cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Generators, Relations and Symmetries in Pairs of 3x3 Unimodular Matrices
Creators: name: Lawton, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D20 (Primary); 14L30 (Secondary)

description: Denote the free group on two letters by F2 and the SL(3,C)-representation variety of F2 by R = Hom(F2, SL(3,C)). There is a SL(3,C)-action on the coordinate ring of R, and the geometric points of the subring of invariants is an affine variety X. We determine explicit minimal generators and defining relations for the subring of invariants and show X is a degree 6 hyper-surface in C9 mapping onto C8. Our choice of generators exhibit Out(F2) symmetries which allow for a succinct expression of the defining relations.
description: 21 pages. This fourth version is the author's final version which includes new comments and some corrections
The Evolving Ethanol Industry in the United States
Creators: name: Eidman, Vernon R.
name: Eidman, Vernon R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This paper discusses the likely growth in the production of ethanol from grain in the United States over the next 4 to 5 years. It describes how the costs of production have changed and some of the major factors that are likely to impact profitability and rate of growth in the industry over this period. It discusses co-product production and utilization, and the impact of expanding ethanol production on land use. The final section briefly discusses recent progress in the production of liquid fuels from cellulose.
La voce dei dispositivi. Ruggero Eugeni, Capitale algoritmico. Cinque dispositivi postmediali (più uno), Scholé Morcelliana, Brescia 2021
Creators: name: Denicolai, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Community detection in networks using graph embeddings
Creators: name: Tandon, Aditya
name: Albeshri, Aiiad
name: Thayananthan, Vijey
name: Alhalabi, Wadee
name: Radicchi, Filippo
name: Fortunato, Santo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph embedding methods are becoming increasingly popular in the machine learning community, where they are widely used for tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Embedding graphs in geometric spaces should aid the identification of network communities as well, because nodes in the same community should be projected close to each other in the geometric space, where they can be detected via standard data clustering algorithms. In this paper, we test the ability of several graph embedding techniques to detect communities on benchmark graphs. We compare their performance against that of traditional community detection algorithms. We find that the performance is comparable, if the parameters of the embedding techniques are suitably chosen. However, the optimal parameter set varies with the specific features of the benchmark graphs, like their size, whereas popular community detection algorithms do not require any parameter. So it is not possible to indicate beforehand good parameter sets for the analysis of real networks. This finding, along with the high computational cost of embedding a network and grouping the points, suggests that, for community detection, current embedding techniques do not represent an improvement over network clustering algorithms.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
Internationaler Dialog zwischen der Kirche der Jünger Christi (Disciples) und der römisch-katholischen Kirche
Creators: name: Beckmann, Klaus-Martin
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 1 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 1
Prime influenze cinematografiche tra Stati Uniti e Italia. Federico Di Chio, Il cinema americano in Italia. Industria, società, immaginari dalle origini alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale , Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2021
Creators: name: Bonura, Massimo
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Goal-driven and stimulus-driven control of visual attention in a multiple-cue paradigm
Creators: name: Richard, Christian M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Twelve spatial-cueing experiments examined stimulus-driven and goal-driven control of visual attention orienting under multiple-cue conditions. Spatial cueing involves presenting a cue at a potential target location before a target appears in a display, and measuring the cue's effect on responses to the target stimulus. Under certain conditions, a cue that appears abruptly in a display (direct cue) can speed responses to a target appearing at the previously cued location relative to other uncued locations (called the cue effect). The experiments in this dissertation used a new multiple-cue procedure to decouple the effects of stimulus-driven and goal-driven processes on the control of attention. This technique involved simultaneously presenting a red direct cue (Unique Cue) that was highly predictive of the target location along with multiple grey direct cues (Standard Cues) that were not predictive of the target location. The basic finding was that while cue effects occurred at all cued locations, they were significantly larger at the Unique-Cue location. This finding was interpreted as evidence for stimulus-driven cue effects at all cued locations with additional goal-driven cue effects at the Unique-Cue location. Further experiments showed that Standard-Cue effects could occur independently at multiple locations, that they seemed to involve a sensory-based interaction between the cues and the target, and that they were mediated by a limitedcapacity tracking mechanism. In addition, Unique-Cue effects were found to be the product of goal-driven operations, to interact with Standard-Cue effects, and to involve inhibited processing at unattended locations. These results were explained in terms of a filter-based model of attention control that assigns priority to potential attention-shift destinations. According to this model, stimulus-driven and goal-driven factors generate signals (activity distributions) that drive a filter to open an attention channel at the highest priority location by suppressing the signals at other locations. The final experiments confirmed the central assumptions of this model by providing evidence that the prioritydestination process was sufficient to produce cue effects independent of attention, and that attending to a location involved a suppression of processing at unattended locations. The implications of this model for the larger visual attention literature were also discussed.
