cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A feminist analysis of motherhood : subtitle experiences of mothers of a child with autism have with their support system
Creators: name: Sutherland, Rayner
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Some feminist theorists have commented that feminism has succeeded only up to a point - and that point is motherhood. Motherhood, these theorists say, remains one of society's greatest untold stories. This study examines the subjective experiences of one small but important segment of mothers - mothers of a child with autism. The current literature on this topic is mainly focused on the autistic child and only recently has the impact on family members been explored. What relatively little literature exists is focused on "parents", not mothers, thus hiding the gendered nature of care, and is mainly quantitative, anecdotal, and focused on the impact of caring for children with generalized "special needs" - not on children with autism. To date, there has not been a comprehensive gender-sensitive qualitative study about the experiences of mothers caring for a child with autism. The goal of this study is to better understand the personal experiences of these mothers in terms of their interaction and relationship with their support system. Information was gathered through the use of semi-structured interviews with eight mothers. Analysis of their transcripts revealed three themes. Mothers experienced and felt: (1) ignored; (2) abandoned; and (3) like burdened "Supermoms."
BCFA: Bespoke Control Flow Analysis for CFA at Scale
Creators: name: Ramu, Ramanathan
name: Upadhyaya, Ganesha B
name: Nguyen, Hoan Anh
name: Rajan, Hridesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many data-driven software engineering tasks such as discovering programming patterns, mining API specifications, etc., perform source code analysis over control flow graphs (CFGs) at scale. Analyzing millions of CFGs can be expensive and performance of the analysis heavily depends on the underlying CFG traversal strategy. State-of-the-art analysis frameworks use a fixed traversal strategy. We argue that a single traversal strategy does not fit all kinds of analyses and CFGs and propose bespoke control flow analysis (BCFA). Given a control flow analysis (CFA) and a large number of CFGs, BCFA selects the most efficient traversal strategy for each CFG. BCFA extracts a set of properties of the CFA by analyzing the code of the CFA and combines it with properties of the CFG, such as branching factor and cyclicity, for selecting the optimal traversal strategy. We have implemented BCFA in Boa, and evaluated BCFA using a set of representative static analyses that mainly involve traversing CFGs and two large datasets containing 287 thousand and 162 million CFGs. Our results show that BCFA can speedup the large scale analyses by 1%-28%. Further, BCFA has low overheads; less than 0.2%, and low misprediction rate; less than 0.01%.
description: 12 pages
Exciton topology and condensation in a model quantum spin Hall insulator
Creators: name: Blason, A.
name: Fabrizio, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study by a consistent mean-field scheme the role on the single- and two-particle properties of a local electron-electron repulsion in the Bernevig, Hughes and Zhang model of a quantum spin Hall insulator. We find that the interaction fosters the intrusion between the topological and non-topological insulators of a new insulating and magnetoelectric phase that breaks spontaneously inversion and time reversal symmetries, but not their product. The approach to this phase from both topological and non-topological sides is signalled by the softening of two exciton branches, i.e., whose binding energy reaches the gap value, that possess, in most cases, finite and opposite Chern numbers, thus allowing this phase being regarded as a condensate of topological excitons. We also discuss how those excitons, and especially their surface counterparts, may influence the physical observables.
The Marine Advantage: Empowering coastal communities, safeguarding marine ecosystems
Creators: name: Soma, Chakrabarti
name: Soma, Chakrabarti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: climate change
subject: food security
subject: smallholder livelihoods
subject: coastal areas

description: Agriculture and fisheries, the backbone of food security and nutrition for coastal communities and globally, are under threat. Climate change and environmental degradation in coastal areas, including Small Island Developing States, are already affecting the natural resource base on which smallholders depend for their food security and livelihoods. Future projections outline an increasingly urgent need to help communities adapt to these changes and protect these fragile resources.
The Mitigation Advantage: Maximizing the co-benefits of investing in smallholder adaptation initiatives
Creators: name: Soma, Chakrabarti
name: Soma, Chakrabarti
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: climate change
subject: smallholders
subject: deforestation
subject: mitigation
subject: agricultural development

description: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has highlighted a critical trade-off between agricultural development and climate change mitigation. On the one hand, agriculture, forestry and other kinds of land use (AFOLU) account for about a quarter of net human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These emissions are mainly caused by deforestation, as well as soil and nutrient management practices, and livestock. For example, in the ten years since 2001, agricultural emissions from crop and livestock production – mainly in developing countries – grew from 4.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) to over 5.3 billion tons – a 14 per cent increase (IPCC, 2014). However, agriculture is central to global food and nutrition security, in particular for millions of smallholders for whom it is the main source of livelihood. Smallholders are, therefore, both dependent on agriculture and contributors to related emissions – but they also hold the key to reducing these emissions if supported through innovative and holistic programming
Is Area Yield Insurance Competitive with Farm Yield Insurance?
