cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Calycadenia : a model system for investigating chromosomal speciation
Creators: name: Olson, Teika E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The theory of chromosomal speciation proposes that cytological differences such as reciprocal translocations and pericentric inversions may present the primary barrier to gene flow among diverging groups. While theory supports the possbility of chromosomal speciation, conclusive evidence from nature is lacking and few natural systems have been developed for investigating the phenomenon. The California tarweed species Calycadenia fremontii A. Gray and C. paucijlora A. Gray provide an ideal system in which to examine some of the predictions of chromosomal speciation. These species comprise numerous cytological races distinguished primarily by reciprocal translocations. Cytological differences among the races correlate with reduced fertility among hybrid Fl progeny, suggesting a possible isolating role for chromosomal rearrangements in this group. To test whether cytological differences among populations have played a primary role in driving divergence, genetic distances among 460 individuals collected from 23 populations were calculated from allele frequencies based on 88 polymorphic RAPD markers shared among populations. Genetic distances were used to construct Neighbor-Joining and Fitch-Margoliash trees from which past patterns of gene flow among populations and cytological races could be inferred. As an alternative method for estimating genetic divergence among populations and cytotypes, allele frequencies estimated from RAPD markers were also used to measure centroid F[sub ST] for each population. Both the genetic distance trees and centroid F[sub ST] statistics indicate that populations are genetically differentiated. Futhermore, cytological races are not resolved into monophyletic clades in the genetic distance trees suggesting that cytological differences among populations do not account for the primary barrier to gene flow among them. Mantel tests confirm that cytological differences among populations do not explain the variation in genetic distances among populations, although geography does. I conclude that cytological differences among populations in Calycadenia fremontii and C. pauciflora have not presented the primary barrier to gene flow, and find that the theory of chromosomal speciation is not supported.
ECONOMICS OF VARIABLE SWINE GROWTH
Creators: name: Parsons, Jay R.
name: Hoag, Dana L.
name: Koontz, Stephen R.
name: Parsons, Jay R.
name: Hoag, Dana L.
name: Koontz, Stephen R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper addresses the economic impacts of swine growth variability. Different economic penalties are determined to be associated with over-finishing versus under-finishing an animal. Marketing decisions based on the pen average are determined to be insignificantly less than optimal for a case study data set of 350 swine. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to determine the impact of increased growth and price variability.
Neutrino Mixing Predictions of a Minimal SO(10) Model with Suppressed Proton Decay
Creators: name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Mimura, Yukihiro
name: Mohapatra, R. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the past year, a minimal renormalizable supersymmetric SO(10) model has been proposed with the following properties: it predicts a naturally stable dark matter and neutrino mixing angles theta_atm and theta_13 while at the same time accommodating CKM CP violation among quarks with no SUSY CP problem. Suppression of proton decay for all allowed values of tan beta strongly restricts the flavor structure of the model making it predictive for other processes as well. We discuss the following predictions of the model in this paper, e.g. down-type quark masses, and neutrino oscillation parameters, U_e3, delta_MNSP, which will be tested by long baseline experiments such as T2K and subsequent experiments using the neutrino beam from JPARC. We also calculate lepton flavor violation and the lepton asymmetry of the Universe in this model.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures
Convergence of Sparse Variational Inference in Gaussian Processes Regression
Creators: name: Burt, David R.
name: Rasmussen, Carl Edward
name: van der Wilk, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gaussian processes are distributions over functions that are versatile and mathematically convenient priors in Bayesian modelling. However, their use is often impeded for data with large numbers of observations, $N$, due to the cubic (in $N$) cost of matrix operations used in exact inference. Many solutions have been proposed that rely on $M \ll N$ inducing variables to form an approximation at a cost of $\mathcal{O}(NM^2)$. While the computational cost appears linear in $N$, the true complexity depends on how $M$ must scale with $N$ to ensure a certain quality of the approximation. In this work, we investigate upper and lower bounds on how $M$ needs to grow with $N$ to ensure high quality approximations. We show that we can make the KL-divergence between the approximate model and the exact posterior arbitrarily small for a Gaussian-noise regression model with $M\ll N$. Specifically, for the popular squared exponential kernel and $D$-dimensional Gaussian distributed covariates, $M=\mathcal{O}((\log N)^D)$ suffice and a method with an overall computational cost of $\mathcal{O}(N(\log N)^{2D}(\log\log N)^2)$ can be used to perform inference.
