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Zmiany w produkcji kwiaciarskiej w Polsce i wybranych krajach świata
Creators: name: Jabłońska, Lilianna
name: Jabłońska, Lilianna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: floriculture
subject: production
subject: the world
subject: Poland
subject: / kwiaciarstwo
subject: produkcja
subject: świat
subject: Polska

description: The aim of the study was to analyze the changes in the floricultural production in the world as one of the points to evaluate its future development in Poland. Studies show the further growth of floriculture in the world in the last two decades, accompanied by a marked changes in the relations between the branches of floriculture and plant groups in different countries, leading to changes in the geographical structure of production. First of all, the withdrawal from production under cover in the developed countries dynamically occurs, mostly cut flowers, and the development of this production in African countries and Latin America for export is observed. In developed countries, the increasing importance of pot plants and ornamental nursery production is visible, however with slowing acreage growth, which may indicate a gradual saturation of the domestic demand. / Synopsis. Celem pracy jest analiza zmian w światowej produkcji kwiaciarskiej jako jednej z przesłanek w ocenie dalszego jej rozwoju w Polsce. Badania pokazują, iż w ostatnich dwóch dekadach miał miejsce dalszy rozwój tej produkcji, ale towarzyszyły mu wyraźne zmiany w relacjach między gałęziami kwiaciarstwa i grupami roślin w poszczególnych krajach, prowadzące do zmian w strukturze geograficznej produkcji. Przede wszystkim następuje wycofywanie się krajów rozwiniętych z produkcji pod osłonami, szczególnie kwiatów ciętych, a jednocześnie jej rozwój w krajach Afryki i Ameryki Łacińskiej, z przeznaczeniem na eksport. W krajach rozwiniętych wzrasta znaczenie produkcji roślin doniczkowych i szkółkarstwa ozdobnego, ale widoczne jest spowolnienie wzrostu areału upraw, co może wskazywać na stopniowe nasycanie się popytu wewnętrznego.
Effected of Feshbach resonance on dynamics of matter waves in optical lattices
Creators: name: Brazhnyi, V. A.
name: Konotop, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mean-filed dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) loaded in an optical lattice (OL), confined by a parabolic potentials, and subjected to change of a scattering length by means of the Feshbach resonance (FR), is considered. The system is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation with varying nonlinearity, which in a number of cases can be reduced a one-dimensional perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. A particular form of the last one depends on relations among BEC parameters. We describe periodic solutions of the NLS equation and their adiabatic dynamics due to varying nonlinearity; carry out numerical study of the dynamics of the NLS equation with periodic and parabolic trap potentials. We pay special attention to processes of generation of trains of bright and dark matter solitons from initially periodic waves.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures (revised version). to be published in Phys. Rev. A (2005)
La riforma tributaria: speranze e preoccupazioni. (Tax reform in Italy: hopes and misgivings)
Creators: name: COSCIANI, C.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italian financial system, reform, fiscal policy, tax rates
subject: E62, H21

description: The problem of the reorganisation of the Italian fiscal system was first taken up by a Tax Reform Commission in 1962, and again by a Study Group in 1964. The Study Committee submitted a preliminary draft of practical solutions in 1966 and later the draft Bill in 1967. The present article reviews the main issues related to the reform of Italy’s fiscal system and the proposals set forth. The author argues that although the latest version of the tax reform project contains several features that are a step backwards from the original draft, the project is still a worthy effort towards modernising the fiscal system. Nevertheless, due to the weakness of the central organs of the State and the administrative machinery, the author concludes that neither of the plans are viable. Instead, a less ambitious plan is proposed centred on consolidating all income tax additional into one single rate, gradually lowering secular tax rates, lowering tax rates and reducing exemptions on the transfers of wealth. JEL: E62, H21
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 20, N. 79 (1967)
title: The Role of Intensive Family Support in the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour
Creators: name: Parr, Sadie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: In seeking to make sense of the role of intensive family support in the governance of anti-social behaviour, this thesis has focused analytical attention on one case study project, the Family Support Service. Based on data collected from 35 interviews with women receiving the service, project staff and local agents, the research findings suggest that intensive family support is a complex intervention with both positive consequences as well as negative costs for the families involved. The Family Support Service entailed intense surveillance and supervision of marginalised populations in domestic private spaces and did, therefore, have controlling and disciplinary qualities, particularly with regard to the families living in 'core' residential accommodation. Yet, in spite of this, the Family Support Service also contained a -significant social welfare ethos based on finding long term sustainable solutions to individual's problems, not least security of housing and income. The approach project workers took with families was, largely, non-stigmatising and sensitive, and for the women interviewed,, who were socially isolated and susceptible to depression, this 'befriending' role was important in improving their quality of life. The role that family support plays, however, in the governance of anti-social behaviour is inherently bound up with the way in which it is implemented at the local level and the particular circumstances of the families involved, which suggests that positing intensive family support as inherently 'bad' or 'good' is inaccurate. This challenges some of the more critical literature around New Labour's anti-social behaviour and family support policies and suggests that this type of intervention can not be understood simply as a project of exclusion, punishment or moral reformation. The thesis argues for further research about what it is that gives rise to less punitive types of family intervention and, therefore, how progressive change for vulnerable families might be generated.
Prezzi, distribuzione e investimenti in Italia dal 1951 al 1966: uno schema interpretativo. (Prices, distribution and investment in Italy 1951-1966: an interpretation)
Creators: name: SYLOS LABINI, P.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, model of the Italian economy, prices, wages
subject: E31, E24

