cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Extrinsic Curvature Dependence of Nielsen-Olesen Strings
Creators: name: Orland, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown how to treat the degrees of freedom of Nielsen-Olesen vortices in the $3+1$-dimensional $U(1)$ higgs model by a collective coordinate method. In the london limit, where the higgs mass becomes infinite, the gauge and goldstone degrees of freedom are integrated out, resulting in the vortex world-sheet action. Introducing an ultraviolet cut-off mimics the effect of finite higgs mass. This action is non-polynomial in derivatives and depends on the extrinsic curvature of the surface. Flat surfaces are stable if the coherence length is less than the penetration depth. It is argued that in the quantum abelian higgs model, vortex world-sheets are dominated by branched polymers.
description: 12 pages, latex, CCNY-HEP-94-3 Some points in the text are clarified and new references are included
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0812
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0812, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0812, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Additional file 11 of Transcriptome profiling at osmotic and ionic phases of salt stress response in bread wheat uncovers trait-specific candidate genes
Creators: name: Duarte-Delgado, Diana
name: Dadshani, Said
name: Schoof, Heiko
name: Oyiga, Benedict C.
name: Schneider, Michael
name: Mathew, Boby
name: Léon, Jens
name: Ballvora, Agim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 11: Fig. S3. Melting curves of some PCR products derived from the amplification of reference and target genes.
Global regularity for solutions to Monge-Ampère type equations
Creators: name: Andriyanova, Elina
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Optimal transportation
Regularity of potential functions
Singular Monge-Amp\`ere equations
Degenerate Monge-Amp\`ere type equations

description: The optimal transportation problem was formulated by Monge in 1781: given two domains Ω, Ω* C R n and two mass distributions f E L1 (Ω) and g E L1 (Ω* ) of the same mass, find the optimal volume-preserving map T between them, where optimality is measured against a cost functional C(s) = Z Ω f(x)c(x, s(x)). Optimal transportation has undergone a rapid and important development since the pioneering work of Brenier, who discovered that when the cost is the distance squared, optimal maps for the problem are gradients of convex functions. Later Caffarelli proved that in the case of convex target domain Ω*, potential functions to optimal transportation problem are weak solutions (in the Aleksandrov sense) to the standard Monge-Ampere equation. Following this result and its subsequent extensions, the theory of optimal transportation has flourished, with generalizations to other cost functions and corresponding Monge-Ampere type equations, applications in many other areas of mathematics such as geometric analysis, functional inequalities, fluid mechanics, dynamical systems, and other more concrete applications such as irrigation and cosmology. In this thesis we are concerned with the global regularity problem for the optimal transportation and the corresponding Monge-Ampere type equation. The manuscript consists from 4 chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction, where collected some background information on the topic and main results been made so far. In Chapter 2 we consider the global regularity of potential functions in optimal transportation with quadratic cost and provide a global C 1,α regularity result, which extends the Caffarelli’s regularity theory on a class of nonconvex domains. In Chapter 3 we deal with degenerate Monge-Ampere type equations with the general cost function c. There will be obtained global C 2 a priori estimates for generalized solutions of the corresponding Dirichlet problem as well as the existence and uniqueness of solutions via the classical continuity method. Finally, Chapter 4 is devoted to singular Monge-Ampere equations. There will be shown a symmetry of smooth convex solutions to singular Monge-Ampere equations in the entire space R n as well as different applications of this result to Monge-Ampere equations, Hessian equations and special Lagrangian equations. In addition, we will construct an example which clearly shows that solutions to singular Monge-Ampere equations in a ball may not have a decomposition of a smooth function and a smooth convex cone.