description: Extended version of http://proceedings.mlr.press/v97/burt19a.html (arxiv version: arXiv:1903.03571 ). Published in Journal of Machine Learning Research: http://jmlr.org/papers/v21/19-1015.html. Code available at: https://github.com/markvdw/RobustGP
Regional and Structural Impacts of Alternative Dairy Policy Options
Creators: name: Anderson, David P.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Milk and dairy product prices have fallen to their lowest levels in 3 years following the record highs of 2004 and 2005. The large government stockpiles of non-fat dry milk are gone, but threaten to build again as non-fat dry milk and cheese prices decline nearer the support price level. A new farm bill is scheduled to be written in 2007. The Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program included in the last farm bill was only authorized through September 2005. Subsequent legislation reinstated the MILC program through August 2007. WTO negotiations are on-going and could influence U.S. farm programs 1/. Dairy’s role in the U.S. amber box limit of $19.1 billion may necessitate some possible trade-offs with other commodities. Dairy counts about $4.2 billion toward the annual amber box limit, but actual spending only averages about $1 billion (Outlaw, et al). The pressure of low prices, WTO negotiations, MILC continuation, and a new farm bill has created the potential for a number of options and alternatives for dairy policy. This paper examines the regional and structural impacts of 3 dairy policy options: MILC continuation, a target price/deficiency payment program, and an increase in the support price. All three options are designed to spend $400 million in amber box payments per year. The analysis uses representative dairy farms in major milk producing regions of the country developed by the AFPC for policy analysis.
Bulk-fragment and tube-like structures of AuN (N=2-26)
Creators: name: Fa, Wei
name: Luo, Chuanfu
name: Dong, Jinming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the relativistic all-electron density-functional calculations on the AuN (N=2-26) in the generalized gradient approximation, combined with the guided simulated annealing, we have found that the two- to three-dimensional structural transition for AuN occurs between N=13 and 15, and the AuN (16<= N <=25) prefer also the pyramid-based bulk fragment structures in addition to the Au20. More importantly, the tubelike structures are found to be the most stable for Au24 and Au26, offering another powerful structure competitor with other isomers, e.g., amorphous, bulk fragment, and gold fullerene. The mechanism to cause these unusual AuN may be attributed to the stronger s-d hybridization and the d-d interaction enhanced by the relativistic effects.
description: 12 pages and 3 figures
Modern Probabilistic Methods With Applications
Creators: name: Alzeley, Omar
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this thesis, we investigate a stochastic model describing the spread of an epidemic among a population of n individuals. A significant strand of the research considers the development of a quantum random walk description for the SIS model using quantum flow and the lamplighter group. On the theoretical side, this entails proving a new algorithm to determine the hidden state of the lamplighter, as well as examine the dynamic of the walk. A second strand of the research is to apply a modern method to the model under investigation. This led us to introduce the associated discrete case of superstatistics and develop new learning algorithm. The superstatistics have been investigated using the saddlepoint approximation, the Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, and a Hamiltonian. Furthermore, we study the superstatistics of stochastic processes and apply its technique to a well-known model in the epidemic literature known as SIR. No other scholars, at least to the best of our knowledge, have studied SIR via superstatistics. The contribution made by this thesis has been published in [1]–[5]
Can Pulsars in the inner parsecs from Galactic Centre probe the existence of Dark Matter?
Creators: name: Del Popolo, Antonino
name: Deliyergiyev, Maksym
name: Delliou, Morgan Le
name: Tolos, Laura
name: Burgio, Fiorella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the formation of dark compact objects in a dark matter environment in view of the possible mass dependence of pulsars on the distribution of dark matter in the Galaxy. Our results indicate that the pulsar masses should decrease going towards the center of the Milky Way due to dark matter capture, thus becoming a probe for the existence and nature of dark matter. We thus propose that the evolution of the pulsar mass in a dark matter rich environment can be used to put constraints, when combined with future experiments, on the characteristics of our Galaxy halo dark matter profile, on the dark matter particle mass and on the dark matter self-interaction strength.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, EPS-HEP2019, Ghent, Belgium, 10-17 July. Conference proceedings
Analyzing ribosome remodeling in health and disease
Creators: name: Petelski, Aleksandra A.
name: Slavov, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: regulation largely unexplored, in part due to methodological limitations. Indeed, we review evidence demonstrating that commonly used methods, such as transcriptomics, are inadequate because the variability in mRNAs coding for ribosomal proteins (RP) does not necessarily correspond to RP variability. Thus protein remodeling of ribosomes should be investigated by methods that allow direct quantification of RPs, ideally of isolated ribosomes. We review such methods, focusing on mass spectrometry and emphasizing method-specific biases and approaches to control these biases. We argue that using multiple complementary methods can help reduce the danger of interpreting reproducible systematic biases as evidence for ribosome remodeling.
