cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effect of perceived corporate social responsibility activities on corporate evaluation
Creators: name: NAKPAKPERE, Banté
name: GNOUFOUGOU, Doman
name: MAGNANGOU, Essonam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: « CSR; CSR activities; purchase intention; trust; corporate evaluation »

description: This study focused on examining employee and consumer response about company’s involvement in CSR activities. The data were collected through a questionnaires administered to a sample of 375 employee and consumers. Factorial analysis, confirmatory analysis, structure equation model and moderator analysis were conducted using several statistical package such as SPSS, AMOS and PROCESS for Hayes. The study firstly analyses the relationship between employee and consumer perceived CSR activities and purchase intention. Further, the effect of purchases behavior on corporate evaluation was analysis and lastly the moderator effect of trust on the relationship between perceived CSR activities and purchase intention was analyses. The findings revealed a good validity and reliability of the scales used in this research. The results revealed a significant relationship between perceived CSR activities and purchase behavior. Result reveal also a positive and significant relation between individual’s purchase intention and corporate evaluation. In addition the result of moderator effect were validated. Employee and consumer’s trust in corporate do effect the relationship between each dimension of perceived CSR and their purchase intention. Thus, preceived CSR activities has a significant influence on consumer response to corporate evaluation.
Additional file 12 of H3K27 modifiers regulate lifespan in C. elegans in a context-dependent manner
Creators: name: Guillermo, Abigail R. R.
name: Chocian, Karolina
name: Gavriil Gavriilidis
name: Vandamme, Julien
name: Salcini, Anna Elisabetta
name: Mellor, Jane
name: Woollard, Alison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 12: Figure S5. Spatial expression of jmjd-3.2 and utx-1. A-B: Animals overexpressing a full length jmjd-3.2::GFP construct in wildtype (A) and jmjd-3.2(tm3121) mutants (B) were visualised by epifluorescence microscopy and showed spatial expression in a specific subset of neurons (white arrows). C-D: Animals overexpressing full length utx-1::GFP in wildtype (C) and utx-1(tm3118) mutant background (D) both showed ubiquitous expression (white arrows). E-H: The expression of demethylase dead jmjd-3.2 (E-F) and utx-1 (G-H) constructs showed a very similar pattern to the non-mutated constructs. I-J: Whole worm images of animals overexpressing utx-1::GFP (I) and utx-1DD::GFP (J) show ubiquitous expression of utx-1. Scale Bar (A-H) = 10μM; Scale Bar (I-J) = 20μM.
Entre contrainte et incitation : analyse juridique de la qualification au titre de l'agriculture raisonnée
Creators: name: Doussan, Isabelle
name: Doussan, Isabelle
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Dans les années quatre-vingt-dix, l'agriculture raisonnée est apparue comme une réponse des professionnels de l'agriculture intensive à la prise de conscience des pollutions d'origine agricole. Depuis 2002, elle est l'objet d'une procédure de qualification volontaire des exploitations et des produits. L'analyse juridique montre que le dispositif correspond à la mise en place d'une politique incitatrice dans un domaine déjà couvert par des réglementations définissant des obligations juridiques. Les pouvoirs publics, combinant contraintes et incitations, instituent une politique hybride dont la validité juridique est susceptible d'être mise en cause.
Additional file 1 of Community-based outreach associated with increased health utilization among Navajo individuals living with diabetes: a matched cohort study
Creators: name: Franz, Calvin
name: Atwood, Sidney
name: E. John Orav
name: Curley, Cameron
name: Brown, Christian
name: Trevisi, Letizia
name: Nelson, Adrianne Katrina
name: Mae-Gilene Begay
name: Shin, Sonya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Technical Appendix. Technical Appendix Table 1. Percent Change in Trend of Average Healthcare Visit per Quarter by Type of Clinic Visited; 8 Quarters Pre- & Post-Intervention; Complete Model Results [1].
