cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Singular Solutions in Soft Limits
Creators: name: Cachazo, Freddy
name: Umbert, Bruno
name: Zhang, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A generalization of the scattering equations on $X(2,n)$, the configuration space of $n$ points on $\mathbb{CP}^1$, to higher dimensional projective spaces was recently introduced by Early, Guevara, Mizera, and one of the authors. One of the new features in $X(k,n)$ with $k>2$ is the presence of both regular and singular solutions in a soft limit. In this work we study soft limits in $X(3,7)$, $X(4,7)$, $X(3,8)$ and $X(5,8)$, find all singular solutions, and show their geometrical configurations. More explicitly, for $X(3,7)$ and $X(4,7)$ we find $180$ and $120$ singular solutions which when added to the known number of regular solutions both give rise to $1\, 272$ solutions as it is expected since $X(3,7)\sim X(4,7)$. Likewise, for $X(3,8)$ and $X(5,8)$ we find $59\, 640$ and $58\, 800$ singular solutions which when added to the regular solutions both give rise to $188\, 112$ solutions. We also propose a classification of all configurations that can support singular solutions for general $X(k,n)$ and comment on their contribution to soft expansions of generalized biadjoint amplitudes.
description: 27 + 7 pages, 14 figures, v2: added reference and cross-list with math.co
Characterising convinced sustainable food consumers
Creators: name: Von Meyer-Höfer, Marie
name: Von Der Wense, Vera
name: Spiller, Achim
name: Von Meyer-Höfer, Marie
name: Von Der Wense, Vera
name: Spiller, Achim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: sustainable food consumption
subject: convinced consumers
subject: heavy buyers
subject: tea consumption

description: The objective of this article is to identify the distinguishing socio-demographic and psychographic features of convinced sustainable consumers in contrast to convinced conventional consumers. Furthermore, it contributes to the sparse literature about tea consumption. This study is based on data collected via an online consumer survey. First respondents took part in a choice experiment with tea varying in its price (four levels) and quality (conventional / organic / fair trade / organic & fair trade). Then they had to complete a questionnaire about their attitudes towards food consumption. Respondents, who always chose sustainable tea, at no matter what price, were grouped and those that always chose the conventional tea. T-Tests and bivariate logistic regression are used to analyse the influencing socio-demographic and attitudinal dimensions that characterise the two groups of convinced consumers. Convinced sustainable consumers are more often female than male and perceive that their personal purchase decision has an impact on overall sustainable development. They show a higher willingness to increase sustainability through their consumption behaviour. They are very much interested in high food quality and are not as much influenced by advertisements and offers in their purchase decision-making as convinced conventional consumers. The main contribution of this study is to provide practical information for actors in the field of sustainable food marketing about how to target their most relevant segment, the convinced sustainable consumer.
Foliar Fungicide Application in Northeast Texas: Yield Response and Profitability
Creators: name: Lopez, Jose
name: Rojas, Kandy
name: Teresa, Duch-Carvallo
name: Heitholt, Jim
name: Swart, James
name: Lopez, Jose
name: Rojas, Kandy
name: Teresa, Duch-Carvallo
name: Heitholt, Jim
name: Swart, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: winter wheat
subject: foliar fungal diseases
subject: fungicides
subject: net returns
subject: profitability

description: Fungal diseases are the number one reason for crops losses around the world and have a significant impact on yield and quality. Previous studies suggest that up to 42% yield loss caused by fungal diseases can be prevented by applying foliar fungicides to winter wheat. Contemporaneous research on wheat cultivars and foliar fungicides is essential to find solutions to the instability of farm incomes from the various economic, environmental, and biological factors. Local wheat production data on fungicide application, yield, and disease severity for four soft-red winter wheat cultivars (Magnolia, Terral LA 841, Pioneer 25R47, Coker 9553) for two years (2011 and 2012) and three locations in Northeast Texas (Royce City, Howe, and Leonard) was used to study the economics of one foliar fungicide (tebuconazole). The fungicide was applied as a preventive measure, and the study found positive (two-year average) net returns. The profitability analysis indicated that 66% of the observations resulted in positive net returns from fungicide applications during the two years. A sensitivity analysis showed that most of the cultivars considered have the potential to produce a yield gain that would break even the cost of fungicide application.
description: Selected Paper
Additional file 4 of The theoretical basis of a nationally implemented type 2 diabetes prevention programme: how is the programme expected to produce changes in behaviour?
