cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Restauration numérique et restauration physique : le cas d’un vase de la fosse F1903 du diagnostic de Coulombs
title: Digital Restoration and Physical Restoration: The Case of a Vase from Pit F1903 in the Coulombs Diagnostic
Creators: name: Louis, Antoine
name: Rodot, Marie-Angélique
name: Chamaux, Gabriel
name: Maquéda, Marjorie
Publisher: name: Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04andmq85
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018

description: La découverte d’un grand vase daté de l’âge du Bronze, lors de la phase d’un diagnostic, a motivé une recherche afin d’observer les apports et les limites des techniques 3D à l’étude et à la restauration d’un ensemble céramique complet, mais d’une grande fragilité. Les fragments de ce vase ont été numérisés par photogrammétrie numérique puis assemblés entre eux pour obtenir un modèle 3D photo-réaliste au format PDF, facilement transmissible et consultable par tous, sans logiciel spécifique. Ce modèle issu d’un travail conjoint entre infographistes 3D et céramologues permet, en comblant les lacunes, de réaliser une restauration virtuelle intégrale, servant de support pour le travail du restaurateur. La manipulation virtuelle d’un objet fragile facilite certaines étape du travail du céramologue et du restaurateur : extraction des profils, diamètres et coupes, établissement de la typologie, établissement des devis de restauration, estimation du temps de travail, etc. Le modèle 3D n’est qu’une image photo-réaliste optimale. Il se limite à fournir un support facilitant l’analyse qui ne peut être exhaustive sans appréhender les tessons de visu. Rien ne remplace les sens et le jugement de l’archéologue et du restaurateur.
description: The discovery of a large vase dated to the Bronze Age, during a diagnostic phase, prompted research to observe the contributions and limitations of 3D techniques in the study and restoration of a complete ceramic set, though extremely fragile. The fragments of this vase were digitized using digital photogrammetry and then assembled to create a photorealistic 3D model in PDF format, which can be easily shared and viewed by anyone, without the need for specific software. This model, resulting from a collaborative effort between 3D graphic designers and ceramic specialists, fills in the gaps to achieve a fully virtual restoration, serving as a support tool for the restorer. The virtual manipulation of a fragile object facilitates certain stages of the ceramic specialist’s and restorer’s work: extracting profiles, diameters, and sections, establishing typology, drawing up restoration estimates, calculating work time, etc. The 3D model is merely an optimal photorealistic image. It is limited to providing a support that facilitates analysis, which cannot be exhaustive without handling the sherds in person. Nothing replaces the senses and judgment of the archaeologist and restorer.
Friend or Foe? The Kyoto Protocol and the NZ Greenhouse Industry
Creators: name: Barber, Andrew
name: Parminter, Irene
name: Barber, Andrew
name: Parminter, Irene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Industrial Organization
Institutional and Behavioral Economics
International Relations/Trade
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The greenhouse sector has reinvented itself as a technologically advanced and relatively environmentally friendly industry over the past 15 years. However it remains a high energy user. Two recent surveys have highlighted the potential impact on greenhouse grower costs of the proposed emissions charge on fossil fuels. Growers may be unable to pass on the extra costs due to competition on domestic and export markets from non-Kyoto countries. It is likely that the emissions charge would accelerate the rationalisation of the industry that has already been occurring, and in addition may lead to more profound changes such as the relocation overseas of larger growers. This paper draws out the likely implications of the proposed charge for the greenhouse sector in the light of the policies which are available to mitigate its impacts, and highlights the policy lessons that can be learned.
Adaptive-optics-enabled quantum communication: A technique for daytime space-to-Earth links
Creators: name: Gruneisen, Mark T.
name: Eickhoff, Mark L.
name: Newey, Scott C.
name: Stoltenberg, Kurt E.
name: Morris, Jeffery F.
name: Bareian, Michael
name: Harris, Mark A.
name: Oesch, Denis W.
name: Oliker, Michael D.
name: Flanagan, Michael B.
name: Kay, Brian T.
name: Schiller, Jonathan D.
