cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The interplay between pubertal timing, parental control and adolescent problem behaviors
Creators: name: Arim, Rubab G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study was undertaken to investigate the interplay between pubertal timing, parental control, and problem behaviors. More specifically, this study examined the relationships between (a) pubertal timing and problem behaviors; and (b) parental control and problem behaviors. The link between pubertal timing and parental control was also explored to determine whether this relationship itself influences behavioral outcomes. A total of 267 (93 male, 167 female) students, whose ages ranged from 9 to 16 years participated in the study. Regarding pubertal timing, the findings indicated that pubertal timing was associated with externalizing problem behaviors; however, there was no significant relationship between pubertal timing and internalizing problem behaviors. This suggests that pubertal timing may not be a critical a variable in understanding individual differences in all kinds of problem behavior. Regarding parental control, it was found that both maternal and paternal psychological control predicted adolescent internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, even after controlling for the effects of behavioral control. The results suggested that the use of behavioral control is differentially related to developmental outcomes, depending on the domain in which it is utilized. Furthermore, the findings highlighted the value of fathers in fostering optimal adolescent development. Finally, the combined influence of pubertal timing and parental control on adolescent problem behaviors was not found to be significant. Several directions for future research are discussed in light of these findings.
Additional file 5 of Comprehensive evaluation of targeted multiplex bisulphite PCR sequencing for validation of DNA methylation biomarker panels
Creators: name: Lam, Dilys
name: Phuc-Loi Luu
name: Song, Jenny Z.
name: Wenjia Qu
name: Risbridger, Gail P.
name: Lawrence, Mitchell G.
name: Lu, Jennifer
name: Trau, Matt
name: Korbie, Darren
name: Clark, Susan J.
name: Pidsley, Ruth
name: Stirzaker, Clare
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Platform comparison of MBPS and WGBS methylation data (PDF). (A) Correlation plots of absolute methylation levels of each CpG in the prostate cancer panels, as measured by multiplex bisulphite PCR (y-axis) and WGBS (x-axis), across each of the four cells (LNCaP, PrEC, CAF, NPF). (B) Correlation plots of relative methylation differences (LNCaP minus PrEC; CAF minus NPF cells) as measured by MBPS (y-axis) and WGBS (x-axis). Pearson’s correlation test was used to derive the correlation coefficient (r) and p-value (p).
Encroachment of Waterspread Area of Tanks in Karnataka: Magnitude, Causes and Consequences
Creators: name: Thippaiah, P.
name: Thippaiah, P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Traditional water bodies called tanks were built mainly for catering to the irrigation and drinking needs of the village communities. Until 1950-51, they played a significant role in helping the rural economies. Over the years, they have lost their significance due to a variety of reasons. Although many factors have contributed to the dysfunctional conditions of the tanks, the encroachments upon foreshore/waterspread area have played a major role in making the tanks non-viable. This paper focuses on this issue covering aspects like extent of encroachment, encroacher’s background, reasons for encroachment, consequences of encroachment and remedial measures for the eviction and prevention of encroachments. The primary data collected from the encroachers in respect of 47 tanks spread over in 11 districts, 8 Agro Climatic Zones and 17 taluks of the state of Karnataka have been used for analysing these aspects.
Factors Determining Farmers’ Decision for Buying Irrigation Water: Study of Groundwater Markets in Rajasthan
Creators: name: Sharma, Purushottam
name: Sharma, R.C.
name: Sharma, Purushottam
name: Sharma, R.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The emergence of groundwater markets has helped in mitigating inequality in physical access to the groundwater resources, on the one hand, but on the other hand, it may lead to exploitation of the buyers of water, i.e. resource-poor, small farmers. For the sellers of water, it is becoming a remunerative business economically, leading to serious environmental as well as social concerns. The present study conducted in the arid and semiarid zones of Rajasthan has addressed these issues. The study has shown that prevailing terms of water transactions, particularly ‘in-kind’ terms, lead to the over-exploitation of groundwater resources. The credit policies and the power pricing policies of the government also help in the unsustainable and inequitable use of this resource. Water policy ensuring mandatory recharging of the abandoned wells mainly for the sellers of water is the need of hour for the efficient and sustainable use of this scarce natural resource. The analysis of farmers’ decision to participate in water markets employing logit regression has suggested that the farmers having higher fragmented landholdings have higher probability of buying groundwater. Joint ownership of wells is negatively associated with the farmers’ probability of buying groundwater. This implies that the consolidation of holdings or installing cooperative wells may economize the irrigation investment and lead to efficient management of resources of the farmers and sustainable utilization of water. In the national and state water policies as well as in the Model Bill to regulate and control the groundwater resources, this aspect has not been given any emphasis.