Word list for oral/nasal airflow measurements
Creators: name: Gonari, Anna
name: Lionnet, Florian
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: pri

description: 95 4-channel WAV files (with interlaced audio, nasal, and oral airflow), 1 WAV file (parallel recording of the word list without the oronasal mask), 1 CSV file with the elicited word list. The 95 WAV files corresponding to the nasal/oral airflow recordings contain four channels (each with a 12 kHz sample rate, i.e. 48 kHz total): a WAV channel corresponding to the microphone recording, an LX channel (laryngograph, void in these recordings), a P1 channel (nasal airflow) and a P2 channel (oral airflow). These channels must be extracted before the files can be used. The consultant is a native Paicî and French speaker originally from Göièta/Goyeta, Ponérihouen municipality.
Konishi Anomaly and Central Extension in N=1/2 Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Chu, Chong-Sun
name: Inami, Takeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the 4-dimensional N=1/2 supersymmetry algebra admits central extension. The central charges are supported by domain wall and the central charges are computed. We also determine the Konishi anomaly for N=1/2 supersymmetric gauge theory. Due to the new couplings in the Lagrangian, many terms appears. We show that these terms sum up to give the expected form for the holomorphic part of the Konishi anomaly. For the anti-holomorphic part, we give a simple argument that the naive generalization has to be modified. We suggest that the anti-holomorphic Konishi anomaly is given by a gauge invariant completion using open Wilson line.
description: LaTeX, 26 pages, 6 figures; v2: references added
2005 Michigan Dairy Farm Business Analysis Summary
Creators: name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This report summarizes the financial and production records of 156 dairy farms from throughout Michigan in 2005. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal sales. The records came from Michigan State University's TelFarm project and the Farm Credit Service system in Michigan. The values were pooled into averages for reporting purposes. The farms are larger than would be the average of all dairy farms in Michigan. While considerable variation in the data exists, average values are reported in the summary tables and discussion that follows.
Introduction: Film Heritage and Digital Scholarship - Computer-Based Approaches to Film Archiving, Restoration and Philology
Creators: name: Catanese, Rossella
name: Heftberger, Adelheid
name:  Olesen, ‪Christian Gosvig
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
The evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function over the last twelve billion years from a combination of ground-based and HST surveys
Creators: name: McLeod, D. J.
name: McLure, R. J.
name: Dunlop, J. S.
name: Cullen, F.
name: Carnall, A. C.
name: Duncan, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new determination of the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) over the redshift interval $0.25 \leq z \leq 3.75$, derived from a combination of ground-based and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging surveys. Based on a near-IR selected galaxy sample selected over a raw survey area of 3 deg$^{2}$ and spanning $\geq 4$ dex in stellar mass, we fit the GSMF with both single and double Schechter functions, carefully accounting for Eddington bias to derive both observed and intrinsic parameter values. We find that a double Schechter function is a better fit to the GSMF at all redshifts, although the single and double Schechter function fits are statistically indistinguishable by $z=3.25$. We find no evidence for significant evolution in $M^{\star}$, with the intrinsic value consistent with $\log_{10}(M^{\star} / M_{\odot})=10.55\pm{0.1}$ over the full redshift range. Overall, our determination of the GSMF is in good agreement with recent simulation results, although differences persist at the highest stellar masses. Splitting our sample according to location on the UVJ plane, we find that the star-forming GSMF can be adequately described by a single Schechter function over the full redshift range, and has not evolved significantly since $z\simeq 2.5$. In contrast, both the normalization and functional form of the passive GSMF evolves dramatically with redshift, switching from a single to a double Schechter function at $z \leq 1.5$. As a result, we find that while passive galaxies dominate the integrated stellar-mass density at $z \leq 0.75$, they only contribute $\lesssim 10$ per cent by $z\simeq 3$. Finally, we provide a simple parameterization that provides an accurate estimate of the GSMF, both observed and intrinsic, at any redshift within the range $0 \leq z \leq 4$.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
MPEC 2024-A104 : 2024 AL2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 AL2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Checking the variability of the gravitational constant with binary pulsars
Creators: name: Bisnovatyi-Kogan, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most precise measurements are done at present by timing of radiopulsars in binary systems with two neutron stars. The timing measurements of the Taylor-Hulse pulsar B1913+16 gave the most precise results on testing of general relativity (GR), finding implicit proof of existence of gravitational waves. We show that available results of existing measurements, obtained to the year 1993, in combination with the results of the Mariner 10 in (1992), give the boundaries for the variation of the gravitational constant ${\dot G}/{G}$ inside the limits $(-0.6 ÷+2)\cdot 10^{-12}$ year{$^{-1}$}.