name: Lanning, R. Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous demonstrations of free-space quantum communication in daylight have been touted as significant for the development of global-scale quantum networks. Until now, no one has carefully tuned their atmospheric channel to reproduce the daytime sky radiance and slant-path turbulence conditions as they exist between space and Earth. In this article we report a quantum communication field experiment under conditions representative of daytime downlinks from space. Higher-order adaptive optics increased quantum channel efficiencies far beyond those possible with tip/tilt correction alone while spatial filtering at the diffraction limit rejected optical noise without the need for an ultra-narrow spectral filter. High signal-to-noise probabilities and low quantum-bit-error rates were demonstrated over a wide range of channel radiances and turbulence conditions associated with slant-path propagation in daytime. The benefits to satellite-based quantum key distribution are quantified and discussed.
description: 22 pages, 14 figures
The impact of the stimulus package on the agricultural sector in Vietnam
Creators: name: Trang, Truong Thi Thu
name: Vanzetti, David
name: Trang, Truong Thi Thu
name: Vanzetti, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Public Economics
subject: Vietnam
subject: fiscal stimulus
subject: agriculture

description: The global financial crisis in 2008-2009 has affected almost all countries. Vietnam was hit by a large fall in export demand and foreign direct investment. Many governments quickly prescribed stimulus packages and Vietnam was no exception. It reduced taxes and increased government spending, mainly by subsidizing loans to state-owned enterprises. The question is what the stimulated impact is, if any, and whether a better outcome could have been achieved by a different mix of policies. In this paper, we use a simple general equilibrium model to quantify the impact of the various components of the stimulus package on the whole economy as well as agricultural sector. The results suggest that, in the short run at least, the stimulus package marginally stabilised national production and income. The package led to a reduction in total welfare because it favoured the non-agricultural sector. The poor in the agricultural sector could be better off if the investment policy were to boost demand for agricultural products. Furthermore, the risk of inflation and real exchange rate appreciation could undermine national competitiveness.
High precision study of the structure of D=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Campostrini, M.
name: Wosiek, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum of D=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum mechanics is computed with high accuracy in all channels of angular momentum and fermion number. Localized and non-localized states coexists in certain channels as a consequence of the supersymmetric interactions with flat valleys. All states fall into well identifiable supermultiplets providing an explicit realization of supersymmetry on the spectroscopic level. An accidental degeneracy among some supermultiplets has been found. Regularized Witten index converges to a time-independent constant which agrees with earlier calculations.
description: 47 pages, 17 figures, version 2: one reference added, acknowledgments modified
Additional file 10 of A tissue level atlas of the healthy human virome
Creators: name: Kumata, Ryuichi
name: Ito, Jumpei
name: Takahashi, Kenta
name: Tadaki Suzuki
name: Sato, Kei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 10: Figure S5 Read mapping to Lassa virus segment L and Pepper chlorotic spot virus segment L.
Damaged Goods: A resource depletion model of addictive consumption
Creators: name: Tregeagle, Daniel
name: Harris, Michael
name: Hertzler, Greg
name: Tregeagle, Daniel
name: Harris, Michael
name: Hertzler, Greg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Economic research on the consumption of harmful goods focuses principally on the addictive nature of consumption rather than its impacts on health, despite medical research showing that consumers primarily consider health effects when making decisions about addictive behaviour. In this paper, the standard rational addiction model is recast in terms of a resource depletion problem, where the resource in question is a depletable stock of health, and the time horizon is finite. Analysis of the prototype health depletion model finds two types of consumption path, one that is compatible with the results from rational addiction and one that is not. Several extensions to the prototype model are explored.
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies on health care professionals’ behaviour and patient outcomes in the cancer care context: a systematic review
Creators: name: Tomasone, Jennifer R.
name: Kauffeldt, Kaitlyn D.