description: The work analyses the Italian economy from 1951 to 1966. The first part of the paper is devoted to the theoretical hypotheses which find their place in a model of the Italian economy illustrated in the second part. The author is mainly concerned with clarifying certain theoretical points and, in particular, initiating a type of analysis which considers variations in certain important aggregates and in certain categories of prices and wages simultaneously, which helps to bridge macro- and micro-economics. JEL: E31, E24
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 20, N. 79 (1967)
Begleiteter Übergang – der Weg in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt Berufswahl, Berufspraktische Ausbildung und dann?
Creators: name: Rüegg, Katrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Berufswahl
Berufliche Integration
Masterarbeit

description: Diese empirische Arbeit befasst sich mit Jugendlichen aus dem Kanton Graubünden, die ihre Berufspraktische Ausbildung im ersten Arbeitsmarkt absolvieren. Es wird den Fragen nachgegangen, wodurch sich die Jugendlichen in der Berufswahl unterstützt fühlen, welche personalen und betrieblichen Faktoren die Zufriedenheit der momentanen Ausbildungssituation fördern und wie sich die Jugendlichen zurzeit eine berufliche Zukunft vorstellen. Im ersten Teil wird ein Überblick zum Forschungsstand und über die aktuellen relevanten Themen im niederen Bildungssektor der Schweiz, spezifisch im Kanton Graubünden, geschaffen. Im zweiten Teil werden die Daten aus den erfassten Leitfadeninterviews der Jugendlichen anhand einer inhaltlich strukturierten Inhaltsanalyse qualitativ ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse werden anschliessend interpretiert und auf der Basis des theoretischen Wissens diskutiert. Sie zeigen Übereinstimmungen in Bezug auf die unterstützenden Faktoren während der Berufswahl sowie den Faktoren, die zur Zufriedenheit während der Ausbildung beitragen. Bedenken der Jugendlichen in Bezug auf ihre beruflichen Perspektiven deuten darauf hin, dass bei der Integration in die Gesellschaft Handlungspotenzial besteht.
Xystosomus thoius Erwin, 1973, new species
Creators: name: Erwin, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1973
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Xystosomus
Xystosomus thoius

description: 31. Xystosomus thoius, new species FIGURES 61, 66, 72 TYPE-LOCALITY.— Alto da Serra, Sao Paulo, Brazil. TYPE-SPECIMENS.— The holotype male and allotype are in BMNH. Both were collected by G. E. Bryant in 1912. DESCRIPTION.— Form: Very broad and convex, more so than any other species in group, similar in this respect to X. convexus of the inflatus group. Easily distinguished by the lack of lateral setigerous pores on the pronotum, obtuse hind angles of the pronotum, and straight frontal furrows. Color: Head and body piceous; pronotum and elytra moderately iridescent; appendages testaceous. Head: Broad between eyes; frontal furrows moderately impressed, straight, posteriorly divergent; eyes medium-sized, moderately prominent. Pronotum (Figure 61): Very broadly transverse (W/ L, x 1.87; range 1.85-1.89, 2 specimens); lateral setigerous pores absent; laterobasal carinae absent; hind angles obtuse, sides anterior to angles evenly Microsculpture: As in X. laevimicans . Secondary sexual characters: Male genitalia (Figure 66) and female genitalia characteristic of the species group. Size: Two specimens: length, 2.48-2.54 mm; width, 1.26-1.34 mm. NATURAL HISTORY.— Unknown, except adults collected in March. No teneral specimens seen. LOCALITY RECORDS (Figure 72).—I have seen two specimens from the following locality: SOUTH AMERICA: BRAZIL: Alto da Serra, Sao Paulo (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Erwin, Terry L., 1973, Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part I: A revision of the Neotropical genus Xystosomus Schaum, pp. 1-39 in Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 140 on page 34, DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.140, http://zenodo.org/record/3828531
Zmiany konsumpcji papierosów w ujęciu terytorialnym, w latach 1999-2012
Creators: name: Jałowiecka, Ewa
name: Jałowiecki, Piotr
name: Wołąkiewicz, Marta
name: Jałowiecka, Ewa
name: Jałowiecki, Piotr
name: Wołąkiewicz, Marta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: cigarettes consumption
subject: consumption changes
subject: territorial perspective
subject: / konsumpcja papierosów
subject: zmiany konsumpcji
subject: ujęcie terytorialne