description: Submitted to Journal
Background Information on the Chinese Fruit Sector
Creators: name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Woods, Mollie
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Woods, Mollie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The People's Republic of China was established in 1949, ushering in an era of socialism and government centralization. Beginning in 1978, China's economy gradually transitioned from centralization to the transitional and somewhat more privatized society of today. Prior to 1978, government policies aimed at controlling food supplies and prices were common. Food rationing in 1953 was aimed at guaranteeing food for urban dwellers and included price administration by the government (Dong and Fuller, 2006). Agricultural productivity and the availability of food increased dramatically when laws that decentralized agricultural production were enacted in 1981. Food rationing and market centralization were abolished later in urban areas for non-staple food items, like meat, vegetables, and fruits, among others. All market centralization for food items in China was abolished in 1993. Privatization and market reforms throughout the late 1980s and into the 2000s made China the leading developing nation for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and positioned the country as an important global source of low cost labor in industries as diverse as food processing and electronics manufacturing (Yan, 2005). In 2004, approximately 28 percent of China's population was employed in the agricultural sector (Gao, 2007).
Systematics of fully heavy tetraquarks
Creators: name: Weng, Xin-Zhen
name: Chen, Xiao-Lin
name: Deng, Wei-Zhen
name: Zhu, Shi-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we systematically study the mass spectrum of the fully heavy tetraquark in an extended chromomagnetic model, which includes both color and chromomagnetic interactions. Numerical results indicate that the energy level is mainly determined by the color interaction, which favors the color-sextet $\ket{(QQ)^{6_{c}}(\bar{Q}\bar{Q})^{\bar{6}_{c}}}$ configuration over the color-triplet $\ket{(QQ)^{\bar{3}_{c}}(\bar{Q}\bar{Q})^{3_{c}}}$ one. The chromomagnetic interaction mixes the two color configurations and gives small splitting. The ground state is always dominated by the color-sextet configuration. We find no stable state below the lowest heavy quarkonium pair thresholds. Most states may be wide since they have at least one $S$-wave decay channel into two $S$-wave mesons. One possible narrow state is the $1^{+}$ $bb\bar{b}\bar{c}$ state with a mass $15719.1~\text{MeV}$. It is just above the $η_{b}\bar{B}_{c}$ threshold. But this channel is forbidden because of the conservation of the angular momentum and parity.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
2005 Michigan Feeder Steers Business Analysis Summary
Creators: name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Black, J. Roy
name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Black, J. Roy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This report summarizes the financial and production records of 5 Michigan feeder steer farms. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from feeder steer sales. The records came from Michigan State University's TelFarm project and the Farm Credit Service system in Michigan. The values were pooled into averages for reporting purposes. Farm records were included if a farm financial summary was completed on 2005 data including beginning and ending balance sheets, plus income and expenses. The data were checked to verify that cash discrepancy was less than 10% of gross cash inflow and that debt discrepancy was less than $1,000. While considerable variation in the data exists, average values are reported in the summary tables.
title: The Voyage of the Bavarian Explorer Balthasar Sprenger to India (1505/1506) at the Turning Point between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times
title: His Travelogue and the Contemporary Cartography as Historical Sources
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Billion (Ed.), Philipp
name: Busch (Ed.), Nathanael
name: Schlüter (Ed.), Dagmar
name: Stoltzenberg (Ed.), Xenia
Publisher: name: Bernstein-Verlag
Year: 2009

description: Nach der Entdeckung Amerikas und des direkten Seeweges nach Indien schlossen sich mehrere süddeutsche Handelshäuser unter der Vermittlung des deutschen Buchdruckers in Portugal, Valentim Fernandez, und des Augsburger Humanisten Konrad Peutinger zu einem Handelskonsortium zusammen. Insgesamt waren drei deutsche Schiffe an der unter der Flotte des portugiesischen Admirals Francisco de Almeida (ca. 1450–1510) geleiteten Expedition von 1505/1506 nach Indien beteiligt, um dort Pfeffer und andere östliche Spezereien einzuhandeln. Vor allem das Handelshaus der Welser konnte damit hohe Gewinne erzielen, während der Glanz der italienischen Hafenstädte Genua und Venedig, dem Geburtsort des modernen Kapitalismus und des Kolonialismus, langsam zu verblassen begann.