Additional file 4 of The short-term effects of sedentary behaviour on cerebral hemodynamics and cognitive performance in older adults: a cross-over design on the potential impact of mental and/or physical activity
Creators: name: Maasakkers, Carlijn M.
name: Melis, René J. F.
name: Kessels, Roy P. C.
name: Gardiner, Paul A.
name: Rikkert, Marcel G. M. Olde
name: Thijssen, Dick H. J.
name: Claassen, Jurgen A. H. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4 : Supplement 4 Cerebral autoregulation results repeated sit-stands.
The magnetic helicity density patterns from non-axisymmetric solar dynamo
Creators: name: Pipin, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the paper we study the helicity density patterns which can result from the emerging bipolar regions. Using the relevant dynamo model and the magnetic helicity conservation law we find that the helicity density pattern around the bipolar regions depends on the configuration of the ambient large-scale magnetic field, and in general they show the quadrupole distribution. The position of this pattern relative to the equator can depend on the tilt of the bipolar region. We compute the time-latitude diagrams of the helicity density evolution. The longitudinally averaged effect of the bipolar regions show two bands of sign for the density distribution in each hemisphere. Similar helicity density patterns are provided by the helicity density flux from the emerging bipolar regions subjected to the surface differential rotation. Examining effect of helicity fluxes from the bipolar regions on the large-scale dynamo we find that its effect to the dynamo saturation is negligible.
description: 21 pages, 6 Figures, accepted in JPlPh
SecureIT using Firebase, Google map and Node.Js
Creators: name: Khatun, Shanta
name: Saiki, Fahim Hossain
name: Biswas, Milon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper is about describing the features of a software that was developed for its user safety which we called SecureIT is a android based soft ware using Android SDK along with Firebase and Google map SDK along with Node.Js. The aim of developing this project was to make sure and taking its users safety to a next level. Actually now a days some crime incidents like rapes, fire accidents and snatchings are very common and we believe many of those can be prevented if victim got support at the right time. According to the well known daily news paper of Bangladesh The Daily Star there were about 1413 women was rapped where 76 women were dead in 2019. On the same pa-per it also said that in 2018 and 2017 the number of rapes were 732 and 818 where we can easily get that the number increases to almost double in 2019. Where we get a point that if those girls get support or get people known about their location at the right time they might get rid of the situation and the number of rapes could be reduced a lot because we all know that now a days using mo-bile smartphone is too easy for people. Although leading Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi introduced a new feature Emergency SOS service in their mobile phones at the end of 2018 with a MIUI 10 update but this feature is only limited to the Xiaomi phones and it was well advertised as well. This paper will briefly describe all the features of our software and its usages.
description: 17 pages
Dimensions and Determinants of Peoples’ Participation in Watershed Development Programmes in Rajasthan
Creators: name: Badal, P.S.
name: Kumar, Pramod
name: Bisaria, Geeta
name: Badal, P.S.
name: Kumar, Pramod
name: Bisaria, Geeta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Peoples’ participation has been at the centre-stage of the resource conservation and rural development efforts in the developing countries. The study on peoples’ participation in watershed development programmes in Rajasthan has revealed that a very low proportion of beneficiaries is contributing at different stages of the programme in terms of either labour or finances or both. The determinants of participation have been identified using Tobit regression. The institutional effectiveness has been found as the key factor towards guaranteeing involvement of people in the watershed programmes. The other factors positively related with peoples’ participation are training of farmers, age, and frequency of the visit of extension workers. A negative relationship has been found between participation and off-farm income. Therefore, efforts should be made for developing effective local institutions, capacity building through training of farmers and providing off-farm employment opportunities in the countryside itself for safeguarding the livelihoods of people in the rainfed areas.
Economic Viability of Rainwater Harvesting by Renovating Village Ponds in Small Agricultural Watershed of Johranpur (HP)
Creators: name: Arya, Swarn Lata
name: Yadav, R.P
name: Arya, Swarn Lata
name: Yadav, R.P
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The study has evaluated the benefits and financial structure of the project in the village Johranpur, district Solan (Himachal Pradesh) where a project under the NATP on ‘Rainwater Management on Micro Watershed basis’ was undertaken in the year 2000. It has also studied the extent of employment generated by the project and has assessed the changes in the land-use pattern in the project area. The results have revealed that technology of diverting run-off from agricultural fields to renovated ponds and its recycling to the same area with peoples’ participation and other technological interventions could produce remarkable results and have tripled the net agricultural income. The project was implemented at an initial cost of 9.21 lakhs and farmers incurred additional annual cost on inputs ranging from Rs 4963 to Rs 6346 per hectare due to supplemental irrigation, increased cropping intensity and higher input-use. The benefit cost ratio has been found as 1.71 using a discount value of 10 per cent for the project-life of 10 years. The project has also helped in generating additional employment opportunities on casual as well as regular basis.