name: Rushil Chaudhary
name: Brouwers, Melissa C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Final search strategy for one database (Medline)
Additional file 1 of Clinical efficacy and the antimicrobial potential of silver formulations in arresting dental caries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Kausar Sadia Fakhruddin
name: Egusa, Hiroshi
name: Ngo, Hien Chi
name: Chamila Panduwawala
name: Siripen Pesee
name: Samaranayake, Lakshman Perera
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Implementation and analysis of surfing pipelines
Creators: name: Yang, Suwen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: High performance digital systems make extensive use of pipelines. Three years ago, "surfing" pipelines were proposed. A timing pulse propagates through the surfing pipeline, and the individual logic elements of the pipeline are modified so that their delays are smaller in the presence of the pulse than in its absence. This creates an "event attractor" where events in the data path occur at the rising edge of the timing pulse. These attractors reduce timing uncertainties and improve the performance of the pipeline. A circuit technique called "preswitching" was proposed to implement the delay variation required for surfing. In this thesis, we demonstrate a working, surfing chip and address issues of power consumption and robustness. We demonstrate surfing by the design, fabrication and test of a chip using preswitching surfing circuits. The surfing ring in this chip supports two, independent waves of computation separated only by the surfing effect - no latches or other storage elements are used. We operated the ring for over 48 hours and 2 * 101 5 surfing events and never observed an error. The preswitching circuits in this chip exhibit unacceptable power consumption, motivating our work on energy-efficient designs. We introduce a new family of surfing circuits based on charge-sharing, dynamic gates. The design and simulation of a carry-lookahead adder show that this technique offers very competitive performance by standard metrics. This design also demonstrates surfing in a design with a non-uniform circuit structure. Finally, we develop a new method for robustness analysis. We formulate noise-margin analysis as a numerical optimization problem that takes the timevarying behavior of surfing and other dynamic logic designs into account. With this approach we compare the robustness of several, high-performance logic families, quantify the timing stability of surfing circuits, and demonstrate trade-offs between performance and robustness. Our demonstration of a physical surfing chip; design of novel; low-power surfing circuits; and a new noise-margin analysis method together bring surfing closer to a practical reality. These tools and .techniques will aid the development of novel logic designs to face the challenges of deep-submicron integrated circuit design.
Coordinated appendages accumulate more energy to self-right on the ground
Creators: name: Xuan, Qihan
name: Li, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Animals and robots must right themselves after flipping over on the ground. The discoid cockroach pushes its wings against the ground in an attempt to dynamically self-right by a somersault. However, because this maneuver is strenuous, the animal often fails to overcome the potential energy barrier and makes continual attempts. In this process, the animal flails its legs, whose lateral perturbation eventually leads it to roll to the side to self-right. Our previous work developed a cockroach-inspired robot capable of leg-assisted, winged self-righting, and a robot simulation study revealed that the outcome of this strategy depends sensitively on wing-leg coordination (measured by the phase between their motions). Here, we further elucidate why this is the case by developing a template to model the complex hybrid dynamics resulting from discontinuous contact and actuation. We used the template to calculate the potential energy barrier that the body must overcome to self-right, mechanical energy contribution by wing pushing and leg flailing, and mechanical energy dissipation due to wing-ground collision. The template revealed that wing-leg coordination (phase) strongly affects self-righting outcome by changing mechanical energy budget. Well-coordinated appendage motions (good phase) accumulate more mechanical energy than poorly-coordinated motions (bad phase), thereby better overcoming the potential energy barrier to self-right more successfully. Finally, we demonstrated practical use of the template for predicting a new control strategy to further increase self-righting performance and informing robot design.
Trade and employment linkages in Indonesian Agriculture
Creators: name: Vanzetti, David
name: Oktaviani, Rina
name: Vanzetti, David
name: Oktaviani, Rina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Indonesia
subject: agriculture
subject: trade
subject: employment

description: Trade negotiators are concerned about the possible negative effects of trade liberalisation on employment in specific sectors. The agricultural sector has characteristics that make it different from industrial or service sectors. These are an informal labour force, low productivity, relative absence of regulations and a tie to land. These characteristics help the sector adjust to trade shocks. In this application, a global computable general equilibrium model is used to determine trade shocks that are passed to a single country general equilibrium model to analyse employment and wage effects for four skills levels in Indonesian agriculture. Employment tends to move with output in the primary agricultural sector where capital-labour substitution is relatively low. However, factor substitution appears to be greater in the processed agricultural sector. The employment effects of trade shocks are quite small, with the possible exception of the highly protected sugar sector. Implications for trade and labour market policies are drawn.
