cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deformations of reducible representations of 3-manifold groups into PSL_2(C)
Creators: name: Heusener, Michael
name: Porti, Joan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 20C99; 57M05

description: Let M a 3-manifold with torus boundary which is a rational homology circle. We study deformations of reducible representations of p_1(M) into PSL_2(C) associated to a simple zero of the twisted Alexander polynomial. We also describe the local structure of the representation and character varieties.
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-40.abs.html
Horizontal price transmission of the Finnish meat sector with major EU players
Creators: name: Liu, Xing
name: Liu, Xing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: cointegration
subject: asymmetric
subject: error correction
subject: thresholds
subject: pork and beef prices

description: The integration of the Finnish meat market in the EU has important implications for domestic agricultural policy. Our aim is to estimate the characteristics of the Finnish pork and beef markets in relation to those of Germany and Denmark. Our analysis uses symmetric and asymmetric threshold error correction models. Both pork and beef prices in Finland are found to have slowly cointegrated with German prices, but the cointegration relationship of the two counties is only found to be symmetric for pork prices, while it is asymmetric for beef prices. The producer price for pork in Finland is symmetrically cointegrated with the Danish price, but the Finnish and Danish beef prices show a random walk. This implies that the price transmission to the Finnish pork producer market from the EU market is smoother and more efficient than for the beef market. However, the speed of transmission is still slow compared to that between the Danish and German markets.
The emergence of local wrinkling or global buckling in thin freestanding bilayer films
Creators: name: Niven, John F.
name: Chowdhry, Gurkaran
name: Sharp, James S.
name: Dalnoki-Veress, Kari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Periodic wrinkling of a rigid capping layer on a deformable substrate provides a useful method for templating surface topography for a variety of novel applications. Many experiments have studied wrinkle formation during the compression of a rigid film on a relatively soft pre-strained elastic substrate, and most have focused on the regime where the substrate thickness can be considered semi-infinite relative to that of the film. As the relative thickness of the substrate is decreased, the bending stiffness of the film dominates, causing the bilayer to transition to either local wrinkling or a global buckling instability. In this work optical microscopy was used to study the critical parameters that determine the emergence of local wrinkling or global buckling of freestanding bilayer films consisting of a thin rigid polymer capping layer on a pre-strained elastomeric substrate. The thickness ratio of the film and substrate as well as the pre-strain were controlled and used to create a buckling phase diagram which describes the behaviour of the system as the ratio of the thickness of the substrate is decreased. A simple force balance model was developed to understand the thickness and strain dependences of the wrinkling and buckling modes, with excellent quantitative agreement being obtained with experiments using only independently measured material parameters.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Evaluating the CAP Reform as a multiple treatment effect: evidence from Italian farms
Creators: name: Esposti, Roberto
name: Esposti, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Farm Production
subject: Treatment Effects
subject: Propensity Score Matching

description: This paper aims at evaluating the impact of the 2003 CAP reform on farm production choices. The 2003 Reform of the Pillar I and the Pillar II measures are considered as two distinct but interacting treatments eventually generating the expected outcome, that is, market (ri)orientation of farmers. The outcome of “market orientation” is measured by considering both the short-term production choices and the long-term investment decisions. The Average Treatment effect on the Treated (ATT) is estimated through alternative versions of the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) estimator. Results show that the 2003 Reform of Pillar I actually had a role in (ri)orienting short-term farm production decision and this effect is significantly reinforced, especially in investment decisions, when Pillar II measures are also taken into account. Pillar I reform seems to prevalently affect short-run production decisions while Pillar II support, when present, influences long-run choices (investments).
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 03/03/11.
F&E-Kooperationen in Joint Ventures - Eine berufspädagogische Analyse
Creators: name: Unger-Endres, Cornelia
Publisher: name: wbv Media GmbH & Co. KG (wbv Media)
Year: 2021
Subjects: Automobilindustrie
Berufspädagogik
international
Kommunikation
Koordination
Wirtschaftspädagogik
Zusammenarbeit
zwischenbetriebliche Kooperation

description: Wie können Menschen auf internationaler Ebene erfolgreich zusammenarbeiten? Die Untersuchung von kooperationsförderlichen Faktoren ist Thema dieser berufspädagogischen Dissertation. Am Beispiel eines deutsch-chinesischen Joint-Ventures nimmt die Autorin alle Beteiligten in den Blick. In einer qualitativen empirischen Erhebung im Aktionsforschungsdesign validiert die Autorin ihr Modell mit Daten aus fast 100 Interviews sowie einem Forschungstagebuch. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung weisen darauf hin, dass Kooperation und Konkurrenz in einem Joint-Venture zusammen zu denken sind und dass Koordination in einer gelingenden Kooperation einen wesentlichen Stellenwert einnimmt.