description: The paper presents the results of studies on cigarettes consumption in Poland, based on the results of the Household Budget Survey (BGD) conducted by GUS and the changes taking place in the period 1999-2012 in territorial perspective. There has also been done classification of provinces in terms of the pace of change in cigarettes consumption in the period considered. The results were compared with participation of cigarettes from illegal sources data, indicating that its higher level is probably not the cause of underreporting by respondents spending on cigarettes in polls during the survey BGD. We also compared the relative level of consumption of cigarettes with a market share of cigarettes from the "gray zone". / Synopsis. W pracy przedstawiono zmiany konsumpcji papierosów w Polsce w ujęciu terytorialnym opracowane w oparciu o wyniki badań Budżetów Gospodarstw Domowych (BGD) prowadzonych przez GUS oraz zmiany zachodzące w latach 1999-2012 w ujęciu terytorialnym. Dokonano również klasyfikacji województw pod względem tempa zmian konsumpcji papierosów w badanym okresie. Uzyskane wyniki porównano z danymi nt. udziału papierosów pochodzących z nielegalnych źródeł wskazując, że jego wyższy poziom najprawdopodobniej nie jest przyczyną zaniżania przez respondentów wydatków na papierosy w ankietach podczas badań BGD. Porównano również względny poziom konsumpcji papierosów z udziałem w rynku papierosów z "szarej strefy".
title: Investigating strong gravitational lensing with infrared space missions : AKARA, Spitzer and Herschel
Creators: name: Hopwood, Rosalind Helen Bevis
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2011

description: This thesis addresses the use of strong gravitational lensing to facilitate deep midinfrared observations of star-forming galaxies and to study highly dust obscured sub-millimetre galaxies (SMG). 15 um extragalactic number counts were taken from ultra deep AKARI mapping of the gravitational lensing cluster Abell 2218, which is the deepest image taken by any facility at this wavelength. Via strong gravitational lensing these data probe beyond the AKARI blank field confusion limit. By de-magnifying the extracted source catalogue and performing careful photometric de-blending, using multi-wavelength positional priors, galaxy number counts down to ~0.01 mJy were achieved. These counts are ~3x deeper than previous results and resolve 70-100% of the cosmic infrared background at 15/.Lm,giving a new stronger lower limit of 2.0±0.3 nWm-2 Hz-1. These data are sampling the normal star forming population that dominates the peak epoch of star formation. Stacking analysis of the AKARI 15 um source positions at Herschel/SPIRE wavelengths, show that a deep 15 um galaxy population resolves around 40% of the 250 um cosmic infrared background, but is less representative of galaxy populations sampled at longer wavelengths, where the background is dominated by sub-mm galaxies. This thesis also focuses on strong galaxy-galaxy lensing events and the decoupling of the lens and source photometry in order to estimate redshifts and constrain physical characteristics. The first sample of bright sub-mm gravitational lenses, selected at SPIRE 500 um by the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey, are investigated with light profile and SED fitting, to derive physical characteristics. For two of the five lenses, it was possible to disentangle the lens and background galaxy components in highly photometrically blended Spitzer data, after observations by the Submillimeter Array revealed the lensed structure. The lensed background galaxies are highly dust obscured SMG with intrinsic infrared luminosities < ultra luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), and constrain the number density of un-lensed ULIRGs and hyper luminous infrared galaxies to < 3.2 deg-2.
L'integrazione dei mercati finanziari della Comunità Economica Europea. (Prospects for the direct integration of E.E.C. capital markets)
Creators: name: SCOTT, I.O.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: EEC, economic integration, capital movements, restrictions, liberalisation
subject: F15, F36

description: Over the past decade the European Economic Community has made incredible strides toward the realisation of the goals established by the architects of the Rome Treaty. The achievement of a customs union will occur a full year and a half in advance. In addition, progress has been made toward the achievement of economic union and considerable strides have been made toward uniform policies in the areas of transportation, labor, taxation and company organisation. Probably the most difficult area in which member countries have sought agreement is that of capital movements. The present article analyses the prospects for the integration of capital markets and the removal of restrictions on capital movements within the EEC. The author considers the implementation of Article 67, the origins of obstacles to further liberalisation, and the prospects for the third directive. JEL: F15, F36
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 20, N. 79 (1967)
Many-body interference in bosonic dynamics
Creators: name: Dufour, Gabriel
name: Brünner, Tobias
name: Rodríguez, Alberto
name: Buchleitner, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a framework to systematically investigate the influence of many-particle interference on the dynamics of generic $-$ possibly interacting $-$ bosonic systems. We consider mixtures of bosons which belong to several distinguishable species, allowing us to tune the level of many-particle interference, and identify the corresponding signatures in the time-dependent expectation values of observables. Interference contributions to these expectation values can be classified based on the number of interfering particles. Interactions are shown to generate a series of additional, higher-order interference contributions. Finally, based on a decomposition of the Hilbert space of partially distinguishable bosons into irreducible representations of the unitary group, we determine some spectral characteristics of (in)distinguishability.
Terytorialne zróżnicowanie konsumpcji alkoholi w Polsce w latach 1999-2012
Creators: name: Jałowiecki, Piotr
name: Kowalewski, Adam
name: Jałowiecki, Piotr
name: Kowalewski, Adam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: alcohol consumption
subject: territorial diversification
subject: smuggling of alcoholic products
subject: / konsumpcja alkoholu
subject: zróżnicowanie terytorialne
subject: przemyt wyrobów alkoholowych

