cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Trust-assuring arguments to enhance consumer trust in internet stores : an experimental investigation
Creators: name: Kim, Dongmin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A trust-assuring argument refers to "a claim and its supporting statements used in an Internet store to address trust related issues." Whether it is statements placed on a website about a store's privacy policy or a symbol representing third-party assurances, we cannot assume a priori that such presence will necessarily increase consumer trust. To analyse and test the effectiveness of trust-assuring arguments in promoting consumer trust in Internet stores, and also to delineate guidelines for effective implementation of these arguments, a series of three interrelated studies have been conducted. Drawing from a model of trust and the customer resource life cycle, the first study identifies the important trust related issues (or concerns) about which Internet stores need to provide arguments in order to increase consumer trust. It categorizes the identified issues into four groups: issues related to personal information, customer service, product price/ quality, and store presence. In the second study, Toulmin's model of argumentation is proposed as a useful method of constructing trust-assuring arguments to amplify the effects of the arguments on consumer trust in Internet stores. Three forms of arguments have been identified based on Toulmin's model of argumentation in our study and their effects on consumer trust in Internet stores have been investigated in a laboratory experiment. The results suggest that the application of Toulmin's model can bolster the effects of trust-assuring arguments on consumer trust in Internet stores. The third study compares the relative influence of a store's trust-assuring arguments on consumer trust to that of third party certifications, by analyzing three factors: the content of the arguments, the sources of the arguments, and the relevance of the argument topics to consumers' personal interests. The main focus of the study involves identifying the conditions in which one feature (either a store's trust-assuring arguments or third party certifications) is more effective than the other. The results of a laboratory experiment suggest that when the relevance of the argument topics to a consumer's personal interests is high, a store's trust-assuring arguments are as effective in increasing consumer trust in the store as third party certifications with equivalent content.
Introduzione
Creators: name: Carpanelli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Frammenti sulla Scena (online)
Year: 2021

description: Introduzione al volume. Il teatro della 'polis' tra intrattenimento e politica - Atti del convegno internazionale (Pisa 2019), a cura di Andrea Giannotti
description: Frammenti sulla Scena (online), N. 1 (2020) - Volume speciale - Il teatro della 'polis' tra intrattenimento e politica - Atti del convegno internazionale (Pisa 2019)
Strong Turbulence in the Cool Cores of Galaxy Clusters: Can Tsunamis Solve the Cooling Flow Problem?
Creators: name: Fujita, Yutaka
name: Matsumoto, Tomoaki
name: Wada, Keiichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on high-resolution two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, we show that the bulk gas motions in a cluster of galaxies, which are naturally expected during the process of hierarchical structure formation of the universe, have a serous impact on the core. We found that the bulk gas motions represented by acoustic-gravity waves create local but strong turbulence, which reproduces the complicated X-ray structures recently observed in cluster cores. Moreover, if the wave amplitude is large enough, they can suppress the radiative cooling of the cores. Contrary to the previous studies, the heating is operated by the turbulence, not weak shocks. The turbulence could be detected in near-future space X-ray missions such as ASTRO-E2.
description: Movies are available at http://th.nao.ac.jp/tsunami/index.htm
title: The Color-Electric Field Correlator under Gradient Flow at next-to-leading Order in Quantum Chromodynamics
Creators: name: Eller, Alexander M.
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2021

description: The exploration of the strong interaction by heavy-ion collisions is an important step towards a deeper understanding of nature. An experimentally and theoretically accessible probe for the details of the strong interactions are the transport properties of heavy quarks inside a quark-gluon plasma. One of the these transport coefficients is the momentum diffusion coefficient of a heavy quark. It is determined by the spectral function of an Euclidean correlator of two color-electric fields along a Polyakov loop. This purely bosonic correlator can be simulated non-perturbatively using lattice gauge theory. The correlator suffers from noise to the point where the determination of the signal is not possible. This problem can be solved by noise-reduction techniques. Lüscher introduced the gradient flow procedure as an effective gauge-invariant noise-reduction technique. Gradient flow regulates the ultra-violet behavior of correlation functions hence suppressing the noise. Consequently, the renormalization properties of the gradient flowed operators are modified. In this thesis we analyze the effects of gradient flow on the color-electric field correlation function using perturbation theory in the continuum and on the lattice at next-to-leading order in the small coupling expansion, O(αₛ²). We discuss the relation between a gradient-flowed Euclidean correlator and its spectral function. From this we conclude the necessary order for taking the continuum limit first and flow time to zero limit second in lattice simulations. With a qualitative study of the correlator in lattice QED we determine the renormalization effects of the field operators at finite lattice spacing and flow time. We compute the correlation function in continuum QCD and evaluate the small separation and small flow time limits. The results obtained in this study improve the understanding of the usage of the gradient flow method in future lattice simulations of full QCD determining transport coefficients.
Beyond the WKB approximation in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Dorey, Patrick
name: Millican-Slater, Adam
name: Tateo, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mergings of energy levels associated with the breaking of PT symmetry in the model of Bender and Boettcher, and in its generalisation to incorporate a centrifugal term, are analysed in detail. Even though conventional WKB techniques fail, it is shown how the ODE/IM correspondence can be used to obtain a systematic approximation scheme which captures all previously-observed features. Nonperturbative effects turn out to play a crucial role, governing the behaviour of almost all levels once the symmetry-breaking transition has been passed. In addition, a novel treatment of the radial Schrodinger equation is used to recover the values of local and non-local conserved charges in the related integrable quantum field theories, without any need for resummation even when the angular momentum is nonzero.
description: 29 pages, Latex, many figures. v2: sign typos fixed, and a reference added
Convergence of viscosity solutions of generalized contact Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Creators: name: Wang, Yanan
name: Yan, Jun
name: Zhang, Jianlu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B40, 37J50, 37J55, 49L25