Iterative Algorithms for Joint Scatter and Attenuation Estimation From Broken Ray Transform Data
Creators: name: Walker, Michael R.
name: O'Sullivan, Joseph A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The single-scatter approximation is fundamental in many tomographic imaging problems including x-ray scatter imaging and optical scatter imaging for certain media. In all cases, noisy measurements are affected by both local scatter events and nonlocal attenuation. Prior works focus on reconstructing one of two images: scatter density or total attenuation. However, both images are media specific and useful for object identification. Nonlocal effects of the attenuation image on the data are summarized by the broken ray transform (BRT). While analytic inversion formulas exist, poor conditioning of the inverse problem is only exacerbated by noisy measurements and sampling errors. This has motivated interest in the related star transforms incorporating BRT measurements from multiple source-detector pairs. However, all analytic methods operate on the log of the data. For media comprising regions with no scatter a new approach is required. We are the first to present a joint estimation algorithm based on Poisson data models for a single-scatter measurement geometry. Monotonic reduction of the log-likelihood function is guaranteed for our iterative algorithm while alternating image updates. We also present a fast algorithm for computing the discrete BRT forward operator. Our generalized approach can incorporate both transmission and scatter measurements from multiple source-detector pairs. Transmission measurements resolve low-frequency ambiguity in the joint image estimation problem, while multiple scatter measurements resolve the attenuation image. The benefits of joint estimation, over single-image estimation, vary with problem scaling. Our results quantify these benefits and should inform design of future acquisition systems.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Fish analysis of chromosomal aneuploidies in spermatozoa from severely infertile men undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
Creators: name: Gao, Haijun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: BACKGROUND: The association between subsets of male infertility, oligoasthenoteratozoospermia (OAT), obstructive azoospermic (OA), non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), and increased risk of having chromosomal abnormalities in the sperm has not been investigated. Chromosomal aneuploidy in sperm will be systematically investigated by standard methods with large sample sizes required to present significance. METHODS: Triple colour FISH analysis of chromosomes 18, X and Y and dual colour FISH analysis of chromosomes 13 and 21 were performed on spermatozoa retrieved from OAT patients, OA patients and NOA and control. RESULTS: 101,490 spermatozoa retrieved from OAT patients, 101,435 from OA patients, 12,200 from NOA patients and 101,486 from normal fertile men were examined. The three infertile patient groups had significantly increased rates of chromosomal aneuploidies (13.61% in OAT, 5.23% in OA, and 15.00% in NOA), compared with that in control group (1.50%; P< 0.0001). All the differences among the three infertile groups reached a significant level (P< 0.0001). The rates of nullisomy for sex chromosomes, and chromosomes 13,18 and 21 in three infertile groups were significantly higher than that in control group (P<0.05). The rates of disomy for sex chromosomes in three infertile groups were significantly higher than that in control group (P< 0.0001), with X Y disomy predominating. The incidences of disomy for all autosomes in the three infertile groups were significantly higher than that in control group (P<0.05). All chromosomes investigated had obvious differences in the incidence of disomy in three infertile groups and could mean they were differently prone to meiotic non-disjunction. There were individual differences among infertile men, and patients who had extremely high rates of aneuploidies largely contribute to the overall rate of aneuploidies of the group. CONCLUSIONS: Severely infertile men have a higher incidence of chromosomal abnormalities in their spermatozoa, of which sex chromosome aneuploidy is the most predominant. Interchromosomal variations in chromosomal aneuploidies exist in severely infertile men. Most paternal non-disjunction for sex chromosome occurs in meiosis I. There are individual differences in incidence of sperm chromosome aneuploidies among infertile patients.