Creators: name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Black, J. Roy
name: Hu, Yingyao
name: Skees, Jerry R.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Black, J. Roy
name: Hu, Yingyao
name: Skees, Jerry R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: area yield insurance
subject: Multiple Peril Crop Insurance
subject: risk reduction

description: This article compares risk reduction from MPCI and GRP crop insurance contracts. The analysis extends and improves on the existing area-yield insurance literature in four important respects. First, the geographical scope greatly exceeds that of previous work. Second, unlike previous efforts, the area is not assumed to consist only of those farms included in the analysis. Third, the analysis is based on the actual GRP indemnity function rather than the area-yield indemnity function commonly used in the literature. Fourth, the analysis avoids the questionable assumption that GRP scale can be optimized at the individual farm level. Even with a number of conservative assumptions favoring MPCI relative to GRP, results indicate that at least for some crops and regions GRP is aviable alternative to MPCI.
Evaluating the Quality of Consumable Water in Lebanon and Correlating it to Oral Candidiasis in Mice Model
Creators: name: Halawi, Mohammad Hassan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60505 Mycology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: 100204 Environmental Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors)
subject: FOS: Environmental biotechnology
subject: 50206 Environmental Monitoring
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This research tests the contamination of Lebanese water by fungal microorganisms, mainly Candida spp., it also test the possible correlation between stress and the incidence of oral candidiasis.
Phase-Charge Duality of a Josephson junction in a fluctuating electromagnetic environment
Creators: name: Corlevi, S.
name: Guichard, W.
name: Hekking, F. W. J.
name: Haviland, D. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the current-voltage characteristics of a single Josephson junction placed in a high impedance environment. The transfer of Cooper pairs through the junction is governed by overdamped quasicharge dynamics, leading to Coulomb blockade and Bloch oscillations. Exact duality exists to the standard overdamped phase dynamics of a Josephson junction, resulting in a dual shape of the current-voltage characteristic, with current and voltage changing roles. We demonstrate this duality with experiments which allow for a quantitative comparison with a theory that includes the effect of fluctuations due to finite temperature of the electromagnetic environment.
A Bilateral Comparison of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: United States and Canada
Creators: name: Richards, Timothy J.
name: Patterson, Paul M.
name: Richards, Timothy J.
name: Patterson, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Alchian-Allen effect
subject: fruit and vegetable trade
subject: health information
subject: latent variable
subject: MIMIC model
subject: produce quality

description: Many public programs promote diets rich in fruits and vegetables based on evidence of the derived health benefits. Still, produce consumption in the United States lags behind other nations, even its most culturally similar neighbor--Canada. This study uses a structural latent variable model to test the role played by quality and health information in explaining observed differences in produce consumption. The Alchian-Allen effect predicts that higher quality, higher absolute margin produce will be exported, suggesting quality may be an important demand factor in importing nations such as Canada. The results show that dietary health information is significant in expanding demands. Quality also promotes fruit consumption in Canada.
Household Fast Food Expenditures and Children's Television Viewing: Can They Really Significantly Influence Children's Dietary Quality?
Creators: name: You, Wen
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: You, Wen
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: children's diet and health
subject: fast food expenditures
subject: healthy eating index
subject: obesity
subject: television viewing

description: Previous studies have found a strong relationship between food-away-from-home expenditures and television viewing, and children's diet. This study revisits this issue by examining the impact of household fast food expenditures and children's television viewing on children's dietary quality. Results indicate that both factors have statistically significant and negative effects. However, the elasticities of children's diet quality with respect to both factors are quite inelastic. Results also suggest that the effects of these two factors differ between children younger than 11 years old and children at least 11 years old. Relevant policy implications are discussed.
Variation in Superconducting Symmetry against Pressure on Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor Cd$_2$Re$_2$O$_7$ Revealed by $^{185/187}$Re Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
Creators: name: Kitagawa, Shunsaku
name: Ishida, Kenji
name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo C.
name: Matsubayashi, Yasuhito
name: Hirai, Daigorou
name: Hiroi, Zenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed $^{185/187}$Re nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements under pressure to investigate the superconducting properties of noncentrosymmetric superconductor Cd$_{2}$Re$_{2}$O$_{7}$ under various crystal structures. The pressure dependence of superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ determined through ac susceptibility measurements is consistent with the results of previous resistivity measurements [T. C. Kobayashi $et al$., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80, 023715 (2011).]. Below 2.2 GPa, in the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_{1}$, a clear coherence peak was observed just below $T_{\rm c}$, indicating conventional $s$-wave superconductivity. In contrast, the coherence peak disappears at 3.1 GPa, suggesting a change in superconducting symmetry to the $p$-wave dominant state against pressure.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
On the Empirical Finding of a Higher Risk of Poverty in Rural Areas: Is Rural Residence Endogenous to Poverty?