Network Lifetime Maximization for Cellular-Based M2M Networks
Creators: name: Azari, Amin
name: Miao, Guowang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High energy efficiency is critical for enabling massive machine-type communications (MTC) over cellular networks. This work is devoted to energy consumption modeling, battery lifetime analysis, lifetime-aware scheduling and transmit power control for massive MTC over cellular networks. We consider a realistic energy consumption model for MTC and model network battery-lifetime. Analytic expressions are derived to demonstrate the impact of scheduling on both the individual and network battery lifetimes. The derived expressions are subsequently employed in the uplink scheduling and transmit power control for mixed-priority MTC traffic in order to maximize the network lifetime. Besides the main solutions, low-complexity solutions with limited feedback requirement are investigated, and the results are extended to existing LTE networks. Also, the energy efficiency, spectral efficiency, and network lifetime tradeoffs in resource provisioning and scheduling for MTC over cellular networks are investigated. The simulation results show that the proposed solutions can provide substantial network lifetime improvement and network maintenance cost reduction
description: IEEE Access 2017
Exact Bethe Ansatz solution for $A_{n-1}$ chains with non-$SU_{q}(n)$ invariant open boundary conditions
Creators: name: de Vega, H. J.
name: González--Ruiz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Nested Bethe Ansatz is generalized to open and independent boundary conditions depending on two continuous and two discrete free parameters. This is used to find the exact eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the $A_{n-1}$ vertex models and $SU(n)$ spin chains with such boundary conditions. The solution is found for all diagonal families of solutions to the reflection equations in all possible combinations. The Bethe ansatz equations are used to find de first order finite size correction.
description: Two references added
Additional file 2: of Elevated levels of matrix metalloproteinases reflect severity and extent of disease in tuberculosis-diabetes co-morbidity and are predominantly reversed following standard anti-tuberculosis or metformin treatment
Creators: name: Nathella Kumar
name: Kadar Moideen
name: Viswanathan, Vijay
name: Basavaradhya Shruthi
name: Sivakumar, Shanmugam
name: Menon, Pradeep
name: Kornfeld, Hardy
name: Subash Babu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S2. The plasma levels of MMPs were measured in TB-DM individuals at baseline (pre-T) and at 6Â months of ATT (post-T). (DOCX 13 kb)
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515) (11 H 1162), f. 00140
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: LaMOP
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: comptes

description: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162), f. 00140, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Lecture on British Columbia and Vancouver's Island delivered at the Royal United Service Institution on March 27, 1863
Creators: name: Macdonald, Duncan George Forbes, 1823?-1884
Publisher: name: London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
Year: 2015

description: "A comment written on the lining paper of the copy examined reads: 'This man was a gross fabricator, ignorant of his subject and malignant, yet a cunning distorter of the truth about B.C. and V.I.'" -- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 24.
Essays on modelling the economics of energy and the climate
Creators: name: Wiskich, Tony
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis consists of four papers. Using different formulations of climate tipping points that trigger abrupt and irreversible damages, the first paper derives optimal environmental taxes in an analytically tractable model and depend on only a few parameters and a temperature projection. In a stylised approach, optimal taxes are constant as a ratio of income and are the sum of a deterministic damage component and a tipping risk component. If a tipping point may be triggered by temperature crossing a threshold, optimal tax-to-income ratios eventually fall and the price for short-lived methane emissions relative to long-lived carbon dioxide emissions should rise over time. The second paper considers a hypothetical choice between a carbon tax and a clean research subsidy. This paper argues that the absence of a non-energy sector has led some previous literature to find that subsidies outperform taxes. An integrated assessment model with endogenous technology is described. Numerical exercises find that a permanent global tax-only policy outperforms a permanent subsidy-only policy and this result is robust to many different parameter settings and assumptions. However, in the more optimistic case where optimal policy begins in 2050, the performances of subsidy-only and tax-only policies in the interim are closer. The third paper argues that a clean transition in electricity generation will likely be driven by variable renewable energy. The elasticity of substitution between wind and solar inputs and dirty inputs in electricity is estimated to be 3 or more by fitting an aggregate production function to OECD panel data. A high elasticity is consistent with detailed electricity models which also predict that the substitutability decreases as the share of clean inputs rises, as integrating intermittent energy supply becomes increasingly difficult. A simple dispatch model of electricity generation demonstrates this characteristic. Decreasing substitutability implies higher costs of a clean transition, greater costs from regions transitioning sequentially rather than together, and a greater role for carbon taxes over research subsidies. The fourth paper discusses how the framework used to endogenise technology growth by Acemoglu et al. (2012) can exhibit increasing returns to research and hence multiple equilibria, including an unstable interior equilibrium. The paper discusses several methods to determine how a unique equilibrium might be specified. Alternative methods can produce substantially different results when the elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty inputs is high.