Dufrenne, Suzy: Les Programmes iconographiques des Églises byzantines de Mistra
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
IV Congresso Internacional – Península Ibérica: Antiguidade, Medievo e suas projeções & II HISEDU Encontro Internacional de História e Educação.
Creators: name: Siqueira, Saymon da Silva
name: Rui, Adailson José
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: History
subject: History
subject: Education

description: O IV Congresso Internacional – Península Ibérica: Antiguidade, Medievo e suas Projeções e o II HISEDU Encontro Internacional de História e Educação consolidam-se como espaços acadêmicos essenciais para a troca de conhecimento entre pesquisadores, docentes e discentes de diferentes níveis e instituições. Organizado pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em História Ibérica da Universidade Federal de Alfenas (PPGHI/UNIFAL-MG), o evento foi realizado online entre os dias 10 e 13 de dezembro de 2024, reunindo um público internacional e interdisciplinar interessado na história ibérica em suas múltiplas temporalidades.

Os trabalhos reunidos nestes Anais refletem a diversidade e riqueza das investigações acadêmicas apresentadas no congresso, abordando temas que vão desde a Antiguidade até suas projeções na modernidade, passando pelo estudo da Idade Média e suas conexões com diferentes contextos históricos. As pesquisas aqui publicadas contemplam uma ampla gama de abordagens teórico-metodológicas, dialogando com a historiografia, a arqueologia, a antropologia, os estudos culturais e a educação histórica.

Este volume inclui artigos e resumos expandidos, organizados a partir das comunicações e mesas-redondas que compuseram a programação do evento. A interdisciplinaridade dos debates promovidos e a pluralidade de perspectivas metodológicas evidenciam a importância do estudo da história ibérica como um campo de investigação dinâmico e em constante renovação. Além disso, o II HISEDU reforça a relevância da interseção entre História e Educação, proporcionando um espaço para reflexões sobre o ensino da história, práticas pedagógicas inovadoras e a formação de professores.

Agradecemos a todos os autores e autoras que contribuíram com seus trabalhos, bem como aos membros da comissão organizadora, pareceristas e parceiros institucionais que tornaram possível a realização deste evento. Esperamos que os estudos aqui reunidos sirvam de estímulo para novas pesquisas e colaborações acadêmicas no futuro.
Experimental observation of a first order phase transition in a complex plasma mono-layer crystal
Creators: name: Hariprasad, M. G.
name: Bandyopadhyay, P.
name: Arora, Garima
name: Sen, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation and melting of a mono-layered charged dust particle crystal in a DC glow discharge Argon plasma is studied. The nature of the melting/formation process is established as a first order phase transition from the nature of the variations in the Coulomb coupling parameter, the dust temperature, the structural order parameter and from the existence of a hysteresis behavior. Our experimental results are distinctly different from existing theoretical predictions for 2D crystals based on the KTHNY mechanism or the Grain boundary induced melting and indicate a novel mechanism that is akin to a fluctuation induced first order phase transition that has not been observed before in complex plasmas.
description: The manuscript contains 6 pages, 5 figures. This manuscript is accepted for publication in PRE, 2020
Effects of population mixing on the spread of SIR epidemics
Creators: name: Fuks', Henryk
name: Lawniczak, Anna T.
name: Duchesne, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dynamics of spread of epidemics of SIR type in a realistic spatially-explicit geographical region, Southern and Central Ontario, using census data obtained from Statistics Canada, and examine the role of population mixing in epidemic processes. Our model incorporates the random nature of disease transmission, the discreteness and heterogeneity of distribution of host population. We find that introduction of a long-range interaction destroys spatial correlations very easily if neighbourhood sizes are homogeneous. For inhomogeneous neighbourhoods, very strong long-range coupling is required to achieve a similar effect. Our work applies to the spread of in influenza during a single season and our model is applicable to other geographic regions, if suitable data is available.