Perturbation of finite-lattice spectral levels by nearby nuclear resonances
Creators: name: Motovilov, Alexander K.
name: Belyaev, Vladimir B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider finite linear or cyclic crystalline structures with molecular cells having narrow pre-threshold nuclear resonance. We prove that if the real part of such a nuclear resonance lies within the energy band (the convex hull of the energy levels) of the crystalline structure arising of a separated molecular level, then there exist molecular crystalline states that decay exponentially in time and the decay rate $Γ_R^{(m)}$ of these states in the main order is described by the formula $Γ_R^{(m)}\cong 4\frac{\mathop{\rm Re} a}{Γ_R^{(n)}}$ where $a$ is the value of the residue of the molecular channel transfer function at the nuclear resonance point and $Γ_R^{(n)}$ is the nuclear resonance width.
description: http://www1.jinr.ru/Pepan_letters/panl_1_2004/02_motov.pdf
Influence of generalized trust on Canadian consumers’ reactions to the perceived food risk of three recurring BSE cases
Creators: name: Ding, Yulian
name: Veeman, Michele M.
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
name: Ding, Yulian
name: Veeman, Michele M.
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: BSE
subject: Generalized Method of Moments (GMM)
subject: trust

description: Interest in the influence of trust on consumers’ responses to food risk perceptions associated with Canadian instances of BSE motivates this study, in which Canadian households’ expenditures on fresh meat are assessed in the context of the first three recurring risk events in which bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was found to have affected Canadian cows. Engel Curve analysis focusing on the dynamics of the monthly meat expenditure shares for a selected sample of 437 Canadian households for 2002 through 2005 is applied based on data on household expenditures for meat purchased by a national sample of Canadian households from the Nielsen Homescan® Canadian panel, supplemented by survey responses on BSE risk perceptions and measures of trust. Two sets of models are estimated: Engel curves in differences with instruments in levels and Engel curves in levels with instruments in differences. It is found that habit persistence limited households’ reductions of beef purchases following the first BSE event and that that trust limited households’ reduction in beef expenditure shares following the subsequent two BSE cases. Significant seasonal effects and a significant negative influence on beef expenditure shares are also found, consistent with the trend of declining consumption of beef in Canada since the late 1990s.
MALAYSIAN RICE TRADE AND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS
Creators: name: Vengedasalam, Deviga
name: Harris, Michael
name: MacAulay, T. Gordon
name: Vengedasalam, Deviga
name: Harris, Michael
name: MacAulay, T. Gordon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Malaysia’s rice sector is highly protected, with the protection justified largely by arguments for food security. The government intervenes in the rice market by providing subsidies to farmers and consumers as well as imposing high import duties. Furthermore, the rice trade is controlled through a sole importer. In this paper, the welfare effects of eliminating the major government interventions in Malaysia’s rice sector are evaluated. A modified spatial price equilibrium model that incorporates a sole importer with a fixed domestic price has been developed to measure the welfare impacts of the market distortions. Four scenarios were developed: (1) removal of the sole importer but continuation of the subsidies and existing tariffs; (2) removal of the subsidies but with the existence of the sole importer; (3) imposition of tariff and (4) free trade. Large net welfare gains and a significant reduction in government expenditures are likely if all forms of government interventions were to be eliminated and a free market allowed.
An alternative to the Teukolsky equation
Creators: name: Hatsuda, Yasuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conjecture a new ordinary differential equation exactly isospectral to the radial component of the homogeneous Teukolsky equation. We find this novel relation by a hidden symmetry implied from a four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric quantum chromodynamics. Our proposal is powerful both in analytical and in numerical studies. As an application, we derive high-order perturbative series of quasinormal mode frequencies in the slowly rotating limit. We also test our result numerically by comparing it with a known technique.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, v2: note added, references added, v3: published version
Quantifying the potential impacts of increasing agricultural fragmentation on land value
Creators: name: Versace, V.L.
name: Scarborough, Helen
name: Ierodiaconou, D.
name: O'Toole, K.
name: Wallis, A.
name: Stagnitti, F.
name: Versace, V.L.
name: Scarborough, Helen
name: Ierodiaconou, D.
name: O'Toole, K.
name: Wallis, A.
name: Stagnitti, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Societal expectations from rural lands have traditionally been focussed on the production of food and fibre. Yet the perception of rural areas is changing and they are now seen in many instances to be capable of delivering multiple functions or non-commodity outputs including land conservation and the preservation of biodiversity, contributing to the sustainable management of renewable natural resources and enhancing the socio-economic viability of many areas (OECD, 2001). The overall multifunctionality is constrained or favoured by biophysical and socio-economic drivers. As these types of drivers vary spatially and temporally, so does the functionality of the landscape and heterogeneous patterns emerge. Associated with multiple functions at a single location are a variety of pressures which can manifest themselves as conflict between interacting land uses (Gimona and van der Horst, 2007; Willemen et al., 2010). One such conflict in rural zones is that between agricultural use and residential use.