description: For any compact connected manifold $M$, we consider the generalized contact Hamiltonian $H(x,p,u)$ defined on $T^*M\times\mathbb R$ which is conex in $p$ and monotonically increasing in $u$. Let $u_ε^-:M\rightarrow\mathbb R$ be the viscosity solution of the parametrized contact Hamilton-Jacobi equation \[ H(x,\partial_x u_ε^-(x),εu_ε^-(x))=c(H) \] with $c(H)$ being the Mañé Critical Value. We prove that $u_ε^-$ converges uniformly, as $ε\rightarrow 0_+$, to a specfic viscosity solution $u_0^-$ of the critical equation \[ H(x,\partial_x u_0^-(x),0)=c(H) \] which can be characterized as a minimal combination of associated Peierls barrier functions.
description: viscosity solution, contact Hamiltonian, action minimizer, Aubry-Mather theory, weak KAM solution, Peierls barrier
Dimensionless Coupling of Bulk Scalars at the LHC
Creators: name: Beauchemin, P. -H.
name: Azuelos, G.
name: Burgess, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify the lowest-dimension interaction which is possible between Standard Model brane fields and bulk scalars in 6 dimensions. The lowest-dimension interaction is unique and involves a trilinear coupling between the Standard Model Higgs and the bulk scalar. Because this interaction has a dimensionless coupling, it depends only logarithmically on ultraviolet mass scales and heavy physics need not decouple from it. We compute its influence on Higgs physics at ATLAS and identify how large a coupling can be detected at the LHC. Besides providing a potentially interesting signal in Higgs searches, such couplings provide a major observational constraint on 6D large-extra-dimensional models with scalars in the bulk.
description: 20 pages
Additional file 1 of MicroRNA expression profiling in PBMCs of Indian water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) infected with Brucella and Johne’s disease
Creators: name: Jasdeep Singh
name: Jasdeep Kaur Dhanoa
name: Choudhary, Ratan K
name: Singh, Amarjit
name: Sethi, Ram Saran
name: Simarjeet Kaur
name: Mukhopadhyay, Chandra Sekhar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
On ultrafast magnetic flux dendrite propagation into thin superconducting films
Creators: name: Biehler, B.
name: Runge, B. -U.
name: Leiderer, P.
name: Mints, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest a new theoretical approach describing the velocity of magnetic flux dendrite penetration into thin superconducting films. The key assumptions for this approach are based upon experimental observations. We treat a dendrite tip motion as a propagating flux jump instability. Two different regimes of dendrite propagation are found. A fast initial stage is followed by a slow stage, which sets in as soon as a dendrite enters into the vortex-free region. We find that the dendrite velocity is inversely proportional to the sample thickness. The theoretical results and experimental data obtained by a magneto-optic pump-probe technique are compared and excellent agreement between the calculations and measurements is found.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Detailed spectral analysis of the 260 ksec XMM-Newton data of 1E1207.4-5209 and significance of a 2.1 keV absorption feature
Creators: name: Mori, Kaya
name: Chonko, James C.
name: Hailey, Charles J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have reanalyzed the 260 ksec XMM-Newton observation of 1E1207.4-5209. There are several significant improvements over previous work. Firstly, a much broader range of physically plausible spectral models was used. Secondly, we have utilized a more rigorous statistical analysis. The standard F-distribution was not employed, but rather the exact finite statistics F-distribution was determined by Monte-Carlo simulations. This approach was motivated by the recent work of Protassov et al. (2002) and Freeman et al. (1999). They demonstrated that the standard F-distribution is not even asymptotically correct when applied to assess the signficance of additional absorption features in a spectrum. With our improved analysis we do not find a third and fourth spectral feature (Bignami et al. (2003), De Luca et al. (2004)) in 1E1207.4-5209, but only the two broad absorption features previously reported (Sanwal et al. (2002), Hailey and Mori (2002)). Two additional statistical tests, one line model dependent and the other line model independent confirmed our modified F-test analysis. For all physically plausible continuum models where the weak residuals are strong enough to fit, the residuals occur at the instrument Au-M edge. As a sanity check we confirmed that the residuals are consistent in strength and position with the instrument Au-M residuals observed in 3C273.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, Revised version. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Additional file 2 of MicroRNA expression profiling in PBMCs of Indian water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) infected with Brucella and Johne’s disease
Creators: name: Jasdeep Singh
name: Jasdeep Kaur Dhanoa
name: Choudhary, Ratan K
name: Singh, Amarjit
name: Sethi, Ram Saran
name: Simarjeet Kaur
name: Mukhopadhyay, Chandra Sekhar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2.
p-shell hybridization and Hund's-rule mitigation: Engineering Hilbert spaces in artificial atoms
Creators: name: Kyriakidis, Jordan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic-field dependence of many-body states in quantum dots can be tailored by controlling the mixing of various angular momenta. In lateral quantum dots -- defined electrostatically in a two-dimensional electron gas -- this mixing can be accomplished by introducing anisotropies in the confinement potential, thereby explicitly breaking rotational symmetry. Mixing can be severe enough to violate Hund's rules, even at zero magnetic field. We illustrate the principle through calculations of states and spectra of four-electron droplets (p-shell) with long-range Coulomb repulsions and confined in anisotropic potentials. Our results show that the Hilbert space in these nanostructures can be engineered to the particular application domain.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures. More info at http://soliton.phys.dal.ca
Plateros milenae Tvardik & Bocak 2001, sp. n.
Creators: name: Tvardik, David
name: Bocak, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lycidae
Plateros
Plateros milenae