Dinkler, Erich: Kunst und Geschichte Nubiens in christlicher Zeit
Creators: name: Wessel, Klaus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 55 (1971): Oriens christianus, Band 55
Risk Assessment in Economic Feasibility Analysis: The Case of Ethanol Production in Texas
Creators: name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Gill, Robert Chope
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Gill, Robert Chope
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The objective of this study is to demonstrate the benefits of quantifying the economic viability of a proposed agribusiness under risk relative to a feasibility study which ignores risk. To achieve this objective, the economic viability of a 50 MMGPY ethanol facility in Texas is analyzed over a 10-year period in two ways: with no risk and with historical risk for prices and costs.
Strangers in the Room: Unpacking Perceptions of 'Smartness' and Related Ethical Concerns in the Home
Creators: name: Seymour, William
name: Binns, Reuben
name: Slovak, Petr
name: Van Kleek, Max
name: Shadbolt, Nigel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The increasingly widespread use of 'smart' devices has raised multifarious ethical concerns regarding their use in domestic spaces. Previous work examining such ethical dimensions has typically either involved empirical studies of concerns raised by specific devices and use contexts, or alternatively expounded on abstract concepts like autonomy, privacy or trust in relation to 'smart homes' in general. This paper attempts to bridge these approaches by asking what features of smart devices users consider as rendering them 'smart' and how these relate to ethical concerns. Through a multimethod investigation including surveys with smart device users (n=120) and semi-structured interviews (n=15), we identify and describe eight types of smartness and explore how they engender a variety of ethical concerns including privacy, autonomy, and disruption of the social order. We argue that this middle ground, between concerns arising from particular devices and more abstract ethical concepts, can better anticipate potential ethical concerns regarding smart devices.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '20)
The Economics of Ethanol from Sweet Sorghum Using the MixAlco Process
Creators: name: Lau, Michael H.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Holtzapple, Mark T.
name: Ochoa, Rene F.
name: Lau, Michael H.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Holtzapple, Mark T.
name: Ochoa, Rene F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Production Economics

description: The United States is becoming more dependent on ethanol production as a renewable fuel source to decrease dependency on foreign oil. The increase in demand for renewable fuels, due in part to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, has led to increased research on alternative renewable fuels from biomass. One such avenue of research has been the conversion of biomass to renewable fuels, and specifically sweet sorghum, as an ethanol fuel stock.
Streaming Temporal Graphs: Subgraph Matching
Creators: name: Goodman, Eric L.
name: Grunwald, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We investigate solutions to subgraph matching within a temporal stream of data. We present a high-level language for describing temporal subgraphs of interest, the Streaming Analytics Language (SAL). SAL programs are translated into C++ code that is run in parallel on a cluster. We call this implementation of SAL the Streaming Analytics Machine (SAM). SAL programs are succinct, requiring about 20 times fewer lines of code than using the SAM library directly, or writing an implementation using Apache Flink. To benchmark SAM we calculate finding temporal triangles within streaming netflow data. Also, we compare SAM to an implementation written for Flink. We find that SAM is able to scale to 128 nodes or 2560 cores, while Apache Flink has max throughput with 32 nodes and degrades thereafter. Apache Flink has an advantage when triangles are rare, with max aggregate throughput for Flink at 32 nodes greater than the max achievable rate of SAM. In our experiments, when triangle occurrence was faster than five per second per node, SAM performed better. Both frameworks may miss results due to latencies in network communication. SAM consistently reported an average of 93.7% of expected results while Flink decreases from 83.7% to 52.1% as we increase to the maximum size of the cluster. Overall, SAM can obtain rates of 91.8 billion netflows per day.
description: Big Data 2019
Economic Outlook for Representative Cotton Farms Given the August 2006 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: The majority of the cotton farms are in poor overall financial condition under the August 2006 Baseline. Drought conditions this year will deplete cash built from more favorable yields in 2004 and 2005 in many cases. In addition, the poor financial performance of the farms is attributed in part to the large increase in input prices. Fuel costs, previously projected to decrease modestly in 2005 and 2006, are now more accurately depicted as significant increases, building further on the large increases experienced in 2003 and 2004. The increase in cost is not limited to fuel expense for trucks, equipment, and irrigation motors, but includes the cost of nitrogen fertilizer and ag-related services which are closely linked to energy prices. Many cotton producers have adopted genetically modified seed and more expensive conventional varieties in order to enhance efficiencies and achieve higher yields; however, the tradeoff for these gains is increased cost of seed and technology fees. Steel prices have skyrocketed, thus increasing the cost of machinery along with the cost of repairing existing machinery. To keep quality employees on the farm, producers are faced with rising wage pressure from competing industries. The bottom line is producers are threatened by the rising cost of doing business while modest projected increases in cotton and other commodity prices fail to outpace these inflationary pressures.