Semiclassical instanton formulation of Marcus-Levich-Jortner theory
Creators: name: Heller, Eric R.
name: Richardson, Jeremy O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Marcus-Levich-Jortner (MLJ) theory is one of the most commonly used methods for including nuclear quantum effects into the calculation of electron-transfer rates and for interpreting experimental data. It divides the molecular problem into a subsystem treated quantum-mechanically by Fermi's golden rule and a solvent bath treated by classical Marcus theory. As an extension of this idea, we here present a "reduced" semiclassical instanton theory, which is a multiscale method for simulating quantum tunnelling of the subsystem in molecular detail in the presence of a harmonic bath. We demonstrate that instanton theory is typically significantly more accurate than the cumulant expansion or the semiclassical Franck-Condon sum, which can give orders-of-magnitude errors and in general do not obey detailed balance. As opposed to MLJ theory, which is based on wavefunctions, instanton theory is based on path integrals and thus does not require solutions of the Schrödinger equation, nor even global knowledge of the ground- and excited-state potentials within the subsystem. It can thus be efficiently applied to complex, anharmonic multidimensional subsystems without making further approximations. In addition to predicting accurate rates, instanton theory gives a high level of insight into the reaction mechanism by locating the dominant tunnelling pathway as well as providing information on the reactant and product vibrational states involved in the reaction and the activation energy in the bath similarly to what would be found with MLJ theory.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
Coordination after gains and losses: Is prospect theory’s value function predictive for games?
Creators: name: Schade, Christian
name: Schroeder, Andreas
name: Krause, Kai Oliver
name: Schade, Christian
name: Schroeder, Andreas
name: Krause, Kai Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Prospect Game Theory
subject: Prior Outcomes
subject: Coordination
subject: Equilibrium Selection
subject: Economic Experiment

description: We analyze the effects of prior gain and loss experiences on individuals’ behavior in two coordination games: battle of the sexes and simultaneous market entry. We propose subjectively transformed games that integrate elements of prospect theory, aggregation of prior and subsequent payoffs, and social projection. Mathematical predictions of behavior are derived based on equilibrium selection concepts. Males’ behavior in our experimental studies is largely consistent with our predictions. However, the behavior of many female respondents appears to be rather consistent with interpreting the initial random lottery outcomes used to manipulate prior experiences as a signal for the players’ abilities to compete. This could be related to females’ known uneasiness of competing against counterparts that might be male and thus, a generally higher salience of rivalry in our incentivized experiments. Females also chose to play far more mixed strategies than males indicating some uncertainty about what type of behavior is appropriate.
Droplet impact on surfaces with asymmetric microscopic features
Creators: name: Yada, Susumu
name: Allais, Blandine
name: van der Wijngaart, Wouter
name: Lundell, Fredrik
name: Amberg, Gustav
name: Bagheri, Shervin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The impact of liquid drops on a rigid surface is central in cleaning, cooling and coating processes in both nature and industrial applications. However, it is not clear how details of pores, roughness and texture on the solid surface influence the initial stages of the impact dynamics. Here, we experimentally study drop impacting at low velocities onto surfaces textured with asymmetric (tilted) ridges. We define the line-friction capillary number $Ca_f={μ_f V_0}/σ$ (where $μ_f$, $V_0$ and $σ$ are the line friction, impact velocity and surface tension, respectively) as a measure of the importance of the topology of surface textures for the dynamics of droplet impact. We show that when $Ca_f \ll 1$, the contact line speed in the direction against the inclination of the ridges is set by line-friction, whereas in the direction with inclination the contact line is pinned at acute corners of the ridge. When $Ca_f \sim 1$, the pinning is only temporary until the liquid-vapor interface reaches to the next ridge where a new contact line is formed. Finally, when $Ca_f\gg 1$, the geometric details of non-smooth surfaces play little role.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, under consideration for Physical Review Fluids. Revised February 04 2021
Self-Trapped Polarons and Topological Defects in a Topological Mott Insulator
Creators: name: Julià-Farré, Sergi
name: Müller, Markus
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