description: Plateros milenae sp. n. Type material. Holotype: male, S Sulawesi, 25 km SSE Malino, Gn. Lompobatang, 1800 m, 119.53.31E, 5.17.50S, 26­28 July 1999, Bolm lgt. (LMBC); Paratype: 1 male, 4 females, same locality data (LMBC). Differential diagnosis. Plateros milenae sp. n. is the species with largest male eyes in Sulawesi, only P. kalamensis sp. n. also having eyes diameter larger than interocular distance. The male genitalia enable sure identification (Figs 5, 6). P. milenae sp. n. reminds P. rubromamasensis sp. n. in the shape of the third antennomere (Figs 24, 26), but these species differ in the pronotum colouration. Description. Body small, slender, parallel­sided, black, only legs brown. Body covered with dense light pubescence, elytral pubescence darker. Head small, eye diameter 1.46 times interocular distance. Antennae moderately robust (Fig. 24), reaching two­fifths of elytral length, antennomeres 3­9 slightly triangular, antennomeres 10­11 parallel­sided. Antennae covered with long erected pubescence. Pronotum 1.5 times width at base than long at midline (Fig. 16). Frontal margin rounded, anterior angles weak, posterior angles acutely projected. Disc shining, with long light pubescence. Elytra parallel­sided, 4.0 times longer than width at humeri. Costae fine, covered with dense black pubescence. Phallus curved apically, internal sac exposed, with sclerotized plate (Figs 5, 6). Measurements. BL 6.07 mm, WH 1.31 mm PL 0.79 mm, PW 1.17 mm, Ediam 0.42 mm, Edist 0.29 mm. Distribution. Central Sulawesi Province, Mamasa valley. Etymology. The specific name " milenae " is a matronym dedicated to Mrs. Milena Tvardikova, the mother of the first author.
description: Published as part of Tvardik, David & Bocak, Ladislav, 2001, Review of the genus Plateros Bourgeois (Coleoptera; Lycidae) from Sulawesi, pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 16 on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618537
A Theory of Magnetization Reversal in Nanowires
Creators: name: Maier, Robert S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetization reversal in a ferromagnetic nanowire which is much narrower than the exchange length is believed to be accomplished through the thermally activated growth of a spatially localized nucleus, which initially occupies a small fraction of the total volume. To date, the most detailed theoretical treatments of reversal as a field-induced but noise-activated process have focused on the case of a very long ferromagnetic nanowire, i.e., a highly elongated cylindrical particle, and have yielded a reversal rate per unit length, due to an underlying assumption that the nucleus may form anywhere along the wire. But in a bounded-length (though long) cylindrical particle with flat ends, it is energetically favored for nucleation to begin at either end. We indicate how to compute analytically the energy of the critical nucleus associated with either end, i.e., the activation barrier to magnetization reversal, which governs the reversal rate in the low-temperature (Kramers) limit. Our treatment employs elliptic functions, and is partly analytic rather than numerical. We also comment on the Kramers prefactor, which for this reversal pathway does not scale linearly as the particle length increases, and tends to a constant in the low-temperature limit.
description: 11 pages, presented at Fluctuations and Noise 2004
Additional file 2 of Hagfish genome reveals parallel evolution of 7SL RNA-derived SINEs
Creators: name: Kojima, Kenji K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Data S1. Consensus sequences of transposable elements characterized in this study.
Les régulations environnementales visant l’épandage de lisier limitent-elles la concentration géographique des élevages porcins ?
Creators: name: Abildtrup, Jens
name: Gaigné, Carl
name: Larue, Solene
name: Le Gallo, Julie
name: Schmitt, Bertrand
name: Abildtrup, Jens
name: Gaigné, Carl
name: Larue, Solene
name: Le Gallo, Julie
name: Schmitt, Bertrand
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Si la concentration géographique des élevages intensifs, notamment porcins, présente d’importants avantages économiques, elle se traduit néanmoins par une forte concentration des effluents d’élevage, source de pollution. Pour limiter les impacts environnementaux d’une telle concentration, les pouvoirs publics peuvent être tentés de limiter l’agglomération des productions animales. Une analyse des secteurs porcins danois et français montre que la réglementation environnementale visant à limiter les quantités d’effluents épandues localement décourage faiblement (surtout en France) le processus d’agglomération de la production et ne compense pas les puissantes forces centripètes déjà à l’oeuvre. La mise en place d’une régulation de la gestion des effluents dans les zones de forte densité animale semble même renforcer le rôle de la proximité géographique entre les éleveurs dans les gains de productivité.
Development of a High Fidelity Simulator for Generalised Photometric Based Space Object Classification using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Allworth, James
name: Windrim, Lloyd
name: Wardman, Jeffrey
name: Kucharski, Daniel
name: Bennett, James
name: Bryson, Mitch
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents the initial stages in the development of a deep learning classifier for generalised Resident Space Object (RSO) characterisation that combines high-fidelity simulated light curves with transfer learning to improve the performance of object characterisation models that are trained on real data. The classification and characterisation of RSOs is a significant goal in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) in order to improve the accuracy of orbital predictions. The specific focus of this paper is the development of a high-fidelity simulation environment for generating realistic light curves. The simulator takes in a textured geometric model of an RSO as well as the objects ephemeris and uses Blender to generate photo-realistic images of the RSO that are then processed to extract the light curve. Simulated light curves have been compared with real light curves extracted from telescope imagery to provide validation for the simulation environment. Future work will involve further validation and the use of the simulator to generate a dataset of realistic light curves for the purpose of training neural networks.
description: This paper is a pre-print that appeared in Proceedings of 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), 2019
A Discrete Fourier Kernel and Fraenkel's Tiling Conjecture
Creators: name: Graham, Ron
name: O'Bryant, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11B50; 42A16; 11L99