A Generic Rotating-Frame-Based Approach to Chaos Generation in Nonlinear MEMS NEMS Resonators
Creators: name: Houri, Samer
name: Asano, Motoki
name: Yamaguchi, Hiroshi
name: Yoshimura, Natsue
name: Koike, Yasuharu
name: Minati, Ludovico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work provides a low-power method for chaos generation which is generally applicable to nonlinear M/NEMS resonators. The approach taken is independent of the material, scale, design, and actuation of the device in question; it simply assumes a good quality factor and a Duffing type nonlinearity, features that are commonplace to M/NEMS resonators. The approach models the rotating-frame dynamics to analytically constrain the parameter space required for chaos generation. By leveraging these common properties of M/NEMS devices, a period-doubling route to chaos is generated using an order-of-magnitude smaller forcing than typically reported in the literature.
Smilansky's model of irreversible quantum graphs, I: the absolutely continuous spectrum
Creators: name: Evans, W. D.
name: Solomyak, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q10; 81Q15

description: In the model suggested by Smilansky one studies an operator describing the interaction between a quantum graph and a system of $K$ one-dimensional oscillators attached at several different points in the graph. The present paper is the first one in which the case $K>1$ is investigated. For the sake of simplicity we consider K=2, but our argument is of a general character. In this first of two papers on the problem, we describe the absolutely continuous spectrum. Our approach is based upon scattering theory.
title: Subtitling Chinese cinema: a case study of Zhang Yimou’s films
Creators: name: Yuan, Yilei
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: subtitling, Zhang Yimou, translation studies, film studies, non-verbal, domestication, omission.

description: In recent years, more and more Chinese films have been exported abroad. This thesis intends to explore the subtitling of Chinese cinema into English, with Zhang Yimou’s films as a case study. Zhang Yimou is arguably the most critically and internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker, who has experimented with a variety of genres of films. I argue that in the subtitling of his films, there is an obvious adoption of the domestication translation strategy that reduces or even omits Chinese cultural references. I try to discover what cultural categories or perspectives of China are prone to the domestication of translation and have formulated five categories: humour, politeness, dialect, history and songs and the Peking Opera. My methodology is that I compare the source Chinese dialogue lines with the existing English subtitles by providing literal translations of the source lines, and I will also give my alternative translations that tend to retain the source cultural references better. I also speculate that the domestication strategy is frequently employed by subtitlers possibly because the subtitlers assume the source cultural references are difficult for target language subtitle readers to comprehend, even if they are translated into a target language. However, subtitle readers are very likely to understand more than what the dialogue lines and the target language subtitles express, because films are multimodal entities and verbal information is not the only source of information for subtitle readers. The image and the sound are also significant sources of information for subtitle readers who are constantly involved in a dynamic film-watching experience. They are also expected to grasp visual and acoustic information. The complete omission or domestication of source cultural references might also affect their interpretation of the non-verbal cues. I also contemplate that the translation, which frequently domesticates the source culture carried out by a translator who is also a native speaker of the source language, is ‘submissive translation’.
An index number decomposition of profit change in two Australian fishing sectors
Creators: name: Vieria, Simon
name: Vieria, Simon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Changes in net economic returns in a fishery over time can provide some indication of which direction a fishery’s economic performance is moving. However, without information on the causes of those movements, it is difficult to say if a fishery is moving closer to or further away from a point associated with maximum economic yield. A further complication is that different drivers of profitability can cause profit to move in different directions and at variable magnitudes over time. The key variables that influence a fishery’s profitability include: prices received for catch; prices paid for inputs (such as crew and fuel); vessel productivity (that is, the ability of each vessel to convert its inputs into outputs or harvested catch); and the fishery’s stock biomass, with a higher stock biomass allowing catches to be made at lower cost and greater profit. This paper presents an index number profit decomposition analysis of two sectors of the Australian Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery. The analysis presented decomposes and quantifies the relative contribution of each of the above-mentioned drivers to changes in vessel-level profitability over time. More specifically, the results are interpreted to reveal how historical changes in profit have come about as a result of both changes in variables that fishery managers do have some indirect influence over (fish stocks and productivity) and changes in variables that fishery managers do not have control over (output and input prices). It is shown that, for the two sectors assessed, two key factors that have influenced recent profitability changes are: a recently implemented government restructuring package; and previous adjustments to total allowable catch settings for key species.