name: Dauphin, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many-body interactions in topological quantum systems can give rise to new phases of matter, which simultaneously exhibit both rich spatial features and topological properties. In this work, we consider spinless fermions on a checkerboard lattice with nearest and next-to-nearest neighbor interactions. We calculate the phase diagram at half filling, which presents, in particular, an interaction-induced quantum anomalous Hall phase. We study the system at incommensurate fillings using an unrestricted Hartree-Fock ansatz and report a rich zoo of solutions such as self-trapped polarons and domain walls above an interaction-induced topological insulator. We find that, as a consequence of the interplay between the interaction-induced topology and topological defects, these domain walls separate two phases with opposite topological invariants and host topologically protected chiral edge states. Finally, we discuss experimental prospects to observe these novel phenomena in a quantum simulator based on laser-dressed Rydberg atoms in an optical lattice.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures + 10 pages of Supplemental Materials. Revised version published in Phys. Rev. Letters
The New Zealand Dairy Cooperatives’ Adaptation to Changing Market Conditions
Creators: name: Nilsson, Jerker
name: Ohlsson, Camilla
name: Nilsson, Jerker
name: Ohlsson, Camilla
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Cooperative
subject: Dairy
subject: New Zealand
subject: Fonterra
subject: Market strategy
subject: Organizational model

description: This article examines the market conditions, the strategies, and the organizational structures of agricultural cooperatives. Based on the growing literature on cooperative organizational models, it is expected that the new organizational patterns in the New Zealand dairy cooperatives in the early 2000s are a consequence of market changes. Case studies of the three cooperatives are conducted, focusing on the organizational structures in terms of collective versus individualized attributes. The dissolution of the New Zealand Dairy Board created new market opportunities for the cooperatives. Hence, the co-operatives had reason to develop new market strategies, and in order to pursue these well, they changed their organizational structures. The observations indicate that more liberalized and open markets require cooperative organizational models with more individualized traits.
Cooperative Competitiveness and Capital Structure in the Greek Dairy Industry
Creators: name: Ananiadis, Yannis
name: Notta, Ourania
name: Oustapassidis, Kostas
name: Ananiadis, Yannis
name: Notta, Ourania
name: Oustapassidis, Kostas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: There has been an increasing interest in cooperative capital structure and its association with the cooperative competitiveness, but the relevant hypotheses have not been tested by using a comprehensive analysis. This paper examines the effects of financial ratios on net profit margins using panel data for the period 1990-981 and explains differences between the cooperative and the investor owned firms (IOFs) operating in the Greek dairy industry. The relevant descriptive statistics show that IOFs are more profitable, while fixed effect results suggest that profitability differences between the two groups can be mainly attributed to the greater effectiveness of IOF capital structure determinants. These results provide a clear message to the cooperative management that if cooperatives’ aim is to improve their competitiveness against IOFs, then Greek dairy cooperatives should increase the contribution of retained profits to capital along with a better exploitation of capital intensity and economies of scale. The paper, however, suggests that a study of non-economic aspects is also required for a complete evaluation of the Greek dairy cooperative performance.
The Comparison of Kibbutz Productivity to National Statistics: Analysis and Remarks
Creators: name: Satt, Ehud
name: Satt, Ehud
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: National income and accounting
subject: interest payments and debt financing
subject: income tax
subject: kibbutz

description: This study examines conceptual problems in measuring product and disposable income of the kibbutz and in comparing them with the relevant national data. The inquiry was prompted by Kroll and Polovin’s paper in this Journal (1997), in which the authors found that per capita product and disposable income of the kibbutz are significantly lower than the national average in Israel. To carry out the analysis, we develop a formal-conceptual model of a national economy which consists of several sectors. Using this model it is shown that the “terms of trade” between the sectors – and the income transfers involved – have a marked effect on the per capita income in each sector, independent of its own productivity. In particular, two downward accounting biases may account for the results of Kroll and Polovin, regarding the kibbutz economy: the “interest effect” and the “tax effect”. We hope that this analysis will contribute to a better understanding of this issue, and also – more generally – to the national accounting theory.