description: The set B_{p,r}^q:=\{\floor{nq/p+r} \colon n\in Z \} with integers p, q, r) is a Beatty set with density p/q. We derive a formula for the Fourier transform \hat{B_{p,r}^q}(j):=\sum_{n=1}^p e^{-2 πi j \floor{nq/p+r} / q}. A. S. Fraenkel conjectured that there is essentially one way to partition the integers into m>2 Beatty sets with distinct densities. We conjecture a generalization of this, and use Fourier methods to prove several special cases of our generalized conjecture.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures (now with minor revisions and clarifications)
Tunable and precise two-bunch generation at FLASHForward
Creators: name: Schröder, S.
name: Ludwig, K.
name: Aschikhin, A.
name: D'Arcy, R.
name: Dinter, M.
name: Gonzalez, P.
name: Karstensen, S.
name: Knetsch, A.
name: Libov, V.
name: Lindstrøm, C. A.
name: Marutzky, F.
name: Niknejadi, P.
name: Rahali, A.
name: Schaper, L.
name: Schleiermacher, A.
name: Schmidt, B.
name: Thiele, S.
name: Wagner, A. de Zubiaurre
name: Wesch, S.
name: Osterhoff, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration based on external injection has the potential to significantly reduce the size of future accelerators. Stability and quality of the acceleration process substantially depends on the incoming bunch parameters. Precise control of the current profile is essential for optimising energy-transfer efficiency and preserving energy spread. At the FLASHForward facility, driver--witness bunch pairs of adjustable bunch length and separation are generated by a set of collimators in a dispersive section, which enables fs-level control of the longitudinal bunch profile. The design of the collimator apparatus and its commissioning is presented.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the 4th European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, 15-21 September 2019, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy
Assurance of IWRM functionality through establishing effective water user groups
Creators: name: Kazbekov, Jusipbek
name: Manthrithilake, Herath
name: Jumaboev, Kahramon
name: Kazbekov, Jusipbek
name: Manthrithilake, Herath
name: Jumaboev, Kahramon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Water resource management
subject: Water users associations
subject: Water users
subject: Farmer participation
subject: Governance
subject: Central Asia
subject: Kyrgyzstan
subject: Tajikistan
subject: Uzbekistan
subject: Ferghana Valley