description: The paper presents changes in the relative level of consumption of different types of alcohols: spirits, wines and beer from disaggregated by the voivodship in the years 1999-2012. Regardless of the examined group of alcoholic products, the lowest level of consumption was found in the group of voivodships included in the south-east macro-region. Low level of alcohol consumption in the Podkarpackie voivodship, as well as in Lubelskie is probably due, at least partly smuggling from Ukraine. A similar situation exists in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie voivodship (smuggling from the Kaliningrad Region), although not in Podlaskie (eg border with Belarus). Unfortunately, this cannot be confirmed on the basis of the data used in the work, because there are no distinction between alcohol derived from legal and illegal sources. / Synopsis. W pracy przedstawiono zmiany względnego poziomu konsumpcji różnych rodzajów alkoholi: wyroby spirytusowe, wina oraz piwa z uwzględnieniem podziału na województwa, w latach 1999-2012. Niezależnie od grupy badanych produktów alkoholowych, najniższy poziom ich konsumpcji stwierdzono w grupie województw zaliczanych do makroregionu południowo- wschodniego. Niski poziom konsumpcji alkoholi w województwie podkarpackim, jak również w lubelskim jest prawdopodobnie spowodowany, przynajmniej częściowo przemytem głównie z Ukrainy. Podobna sytuacja występuje w województwie warmińsko-mazurskim (przemyt z Obwodu Kaliningradzkiego), chociaż już nie w podlaskim (graniczy m.in. z Białorusią). Niestety nie można tego potwierdzić na podstawie danych wykorzystanych w pracy, ponieważ nie ma w nich rozróżnienia na alkohol pochodzący z legalnych i nielegalnych źródeł.
L'inflazione in Europa Occidentale e le monete riserva. (Western European inflation and the reserve currencies)
Creators: name: BAFFI, P.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Inflation, British monetary policy, EEC, deflation, Western Europe
subject: E31, E52, E42

description: The article is a text read and discussed at Chatham House, London, in February 1968. The author establishes to what extent and in what ways British monetary policies, and those of the other main reserve currency countries, have interacted with the European Economic Community’s. The analysis is confined to the years following the return to convertibility, starting with 1959 and ending with 1966. Two extreme lines of thought are distinguished, which are so far removed the one from the other as to leave a very wide field of opinion in between. At one extreme, there is the school of thought that maintains that the reserve currency countries have been exporting inflation. At the other extreme, it is claimed that they have been importing, if not actual deflation, at least certain deflationary impulses from the non-reserve currency countries, mainly those in continental Western Europe. The evidence might show that the same kind of impulses emanated from both sets of countries, and that the difference between them was only one of degree. JEL: E31, E52, E42
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 21, N. 81 (1968)
Two-parameter deformations of logarithm, exponential, and entropy: A consistent framework for generalized statistical mechanics
Creators: name: Kaniadakis, G.
name: Lissia, M.
name: Scarfone, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A consistent generalization of statistical mechanics is obtained by applying the maximum entropy principle to a trace-form entropy and by requiring that physically motivated mathematical properties are preserved. The emerging differential-functional equation yields a two-parameter class of generalized logarithms, from which entropies and power-law distributions follow: these distributions could be relevant in many anomalous systems. Within the specified range of parameters, these entropies possess positivity, continuity, symmetry, expansibility, decisivity, maximality, concavity, and are Lesche stable. The Boltzmann-Shannon entropy and some one parameter generalized entropies already known belong to this class. These entropies and their distribution functions are compared, and the corresponding deformed algebras are discussed.
description: Version to appear in PRE: about 20% shorter, references updated, 13 PRE pages, 3 figures
title: The Battery Tower project : a high-rise for New York City
Creators: name: Kutschera, Markus
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Architektonischer Entwurf
subject: architectural design