Trading interactions for topology in scale-free networks
Creators: name: Giuraniuc, C. V.
name: Hatchett, J. P. L.
name: Indekeu, J. O.
name: Leone, M.
name: Castillo, I. Perez
name: Van Schaeybroeck, B.
name: Vanderzande, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scale-free networks with topology-dependent interactions are studied. It is shown that the universality classes of critical behavior, which conventionally depend only on topology, can also be explored by tuning the interactions. A mapping, $γ' = (γ- μ)/(1-μ)$, describes how a shift of the standard exponent $γ$ of the degree distribution $P(q)$ can absorb the effect of degree-dependent pair interactions $J_{ij} \propto (q_iq_j)^{-μ}$. Replica technique, cavity method and Monte Carlo simulation support the physical picture suggested by Landau theory for the critical exponents and by the Bethe-Peierls approximation for the critical temperature. The equivalence of topology and interaction holds for equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems, and is illustrated with interdisciplinary applications.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Mechanisms for $χ_{cJ}\to ϕϕ$ Decays
Creators: name: Zhou, H. Q.
name: Ping, R. G.
name: Zou, B. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exclusive decays of $χ_{cJ}(J=0,2)$ into $ϕϕ$ are investigated in the framework of perturbative quantum chromodynamics(pQCD) and $\tpz$ quark pair creation model. The results show that these two mechanisms exhibit a quite different behavior in evaluating the decay width for the $χ_{c0}$ and $χ_{c2}$. In pQCD method with nonrelativistic(NR) approximation, while the calculated $\cxpp{2}$ decay width is comparable with measured one, the result for the $\cxpp{0}$ decay width is suppressed and much smaller than experimental value. However, in $\tpz$ quark pair creation model, the situation is reversed: the decay width of $\cxpp{0}$ is greatly enhanced and can reproduce the large measured value, while the contribution to the $\cxpp{2}$ decay width is small. The results suggest that while the pQCD mechanism is the dominant mechanism for $\cxpp{2}$ decay, the $\tpz$ quark pair creation mechanism is the dominant one for $\cxpp{0}$ decay.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Cooperative Child Care for Rural Residents: The Experience from California
Creators: name: Coontz, Elizabeth Kim
name: Esper, Elizabeth
name: Coontz, Elizabeth Kim
name: Esper, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Over the past third of a century, Western welfare states have made policy shifts toward decentralization and privatization, and expected the private non-profit sector to take a larger role in addressing social welfare needs. In the US, welfare policies that focus on employment for the parents of young children, the large number of parents in the workforce, and inadequate child care services in rural communities combine to make the case for innovative child care strategies particularly compelling. This article reports the findings of a project that explored the feasibility of using cooperative models of child care to address the needs of rural communities in California. The project examined relevant literature and identified existing federal and state programs involved with child care for low-income families, as well as relevant funding sources for cooperative development. Interviews were conducted with those involved in low-income housing, early childhood development, welfare-to-work programs, and economic development in rural communities. Interviews also helped identify rural affordable housing developments and rural communities for specific feasibility studies. The findings of the project demonstrate compelling reasons that cooperative models of child care, especially the parent model, can offer effective strategies for expanding needed child care in rural communities.
Farm Cooperatives and the Social Economy: The Case of Spain
Creators: name: Igual, Juan Francisco Julia
name: Vidal, Sergio Mari
name: Igual, Juan Francisco Julia
name: Vidal, Sergio Mari
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The term “Social Economy” is used to mean a set of organizations that share specific operational features, such as solidarity, mutual assistance, open membership, democratic management and people-based decision-making and distribution of surpluses, which depend on the activity carried out by each person irrespective of the capital invested. Farm cooperatives undoubtedly belong to this group. In recent years, Spanish farm cooperatives have been experiencing substantial business development. This process is a consequence of the latest changes in the regulations governing Spanish cooperatives. Major cooperative groups with high turnovers have developed in this positive environment. Although there are differences between countries, the European cooperative movement is a good example of the prominence that cooperatives have achieved in many sectors. Their traditional goals are changing and one of their current priorities is to meet the requirements of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) as regards agricultural multi-functionality. Nevertheless, the principles of this concept were already present in their own tenets. This paper aims to show the role of the cooperatives in the new social requirements, taking into account their functioning principles and the new conceptual frame they are involved in.