Creators: name: Fisher, Monica G.
name: Fisher, Monica G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: endogeneity
subject: instrumental variables
subject: omitted variable bias
subject: poverty
subject: rural

description: This section includes: On the Empirical Finding of a Higher Risk of Poverty in Rural Areas: Is Rural Residence Endogenous to Poverty?:COMMENT, by Thomas A. Hirschl; On the Empirical Finding of a Higher Risk of Poverty in Rural Areas: Is Rural Residence Endogenous to Poverty?: REPLY, by Monica Fisher. Research shows people are more likely to be poor in rural versus urban America. Does this phenomenon partly reflect that people who choose rural residence have unmeasured attributes related to human impoverishment? To address this question, two models are estimated using Panel Study of Income Dynamics data. A single equation Probit model of individual poverty replicates the well-documented finding of higher poverty risk in rural places. However, an instrumental variables approach, accounting for correlation between rural residence and the poverty equation error term, finds no measured effect of rural location on poverty. Results suggest failure to correct for endogeneity or omitted variable bias may overestimate the "rural effect."
Halpha-Derived Star-Formation Rates For Three z ~ 0.75 EDisCS Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Finn, Rose A.
name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: McCarthy, Donald W.
name: Poggianti, Bianca
name: Rudnick, Gregory
name: Halliday, Claire
name: Milvang-Jensen, Bo
name: Pello, Roser
name: Simard, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Halpha-derived star-formation rates (SFRs) for three z ~ 0.75 galaxy clusters. Our 1 sigma flux limit corresponds to a star-formation rate of 0.10-0.24 solar mass per year, and our minimum reliable Halpha + [N II] rest-frame equivalent width is 10Å. We show that Halpha narrowband imaging is an efficient method for measuring star formation in distant clusters. In two out of three clusters, we find that the fraction of star-forming galaxies increases with projected distance from the cluster center. We also find that the fraction of star-forming galaxies decreases with increasing local galaxy surface density in the same two clusters. We compare the median rate of star formation among star-forming cluster galaxies to a small sample of star-forming field galaxies from the literature and find that the median cluster SFRs are \~50% less than the median field SFR. We characterize cluster evolution in terms of the mass-normalized integrated cluster SFR and find that the z ~ 0.75 clusters have more SFR per cluster mass on average than the z <= 0.4 clusters from the literature. The interpretation of this result is complicated by the dependence of the mass-normalized SFR on cluster mass and the lack of sufficient overlap in the mass ranges covered by the low and high redshift samples. We find that the fraction and luminosities of the brightest starburst galaxies at z ~ 0.75 are consistent with their being progenitors of the post-starburst galaxies at z ~ 0.45 if the post-starburst phase lasts several (~5) times longer than the starburst phase.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 20 pages, 24 figures
The Economics of Testing for Biotech Grain: Application to StarLink Corn
Creators: name: Johnson, D. Demcey
name: Lin, William W.
name: Johnson, D. Demcey
name: Lin, William W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: biotechnology
subject: grain marketing
subject: quality risk
subject: StarLink
subject: testing

description: StarLink corn, a variety not approved for human use, disrupted the marketing system in 2000 because of inadvertent commingling. This paper provides an overview of the economics of testing grain for biotech content. What are the risks facing buyers and sellers, and how are these influenced by testing protocols? How do market premiums and discounts, testing costs, and prior beliefs affect the incentives to test? A conceptual model is developed in which sellers choose whether to pre-test grain prior to shipment. Through simulation analysis, we illustrate the impact of market premiums and other variables on testing incentives and buyer risk.
PRICE-CONDITIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Creators: name: Fulginiti, Lilyan E.
name: Fulginiti, Lilyan E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Economics theorists for years have considered the possibility that the direction of technical change is altered by changes in relative prices. Prices also have been identified as one of the determinants of technical change through innovation. This article extends the theory of the firm to cover situations in which the firms' technology set is conditional on expected prices. The basic idea is to distinguish between "market prices," or the prices that guide the firm's choices subject to the technology that is in place, and "normal prices," the prices conditioning the choice of technology. A "generalized" price effect is obtained that included the traditional price effect as well as the technical change effect of price changes, and an example is presented.