title: Extending Hyperspectral Imaging for Plant Phenotyping to the UV-Range
Creators: name: Brugger, Anna
name: Behmann, Jan
name: Paulus, Stefan
name: Luigs, Hans-Georg
name: Kuska, Matheus Thomas
name: Schramowski, Patrick
name: Kersting, Kristian
name: Steiner, Ulrike
name: Mahlein, Anne-Katrin
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Previous plant phenotyping studies have focused on the visible (VIS, 400–700 nm), near-infrared (NIR, 700–1000 nm) and short-wave infrared (SWIR, 1000–2500 nm) range. The ultraviolet range (UV, 200–380 nm) has not yet been used in plant phenotyping even though a number of plant molecules like flavones and phenol feature absorption maxima in this range. In this study an imaging UV line scanner in the range of 250–430 nm is introduced to investigate crop plants for plant phenotyping. Observing plants in the UV-range can provide information about important changes of plant substances. To record reliable and reproducible time series results, measurement conditions were defined that exclude phototoxic effects of UV-illumination in the plant tissue. The measurement quality of the UV-camera has been assessed by comparing it to a non-imaging UV-spectrometer by measuring six different plant-based substances. Given the findings of these preliminary studies, an experiment has been defined and performed monitoring the stress response of barley leaves to salt stress. The aim was to visualize the effects of abiotic stress within the UV-range to provide new insights into the stress response of plants. Our study demonstrated the first use of a hyperspectral sensor in the UV-range for stress detection in plant phenotyping.
Temperature dependence of D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation in zinc blende semiconductor quantum structures
Creators: name: Kainz, J.
name: Rossler, U.
name: Winkler, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism, intimately related to the spin splitting of the electronic states, usually dominates the spin relaxation in zinc blende semiconductor quantum structures. Previously it has been formulated for the two limiting cases of low and high temperatures. Here we extend the theory to give an accurate description of the intermediate regime which is often relevant for room temperature experiments. Employing the self-consistent multiband envelope function approach, we determine the spin splitting of electron subbands in n-(001) zinc blende semiconductor quantum structures. Using these results we calculate spin relaxation rates as a function of temperature and obtain excellent agreement with experimental data.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
ON THE PROBLEM КОНСЕРВАНТOF DETECTING PRESERVATIVES IN FOOD PRODUCTS
Creators: name: Abulkasimov, S. A.
name: Abdullayeva, D. G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Food, beverages, and pharmaceuticals often use preservatives such as sulfur dioxide and sodium and potassium salts of bisulfite, sulfite, and metabisulfite. Syrophytes areульфиты known as potential allergens that should be labeled on food and beverages.
Additional file 13 of H3K27 modifiers regulate lifespan in C. elegans in a context-dependent manner
Creators: name: Guillermo, Abigail R. R.
name: Chocian, Karolina
name: Gavriil Gavriilidis
name: Vandamme, Julien
name: Salcini, Anna Elisabetta
name: Mellor, Jane
name: Woollard, Alison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 13: Table S8. Statistical analysis of lifespan data relating to Fig. 6. Full statistical analysis of lifespan data from Fig. 6 (****p<0.0001,***p<0.001,**p<0.01,*p<0.05, ns=not significant). EV = empty vector control. Rep = repeat. Mus = muscle, epi = epidermal, neu = neuronal, int = intestinal.
title: ZnO Nanowire Networks as Photoanode Model Systems for Photoelectrochemical Applications
Creators: name: Movsesyan, Liana
name: Maijenburg, Albert Wouter
name: Goethals, Noel
name: Sigle, Wilfried
name: Spende, Anne
name: Yang, Florent
name: Kaiser, Bernhard
name: Jaegermann, Wolfram
name: Park, Sun-Young
name: Mul, Guido
name: Trautmann, Christina
name: Toimil-Molares, Maria Eugenia
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: In this work, the fabrication of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowire networks is presented. By combining ion-track technology, electrochemical deposition, and atomic layer deposition, hierarchical and self-supporting three-dimensional (3D) networks of pure ZnO- and TiO₂-coated ZnO nanowires were synthesized. Analysis by means of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy revealed a highly crystalline structure of the electrodeposited ZnO wires and the anatase phase of the TiO₂ coating. In photoelectrochemical measurements, the ZnO and ZnO/TiO₂ nanowire networks, used as anodes, generated higher photocurrents compared to those produced by their film counterparts. The ZnO/TiO₂ nanowire network exhibited the highest photocurrents. However, the protection by the TiO₂ coatings against chemical corrosion still needs improvement. The one-dimensionality of the nanowires and the large electrolyte-accessible area make these 3D networks promising photoelectrodes, due to the improved transport properties of photogenerated charge carriers and faster redox reactions at the surface. Moreover, they can find further applications in e.g., sensing, catalytical, and piezoelectric devices.