Post-Traumatic Stress in Archaic and Classical Greece
Creators: name: White, Adrienne
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: Since the publication of Jonathan Shay's 'Achilles in Vietnam' in 1994, classicists have increasingly searched for evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the ancient world. Yet, despite rapid developments in the field of psychology and psychiatry, assumptions about war, trauma and violence are often used to justify the argument that PTSD simply had to exist in the past, without appropriately addressing the methodological concerns underlying the application of modern psychiatric definitions to the ancient world. I seek to take a more conservative approach, by posing three simple--yet difficult to comprehensively answer--questions: 1. Did the Ancient Greeks suffer from post-traumatic stress? 2. If the Ancient Greeks did suffer from post-traumatic stress, what did it look like? 3. If the Ancient Greeks did suffer from post-traumatic stress, what was the rate of its occurrence? My thesis therefore considers the viability of various methods that attempt to situate post-traumatic stress in the past, as well as analysing the ancient sources for evidence of post-traumatic stress in Ancient Greece. The thesis seeks to rebut and, in some cases, affirm individuals on the historical record who have been cited as aligning with post-traumatic stress' diagnostic criteria, as well as literary cases that appear to indicate that the Ancient Greeks had some broad-scale understanding of post-traumatic stress. Further, I consider what the Ancient Greeks found particularly traumatising, what social factors may have operated to protect them psychologically, and new evidence that suggests that the Ancient Greeks may have had lower rates of post-traumatic stress than their modern counterparts.
Shifting Landscapes of Material and Language: Symbolic expression through metalsmithing and creative writing
Creators: name: Nguyen-Hoan, Lan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: My research has sought to explore the possibilities of developing a fictional narrative through an existing visual art practice of principally working with metal. The focus of this practice-led project has therefore been to investigate this relationship between the processes of art-making and creative writing. The story, which was completed during the candidature, was provided as supplementary material in the format of a hardcover book. The subjects of the artworks and the written narrative include themes such as metaphor, symbolic expression, and landscape. It is through these concepts that the two creative processes first became intertwined. As my research progressed the relationship between writing and making evolved unpredictably. I came to understand the two processes of making and writing as ways of handling the two different substances of material and language. The relationship under investigation in this case, then, was not limited to a practice of conducting the two processes in tandem. More complex correlations arose through the ways in which these substances were manipulated and transformed.
The Economics and Governance of Multipurpose Hydropower Reservoirs
Creators: name: Wyrwoll, Paul
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: Hydropower reservoirs can provide a range of energy and water services. Proponents of multipurpose reservoirs as a climate change and water security 'solution' often neglect an important detail: the technical capacity for infrastructure to provide water services and social benefits is a necessary but not sufficient condition for their actual provision. Multipurpose operations constrain electricity generation and hydropower companies' revenues. The opportunity costs of providing non-energy services are changing under the global transition to renewable energy systems. The value of water services shifts as water demand and supply change under short-term shocks, such as extreme weather events, and long-term trends, such as climate change and population growth. Under dynamic risks and trade-offs, profit-motivated hydropower companies do not have the discretion nor information to efficiently and equitably provide water services. The potential social benefits of multipurpose hydropower operations are not automatic; they need to be secured through flexible regulation and economic incentives. This thesis considers the governance of multipurpose hydropower reservoirs and the dynamic trade-offs between the profits of hydropower companies and the welfare of water users. First, I review existing hydropower governance instruments to propose three reforms: (1) period relicensing of reservoir operations, (2) pricing water services to reflect the value of foregone hydroelectricity generation, and (3) climate/green performance bonds with a conditional interest rate. Second, I consider how economic and institutional analyses could be incorporated into the governance of water systems under complex risks. Insights are drawn from a participatory risk assessment process in Vietnam where local government officials are piloting irrigation water pricing reforms. Third, I use hydro-economic modelling of a multipurpose reservoir in Tasmania, Australia to examine the conditions under which irrigation water pricing could be an appropriate reform in other locations. Finally, I consider a major practical barrier to pricing water services from hydropower reservoirs: the transmission of price spikes in electricity markets to water prices. I estimate the cost of price stability controls by modelling an alternative water tariff which incorporates the intertemporal opportunity costs of irrigation water extractions. I conclude by outlining future research on regulating hydropower reservoirs to support the resilience of social-ecological systems to water insecurity.