Creators: name: Hawkes, Rhiannon E.
name: Miles, Lisa M.
name: French, David P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Kappa values for double coding using TCS framework.
MOESM3 of Mapping actionable pathways and mutations in brain tumours using targeted RNA next generation sequencing
Creators: name: Krissie Lenting
name: Heuvel, Corina
name: Ewijk, Anne
name: Duaa ElMelik
name: Boer, Remco
name: Tindall, Elizabeth
name: Wei, Ge
name: Kusters, Benno
name: Dorsthorst, Maarten
name: Laan, Mark
name: Huynen, Martijn
name: Leenders, William
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Mutation detection in glioma samples. A Fisherâ€™s exact test was performed to identify genetic mutations that distinguish the clusters A, B, and C as defined in Fig. 1. Mutations that were present in at least 10% of the unique reads were tested for significance. There were no significant differences between cluster A vs. C. The cutoff for the FDR was set at 0.01. Genes shown here were significantly different between clusters.
"Who's Hiring the Indochinese Worker? Your Competition, Probably": Work, Welfare Dependency, and Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1975-1985
Creators: name: Bourgeois, Janelle
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This Master’s thesis uses the Indochinese Refugee Foundation of Lowell, Massachusetts, a federally funded social service provider, as a case study in the local politics of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement. I argue that the Foundation’s archives offered an opportunity to study the local implementation of the “economic self-sufficiency” mandate of the 1980 Refugee Act, which led the Foundation to increasingly scramble to get refugees off of the welfare rolls and in the labor market as quickly as possible. I conclude that this served to push refugees into low-wage, unskilled, insecure positions such as electronics assembly, and also led to an institutionalized neglect of the broad range of services refugees required. This neglect had a hand in creating the very poverty the Act originally sought to prevent. The archive also offered the opportunity to highlight two unexpected ways that Cold War militarism reshaped urban landscapes. First, the demography and culture of Lowell were profoundly reshaped by refugees resettled partly as a result of American Cold War foreign policy in Southeast Asia. Second, the expansion of Defense Department funded high-technology temporarily revitalized the city’s economic base and drew refugees to the city with the promise of employment.
Multidimensional cosmology and asymptotical AdS
Creators: name: Guenther, U.
name: Moniz, P.
name: Zhuk, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A non-linear gravitational model with a multidimensional geometry and quadratic scalar curvature is considered. For certain parameter ranges, the extra dimensions are stabilized if the internal spaces have negative curvature. As a consequence, the 4-dimensional effective cosmological constant as well as the bulk cosmological constant become negative. The homogeneous and isotropic external space is asymptotically AdS. The connection between the D-dimensional and the 4-dimensional fundamental mass scales sets an additional restriction on the parameters of the considered non-linear models.
description: 6 pages, kluwer.sty; Conf. Proc., 11th EAS Meeting: "JENAM 2002: The Unsolved Universe", Porto, Portugal
Long-Term Determinants of Agricultural Output in Smallholder Farmers in Rwanda
Creators: name: Musafiri, Ildephonse
name: Mirzabaev, Alisher
name: Musafiri, Ildephonse
name: Mirzabaev, Alisher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: long-term determinants
subject: Cobb-Douglas function
subject: agricultural output
subject: ICT adoption
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: Rwanda
subject: Africa

description: This paper analyses the household level drivers of agricultural output in Nyabihu District, a densely populated area of rural Rwanda, over the past 26 years. We use a unique two-wave panel dataset spanning a 26-year period, linking the split-off households in 2012 to the original households in 1986. The findings identify the relative importance of labor, land, and capital for output growth in the study area. Over the studied period, the agricultural output has been characterized by decreasing elasticities of land and capital; whereas the elasticity of labor has grown three-fold. The findings also suggest a substantial impact of mobile phone technology adoption by farm households. Using propensity score matching, we find that agricultural output for mobile phone users is at least 38 percent higher than non-users.