Über ›die Merfart vnd erfarung nüwer Schiffung vnd Wege zu viln onerkanten Inseln vnd Künigreichen‹ gen Indien sind wir bestens durch den 1509 gedruckten Bericht des Allgäuers Balthasar Sprenger unterrichtet. Es handelt sich dabei um die erste Reisebeschreibung über Afrika und Indien in deutscher Sprache. Auf elf Seiten wird ausführlich in erzählendem Stil mit relativ natürlicher, ungekünstelter Sprache über die Hin- und Rückreise berichtet, während in einem nur drei Seiten umfassenden, zweiten Abschnitt von beschreibendem Duktus höchst interessante ethnographische Einzelheiten beschrieben werden.
Wesentliches Merkmal des Textes, der eine »menmonische Kunst par excellence « darstellt, ist ein neues Verständnis der Reiseberichterstattung, die nicht mehr antike-phantastische Monsterdarstellungen zum Thema hat, sondern vorwiegend vom Handel bestimmt wird.
Somit ist ein Wandel im Weltbild am Übergang des späten Mittelalters zur frühen Neuzeit erkennbar, der sich zugleich anhand von neuen, geographischen Kenntnissen zeigt, die sich vor allem in den zeitgenössischen kartographischen Werken des beginnenden 16. Jahrhunderts niedergeschlagen haben; so beispielsweise auf der Karte des Juan de la Cosa (1500), auf der Cantino-Karte (1502), auf der King-Hamy-Karte (um 1502) sowie auf der Karte des Canerio (um 1505).
Daneben wurde die enge Beziehung zwischen illustrierten Reiseberichten und der Kartographiegeschichte erörtert.
From Edge to Edge: The Restoration of La battaglia dall’Astico al Piave (1918) and the Search for a Digital Historical-Critical Infrastructure
Creators: name: Venturini, Simone
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: The restoration of La battaglia dall’Astico al Piave (Italy, 1918) has been funded by MiC (the Italian Ministry of Culture) and carried out by the University of Udine in collaboration with several film archives. Starting from a historical-philological and restoration framework, the case study offers some reflections and considerations between the fields of the digital humanities, film preservation, and cinema history. Furthermore, it provides a concrete opportunity to achieve the two goals of raising awareness about the status of digitized film artefacts, framing them as the result of modelling practices, and documenting the film preservation process as well as the surrounding historical and cultural network in a digital historical-critical infrastructure.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
The Galactic Nature of High Velocity Cloud Complex WB
Creators: name: Thom, C.
name: Putman, M. E.
name: Gibson, B. K.
name: Christlieb, N.
name: Flynn, C.
name: Beers, T. C.
name: Wilhelm, R.
name: Lee, Y. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have detected absorption lines from the High Velocity Cloud Complex WB in the spectrum of the star HE1048+0231. This detection sets an upper distance limit to the cloud of 8.8^{+2.3}_{-1.3} kpc. Non-detection (at >4 sigma confidence) in the star HE1138-1303 at 7.7 +/- 0.2 kpc sets a probable lower limit. The equivalent width of the CaII K line due to the HVC (114.6 +/- 4.4 mA) corresponds to a column density of 1.32 +/- 0.05 x 10^12 cm^-2. Using an HI spectrum from the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn survey, we calculated N(CaII)/N(HI) = 81 +/- 16 x 10^-9. These distance limits imply an HI mass limit of 3.8 x 10^5 Msun < M_HI < 4.9 x 10^5 Msun. The upper distance limit imposed by these observations shows that this HVC complex has a probable Galactic or circum-Galactic origin. Future metallicity measurements will be able to confirm or refute this interpretation.
