cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Transition to Organic Cropping Systems under Risk
Creators: name: Archer, David W.
name: Kludze, Hillarius
name: Archer, David W.
name: Kludze, Hillarius
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: We analyze the risks, returns and optimal adoption strategies for a representative Minnesota farm switching from conventional to organic cropping systems. The EPIC simulation model was calibrated based on the yields observed in a farming systems field study. A farm-level simulation model was constructed using the EPIC simulated crop yields and historical prices. Results were compared for an expected utility maximizing farm under a range of risk aversion levels, with and without management learning curves and biological transition effects. A dynamic programming model was then constructed to evaluate the joint effects of machinery replacement decisions, learning curves, and biological transition effects on optimal adoption strategies. Results show that producers will find it optimal to transition to organic systems as rapidly as possible, even with significant learning curves and machinery adjustment costs.
Relic Gravitational Waves in the Accelerating Universe
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
name: Yuan, Yefei
name: Zhao, Wen
name: Chen, Ying-Tian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations have recently indicated that the Universe at the present stage is in an accelerating expansion, a process that has great implications. We evaluate the spectrum of relic gravitational waves in the current accelerating Universe and find that there are new features appearing in the resulting spectrum as compared to the decelerating models. In the low frequency range the peak of spectrum is now located at a frequency $ν_E \simeq (\frac{Ω_m}{Ω_Λ})^{1/3} ν_H$, where $ν_H$ is the Hubble frequency, and there appears a new segment of spectrum between $ν_E$ and $ν_H$. In all other intervals of frequencies $\geq ν_H$, the spectral amplitude acquires an extra factor $\frac{Ω_m}{Ω_Λ}$, due to the current acceleration, otherwise the shape of spectrum is similar to that in the decelerating models. The recent WMAP result of CMB anisotropies is used to normalize the amplitude for gravitational waves. The slope of the power spectrum depends sensitively on the scale factor $a(τ) \propto |τ|^{1+β}$ during the inflationary stage with $β=-2$ for the exact de Sitter space. With the increasing of $β$, the resulting spectrum is tilted to be flatter with more power on high frequencies, and the sensitivity of the second science run of the LIGO detectors puts a restriction on the parameter $β\leq -1.8$. We also give a numerical solution which confirms these features.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Class. Quant. Grav
title: Talking about Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk—Evaluation of a Psychosocial Training Module for Gynecologists in Germany
Creators: name: Kendel, Friederike
name: Speiser, Dorothee
name: Fechner, Karen
name: Olbrich, Christine
name: Stegen, Stephanie
name: Rörig, Alina
name: Feufel, Markus A.
name: Haering, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: familial breast and ovarian cancer risk
subject: primary care
subject: genetic counseling
subject: communication
subject: training
subject: medical education
classificationCode: 610
subject: Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Primary care gynecologists play an important role in setting the course for coping with an increased genetic cancer risk. The suggested 90 min psychosocial training module enables primary care gynecologists to expand their competence in dealing with familial breast and ovarian cancer burden. It may contribute to a sustainable improvement in the care of women with an increased risk of familial breast and ovarian cancer.Abstract Primary care gynecologists are increasingly integrated into the care of patients with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) risks. These physicians should not only have basic genetic knowledge; they should also feel able to sensitively address an increased HBOC risk and deal with emotional, stressful situations in this context. Our project aimed at developing a training module, 'iKNOWgynetics', addressing psychosocial challenges in the context of HBOC care for primary care gynecologists. We developed the psychosocial training module in three phases: first, we conducted an online survey with n = 35 women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer to assess patients' experiences and needs. Second, based on the results of the needs assessment, we developed the training module. Third, we evaluated the training by assessing physicians' (n = 109) self-efficacy with regard to communication skills in the context of HBOC before and after the training. In the needs assessment, seven psychosocial themes emerged. These themes, complementing a review of the literature, informed the training curriculum. The training was divided into two parts: (1) communicating with women before genetic testing and (2) care co-management for women with HBOC after genetic testing. After the training, participants reported a significant increase in self-efficacy in three domains: communicating empathetically, educating patients in a comprehensible way and dealing with emotionally challenging situations. Our results highlight the relevance of psychosocial issues for patients with HBOC. A genetic literacy training module that integrates aspects of psychosocial care increases physicians' confidence in dealing with emotionally challenging situations before and after their patients' genetic testing. Thus, such trainings may improve the care of women with hereditary cancer risks.