Temporal Unknown Incremental Clustering (TUIC) Model for Analysis of Traffic Surveillance Videos
Creators: name: Kumaran, Santhosh Kelathodi
name: Dogra, Debi Prosad
name: Roy, Partha Pratim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optimized scene representation is an important characteristic of a framework for detecting abnormalities on live videos. One of the challenges for detecting abnormalities in live videos is real-time detection of objects in a non-parametric way. Another challenge is to efficiently represent the state of objects temporally across frames. In this paper, a Gibbs sampling based heuristic model referred to as Temporal Unknown Incremental Clustering (TUIC) has been proposed to cluster pixels with motion. Pixel motion is first detected using optical flow and a Bayesian algorithm has been applied to associate pixels belonging to similar cluster in subsequent frames. The algorithm is fast and produces accurate results in $Θ(kn)$ time, where $k$ is the number of clusters and $n$ the number of pixels. Our experimental validation with publicly available datasets reveals that the proposed framework has good potential to open-up new opportunities for real-time traffic analysis.
Comment on ``the Klein-Gordon Oscillator''
Creators: name: Dvoeglazov, Valeri V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The different ways of description of the $S=0$ particle with oscillator-like interaction are considered. The results are in conformity with the previous paper of S. Bruce and P. Minning.
description: LaTeX file, 5pp
p-wave superfluidity in mixtures of ultracold Fermi and spinor Bose gases
Creators: name: Matsyshyn, O. Y.
name: Yakimenko, A. I.
name: Gorbar, E. V.
name: Vilchinskii, S. I.
name: Cheianov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reveal that the p-wave superfluid can be realized in a mixture of fermionic and F=1 bosonic gases. We derive a general set of the gap equations for gaps in the s- and p-channels. It is found that the spin-spin bose-fermi interactions favor the p-wave pairing and naturally suppress the pairing in the s-channel. The gap equations for the polar phase of p-wave superfluid fermions are numerically solved. It is shown that a pure p-wave superfluid can be observed in a well-controlled environment of atomic physics.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Contact interactions and Kronig-Penney Models in Hermitian and PT-symmetric Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Thompson, Foster
name: Jones-Smith, Katherine
name: Mathur, Harsh
name: McKee, Kristin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The delta function potential is a simple model of zero-range contact interaction in one dimension. The Kronig-Penney model is a one-dimensional periodic array of delta functions that models the energy bands in a crystal. Here we investigate contact interactions that generalize the delta function potential and corresponding generalizations of the Kronig-Penney model within conventional and parity-time symmetric quantum mechanics (PTQM). In conventional quantum mechanics we determine the most general contact interaction compatible with self-adjointness; in PTQM we consider interactions that are symmetric under the combined transformation PT. In both cases we find that the most general interaction has four independent real parameters; depending on the parameter values the interaction can support more bound states than the conventional delta function. In the PT case the two bound state energies can be both real or a complex conjugate pair, with the transition corresponding to the breaking of PT-symmetry. The scattering states for the PT case are also found to exhibit spontaneous breaking of PT-symmetry. We investigate the energy bands when the generalized contact interactions are repeated periodically in space in one dimension. In the Hermitian case we find that the two bound states result in two narrow bands generically separated by a gap. These bands intersect at a single point in the Brillouin zone as the interaction parameters are varied. Near the intersection the bands form a massless Dirac cone. In the PT-symmetric case, as the parameters of the contact interaction are varied the two bound state bands undergo a PT-symmetry breaking transition wherein the two band energies go from being real to being a complex conjugate pair. The PT-symmetric Kronig-Penney model provides a simple soluble example of the transition which has the same form as in other models of PT-symmetric crystals.
title: A mixed-integer linear programming approach to the reduction of genome-scale metabolic networks
Creators: name: Röhl, Annika
name: Bockmayr, Alexander
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: constraint-based modeling
subject: metabolic networks
subject: model reduction
subject: mixed-integer linear programming
classificationCode: 570
subject: Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Constraint-based analysis has become a widely used method to study metabolic networks. While some of the associated algorithms can be applied to genome- scale network reconstructions with several thousands of reactions, others are limited to small or medium-sized models. In 2015, Erdrich et al. introduced a method called NetworkReducer, which reduces large metabolic networks to smaller subnetworks, while preserving a set of biological requirements that can be specified by the user. Already in 2001, Burgard et al. developed a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) approach for computing minimal reaction sets under a given growth requirement.