description: 2 Figures, 1 Table. ApJL accepted
Saturday Night Candidates: Comedic Brands on Saturday Night Live During the 2016 Presidential Election
Creators: name: Marinello, Matteo
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL, 1975-) is an institution for political humor on the American television. The key for many successful impersonations seems to be hiring popular comedians who build heavily on their own identity and stardom, exploiting the bodies of politicians to define and promote their own comedic persona in the public arena. This is especially true for the seasons that led to the 2016 presidential election, as shown by the strategies enacted by impersonators like Kate McKinnon, Alec Baldwin and Larry David, who respectively played the role of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. This essay will take into account the aforementioned caricatures from the 2016 electoral cycle, highlighting the pivotal roles of intertextuality and reflexivity for SNL’s political impersonators. Therefore, sketches and interviews will be considered, especially those that shape the comedians public image and explore their relationship with the candidates and the program’s production cultures and practices.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
MPEC 2024-A105 : 2024 AM2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 AM2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Recording of elicitation on tonal configurations
Creators: name: Gonari, Anna
name: Lionnet, Florian
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: pri

description: 12 WAV files, 12 ELAN files. Elicitation of words and sentences illustrating various tonal configurations. The consultant is a native Paicî and French speaker originally from Göièta/Goyeta, Ponérihouen municipality.
Price Determinants in Top Quality E-Auctioned Specialty Coffees
Creators: name: Donnet, M. Laura
name: Weatherspoon, Dave D.
name: Hoehn, John P.
name: Donnet, M. Laura
name: Weatherspoon, Dave D.
name: Hoehn, John P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Specialty coffee
subject: hedonic price analysis
subject: differentiated food pricing
subject: sensory attributes
subject: reputation attributes

description: The US specialty coffee industry has grown from $1 billion in 1990 to $11 billion in 2006 and is expected to continue to grow into the foreseeable future. This growth particularly depends on prices coordinating the specialty coffee supply chain through two-way information exchange between roasters and producers. We analyze the determinants of specialty coffee prices by estimating a hedonic price function for specialty Central and South American coffees traded at e-auctions. We hypothesize that since specialty coffee is a differentiated product, prices will be determined by both sensory and reputation attributes. The results show that prices are influenced by the quality rating, which is a sensory variable, and by the quality rankings established in the cupping competition previous to the auction, the country of origin and the coffee variety, which are reputation variables. In addition, the macro variables, harvest year and commodity price were found to be significant.
"In der Kraft des Heiligen Geistes - frei für die Welt"
Creators: name: Krüger, Hanfried
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 29 Nr. 1 (1980): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 29, Heft 1
2005 Michigan Dairy Grazing Farm Business Analysis Summary
Creators: name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
name: Wittenberg, Eric
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This report summarizes the financial and production records of 11 dairy grazing farms from across Michigan. These 11 farms indicated that they grazed dairy cows at least three months of the year and that grazing provided more than 30 percent of the forage consumed during the year. To be included, the farms must have produced at least 50 percent of gross cash farm income from milk and dairy animal sales. The records came from Michigan State University's TelFarm project and the Farm Credit Service system in Michigan. The values were pooled into averages for reporting purposes. Farm records were checked for accuracy. While considerable variation in the data exists, average values are reported in the summary tables and discussion that follows.
The use of radio frequency heating to condition, eliminate decay fungi, and fix chromated copper arsenate preservative, in roundwood
Creators: name: Fang, Fang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Electromagnetic radiation, such as radio frequency heating has been shown to be able to rapidly dry wood and to fix CCA in treated wood. However, the previous research at the University of British Columbia has focused on the drying of sawnwood using a radio frequency vacuum drier with flat parallel plates. This study examined the efficacy of radio frequency/vacuum heating, to rapidly dry roundwood sections as well as accelerate the fixation of chromated copper arsenate (CCA) in treated pole sections. The ability of radio frequency heating to sterilize wood was also examined. Conditioning of roundwood was carried out in a laboratory radio frequency/vacuum dryer at fixed frequency of 13.65 MHz. During drying, the change in the temperature with time, within each roundwood section, was continuously monitored. Evaluation of all the experimental runs showed that the flat electrode design of radio frequency/vacuum could dry roundwood to ca. 25% moisture content without loss in quality in less than 16 hours. Furthermore, radio frequency/vacuum drying produced poles with an uniform final moisture content. Accelerated fixation of chromated copper arsenic was also conducted using radio frequency heating. In this case ho vacuum was applied. The effect of radio frequency heating on the rate of fixation of CCA treated poles were evaluated by two methods: 1) a qualitative hexavalent chromium (VI) color reaction with chromotropic acid; 2) the quantitative analysis of hexavalent chromium (VI) in a leachate produced using sample borings. The fixation time was greatly reduced by heating the pole sections to above 80°C at high humidity. All three wood species used in this study required less than 4.5 hours to achieve complete fixation of the CCA. Eight experimental heating runs were further carried out to evaluate radio frequency heating to sterilize the roundwood sections. Sawdust was inoculated with the decay fungi [(Coniophora puteana, Gloeophyllum trabeum (47D) and Postia placenta (120F and 31094B)] and the fungi allowed to grow on the substrate. The inoculated sawdust to selected pole sections was added at predetermine depths from the surface. Following radio frequency heating, the sawdust was recovered and the viability of the fungi was determined. All decay fungi, as well as moulds present in the pole section, were completely killed after 2 hours of heating above 65°C. This confirmed the potential of the radio frequency kiln process to destroy wood decay fungi present in unseasoned poles.