description: In Dukhovny, V.; Sokolov, V.; Manthrithilake, H. (Eds.). Integrated water resources management, from theory to real practicality: experience of Central Asia. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Scientific Information Center, Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC ICWC)
The influence of binaries on galactic chemical evolution
Creators: name: De Donder, Erwin
name: Vanbeveren, Dany
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the galaxy in which we live is one of the great intellectual challenges facing modern science. With the advent of high quality observational data, the chemical evolution modeling of our galaxy has been the subject of numerous studies in the last years. However, all these studies have one missing element which is the evolution of close binaries. Reason: their evolution is very complex and single stars only perhaps can do the job. (Un)Fortunately at present we know that the majority of the observed stars are members of a binary or multiple system and that certain objects can only be formed through binary evolution. Therefore galactic studies that do not account for close binary evolution may be far from realistic. Because of the large expertise developed through the years in stellar evolution in general and binary evolution in particular at the Brussels Astrophysical Institute, we found ourselves in a privileged position to be the first to do chemical evolutionary simulations with the inclusion of detailed binary evolution. The complexity of close binary evolution has kept many astronomers from including binary stars into their studies. However, it is not always the easiest way of living that gives you the most excitement and satisfaction.
description: 115 pages, many figures and tables
Development of Novel Coating Systems for Mitigating Corrosion of Offshore Wind Turbines
Creators: name: Loukodimou, Adamantini
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Offshore wind turbines are subjected to harsh and extremely corrosive environments. Seawater, UV radiation, temperature variations, seaborne debris and floating objects make the atmospheric, the tidal and especially the splash zone the worst of all. Usually, cathodic protection is used for corrosion protection in metallic structures. Due to lack of continuous electrolyte (seawater) layer between the structure and the anode, this method proves to be inefficient in these zones. Hence, another approach for mitigating corrosion is applied, which is studied in this research. This work examines the behaviour of protective epoxy-based paint coating, which rely on its barrier properties. To ensure wind turbines’ long-term protection, this coating is enriched with components, which can protect them from corrosion when damaged. To manage this, commercially available marine epoxy paint is modified to autonomous system via addition of encapsulated corrosion inhibitors/self-healing agents, silanes. The idea is that once the coating is damaged, the capsules will rupture and release the core material and eventually stop the propagation of the scratch. Polymerisation reactions lead to solidification of the liquid core, filling the scratch. During the completion of the polymerisation reaction the substrate metal is exposed to a corrosive environment, thus the use of a sacrificial Zn/Al coating is also investigated. The combination of the enriched paint and of the sacrificial thermal spray coating allows for further development of coating systems. The final aim of this research is to present the “Development of novel coating systems for mitigating corrosion of offshore wind turbines”. This development will have an impact on the reduction of their maintenance and replacement costs. Hence, it will ensure protection against corrosion, extension of their service life and reduction of catastrophic incidents that could have devastating social, environmental and financial consequences.
In Dukhovny, V.; Sokolov, V.; Manthrithilake, H. (Eds.). Integrated water resources management, from theory to real practicality: experience of Central Asia. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Scientific Information Center, Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC ICWC)
Creators: name: Manthrithilake, Herath
name: Kazbekov, Jusipbek
name: Jumaboev, Kahramon
name: Manthrithilake, Herath
name: Kazbekov, Jusipbek
name: Jumaboev, Kahramon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Water resource management
subject: Canals
subject: Water users associations
subject: Water users
subject: Participatory management
subject: Institutional development
subject: Central Asia
subject: Uzbekistan
subject: Tajikistan
subject: Kyrgyzstan
subject: Ferghana Valley