ISO-ChaI 52: a weakly-accreting young stellar object with a dipper light curve
Creators: name: Frasca, A.
name: Manara, C. F.
name: Alcalá, J. M.
name: Biazzo, K.
name: Venuti, L.
name: Covino, E.
name: Rosotti, G.
name: Stelzer, B.
name: Fedele, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the discovery of periodic dips in the multiband lightcurve of ISO-ChaI 52, a young stellar object in the Chamaeleon I dark cloud. This is one among the peculiar objects that display very low or negligible accretion both in their UV continuum and spectral lines, although they present a remarkable infrared excess emission characteristic of optically-thick circumstellar disks. We have analyzed a VLT/X-Shooter spectrum with the tool ROTFIT to determine the stellar parameters. The latter, along with photometry from our campaign with the REM telescope and from the literature, have allowed us to model the spectral energy distribution and to estimate the size and temperature of the inner and outer disk. From the rotational period of the star/disk system of 3.45 days we estimate a disk inclination of 36$^\circ$. The depth of the dips in different bands has been used to gain information about the occulting material. A single extinction law is not able to fit the observed behavior, while a two-component model of a disk warp composed of a dense region with a gray extinction and an upper layer with an ISM-type extinction provides a better fit of the data.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Critical Point for Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Linear Block Codes
Creators: name: Fossorier, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this letter, the SNR value at which the error performance curve of a soft decision maximum likelihood decoder reaches the slope corresponding to the code minimum distance is determined for a random code. Based on this value, referred to as the critical point, new insight about soft bounded distance decoding of random-like codes (and particularly Reed-Solomon codes) is provided.
description: to appear IEEE Communications Letters
Cooperative Growth and Decline: A Game Theoretic Approach to Understanding Members' Allocation Choices
Creators: name: Bond, Jennifer Keeling
name: Bond, Jennifer Keeling
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: In the present research, the agent's choice to leave or join a cooperative is modeled to be a function of alternative investment opportunities and choices made by other agents who are faced with an identical set of possible strategies. Once the agent has made the decision to join a cooperative, the agent may reevaluate available alternatives in each period. The result is a multi-period repeated game in which the growth or decline of a cooperative is determined.
On the Productive Value of Biodiversity
Creators: name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: biodiversity
subject: productive value
subject: complementarity
subject: scale
subject: convexity
subject: catalytic effect
subject: uncertainty

description: The paper investigates the value of biodiversity as it relates to the productive value of services provided by an ecosystem. It analyzes how the value of an ecosystem can be "greater than the sum of its parts." First, it proposes a general measure of the value of biodiversity. Second, this measure is decomposed into four components, reflecting the role of complementarity, scale, convexity, and catalytic effects. This provides new information on the sources and determinants of biodiversity value. Third, the paper examines the role of uncertainty. In this context, the role of risk and of downside-risk exposure and their effects on the value of biodiversity are explored. This provides useful insights on how management and policy decisions can affect the value of biodiversity.
Andean musicians in Vancouver : transcultural traditions and identity
Creators: name: Bracewell, Maureen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Since the 1980s, "traditional" music of the Andes has become familiar to Vancouver audiences, as well as to those in urban centres throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. This thesis explores the performance and presentation of Andean music in Vancouver, as an example of music making in transcultural displacement. Profiles of three musicians are presented, based on data compiled through formal interviews with musicians, observation of performance events, and research of promotional materials produced by Andean musical groups. All three are part of the Latin American immigrant "community" of Vancouver, and all have many years experience performing what they identify as Andean folkloric music. Their backgrounds, however, are diverse, as are the styles of music they currently perform. There are differences, also, in how their music relates to the construction and presentation of their ethnic identities in Canada. Central to this study is the issue of how musicians in a transcultural setting consider the notion of authenticity in maintaining musical traditions. The relation of a musical tradition to musicians' sense of identity, and how it may change over time, is also examined. This study demonstrates that in order to understand how and why a musical tradition changes through the process of globalization, we must examine the dynamics among musicians sharing that tradition, and the complex cultural and social networks in which each is embedded.