An empirical analysis of the determinants of the Rural Development policy spending for Human Capital
Creators: name: Camaioni, Beatrice
name: Materia, Valentina Cristiana
name: Camaioni, Beatrice
name: Materia, Valentina Cristiana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Rural Development
subject: Human Capital
subject: distribution of the Expenditure

description: The aim of the paper is twofold: to present a preliminary analysis of the distribution of the Rural Development (RD) expenditure for specific measures related to human capital across EU and to investigate which factors may explain the variation of intensity of spending between the regions. In particular, a descriptive analysis of the budget and of the expenditure for EU 27 will be presented. A linear regression model (OLS) is also presented in order to verify which factors weigh more in determining the spending decisions for the European regions. The analysis is carried out taking into account the EAFRD expenditures for the measures related to human capital for the period 2007-2008 at NUTS2 level.
Additional file 7 of A highly mutable GST is essential for bract colouration in Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. Ex Klotsch
Creators: name: Vilperte, Vinicius
name: Boehm, Robert
name: Debener, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7 Sequence alignment of Bract1, anthocyanin-related GSTs and orthologue GSTs from Euphorbiaceae species.
Additional file 6 of A highly mutable GST is essential for bract colouration in Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. Ex Klotsch
Creators: name: Vilperte, Vinicius
name: Boehm, Robert
name: Debener, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6 Schematic representation from the C757pGFPU10–35 s-ocs-LH binary vector used for the constructions of transformation plasmids containing either the wild-type allele (35S::Bract1) or the mutated allele (35S::Bract1_mut) from the poinsettia GST.
Evaluation of policy measures for agri-food networks in Italian rural development programmes
Creators: name: Ventura, Flaminia
name: Diotallevi, Francesco
name: Ricciardulli, Nicolletta
name: Berletti, Maria
name: Ventura, Flaminia
name: Diotallevi, Francesco
name: Ricciardulli, Nicolletta
name: Berletti, Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: agri-food networking
subject: food-chain policy
subject: Rural Development Programme

description: The agri-food sector is characterized by very heterogeneous agreements and formal and informal contracts aimed to create stable relationships among firms. In this scenario, the actors are linked by common interest in creating and distributing added value. In the network, the risk and the responsibilities are shared by the participants and the transaction costs are reduced by the presence of dynamic flows of information and knowledge. Consequently, the creation and development of agri-food networks is a main objective of regional administration in their Rural Development Plans. The article item is the presentation and the discussion of the methodology used for the evaluation of Integrated Measures Project (Progetti Integrati di Filiera, PIF) presented by firm networks and agri-food chains in Veneto. The result are demonstrated extremely interesting about the understanding of PIF. Moreover, the comparative study serve to understand the result in terms of competitive advantage and income for the farmers.
Rippling of two-dimensional materials by line defects
Creators: name: Kähärä, Topi
name: Koskinen, Pekka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional materials and their mechanical properties are known to be profoundly affected by rippling deformations. However, although ripples are fairly well understood, less is known about their origin and controlled modification. Here, motivated by recent reports of laser-controlled creation of line defects in graphene, we investigate how line defects could be used to control rippling in graphene and other two-dimensional materials. By sequential multi-scale coupling of density-functional tight-binding and continuum elasticity simulations, we quantify the amount of rippling when the number and the cumulative length of the line defects increase. Simulations show that elastic sheets with networks of line defects create rippling that induces considerable out-of-plane rigidification and in-plane softening with non-linear elastic behavior. We hope that these insights help to guide experimental attempts to modify the mechanical properties of graphene and other two-dimensional materials.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 2 of Exploring the role of managers in the development of a safety culture in seven French healthcare facilities: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Quenon, Jean-Luc
name: Vacher, Anthony
name: Faget, Marc
name: Levif-Lecourt, Marie
name: Roberts, Tamara
name: Fucks, Isabelle
name: Promé-Visinoni, Myriam
name: Cadot, Christine
name: Jean-Yves Bousigue
name: Quintard, Bruno
name: Parneix, Pierre
name: Pourin, Catherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Example of verbatim for each themes and sub-themes regularly cited by participants (n = 65) to define safety and principal risks in healthcare facilities.