Additional file 14 of H3K27 modifiers regulate lifespan in C. elegans in a context-dependent manner
Creators: name: Guillermo, Abigail R. R.
name: Chocian, Karolina
name: Gavriil Gavriilidis
name: Vandamme, Julien
name: Salcini, Anna Elisabetta
name: Mellor, Jane
name: Woollard, Alison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 14: Figure S6. daf-16 dependence of lifespan extension due to tissue-specific knockdown or overexpression of utx-1. A-B: Lifespan assays were performed on animals tissue-specifically overexpressing utx-1 in the intestine (A) or neurons (B) subjected to daf-16 RNAi. Overexpression of utx-1 gave a moderate lifespan extension in both of these utx-1 overexpressing strains subjected to daf-16 RNAi (p=0.0001 (***) intestinal; p=0.0002 (***) neuronal), suggesting partial daf-16 independence in each case. N2 and daf-16 (RNAi) controls are shared between experiments A and B (as the experiments were performed as a large set) although the graphs are separated for clarity. C-F: Lifespan assays were performed on wild type and daf-16(mu86) animals subjected to global (C) as well as epidermis (D), neuron (E) and intestine-specific (F) knockdown of utx-1. Knockdown of utx-1 in the wild type background in all cases caused lifespan extension, whereas this was largely abrogated in daf-16(mu86) mutants. EV= Empty Vector control (i.e. worms fed HT115 bacteria transformed with L4440 RNAi vector lacking a genomic insert). See Additional file 15: Table S9 for full statistical analysis of lifespan data, including repeats.
Observation of magnetic domain and bubble structures in magnetoelectric Sr$_3$Co$_2$Fe$_{24}$O$_{41}$
Creators: name: Nakajima, H.
name: Kawase, H.
name: Kurushima, K.
name: Kotani, A.
name: Kimura, T.
name: Mori, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic domain and bubble structures in the Z-type hexaferrite Sr$_3$Co$_2$Fe$_{24}$O$_{41}$ were investigated using Lorentz microscopy. This hexaferrite exhibits a room-temperature magnetoelectric effect that is attributed to its transverse conical spin structure (TC phase). Upon heating, the TC phase transforms into a ferrimagnetic phase with magnetic moments in the hexagonal $ab$ plane between 410 and 480 K (FM2 phase) and into another ferrimagnetic phase with moments parallel to the $c$ axis between 490 and 680 K (FM1 phase). Accordingly, in this study, the magnetic domain structures in Sr$_3$Co$_2$Fe$_{24}$O$_{41}$ were observed to change dramatically with temperature. In the TC phase, irregular fine magnetic domains were observed after cooling the specimen from the FM2 to TC phase. In the FM1 phase, striped magnetic domain walls with pairs of bright and dark contrast were formed parallel to the $c$ axis. Upon applying an external magnetic field, the striped magnetic domain walls transformed into magnetic bubbles. The topology of the magnetic bubbles was dependent on the angle between the external magnetic field ($H$) direction and the easy $c$ axis. Namely, magnetic bubbles with the topological number $N$ = 1 (type I) were created for $H//c$, whereas magnetic bubbles with $N$ = 0 (type II) were created when the magnetic field was tilted from the c axis by 5°. We attribute the high magnetocrystalline anisotropy of Sr$_3$Co$_2$Fe$_{24}$O$_{41}$ to the emergence of magnetic bubbles in the FM1 phase.
Additional file 1 of LipF increases rifampicin and streptomycin sensitivity in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis surrogate
Creators: name: Arriaga-Guerrero, Ana Leticia
name: Hernández-Luna, Carlos E.
name: Rigal-Leal, Joyce
name: Robles-González, Rene J.
name: González-Escalante, Laura Adiene
name: Silva-Ramírez, Beatriz
name: Mercado-Hernández, Roberto
name: Vargas-Villarreal, Javier
name: León, Mario Bermúdez De
name: Peñuelas-Urquides, Katia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. LipF sequence comparison between M. tuberculosis H37Rv and clinical CIBIN:UMF:15:99. H37Rv isolate. GenBank: CP009480.1 was used for reference. The LipF coding sequence is underlined, and the LipF promoter sequence is marked in gray. Sequences were obtained through automated sequencing and aligned in CLC sequence viewer 8.0 software.
The Level of Implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) Program and the English Spelling Skills of Grade 4 Learners
Creators: name: Canoy, Cristalyn
name: Evangelista, Joel Patrick
name: Olmillo, Felix Jr
name: Orola, Cecilio Jr.