Additional file 1: of Elevated levels of matrix metalloproteinases reflect severity and extent of disease in tuberculosis-diabetes co-morbidity and are predominantly reversed following standard anti-tuberculosis or metformin treatment
Creators: name: Nathella Kumar
name: Kadar Moideen
name: Viswanathan, Vijay
name: Basavaradhya Shruthi
name: Sivakumar, Shanmugam
name: Menon, Pradeep
name: Kornfeld, Hardy
name: Subash Babu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S1. The plasma levels of MMPs were measured in TB-DM (n = 64), TB (n = 24) and HC (n = 24). (DOCX 14 kb)
The Dirac-Dowker Oscillator
Creators: name: Dvoeglazov, Valeri V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The oscillator-like interaction is introduced in the equation for the particle of arbitrary spin, given by Dirac and re-written to a matrix form by Dowker.
description: LaTeX file, 4pp. Preprint EFUAZ 94-03
The British Columbian and Victoria guide and directory, for 1863, under the patronage of His Excellency Governor Douglas, C. B. and the executive of both colonies. First year of publication
Creators: name: Howard, Frederick P.
name: Barnett, George, Active 1868
Publisher: name: Victoria : Office of the British Columbian and Victoria Directory
Year: 2015

description: "On verso of t.p.: Towne & Bacon, printers, Excelsior Office ... San Francisco." -- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 23.

"Compiled and published by Frederick P. Howard and George Barnett." -- Title page.
Characterization of the formation structure in team sports
Creators: name: Narizuka, Takuma
name: Yamazaki, Yoshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to identify the formation structure in team sports based on Delaunay triangulation. The adjacency matrix obtained from the Delaunay triangulation for each player is regarded as the formation pattern. Our method allows time-series analysis and a quantitative comparison of formations. A classification algorithm of formations is also proposed by combining our method with hierarchical clustering.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
An Incomplete Reform: Understanding Horizontal Fiscal Equalization in China
Creators: name: Song, Borui
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: This dissertation uses theory and empirical analysis to explain how political incentives impact provincial governments' efforts to improve horizontal fiscal equalisation in China. Research on fiscal federalism demonstrates fiscal decentralisation can potentially increase horizontal fiscal inequality due to fiercely interjurisdictional competition, whereas research on political budget cycles indicates that political incentives can encourage politicians to manipulate fiscal policy due to career concern. Building on these two strands of theoretical literature, the thesis argues that a decentralised fiscal system, coupled with a centralised political system that rewards economic performance based on gross domestic product (GDP) growth, has substantially discouraged provincial leaders in China from improving horizontal fiscal equalisation within their jurisdictions. The coupled effects are twofold: First, due to fiscal decentralisation, provincial governments show little interest in improving horizontal fiscal equalisation, since they tend to externalise their costs to the central government. Second, a top-down cadre-evaluation system that is likely to reward subnational officials who achieve higher GDP performance with promotions provides political incentives for governors to manipulate fiscal policy and thus distributes more fiscal resources to wealthier regions to generate higher GDP growth. My empirical analysis reveals that there is a curvilinear relationship between governors' time in office and their fiscal equalisation efforts. In particular, in governors' first tenures, when they have an age advantage, their efforts to improve fiscal equalisation are much lower than in their second. However, when entering into their second tenure, governors start to promote fiscal equalisation within their jurisdictions because career promotion is unlikely to happen in their second tenure due to the age ineligibility rule. Given that only a few governors have had the chance to serve a second tenure, this thesis demonstrates how the current cadre-evaluation system further contributes to horizontal fiscal inequality in China. Based on these findings, the central argument herein is that, while it is established that fiscal decentralisation can increase regional inequality, in China, political institutions provide yet another incentive for provincial leaders to manipulate fiscal policy, which further undermines the goal of fiscal equalisation. Therefore, the thesis presents a lesson for developing countries. Far from enhancing efficiency and accountability, decentralisation, where democratic institutions are missing, may serve as a vehicle for strengthening the powers of political elites. To ensure the overall success of decentralised reform, therefore, democratic institutions are still needed to ensure government accountability.