Effective Fields in Dense Quantum Chromodynamics
Creators: name: Nardulli, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the high density, low temperature limit, Quantum Chromodynamics exhibits a transition to phases characterized by color superconductivity and energy gaps in the fermion spectra. We review some fundamental results obtained in this area and in particular we describe the low energy effective lagrangian describing the motion of the quasi-particles in the high density medium (High Density Effective Theory).
description: 17 pages, Invited review talk at Workshop on Quark Gluon Plasma and Relativistic Heavy Ions, Frascati, Italy, 14-18 Jan 2002
Theories of Everything and Hawking's Wave Function of the Universe
Creators: name: Hartle, James B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If a cat, a cannonball, and an economics textbook are all dropped from the same height, they fall to the ground with exactly the same acceleration under the influence of gravity. This equality of gravitational accelerations of different things is one of the most accurately tested laws of physics. That law, however, tells us little about cats, cannonballs, or economics. This lecture expands on this theme to address the question of what features of our world are predicted by a fundamental ``theory of everything'' governing the regularities exhibited universally by all physical systems. This may consist of two parts: a dynamical law governing regularities in time (e.g superstring theory) and a law of cosmological initial condition governing mostly regularities in space (e.g. Hawking's no-boundary initial condition). The lecture concludes that: (1) ``A theory of everything'' is not a theory of everything in a quantum mechanical universe. (2) If the laws are short enough to be discoverable then they are probably too short to predict everything. (3) The regularities of human history, economics, biology, geology, etc are consistent with the fundamental laws of physics but do not follow from them. (Public lecture given at The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology: Stephen Hawking 60th Birthday Symposium.)
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, LaTex, To be published by Cambridge University Press. Two figures have been removed in this version to meet arXiv space limits
A "Greedy" Institution with Great Job Benefits: Family Structure and Gender Variation in Commitment to Military Employment
Creators: name: Brummond, Karen M.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Scholars describe both the military and the family as “greedy institutions,” or institutions that require expansive time and energy commitments, and alter participants’ master status (Segal 1986; Coser 1974). However, the military’s employment benefits may counteract its greedy elements. I use data from the 2008 Survey of Active Duty Members to examine commitment to military employment in wartime, accounting for greedy elements of military service (such as geographic mobility, risk of bodily harm, and separations), job benefits, family structure, and gender. The results show that women in dual-service marriages, unmarried men, and those who experienced separations reported lower career commitment and affective organizational commitment. In contrast, the use of military job benefits was positively associated with commitment. Counterintuitively, parenthood, geographic mobility, and being stationed in Afghanistan were also positively associated with commitment. These findings complicate the military’s label as a greedy institution, and contribute to the literature on work-family conflict and gendered organizations.
A Solution to the Coincidence Puzzle of Ω_{B} and Ω_{DM}
Creators: name: Fujii, Masaaki
name: Yanagida, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a class of Affleck--Dine baryogenesis directly relates the observed mass density of baryons, Ω_{B}, to that of dark matter, Ω_{DM}. In this scenario, the ratio of baryon to dark matter mass density is solely determined by the low energy parameters, except for an O(0.1) effective CP-violating phase. We find that Ω_{B}/Ω_{DM}=O(0.1) with reasonable parameters, which lies surprisingly just in the range of observation. This scenario is totally free from the cosmological gravitino problem, and independent of the detailed history of the Universe as long as it satisfies quite weak constraints.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure
Intensity Gradients Technique: Synergy with Velocity Gradients and Polarization Studies
Creators: name: Hu, Yue
name: Yuen, Ka Ho
name: Lazarian, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium but are notoriously difficult to study through observation. Making use of the advances in our understanding of MHD turbulence and turbulent reconnection, the Velocity Gradient Technique (VGT) was suggested and successfully applied to study magnetic fields utilizing spectroscopic data. Applying the tools developed for VGT to intensity statistics, we introduce the Intensity Gradients Technique (IGT) as a complementary tool that can be used synergistically with VGT. In this paper, we apply IGT to a diffuse HI region selected from the GALFA-HI survey and compare the intensity gradient maps with those obtained using velocity gradients as well as Planck polarization measurements. We demonstrate the possibility of using IGT and VGT for both studying the magnetic field and identifying shocks in the diffuse interstellar medium. We also explore the ability of IGT in locating self-gravitating regions and calculating Alfvenic Mach number, both alone and in combination with VGT and polarimetry. We compare IGT with the Histogram of Relative Orientation (HRO), which utilizes intensity gradients to characterize the relative orientation of column density structures and local magnetic fields.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 1 of A meta-analysis on educational technology in English language teaching
Creators: name: Rahmati, Jafar
name: Izadpanah, Siros
name: Shahnavaz, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Additional file 1. Abbassi, 2015, Ardebili, 2013, Bozorgmanesh, 2013, Dousti, 2012, Ebrahimi, 2014, EbrahimiSeraji, 2016, Esferjani, 2017, Esmaili, 2012, Ezzatian, 2013, Fard, 2016, Farhesh, 2012, Farshadnia, 2010, Ghaziyani, 2017, Hassanzadeh, 2010, Inanloo, 2017, Javdani, 2017, Kashani, 2015, KhademianHashemi, 2014, Khalilabad, 2016, Khalili, 2013, Khazaee, 2017, Letafati, 2013, Li, 2010, Mardian, 2014, Najafi, 2013, Nami, 2020, Noghani, 2015, Noori, 2014, Parisa, 2017, Paslar, 2017, Poorkhalil, 2016, Pour, 2015, Rafei, 2017, Rajabi, 2016, Raye-Ahmadi, 2014, Razavi, 2016, Salimi, 2016, Shafaghiha, 2016, Shafati, 2013, Shargh, 2010, Zakeri, 2018, Zanussi, 2015, Zarat-ehsan, 2015, Zhang & Liu, 2019.