A COMPARISON OF DEMANDS FOR MEAT PRODUCTS IN THE PACIFIC RIM REGION
Creators: name: Capps, Oral
name: Tsai, Reyfong
name: Kirby, Raymond
name: Williams, Gary W.
name: Capps, Oral
name: Tsai, Reyfong
name: Kirby, Raymond
name: Williams, Gary W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: The Rotterdam model is used to obtain estimates of demand parameters for meat products in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. Unlike most previous studies of demand systems, the model takes into account simultaneous-equation bias which arises due to the endogeneity of total expenditure. Beef, pork, and chicken are separable from marine products for each Pacific Rim country. However, demand elasticities for beef, pork, and chicken are different among the various Pacific Rim nations. One may not then use the elasticity estimates of a particular country and apply them to other Pacific Rim markets.
DIFFERENCES IN CONTINGENT VALUATION ESTIMATES FROM REFERENDUM AND CHECKLIST QUESTIONS
Creators: name: Jordan, Jeffrey L.
name: Elnagheeb, Abdelmoneim H.
name: Jordan, Jeffrey L.
name: Elnagheeb, Abdelmoneim H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: This article compares willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates from an actual survey using a checklist question regarding WTP for groundwater quality improvements to WTP estimates that would have been obtained had a single-bounded referendum (SBR) or a double-bounded referendum (DBR) question been asked. Results indicate differences among estimates from the three types of question formats. There was a loss of statistical efficiency of parameter and WTP estimates when moving from the checklist and DBR formats to the SBR format. WTP estimates from the SBR question were more sensitive to sample size and model specification than the others.
THE EFFECT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICIES FOR PROCESSING TOMATOES ON THE DEMAND FOR PESTICIDES
Creators: name: Starbird, S. Andrew
name: Starbird, S. Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: In California, acceptance sampling is used to monitor the quality of processing tomatoes delivered by growers to processors. A proposal to change the current quality assurance policy was recently put forth to reduce the growers' incentive to use pesticides. In this article we examine the effect of alternative quality assurance policies on profit-maximizing growers' demand for pesticides. The results indicate that the demand for pesticides is sensitive to changes in the quality assurance policy and that the proposed policy would reduce the optimal level of pesticide use on processing tomatoes. Disregarding the impacts of quality assurance policy may be the reason that the demand for pesticides has been underestimated so often in the past.
The Vision of Software Clone Management: Past, Present, and Future
Creators: name: Roy, Chanchal K.
name: Zibran, Minhaz F.
name: Koschke, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Duplicated code or code clones are a kind of code smell that have both positive and negative impacts on the development and maintenance of software systems. Software clone research in the past mostly focused on the detection and analysis of code clones, while research in recent years extends to the whole spectrum of clone management. In the last decade, three surveys appeared in the literature, which cover the detection, analysis, and evolutionary characteristics of code clones. This paper presents a comprehensive survey on the state of the art in clone management, with in-depth investigation of clone management activities (e.g., tracing, refactoring, cost-benefit analysis) beyond the detection and analysis. This is the first survey on clone management, where we point to the achievements so far, and reveal avenues for further research necessary towards an integrated clone management system. We believe that we have done a good job in surveying the area of clone management and that this work may serve as a kind of roadmap for future research in the area
description: 16 pages
DDF Construction and D-Brane Boundary States in Pure Spinor Formalism
Creators: name: Mukhopadhyay, Partha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Open string boundary conditions for non-BPS D-branes in type II string theories discussed in hep-th/0505157 give rise to two sectors with integer (R sector) and half-integer (NS sector) modes for the combined fermionic matter and bosonic ghost variables in pure spinor formalism. Exploiting the manifest supersymmetry of the formalism we explicitly construct the DDF (Del Giudice, Di Vecchia, Fubini) states in both the sectors which are in one-to-one correspondence with the states in light-cone Green-Schwarz formalism. We also give a proof of validity of this construction. A similar construction in the closed string sector enables us to define a physical Hilbert space in pure spinor formalism which is used to project the covariant boundary states of both the BPS and non-BPS instantonic D-branes. These projected boundary states take exactly the same form as those found in light-cone Green-Schwarz formalism and are suitable for computing the cylinder diagram with manifest open-closed duality.