Eclipses in the Aztec Codices
Creators: name: Khalisi, Emil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper centers on the collection of accounts on solar eclipses from the era of the Aztecs in Mesoamerica, about 1300 to 1550 AD. We present a list of all eclipse events complying with the topological visibility from the capital Tenochtitlan. Forty records of 23 eclipses entered the various Aztec manuscripts (codices), usually those of large magnitude. Each event is discussed with regard to its historical context, as we try to comprehend the importance the Aztecs gave to the phenomenon. It seems that this culture paid noticeably less attention to eclipses than the civilisations in the "Old World". People did not understand the cause of it and did not care as much about astronomy as in Babylonia and ancient China. Furthermore, we discuss the legend on the comet of Moctezuma II. It turns out that the post-conquest writers misconceived what the sighting was meant to be.
description: 15 pages, 10 figs, 2 tabs, 25 refs
Additional file 2 of The semi-automation of title and abstract screening: a retrospective exploration of ways to leverage Abstrackr’s relevance predictions in systematic and rapid reviews
Creators: name: Gates, Allison
name: Gates, Michelle
name: Sebastianski, Meghan
name: Guitard, Samantha
name: Elliott, Sarah A.
name: Hartling, Lisa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2 Appendix A. 2 × 2 tables and performance metrics calculation for a systematic review and a rapid review.
Do Code Review Measures Explain the Incidence of Post-Release Defects?
Creators: name: Krutauz, Andrey
name: Dey, Tapajit
name: Rigby, Peter C.
name: Mockus, Audris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Aim: In contrast to studies of defects found during code review, we aim to clarify whether code reviews measures can explain the prevalence of post-release defects. Method: We replicate a study by McIntoshet. al that uses additive regression to model the relationship between defects and code reviews. To increase external validity, we apply the same methodology on a new software project. We discuss our findings with the first author of the original study, McIntosh. We then investigate how to reduce the impact of correlated predictors in the variable selection process and how to increase understanding of the inter-relationships among the predictors by employing Bayesian Network (BN) models. Context: As in the original study, we use the same measures authors obtained for Qt project in the original study. We mine data from version control and issue tracker of Google Chrome and operationalize measures that are close analogs to the large collection of code, process, and code review measures used in the replicated the study. Results: Both the data from the original study and the Chrome data showed high instability of the influence of code review measures on defects with the results being highly sensitive to variable selection procedure. Models without code review predictors had as good or better fit than those with review predictors. Replication, however, confirms with the bulk of prior work showing that prior defects, module size, and authorship have the strongest relationship to post-release defects. The application of BN models helped explain the observed instability by demonstrating that the review-related predictors do not affect post-release defects directly and showed indirect effects. For example, changes that have no review discussion tend to be associated with files that have had many prior defects which in turn increase the number of post-release defects.
Stellar astrophysics with QUVIK
Creators: name: Zejda, Miloslav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: QUVIK (Quick Ultra-Violet Kilonovae surveyor) is a small two-band UV-photometry satellite mission. It will offer a wide range of astrophysical research in stellar astrophysics. We give a short summary of these studies as, e.g., massive hot stars, magnetospheres of stars, nature of binaries, stellar clusters, interstellar matter, and exoplanets.
Kondo-temperature dependence of the Kondo splitting in a single-electron transistor
Creators: name: Amasha, S.
name: Gelfand, I. J.
name: Kastner, M. A.
name: Kogan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Kondo peak in the differential conductance of a single-electron transistor is measured as a function of both magnetic field and the Kondo temperature. We observe that the Kondo splitting decreases logarithmically with Kondo temperature and that there exists a critical magnetic field Bc below which the Kondo peak does not split, in qualitative agreement with theory. However, we find that the magnitude of the prefactor of the logarithm is larger than predicted and is independent of B, in contradiction with theory. Our measurements also suggest that the value of Bc is smaller than predicted.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. Replaced with version submitted to PRB that includes corrected theoretical predictions, additonal analysis, and other suggested modifications
Additional file 1 of Exploring subjective constructions of health in China: a Q-methodological investigation
Creators: name: Mao, Zhuxin
name: Shenaz Ahmed
name: Graham, Christopher
name: Kind, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table A1. the conceptual framework developed from the scoping review and qualitative interviews & how it was transformed into Q-sample.