Transport properties in CeOs$_{4}$Sb$_{12}$: Possibility of the ground state being semiconducting
Creators: name: Sugawara, H.
name: Osaki, S.
name: Kobayashi, M.
name: Namiki, T.
name: Saha, S. R.
name: Aoki, Y.
name: Sato, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured both magnetoresistance and Hall effect in CeOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$ to clarify the large resistivity state ascribed to the Kondo insulating one and the origin of the phase transition near 0.9 K reported in the specific heat measurement. We found unusual temperature ($T$) dependence both in the electrical resistivity $ρ\sim T^{-1/2}$ and the Hall coefficient $R_{\rm H}\sim T^{\rm -1}$ over the wide temperature range of about two order of magnitude below $\sim30$ K, which can be explained as a combined effect of the temperature dependences of carrier density and carrier scattering by spin fluctuation. An anomaly related with the phase transition has been clearly observed in the transport properties, from which the $H-T$ phase diagram is determined up to 14 T. Taking into account the small entropy change, the phase transition is most probably the spin density wave one. Both the electrical resistivity and Hall resistivity at 0.3 K is largely suppressed about an order of magnitude by magnetic fields above $\sim3$ T, suggesting a drastic change of electronic structure and a suppression of spin fluctuations under magnetic fields.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
On the nature of four models of symmetric walks avoiding a quadrant
Creators: name: Dreyfus, Thomas
name: Trotignon, Amélie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 30D05, 39A06

description: We study the nature of the generating series of some models of walks with small steps in the three quarter plane. More precisely, we restrict ourselves to the situation where the group is infinite, the kernel has genus one, and the step set is diagonally symmetric (i.e., with no steps in anti-diagonal directions). In that situation, after a transformation of the plane, we derive a quadrant-like functional equation. Among the four models of walks, we obtain, using difference Galois theory, that three of them have a differentially transcendental generating series, and one has a differentially algebraic generating series.
Theoretical Study of Spin-dependent Electron Transport in Atomic Fe Nanocontacts
Creators: name: Dalgleish, Hugh
name: Kirczenow, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical predictions of spintronic transport phenomena that should be observable in ferromagnetic Fe nanocontacts bridged by chains of Fe atoms. We develop appropriate model Hamiltonians based on semi-empirical considerations and the known electronic structure of bulk Fe derived from ab initio density functional calculations. Our model is shown to provide a satisfactory description of the surface properties of Fe nano-clusters as well as bulk properties. Lippmann-Schwinger and Green's function techniques are used together with Landauer theory to predict the current, magneto-resistance, and spin polarization of the current in Fe nanocontacts bridged by atomic chains under applied bias. Unusual device characteristics are predicted including negative magneto-resistance and spin polarization of the current, as well as spin polarization of the current for anti-parallel magnetization of the Fe nanocontacts under moderate applied bias. We explore the effects that stretching the atomic chain has on the magneto-resistance and spin polarization and predict a cross-over regime in which the spin polarization of the current for parallel magnetization of the contacts switches from negative to positive. We find resonant transmission due to dangling bond formation on tip atoms as the chain is stretched through its breaking point to play an important role in spin-dependent transport in this regime. The physical mechanisms underlying the predicted phenomena are discussed.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in Physical Review B
Additional file 5 of A highly mutable GST is essential for bract colouration in Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. Ex Klotsch
Creators: name: Vilperte, Vinicius
name: Boehm, Robert
name: Debener, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5 Deducted protein sequences from the Bract1 and 95 GSTs from E. pulcherrima GSTs, as well as anthocyanin-related GSTs from other species.
Additional file 2 of Applying time series modeling to assess the dynamics and forecast monthly reports of abuse, neglect and/or exploitation involving a vulnerable adult
Creators: name: Soto-Ramírez, Nelís
name: Odeku, Janet
name: Foxe, Courtney
name: Flynn, Cynthia
name: Tester, Diana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2 : Table S2. Adjusted predicted least squares means of the number of intakes after the implementation of the hubs, a poisson regression model.
Economic Contribution of the Soybean Industry to the North Dakota Economy
Creators: name: Bangsund, Dean A.
name: Olson, Frayne E.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Bangsund, Dean A.