name: Padero, Jamaicah
name: Padero, Mirah Angelou
name: Quilang, Michelle
name: Quimada, Floriza Khem
name: Salarda, Kristel Mae
name: Zarate, Chzing
name: Casino, Michael Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This study investigates the implementation level of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) program and its relationship to the English spelling skills of Grade 4 learners at Baluarte Elementary School during the academic year 2021-2022. Employing a quantitative approach with a descriptive research design, the study assessed both the extent of MTB-MLE program implementation and the students' English spelling proficiency. Data was collected using a survey questionnaire, which included five questions on self-learning modules and eight on modular learning, alongside a spelling dictation test adapted from Bader’s English Spelling Diagnostic Test, featuring ten items to evaluate the English spelling skills of Grade 4 students. The findings suggest that the MTB-MLE program may have reduced learners' exposure to English words at the primary grade level, which may have negatively impacted their English spelling skills1. Consequently, the study recommends the use of a Developmental English Spelling Workbook as a supplementary learning material to improve English spelling proficiency
Vers une théorie de la régulation publique en présence de perceptions des risques divergentes : comparaison des approches populiste et paternaliste
Creators: name: Salanie, Francois
name: Treich, Nicolas
name: Salanie, Francois
name: Treich, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Not available
Nonlinear nonhomogeneous Robin problems with almost critical and partially concave reaction
Creators: name: Papageorgiou, N. S.
name: Repovš, D. D.
name: Vetro, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J20, 35J60

description: We consider a nonlinear Robin problem driven by a nonhomogeneous differential operator, with reaction which exhibits the competition of two Carathéodory terms. One is parametric, $(p-1)$-sublinear with a partially concave nonlinearity near zero. The other is $(p-1)$-superlinear and has almost critical growth. Exploiting the special geometry of the problem, we prove a bifurcation-type result, describing the changes in the set of positive solutions as the parameter $λ>0$ varies.
Implicações Econômicas e Socioambientais do Biodiesel: Perspectivas da Inserção Gaúcha na Produção
Creators: name: Borges, Adriana Duck
name: Prieb, Rita Pauli
name: Borges, Adriana Duck
name: Prieb, Rita Pauli
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biocombustível
subject: Biodiesel
subject: Economia
subject: Meio-ambiente
subject: Biofuel
subject: Economy
subject: Environment

description: O objetivo desse artigo é fazer uma análise das implicações econômicas e sócio ambientais do biodiesel com ênfase nas perspectivas da inserção gaúcha na produção. A metodologia utilizada compreende duas etapas: primeiro uma revisão bibliográfica acerca da produção e mercado do biodiesel em nível mundial e a particularidade do caso brasileiro. Num segundo momento, buscou-se explicitar a perspectiva gaúcha na produção do biodiesel a partir da aplicação de questionários às pessoas-chave vinculadas às usinas de processamento e prefeituras dos municípios envolvidos na produção. A principal conclusão reforça a viabilidade econômica, e sócio ambiental dessa produção. Ao permitir a produção com base na agricultura familiar, contribui para a diminuição do êxodo rural, os benefícios se mostram em toda a cadeia produtiva irradiando outros setores produtivos gerando desenvolvimento local sustentável.----------------------------This study aims to analyze some economic and socio-environment implications of biodiesel, emphasizing the perspectives for the insertion of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the production. The methodology used comprehends two phases: first, a bibliographic review on world biodiesel production and market, and the peculiarity of the Brazilian case. In a second moment, it was sought to explain the perspective for this state in the production of biodiesel, based on the application of questionnaires to some key people linked to producing plants and city halls in the cities involved in the production. The main conclusion supports the economic and socio-environment feasibility of this production. By allowing production, based on family agriculture, it contributes in the decreasing of the number of people leaving rural areas, and the benefits are sensed in the whole productive chain through the support of other productive sectors and the generation of sustained local development.
Quantum Algorithm to Solve Satisfiability Problems
Creators: name: Mao, Wenjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new quantum algorithm is proposed to solve Satisfiability(SAT) problems by taking advantage of non-unitary transformation in ground state quantum computer. The energy gap scale of the ground state quantum computer is analyzed for 3-bit Exact Cover problems. The time cost of this algorithm on general SAT problems is discussed.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
O mercado internacional de biocombustíveis: etanol e biodiesel.
Creators: name: Botelho Filho, Flavio Borges
name: Hernandez, Dora Isabel Murillo
name: Botelho Filho, Flavio Borges
name: Hernandez, Dora Isabel Murillo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: etanol
subject: biodiesel
subject: mercado institucional

description: O presente estudo tem por objetivo conhecer as caraterísticas atuais do mercado internacional dos biocombustíveis: etanol e biodiesel. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória que visa determinar a importância do mercado institucional dos países envolvidos na produção, consumo e comércio dos biocombustíveis. ----------------------The objective of this article is to know the current characteristics of international market of biofuels: ethanol and biodiesel. This is an explorative research to verify the importance of the institutional markets in the countries involved with biofuels production, consumption and trade.