Role of agriculture in the livelihoods of farm households in Tibet
Creators: name: Brown, Colin G.
name: Waldron, Scott A.
name: Brown, Colin G.
name: Waldron, Scott A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
International Development

description: In its ongoing efforts to identify more socially inclusive forms of development that target households in rural areas of Tibet, the Chinese central government has begun to focus more attention and resources on agricultural modernisation and development. Although agriculture continues to play a pivotal role in rural areas of Tibet, the nature of agriculture and rural society is changing.3 This paper first highlights some of the macro‐level changes that are occurring and some of the underlying drivers behind these changes. It then describes a model used to understand farm household systems at a micro‐level for the main agricultural areas of the Yalong river and its tributaries . The models explore the impact of agricultural innovations and changing agricultural practices on household consumption, resources, and economic returns. Although the model and analysis are still in a preliminary stage, they reveal detailed insights about the role of agriculture in the livelihoods of Tibetan farm households.
The response of primordial abundances to a general modification of $G_{\rm N}$ and/or of the early universe expansion rate
Creators: name: Bambi, C.
name: Giannotti, M.
name: Villante, F. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the effects of a possible time variation of the Newton constant $G_{\rm N}$ on light elements production in Big Bang Nucleosyntesis (BBN). We provide analytical estimates for the dependence of primordial abundances on the value of the Newton constant during BBN. The accuracy of these estimates is then tested by numerical methods. % Moreover, we determine numerically the response of each element to an arbitrary time-dependent modification of the early universe expansion rate. Finally, we determine the bounds on possible variations of $G_{\rm N}$ which can be obtained from the comparison of theoretical predictions and observational data.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Reducing Indonesia’s Deforestation-based Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Creators: name: Warr, Peter G.
name: Yusuf, Arief Anshory
name: Warr, Peter G.
name: Yusuf, Arief Anshory
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: Indonesia has set the target that by the year 2020 its emissions of greenhouse gases will be reduced by 26 per cent relative to business-as-usual conditions. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of a subsidy to the use of land in forestry as a means of achieving this goal. The analysis uses a general equilibrium model of the Indonesian economy characterized by explicit treatment of land use, disaggregated by industry and by region. The results of the analysis indicate that the subsidy cost of permanently reducing carbon emissions by 26% is a little over US$1 per metric tonne of carbon emissions abated. This cost needs to be compared with that of alternative instruments and with the price of carbon that might be agreed under the proposed REDD scheme (Reducing Emissions through Deforestation and Land Degradation), to be administered through the World Bank and the UN.
Randomness in appendage coordination facilitates strenuous ground self-righting
Creators: name: Xuan, Qihan
name: Li, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Randomness is common in biological and artificial systems, resulting either from stochasticity of the environment or noise in organisms or devices themselves. In locomotor control, randomness is typically considered a nuisance. For example, during dynamic walking, randomness in stochastic terrain leads to metastable dynamics, which must be mitigated to stabilize the system around limit cycles. Here, we studied whether randomness in motion is beneficial for strenuous locomotor tasks. Our study used robotic simulation modeling of strenuous, leg-assisted, winged ground self-righting observed in cockroaches, in which unusually large randomness in wing and leg motions is present. We developed a simplified simulation robot capable of generating similar self-righting behavior and varied the randomness level in wing-leg coordination. During each wing opening attempt, the more randomness added to the time delay between wing opening and leg swinging, the more likely it was for the naive robot (which did not know what coordination is best) to self-right within a finite time. Wing-leg coordination, measured by the phase between wing and leg oscillations, had a crucial impact on self-righting outcome. Without randomness, periodic wing and leg oscillations often limited the system to visit a few bad phases, leading to failure to escape from the metastable state. With randomness, the system explored phases thoroughly and had a better chance of encountering good phases to self-right. Our study complements previous work by demonstrating that randomness helps destabilize locomotor systems from being trapped in undesired metastable states, a situation common in strenuous locomotion.