Pressure effects on the electronic properties of the undoped superconductor ThFeAsN
Creators: name: Barbero, N.
name: Holenstein, S.
name: Shang, T.
name: Shermadini, Z.
name: Lochner, F.
name: Eremin, I.
name: Wang, C.
name: Cao, G. -H.
name: Khasanov, R.
name: Ott, H. -R.
name: Mesot, J.
name: Shiroka, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently synthesized ThFeAsN iron-pnictide superconductor exhibits a $T_c$ of 30 K, the highest of the 1111-type series in absence of chemical doping. To understand how pressure affects its electronic properties, we carried out microscopic investigations up to 3 GPa via magnetization, nuclear magnetic resonance, and muon-spin rotation experiments. The temperature dependence of the ${}^{75}$As Knight shift, the spin-lattice relaxation rates, and the magnetic penetration depth suggest a multi-band $s^{\pm}$-wave gap symmetry in the dirty limit, while the gap-to-$T_c$ ratio $Δ/k_\mathrm{B}T_c$ hints at a strong-coupling scenario. Pressure modulates the geometrical parameters, thus reducing $T_c$, as well as $T_m$, the temperature where magnetic-relaxation rates are maximized, both at the same rate of approximately -1.1 K/GPa. This decrease of $T_c$ with pressure is consistent with band-structure calculations, which relate it to the deformation of the Fe 3$d_{z^2}$ orbitals.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Phase Space Structure of Non-Abelian Chern-Simons Particles
Creators: name: Kim, Myung-Ho
name: Oh, Phillial
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the classical phase space structure of $N$ $SU(n+1)$ non-Abelian Chern-Simons (NACS) particles by first constructing the product space of associated $SU(n+1)$ bundle with ${\bf CP}^n$ as the fiber. We calculate the Poisson bracket using the symplectic structure on the associated bundle and find that the minimal substitution in the presence of external gauge fields is equivalent to the modification of symplectic structure by the addition of field strength two form. Then, we take a direct product of the associated bundle by the space of all connections and choose a specific connection by the condition of vanishing momentum map corresponding to the gauge transformation, thus recovering the quantum mechanical model of NACS particles in Ref.\cite{lo1}.
description: 18 pages, REVTEX 3.0, SNUTP-93-41
Additional file 1: of Decrease of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and TET1 with nuclear exclusion of TET2 in small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors
Creators: name: Barazeghi, Elham
name: Surendra Prabhawa
name: NorlĂŠn, Olov
name: Hellman, Per
name: StĂĽlberg, Peter
name: Westin, Gunnar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Clinical data for patients with SI-NETs. (PDF 1148 kb)
title: Ordnung des konfessionellen Beirats des Seminars für Islamische Theologie für die Studiengänge der islamischen Religionslehre an der Universität Paderborn
title: vom 15. November 2019
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Universität Paderborn
Publisher: name: UB-PAD - Paderborn University Library
Year: 2019

description: Amtliche Mitteilungen / Universität Paderborn
Topics in probability theory
Creators: name: Nie, Adam
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis focuses on the theoretical aspects of several classes of continuous time, continu- ous state space stochastic processes. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 consider Levy processes and Levy driven stochastic functional differential equations. Chapter 4 studies a high dimensional factor model and the eigenvalues of the sample auto-covariance matrix. In Chapter 2 we extend the construction of the so-called weak subordination of multivariate Levy processes in [48] to an infinite dimensional setting. More specifically, we give sufficient conditions for the existence of the weak subordination between a Levy processes defined on an arbitrary Hilbert space and a sequence-valued Levy subordinator defined on suitable Banach spaces. As by-products of our main results, we obtain a characterization of subordinators on certain sequence spaces, as well as a characterization of Levy measures on direct sums of Banach spaces with different geometries. Chapter 3 focuses on a Levy driven stochastic delayed differential equation (SDDE) which arises as a continuous time analogue to the discrete time GARCH process. The SDDE was obtained in the recent works [64, 65, 157] as a weak limit in the Skorokhod topology of a sequence of suitably scaled discrete GARCH processes, as the time between observations tends to zero. In our work, we give sufficient conditions for the existence, uniqueness and regularity of the solution to the SDDE. We show that the SDDE can be reformulated as a stochastic functional differential equation and investigate the behaviour of its sample paths. The mean process and the covariance process of the solution are computed and are shown to exhibit similar behaviours to the discrete GARCH process. Chapter 4 focuses on a high dimensional factor model proposed by [102, 103] and subsequently studied in [109] to model time series data. We investigate the asymptotic distribution of leading eigenvalues of the (product symmetrized) sample auto-covariance matrix under a high dimensional regime where the dimension and sample size tend to infinity simultaneously. Utilizing some new developments [51, 108, 109] in high dimensional random matrix theory, we obtain a central limit theorem for the empirical eigenvalues after suitable centering and scaling. It is shown that the correct centerings for the eigenvalues are in general not equal to the population eigenvalues.