Determination of the entanglement entropy in elastic scattering using model-independent method for hadron femtoscopy
Creators: name: Ramos, G. S.
name: Machado, M. V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement entropy of two-body elastic scattering at high energies is studied by using the model-independent Lévy imaging method for investigating the hadron structure. It is considered the finite entropy in the momentum Hilbert space properly regularized and results are compared to recent evaluation using the diffraction peak approximation. We present the entropy for RHIC, Tevatron and LHC energies pointing out the underlying uncertainties.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. Version to be published in Physical Review D
Additional file 1 of Mutational profiles of marker genes of cervical carcinoma in Bangladeshi patients
Creators: name: Shahana Sharmin
name: Zohura, Fatima Tuj
name: Md. Sajedul Islam
name: Shimonty, Anika
name: Md. Abdullah-Al-Kamran Khan
name: Parveen, Rehana
name: Foujia Sharmin
name: Chowdhury Rafiqul Ahsan
name: Abul Bashar Mir Md. Khademul Islam
name: Mahmuda Yasmin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary file 1: Raw unprocessed gel images of the figures used in Fig. 1. PCR products were obtained using A. PIK3CA_1, B. PIK3CA_2, C. KRAS_1, D. KRAS_2, E. EGFR primer pairs. 50 bp ladder (Bioneer, USA) was used for comparison.
Inhuman All Too Inhuman: Intrinsic Limits of Computational Creativity in Music
Creators: name: Merlini, Mattia
name: Nicoletti, Stefano Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Published in: Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music, 4/1 (2020), pp. 28-47.
In this paper we aim to reflect upon the human-machine relationship in creative contexts and, more precisely, on some of the limits that machines present when we take creativity into consideration. In particular, we want to raise some concerns about the possibility that machines can genuinely instantiate intelligence as we understand it (the thesis of strong artificial intelligence) and are therefore able to take our place as creative agents. However, even considering the more plausible positions regarding the potential abilities of artificial intelligence (e.g. machines’ ability to reproduce behaviours that seem intelligent: the thesis of weak artificial intelligence), we are convinced that there are still some discrepancies in comparing creativity between human beings and digital agents. After having argued against the plausibility of human-like intelligent (and creative) machines, we are going to present some actual cases of weak AIs in action, alongside some questions that – we argue – are surely more imminent and interesting than the science-fictional scenarios depicted by strong AIs supporters: should we underestimate the importance of having a body in the creation of music? And what can be said about our understanding of pleasure and meanings? And also, what role should we grant to all of those social aspects and values that are related to music and that define a large portion of the meaning of the music itself, especially in the field of popular music? To answer these questions, we will address four orders of issues concerning musical creation by referring to sociology of music, musical semiotics and embodied simulation. Thus, it will become evident that music is much more than just a sonic phenomenon, and this is something we should never disregard while trying to assess the role of creative machines.
Continuous Dynamical Decoupling with Bounded Controls
Creators: name: Chen, Pochung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a theory of continuous decoupling with bounded controls from a geometric perspective. Continuous decoupling with bounded controls can accomplish the same decoupling effect as the bang-bang control while using realistic control resources and it is robust against systematic implementation errors. We show that the decoupling condition within this framework is equivalent to average out error vectors whose trajectories are determined by the control Hamiltonian. The decoupling pulses can be intuitively designed once the structure function of the corresponding SU(n) is known and is represented from the geometric perspective. Several examples are given to illustrate the basic idea. From the physical implementation point of view we argue that the efficiency of the decoupling is determined not by the order of the decoupling group but by the minimal time required to finish a decoupling cycle.
Representative Farms Economic Outlook for the August 2006 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Klose, Steven L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The farm level economic impacts of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 on representative crop and livestock operations are projected in this report. The analysis was conducted over the 2004-2011 planning horizon using FLIPSIM, AFPC’s whole farm simulation model. Data to simulate farming operations in the nation’s major production regions came from two sources: • Producer panel cooperation to develop economic information to describe and simulate representative crop, livestock, and dairy farms, and • Projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) August 2006 Baseline. The FLIPSIM policy simulation model incorporates the historical risk faced by farmers for prices and production. This report presents the results of the August 2006 Baseline in a risk context using selected simulated probabilities and ranges for annual net cash farm income values. The probability of a farm experiencing negative ending cash reserves and the probability of a farm losing real net worth are included as indicators of the cash flow and equity risks facing farms through the year 2011.