description: Der Standort für dieses Projekt befindet sich an der südlichsten Spitze von Manhattan in New York. Die Stadt, die den Wolkenkratzer in seiner heutigen Form erfunden und kultiviert hat. Der Standort befindet sich hinter der Abfahrt zum Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel und bietet ein freies Blickfeld über den Battery Park hinweg in die Bucht von New York. Das Projekt ist ein Wolkenkratzer mit etwa 340 m Höhe. Das Konzept für das Design war aus einem massiven Betonblock die letztendlich Form heraus zu arbeiten. Die offengelegten Flächen sind mit hochverspiegeltem Glas verkleidet, während die verbleibende Außenhaut des ursprünglichen Blocks sich matt und dunkel zurücknimmt. Dieser Kontrast erzeugt Spannung lässt etwas Besonderes unter der Oberfläche des Betons vermuten. Über diese verbleibende Außenhaut verteilt sich ein unregelmäßiges Muster an unterschiedlich großen Öffnungen, das zur Spitze hin immer intensiver wird und sich mehr und mehr auflöst. Das Gebäude hat verschiedene Nutzungen - zum einen Büro, sowie Hotel als auch Wohnungen. Letztere befinden sich im obersten Teil des Gebäudes und ermöglichen einen einmaligen Rundumblick über Manhattan. Des Weiteren gibt es über mehrere Ebenen reichende öffentliche Flächen.
description: The project is located at the southern tip of Lower Manhattan in New York. The City, that invented the skyscraper as we know it today and cultivated it. The site is located behind the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel entrance. Ahead of the tunnel's ventilation, building is the Battery Park. The site offers an open view into New York's Upper Bay. The project is a 340 m tall skyscraper. The design concept was to shape a massive concrete block to obtain the final form of the building. The cut out parts are covered with mirror glass, whereas the remaining parts of the block are dull and dark. The contrast between the materials produces tension and incites to assume that there is something special underneath the concrete shell. The remaining parts are covered with irregular pattern of bays, which becomes more and more intense towards the spire. It is a mixed-use building accommodating offices, a hotel and residences. The residence floors are located on top, offering a unique all-around vista over Manhattan. Furthermore, there are public areas on several floors.
Positive irreducible semigroups and their long-time behaviour
Creators: name: Arendt, Wolfgang
name: Glück, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47D06, 47B65, 35K15

description: The notion \emph{Perron-Frobenius theory} usually refers to the interaction between three properties of operator semigroups: positivity, spectrum and long-time behaviour. These interactions gives rise to a profound theory with plenty of applications. By a brief walk-through of the field and with many examples, we highlight two aspects of the subject, both related to the long-time behaviour of semigroups: (i) The classical question how positivity of a semigroup can be used to prove convergence to an equilibrium as $t \to \infty$. (ii) The more recent phenomenon that positivity itself sometimes occurs only for large $t$, while being absent for smaller times.
description: 18 pages. This is version 2; minor changes compared to v1
title: Simulation of the radiative flux at the martian surface between 180 and 1100 nm
Creators: name: Otter, Stephen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: A multi-layer radiative transfer model of the atmosphere of Mars, the UVIS simulation, has been created to simulate the non-ionising radiative flux at the surface of Mars. The simulation operates over the range 180 - 1100 nm and determines the diffuse component of the surface flux using the delta-Eddington approximation. Latitude, l, and areocentric longitude, Ls, dependent abundance models of the dust and ice cloud aerosols and of the gaseous species ozone and water vapour are incorporated. Alternative aerosol distributions are also used corresponding to observations made by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer onboard Mars Global Surveyor.

 Studies of the variation in surface flux in response to increasing dust optical depth predict reduced surface intensities at UV wavelengths (180 - 400 nm) but at longer wavelengths the surface flux exhibits a local increase relative to the initial incident flux at optical depths < 2.5 for VIS wavelengths (401 - 750 nm) and < 6.0 for NIR wavelengths (751 - 1100 nm). This is explained in terms of the influence of aerosol scattering parameters. Enhancement of the total surface flux by ~20% or greater is shown to occur at latitude and Ls values corresponding to the presence of the aphelion cloud belt and during the annual dust maximum.

 The potential of a surface based spectrometer to be utilised as a means of detecting the trace gases, ozone, hydrogen peroxide and methane in the atmosphere is assessed. Ozone proves the only suitable candidate and the spatial and seasonal distribution of ozone is discussed in the context of potential instrument deployment sites. The effects of varying aerosol scattering parameters on the surface flux is characterised and changes in aerosol scattering parameter 'values of < 5% are shown to be theoretically detectable by a spectrometer of sensitivity 1.0x10-2 Wm-2nm-1.
La concorrenza tra banche ed istituti non bancari negli Stati Uniti: modificazioni strutturali recenti. (Changes in the structure of bank and non-bank competition in the United States)
Creators: name: BLOCH, E.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: US, financial structure, competition, financial institutions, banks, risk, credit
subject: G10, G20, G21, G23