Multiferroics: different ways to combine magnetism and ferroelectricity
Creators: name: Khomskii, D. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiferroics - materials which are simultaneously (ferro)magnetic and ferroelectric, and often also ferroelastic, attract now considerable attention, both because of the interesting physics involved and as they promise important practical applications. In this paper I give a survey of microscopic factors determining the coexistence of these properties, and discuss different possible routes to combine them in one material. In particular the role of the occupation of d-states in transition metal perovskites is discussed, possible role of spiral magnetic structures is stressed and the novel mechanism of ferroelectricity in magnetic systems due to combination of site-centred and bond-centred charge ordering is presented. Microscopic nature of multiferroic behaviour in several particular materials, including magnetite Fe3O4, is discussed.
description: to be published as a Topical Review in Journ.Magn.Magn.Mater
Model Selection in Stochastic Frontier Analysis: Maize Production in Kenya
Creators: name: Liu, Yanyan
name: Liu, Yanyan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: We demonstrate how a recently developed model selection procedure can be used to choose among competing stochastic frontier models where inefficiency depends on firm characteristics. We provide evidence on the power of this procedure. Moreover, we examine the effects of model choice on estimation results. We find that different models can lead to rather different magnitudes of the partial effects of the exogenous factors. However, because the model selection procedure gives an unambiguous choice of best model, and because bootstrapping indicates that the procedure is reliable, we conclude that it does not matter whether other models give different results.
Wildly ramified covers with large genus
Creators: name: Pries, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H30, 14G32

description: We study wildly ramified G-Galois covers $ϕ:Y \to X$ branched at B (defined over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p). We show that curves Y of arbitrarily high genus occur for such covers even when G, X, B and the inertia groups are fixed. The proof relies on a Galois action on covers of germs of curves and formal patching. As a corollary, we prove that for any nontrivial quasi-p group G and for any sufficiently large integer $σ$ with $p \nmid σ$, there exists a G-Galois étale cover of the affine line with conductor $σ$ above the point $\infty$.
Exact transformation of a Langevin equation to a fluctuating response equation
Creators: name: Harada, Takahiro
name: Hayashi, Kumiko
name: Sasa, Shin-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that a Langevin equation that describes the motion of a Brownian particle under non-equilibrium conditions can be exactly transformed to a special equation that explicitly exhibits the response of the velocity to a time dependent perturbation. This transformation is constructed on the basis of an operator formulation originally used in nonlinear perturbation theory for differential equations by extending it to stochastic analysis. We find that the obtained expression is useful for the calculation of fundamental quantities of the system, and that it provides a physical basis for the decomposition of the forces in the Langevin description into effective driving, dissipative, and random forces in a large-scale description.
description: 14 pages, to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen
Microwave Power Standard using Cold Atoms
Creators: name: Paulusse, David C.
name: Rowell, Nelson L.
name: Michaud, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how the observation of Rabi flopping oscillations in a laser cooled atomic sample could be used as a microwave power standard. The rubidium atoms are first trapped in a standard MOT, then optically pumped, and dropped. As they enter the interaction region, a resonant pulsed microwave field is applied. Following the interaction lasting up to 10 ms, a probe laser beam is turned on and the fluorescence measures the population inversion.
description: 1 page, 2 figures
Figure S1. from Correlated and decoupled evolution of adult and larval body size in frogs
Creators: name: Phung, Tung X.
name: Nascimento, João C. S.
name: Novarro, Alexander J.
name: Wiens, John J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Primary time-calibrated tree of 542 species used in this study.
From the Birch & Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture over the Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture to non-commutative Iwasawa theory - a survey
Creators: name: Venjakob, Otmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a survey on the relationship between non-commutative Iwasawa theory and the Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture following the work of (in alphabetical order) Burns/Flach, Coates/Sujatha, Fukaya/Kato, Huber/Kings and others.
description: 36 pages
A low-luminosity core-collapse supernova very similar to SN 2005cs
Creators: name: Jäger, Zoltán
name: Vinkó, József
name: Bíró, Barna I.
name: Hegedüs, Tibor
name: Borkovits, Tamás
name: Jäger, Zoltán
name: Nagy, Andrea P.