The impact of braille contractions on the quality of diagnostic information gathered using informal reading inventories with beginning braille readers
Creators: name: Northcott, Carolyn Ruth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of braille contractions on the quality of diagnostic information that can be gathered by the Basic Reading Inventory (Johns, 1997) and the Burns/Roe Informal Reading Inventory (Burns & Roe, 1993) when used with young braille reading students. The pre-primer through Grade 3 level materials were analysed to determine the type and number of contractions present in each of the word lists and passages of the braille versions of both informal reading inventories. Further analysis was done to determine how many contractions would not yet have been introduced at a given level. For this purpose, the order of introductions of contractions used in the Patterns (Caton, Bradley, & Pester, 1982) reading series was used. It was determined that the Grade 1 and higher level materials contained few unknown braille contractions. In practice, students learn braille contractions at variable rates and in different orders, so each individual student's knowledge of the braille code should be taken into account. The pre-primer and primer materials are likely not suitable for use with beginning braille readers, due to the presence of unknown contractions and punctuation.
Calibrating models of ultralow-mass stars
Creators: name: Reiners, Ansgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evolutionary and atmospheric models have become available for young ultralow-mass objects. These models are being used to determine fundamental parameters from observational properties. TiO bands are used to determine effective temperatures in ultralow-mass objects, and together with Na- and K-lines to derive gravities at the substellar boundary. Unfortunately, model calibrations in (young) ultralow-mass objects are rare. As a first step towards a calibration of synthetic spectral features, I show molecular bands of TiO, which is a main opacity source in late M-dwarfs. The TiO $ε$-band at 8450Åis systematically too weak. This implies that temperatures determined from that band are underestimated, and I discuss implications for determining fundamental parameters from high resolution spectra.
description: 4 pages, accepted for AN, "Ultra low mass star formation and evolution"
Analysis of the Economic Viability for Representative Wheat Farms Given Alternative Farm Policies Proposed by the National Association of Wheat Growers
Creators: name: Richardson, James W.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries

description: This report is a companion to FAPRI-UMC Report #09-06, which contains the sector level results of the wheat policy options requested by Senators Crapo and Baucus, and Representatives Musgrave and Pomeroy. The Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) has completed a farm level analysis of five alternative policy options on the economic viability of 13 representative wheat farms located across the United States. The results of the analysis are compared to a continuation of the current farm program over the 2006-2013 planning horizon, however, the policy alternatives are assumed to begin in 2008/09.
Spatial distributions of non-conservatively interacting particles
Creators: name: Osmanovic, Dino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Certain types of active systems can be treated as an equilibrium system with excess non-conservative forces driving some of the microscopic degrees of freedom. We derive results for how many particles interacting with each other with both conservative and non-conservative forces will behave. Treating non-conservative forces perturbatevily, we show how the probability distribution of the microscopic degrees of freedom is modified from the Boltzmann distribution. We compare the perturbative expansion to an exactly solvable non-conservative system. We then derive approximate forms of this distribution through analyzing the nature of our perturbations. Finally, we consider how the approximate forms for the microscopic distributions we have derived lead to different macroscopic states when coarse grained, and compare it qualitatively to simulation of non-conservatively interacting particles. In particular we note by introducing non-conservative interactions between particles we modify densities through extra terms which couple to surfaces
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
Confined Quantum Time of Arrival for Vanishing Potential
Creators: name: Galapon, Eric A.
name: Caballar, Roland F.
name: Bahague, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give full account of our recent report in [E.A. Galapon, R. Caballar, R. Bahague {\it Phys. Rev. Let.} {\bf 93} 180406 (2004)] where it is shown that formulating the free quantum time of arrival problem in a segment of the real line suggests rephrasing the quantum time of arrival problem to finding a complete set of states that evolve to unitarily arrive at a given point at a definite time. For a spatially confined particle, here it is shown explicitly that the problem admits a solution in the form of an eigenvalue problem of a class of compact and self-adjoint time of arrival operators derived by a quantization of the classical time of arrival. The eigenfunctions of these operators are numerically demonstrated to unitarilly arrive at the origin at their respective eigenvalues.