description: In Dukhovny, V.; Sokolov, V.; Manthrithilake, H. (Eds.). Integrated water resources management, from theory to real practicality: experience of Central Asia. Tashkent, Uzbekistan: Scientific Information Center, Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC ICWC)
Spectrum of rotating black holes and its implications for Hawking radiation
Creators: name: Das, Saurya
name: Mukhopadhyay, Himan
name: Ramadevi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reduced phase space formalism for quantising black holes has recently been extended to find the area and angular momentum spectra of four dimensional Kerr black holes. We extend this further to rotating black holes in all spacetime dimensions and show that although as in four dimensions the spectrum is discrete, it is not equispaced in general. As a result, Hawking radiation spectra from these black holes are continuous, as opposed to the discrete spectrum predicted for four dimensional black holes.
description: 11 pages, Revtex4. Minor changes to match version to appear in Class. Quant. Grav
The large $N$ limit from the lattice
Creators: name: Lucini, Biagio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical study of the string tension and of the masses of the lowest-lying glueballs is performed in SU($N$) gauge theories for $2 \le N \le 8$ in D=3+1 and $2 \le N \le 6$ in D=2+1. It is shown that for the string tension a smooth $N \to \infty$ limit exists that depends only on the 't Hooft coupling $λ= g^2 N$. An extrapolation of the masses of the lightest glueballs to $N = \infty$ using a power series in $1/N^2$ shows that the leading correction to the infinite $N$ value accounts for finite $N$ effects for $N$ at least as small as 3 and all the way down to N=2 in many cases. $k$-string tension ratios and possible issues connected with correlation functions at large $N$ are also discussed.
description: Talk presented at Light-Cone 2004, Amsterdam, 16 - 20 August 2004. 6 pages, 4 figures. Include latex style files
La Riforma degli Aiuti di Stato
Creators: name: Cicchiello, Gianluca
name: Luzzi Conti, Stefania
name: Mantino, Francesco
name: Masala, Luciano
name: Pierangeli, Fabio
name: Cicchiello, Gianluca
name: Luzzi Conti, Stefania
name: Mantino, Francesco
name: Masala, Luciano
name: Pierangeli, Fabio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: State Aid
subject: CAP
subject: Agricultural National Policy.

description: The role of the State Aid and their regulation has become a crucial issue in the EU framework. This book introduces for the first time in Italy a general picture of the State Aid addressed to agriculture and rural areas. The first chapter (F. Mantino) describes the role of the State Aid in the national agricultural policy, by considering also their financial weight in the global amount of resources devoted to agriculture. The second chapter (L. Masala) deals with the most recent changes in the EU framework. The third chapter (S. Luzzi Conti and G. Cicchiello) make a sound analysis of the general meaning of the concept of State Aid in the EU and national legislation. The fourth chapter (F: Pierangeli and S. Luzzi Conti) describes the role of State Aid in the CAP, with particular reference to the first pillar and proposes a classification of State Aid adopted in the first pillar.
description: This book has been published with the contribution of the Ministry of Agricultural Policies within a project called "The complementarity between the State Aid and Rural Development Policies" under Minister Decree no.16782 of 24 December 2007.
High-Resolution Observations in B1-IRS: ammonia, CCS and water masers
Creators: name: de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I.
name: Chandler, C. J.
name: Gomez, J. F.
name: Kuiper, T. B. H.
name: Torrelles, J. M.
name: Anglada, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the structure and dynamics of the star forming region B1-IRS (IRAS 03301+3057) using the properties of different molecules at high angular resolution (~4''). We have used VLA observations of NH3, CCS, and H2O masers at 1 cm. CCS emission shows three clumps around the central source, with a velocity gradient from red to blueshifted velocities towards the protostar, probably due to the interaction with outflowing material. Water maser emission is elongated in the same direction as a reflection nebula detected at 2micron by 2MASS, with the maser spots located in a structure of some hundreds of AU from the central source, possibly tracing a jet. We propose a new outflow model to explain all our observations, consisting of a molecular outflow near the plane of the sky. Ammonia emission is extended and anticorrelated with CCS. We have detected for the first time this anticorrelation at small scales (1400 AU) in a star forming region.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2004 European Workshop: "Dense Molecular Gas around Protostars and in Galactic Nuclei", Eds. Y.Hagiwara, W.A.Baan, H.J.van Langevelde, 2004, a special issue of ApSS, Kluwer
2228: Private Hawkins
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: William was the older brother to Private Frederick Hawkins, who died of his injuries, 10.10.15. William was 40 years old in 1914. He lived at Harpham, near Driffield, East Yorkshire, and like his father before him he was a gamekeeper, and no doubt skilled with a rifle. During WWI he was a Reservist. Invasion on the east coast was feared, especially after the bombing from the sea of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool, 16 December 1914.
title: Investitionen in die Verkehrsinfrastruktur als Mittel zur Förderung strukturschwacher Regionen
Creators: name: Rieger, Paul
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2021