The magnetic structure of neutron stars and their surface-to-core temperature relation
Creators: name: Potekhin, A. Y.
name: Urpin, V.
name: Chabrier, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relation between the mean effective surface temperature T_s and the internal temperature T_b for magnetic neutron stars, assuming that the magnetic field near the surface has a presumably small-scale structure. The heavy-element (iron) and light-element (accreted) heat-blanketing envelopes are considered, and the results are compared with the case of a dipole magnetic field. We argue that the difference in the T_b(T_s)-relation for different magnetic configurations is always much smaller than a possible difference caused by variations of the chemical composition in the envelope.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. V2: a typo corrected. Accepted by A&A
The Digital Witness: Film Reconstruction and the Forensic Imagination in New Media Environments
Creators: name: Bellotti, Serena
name: Mariani, Andrea
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Early on 2020, University of Udine signed a collaboration with Instituto LUCE, aimed to a digital restoration of a supposedly lost expedition film: Spedizione Franchetti nella Dancalia (Mario Craveri, 1929, b/w, silent). LUCE and University of Udine brought to light a large amount of film materials that included 35mm original negatives, DupPos Lavanders, Positives, and a 9.5mm reduction print but no trace of an edited version of the 35mm film. The pandemic forced the project to shift remote and forbid working on the original film materials. Therefore, an inspection of edge-to-edge digital scanned copies of every element was planned: a “digital fac-simile” (Gschwind 2002) through continuous scanning. Planning the philo-genetics of each digital element, on one hand we assume that digital environments support and sustain an “ideal allographic environment” (Goodman 1976), as to say “a premeditated material environment built and engineered to propagate an illusion of immateriality” (Kirschenbaum 2008) – a premise that legitimate a philological authentication of digital copy of analog films. On the other hand, digital technology tends to and “must produce perfect outputs from imperfect inputs, nipping small errors in the bud (Kirschenbaum 2008). Given this premise and the pivotal role that errors and innovations play in the stage of recensio and collatio, this proposal intends to reframe the “digital witness” by stressing the materiality of film (in digital film preservation) as an ongoing interpretation, where digital philology is always digital hermeneutics.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Fission fragments intrinsic spins and their correlations
Creators: name: Bulgac, A.
name: Abdurrahman, I.
name: Jin, S.
name: Godbey, K.
name: Schunck, N.
name: Stetcu, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intrinsic spins and their correlations are the least understood characteristics of fission fragments from both theoretical and experimental points of view. In many nuclear reactions the emerging fragments are typically excited and acquire an intrinsic excitation energy and an intrinsic spin depending on the type of the reactions and interaction mechanism. Both the intrinsic excitation energies and the fragments intrinsic spins and parities are controlled by the interaction mechanism and conservations laws, which lead to their correlations and determines the character of their de-excitation mechanism. We outline here a framework for the theoretical extraction of the intrinsic spin distributions of the fragments and their correlations within the fully microscopic real-time density functional theory formalism and illustrate it on the example of induced fission of $^{236}$U and $^{240}$Pu, using two nuclear energy density functionals. These fission fragment intrinsic spin distributions display new qualitative features previously not discussed in literature. Within this fully microscopic framework we extract for the first time the intrinsic spin distributions of fission fragments of $^{236}$U and $^{240}$Pu as well as the correlations of their intrinsic spins, which have been debated in literature for more than six decades with no definite conclusions so far.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, published version
Digital Picklock for Video Art Exgesis: Reflections, Conditions and Possible Employment of Distant Viewing to Moving Image Datasets in Visual Arts Scholarship
Creators: name: Mantoan, Diego
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: With the advent of digital humanities new expectations and challenges are emerging for institutions harbouring video artworks, specifically in offering access and analytical tools to their archival collections. The paper argues for the possible employment of distant viewing to allow visual arts scholars an unprecedented take on video art, holding together both quantitative comparison and aesthetic considerations. In doing so, the paper addresses the peculiar conditions of video art that need proper consideration for a fruitful employment of distant viewing. Set on the background of the existing platforms for video-art consumption –such as UBU Network, JSC Media Centre, and Daata Streaming Platform that constitute true forerunners in this domain– the paper explores productive connections, synergies and frictions that might emerge with methods in digital humanities. In doing so, this research aims at setting early theoretical assumptions necessary to draw a methodological approach in the employment of distant viewing to video art. Accordingly, the paper reflects on the effectiveness of using thematic sub-sets based on categories already defined by visual arts, as well as on the possible implications of widespread practices such as manipulation and appropriation of video material.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Michigan Fresh and Processed Vegetable Production Statistics, Documentation for Mainframe and Microcomputer files
Creators: name: Barclay, Richard A.