description: accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Additional file 1 of sparrpowR: a flexible R package to estimate statistical power to identify spatial clustering of two groups and its application
Creators: name: Buller, Ian D.
name: Brown, Derek W.
name: Myers, Timothy A.
name: Jones, Rena R.
name: Machiela, Mitchell J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additonal file 1: Table S1: Supplemental Figure simulation scenario parameters. Figure S1. Results using 10,000 sparrpowR iterations simulating six scenarios with changing incidence and sample size, detailed in Table S1. Each scenario was conducted assuming multivariate normal distributions for cases and controls with standard deviations of 0.83 and 1.67 km, respectively. The green-colored areas are sufficiently powered to detect spatial clusters of cases relative to controls. The blue-colored areas are insufficiently powered to detect spatial clusters of cases relative to controls. The identified concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) is signified by the black “X” and the base map is of Fort Dodge, Iowa. The blue lines represent regions with radii of 5 and 10 km from the identified CAFO.
Representative Farms Economic Outlook for the January 2006 FAPRI/AFPC Baseline
Creators: name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Klose, Steven L.
name: Richardson, James W.
name: Outlaw, Joe L.
name: Knapek, George M.
name: Raulston, J. Marc
name: Herbst, Brian K.
name: Sartwelle, James D.
name: Anderson, David P.
name: Klose, Steven L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The farm level economic impacts of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 on representative crop and livestock operations are projected in this report. The analysis was conducted over the 2004-2010 planning horizon using FLIPSIM, AFPC’s whole farm simulation model. Data to simulate farming operations in the nation’s major production regions came from two sources: • Producer panel cooperation to develop economic information to describe and simulate representative crop, livestock, and dairy farms, and • Projected prices, policy variables, and input inflation rates from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) January 2006 Baseline. The FLIPSIM policy simulation model incorporates the historical risk faced by farmers for prices and production. This report presents the results of the January 2006 Baseline in a risk context using selected simulated probabilities and ranges for annual net cash farm income values. The probability of a farm experiencing negative ending cash reserves and the probability of a farm losing real net worth are included as indicators of the cash flow and equity risks facing farms through the year 2010.
Supplementary document for Mixed-mode-state control of photonic crystal lasers under CW operation - 6784912.pdf
Creators: name: Izumi, Koki
name: Zoysa, Menaka
name: Nakagawa, Yuichiro
name: Gyoja, Naoki
name: Inoue, Takuya
name: Katsuno, Shumpei
name: Sakata, Ryoichi
name: Ishizaki, Kenji
name: Yoshida, Masahiro
name: Gelleta, John
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information
School Self-Evaluation and Organisational Learning Approaches to Improving the Quality of Professional Learning of Teachers in School
Creators: name: Dedi Irwan
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research involved 712 teachers and school leaders from 43 high schools in West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, which spread from urban to rural areas. With adequate transportation and communication facilities, urban schools have advantageous in terms of learning resources, in contrast, school in rural areas tend to find access to such learning resources challenging. To promote teachers’ professional learning (PL) and, hence the pupils’ learning, school in both contexts, tended to face different challenge. Therefore, each school needed to be supported to develop more localised, contextualised learning and supports for learning. This thesis aimed at describing the potential and power of school self-evaluation (SSE) and organisational learning (OL) strategies for improving teachers’ professional learning (PL) in school and the nature of school supports that can be built in for improving PL in each school contexts. Particular detailed qualitative attention and a school evaluation intervention was implemented and studied at two schools following an initial survey study of teachers’ values and practices at 43 schools in both urban and rural schools in West Kalimantan province of Indonesia. The analysis of my quantitative data suggests that teachers assigned a high level of values and practices to every factor underlying PL and OL. There is no statistical evidence that teachers and school leaders, with different characteristics, were significantly different in terms of values and practices for each factor of PL and OL. The qualitative data analysis shows that the values-practice alignment data acted as a catalyst to provoke teachers and leaders to start thinking about making changes in their policies and practices in relation to PL and OL in their respective schools, though, due to a number of obstacles, made not all desires for such changes can be transformed into more concrete school improvements. The findings of this research provided more evidence for future researchers that feeding back data regarding values practice alignment, as an intervention stage in the school self-evaluation process, can be a powerful catalyst in facilitating new forms of critical whole-school communication, which lie at the heart of double-loop learning concept. Furthermore, for school policy and practice, the finding of this research can be the basis for school stakeholders to develop more differentiated professional learning policies and strategies, in their respective schools.
