensive circuit for Ripple Carry Adders (RCA) and achieves a constant round complexity. This improves over the truncation method of ABY3 (Mohassel et al., CCS 2018) that uses RCA and consumes a round complexity that is of the order of the depth of RCA. An extensive benchmarking of BLAZE for the aforementioned ML algorithms over a 64-bit ring in both WAN and LAN settings shows massive improvements over ABY3.
description: The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2020
The Baryon asymmetry in the Standard Model with a low cut-off
Creators: name: Bodeker, Dietrich
name: Fromme, Lars
name: Huber, Stephan J.
name: Seniuch, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of the baryon asymmetry in a variant of the standard model, where the Higgs field is stabilized by a dimension-six interaction. Analyzing the one-loop potential, we find a strong first order electroweak phase transition for Higgs masses up to at least 170 GeV. Dimension-six operators induce also new sources of CP violation. We compute the baryon asymmetry in the WKB approximation. Novel source terms in the transport equations enhance the generated baryon asymmetry. For a wide range of parameters the model predicts a baryon asymmetry close to the observed value.
description: 22 pages, latex, 6 figures
Pressure Induced Charge Disproportionation in LaMnO$_{3}$
Creators: name: Banach, G.
name: Temmerman, W. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a total energy study as a function of volume in the cubic phase of LaMnO$_{3}$. A charge disproportionated state into planes of Mn$^{3+}$O$_{2}$/Mn$^{4+}$O$_{2}$ was found. It is argued that the pressure driven localisation/delocalisation transition might go smoothly through a region of Mn$^{3+}$ and Mn$^{4+}$ coexistence.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, Conference Proceedings: Nanospintronics: Design and Realization (Kyoto, Japan 24-28 May, 2004)
Present situation and benefit analysis of the straw recycling in Southwest of China
Creators: name: Gao, Xue-Song
name: Zeng, Min
name: Deng, Liang-Ji
name: Zhong, Chang-Biao
name: Gao, Xue-Song
name: Zeng, Min
name: Deng, Liang-Ji
name: Zhong, Chang-Biao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Straw utilization
subject: Benefit
subject: Sichuan
subject: China

description: Currently, Chinese sustainable agricultural development is facing some big challenges that how to promote the present developing pattern, lengthen material transformation chain, increase the utilization rate of material and energy in agricultural system and form a healthy agriculture ecological circulatory system. China is the major country in producing crops as well as in straw. Both high-efficient utilizing pattern of straw and technological system are needed urgently. We point out the status of straw utilization and the main recycling patterns in typical farming area in Sichuan China through the literature review and data collection, combined with field survey. Based on the statistical analysis, with the economic, environmental and social benefits of each utilization way analyzed, this paper proposes the methods and measures to promote recycling utilization of the straw in Sichuan farming area, where is under the theoretically guide on energy-saving, food safety, and pollution control.
Correction to: "A spectral sequence for stratified spaces and configuration spaces of points"
Creators: name: Gadish, Nir
name: Petersen, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We correct some oversights in the paper "A spectral sequence for stratified spaces and configuration spaces of points" by the second named author. In particular we explain that an additional hypothesis should be added to Theorem 4.15 in said paper.
A study on the use and value of patent information for Small and Medium Enterprises in East Midlands
Creators: name: Peralta, Carmen G.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A study on the use and value of patent information for Small and Medium Enterprises in East Midlands
Heart failure is associated with accelerated age related metabolic bone disease
Creators: name: Martens, Pieter
name: Jozine M. Ter Maaten
name: Vanhaen, Dimitri
name: Heeren, Ellen
name: Thalissa Caers
name: Bovens, Becky
name: Dauw, Jeroen
name: Dupont, Matthias
name: Mullens, Wilfried
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: The heart failure (HF)-syndrome is associated with neuro-hormonal activation, chronic kidney disease (CKD), inflammation and alterations in the phosphorus-metabolism, all of which are involved in regulation of mineral bone density. However, the role of HF as an independent factor associated with metabolic bone disease (MBD) remains unclear. Methods: HF-patients undergoing dual X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) were matched in a 1:2 fashion against age and gender matched controls without HF, to determine the proportion of osteoporosis (T-score < −2.5). HF-status was tested against known predictors of MBD. Correlation analysis and Z-score analysis were used to assess the impact of HF on age-related bone demineralisation. Results: A total of 190 HF-patients (age = 80 ± 10 years, female = 61%) were age and gender matched to 380 controls. HF-patients had a higher proportion of osteoporosis (26 vs 17%; p = .007). HF patients had a lower averaged mineral bone density expressed in g/cm2 (p = .030), T-scores (p = .001) and Z-scores (p β = –0.189; p = .017). Heart failure was associated with an accelerated age-related decline in mineral bone density (p = .0418). Therapies with ACE-I or ARBs and beta-blockers associated with ameliorated bone demineralisation (p = .023, respectively p = .029), while loop diuretic associated with worsened bone demineralization (p Conclusion: Heart failure independently associates with MBD and higher prevalence of osteoporosis. Heart failure aggravates the aged related loss in mineral bone density while treatment with neuro-hormonal blockers seemed to ameliorate this finding.