name: Olson, Frayne E.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: soybeans
subject: North Dakota
subject: economic impact

description: The purpose of this study was to measure the economic contribution of the soybean industry to the North Dakota economy. Expenditures and returns from soybean production, grain handling, and transportation were estimated to calculate the direct economic impacts from soybean activities. Secondary economic impacts were estimated using the North Dakota Input- Output Model. Soybean production in North Dakota has trended upward over the past three decades. Increases in acreage were relatively modest in the 1980s, but by the mid 1990s acreage was beginning to rapidly expand. In 1990, North Dakota had about 500,000 acres of soybeans. By 2000, acreage had increased to 1.9 million acres. By 2009, soybean acreage in the state was approaching 4 million acres. Direct impacts (expenditures and returns) from soybean production averaged $312 per acre or $1.1 billion annually from 2007 through 2009. Average direct impacts from handling soybeans at North Dakota elevators were estimated at $27.5 million annually. Transportation of soybeans to market destinations was estimated to generate $49.8 million in annual direct impacts to the state. Total direct impacts from soybean production, grain handling, and transportation were estimated at $1.2 billion annually. Total annual economic impacts (direct and secondary effects) from soybean production, grain handling, and transportation were estimated at $3 billion, $75.9 million, and $129 million, respectively. The total annual economic impact from all soybean activities was estimated at $3.2 billion. Soybean industry activities supported 11,400 full-time secondary jobs in North Dakota. Soybean activities were also responsible for $85 million in combined property tax, sales tax, individual income tax, and corporate income tax revenues. Based on comparison to economic impact estimates from the 1996 through 1998 period, the economic contribution of the soybean industry in North Dakota increased by $2.4 billion or by 306 percent in real terms. Much of the increase in the gross business volume of the industry has come from a three-fold increase in soybean production combined with higher crop prices, handling margins, and transportation rates.
Decomposition of the visible and dark matter in the Einstein ring 0047-2808 by semi-linear inversion
Creators: name: Dye, Simon
name: Warren, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the mass density profile of the lens galaxy in the Einstein ring system 0047-2808 using our semi-linear inversion method developed in an earlier paper. By introducing an adaptively gridded source plane, we are able to eliminate the need for regularisation of the inversion. This removes the problem of a poorly defined number of degrees of freedom, encountered by inversion methods that employ regularisation, and so allows a proper statistical comparison between models. We confirm the results of Wayth et al. (2004), that the source is double, and that a power-law model gives a significantly better fit that the singular isothermal ellipsoid model. We measure a slope alpha=2.11+/-0.04. We find, further, that a dual-component constant M/L baryonic + dark halo model gives a significantly better fit than the power-law model, at the 99.7% confidence level. The inner logarithmic slope of the dark halo profile is found to be 0.87^{+0.69}_{-0.61} (95% CL), consistent with the predictions of CDM simulations of structure formation. We determine an unevolved B-band mass to light ratio for the baryons (only) of 3.05^{+0.53}_{-0.90} h_65 M_sol/L_Bsol (95% CL). This is the first measurement of the baryonic M/L of a single galaxy by purely gravitational lens methods. The baryons account for 65^{+10}_{-18}% (95% CL) of the total projected mass, or, assuming spherical symmetry, 84^{+12}_{-24}% (95% CL) of the total three-dimensional mass within the mean radius of 1.16'' (7.5 h_65^{-1} kpc) traced by the ring. Finally, at the level of >3sigma, we find that the halo mass is rounder than the baryonic distribution and that the two components are offset in orientation from one another.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJ on 17/12/05. This version corrects various typos
Additional file 3 of A highly mutable GST is essential for bract colouration in Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. Ex Klotsch
Creators: name: Vilperte, Vinicius
name: Boehm, Robert
name: Debener, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3 Sequence similarity of Bract1 with other anthocyanin-related GSTs.
Ultrasound Response in Quantum Critical $β$-YbAlB$_4$ and $α$-YbAl$_{0.986}$Fe$_{0.014}$B$_4$
Creators: name: Watanabe, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the key origin of quantum valence criticality in the heavy electron metal $β$-YbAlB$_4$ evidenced in the sister compound $α$-YbAl$_{0.986}$Fe$_{0.014}$B$_4$. By constructing a realistic canonical model for $β$-YbAlB$_4$, we evaluate Coulomb repulsion between the 4f and 5d electrons at Yb $U_{\rm fd}\approx 6.2$ eV realizing the quantum critical point (QCP) of the Yb-valence transition. To reveal the Yb 5d contribution to the quantum critical state, we propose ultrasound measurement. We find that softening of elastic constants of not only the bulk modulus but also the shear moduli is caused by electric quadrupole fluctuations enhanced by critical 4f and 5d charge fluctuations for low temperatures at the valence QCP. Possible relevance of these results to $β$-YbAlB$_4$ and also $α$-YbAl$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$B$_4$ is discussed.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The Structure of $^{33}$Si and the magicity of the N=20 gap at Z=14
Creators: name: Jongile, S.
name: Lemasson, A.
name: Sorlin, O.
name: Wiedeking, M.
name: Papka, P.
name: Bazin, D.
name: Borcea, C.
name: Borcea, R.
name: Gade, A.
name: Iwasaki, H.
name: Khan, E.