title: A New Method for Indoor Positioning Based on Integrating Wireless Local Area Network, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Inertial Sensors
Creators: name: Jafari Tafazzol, Maryam
name: Reza Malek, Mohammad
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2021
Subjects: indoor positioning
wireless local area network (WLAN)
bluethooth low energy (BLE)
pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR)
Kalman filter
data fusion

description: Increasing the accuracy of indoor positioning is still a challenging issue. In this paper, we propose a novel integration structure for indoor positioning using a wireless local area network, Bluetooth low energy beacons, and inertial sensors to increase the positioning accuracy. The main steps of this method are initial and relative positioning. Wireless local area network fingerprinting and database filtering using Bluetooth low energy are applied to calculate the initial location. Relative location is computed using inertial sensors data and the pedestrian dead reckoning method. In order to increase the accuracy of pedestrian dead reckoning, two sources of information, wireless local area network, and Bluetooth low energy are used. This new correction method is performed using a double Kalman filter. Extensive experiments were conducted in a smartphone and under two indoor environments. Our correction structure using a double Kalman filter outperforms previous pedestrian dead reckoning structures in terms of accuracy. Moreover, experimental results show our correction structure achieves an average accuracy of 1.7 meters.
Exponential behavior of a quantum system in a macroscopic medium
Creators: name: Nakazato, Hiromichi
name: Namiki, Mikio
name: Pascazio, Saverio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An exponential behavior at all times is derived for a solvable dynamical model in the weak-coupling, macroscopic limit. Some implications for the quantum measurement problem are discussed, in particular in connection with dissipation.
description: 8 pages, report BA-TH/94-170
Various Statistical Inferences for High-dimensional Time Series: Bootstrap, Homogeneity Pursuit and Autocovariance Test
Creators: name: Bi, Daning
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis aims to study various statistical inferences for high-dimensional data, especially high-dimensional time series, including sieve bootstrap, homogeneity pursuit, and an equivalence test for spiked eigenvalues of autocovariance matrix. The primary techniques used in this thesis are novel dimension-reduction methods developed from factor models and principal component analysis (PCA). Chapter 2 proposes a novel sieve bootstrap method for high-dimensional time series and applies it to sparse functional time series where the actual observations are not dense, and pre-smoothing is misleading. Chapter 3 introduces an iterative complement-clustering principal component analysis (CPCA) to study high-dimensional data with group structures, where both homogeneity and sub-homogeneity (group-specific information) can be identified and estimated. Lastly, Chapter 4 proposes a novel test statistic named the autocovariance test to compare the spiked eigenvalues of the autocovariance matrices for two high-dimensional time series. In all chapters, dimension-reduction methods are applied for novel statistical inferences. In particular, Chapters 2 and 4 focus on the spiked eigenstructure of autocovariance matrix and use factors to capture the temporal dependence of the high-dimensional time series. Meanwhile, Chapter 3 aims to simultaneously estimate homogeneity and sub-homogeneity, which form a more complicated spiked eigenstructure of the covariance matrix, despite that the group-specific information is relatively weak compared with the homogeneity and traditional PCA fails to capture it. The theoretical and asymptotic results of all three statistical inferences are provided in each chapter, respectively, where the numerical evidence on the finite-sample performance for each method is also discussed. Finally, these three statistical inferences are applied on particulate matter concentration data, stock return data, and age-specific mortality data for multiple countries, respectively, to provide valid statistical inferences.