Does Change in Physical Activity Predict Mental Health Outcomes in Pre-Adolescent African American Girls?
Creators: name: Burkart, Sarah A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Pediatric obesity is a significant clinical and public health issue for African American girls in which low physical activity (PA) is a contributor. The mother-daughter relationship (MDR) has rarely been examined in the context of improving health behaviors such as PA and mental health outcomes (MHO) within this population. PURPOSE: To examine if change in PA following a 12-week culturally-tailored mother-daughter PA intervention predicts change in MHO variables (self-esteem, depressive symptoms, body image dissatisfaction) and MDR in pre-adolescent African American girls. METHODS: Mothers (n=27; age=36.0±17.0 years; body mass index (BMI)=34.0±7.4 kg/m2) and daughters (n=27; age=9.0±1.4 years; BMI=20.3±5.7 kg/m2, BMI percentile=73%) randomized to the mother-daughter dance group were examined in this analysis. Physical activity levels were assessed with Actigraph GT3X+ accelerometers for seven days and validated questionnaires. Mental health outcome variables and MDR were assessed using validated questionnaires. Spearman correlations were used to examine associations between variables. MANOVA was used to assess differences in PA levels across three time points. Paired t-tests and ANOVA were used for MHO variables and MDR across two and three time points, respectively. Simple regression was used to assess if PA self-efficacy and MDR mediated changes in PA. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) assessed if changes in PA variables predicted changes in MHO variables. RESULTS: Several significant correlations were observed at baseline and post-intervention such as the negative relationships between daughters’ light PA (% time) and depressive symptoms as well as a daughters’ BMI percentile and body image dissatisfaction. Significant reduction was observed in daughters’ self-reported PA (p=0.04) pre- to post-intervention. No other significant changes were observed. Change in PA did not predict change in MHO variables, but there was a negative effect of average BMI percentile on self-esteem (p=0.017) and body image dissatisfaction (p=0.002). CONCLUSION: In this sample of pre-adolescent African American girls, change in objectively measured PA did not predict change in MHO. The lack of significant findings could be attributed to low attendance of the intervention. Future studies should examine these relationships in a larger sample and explore the use of technology to combat low attendance.
Stop Making Sense: Hegel’s Critique of Common Understanding
Creators: name: Burnfin, Daniel A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This thesis presents Hegel’s account of abstract ‘understanding’ (Verstand) and asserts that his thought is to be read as primarily presenting a critique of abstract understanding. Verstand involves the methodological supposition of a self-subsistent fundament of what it speaks of, and hence the critique of understanding is the critique of the supposition of self-subsistent fundaments. Grasping his account and reading him in its critical light yields a very different image of Hegel than the caricature of ‘totalizing systems’. The dimension of the Verstandeskritik has been relatively neglected in Hegel-reception and misunderstandings result from trying to ‘understand’ Hegel, by overlooking the topic of ‘understanding’ in his work as critique. Many caricatures result from understanding Hegel as a proponent of what he actually critiques (‘absolute knowing’ is often understood as a mega-understanding). The thesis then addresses the historically influential criticisms raised by his contemporary, F.J.W. Schelling, to give a voice to a Hegel that has been hitherto drowned out by caricatures that began with Schelling.