Electronic Raman scattering in correlated materials: exact treatment of nonresonant, mixed, and resonant scattering with dynamical mean field theory
Creators: name: Shvaika, A. M.
name: Vorobyov, O.
name: Freericks, J. K.
name: Devereaux, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve for the electronic Raman scattering response functions on an infinite-dimensional hypercubic lattice employing dynamical mean field theory. This contribution extends previous work on the nonresonant response to include the mixed and resonant contributions. We focus our attention on the spinless Falicov-Kimball model, where the problem can be solved exactly, and the system can be tuned to go through a Mott-Hubbard-like metal-insulator transition. Resonant effects vary in different scattering geometries, corresponding to the symmetries of the charge excitations scattered by the light. We do find that the Raman response is large near the double resonance, where the transfered frequency is close to the incident photon frequency. We also find a joint resonance of both the charge-transfer peak and the low-energy peak when the incident photon frequency is on the order of the interaction strength. In general, the resonance effects can create order of magnitude (or more) enhancements of features in the nonresonant response, especially when the incident photon frequency is somewhat larger than the frequency of the nonresonant feature. Finally, we find that the resonant effects also exhibit isosbestic behavior, even in the A1g and B2g sectors, and it is most prominent when the incident photon frequency is on the order of the interaction energy.
description: (20 pages, 13 figures)
THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION AND AUSTRALIA'S CLIMATE POLICY
Creators: name: Pezzey, John C.V.
name: Mazouz, Salim
name: Jotzo, Frank
name: Pezzey, John C.V.
name: Mazouz, Salim
name: Jotzo, Frank
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: climate policy
subject: Australia
subject: targets
subject: emission trading
subject: carbon leakage
subject: lobbying

description: We analyse the long-term efficiency of the emissions target and of the provisions to reduce carbon leakage in the Australian Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, as proposed in March 2009, and the nature and likely cause of changes to these features in the previous year. The target range of 5-15% cuts in national emission entitlements during 2000-2020 was weak, in that on balance it is too low to minimise Australia's long-term mitigation costs. The free allocation of output-linked, tradable emission permits to Emissions-Intensive, Trade-Exposed (EITE) sectors was much higher than proposed earlier, or shown to be needed to deal with carbon leakage. It plausibly means that EITE emissions can rise by 13% during 2010- 2020, while non-EITE sectors must cut emissions by 34-51% (or make equivalent permit imports) to meet the national targets proposed, far from a cost-effective outcome. The weak targets and excessive EITE assistance illustrate the efficiency-damaging power of collective action by the 'carbon lobby'. Resisting this requires new national or international institutions to assess lobby claims impartially, and more government publicity about the true economic importance of carbon-intensive sectors.
description: We thank two anonymous referees and the Department of Climate Change for helpful comments. This research was supported financially by the Environmental Economics Research Hub of the Australian Government's Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities program.
Disorder-immune metasurfaces with constituents exhibiting the anapole mode
Creators: name: Song, Hao
name: Wang, Neng
name: Yu, Kuai
name: Pei, Jihong
name: Wang, Guo Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Common optical metasurfaces are 2-dimensional functional devices composed of periodically arranged subwavelength constituents. Here, we achieved the positional-disorder-immune metasurfaces composed of core-shell cylinders which successively exhibit the magnetic dipole (MD) resonant, non-radiating anapole, and electric dipole (ED) resonant modes when their outer radii are fixed and the inner radii changes continuously in a range. The performances of the metasurfaces under a periodically structural design are not degraded even when the positions of the cylinders are subjected to random and considerable displacements. The positional-disorder-immunity is due to the weak non-local effect of the metasurfaces. Because the multiple scattering among cylinders is weak and insensitive to the spacing among the cylinders around the ED and MD resonant modes and vanishing irrespective of the spacing at the non-radiating anapole mode, the reflection properties including the reflection phase and reflectivity of the metasurfaces are insensitive to the spacing between neighboring cylinders for this entire variation range of the inner radius. The positional-disorder-immunity make the metasurface to be adapted to some unstable and harsh environments.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 3 of The short-term effects of sedentary behaviour on cerebral hemodynamics and cognitive performance in older adults: a cross-over design on the potential impact of mental and/or physical activity
Creators: name: Maasakkers, Carlijn M.
name: Melis, René J. F.
name: Kessels, Roy P. C.
name: Gardiner, Paul A.
name: Rikkert, Marcel G. M. Olde
name: Thijssen, Dick H. J.
name: Claassen, Jurgen A. H. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3 : Supplement 3 Baroreflex sensitivity results repeated sit-stands.