Proceedings: 2nd International Conference on Food and Agricultural Economics: THE ROLE OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ECONOMY OF AFGHANISTAN
Creators: name: Khaliq, Ahmad
name: Boz, Ismet
name: Khaliq, Ahmad
name: Boz, Ismet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agriculture
subject: economy
subject: contribution
subject: GDP
subject: Afghanistan

description: The aim of this study is to identify the contribution of agriculture in Afghanistan economy by examining the experience of 34 provinces as documented in case studies commissioned and various secondary sources, (CSO yearbook, FAO reports, government publications, USAID reports, NGOs reports, journals and websites) for the period of 2016 - 2017. Agriculture is the backbone of the Afghan economy, the contributions of agriculture to the country's gross demotic product (GDP) is 23% in 2017, while the labor force engaged in this sector is around 61.6%. The annual growth rate in Afghanistan is predictable 3.6 percent. Afghanistan produces organic fruits, nuts, grain, vegetables and livestock products including cashmere, skin, wool, and a significant amount of these commodities is moving towards the export market. Agriculture represents for about one-quarter of national GDP and is the second largest sector after services. Over the 70 % of the population are poor living in rural areas, and agriculture plays an important role in their livelihoods. The most Afghan farms are very small and their productivity is low over the years that farmers produce to satisfy the food needs of their household, with limited agricultural production entering commercial marketing channels and the trade account deficit overall. The GDP including opium was US$ 20.3 billion with GDP per capita of US$ 697. The agricultural sector is entirely run by private enterprises, including farmers, cooperatives, input suppliers, herders, agribusiness processors, and exporters.
Unlocking Indigenous entrepreneurial potential: A mixed methods study of the pathways and barriers into business for Indigenous Australians
Creators: name: Shirodkar, Siddharth
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: Indigenous entrepreneurship is a pathway to economic and social empowerment. But a significant difference in Indigenous and non-Indigenous business ownership rates indicates barriers may limit opportunities for many First Australians to go into business. The literature suggests barriers into entrepreneurship reflect two core issues, systemic discrimination in wider Australian society and/or a clash of cultural values in Indigenous communities that, purportedly, do not align with a capitalist economic frame. The existing research to examine these issues is exclusively qualitative, with limited attempts to provide quantitative evidence to support prevailing theories. This research takes a sequential explanatory mixed methods approach to understand the nature of the barriers that Indigenous Australians face using quantitative analysis, and builds on the results using qualitative methods to examine the implications of those barriers on the life pathways of entrepreneurially inclined Indigenous Australians. This research initially develops a means of estimating the size of the Indigenous business sector, and confirms empirically the lower likelihood of going into business for Indigenous Australians compared with non-Indigenous Australians once accounting for other factors. But the result on its own only implies discrimination, and is insufficient to understand if the lower rates of business ownership are reflective of an external discriminatory environment or because of cultural differences. As a means to test the effect of external discrimination, this research draws upon a measure of implicit bias from social psychology (Greenwald et al. 1998) to estimate the effect on Indigenous business ownership rates across Australia. The result provides evidence that implicit bias (as an approximate measure of a systemic discrimination) reduces opportunities for Indigenous Australians to go into business, a statistically significant result. The qualitative component delves into the lives of 15 Indigenous Australians who display at least some entrepreneurial qualities, to understand how a systemically discriminatory environment affected their opportunities and pathways into Australian society and the economy. Their stories provide important insights into the nature of the challenges that entrepreneurially inclined Indigenous Australians face.
Rapport sur les missions du diocèse de Québec, et autres qui en ont ci-devant fait partie. Mars, 1863. No. 15 ; avec approbation des supérieurs
Creators: name: Society For The Propagation Of The Faith
name: Catholic Church. Archdiocese Of Québec
Publisher: name: Québec : Des Ateliers de Lêger Brousseau, Imprimeur de L'Archevêché
Year: 2018

description: "Title varies. Nos.1 and 4. 1842, entitled Notice sur les missions du diocese de Quebec. They contain numerous reports on the work of the Catholic Church in the Oregon. Continued by the Association's Annales de la Propagation de la Foi pour la province de Quebec combining the reports of the dioceses of Québec and Montreal."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 30.