description: From the end of World War II until the beginning of the decade of the sixties, non-bank financial institutions in the United States experienced a far greater growth rate than did commercial banks. By contrast, in the 1960s the growth rate of commercial banks sharply accelerated, while that of the nonblanks held rather stable. In the present work, t is argued that more aggressive competition by banks in the sixties necessarily reflected a revolutionary willingness to take the risk that higher and costlier time deposit rates would cut into the banks’ own monopoly in providing demand deposits. The major theme of the paper is that the banks’ willingness to compete is directly quantifiable by reviewing their willingness to accept narrower profit margins. These narrower margins resulted from a faster rise in TD rates than in rates of return on bank credit; it was the banks’ acceptance of the new set of cost/return functions that helped them to bid funds away from non-banks. Finally, a rise in leveraging of capital accounts and faster asset growth by banks allowed them to maintain profit rates, while, under that same competitive pressure, nonbank profit rates receded. JEL: G10, G20, G21, G23
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 21, N. 81 (1968)
Thin shells in F(R) gravity with non-constant scalar curvature
Creators: name: Eiroa, Ernesto F.
name: Figueroa-Aguirre, Griselda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce two classes of spherically symmetric spacetimes having a thin shell of matter, in non-quadratic F(R) theories of gravity with non-constant scalar curvature R. In the first, the thin shell joins an inner region with an outer one, while in the second it corresponds to the throat of a wormhole. In both scenarios, we analyze the stability of the static configurations under radial perturbations. As particular examples in spacetimes with a cosmological constant, we present charged thin shells surrounding a non-charged black hole and charged thin-shell wormholes. We show that in both cases stable solutions are possible for suitable values of the parameters.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures; v2: extended and improved version, new references added
Conocephalinae
Creators: name: Hemp, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae

description: Subfamily Conocephalinae
description: Published as part of Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, pp. 301-342 in Zootaxa 3613 (4) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/215952
I certificati di deposito nel sistema bancario degli Stati Uniti: esperienze e prospettive. (The CD in American banking: a retrospect and prospect)
Creators: name: HETH, M.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Negotiable time certificate of deposit, competition, commercial banking, US, banking industry structure, financial intermediaries
subject: G21, G23

description: The negotiable time certificate of deposit (CD) has played an important role in the competitive struggle of commercial banks in the US since 1961, enabling them to tap sources of funds they had neglected since the banking reforms of the 1930s. The aggressive employment of the CD has already brought about various changes in banking practices, and may lead to further modifications in the functions performed by commercial banks and in the banking structure. The present article is devoted to the CD phenomenon as it affects the role of commercial banks as financial intermediaries and the structure of the banking industry. The effects of interest rate regulation on the development of the CD as a potential source of funds is also considered. The author concludes that the emergence of the CD, while overcoming some of the barriers to effective competition in the financial markets, has highlighted the continued existence of others. JEL: G21, G23
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 21, N. 81 (1968)
L'occupazione e il programma economico nazionale. (Employment and Italy’s national economic plan)
Creators: name: CAMPOLONGO, A.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, Five-year National Economic Plan, policy, employment, assessment, performance
subject: E24, E60, O21

description: Italy’s Five-year National Economic Plan 1966-70 (published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale of August 14, 1967) set out some targets regarding employment partly expressed in quantitative form. Two years have now passed since the beginning of the five-year period. The present article provides a first evaluation of the actual performance during this span of time and of the implications for the remaining years. JEL: E24, E60, O21
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 21, N. 81 (1968)
Reply to Comment on "Quantum Measurement and Decoherence"
Creators: name: Ford, G. W.
name: O'Connell, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While agreeing with our exact expression for the time dependence of the motion of a free particle in an initial superposition state, corresponding to two identical Gaussians separated by a distance $d$, at temperature $T$, Gobert et al., in the preceding Comment [Phys. Rev. A xxx], dispute our conclusions on decoherence time scales. However, the parameters they used to generate their figures are outside the regime of validity of our interpretation of the results and, moreover, are not of physical interest in that they correspond to $T\approx 0$. The point is that in their figures they have chosen the thermal de Broglie wavelength $λ_{th}=\hbar \sqrt{mkT}$ to be equal to slit spacing \emph{d}, whereas we have clearly stated [in the paragraph preceding Eq. (21) of our paper] that decoherence occurs and that our expression for the decoherence time applies only in the limit where \emph{d} is large compared not only with the slit width $σ$ but also with the thermal de Broglie wavelength, $d\gg λ_{th},σ$.
description: This is a Reply to quant-ph/0306019 "Decoherence without dissipation? " by Dominique Gobert, Jan von Delft, Vinay Ambegaokar The Fig. associated with our Reply appears in the PRA journal paper l
Le rimesse di banconote nella recente esperienza italiana. (Banknote remittances: Italy’s recent experience)
Creators: name: MESALLES, V.
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, international monetary movements, banknote remittances, linear regression, monetary authorities
subject: E42, F20, F32