Understanding values associated with stormwater remediation options in marine coastal ecosystems: A case study from Auckland, New Zealand
Creators: name: Bastone, Chris
name: Stewart-Carbines, Megan
name: Kerr, Geoffrey N.
name: Sharp, Basil M.H.
name: Meister, Anton D.
name: Bastone, Chris
name: Stewart-Carbines, Megan
name: Kerr, Geoffrey N.
name: Sharp, Basil M.H.
name: Meister, Anton D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper describes the design and implementation of a choice experiment to understand Aucklanders’ preferences for environmental qualities associated with the effects of urban run-off on marine coastal environments. Auckland’s coastal environments are affected by a range of ecological and human factors. While much research has been undertaken in the area of ecology, little is understood of human preferences for coastal environments and their management. An unlabelled choice experiment was developed with three environmental quality attributes specified at three broad coastal categories. The environmental qualities are ecological health, water clarity, and underfoot conditions. Willingness to pay estimates for these attributes indicates that respondents show a strong preference for improved environmental quality at outer coastal beach locations over middle and upper harbour locations. Water quality leads ecological health, then underfoot conditions in importance at beach locations. An application is discussed in which a hypothetical project consisting of policy and engineering components delivers changes in water quality and underfoot conditions in the Auckland upper harbour areas. A 95% confidence estimate of the money value of that change ranges from $ 783 m. to $ 1,122 b. The key outcome is demonstration of the choice experiment as a statistically robust and flexible approach to making sense of Aucklanders’ complex preferences for coastal ecosystem management.
Additional file 2 of The short-term effects of sedentary behaviour on cerebral hemodynamics and cognitive performance in older adults: a cross-over design on the potential impact of mental and/or physical activity
Creators: name: Maasakkers, Carlijn M.
name: Melis, René J. F.
name: Kessels, Roy P. C.
name: Gardiner, Paul A.
name: Rikkert, Marcel G. M. Olde
name: Thijssen, Dick H. J.
name: Claassen, Jurgen A. H. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2 : Supplement 2 Detailed description of the cognitive tasks.
A Priority-Based Cross-Layer Design for Future VANETs through Full-Duplex Technology
Creators: name: Zang, Junwei
name: Towhidlou, Vahid
name: Shikh-Bahaei, Mohammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Among all requirements for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, successful delivery of packets with small delay is of the highest significance. Especially, the delivery of a message before a potential accident (i.e. emergency message) should be guaranteed. In this work, we propose a novel cross-layer design to enhance the delivery of emergency messages so that accidents can be further avoided. Particularly, in the PHY layer, imperfect full-duplex (FD) simultaneous transmitting and sensing is analysed and dynamic thresholds for determining the channel status before and during transmissions are mathematically formulated. Then a novel FD MAC protocol, named priority-based multiple access (PBMA), based on prioritised messaging between different vehicles is proposed. Average collision probability, collision duration, waiting time as well as successful delivery rate of the system are formulated too. The delivery performance of emergency messages is also mathematically derived. In addition, comparisons have been made among three different mechanisms. Benchmark is the DSRC standard which uses half-duplex (HD) technology with enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) protocol. We also compare our proposed protocol with FD EDCA. Simulations have verified the accuracy of our analysis. They have also illustrated the delivery of emergency messages has been enhanced by deploying our proposed design.
description: 14 pages, 21 figures, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Additional file 3 of Comprehensive evaluation of targeted multiplex bisulphite PCR sequencing for validation of DNA methylation biomarker panels
Creators: name: Lam, Dilys
name: Phuc-Loi Luu
name: Song, Jenny Z.
name: Wenjia Qu
name: Risbridger, Gail P.
name: Lawrence, Mitchell G.
name: Lu, Jennifer
name: Trau, Matt
name: Korbie, Darren
name: Clark, Susan J.
name: Pidsley, Ruth
name: Stirzaker, Clare
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. Pre-sequencing optimisation of multiplex PCR primers - Prostate Cancer panels (PDF). (A) PCR products of singleplex amplification of 63 individual primer pairs from the prostate cancer panels run on 2% agarose gel. The gel shows the specificity of all the primer pairs and PCR products of the correct size (105-150 bp) with minimal primer dimer formation. (-) no template; (+) bisulphite-treated test DNA template (10ng), (L) 100 bp DNA Ladder. (B) Singleplex primers were pooled into their respective multiplex panels and the success of multiplex PCR reactions is shown at different primer concentrations (20 μM, 10 μM, 5 μM and 1 μM) and at an annealing temperature of 56 °C. (C) PCR products from the multiplex panel testing DNA input amounts from 10 ng, 5 ng, 2.5 ng, 1.25 ng of bisulphite-treated control DNA; (+) test DNA; (-) no template control.