name: Molnár, László
name: Kriskovics, Levente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observations and analysis of PSN J17292918+7542390, a low-luminosity Type II-P supernova (LL SN IIP). The observed sample of such events is still low, and their nature is still under debate. Such supernovae are similar to SN 2005cs, a well-observed low-luminosity Type II-P event, having low expansion velocities, and small ejected $^{56}$Ni mass. We have developed a robust and relatively fast Monte-Carlo code that fits semi-analytic models to light curves of core collapse supernovae. This allows the estimation of the most important physical parameters, like the radius of the progenitor star, the mass of the ejected envelope, the mass of the radioactive nickel synthesized during the explosion, among others. PSN J17292918+7542390 has $R_0 = 91_{-70}^{+119} \cdot 10^{11} \;\text{cm}$, $M_\text{ej} = 9.89_{-1.00}^{+2.10} \; M_{\odot}$, $E_{\mathrm{kin}} = 0.65_{-0.18}^{+0.19} \;\text{foe}$, $v_{\mathrm{exp}} = 3332_{-347}^{+216}$ km s$^{-1}$, for its progenitor radius, ejecta mass, kinetic energy and expansion velocity, respectively. The initial nickel mass of the PSN J17292918+7542390 turned out to be $1.55_{-0.70}^{+0.75} \cdot 10^{-3} M_{\odot}$. The measured photospheric velocity at the earliest observed phase is 7000 km s$^{-1}$. As far as we can tell based on the small population of observed low-luminosity Type II-P supernovae, the determined values are typical for these events.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures
Behavior of Dynamical Systems in the Regime of Transient Chaos
Creators: name: Astaf'ev, G. B.
name: Koronovskii, A. A.
name: Hramov, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transient chaos regime in a two-dimensional system with discrete time (Eno map) is considered. It is demonstrated that a time series corresponding to this regime differs from a chaotic series constructed for close values of the control parameters by the presence of "nonregular" regions, the number of which increases with the critical parameter. A possible mechanism of this effect is discussed.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Oliver Auge und Katja Hillebrand (Hrsg.); Klosterbuch Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg. Klöster, Stifte und Konvente von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation. 2 Bände
Creators: name: Albrecht, Uwe
Publisher: name: Journal für Kunstgeschichte
Year: 2024

description: Rezension zu: Oliver Auge und Katja Hillebrand (Hrsg.); Klosterbuch Schleswig-Holstein und Hamburg. Klöster, Stifte und Konvente von den Anfängen bis zur Reformation. 2 Bände; Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2019; 1 600 S., 781 farb. u. 307 s/w-Abb.; ISBN 978-3-7954-2896-9 (Bd. 1) und 978-3-7954-2896-2 (Bd. 2)
description: Journal für Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 24 Nr. 2 (2020): Journal für Kunstgeschichte
Appendix S1. from Correlated and decoupled evolution of adult and larval body size in frogs
Creators: name: Phung, Tung X.
name: Nascimento, João C. S.
name: Novarro, Alexander J.
name: Wiens, John J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Regression results reversing independent and dependent variables
IMPLICIT PRICES OF WETLAND EASEMENTS
Creators: name: Shultz, Steven D.
name: Taff, Steven J.
name: Shultz, Steven D.
name: Taff, Steven J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Farmland prices were regressed against sale size, gross production values, surrounding land uses and wetlands, and perpetual wetland easements administered by United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Each additional wet wetland acre reduced average cropland values by $209 or 51% of average local cropland values while each additional wetland easement acre reduces average land values by $234 which corresponds to 57% of local cropland values.
Additional file 1 of Heterogeneity of borderline personality disorder symptoms in help-seeking adolescents
Creators: name: Cavelti, Marialuisa
name: Lerch, Stefan
name: Ghinea, Denisa
name: Fischer-Waldschmidt, Gloria
name: Resch, Franz
name: Koenig, Julian
name: Kaess, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Specification and graphic illustration of FMM variants according to Clark et al. (2013). Figure S1. Graphical illustration of the best fitting two-class/one-factor FMM-3 model with different covariate effects
Experimental observation of speckle instability in nonlinear disordered media
Creators: name: Smolyaninov, Igor I.
name: Gungor, Ali
name: Davis, Christopher C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temporal fluctuations of the speckle pattern formed upon backscattering of a laser beam from an interface between gold and nonlinear polymer film have been observed as a function of optical power. The instability can be explained by coupling of laser light to surface plasmons and other guided modes, which experience multiple scattering while propagating in the film along the interface. The speckle pattern produced in this process is extremely sensitive to fluctuations of the scattering potential near the interface.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF FARM STRUCTURE AND OFF-FARM WORK DECISIONS
Creators: name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Bruer, Shanna
name: Goodwin, Barry K.
name: Bruer, Shanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This study considers the extent to which farm structure may be endogenous to off-farm labor supply decisions. The empirical analysis utilizes structural models consisting of three equation systems describing labor supply, scale and scope in an effort to evaluate the extent to which farm and off-farm labor decisions are jointly made.