description: Since the end of 1958, when the principal European countries returned to external convertibility, policy-makers have once again had to face the problems raised by the international movement of funds. In the case of Italy, one of the most striking consequences of the new international monetary situation has been the rapid increase of banknote remittances, which, though almost inexistent in 1958, reached 349 billion lire in 1966. The present study singles out and appraises quantitatively the factors that have given rise to the volume of banknote remittances from 1962 to the beginning of 1967. To this end, an attempt is made, by using multiple linear regressions, to verify the validity of the assumptions put forward by the monetary authorities, while appropriately integrating them. JEL: E42, F20, F32
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 21, N. 81 (1968)
Critical behavior of the three-dimensional compressible Ising antiferroma gnet at constant volume: a Monte Carlo study
Creators: name: Cannavacciuolo, Luigi
name: Landau, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extensive Monte Carlo simulations in the semi-grand-canonical ensemble are used to study the critical behavior of a three-dimensional compressible Ising model with antiferromagnetic interactions under constant volume conditions. Elastic forces between spins are introduced by the Stillinger-Weber potential and energy parameters are chosen in such a way that antiparallel spin ordering is favored, analogous to the antiferromagnetic coupling in the rigid Ising Hamiltonian. All the quantities analyzed strongly indicate that the system remains in the universality class of the standard (rigid) three-dimensional Ising model, in contrast with theoretical predictions.
Mass Unspecific Supervised Tagging (MUST) for boosted jets
Creators: name: Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
name: Joaquim, F. R.
name: Seabra, J. F.
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: Jet identification tools are crucial for new physics searches at the LHC and at future colliders. We introduce the concept of Mass Unspecific Supervised Tagging (MUST) which relies on considering both jet mass and transverse momentum varying over wide ranges as input variables - together with jet substructure observables - of a multivariate tool. This approach not only provides a single efficient tagger for arbitrary ranges of jet mass and transverse momentum, but also an optimal solution for the mass correlation problem inherent to current taggers. By training neural networks, we build MUST-inspired generic and multi-pronged jet taggers which, when tested with various new physics signals, clearly outperform the variables commonly used by experiments to discriminate signal from background. These taggers are also efficient to spot signals for which they have not been trained. Taggers can also be built to determine, with a high degree of confidence, the prongness of a jet, which would be of utmost importance in case a new physics signal is discovered.
description: v2: Results and discussion substantially extended, 6 -> 15 pages. v3: Additional results, 16 pages. Final version in JHEP
Hydrogeochemical characterization, multi-exposure deterministic and probabilistic health hazard evaluation in groundwater in parts of Northern India
Creators: name: Rajkumar, Herojeet
name: Naik, Pradeep K.
name: Singh, Gagandeep
name: Rishi, Madhuri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This work attempts to identify the latent factors controlling the hydrogeochemistry and assess the groundwater quality and associated health risks in the intermontane valley of Nalagarh in the sub-Himalayan zone in northern India. Analytical results of 64 groundwater samples, 32 each collected during pre monsoon and post monsoon seasons show contrasting results for their major chemical constituents. During pre monsoon period, only 3% of the samples exceed their permissible limits for pH, EC, TH and Mg2+, while during post monsoon period, different parameters, such as TH, Mg2+ and K+, exceed their limits by 9, 16, and 3%, respectively. Gibbs and Piper diagrams reveal that groundwater chemistry is mainly controlled by water-sediment (alluvial) interaction. Geochemical signatures and saturation index (SI) further indicate that the weathering and dissolution of silicate, calcite and dolomite minerals mainly contributed to dominance of Ca2+, Mg2+ and HCO3- ions in the aquifers. Monte Carlo simulation ascertains non-carcinogenic health risks due to NO3− and F− in different sub-population groups. Deterministic and probabilistic estimates of these parameters via ingestion and dermal routes confirm their percentage hazard toxicity in the order infants (58.38; 39.62%) >children (15.62; 15.85%) >teens (6.25; 2.73%) >adults (6.25; 1.90%) for pre monsoon. The hazard toxicity for deterministic study implies only on infants (9.38%), whereas, the probabilistic simulation extracted the health risk on infants (6.57%), and children (0.58%) during post monsoon. Minor populations with their lower body weights are more vulnerable to groundwater pollution due to greater consumption of liquid diet. Therefore, treated groundwater is strongly recommended to mitigate health morbidities linked with the non-cancerous risks.
Microarcsecond Astrometry using the SKA
Creators: name: Fomalont, E.