Cosmological evolution of cosmic strings with time-dependent tension
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the cosmological evolution of cosmic strings with time-dependent tension. We show that, in the case that the tension changes as a power of time, the cosmic string network obeys the scaling solution: the characteristic scale of the string network grows with the time. But due to the time dependence of the tension, the ratio of the energy density of infinite strings to that of the background universe is {\it not} necessarily constant.
description: 9 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Dynamic spin-triplet order induced by alternating electric fields in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor Josephson junctions
Creators: name: Bobkova, I. V.
name: Bobkov, A. M.
name: Silaev, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamic states offer extended possibilities to control the properties of quantum matter. Recent efforts are focused on studying the ordered states which appear exclusively under the time-dependent drives. Here we demonstrate a class of systems which feature dynamic spin-triplet superconducting order stimulated by the alternating electric field. The effect is based on the interplay of ferromagnetism, interfacial spin-orbital coupling (SOC) and the condensate motion driven by the field, which converts hidden static p-wave order, produced by the joint action of the ferromagnetism and the SOC, into dynamical s-wave equal-spin triplet correlations. We demonstrate that the critical current of Josephson junctions hosting these states is proportional to the electromagnetic power, supplied either by the external irradiation or by the ac current source. Based on these unusual properties we propose the scheme of a Josephson transistor which can be switched by the ac voltage and demonstrates an even-numbered sequence of Shapiro steps. Combining the photo-active Josephson junctions with recently discovered Josephson phase batteries we find photo-magnetic SQUID devices which can generate spontaneous magnetic fields while being exposed to irradiation.
description: published version
Comprehensive Evaluation on the Level of Agricultural Modernization in Eastern China
Creators: name: Men, Ke-Pei
name: Tang, Sha-Sha
name: Men, Ke-Pei
name: Tang, Sha-Sha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural modernization
subject: Entropy method
subject: TOPSIS method
subject: max compatibility degree method
subject: China

description: Based on correct understanding of the connotation and essence of agricultural modernization, according to the data in 2008 China Statistical Yearbook and the relevant literatures about eastern China, a total of 12 indices are selected to construct the evaluation index system of agricultural modernization in eastern China by combining with its social development and following the principles of systematization, comprehensiveness, representativeness, legitimacy and comparability. Then, according to the decision-making rules of modern science, 3 alternatives are put forward and max compatibility degree method is used to generate the optimization solution. Result shows that agricultural modernization in eastern China can be classified into three types. The first type is Shanghai; the second type includes Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian and Shandong; and the third type is Jiangxi and Anhui. The evaluation result is in accord with the actual situation of agricultural development in eastern China. Finally, since there still needs improvement in capital investment, rural education, agricultural science and technology research, peasant training, and social and organizational structure, it is pointed out that we should optimize the investment agriculture, enhance support for science and technology, perfect the mechanism of “promoting agriculture development by industry and developing the township by the city”, and accelerate the development of agricultural modernization in eastern China.
Relative effectiveness of augmentation treatments for treatment-resistant depression: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Carter, Ben
name: Strawbridge, Rebecca
name: Husain, Muhammad Ishrat
name: Jones, Brett D. M.
name: Short, Roxanna
name: Cleare, Anthony J.
name: Tsapekos, Dimosthenis
name: Patrick, Fiona
name: Marwood, Lindsey
name: Taylor, Rachael W.
name: Mantingh, Tim
name: Angel, Valeria De
name: Nikolova, Viktoriya L.
name: Carvalho, Andre F.