Smart Meter Devices and The Effect of Feedback on Residential Electricity Consumption: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Northern Ireland
Creators: name: Gans, Will
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Longo, Alberto
name: Gans, Will
name: Alberini, Anna
name: Longo, Alberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Residential Energy
subject: Electricity Demand
subject: Feedback
subject: Smart Meter
subject: Information

description: Using a unique set of data and exploiting a large-scale natural experiment, we estimate the effect of real-time usage information on residential electricity consumption in Northern Ireland. Starting in April 2002, the utility replaced prepayment meters with “smart” meters that allow the consumer to track usage in real-time. We rely on this event, account for the endogeneity of price and plan with consumption through a plan selection correction term, and find that the provision of information is associated with a decline in electricity consumption of up to 20%. We find that the reduction is robust to different specifications, selection-bias correction methods and subsamples of the original data. At £15-17 per tonne of CO2e (2009£), the smart meter program delivers cost-effective reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.
The RTR harmonic domain in two dialects of Yorùbá
Creators: name: Perkins, Jeremy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis, a process of vowel harmony is explored in two dialects of Yoruba where the tongue-root values of adjacent vowels generally agree. In Standard Yoruba, this process of tongue-root harmony affects only vowels within the prosodic word. However, in Moba Yoruba, tongue-root harmony affects vowels in the class of proclitics in addition to those contained in the prosodic word. It is argued that this difference in the domain of application of tongue-root harmony is captured by defining constraints that refer to different harmonic domains in each dialect. A prosodic domain that dominates the prosodic word, the clitic group, is posited in order to capture this dialectal difference. Three different optimality-theoretic accounts that deal with tongue-root harmony in Standard Yoruba are presented. The ability of these analyses to capture patterns within four dialects of Yoruba (Ekiti, Ife, Moba, and Standard Yoruba) and their general theoretical relevance are the main criteria for evaluation. An account utilizing alignment constraints (Pulleyblank 1996) succeeds in capturing the cross-dialectal patterns of tongue-root harmony in all four dialects of Yoruba, however it relies on the formulation of gradiently evaluated alignment constraints. This is a situation that is theoretically undesirable. An account enforcing stem-control (Bakovic 2000) succeeds in capturing the patterns seen in two of the four dialects. I argue against a basic assumption that this account relies on: that all VCV nouns are morphologically complex. It is shown that if at least some of these nouns are not analyzed as morphologically complex, the stem-control account cannot succeed in capturing the attested pattern of tongue-root harmony in any dialect of Yoruba. Finally, an account that utilizes markedness constraints prohibiting certain featural sequences (Pulleyblank 2002) can capture the pattern seen in Standard Yoruba. An adaptation of this account that includes positional faithfulness is offered to account for Ife, Ekiti and Moba Yoruba. This positional faithfulness account avoids the need to use gradiently evaluated constraints and it does not rely on morphological constituency. Instead, it uses prosodic constituents as domains of reference for OT constraints.
Passivity Analysis of Discrete-time Counterparts of the Bilateral Controlled Teleoperation Systems
Creators: name: Ghavifekr, A. A.
name: Badamchizadeh, M. A.
name: Ghiasi, A. R.
name: Hashemzadeh, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents an analysis of the passivity condition for discrete-time bilateral teleoperation systems. Considering discrete-time controllers for a master-slave teleoperation system can simplify its implementation. Varieties of control schemes have been utilized for the position error based architecture of bilateral teleoperation systems and major concerns such as passivity and transparency have been studied. This paper takes into account the passivity conditions for the discrete counterparts of P-like, PD-like, and PD-like + dissipation controllers. These conditions impose bounds on the controller gains, the damping of the master and slave robots, and the sampling time which help researchers to provide guidelines to have better transparency and passive teleoperation systems. Simulation results are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed criteria.
title: Soft hairy Schrödinger black holes
Creators: name: Hacker, Philip
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: soft hair
subject: Schrödinger
subject: black holes

description: We find near horizon boundary conditions for three dimensional Schrödinger black holes in topologically massive gravity. These are expressed in terms of first order fields of a Chern-Simons-like formalism. Then we calculate the associated charges, find their symmetry algebra and express the entropy in terms of these charges. Finally, we attempt to link the near horizon symmetry algebra to the algebra at asymptotic infinity - the Virasoro algebra.