Evaluation of Two-Dimensional Codes for Digital Information Security in Physical Documents
Creators: name: Chen, Shuai
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Nowadays, paper documents are still frequently used and exchanged in our daily life. To safely manage confidential paper information such as medical and financial records has increasingly become a challenge. If a patient's medical diagnosis get stolen or dumped without shredding, his or her private information would be leaked. Some companies and organizations do not pay enough attention to the problem, letting their customers suffer the loss. In the thesis, I designed a hybrid system to solve this problem effectively and economically. This hybrid system integrates physical document properties with digital security technology, which brings in a revolutionary idea for processing sensitive paper information in modern world. Based on that, I focus on different QR code sizes and versions, compare their attributes and relations, and find the best QR code size and version according to data amount in a given area. Finally I implement them in CryptoPaper word plugin, using several test cases to test the functionality of it.
Renormalized AdS gravity and holographic entanglement entropy of even-dimensional CFTs
Creators: name: Anastasiou, Giorgos
name: Araya, Ignacio J.
name: Guijosa, Alberto
name: Olea, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a general formula for renormalized entanglement entropy in even dimensional CFTs holographically dual to Einstein gravity in one dimension higher. In order to renormalize, we adapt the Kounterterm method to asymptotically locally AdS manifolds with conical singularities. On the gravity side, the computation considers extrinsic counterterms and the use of the replica trick a la Lewkowycz-Maldacena. The boundary counterterm B_d is shown to satisfy a key property, in direct analogy to the Euler density: when evaluated on a conically singular manifold, it decomposes into a regular part plus a codimension-2 version of itself located at the conical singularity. The renormalized entropy thus obtained is shown to correspond to the universal part of the holographic entanglement entropy, which for spherical entangling surfaces is proportional to the central charge a that is the subject of the a-theorem. We also review and elucidate various aspects of the Kounterterm approach, including in particular its full compatibility with the Dirichlet condition for the metric at the conformal boundary, that is of standard use in holography.
description: 59 pages, accepted for publication in JHEP
On the Wondrous Stability of ALP Dark Matter
Creators: name: Alonso-Álvarez, Gonzalo
name: Gupta, Rick S.
name: Jaeckel, Joerg
name: Spannowsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The very low mass and small coupling of axion-like particles (ALPs) is usually taken as a guarantor of their cosmological longevity, making them excellent dark matter candidates. That said, Bose enhancement could stimulate decays and challenge this paradigm. Here, we analyze and review the cosmological decay of ALPs into photons, taking Bose enhancement into account, thereby going beyond the usual naive perturbative estimate. At first glance, this calculation seems to yield an exponentially growing resonance and therefore an extremely fast decay rate. However, the redshifting of the decay products due to the expansion of the Universe as well as the effective plasma mass of the photon can prevent an efficient resonance. While this result agrees with existing analyses of the QCD axion, for more general ALPs that can feature an enhanced photon coupling, stability is only ensured by a combination of the expansion and the plasma effects.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures. v2: some references added
MOESM1 of Mapping actionable pathways and mutations in brain tumours using targeted RNA next generation sequencing
Creators: name: Krissie Lenting
name: Heuvel, Corina
name: Ewijk, Anne
name: Duaa ElMelik
name: Boer, Remco
name: Tindall, Elizabeth
name: Wei, Ge
name: Kusters, Benno
name: Dorsthorst, Maarten
name: Laan, Mark
name: Huynen, Martijn
name: Leenders, William
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Kaplan-Meier analysis of unsupervised clusters of the entire cohort. Indicated in the figure are (a) ependymoma, (b) lung metastasis, (c) DNET, (d) LPD, and (e) variant glioma.
The domino effect for markets
Creators: name: Schulze, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A generalization of the Cont-Bouchaud market model to three markets agrees with the correlations netween New York, Tokyo, and Frankfurt observed by Vandewalle et al.
description: 3 pages including 1 figure for Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 13, No. 2
Solar-neutrino reactions on deuteron in effective field theory
Creators: name: Ando, S.
name: Song, Y. H.
name: Park, T. -S.
name: Fearing, H. W.