Additional file 2 of Intraoperative [18F]FDG flexible autoradiography for tumour margin assessment in breast-conserving surgery: a first-in-human multicentre feasibility study
Creators: name: Jurrius, Patriek A. G. T.
name: Grootendorst, Maarten R.
name: Krotewicz, Marika
name: Cariati, Massimiliano
name: Kothari, Ashutosh
name: Patani, Neill
name: Karcz, Paulina
name: Nagadowska, Monika
name: Vyas, Kunal N.
name: Purushotham, Arnie
name: Turska-D’Amico, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table 1. Confusion matrix of FAR imaging for intraoperative margin assessment of intact WLE specimens compared to gold standard histopathology. The patients were divided into two subgroups based on the time between [18F]FDG injection and intraoperative FAR imaging (threshold: 158 min). The mean injection to imaging times between the two subgroups was not statistically significant (p
Magnetocaloric effect in Ni2(Mn,Cu)Ga0.84Al0.16 Heusler alloys
Creators: name: Mendonca, Alberto A.
name: Ghivelder, Luis
name: Jurado, Jesus F.
name: Gomes, Angelo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polycrystalline Heusler compounds Ni2Mn0.75Cu0.25Ga0.84Al0.16 with a martensitic transition between ferromagnetic phases and Ni2Mn0.70Cu0.30Ga0.84Al0.16 with a magnetostructural transformation were investigated by magnetization and thermal measurements, both as a function of temperature and magnetic field. The compound Ni2Mn0.75Cu0.25Ga0.84Al0.16 presents a large magnetocaloric effect among magnetically aligned structures and its causes are explored. In addition, Ni2Mn0.70Cu0.30Ga0.84Al0.16 shows very high, although irreversible, entropy and adiabatic temperature change at room temperature under a magnetic field change 0-1 T. Improved refrigerant capacity is also a highlight of the 30% Cu material when compared to similar Ni2MnGa-based alloys.
description: 26 pages and 6 figures
High Resolution Studies of Radio Sources in the Hubble Deep and Flanking Fields
Creators: name: Muxlow, T. W. B.
name: Richards, A. M. S.
name: Garrington, S. T.
name: Wilkinson, P. N.
name: Anderson, B.
name: Richards, E. A.
name: Axon, D. J.
name: Fomalont, E. B.
name: Kellermann, K. I.
name: Partridge, R. B.
name: Windhorst, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eighteen days of MERLIN data and 42 hours of A-array VLA data at 1.4 GHz have been combined to image a 10-arcmin field centred on the Hubble Deep and Flanking Fields (HDF and HFF). A complete sample of 92 radio sources with 1.4-GHz flux densities above 40 microJy has been imaged using MERLIN+VLA. The images are amongst the most sensitive yet made at 1.4 GHz, with rms noise levels of 3.3 microJy/beam in the 0.2-arcsec images. Virtually all the sources are resolved, with angular sizes in the range 0.2 to 3 arcsec. No additional sources were detected down to 23 microJy in the central 3 arcmin, indicating that sources fainter than 40 microJy are heavily resolved with MERLIN and must have typical angular sizes greater than 0.5 arcsec. Compact radio sources were used to align the optical data to the ICRF, to <50 mas in the HDF. We find a statistical association of very faint (2 microJy and above) radio sources with optically bright HDF galaxies down to about 23 mag. Of the 92 radio sources above 40 microJy, about 85 percent are identified with galaxies brighter than about I = 25 mag; the remaining 15 percent are associated with optically faint systems. We identify several very red, optically faint systems including the the strongest sub-mm source in the HDF, HDF850.1. 72 percent of the radio sources are starburst or AGN-type systems; the remainder are unclassified. The proportion of starburst systems increases with decreasing flux density; below 100 microJy 70 percent of the sources are starburst-type systems in the redshift range 0.3 -- 1.3. Chandra detections are associated with 55 of the 92 radio sources but their X-ray flux densities do not appear to be correlated with the radio flux densities or morphologies.
description: Accepted by MNRAS Jan 2005 34 pp with inline b/w figures plus 9 pp of colour figures All material is available from http://www.merlin.ac.uk/HDF/ as gzipped PDFs. ME547.pdf.gz - main paper ME547_Appendix_C1.pdf.gz, ME547_Appendix_C2.pdf.gz - colour figures All figures are also available in png form