description: 37 pages, typos corrected, some organisational changes made
An Efficient Monte-Carlo Method to Make a Geometric Graph with a Fixed Connectivity
Creators: name: Sasaki, Munetaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Markov chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) method to make a geometric graph which satisfies the following two conditions: (i) The degree of each vertex is fixed to a positive integer $k$. (ii) The probability that two vertices located on a $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice are connected by an edge is proportional to $d_{ij}^{-α}$, where $d_{ij}$ is the distance between the two vertices and $α$ is a positive exponent. We introduce a reverse update method and a list-based update method for the MCMC method. The graph is updated efficiently by the MCMC method since the two update methods work complementarily. We also investigate a ferromagnetic Ising model defined on the geometric graph as a test case. As a result, we have confirmed that the nature of ferromagnetic transition significantly depends on the exponent $α$.
description: 26 pages, 21 figures
The B-Band Luminosity Function of Red and Blue Galaxies up to z=3.5
Creators: name: Giallongo, E.
name: Salimbeni, S.
name: Menci, N.
name: Zamorani, G.
name: Fontana, A.
name: Dickinson, M.
name: Cristiani, S.
name: Pozzetti, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have explored the redshift evolution of the luminosity function of red and blue galaxies up to $z=3.5$. This was possible joining a deep I band composite galaxy sample, which includes the spectroscopic K20 sample and the HDFs samples, with the deep $H_{AB}=26$ and $K_{AB}=25$ samples derived from the deep NIR images of the Hubble Deep Fields North and South, respectively. About 30% of the sample has spectroscopic redshifts and the remaining fraction well-calibrated photometric redshifts. This allowed to select and measure galaxies in the rest-frame blue magnitude up to $z\sim 3$ and to derive the redshift evolution of the B-band luminosity function of galaxies separated by their rest-frame $U-V$ color or specific (i.e. per unit mass) star-formation rate. The class separation was derived from passive evolutionary tracks or from their observed bimodal distributions. Both distributions appear bimodal at least up to $z\sim 2$ and the locus of red/early galaxies is clearly identified up to these high redshifts. Both luminosity and density evolutions are needed to describe the cosmological behaviour of the red/early and blue/late populations. The density evolution is greater for the early population with a decrease by one order of magnitude at $z\sim 2-3$ with respect to the value at $z\sim 0.4$. The luminosity densities of the early and late type galaxies with $M_B1$. Indeed while star-forming galaxies slightly increase or keep constant their luminosity density, "early" galaxies decrease in their luminosity density by a factor $\sim 5-6$ from $z\sim 0.4$ to $z\sim 2.5-3$. A comparison with one of the latest versions of the hierarchical CDM models shows a broad agreement with the observed number and luminosity density evolutions of both populations.
description: 41 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
The dichotomy of atmospheric escape in AU Mic b
Creators: name: Carolan, S.
name: Vidotto, A. A.
name: Plavchan, P.
name: D'Angelo, C. Villarreal
name: Hazra, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, we study the dichotomy of the escaping atmosphere of the newly discovered close-in exoplanet AU Mic b. On one hand, the high EUV stellar flux is expected to cause a strong atmospheric escape in AU Mic b. On the other hand, the wind of this young star is believed to be very strong, which could reduce or even inhibit the planet's atmospheric escape. AU Mic is thought to have a wind mass-loss rate that is up to $1000$ times larger than the solar wind mass-loss rate ($\dot{M}_\odot$). To investigate this dichotomy, we perform 3D hydrodynamics simulations of the stellar wind--planetary atmosphere interactions in the AU Mic system and predict the synthetic Ly-$α$ transits of AU Mic b. We systematically vary the stellar wind mass-loss rate from a `no wind' scenario to up to a stellar wind with a mass-loss rate of $1000~\dot{M}_\odot$. We find that, as the stellar wind becomes stronger, the planetary evaporation rate decreases from $6.5\times 10^{10}$ g/s to half this value. With a stronger stellar wind, the atmosphere is forced to occupy a smaller volume, affecting transit signatures. Our predicted Ly-$α$ absorption drops from $\sim 20\%$, in the case of `no wind' to barely any Ly-$α$ absorption in the extreme stellar wind scenario. Future Ly-$α$ transits could therefore place constraints not only on the evaporation rate of AU Mic b, but also on the mass-loss rate of its host star.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication as a Letter in MNRAS
RETURNS TO SCALE AND SIZE IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Creators: name: McClelland, John W.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
name: Musser, Wesley N.
name: McClelland, John W.
name: Wetzstein, Michael E.
name: Musser, Wesley N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Differences between the concepts of returns to size and returns to scale are systematically reexamined in this paper. Specifically, the relationship between returns to scale and size are examined through the use of the envelope theorem. A major conclusion of the paper is that the level of abstraction in applying a cost function derived from a homothetic technology within a relevant range of the expansion path may not be severe when compared to the theoretical, estimative, and computational advantages of these technologies.