name: Kubodera, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross sections for low-energy neutrino-deuteron reactions are calculated within heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory employing cut-off regularization scheme. The transition operators are derived up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in the Weinberg counting rules, while the nuclear matrix elements are evaluated using the wave functions generated by a high-quality phenomenological NN potential. With the adoption of the axial-current-four-nucleon coupling constant fixed from the tritium beta decay data, our calculation is free from unknown low-energy constants. Our results exhibit a high degree of stability against different choices of the cutoff parameter, a feature which indicates that, apart from radiative corrections, the uncertainties in the calculated cross sections are less than 1 %.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures. Error estimation of higher order corrections detailed
Fractures and hydrothermal alterations: a review of fluid pathways for geothermal applications
Creators: name: Ledésert, Beatrice
name: Hébert, Ronan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: geothermal

description: Fractures and hydrothermal alterations: a review of fluid pathways for geothermal applications
Dispelling the Anthropic Principle from the Dimensionality Arguments
Creators: name: Wu, Zhong Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that in d=11 supergravity, under a very reasonable ansatz, the nearly flat spacetime in which we are living must be 4-dimensional without appealing to the Anthropic Principle. Can we dispel the Anthropic Principle completely from cosmology?
description: 7 pages, Essay
Dynamical correlation functions expressed in terms of many-particle ground-state wavefunction; the dynamical self-energy operator
Creators: name: Farid, Behnam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the explicit expressions for the (regularized) terms in the large-epsilon asymptotic series of in particular the self-energy operator pertaining to arbitrary systems of interacting spin-s fermions in d spatial dimensions and deduce a variety of exact results concerning the general properties of this operator. We give especial attention to systems of spin-1/2 fermions in d=3 interacting through the Coulomb potential. [Short Abstract]
description: 119 pages, 6 postscript figures. Brought the text in conformity with the published version, and corrected the coefficients of A'(0) and A_s'(0) in appendix F
On Reconciling Gottfried Sum Rule Violation with Cabibbo Theory
Creators: name: Karliner, Marek
name: Lipkin, Harry J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the seemingly contradictory constraints of simultaneously preserving the SU(3)-symmetric Cabibbo description of the weak vector baryon matrix elements, accounting for SU(3) flavor symmetry breaking and describing the observed violation of the Gottfried Sum Rule. We try to construct a simple model that will satisfy these constraints and use it to explain the generic difficulties and tradeoffs.
description: 10 pages, latex
The Practice and Evolution of Video Game Translation: Expanding the Definition of Translation
Creators: name: Bushouse, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This paper looks at the practice and history of video game translation, with the goal of expanding the definition of translation. Video game translation is a complex process that incorporates a number of aspects from other types of translation, such as literary, audiovisual, and software translation, to form a dynamic whole. As a new medium, video games also present their own challenges to translation in the form of interactivity, technology, non-textual and extra-textual elements, audience involvement, and new business practices. Even though video games are a relatively new medium, the practice of translating them has undergone drastic transformations over the years. A case study of the various official translations of Final Fantasy IV provides a brief overview of this development to help the reader get a complete understanding of the video game translation process. The paper concludes by arguing that the different sign systems present in video games are integral to the player’s understanding of the game, and should be considered as aspects that can be translated. Parallels are also drawn between the translation process and the medium of the video game, to show that different approaches to translation can provide the audience with a more holistic view of a work.
Additional file 1 of Towards a needs-based design of the physical rehabilitation workforce in South Africa: trend analysis [1990–2017] and a 5-year forecasting for the most impactful health conditions based on global burden of disease estimates
Creators: name: Q. Louw
name: K. Grimmer
name: K. Berner
name: T. Conradie
name: D. T. Bedada
name: T. S. Jesus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. YLDs total.
Two-Loop QCD Helicity Amplitudes for $e^+e^- \to 3$~Jets
Creators: name: Garland, L. W.
name: Gehrmann, T.
name: Glover, E. W. N.
name: Koukoutsakis, A.
name: Remiddi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for the process e^+e^- --> q bar{q} g. The amplitudes are extracted in a scheme-independent manner from the coefficients appearing in the general tensorial structure for this process. The tensor coefficients are derived from the Feynman graph amplitudes by means of projectors, within the conventional dimensional regularization scheme. The actual calculation of the loop integrals is then performed by reducing all of them to a small set of known master integrals. The infrared pole structure of the renormalized helicity amplitudes agrees with the prediction made by Catani using an infrared factorization formula. We use this formula to structure our results for the finite part into terms arising from the expansion of the pole coefficients and a genuine finite remainder, which is independent of the scheme used to define the helicity amplitudes. The analytic result for the finite parts of the amplitudes is expressed in terms of one- and two-dimensional harmonic polylogarithms.