name: Young, Allan H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Most interventions for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) are added as augmenters. We aimed to determine the relative effectiveness of augmentation treatments for TRD. This systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) sought all randomized trials of pharmacological and psychological augmentation interventions for adults meeting the most common clinical criteria for TRD. The NMA compared the intervention effectiveness of depressive symptoms for TRD augmentation. Of 36 included trials, 27 were suitable for inclusion in NMA, and no psychological trials could be included in the absence of a common comparator. Antipsychotics (13 trials), mood stabilizers (three trials), NMDA-targeting medications (five trials), and other mechanisms (3 trials) were compared against placebo. NMDA treatments were markedly superior to placebo (ES = 0.91, 95% CI 0.67 to 1.16) and head-to-head NMA suggested that NMDA therapies had the highest chance of being an effective treatment option compared to other pharmacological classes. This study provides the most comprehensive evidence of augmenters’ effectiveness for TRD, and our GRADE recommendations can be used to guide guidelines to optimize treatment choices. Although conclusions are limited by paucity of, and heterogeneity between, trials as well as inconsistent reports of treatment safety. This work supports the use of NMDA-targeting medications such as ketamine.
Molecular cloning and genetic characterization of the mammalian and nematode nca gene family of four domain-type voltage-gated ion channels
Creators: name: Hamming, Kevin Scott Christopher
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Voltage-gated ion channels (VGICs) are involved in numerous physiological processes including cellular excitability, electrical signaling and neurotransmitter release. VGICs have also been implicated in human diseases such as night blindness, migraine headaches, cardiovascular disease and certain movement and muscle disorders. While significant work has been performed towards identifying the different types of VGICs in native cells and their molecular counterparts, there still are a number of native conductances that remain to be fully characterized. The role that these "new" channels may play in normal physiological processes and disease states is not known. Thus, a complete study of these new channels is necessary to understand their basic properties and contributions to neuronal physiology. The goals of this study were to identify novel four domain-type VGICs and determine their physiological functions in mammalian and nematode model systems. Screening of the C. elegans genome and GenBank EST databases identified the nca family of four domain-type VGICs. Sequence comparisons between representative Ca2 + and Na+ channel α(i) subunits and that of the NCA channels revealed that the NCA channels form their own distinct family of VGICs based upon amino acid identity. Furthermore, these comparisons predict that the NCA channels may have unique ion selectivity, activation and inactivation properties. Despite repeated attempts under a variety of assay conditions, no functional currents were obtained for the full-length NCA channels transiently transfected into HEK tsA201 cells. The physiological functions of the nca-1 and nca-2 genes in C. elegans were examined using deletion mutant strains that contained predicted null mutations. The cellular expression patterns of nca-1 and nca-2 were determined using promoter
Ecological Safety Evaluation of Land Use in Ji’an City Based on the Principal Component Analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Fei-Yue
name: Wang, Shao-Kai
name: Liu, Fei-Yue
name: Wang, Shao-Kai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Land use
subject: Ecological safety
subject: Principal Component Analysis
subject: Evaluation
subject: China

description: According to the ecological safety evaluation index data of land-use change in Ji’an City from 1999 to 2008, positive treatment on selected reverse indices is conducted by Reciprocal Method. Meanwhile, Index Method is used to standardize the selected indices, and Principal Component Analysis is applied by using year as a unit. FB is obtained, which is related with the ecological safety of land-use change from 1999 to 2008. According to the scientific, integrative, hierarchical, practical and dynamic principles, ecological safety evaluation index system of land-use change in Ji’an City is established. Principal Component Analysis and evaluation model are used to calculate four parameters, including the natural resources safety index of the land use, the socio-economic safety indicators of the land use, the eco-environment safety index of land use, and the ecological safety degree of land use in Ji’an City, Result indicates that the ecological safety degree of land use in Ji’an City shows a slow upward trend as a whole. At the same time, ecological safety degree of land-use change is relatively low in Ji’an City with the safety value of 0.645, which is at a weak safety zone and needs further monitoring and maintenance.
Asymptotic degeneracy of dyonic N=4 string states and black hole entropy
Creators: name: Cardoso, G. L.
name: de Wit, B.
name: Käppeli, J.
name: Mohaupt, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the asymptotic growth of the microscopic degeneracy of BPS dyons in four-dimensional N=4 string theory captures the known corrections to the macroscopic entropy of four-dimensional extremal black holes. These corrections are subleading in the limit of large charges and originate both from the presence of interactions in the effective action quadratic in the Riemann tensor and from non-holomorphic terms. The presence of the non-holomorphic corrections and their contribution to the thermodynamic free energy is discussed. It is pointed out that the expression for the microscopic entropy, written as a function of the dilaton field, is stationary at the horizon by virtue of the attractor equations.
description: 16 pages LateX