Creating a ’smart’ urban landscape at Shaniwarwada
Creators: name: Bonde, Bhavana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis explores the use of collective memory in the practice of landscape architecture, specifically the use of 'memory mapping' as an imaging technique. The specific site chosen is Shaniwarwada, a fortified royal complex dating from the eighteenth century, in the city of Pune, India. In order to gain an insider's perspective of the site, written questionnaires were distributed and interviews were given. The findings of these inquiries coupled with an understanding of contemporary theories concerning memory mapping guided the development of programs and physical interventions. It is hoped that these undertakings will enhance the role of Shaniwarwada as an historical site and a community place in the future.
Accuracy of an Atomic Microwave Power Standard (Conference digest)
Creators: name: Paulusse, David C.
name: Rowell, Nelson L.
name: Michaud, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the accuracy of the atomic microwave power standard. The atoms are cooled and kept in a Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT), then dropped through a terminated transmission line (a rectangular, R-70 type, waveguide). The measurement of the internal atomic state allows an accurate determination of the transmitted microwave power.
description: 2 pages, 3 figures
ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF HOMEOWNERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD FORMOSAN SUBTERRANEAN TERMITE (FST) CONTROL PROGRAMS IN LOUISIANA
Creators: name: Bhandari, Doleswar
name: Paudel, Krishna P.
name: Dunn, Michael A.
name: Vlosky, Rich
name: Guidry, Kurt M.
name: Bhandari, Doleswar
name: Paudel, Krishna P.
name: Dunn, Michael A.
name: Vlosky, Rich
name: Guidry, Kurt M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: We collected survey responses regarding the attitudes of home owners toward Formosan Subterranean Termite (FST) control. Median value for willingness to pay for a termite control program is found to be $0.16 per square feet per year. A contingent ranking analysis indicated that most homeowners opt for a minimum cost control alternative for FST control
A BARGAINING FRAMEWORK TO ESTABLISH OVER-ORDER PREMIUMS IN DAIRY MARKETS
Creators: name: Prasertsri, Peerapon
name: Kilmer, Richard L.
name: Prasertsri, Peerapon
name: Kilmer, Richard L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Given the approximate bilateral monopoly nature of Florida dairy industry (producers and processors), the monthly projected over-order premiums (i.e., the dollar amount above the Class I price) are determined by the generalized Nash bargaining model through the relevant prices, costs, bargaining power, and risk attitudes. The implications of the results are discussed.
Electron Correlation driven Metal-Insulator transition in Strained and Disordered VO2 films
Creators: name: D'Elia, Alessandro
name: Grazioli, Cesare
name: Cossaro, Albano
name: Li, Bowen
name: Zou, Chongwen
name: Rezvani, Javad
name: Pinto, Nicola
name: Marcelli, Augusto
name: Coreno, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Metal-Insulator transition (MIT) in VO2 is characterized by the complex interplay among lattice, electronic and orbital degrees of freedom. In this contribution we investigated the strain-modulation of the orbital hierarchy and the influence over macroscopic properties of the metallic phase of VO2 such as Fermi Level (FL) population and metallicity, i.e., the material ability to screen an electric field, by means of temperature-dependent X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) and Resonant Photoemission spectroscopy (ResPES). We demonstrate that the MIT in strained VO2 is of the Filling Control type, hence it is generated by electron correlation effects. In addition, we show that the MIT in Nanostructured (NS) disordered VO2, where the structural phase transition is quenched, is driven by electron correlation. Therefore a fine tuning of the correlation could lead to a precise control and tuning of the transition features.
Small free field inflation in higher curvature gravity
Creators: name: Edelstein, Jose D.
name: Mann, Robert B.
name: Rodríguez, David Vázquez
name: López, Alejandro Vilar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within General Relativity, a minimally coupled scalar field governed by a quadratic potential is able to produce an accelerated expansion of the universe provided its value and excursion are larger than the Planck scale. This is an archetypical example of the so called large field inflation models. We show that by including higher curvature corrections to the gravitational action in the form of the Geometric Inflation models, it is possible to obtain accelerated expansion with a free scalar field whose values are well below the Planck scale, thereby turning a traditional large field model into a small field one. We provide the conditions the theory has to satisfy in order for this mechanism to operate, and we present two explicit models illustrating it. Finally, we present some open questions raised by this scenario in which inflation takes place completely in a higher curvature dominated regime, such as those concerning the study of perturbations.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Differential effects of intense exercise and pollution on the airways in a murine model
Creators: name: Decaesteker, Tatjana
name: Vanhoffelen, Eliane
name: Trekels, Kristel
name: Anne-Charlotte Jonckheere
name: Cremer, Jonathan
name: Vanstapel, Arno
name: Dilissen, Ellen
name: Bullens, Dominique
name: Dupont, Lieven J.