Scheme for deterministic Bell-state-measurement-free quantum teleportation
Creators: name: Yang, Ming
name: Cao, Zhuo-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A deterministic teleportation scheme for unknown atomic states is proposed in cavity QED. The Bell state measurement is not needed in the teleportation process, and the success probability can reach 1.0. In addition, the current scheme is insensitive to the cavity decay and thermal field.
description: 3 pages, no figure
Intermittent fluctuations due to Lorentzian pulses in turbulent thermal convection
Creators: name: Decristoforo, G.
name: Theodorsen, A.
name: Garcia, O. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulent motions due to flux-driven thermal convection is investigated by numerical simulations and stochastic modelling. Tilting of convection cells leads to the formation of sheared flows and quasi-periodic relaxation oscillations for the energy integrals far from the threshold for linear instability. The probability density function for the temperature and radial velocity fluctuations in the fluid layer changes from a normal distribution at the onset of turbulence to a distribution with an exponential tail for large fluctuation amplitudes for strongly driven systems. The frequency power spectral density has an exponential shape, which is a signature of deterministic chaos. By use of a novel deconvolution method, this is shown to result from the presence of Lorentzian pulses in the underlying time series, demonstrating that exponential frequency spectra can persist in also in turbulent flow regimes.
description: 21 pages (single column format), 14 figures
Biofuel Economics in a Setting of Multiple Objectives & Unintended Consequences
Creators: name: Jaeger, William K.
name: Egelkraut, Thorsten M.
name: Jaeger, William K.
name: Egelkraut, Thorsten M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biofuel
subject: Biodiesel
subject: Cost-Effectiveness
subject: Indirect Land Use Change Effects
subject: Net Energy
subject: Multiple Objectives
subject: Ethanol
subject: Ghg

description: This paper examines biofuels from an economic perspective and evaluates the merits of promoting biofuel production in the context of the policies’ multiple objectives, life-cycle implications, pecuniary externalities, and other unintended consequences. The policy goals most often cited are to reduce fossil fuel use and to lower greenhouse gas emissions. But the presence of multiple objectives and various indirect effects complicates normative evaluation. To address some of these complicating factors, we look at several combinations of policy alternatives that achieve the same set of incremental gains along the two primary targeted policy dimensions, making it possible to compare the costs and cost-effectiveness of each combination of policies. For example, when this approach is applied to U.S.-produced biofuels, they are found to be 14 to 31 times as costly as alternatives like raising the gas tax or promoting energy efficiency improvements. The analysis also finds the scale of the potential contributions of biofuels to be extremely small in both the U.S. and EU. Mandated U.S. corn ethanol production for 2025 reduces U.S. petroleum input use by 1.75%, and would have negligible net effects on CO2 emissions; and although EU imports of Brazilian ethanol may look better given the high costs of other alternatives, this option is equivalent, at most, to a 1.20% reduction in EU gasoline consumption.
title: Intellectual property management : know-how protection in rolling stock business cooperations
Creators: name: Nixdorf, Steffen
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: rolling stock
subject: IP protection
subject: rolling stock
subject: IP protection

description: This thesis discusses know-how protection schemes in rolling stock business cooperation, specifically focusing on transfer of technology. After essential terminology is defined, the state-of-the-art of industrial know-how protection schemes, based on literature research, is presented. The research also encompasses financial assessment methods of knowledge assets and its utilisation. Furthermore, this thesis investigates the current know-how protection conduct of a rolling stock manufacturer and analyses its risks and shortcomings compared to the state-of-the-art. Based on the investigation results several technical concepts for know-how protection are derived. These concepts undergo detailed evaluation of their cost-benefit to the collaborating rolling stock firm. The technical know-how protection method with the best evaluation score is automated data filtering. It uses a converter to automatically create documents from pre-defined content levels, which are then ready for transfer.
Electronic Structure of Samarium Monopnictides and Monochalcogenides
Creators: name: Svane, A.
name: Kanchana, V.
name: Vaitheeswaran, G.
name: Santi, G.
name: Temmerman, W. M.
name: Szotek, Z.
name: Strange, P.
name: Petit, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structures of SmX (X=N, P, As, Sb, Bi, O, S, Se, Te, Po)compounds are calculated using the self-interaction corrected local-spin density approximation. The Sm ion is described with either five or six localized $f$-electrons while the remaining electrons form bands, and the total energies of these scenarios are compared. With five localized $f$-electrons a narrow $f$-band is formed in the vicinity of the Fermi level leading to an effective intermediate valence. This scenario is the ground state of all the pnictides as well as SmO. With six localized $f$-electrons, the chalcogenides are semiconductors, which is the ground state of SmS, SmSe and SmTe. Under compression the Sm chalcogenides undergo first order transitions with destabilization of the $f$ states into the intermediate valence state, the bonding properties of which are well reproduced by the present theory.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Are Preferences for Environmental Quality Sensitive to Financial Funding Schemes? Evidence from a Marine Restoration Programme in the Black Sea
Creators: name: Remoundou, Kyriaki
name: Koundouri, Phoebe
name: Adaman, Fikret
name: Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.