description: Misprints corrected in eqs. (2.17) and (2.38), Note added about recent independent confirmation of part of the results; files with FORM expressions for the amplitudes (Omega1.out, Omega2.out) are included unchanged
A Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Estimation Methods for Cost Frontiers and Economic Measures
Creators: name: Parman, Bryon
name: Featherstone, Allen
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
name: Parman, Bryon
name: Featherstone, Allen
name: Amanor-Boadu, Vincent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Production
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: Frontier Analysis

description: This research examines the robustness of four different estimation approaches to evaluate their ability to estimate a “true” cost frontier and associated economic measures. The manuscript evaluates three parametric methods including a two-sided error system, OLS with only positive errors, and the stochastic frontier method. The fourth method is the nonparametric DEA method augmented to calculate multi-product and product-specific economies of scale. The robustness of the four estimation methods is examined using simulated data sets from two different distributions and two different observation quantity levels. The theoretical condition of curvature for the estimated cost functions was checked for the input price, and output quantity matrices. Calculation of the Eigenvalues revealed that all three parametric estimation methods violated curvature of either the price or quantity matrix, or both. Calculation of the estimated economic efficiency measures shows the parametric methods to be susceptible to distributional assumptions. However, the DEA method in all three simulations is fairly robust in estimating the “true” cost frontier and associated economic measures while maintaining curvature of the cost function.
Analyzing Two Key Points of the Huaihai Campaign Using Sun Tzu's Net Assessment
Creators: name: Chien, Jimmy
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This thesis focuses on the Huaihai Campaign (Nov. 6 1948 - Jan.10 1949) in the Chinese Civil War (1927-1936, 1949-1950). This war involved the Republic of China’s (ROC) Kuomintang Party (KMT) and the emerging Communist Party of China (CPC). Over the course of a few months and around one million combatants, the Communists pulled off a resounding victory dealing the final blow to the KMT which led to the CPC’s governance over mainland China. This case study of two key turning points in the Huaihai Campaign is analyzed using Sun Tzu’s five net assessments from The Art of War. Although the KMT appeared the much superior force on paper, they were dealt a decisive blow during the Huaihai Campaign. This thesis uses Sun Tzu’s five net assessments to explain the root cause of KMT decision failings. The KMT failures stemmed from ignorance of the most basic and vital military axioms of assessing advantages and disadvantages before going into battle.
You Spoony Bard!: An Analysis of Video Game Localization Practices
Creators: name: Collins, Karrie
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: This paper analyzes the appropriateness of the localization practices utilized in the Japanese video game series Final Fantasy and Pokémon. Its argument is informed by survey responses from players of both series. Immersion, the ability of the player to remain in the game-world without distraction, is believed to be an important goal for successful localization. In this paper, the appropriateness of the localization of the Final Fantasy series is judged based on player immersion and enjoyment. This study finds that immersion is not essential to player enjoyment and therefore is not essential for a successful localization. In regard to the Pokémon series, the appropriateness of the heavy alteration and censorship of elements in the American localization is analyzed via player response to the changes. This localization practice proves to be appropriate and an effective model for future localization of Japanese video games targeted toward children in America. In addition, this paper explores immersion in Pokémon strategy guides released in America and Japan. The aim of this thesis is to expand the dialogue on Japanese video game localization for America and to display successful, creative localization practices which can also be utilized in other media.