name: Vanoirbeek, Jeroen A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN UNION AND EASTERN REGIONS
Creators: name: Serrao, Amilcar
name: Serrao, Amilcar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Data Envelopment Analysis
subject: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
subject: Technical Efficiency Change
subject: Technical Change
subject: Total Factor Productivity Change
subject: European Union.

description: This research work uses stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the sources of agricultural productivity growth over time and of productivity differences among countries and regions in European Union over the period 1980-1998. A comparison of the mean productivity scores obtained by the two approaches show that DEA results are higher than in SFA results, because DEA fits a tighter (more flexible) frontier than the translog frontier. This study is a valuable warning for people to be carefully about the effects of the methodology choice upon their results and to use more than one approach if they suspect that it may have some influence.
Dynamical Landau-de Gennes Theory for Electrically-Responsive Liquid Crystal Networks
Creators: name: Kusters, Guido L. A.
name: Verheul, Inge P.
name: Tito, Nicholas B.
name: van der Schoot, Paul
name: Storm, Cornelis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Liquid crystal networks combine the orientational order of liquid crystals with the elastic properties of polymer networks, leading to a vast application potential in the field of responsive coatings, e.g., for haptic feedback, self-cleaning surfaces and static and dynamic pattern formation. Recent experimental work has further paved the way toward such applications by realizing the fast and reversible surface modulation of a liquid crystal network coating upon in-plane actuation with an AC electric field. Here, we construct a Landau-type theory for electrically-responsive liquid crystal networks and perform Molecular Dynamics simulations to explain the findings of these experiments and inform on rational design strategies. Qualitatively, the theory agrees with our simulations and reproduces the salient experimental features. We also provide a set of testable predictions: the aspect ratio of the nematogens, their initial orientational order when cross-linked into the polymer network and the cross-linking fraction of the network all increase the plasticization time required for the film to macroscopically deform. We demonstrate that the dynamic response to oscillating electric fields is characterized by two resonances, which can likewise be influenced by varying these parameters, providing an experimental handle to fine-tune device design.
ESTIMATING DEMAND FOR CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL WITH ZERO OBSERVATIONS:
Creators: name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Yen, Steven T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Consumption of cigarettes, beer and wine by individuals is investigated, using a multivariate sample selection model. Empirical results suggest that the proposed model performs better than the restricted specifications. Gender differences are also present.
90. Astrophysics of our Galaxy
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: I continue with the subject of my previous essay, and give some examples of the way in which the derived astrophysical data are providing new insights in understanding the structure, formation, and evolution of huge numbers of stars in our Galaxy. They give just a flavour of what Gaia is providing.
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH AND THE ALLOCATION OF NEW JOBS: EVIDENCE FROM THE SOUTH
Creators: name: Renkow, Mitch
name: Renkow, Mitch
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: A county-level labor market model is estimated for the thirteen Southern states. The model accounts for inter-county commuting, migration, and within-county adjustments to labor demand shocks. Econometric results indicate that most employment growth (60-70%) during the 1990s was accommodated by changes in commuting flows. The results also suggest that labor force growth - and, by extension, population growth and associated fiscal impacts - in rural counties is sensitive to employment growth in nearby counties. These results highlight two opposing forces related to spatial spillovers that are usually neglected in analyses of the economic and fiscal impacts of rural employment growth.
Adversarial Attacks and Detection on Reinforcement Learning-Based Interactive Recommender Systems
Creators: name: Cao, Yuanjiang
name: Chen, Xiaocong
name: Yao, Lina
name: Wang, Xianzhi
name: Zhang, Wei Emma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges for detecting adversarial attacks at an early stage. We propose attack-agnostic detection on reinforcement learning-based interactive recommendation systems. We first craft adversarial examples to show their diverse distributions and then augment recommendation systems by detecting potential attacks with a deep learning-based classifier based on the crafted data. Finally, we study the attack strength and frequency of adversarial examples and evaluate our model on standard datasets with multiple crafting methods. Our extensive experiments show that most adversarial attacks are effective, and both attack strength and attack frequency impact the attack performance. The strategically-timed attack achieves comparative attack performance with only 1/3 to 1/2 attack frequency. Besides, our black-box detector trained with one crafting method has the generalization ability over several crafting methods.