name: Barclay, Richard A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This work continues the work done by Steve Cooke which is documented in "State Agricultural Model (SAM) Manual" by Richard A. Barclay and Stephen Cooke. Agricultural Economics Staff Paper #85-33. This documentation is in two sections. The first describes the data and programs created on the MSU Cyber 750 in the first six months of 1984. The second section describes the data and files created on the Department of Agricultural Economics' IBM-PC in the first six months of 1985. "Summary of Selected Production Statistics For Vegetables Produced In Michigan Compared To Other Major Production States: 1960 to 1980," by Richard A. Barclay, Agricultural Economics Staff Paper #85-49, contains much of the data, graphs, and verbal summaries of the second section.
RaLL: End-to-end Radar Localization on Lidar Map Using Differentiable Measurement Model
Creators: name: Yin, Huan
name: Chen, Runjian
name: Wang, Yue
name: Xiong, Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Compared to the onboard camera and laser scanner, radar sensor provides lighting and weather invariant sensing, which is naturally suitable for long-term localization under adverse conditions. However, radar data is sparse and noisy, resulting in challenges for radar mapping. On the other hand, the most popular available map currently is built by lidar. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep learning framework for Radar Localization on Lidar Map (RaLL) to bridge the gap, which not only achieves the robust radar localization but also exploits the mature lidar mapping technique, thus reducing the cost of radar mapping. We first embed both sensor modals into a common feature space by a neural network. Then multiple offsets are added to the map modal for exhaustive similarity evaluation against the current radar modal, yielding the regression of the current pose. Finally, we apply this differentiable measurement model to a Kalman Filter (KF) to learn the whole sequential localization process in an end-to-end manner. \textit{The whole learning system is differentiable with the network based measurement model at the front-end and KF at the back-end.} To validate the feasibility and effectiveness, we employ multi-session multi-scene datasets collected from the real world, and the results demonstrate that our proposed system achieves superior performance over $90km$ driving, even in generalization scenarios where the model training is in UK, while testing in South Korea. We also release the source code publicly.
description: This paper has been accepted for publication by IEEE TITS. The published version is available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9370010 . A demonstration video is available at https://youtu.be/a3wEv-eVlcg . For open source code, see https://github.com/ZJUYH/RaLL
HBT search for new states of matter in A+A collisions
Creators: name: Akkelin, S. V.
name: Sinyukov, Yu. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method allowing studies of the hadronic matter at the early evolution stage in A+A collisions is developed. It is based on an interferometry analysis of approximately conserved values such as the averaged phase-space density (APSD) and the specific entropy of thermal pions. The plateau found in the APSD behavior vs collision energy at SPS is associated, apparently, with the deconfinement phase transition at low SPS energies; a saturation of this quantity at the RHIC energies indicates the limiting Hagedorn temperature for hadronic matter. It is shown that if the cubic power of effective temperature of pion transverse spectra grows with energy similarly to the rapidity density (that is roughly consistent with experimental data), then the interferometry volume is inverse proportional to the pion APSD that is about a constant because of limiting Hagedorn temperature. This sheds light on the HBT puzzle.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures, minor corrections
FARM PROGRAMS AND LAND VALUES IN MOUNTAIN STATES: ALTERNATIVE PANEL ESTIMATORS
Creators: name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Shaik, Saleem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Mountain region and U.S.
subject: Agriculture land values
subject: Farm program payments
subject: Farm returns
subject: Non-farm activity
subject: Alternative Panel Estimators
subject: Historical data, 1939-2005

description: Relative proportion of agricultural land values generated by farm program payments, farm returns, and non-farm activity in the mountain region and the U.S are estimated for the period 1939 to 2005. Results suggest the contribution of farm program payments to agricultural land values in the mountain region and the U.S. is quite similar and robust across the four alternative panel estimators for the period, 1939-2005. The contribution of the farm returns to value of land is lower in the mountain region compared to the U.S. The contribution of non-farm activity to the land values is higher for the U.S. compared to the mountain region. The relationship between farm program payments and farm returns are positive in mountain region and negative for U.S.