Evaluation of Management Strategies and Physiological Mechanisms of Agrostis Species for Reduced Irrigation Environments
Creators: name: Golden, Lisa C
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Water is a basic necessity for turfgrass growth and metabolic processes, with optimal levels required for the maintenance of turf quality and function. As water restrictions for irrigation of landscapes become more widespread across the United States, turfgrass managers will need to rely on management strategies to improve the performance of turfgrasses under reduced irrigation environments. Therefore, the objectives of the research were to (i) compare the performance of different Agrostis species and cultivars under reduced irrigation, (ii) evaluate the use of wetting agents for maintaining turf quality under reduced irrigation, (iii) and examine the physiological mechanisms associated with improved drought resistance traits of Agrostis species. To address our primary objectives, we conducted a two-year field study comparing cultivars of three bentgrass species, including ‘Revere’ and ‘Tiger II’ colonial bentgrasses (Agrostis capillaris), ‘Legendary’ and ‘Greenwich’ velvet bentgrasses (A. canina), and ‘13M’, ‘T-1’, ‘L-93’, and ‘Penncross’ creeping bentgrasses (A. stolonifera) in response to reduced irrigation with and without the use of a wetting agent. In general, the use of a wetting agent did not result in any significant differences in turf quality or soil moisture content among treatments. There were significant differences in turf quality among bentgrass species and cultivars under reduced irrigation. Colonial bentgrass cultivars maintained high turf quality, and were found to be well suited for fairways under reduced irrigation. Due to excessive thatch accumulation in our study, velvet bentgrass cultivars exhibited significant declines in quality regardless of irrigation level. Among creeping bentgrass cultivars, T-1 exhibited improved drought tolerance compared to the older cultivars of creeping bentgrass. Based on results from the field study, we further evaluated the drought resistance and recovery characteristics among five cultivars of colonial bentgrass (‘Barking’, 'Tiger II’, ‘Revere’, ‘Capri’, and ‘Greentime’). Under moderate drought stress, Barking, Tiger II, and Revere all exhibited lower leaf relative water content levels compared to Capri and Greentime, although no significant differences in turf quality or soil water content were observed during the drought period. Following re-watering, Barking and Tiger II exhibited the most rapid recovery from drought (as measured by percent green cover), while Capri and Greentime exhibited delayed recovery. Therefore, although significant differences in turf performance during drought stress were not observed, recovery potential seems to vary among the different cultivars of colonial bentgrass.
Hexapanopeus angustifrons
Creators: name: Coelho, Petrônio Alves
name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Panopeidae
Hexapanopeus
Hexapanopeus angustifrons

description: Hexapanopeus angustifrons (Benedict & Rathbun, 1891)
Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to Florida, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies to Brazil (Santa Catarina) (Melo 1996).
 Occurrence in northern and northeastern Brazil: PE: Coelho Filho et al. (1994); AL: Coelho et al. (1990); BA: Almeida et al. (2007b).
description: Published as part of Coelho, Petrônio Alves, Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De & Bezerra, Luis Ernesto Arruda, 2008, Checklist of the marine and estuarine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of northern and northeastern Brazil, pp. 1-58 in Zootaxa 1956 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1956.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5241063
Additional file 2 of Towards a needs-based design of the physical rehabilitation workforce in South Africa: trend analysis [1990–2017] and a 5-year forecasting for the most impactful health conditions based on global burden of disease estimates
Creators: name: Q. Louw
name: K. Grimmer
name: K. Berner
name: T. Conradie
name: D. T. Bedada
name: T. S. Jesus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Methods of extrapolation.
Crystal structures, magnetic and superconducting properties of the RuSr_2NdCu_2O_x and RuSr_2GdCu_2O_y compounds
Creators: name: Vecchione, A.
name: Gombos, M.
name: Pace, S.
name: Tedesco, C.
name: Zola, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the magnetization and the susceptibility measurements of the RuSr_2GdCu_2O_y and RuSr_2NdCu_2O_x perovskite materials. We find that RuSr_2GdCu_2O_y compound exhibits a magnetic transition at Tn=135 K followed by a superconducting one with an onset Tc=35 K. Samples of RuSr_2NdCu_2O_x material have shown neither superconductivity nor magnetic transition. XRD measurements show that in RuSr_2NdCu_2O_x the Nd ions tend to substitute to Sr ions in very high percentages. The relevance of this phenomenon on the absence of superconductivity in RuSr_2NdCu_2O_x is discussed.
description: 7 pages and 3 figures
Absolute Parallelism Geometry: Developments, Applications and Problems
Creators: name: Wanas, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Absolute parallelism geometry is frequently used for physical applications. It has two main defects, from the point of view of applications. The first is the identical vanishing of its curvature tensor. The second is that its autoparallel paths do not represent physical trajectories. The present work shows how these defects were treated in the course of development of the geometry. The new version of this geometry contains simultaneous non-vanishing torsion and curvatures. Also, the new paths discovered in this geometry do represent physical trajectories. Advantages and disadvantages of this geometry are given for each stage of its development. Physical applications are just mentioned without giving any details.
description: 12 Pages Tex file. A version of this paper has been published in the Proceeding of the 11th conference on "Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton Geometry", held in Romania (Bacau, Feb. 2000)
The Science of Murray Gell-Mann
Creators: name: Jain, Sanjay
name: Wadia, Spenta R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article summarizes some of the most important scientific contributions of Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019). (Invited article for Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences.)
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, 3 photographs