name: Lepailleur, A.
name: Mutschler, A.
name: Nowacki, F.
name: Recchia, F.
name: Roger, T.
name: Rotaru, F.
name: Stanoiu, M.
name: Stroberg, S. R.
name: Tostevin, J. A.
name: Vandebrouck, M.
name: Weisshaar, D.
name: Wimmer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of $^{33}$Si was studied by a one-neutron knockout reaction from a $^{34}$Si beam at 98.5 MeV/u incident on a $^{9}$Be target. The prompt $γ$-rays following the de-excitation of $^{33}$Si were detected using the GRETINA $γ$-ray tracking array while the reaction residues were identified on an event-by-event basis in the focal plane of the S800 spectrometer at NSCL (National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory). The presently derived spectroscopic factor values, $C^2S$, for the 3/2$^+$ and 1/2$^+$ states, corresponding to a neutron removal from the $0d_{3/2}$ and $1s_{1/2}$ orbitals, agree with shell model calculations and point to a strong $N=20$ shell closure. Three states arising from the more bound $0d_{5/2}$ orbital are proposed, one of which is unbound by about 930 keV. The sensitivity of this experiment has also confirmed a weak population of 9/2$^-$ and 11/2$_{1,2}^-$ final states, which originate from a higher-order process. This mechanism may also have populated, to some fraction, the 3/2$^-$ and 7/2$^-$ negative-parity states, which hinders a determination of the $C^2S$ values for knockout from the normally unoccupied $1p_{3/2}$ and $0f_{7/2}$ orbits.
Additional file 1 of Applying time series modeling to assess the dynamics and forecast monthly reports of abuse, neglect and/or exploitation involving a vulnerable adult
Creators: name: Soto-Ramírez, Nelís
name: Odeku, Janet
name: Foxe, Courtney
name: Flynn, Cynthia
name: Tester, Diana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. Forecasted monthly APS intakes accepted for assessments; training and testing samples.
Additional file 2 of A highly mutable GST is essential for bract colouration in Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. Ex Klotsch
Creators: name: Vilperte, Vinicius
name: Boehm, Robert
name: Debener, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Full length gel images referent to Fig. 3a, Fig. 3b and Fig. 6a from this publication.
Structure and kinematics of tidally limited satellite galaxies in LCDM
Creators: name: Errani, Raphaël
name: Navarro, Julio F.
name: Ibata, Rodrigo
name: Peñarrubia, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use N-body simulations to model the tidal evolution of dark matter-dominated dwarf spheroidal galaxies embedded in cuspy Navarro-Frenk-White subhalos. Tides gradually peel off stars and dark matter from a subhalo, trimming it down according to their initial binding energy. This process strips preferentially particles with long orbital times, and comes to an end when the remaining bound particles have crossing times shorter than a fraction of the orbital time at pericentre. The properties of the final stellar remnant thus depend on the energy distribution of stars in the progenitor subhalo, which in turn depends on the initial density profile and radial segregation of the initial stellar component. The stellar component may actually be completely dispersed if its energy distribution does not extend all the way to the subhalo potential minimum, although a bound dark remnant may remain. These results imply that 'tidally-limited' galaxies, defined as systems whose stellar components have undergone substantial tidal mass loss, neither converge to a unique structure nor follow a single tidal track, as claimed in earlier work. On the other hand, tidally limited dwarfs do have characteristic sizes and velocity dispersions that trace directly the characteristic radius ($r_{max}$) and circular velocity ($V_{max}$) of the subhalo remnant. This result places strong upper limits on the size of satellites whose unusually low velocity dispersions are often ascribed to tidal effects. In particular, the large size of kinematically-cold 'feeble giant' satellites like Crater 2 or Antlia 2 cannot be explained as due to tidal effects alone in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter scenario.
description: 18 pages, 21 figures. Edited to match accepted version
TERA: Self-Supervised Learning of Transformer Encoder Representation for Speech
Creators: name: Liu, Andy T.