name: Reid, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sensitivity and versatility of SKA will provide microarcsec astrometric precision and high quality milliarcsec-resolution images by simultaneously detecting calibrator sources near the target source. To reach these goals, we suggest that the long-baseline component of SKA contains at least 25% of the total collecting area in a region between 1000 to 5000 km from the core SKA. We also suggest a minimum of 60 elements in the long-baseline component of SKA to provide the necessary (u-v) coverage. For simultaneous all-sky observations, which provide absolute astrometric and geodetic parameters, we suggest using ten independent subarrays each composed of at least six long-baseline elements correlated with the core SKA. We discuss many anticipated SKA long-baseline astrometric experiments: determination of distance, proper motion and orbital motion of thousands of stellar objects; planetary motion detections; mass determination of degenerate stars using their kinetics; calibration of the universal distance scale from 10 pc to 10 Mpc; the core and inner-jet interactions of AGN. With an increase by a factor of 10 in absolute astrometric accuracy using simultaneous all sky observations, the fundamental quasar reference frame can be defined to <10 microarcsec and tied to the solar-system dynamic frame to this accuracy. Parameters associated with the earth rotation and orientation, nutation, and geophysical parameters, can be accurately monitored. Tests of fundamental physics include: solar and Jovian deflection experiments, the sky frame accuracy needed to interpret the gravity wave/pulsar-timing experiment, accurate monitoring of spacecraft orbits which impacts solar system dynamics.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Toxic uranium contamination in groundwater of Thoothukudi district, India: Evaluation of health risks using the geochemical and statistical approach
Creators: name: Raja, Velayutham
name: Neelakantan, Mallanpillai Ananthakrishnan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: The present investigation aims to determine the health risks of toxic uranium contamination in the drinking water of the Thoothukudi district. Two hundred and eighty-six samples were examined during the pre- and post-monsoon seasons and found the uranium concentration ranges from <0.2 to 167 ppb (mean 12, Standard deviation 21) (pre-monsoon) and <02 to 190 ppb (mean 13, Standard deviation 24) (post-monsoon). Geochemical modeling studies and the reducing nature of samples reveal that the uraninite mineral is under saturated conditions, and the least soluble U4O9 mineral species is predominantly distributed during both seasons. Statistical analysis provides that applying nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers may induce the dissolution of uranium minerals, which is responsible for elevated uranium in the collected samples. The calculated noncarcinogenic risk of uranium range from 0.005 to 8.09 (pre-monsoon) and 0.005 to 9.18 (post-monsoon). 15% (pre-monsoon) and 17% (post-monsoon) of the samples show a higher noncarcinogenic risk. The calculated cancer mortality and morbidity are within the permissible limit of 10−3, and the present health risk assessment of uranium is evident that the people from this district have the chemical toxicity of uranium than the carcinogenic risk due to drinking water.
A teacher's personal journey : my emergent understanding about honouring complexities in a math classroom
Creators: name: Lau, Sharon W.Y.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: New insights from complexity theory inform us of a universe with embedded systems of unpredictability and non-linearity. Amidst the chaos sits the potential where individual agents are able to coalesce to a self-organizing and self-adapted collective. Many systems such as a flock of birds, an ant colony, and the stock market have been identified as representing complex phenomena, but more await to be explored, and among those is teaching and learning. Complexity is embedded throughout the educational system - in our students, our classrooms, teaching practices, learning process, mathematics and in the interrelationships between all theses. To treat education as a dynamic and adaptive system, educators need to walk a fine balance of top-down and bottom-up governance, of randomness and structure, and of diversity and redundancy. When these are embraced, I believe that each learning experience and each classroom setting will be a unique system unlike any other; each will emerge in an unpredictable course defined by students and teachers as experience unfold within the system. In this study, I will attempt to do just this and to explore the challenges, struggles, conflicts and successes of this environment. I am capturing a journey of living and learning, an experience that is not the result of any "particular methods, texts or activities", but from a genuine "understanding of human existence and cognition" (Davis, Sumara and Kieren, 1996, p 166).
Congested electricity markets: recent examples from New Zealand
Creators: name: Morrison, Robbie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: electricity market
minimum cut

description: These slides present examples of normal price separation, reserves market abuse under nodal pricing, and simple rent seeking. The events described occurred in New Zealand in 2011 and 2012. The material is intended as a topical illustration for the phenomena described in Harvey and Hogan (2000) (reference given at end). In mid‑2012, Meridian Energy, a state‑owned vertically integrated generator/retailer, allegedly exercised market power in the New Zealand Electricity Market. It did so by pricing up reserve services while the HVDC inter‑island connector (Cook Strait cable) was at reduced capacity during an engineering upgrade. In March 2011, Genesis Energy capitalized on its market power and temporarily raised prices by a factor of 120×. The New Zealand regulator subsequently reduced this to a 17× increase. Harvey, Scott M and William W Hogan (10 January 2000). Nodal and zonal congestion management and the exercise of market power. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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