Making Fair ML Software using Trustworthy Explanation
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Joymallya
name: Peng, Kewen
name: Menzies, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Machine learning software is being used in many applications (finance, hiring, admissions, criminal justice) having a huge social impact. But sometimes the behavior of this software is biased and it shows discrimination based on some sensitive attributes such as sex, race, etc. Prior works concentrated on finding and mitigating bias in ML models. A recent trend is using instance-based model-agnostic explanation methods such as LIME to find out bias in the model prediction. Our work concentrates on finding shortcomings of current bias measures and explanation methods. We show how our proposed method based on K nearest neighbors can overcome those shortcomings and find the underlying bias of black-box models. Our results are more trustworthy and helpful for the practitioners. Finally, We describe our future framework combining explanation and planning to build fair software.
description: New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track; The 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering; Melbourne, Australia
IMPUTED MISSING INCOMES AND MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO CONSUME FOOD
Creators: name: Lee, Jonq-Ying
name: Lee, Jonq-Ying
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This study has demonstrated the use of a type 2 tobit model to impute the incomes for nonresponding households. The imputed incomes generated from the type 2 tobit model for nonresponding households indicate that average incomes of nonresponding households are slightly higher than those of responding households. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that under the assumption that the predicted incomes derived from the type 2 tobit model are accurate, the deletion of nonresponsidng households would cause an overestimation of the impact of income on food expenditures for households with annual incomes of less than $20,000.
Additional file 1 of Feasibility and desirability of scaling up Community–based Health Insurance (CBHI) in rural communities in Uganda: lessons from Kisiizi Hospital CBHI scheme
Creators: name: Kakama, Alex A.
name: Prossy K. Namyalo
name: Basaza, Robert K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Issues considered when accessing desirability and feasibility of scaling up Kisiizi CBHI Scheme.
Additional file 2 of Feasibility and desirability of scaling up Community–based Health Insurance (CBHI) in rural communities in Uganda: lessons from Kisiizi Hospital CBHI scheme
Creators: name: Kakama, Alex A.
name: Prossy K. Namyalo
name: Basaza, Robert K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Consent for and Topic guide for a study on the Feasibility and Desirability of Scaling up Community –based Health Insurance (CBHI) in rural communities in Uganda; Lessons from Kisiizi hospital CBHI scheme.
Modeling a Slicer Mirror Using Zemax User-Defined Surface
Creators: name: Vivès, Sébastien
name: Prieto, Eric
name: Moretto, Gil
name: Saisse, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A slicer mirror is a complex surface composed by many tilted and decentered mirrors sub-surfaces. The major difficulty to model such a complex surface is the large number of parameters used to define it. The Zemax's multi-configuration mode is usually used to specify each parameters (tilts, curvatures, decenters) for each mirror sub-surface which are then considered independently. Otherwise making use of the User-Defined Surface (UDS-DLL) Zemax capability, we are able to consider the set of sub-surfaces as a whole surface. In this paper, we present such a UDS-DLL tool comparing its performance with those of the classical multi-configuration mode. In particular, we explore the use of UDS-DLL to investigate the cross-talk due to the diffraction on the slicer array mirrors which has been a burden task when using multi-configuration mode.
description: Submitted to the proceedings of the Durham Integral Field Spectroscopy Workshop July 4th-8th 2005
Exact topological charged hairy black holes in AdS Space in $D$-dimensions
Creators: name: Mahapatra, Subhash
name: Priyadarshinee, Supragyan
name: Reddy, Gosala Narasimha
name: Shukla, Bhaskar
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: We present a new family of topological charged hairy black hole solutions in asymptotically AdS space in $D$-dimensions. We solve the coupled Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar gravity system and obtain exact charged hairy black hole solutions with planar, spherical and hyperbolic horizon topologies. The scalar field is regular everywhere. We discuss the thermodynamics of the hairy black hole and find drastic changes in its thermodynamic structure due to the scalar field. For the case of planar and spherical horizons, we find charged hairy/RN-AdS black hole phase transition, with thermodynamically preferred and stable charged hairy phases at low temperature. For the case of hyperbolic horizon, no such transition occurs and RN-AdS black holes are always thermodynamically favoured.
description: 26 pages, many figures, comments are welcome
Electron-phonon interaction for adiabatic anharmonic phonons
Creators: name: Ziegler, K.