Gravitational waves from mountains in newly born millisecond magnetars
Creators: name: Sur, Ankan
name: Haskell, Brynmor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the spin-evolution and gravitational-wave luminosity of a newly born millisecond magnetar, formed either after the collapse of a massive star or after the merger of two neutron stars. In both cases we consider the effect of fallback accretion, and consider the evolution of the system due to the different torques acting on the star, namely the spin up torque due to accretion and spin-down torques due to magnetic dipole radiation, neutrino emission, and gravitational wave emission linked to the formation of a `mountain' on the accretion poles. Initially the spin period is mostly affected by the dipole radiation, but at later times accretion spin the star up rapidly. We find that a magnetar formed after the collapse of a massive star can accrete up to 1 M_{\odot} , and survive on the order of 50 s before collapsing to a black hole. The gravitational wave strain, for an object located at 1 Mpc, is h_c \sim 10^{-23} at kHz frequencies, making this a potential target for next generation ground based detectors. A magnetar formed after a binary neutron star merger, on the other hand, accretes at the most 0.2 M_{\odot}, and emits gravitational waves with a lower maximum strain of the order of h_c \sim 10^{-24} , but also survives for much longer times, and may possibly be associated with the X-ray plateau observed in the light curve of a number of short gamma-ray burst.
description: Accepted by MNRAS
FiRe2: a Call for a Film Repository of Technical Data and Memories for Photo and Movie Restoration
Creators: name: Plutino, Alice
name: Crespi, Arianna
name: Morabito, Giulia
name: Sarti, Beatrice
name: Rizzi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Throughout history, thousands of different kinds of film formats, emulsions and colour systems have been used, to reproduce natural colours and as mean of expression for specific characters and scenes. In recent years, the advent of digital mediums has improved post-production technology and the film restoration process. Moreover, the support migration exposed different issues, such as colour reproducibility in digital systems that present the same problems as those posed by analogue. Furthermore, the lack of physical information on film dyes, emulsions and sensitivity renders the reconstruction of different film process colours impossible, and so too their comparison with the analogue or digital copies. In this contribution we aim to increase film experts’ and restorers’ awareness of colour reproduction problems that always affect the practice of digitization and digital restoration, and we propose the contribution of Fire2, an open access database of cinematographic and photographic technical data and materials, to support the work of conservators, restorers, and researchers.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Word list for oral/nasal airflow measurements
Creators: name: Vaiadimoin, Jean-Claude
name: Lionnet, Florian
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: nem

description: 172 4-channel WAV files (with interlaced audio, nasal, and oral airflow), 6 WAV files (parallel recording of the word list without the oro-nasal mask), 1 PDF with the elicited word list. The 172 WAV files corresponding to the nasal/oral airflow recordings contain four channels (each with a 12 kHz sample rate, i.e. 48 kHz total): a WAV channel corresponding to the microphone recording, an LX channel (laryngograph, void in these recordings), a P1 channel (nasal airflow) and a P2 channel (oral airflow). These channels must be extracted before the files can be used.
Epidemic Spreading in a Social Network with Facial Masks wearing Individuals
Creators: name: Lee, Duan-Shin
name: Zhu, Miao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we present a susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model with individuals wearing facial masks and individuals who do not. The disease transmission rates, the recovering rates and the fraction of individuals who wear masks are all time dependent in the model. We develop a progressive estimation of the disease transmission rates and the recovering rates based on the COVID-19 data published by John Hopkins University. We determine the fraction of individual who wear masks by a maximum likelihood estimation, which maximizes the transition probability of a stochastic susceptible-infected-recovered model. The transition probability is numerically difficult to compute if the number of infected individuals is large. We develop an approximation for the transition probability based on central limit theorem and mean field approximation. We show through numerical study that our approximation works well. We develop a bond percolation analysis to predict the eventual fraction of population who are infected, assuming that parameters of the SIR model do not change anymore. We predict the outcome of COVID-19 pandemic using our theory.
description: 14 pages,10 figures