description: 30 Jahre nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung bestehen weiterhin deutliche regionale Disparitäten zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland. Zusätzlich verschärft der Kohleausstieg strukturelle Probleme in den deutschen Kohleregionen. In politischen Handlungskonzepten werden dabei immer auch Investitionen in die Fernstraßeninfrastruktur als eines der anzuwendenden Mittel zur Unterstützung des Strukturwandels genannt. In der wissenschaftlichen Literatur finden sich verschiedene theoretische und empirische Ansätze zur Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Fernstraßeninfrastruktur auf die regionalwirtschaftliche Entwicklung mit teilweise gegensätzlichen Implikationen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, anhand einer systematischen Literaturanalyse und einer Einordnung der empirischen Studien anhand ihrer theoretischen Grundansätze zu untersuchen, wie sich Fernstraßeninvestitionen auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung von strukturschwachen Regionen auswirken und welche ökonomischen Effekte dabei unter welchen Bedingungen eintreten. Anhand der Einordnung dieser Effekte wird weiterhin diskutiert, inwiefern Fernstraßeninvestitionen eine sinnvolle Maßnahme zur Förderung strukturschwacher Regionen sein können. Aus den komplexen und teilweise gegensätzlichen Effekten von Fernstraßeninvestitionen auf die regionale wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, folgt, dass Fernstraßeninvestitionen nicht pauschal als Mittel zur Förderung strukturschwacher Regionen angewandt werden können. Viel mehr unterstreichen die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit, dass eine enge Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Planung der Investitionen in die Fernstraßeninfrastruktur und der Regionalförderung unabdingbar ist. Im Rahmen der BVWP ist demnach zusätzlich zu einer konventionellen NKA eine fachlich begleitete Analyse der zu erwartenden Effekte durchzuführen, die gegebenenfalls durch Simulationsmodelle unterstützt werden kann.
2232: Giggleswick and the Royal Flying Corps
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: My great-uncle, known to the family as Freddie, was born in 1898 in Long Preston to Charlotte and George Hunter. The 1901 census shows him living in Bingley with his mother, elder sister Mary, and their grandparents. His father George was at the time, I think, trying to make his fortune as a wheeler-dealer in London.

He attended Giggleswick School, and appears on their war memorial.

He next shows up aged 12 on the 1911 census with the whole family in a hotel in Folkestone, presumably on holiday.

He seems to have joined up in 1916, straight from school, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a cadet on January 26th 1917. On March 25th 1917 he became a Flying Officer with the rank of Temporary 2nd Lieutenant.

The next news we have is that he relinquished his commission due to ill health on June 12th 1918, and was made Lieutenant. Clearly his accident occurred between March 1917 and June 1918. He was a paraplegic as a result of the accident, and the photos we have of him show him in a wheelchair. He attended my grandparents’ wedding at the Carlton Hotel London in September 1918 (see photo).

He died on 23rd February 1921 and was buried in God’s Acre cemetery, Menston on 25th February 1921. His grave is listed as a war grave by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

The last known address for his parents was The Hawthorns, Bradford Road, Menston. My father remembered visiting them at this address during the Second World War.
Additional file 1 of Rational engineering of the Trichoderma reesei RUT-C30 strain into an industrially relevant platform for cellulase production
Creators: name: Fonseca, Lucas Miranda
name: Parreiras, Lucas Salera
name: Murakami, Mario Tyago
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Sucrose consumption in shake flask cultivations. Figure S2. Extracellular protein titers in bioreactor cultivations. Figure S3. Target specific CRISPR/Cas9 plasmid map. Figure S4. Strategy for PCR verification of transformants. Figures S5, S6 and S7. PCR verification of transformants. Table S1. Oligonucleotides used in the study. Additional material and methods.
Womens’ experience of livebirth after stillbirth
Creators: name: Keith, Patricia Maureen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Women who experience pregnancy subsequent to stillbirth have a powerful history that changes their life and future childbearing. Over the last decade, women who have experienced livebirth after stillbirth have begun to describe an emotionally laden, high anxiety period in their lives. The purpose of this study is to further understand the physical and psychological experience of livebirth following a stillbirth by listening to women's narratives of their experience through the continuum of the pregnancy, labour, birth, and postpartum periods. The goal of the research is to provide insights that could assist in improving health care to this vulnerable subset of women. Using an interpretive description design, 14 women were interviewed who had a history of stillbirth and who had subsequently delivered a healthy baby or were currently pregnant with a healthy fetus. Findings that were generated from a constant comparative analysis of the data supported the findings of other authors in regards to a pregnancy experience that is fraught with anxiety, fear, and depression. In addition, women's experience of labour and birth may include such psychological or emotional phenomena as flashbacks, numbness, or dissociation during labour and birth. The women's need for reassurance, control, and choice during the continuum of the subsequent pregnancy was a strong emerging theme throughout the findings of this study. Additional themes included a powerful urgency to get pregnant again, a need for the history of stillbirth to be known by health care providers, recognition that psychological and emotional work in the postpartum period overrides physical discomfort, and the importance of the sex of the baby. An interpretation of these women's accounts allows us to challenge some current beliefs and practices, such as the preferred mode of delivery for both the stillbirth and the subsequent livebirth. In addition, the women's diverse experiences of interactions with the health care system and the health care professionals within it reflected patterns and themes within both positive and negative interactions. This study provides a context within which health care providers can examine and improve their practice regarding care for women experiencing livebirth after stillbirth.
Plateros orobuensis Tvardik & Bocak 2001, sp. n.
Creators: name: Tvardik, David
name: Bocak, Ladislav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lycidae
Plateros
Plateros orobuensis