Hyperideal circle patterns
Creators: name: Schlenker, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A ``hyperideal circle pattern'' in $S^2$ is a finite family of oriented circles, similar to the ``usual'' circle patterns but such that the closed disks bounded by the circles do not cover the whole sphere. Hyperideal circle patterns are directly related to hyperideal hyperbolic polyhedra, and also to circle packings. To each hyperideal circle pattern, one can associate an incidence graph and a set of intersection angles. We characterize the possible incidence graphs and intersection angles of hyperideal circle patterns in the sphere, the torus, and in higher genus surfaces. It is a consequence of a more general result, describing the hyperideal circle patterns in the boundaries of geometrically finite hyperbolic 3-manifolds (for the corresponding $\C P^1$-structures). This more general statement is obtained as a consequence of a theorem of Otal \cite{otal,bonahon-otal} on the pleating laminations of the convex cores of geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. Updated versions will be posted on http://picard.ups-tlse.fr/~schlenker Revised version: some corrections, better proof, added references
On the Evaluation of Military Simulations: Towards A Taxonomy of Assessment Criteria
Creators: name: Golling, Mario
name: Koch, Robert
name: Hillmann, Peter
name: Eiseler, Volker
name: Stiemert, Lars
name: Rekker, Andres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the area of military simulations, a multitude of different approaches is available. Close Combat Tactical Trainer, Joint Tactical Combat Training System, Battle Force Tactical Training or Warfighter's Simulation 2000 are just some examples within the history of the large DoD Development Program in Modelling and Simulation, representing just a small piece of the variety of diverse solutions. Very often, individual simulators are very unique and so it is often difficult to classify military simulations even for experienced users. This circumstance is further boosted due to the fact that in the field of military simulations - unlike in other areas - no general classification for military simulations exists. To address this shortcoming, this publication is dedicated to the idea of providing a first contribution to the development of a commonly accepted taxonomy in the area of military simulations. To this end, the problem field is structured into three main categories (general functional requirements for simulators, special military requirements for simulators and non-functional requirements for simulators). Based upon that, individual categories are provided with appropriate classes. For a better understanding, the taxonomy is also applied to a concrete example (NetLogo Rebellion).
description: Keywords: Simulation; Military; Classification; Taxonomy
Measuring efficiency of the Farm Credit System
Creators: name: Dang, Trang
name: Leatham, David J.
name: Dang, Trang
name: Leatham, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Credit System
subject: agricultural lenders
subject: technical efficiency
subject: financial crisis
subject: stochastic frontier production function
subject: financial reform

description: DO NOT CITE THIS DRAFT. See formally published version: Measuring the efficiency of the Farm Credit System Trang Dang , David Leatham , Bruce A. McCarl , Ximing Wu Agricultural Finance Review 2014 74:1 , 38-54
Timelike T-duality in the string field Schrodinger functional
Creators: name: Ilderton, A.
name: Mansfield, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Timelike T-duality of string theory appears as a symmetry of time evolution in string field theory, exchanging evolution through times t and 1/t, and exchanging boundary states with backgrounds. This is demonstrated by constructing the string field Schrodinger functional, the generator of time evolution, based on Feynman diagram arguments and in analogy with quantum field theory. There, the functional can be described using only properties of first quantised particles on a timelike orbifold. Using new sewing rules applicable to both open and closed strings we generalise this approach to bosonic string theory and express the string field Schrodinger functional in terms of strings on S^1/Z_2.
description: 49 pages, 39 .eps figures. Replaced with published version
Strong- and weak-coupling mechanisms for pseudogap in electron-doped cuprates
Creators: name: Hankevych, V.
name: Kyung, B.
name: Dare, A-M.
name: Senechal, D.
name: Tremblay, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the two-particle self-consistent approach and cluster perturbation theory for the two-dimensional t-t'-t''-U Hubbard model, we discuss weak- and strong-coupling mechanisms for the pseudogap observed in recent angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy on electron-doped cuprates. In the case of the strong-coupling mechanism, which is more relevant near half-filling, the pseudogap can be mainly driven by short range correlations near the Mott insulator. In the vicinity of optimal doping, where weak-coupling physics is more relevant, large antiferromagnetic correlation lengths, seen in neutron measurements, are the origin of the pseudogap. The t-J model is not applicable in the latter case.
description: contributed paper to the proceedings of SNS2004