name: Schneider, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A model with Holstein-like electron-phonon coupling is studied in the limit of adiabatic phonons. The phonon distribution is anharmonic with two degenerate maxima. This model can be related to fermions in a correlated binary alloy and describes microscopic phase separation. We discuss the weak and strong electron-phonon coupling limit and present a qualitative phase diagram. In terms of the phononic displacements it consists of a homogeneous, an alternating, and a disordered phase. There is a first order phase transition between the homogeneous and the alternating phase, and second order phase transition between the alternating and the disordered phase. The opening of a gap inside the disordered phase is treated by a dynamical mean-field theory.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, revised and published version
FEEDER CATTLE PRICE DIFFERENTIALS IN ARIZONA AUCTION MARKETS
Creators: name: Faminow, Merle D.
name: Gum, Russell L.
name: Faminow, Merle D.
name: Gum, Russell L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper presents the results of an empirical study of price differentials for feeder cattle in Arizona auction markets. Emphasis is placed upon the estimation of price/weight relationships for steers and heifers. Estimation of a short-run feeder cattle price differential model resulted in an equation with a good empirical fit. The model also is in agreement with theoretical expectations. It is concluded that the model presented in the paper could be maintained and updated periodically to provide a useful supplement to market price information services commonly used by cattle producers.
Symmetry-resolved two-magnon excitations in a strong spin-orbit-coupled bilayer antiferromagnet
Creators: name: Li, Siwen
name: Drueke, Elizabeth
name: Porter, Zach
name: Jin, Wencan
name: Lu, Zhengguang
name: Smirnov, Dmitry
name: Merlin, Roberto
name: Wilson, Stephen D.
name: Sun, Kai
name: Zhao, Liuyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used a combination of polarized Raman spectroscopy and spin wave calculations to study magnetic excitations in the strong spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) bilayer perovskite antiferromagnet $Sr_3Ir_2O_7$. We observed two broad Raman features at ~ 800 $cm^{-1}$ and ~ 1400 $cm^{-1}$ arising from magnetic excitations. Unconventionally, the ~ 800 $cm^{-1}$ feature is fully symmetric ($A_{1g}$) with respect to the underlying tetragonal ($D_{4h}$) crystal lattice which, together with its broad line shape, definitively rules out the possibility of a single magnon excitation as its origin. In contrast, the ~ 1400 $cm^{-1}$ feature shows up in both the $A_{1g}$ and $B_{2g}$ channels. From spin wave and two-magnon scattering cross-section calculations of a tetragonal bilayer antiferromagnet, we identified the ~ 800 $cm^{-1}$ (~ 1400 $cm^{-1}$) feature as two-magnon excitations with pairs of magnons from the zone-center $Γ$ point (zone-boundary van Hove singularity X point). We further found that this zone-center two-magnon scattering is unique to bilayer perovskite magnets which host an optical branch in addition to the acoustic branch, as compared to their single layer counterparts. This zone-center two-magnon mode is distinct in symmetry from the time-reversal symmetry broken spin wave gap and phase mode proposed to explain the ~ 92 meV (742 $cm^{-1}$) gap in RIXS magnetic excitation spectra of $Sr_3Ir_2O_7$.
Additional file 2 of Implementing a community model of early pregnancy care
Creators: name: Cox, Rebecca
name: Khalid, Somia
name: Brierly, Gemma
name: Forsyth, Annie
name: McNamara, Ruth
name: Heppell, Victoria
name: Granne, Ingrid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy
Hematology

description: Additional file 2. Flow diagram referrals to hospital.
Magnetic properties of self-organized lateral arrays of (Fe,Ag)/Mo(110) nanostripes
Creators: name: Borca, Bogdana
name: Fruchart, Olivier
name: Meyer, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the fabrication of self-organized arrays of Fe nanostripes with a period of 3.5 nm, by sequential deposition of Fe and Ag on Mo(110). The wires display a strong in-plane uniaxial anisotropy along their length, and are superparamagnetic above Tb=185+/-15K. The large value of nucleation volumes, inferred from the analysis of the thermal dependence of coercivity below TB, suggests the existence of interactions between the wires.
description: 3 pages journal-style Proceedings of MMM05
Holographic Dual of The Weak Gravity Conjecture
Creators: name: McInnes, Brett
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The much-discussed \emph{Weak Gravity Conjecture} is interesting and important in both the asymptotically flat and the asymptotically AdS contexts. In the latter case, it is natural to ask what conditions it (and the closely related Cosmic Censorship principle) imposes, via gauge-gravity duality, on the boundary field theory. We find that these conditions take the form of lower bounds on the number of colours in this theory: that is, the WGC and Censorship might (depending on the actual sizes of the bounds) enforce the familiar holographic injunction that this number should be "large". We explicitly estimate lower bounds on this number in the case of the application of holography to the quark-gluon plasma produced in heavy ion collisions. We find that classical Censorship alone prohibits realistically small values for the number of colours, but that the WGC offers hope of resolving this problem.