name: Li, Shang-Wen
name: Lee, Hung-yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a self-supervised speech pre-training method called TERA, which stands for Transformer Encoder Representations from Alteration. Recent approaches often learn by using a single auxiliary task like contrastive prediction, autoregressive prediction, or masked reconstruction. Unlike previous methods, we use alteration along three orthogonal axes to pre-train Transformer Encoders on a large amount of unlabeled speech. The model learns through the reconstruction of acoustic frames from their altered counterpart, where we use a stochastic policy to alter along various dimensions: time, frequency, and magnitude. TERA can be used for speech representations extraction or fine-tuning with downstream models. We evaluate TERA on several downstream tasks, including phoneme classification, keyword spotting, speaker recognition, and speech recognition. We present a large-scale comparison of various self-supervised models. TERA achieves strong performance in the comparison by improving upon surface features and outperforming previous models. In our experiments, we study the effect of applying different alteration techniques, pre-training on more data, and pre-training on various features. We analyze different model sizes and find that smaller models are strong representation learners than larger models, while larger models are more effective for downstream fine-tuning than smaller models. Furthermore, we show the proposed method is transferable to downstream datasets not used in pre-training.
description: Published in IEEE/ACM TASLP, final published article available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9478264
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title: The main approaches to quality risk management in oil and gas public joint stock companies with state participation
Creators: name: ÐÐ°ÑÐºÐ¾Ð²ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹, ÐÐ¼Ð¸ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹
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Publisher: name: ÐÐÐÐÐ¢ÐÐ¥-ÐÐ ÐÐ¡Ð¡
Year: 2024
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risk management
sustainable development
risk management and internal control system
quality management
business processes
oil and gas public joint stock companies with state participation

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description: The article analyzes theoretical and methodological aspects with the advent of an integrated risk management system in the field of quality assurance in oil and gas public joint-stock companies with which states participate in conditions of uncertainty and risk. The main risks of key processes of the quality management system are given.
Additional file 1 of A highly mutable GST is essential for bract colouration in Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. Ex Klotsch
Creators: name: Vilperte, Vinicius
name: Boehm, Robert
name: Debener, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Full-length sequence of the Bract1 gene, CDS sequences of red and white poinsettia varieties, full sequence and truncated version of the BRACT1 protein.
Graphene-enabled adaptive infrared textiles
Creators: name: Ergoktas, M. Said
name: Bakan, Gokhan
name: Steiner, Pietro
name: Bartlam, Cian
name: Malevich, Yury
name: Yenigun, Elif Ozden
name: He, Guanliang
name: Karim, Nazmul
name: Cataldi, Pietro
name: Bissett, Mark
name: Kinloch, Ian A.
name: Novoselov, Kostya S.
name: Kocabas, Coskun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interactive clothing requires sensing and display functionalities to be embedded on textiles. Despite the significant progress of electronic textiles, the integration of optoelectronic materials on fabrics still remains as an outstanding challenge. Here, using the electro-optical tunability of graphene, we report adaptive optical textiles with electrically controlled reflectivity and emissivity covering the infrared and near-infrared wavelengths. We achieve electro-optical modulation by reversible intercalation of ions into graphene layers laminated on fabrics. We demonstrate a new class of infrared textile devices including display, yarn and stretchable devices using natural and synthetic textiles. To show the promise of our approach, we fabricated an active device directly onto a t-shirt which enables long-wavelength infrared communication via modulation of the thermal radiation from the human body. The results presented here, provide complementary technologies which could leverage the ubiquitous use of functional textiles.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
T-duality for principal torus bundles and dimensionally reduced Gysin sequences
Creators: name: Bouwknegt, Peter
name: Hannabuss, Keith
name: Mathai, Varghese
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reexamine the results on the global properties of T-duality for principal circle bundles in the context of a dimensionally reduced Gysin sequence. We will then construct a Gysin sequence for principal torus bundles and examine the consequences. In particular, we will argue that the T-dual of a principal torus bundle with nontrivial H-flux is, in general, a continuous field of noncommutative, nonassociative tori.
description: 21 pages, typos corrected
Sustainability of Corn Stover Harvest for Biomass
Creators: name: Sesmero, Juan P.