Neutrino Electromagnetic Form Factor and Oscillation Effects on Neutrino Interaction With Dense Matter
Creators: name: Williams, C. K.
name: Hutauruk, P. T. P.
name: Sulaksono, A.
name: Mart, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mean free path of neutrino - free electron gas interaction has been calculated by taking into account the neutrino electromagnetic form factors and the possibility of neutrino oscillation. It is shown that the form factor effect becomes significant for a neutrino magnetic moment μ_ν> 10^{-10} mu_B and for a neutrino radius R > 10^{-6} MeV^{-1}. The mean free path is found to be sensitive to the nu_e-nu_mu and nu_e-nu_e^R transition probabilities.
description: 4 pages, 3 eps figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
IMPACT OF FARMLAND PRESERVATION PROGRAMS ON THE RATE OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Miller, Douglas J.
name: Nickerson, Cynthia J.
name: Miller, Douglas J.
name: Nickerson, Cynthia J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This paper examines whether purchase of development right (PDR) programs slow the rate of farmland conversion or shift land and amenity losses to adjacent areas. We use county-level data from several Northeastern states with existing PDR programs to estimate the probability that farmland is converted to urban use from 1982 to 1997. We then use the fitted model to test for the significance of the PDR programs in reducing the rate of urban development.
Courant-Nijenhuis tensors and generalized geometries
Creators: name: Grabowski, Janusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B99, 17B62, 53C15, 53C56, 53D05, 53D17

description: Nijenhuis tensors $N$ on Courant algebroids compatible with the pairing are studied. This compatibility condition turns out to be of the form $N+N^*=aI$ for irreducible Courant algebroids, in particular for the extended tangent bundles $TM\oplus T^*M$. It is proved that compatible Nijenhuis tensors on irreducible Courant algebroids must satisfy quadratic relations $N^2-aN+bI=0$, so that the corresponding hierarchy is very poor. The particular case $N^2=-I$ is associated with Hitchin's generalized geometries and the cases $N^2=I$ and $N^2=0$ -- to other "generalized geometries". These concepts find a natural description in terms of supersymplectic Poisson brackets on graded supermanifolds.
description: 10 pages
How Humean is Bohumianism?
Creators: name: Bigaj, Tomasz
name: Vassallo, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An important part of the influential Humean doctrine in philosophy is the supervenience principle (sometimes referred to as the principle of separability). This principle asserts that the complete state of the world supervenes on the intrinsic properties of its most fundamental components and their spatiotemporal relations (the so-called Humean mosaic). There are well-known arguments in the literature purporting to show that in quantum mechanics the Humean supervenience principle is violated, due to the existence of entangled states. Recently, however, arguments have been presented to the effect that the supervenience principle can be defended in Bohmian mechanics. The key element of this strategy lies in the observation that according to Bohmian mechanics the fundamental facts about particles are facts about their spatial locations, and moreover, for any proper subsystem of the world its state may non-trivially depend on the spatial configuration of the rest of the universe. Thus quantum-mechanical states of subsystems do not represent their intrinsic properties but rather characterize their relations with the environment. In this paper we point out the worry that this Bohmian strategy --known as Bohumianism-- saves the letter but not the spirit of the Humean doctrine of supervenience, since it prima facie violates another seemingly important Humean principle, which we call Strong Supervenience and whose denial implies the existence of necessary connections among distinct individuals. We argue that the best defense for Bohumians is to question the fundamental existence of complex physical systems and their states by treating any reference to them as a convenient description of the underlying collection of Bohmian particles. We consider several pros and cons of this strategy.
description: 23 pages, accepted for publication in Foundations of Physics
Additional file 2 of Differential effects of intense exercise and pollution on the airways in a murine model
Creators: name: Decaesteker, Tatjana
name: Vanhoffelen, Eliane
name: Trekels, Kristel
name: Anne-Charlotte Jonckheere
name: Cremer, Jonathan
name: Vanstapel, Arno
name: Dilissen, Ellen
name: Bullens, Dominique
name: Dupont, Lieven J.
name: Vanoirbeek, Jeroen A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2.