description: Plateros orobuensis sp. n. Type material. Holotype: male, S Sulawesi, 25 km E Mamasa, 1100 m, 119.28.39E, 3.02.10S, 22­24 July 1999, Bolm lgt. (LMBC). Differential diagnosis. Plateros orobuensis sp. n. is characteristic in very slender antennae (Fig. 25) which are similar to those of P. k a l a m e n s i s sp. n. These species differ in the shape of phallus (Figs 1, 2, 7, 8). Description. Body small, slender, parallel­sided, black, covered with dense light pubescence. Head small, eyes hemispherically prominent, interocular distance 1.07 times eye diameter. Antennae slender (Fig. 25), antennomeres 3­11 parallel­sided, antennae reaching two­thirds of elytral length, covered with long erected pubescence. Pronotum 1.6 times wider at base than long at midline (Fig. 17). Frontal margin only slightly projected forwards, anterior angles apparent, posterior angles acutely projected, slender. Disc rugose, with long light pubescence. Elytra parallel­sided, 3.7 times longer than width at humeri. Costae inconspicuous, covered with dense light pubescence. Phallus very slender, curved in middle part (Figs 7, 8). Measurements. BL 4.75 mm, WH 1.08 mm PL 0.61 mm, PW 0.97 mm, Ediam 0.32 mm, Edist 0.34 mm. Distribution. Central Sulawesi Province, Mamasa valley. Etymology. The specific name refers to the local geographical name Orobua, a village at foothills of the mountain range where the species was collected.
description: Published as part of Tvardik, David & Bocak, Ladislav, 2001, Review of the genus Plateros Bourgeois (Coleoptera; Lycidae) from Sulawesi, pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 16 on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618537
Additional file 1 of Hagfish genome reveals parallel evolution of 7SL RNA-derived SINEs
Creators: name: Kojima, Kenji K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Target site duplications (TSDs). Figure S2. Sequence alignment of UCON3 domains of SINEs. Figure S3. Sequence alignment of tRNA-derived head regions of hagfish SINEs. Figure S4. Sequence alignments of body domains of hagfish SINEs. Figure S5. Sequence alignments of tails of hagfish SINEs. Figure S6. Age distribution of hagfish SINE families.
Freins et incitations au développement de l’agriculture biologique en France
Creators: name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Nauges, Celine
name: Allaire, Gilles
name: Cahuzac, Eric
name: Garapin, Alexis
name: Lemarie, Stephane
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Nauges, Celine
name: Allaire, Gilles
name: Cahuzac, Eric
name: Garapin, Alexis
name: Lemarie, Stephane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Agribusiness
Crop Production/Industries

description: En France, l’agriculture biologique couvre seulement 3,5 % de la surface agricole utile (chiffres de 2011 ; source : Agence Bio), un chiffre inférieur à la moyenne européenne et en-deçà des objectifs fixés par le Grenelle de l’Environnement en 2007. Le projet PEPP (Rôle de la Performance Economique des exploitations et des filières, et des Politiques Publiques, dans le développement de l’agriculture biologique), qui a reçu le soutien financier du programme de recherche de l’INRA, AgriBio3 vise à identifier les facteurs qui influencent le développement de l’agriculture biologique en France. Une étude menée à trois niveaux (l’exploitation, la commune et la filière) met en lumière les ressorts (freins et incitations) de la pratique de l’agriculture biologique en France. Au niveau de l’exploitant, le facteur économique est central mais d’autres considérations, comme la sensibilité environnementale, entrent en ligne de compte. Au niveau géographique, l’ancrage territorial influence de manière contrastée la diffusion de l’agriculture biologique. Enfin, cette étude met en lumière que le développement de l’agriculture biologique en France nécessiterait une réflexion concertée au niveau de la filière.
1763: Wilfred Place Rivis (photographs)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Wilfred Place Rivis was born January 25th 1885, and died January 17th 1958. Wilfred would have been 29 years old at the beginning of the war. He was a farmer, and so in a reserved occupation. The family lived at Normanby, near Malton, North Yorkshire. He may have been a Reservist.