name: Sesmero, Juan P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: stover supply
subject: biomass
subject: soil productivity
subject: soil organic carbon
subject: nitrogen

description: Off-farm demand for crop residues is expected to grow as bioenergy policies become effective. Demand for residues will provide farmers with an additional source of revenue but it may also trigger losses in soil organic carbon and increases in fertilizer application. This study develops a dynamic economic model of stover harvest that permits conceptualization and quantification of these potential tradeoffs. We parameterize our model based on publicly available studies of soil biophysical relationships in the Corn Belt. Under these parameter values and 2010 corn and fertilizer prices harvesting stover is not economically convenient at prices below $53 per dry ton of stover. Results suggest that the rate of stover harvest may be quite sensitive and negatively linked to corn prices, which means that policies favoring the use of stover for biomass may be overridden by further increases in corn price. The negative link between stover harvest and corn prices, while somewhat counterintuitive, is driven by the fact that removal of stover reduces future grain yield (through reductions in soil organic carbon). Results also seem to indicate that, under plausible parameter values, profit maximizing farmers would increase stover supply in response to increases in stover price. However increases in supply are, according to our simulations, associated with (potentially significant) reductions in soil organic carbon (and hence carbon emissions as these are positively linked) and increases in nitrogen application (and potential runoffs). This result suggests that concerns about adverse environmental implications of harvesting stover may be justified, and more precise quantification of environmental tradeoffs should be pursued by future research.
Do Consumers Trust the National Inspection Exemption Brands? Evidence from Infant Formula in China
Creators: name: Jin, Yanhong H.
name: Lin, Liguo
name: Yao, Lan
name: Jin, Yanhong H.
name: Lin, Liguo
name: Yao, Lan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: brand choice
subject: food safety
subject: product quality
subject: national inspection exemption
subject: quality standards

description: Consumers are often uncertain about product quality and have to rely on different information, either given or pursued, to assess quality. Developing countries may lack institutional and technical resources to rigorously monitor and enforce product quality standards and/or to implement market-based instruments where market failures are common. The information-based instruments on product quality may work well in these countries as they reduce information asymmetry between firms and consumers. This study investigates one particular information-based instrument, the National Inspection Exemption (NIE) system in China. China launched the National Inspection Exemption (NIE) System in various industries in 2000 to award firms who are in compliance with the quality standards, to inform consumers of product quality, and to lessen the pressure on regulatory monitoring and enforcement of product quality standards. Once a firm is granted the NIE title by China's National Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), its products are exempted from quality inspections by all governmental agencies at different levels for three years; but it is obligated to report the product quality condition to the local AQSIQ office annually. The NIE titled firms are also allowed to include the title in the product label and to use the status in the advertisement campaign. Based on the theoretical framework, we establish the hypothesis that consumers are more willing to buy the product with the NIE title and the NIE title is likely to increase sales revenue when consumers lack of means to assess quality. The empirical application of China dairy industry supports the theoretical hypothesis. In particular, using the firm-level panel data, we find that the NIE title boots sales revenue and the impact is both statistically and economically significant based on the difference-in-difference estimate and the random-fixed effect estimations. Furthermore, using the survey data collected right after the 2008 China milk scandal regarding the brand choice of infant formula among 1,228 mothers with infants and young children, we find that consumers’ preference for the NIE title still present even the NIE titled firms are involved in a food scare event. The positive NIE preference is particularly strong among highly educated consumers and those who buy domestic brands.
"Are we there yet?" : investigating factors associated with youths’ self-concepts of adulthood
Creators: name: Lin, Cynthia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In the past, research on young adulthood has concentrated on the study of specific traits and characteristics, with little examination of youths' subjective experiences during this period of the lifespan. This study applies symbolic interaction theory to the investigation of youths' self-concept of adulthood, and examines the traits and characteristics that are associated with being defined as an adult by the self and others. In addition, the study also examines the association between parental and peer perceptions of youths' self-concept of adulthood. Participants were 79 triads (N=239) made up of a target youth between the age of 19-26 from the University of British Columbia, a parental figure of the target youth, and a peer of the target youth. Participants were assessed using the Perceived Adulthood Scale, the Psychosocial Maturity Inventory, the Ego Identity Process Questionnaire, and the Financial Independence Scale. Target youths' were also assessed on living circumstances, relationship status and parenting status. Results indicate that youths' perceptions of parent and peer ratings of youths' adult status were related to youths' self-definitions of adulthood. Results also find that psychological traits of maturity and the developmental task of living on one's own are connected with perceiving whether someone is an adult or not.
Deformations of holomorphic Lagrangian fibrations
Creators: name: Sawon, Justin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C26; 14D06; 14J60

description: Let $X\to¶^n$ be a $2n$-dimensional projective holomorphic symplectic manifold admitting a Lagrangian fibration over $¶^n$. Matsushita proved that the fibration can be deformed in a codimension one family in the moduli space $\mathrm{Def}(X)$ of deformations of $X$. We extend his result by proving that if the Lagrangian fibration admits a section, then there is a codimension two family of deformations which also preserve the section.
description: 9 pages