description: (Many) references added, 20 pages, 3 figures
Demand estimation and optimal policies in lost sales inventory systems
Creators: name: Ding, Xiaomei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis, we study the statistical issues in lost sales inventory systems, focusing on the complexity arising from the stochastic demand. We model the demand by the Zero Inflated Poisson (ZIP) distribution. The maximum likelihood estimator of the ZIP parameters taking censoring into account are derived separately for the newsvendor and the (s, S) inventory systems. We also investigate the effect of the estimation errors on the optimal policies and their costs. We observe from a simulation study that the MLE taking censoring into account performed the best in terms of cost as well as policy among various estimates. We then proceed to develop a Bayesian dynamic updating scheme of the ZIP parameters. It is applied to the newsvendor system. We perform a simulation study to investigate the advantage of the Bayesian updating approach over the traditional MLE approach. We conclude that the Bayesian pproach offers a better learning technique when one lacks of good understanding of the demand pattern in the first few periods. Since inventory policy affects the information acquisition and-the demand distribution updating process, how to determine the optimal inventory policy when the demand distribution is yet to be learned is the focus of the latter part of the thesis. We investigate the effect of demand censoring on the optimal policy in newsvendor inventory models with general parametric demand distribution and unknown parameter values. We provide theoretical proof of the conjecture that it is better off to adopt a higher than the myopic optimal policy in the initial periods when demand is learned in a censoring system. We show that the newsvendor problem with observable lost sales reduces to a sequence of single-period problems while the newsvendor problem with unobservable lost sales requires a dynamic analysis. We explore the economic rationality for this observation and illustrate it with numerical examples.
Lattice-coupled Antiferromagnet on Frustrated Lattices
Creators: name: Jia, Chenglong
name: Han, Jung Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice-coupled antiferromagnetic spin model is analyzed for a number of frustrated lattices: triangular, Kagome, and pyrochlore. In triangular and Kagome lattices where ground state spins are locally ordered, the spin-lattice interaction does not lead to a static deformation of the lattice. In the pyrochlore structure, spin-lattice coupling supports a picture of the hexagon spin cluster proposed in the recent experiment[S. H. Lee et al. Nature, 418, 856 (2002)]. Through spin-lattice interaction a uniform contraction of the individual hexagons in the pyrochlore lattice can take place and reduce the exchange energy. Residual hexagon-hexagon interaction takes the form of a 3-states Potts model where the preferred directions of the spin-loop directors for nearby hexagons are mutually orthogonal.
A Sample of IRAS Infrared-Selected Seyfert 1.5 Galaxies: Infrared-Color $α(60,25)$ Dominated Eigenvector 1
Creators: name: Wang, J.
name: Wei, J. Y.
name: He, X. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The well-documented E1 relationships are first extended to infrared color $α(60,25)$ and flux ratio [OIII]/H$β_{\rm{n}}$ by comparing emission line properties to continuum properties in infrared wavelength. Both direct correlations and a principle component analysis are used in a sample of 50 IRAS IR-selected Seyfert 1.5 galaxies. In addition to confirm the correlations of E1 in Boroson & Green (1992), our Eigenvector 1 turns out to be dominated by mid-infrared color $α$(60,25), and most strongly effected by RFe, [OIII]/H$β_{\rm{n}}$, and EW(H$β_{\rm{b}}$). Our analysis indicate that the objects with large E1 tend to co-existent with relatively young nuclear stellar populations, which implies that the E1 is related with nuclear starformation history. The IR-dominated Eigenvector 1 can be, therefore, inferred to be interpreted as ``age'' of AGN. In confirmation of Xu et al. (2003), it is clear that the extreme Seyfert galaxies with both large RFe and large [OIII]/H$β_{\rm{n}}$ are rare in our Universe.
description: 35 pages, 9 figures, accepted by ApJ
Pilot needs and gap analysis / D5.1
Creators: name: AnySolution
name: Le Guillou, Pierrick
name: Wald, Katharina
name: Ordóñez-Martínez, Dolores
name: Not, Elena
name: leonardi, chiara
name: Mencarini, Eleonora
name: Leoni, Francesca
name: Galetti, Luciano A.
name: Cvar, Nina
name: Božić, Nataša
name: Trilar, Jure
name: Goja, Denis
name: Mevlja, Bojan
name: Kotavaara, Ossi
name: Meriläinen, Iikka
name: Tikkanen, Saija
name: Samardžić, Slavica
name: Kovačević, Milica
name: Lakic, Ana
name: Taralezhkova, Iva
name: Genkova, Petya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: *This deliverable has not yet been officially approved by the European Commission and should be considered a draft.