name: Remoundou, Kyriaki
name: Koundouri, Phoebe
name: Adaman, Fikret
name: Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Non-Market Valuation
subject: Stated Choice Experiment
subject: Payment Vehicle
subject: Tax Revenues Reallocation
subject: Marine Resources
subject: Black Sea
subject: Marine Biodiversity
subject: Developing Countries

description: This paper uses a non-market valuation study to elicit consumers’ preferences for a marine restoration programme in the Black Sea aiming to reduce the level of public health risk from bathing and improve water quality and the overall level of marine biodiversity. In this context, we administer a stated choice experiment in coastal settlements in Ukraine and Turkey and employ two tax revenue reallocation schemes as payment vehicles. One proposes the financing of the marine restoration programme by the reduction of the public budget for renewable energy and the second by the reduction of the public budget on training for civil servants. We examine the stated preferences and the subsequently derived economic value estimates in the two treatments with the aim to investigate whether the trade-off implied by the funding scheme has implications for the valuation outcome. Results reveal that preferences and marginal rates of substitution between the non-price attributes under consideration differ significantly. In the civil servants’ budget reallocation scheme, the reallocation coefficient is positive, implying that ceteris paribus redistribution of public financial resources from this source is utility-enhancing. The magnitude of the results differs in the two considered countries mirroring their heterogeneity in political and cultural dimensions.
X-ray phase contrast topography to measure the surface stress and bulk strain in a silicon crystal
Creators: name: Massa, Enrico
name: Sasso, Carlo Paolo
name: Fretto, Matteo
name: Martino, Luca
name: Mana, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurement of the Si lattice parameter by x-ray interferometry assumes the use of strain-free crystals, which might not be true because of intrinsic stresses due to surface relaxation, reconstruction, and oxidation. We used x-ray phase-contrast topography to investigate the strain sensitivity to the finishing, annealing, and coating of the interferometer crystals.We assessed the topography capabilities by measuring the lattice strain due to films of copper deposited on the interferometer mirror-crystal. A byproduct has been the measurement of the surface stresses after complete relaxation of the coatings.
Precursor activity in bright long BATSE gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Lazzati, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a sample of bright long BATSE GRB light curves in the 200 s before the detection of the GRB prompt emission. We find that in a sizable fraction of cases (20 %) there is evidence of emission above the background coming from the same direction of the GRB. This emission is characterised by a softer spectrum with respect to the main one and contains a small fraction (0.1-1 %) of the total event counts. The precursors have typical delays of several tens of seconds extending (in few cases) up to 200 seconds (the limit of the investigated period). Their spectra are typically non-thermal power-law but for a few cases. Such long delays and the non-thermal origin of their spectra are hard to reconcile with any model for the progenitor.
description: 9 pages, 11 postscript figures, MNRAS in press
Additional file 16 of H3K27 modifiers regulate lifespan in C. elegans in a context-dependent manner
Creators: name: Guillermo, Abigail R. R.
name: Chocian, Karolina
name: Gavriil Gavriilidis
name: Vandamme, Julien
name: Salcini, Anna Elisabetta
name: Mellor, Jane
name: Woollard, Alison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 16: Figure S7. Knockdown of daf-2 enhances longevity in a tissue-specific manner. A: Global depletion of daf-2 was achieved through RNAi and promoted lifespan extension in wild-type animals compared to EV controls (p<0.0001 (****)). B-E: Tissue-specific depletion of daf-2 enhanced worm longevity when knocked down in the epidermis (B), intestine (C) and neurons (D) (p<0.0001 (****) in all cases), but not in the muscle (E) (p=0.82 (ns)), the same tissues implicated in improved longevity mediated by utx-1 knockdown. EV= Empty Vector control (i.e. worms fed HT115 bacteria transformed with L4440 RNAi vector lacking a genomic insert). See Additional file 17: Table S10 for full statistical analysis of lifespan data.