$B$ anomalies under the lens of electroweak precision
Creators: name: Alasfar, Lina
name: Azatov, Aleksandr
name: de Blas, Jorge
name: Paul, Ayan
name: Valli, Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurements carried out at LEP and SLC projected us into the precision era of electroweak physics. This has also been relevant in the theoretical interpretation of LHCb and Belle measurements of rare $B$ semileptonic decays, paving the road for new physics with the inference of lepton universality violation in $R_{K^{(*)}}$ ratios. The simplest explanation of these flavour anomalies -- sizeable one-loop contributions respecting Minimal Flavour Violation -- is currently disfavoured by electroweak precision data. In this work, we discuss how to completely relieve the present tension between electroweak constraints and one-loop minimal flavour violating solutions to $R_{K^{(*)}}$. We determine the correlations in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory that highlight the existence of such a possibility. Then, we consider minimal extensions of the Standard Model where our effective-field-theory picture can be realized. We discuss how these solutions to $b \to s \ell \ell$ anomalies, respecting electroweak precision and without any new source of flavour violation, may point to the existence of a $Z^{\prime}$ boson at around the TeV scale, within the discovery potential of LHC, or to leptoquark scenarios.
description: 35 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Some references added. Matching published version
Improving the Efficiency of Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Analyzing the Orbits of Extrasolar Planets
Creators: name: Ford, Eric B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precise radial velocity measurements have led to the discovery of ~170 extrasolar planetary systems. Understanding the uncertainties in the orbital solutions will become increasingly important as the discovery space for extrasolar planets shifts to planets with smaller masses and longer orbital periods. The method of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) provides a rigorous method for quantifying the uncertainties in orbital parameters in a Bayesian framework (Ford 2005a). The main practical challenge for the general application of MCMC is the need to construct Markov chains which quickly converge. The rate of convergence is very sensitive to the choice of the candidate transition probability distribution function (CTPDF). Here we explain one simple method for generating alternative CTPDFs which can significantly speed convergence by one to three orders of magnitude. We have numerically tested dozens of CTPDFs with simulated radial velocity data sets to identify those which perform well for different types of orbits and suggest a set of CTPDFs for general application. Additionally, we introduce other refinements to the MCMC algorithm for radial velocity planets, including an improved treatment of the uncertainties in the radial velocity observations, an algorithm for automatically choosing step sizes, an algorithm for automatically determining reasonable stopping times, and the use of importance sampling for including the dynamical evolution of multiple planet systems. Together, these improvements make it practical to apply MCMC to multiple planet systems. We demonstrate the improvements in efficiency by analyzing a variety of extrasolar planetary systems.
description: 46 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, ApJ in press
Additional file 1 of The short-term effects of sedentary behaviour on cerebral hemodynamics and cognitive performance in older adults: a cross-over design on the potential impact of mental and/or physical activity
Creators: name: Maasakkers, Carlijn M.
name: Melis, René J. F.
name: Kessels, Roy P. C.
name: Gardiner, Paul A.
name: Rikkert, Marcel G. M. Olde
name: Thijssen, Dick H. J.
name: Claassen, Jurgen A. H. R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 : Supplement 1 Flow chart.
PrVO$_4$ under High Pressure: Effects on Structural, Optical and Electrical Properties
Creators: name: Bandiello, Enrico
name: Popescu, Catalin
name: da Silva, Estelina Lora
name: Sans, Juan Ángel
name: Errandonea, Daniel
name: Bettinelli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In pursue of a systematic characterization of rare-earth vanadates under compression, in this work we present a multifaceted study of the phase behavior of zircon-type orthovanadate PrVO$_4$ under high pressure conditions, up until 24 GPa. We have found that PrVO$_4$ undergoes a zircon to monazite transition at around 6 GPa, confirming previous results found by Raman experiments. A second transition takes place above 14 GPa, to a BaWO$_4$-I--type structure. The zircon to monazite structural sequence is an irreversible first-order transition, accompanied by a volume collapse of about 9.6%. Monazite phase is thus a metastable polymorph of PrVO$_4$. The monazite-BaWO$_4$-II transition is found to be reversible instead and occurs with a similar volume change. Here we report and discuss the axial and bulk compressibility of all phases. We also compare our results with those for other rare-earth orthovanadates. Finally, by means of optical-absorption experiments and resistivity measurements we determined the effect of pressure on the electronic properties of PrVO$_4$. We found that the zircon-monazite transition produces a collapse of the band gap and an abrupt decrease of the resistivity. The physical reasons for this behavior are discussed. Density-functional-theory simulations support our conclusions.
description: 34 pages,19 Figures (Including Supporting Information). Supporting Information. Submitted to Inorganic Chemistry