Brachaeluridae Applegate 1974
Creators: name: Cicimurri, David J.
name: Ebersole, Jun A.
name: Stringer, Gary L.
name: Starnes, James E.
name: Phillips, George E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Orectolobiformes
Brachaeluridae

description: Brachaeluridae gen. et sp. indet.
Fig. 3A–C
Material examined
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – Mississippi • 1 isolated tooth; Catahoula Formation; SC 2013.28.54.
Description
This tooth crown measures 2 mm in height and 1.5 mm in width. The crown consists of a tall, rather narrow, triangular main cusp flanked by a single pair of lateral cusplets. The main cusp is conical with indistinct mesial and distal cutting edges (Fig. 3C). In labial view, the main cusp is very slightly distally inclined, and in profile view, it is straight and lingually directed. The labial crown foot is expanded basally into a convex protuberance (aka apron), and there is a diminutive, medially located, basally directed protuberance (Fig. 3A). The lateral cusplets are conical, well-separated from the main cusp, slightly diverging, and located very low on the crown (Fig. 3B). The root is not preserved.
Remarks
Specimen SC 2013.28.54 is the only tooth of its kind available to us, but its symmetrical shape indicates that it represents an anterior tooth file. The specimen is clearly distinct from the teeth of two other orectolobiform sharks occurring in the Catahoula Formation (see below). The conical main cusp, single pair of lateral cusplets located low on the crown, and medial protuberance at the labial crown foot are features occurring on the teeth of Paleogene Brachaeluridae, including Brachaelurus and Eostegostoma (see Cappetta 2012). The labial protuberance of SC 2013.28.54 is not as clearly defined as it is on teeth of the aforementioned taxa, but the dentition of extant Brachaelurus waddi (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) shows that the protuberance is less distinct on lateral/posterior teeth compared to anterior teeth (Herman et al. 1992). Additional specimens are necessary to accurately ascertain the identity of this orectolobiform taxon.
description: Published as part of Cicimurri, David J., Ebersole, Jun A., Stringer, Gary L., Starnes, James E. & Phillips, George E., 2025, Late Oligocene fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from the Catahoula Formation in Wayne County, Mississippi, USA, pp. 1-131 in European Journal of Taxonomy 984 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.984.2851, http://zenodo.org/record/15126034
Radiative Decays of the Upsilon(1S) to a Pair of Charged Hadrons
Creators: name: Athar, S. B.
name: Collaboration, CLEO
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using data obtained with the CLEO~III detector, running at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), we report on a new study of exclusive radiative Upsilon(1S) decays into the final states gamma pi^+ pi^-, gamma K^+ K^-, and gamma p pbar.. We present branching ratio measurements for the decay modes Upsilon(1S) to gamma f_2(1270), Upsilon(1S) to gamma f_2'(1525), and Upsilon(1S) to gamma K^+K^-; helicity production ratios for f_2(1270) and f_2'(1525); upper limits for the decay Upsilon(1S) to gamma f_J(2200), with f_J(2220) to pi^+ pi^-, K^+ K^-, p pbar; and an upper limit for the decay Upsilon(1S) to gamma X(1860), with X(1860) to gamma p pbar.
description: 17 pages postscript,also available through http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS/2005/, Submitted to PRD
Additional file 1 of Sex determination systems in reptiles are related to ambient temperature but not to the level of climatic fluctuation
Creators: name: Cornejo-Páramo, Paola
name: Lira-Noriega, Andrés
name: Ramírez-Suástegui, Ciro
name: Méndez-De-La-Cruz, Fausto R.
name: Székely, Tamás
name: Araxi O. Urrutia
name: Cortez, Diego
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Phylogenetic relationship between reproductive mode and ambient temperature (N = 213 species). Figure S2. Climate and climatic fluctuations in reptiles with temperature-dependent and genotypic sex determination systems for oviparous species only (n = 182 species), and ambient temperature in relation to the duration of the breeding season for oviparous species only (n = 182 species). Figure S3. World maps showing the distributions and average temperature of species with GSD or TSD and known breeding seasons. Figure S4. Ambient temperature and the variance within the geographic range of the species relative to the size of the geographic range of the species. Figure S5. Seasonality data from reptiles (n = 213) compared to random data. Figure S6. Correlations between continuous life history traits.