A Global Map of Costal Recreation Values: Results From a Spatially Explicit Based Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Ghermandi, Andrea
name: Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.
name: Ghermandi, Andrea
name: Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Built Coastal Environment
subject: Natural Coastal Environment
subject: Ecosystem Service Valuation
subject: Geographic Information Systems
subject: Mapping Ecosystem Values
subject: Marine Biodiversity
subject: Scaling up
subject: Spatial Analysis
subject: Spatial Economic Valuation
subject: Value Transfer

description: The welfare dimension of the recreational services provided by global coastal ecosystems is examined through a meta-analytical regression-based valuation approach. First, we construct a global, state-of-the-art database of stated and revealed preference estimates on coastal recreation, which includes also the grey literature and with the latest entry updated to February 2010. Second, the profile of each of the 253 observations of our dataset, which correspond to individual value estimates, was further enriched with characteristics of the built coastal environment (site accessibility, anthropogenic pressure, level of human development), characteristics of the natural coastal environment (presence of protected area, type of ecosystem, and marine biodiversity richness), geo-climatic factors (temperature and precipitation), as well as sociopolitical characteristics, such as the political stability index. In this context, the proposed meta-analytical valuation exercise explores the spatially explicit dimension of the values building upon Geographic Information System (GIS) tools. GIS are relied upon for the spatial characterization of the valued ecosystems, the determination of the role of spatially explicit variables in the meta analytical value transfer model, as well as for the value transfer exercise. The GIS characterization is observed to be extremely significant in explaining the spatial diversity of the estimates values and underlying explanatory factors. The resulting integrated valuation framework constitutes a worldwide première and it results in the first global map of the recreational value of coastal ecosystems. We argue that the presented global map may play an important role in studying the prioritization for the conservation of coastal areas from a social perspective.
Towards the Optimal Management of the Northeast Arctic Cod Fishery
Creators: name: Richter, Andries
name: Eikeset, Anne Maria
name: Stenseth, Nils Chr.
name: Van Soest, Daan P.
name: Richter, Andries
name: Eikeset, Anne Maria
name: Stenseth, Nils Chr.
name: Van Soest, Daan P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The objectives pursued by governments managing fisheries may include maximizing profits, minimizing the impact on the marine ecosystem, or securing employment, which all require adjusting the composition of the fishing fleet. We develop a management plan that can be adapted to those objectives and allows the regulator to compare the long-run profits between the various management options. We apply the model to the case of Northeast Arctic cod, and estimate the cost and harvesting functions of various vessel types, the demand function, and a biological model to provide key insights regarding the optimal management of this valuable fish species.
The Twin--Jet System in NGC 1052: VLBI-Scrutiny of the Obscuring Torus
Creators: name: Kadler, M.
name: Ros, E.
name: Lobanov, A. P.
name: Falcke, H
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 1052 offers the possibility to study the obscuring torus around a supermassive black hole, predicted by the standard model of active galactic nuclei, over a wide range of wavelengths from the radio to the X-ray regime. We present a detailed VLBI study of the parsec-scale structure of the ``twin-jet'' system in NGC 1052 in both total and polarized intensity and at multiple frequencies. We report the detection of linearly polarized emission from the base of the eastern jet at 5 GHz. While the radio spectrum in this region might be still consistent with synchrotron self absorption, the highly inverted spectrum of the western jet base represents a clear sign of pronounced free-free absorption in a circumnuclear torus. We observe an abrupt change of the brightness temperature gradient at a distance of $\sim 0.2$ pc to 0.3 pc from the central engine. This might provide an observational signature of the edge of the central torus, where the transition from an external pressure-dominated jet regime to a more or less freely expanding jet takes place. We determine the absorbing column density towards the western jet core to be $\sim 2.2 \times 10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$ in good agreement with the values derived from various X-ray observations. This suggests that the nuclear X-ray emission and the jet emission imaged by VLBI originate on the same scales.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, needs aa.cls, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, note that the resolution of figure 2 has been decreased in comparison to the journal version
Risk and Time Preferences Among the Urban Poor in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Al Lily, Miriam
name: Liebenehm, Sabine
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 4404
subject: Development studies
classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This paper investigates behavioral attitudes toward risk and time among the urban poor in Saudi Arabia by conducting an incen?tivized lab-in-the-field experiment and exploring the correlations between these attitudes and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics that are relevant in the Saudi context. Specifically, the focus of this research is on cultural and religious indicators related to Bedouin heritage and the strength of religious beliefs as well as a set of different proxies for poverty, including income, assets, social welfare payments, and social capital. Accordingly, we define a discounted utility model, where we apply prospect theory and quasihyperbolic discounting. We then jointly estimate participants' risk and time preferences via a maximum likeli?hood approach. Our results suggest that, on average, poor urban Saudis exhibit high levels of risk aversion and patience; these findings are similar to those reported in other studies that have investigated Muslim respondents in rural settings. We also reveal that stronger religious beliefs are associated with higher levels of risk-taking and a stronger preference for the present, whereas Bedouin heritage and asset-related poverty in terms of home ownership and savings are related to higher levels of risk aversion and impatience.