cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Averaged Number of the Lightest Supersymmetric Particles in Decay of Superheavy Particle with Long Lifetime
Creators: name: Kurata, Yasuhiro
name: Maekawa, Nobuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the averaged number νof the lightest supersymmetric particles (LSPs) in a shower from the decay of superheavy particle X by generalized DGLAP equations. If the primary decayed particles have color charges and the virtuality is around 10^13-10^14 GeV, the averaged number of the LSPs can become O(100). As the result, the upper limit of the mass of the superheavy particle, whose decay can produce the observed abundance of the dark matter, can increase from 10^12 GeV to 10^14 GeV. Since the typical scale of the inflaton mass of the chaotic inflation is around 10^13 GeV, the decay of the inflaton can produce the observed dark matter abundance if the reheating temperature is of order 1 GeV. Even for the standard model particles with virtuality Q\sim 10-100 TeV, the averaged number of the LSPs becomes O(0.1) for gluon, and O(0.01) for Higgs, which strongly constrains the scenario of non-thermal LSP production from the decay of moduli with 10-100 TeV mass.
description: 9 pages
Entanglement-enabled delayed choice experiment
Creators: name: Kaiser, F.
name: Coudreau, T.
name: Milman, P.
name: Ostrowsky, D. B.
name: Tanzilli, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complementarity, that is the ability of a quantum object to behave either as a particle or as a wave, is one of the most intriguing features of quantum mechanics. An exemplary Gedanken experiment, emphasizing such a measurement-dependent nature, was suggested by Wheeler using single photons. The subtleness of the idea lies in the fact that the output beam-splitter of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer is put in or removed after a photon has already entered the interferometer, thus performing a delayed test of the wave-particle complementary behavior. Recently, it was proposed that using a quantum analogue of the output beam-splitter would permit carrying out this type of test after the detection of the photon and observing wave-particle superposition. In this paper we describe an experimental demonstration of these predictions using another extraordinary property of quantum systems, entanglement. We use a pair of polarization entangled photons composed of one photon whose nature (wave or particle) is tested, and of a corroborative photon that allows determining which one, or both, of these two aspects is being tested. This corroborative photon infers the presence or absence of the beam-splitter and until it is measured, the beam-splitter is in a superposition of these two states, making it a quantum beam-splitter. When the quantum beam-splitter is in the state present or absent, the interferometer reveals the wave or particle nature of the test photon, respectively. Furthermore, by manipulating the corroborative photon, we can continuously morph, via entanglement, the test photon from wave to particle behavior even after it was detected. This result underlines the fact that a simple vision of light as a classical wave or a particle is inadequate.
description: 8 Figures
Effi Briest-Buddenbrooks: Motive, Gestalten, Strukturen
Creators: name: Herb, Elke D.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1972
Subjects: subject: PT 1863 Z7 H46 1972
subject: Fontane, Theodor, 1819-1898. Effi Briest
subject: Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Buddenbrooks

description: Bibliography: p. 115-118.
description: Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht den Roman Effi Briest von Theodor Fontane mit dem Roman Buddenbrooks von Thomas Mann. Motiviert wird eine solche vergleichende Gegenliberstellung durch die vielen WUrdigungen, die Thomas Mann dem Menschen und dem Schriftsteller Fontane und seinem Alterswerk entgegenbrachte, vor allem dem Roman Effi Briest. In beiden Romanen ist eine literarische Spatzeit vertreten, und man kann nur noch bedingt von"Realismus" sprechen. In der skept ischen Haltung der Erzahler und ihrer Welterfahrung, da~ es keine absoluten Werte mehr gibt, vor allem aber in der ironischen Aussageform weisen sie in das literarische zwanzigste Jahrhundert. Die in beiden Romanen dargestellte gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit ist die des ausgehenden neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, in der die blirgerlichen Werte noch bestehen und aufrecht erhalten werden, sich aber bereits Auflosung und Zusammenbruch anklindigen. Im weiten Sinne wird die Endphase der klassischen Zeit mit festen soziologischen Strukturen und politischen Formen dargestellt. Somit gehoren beide Romane verschiedenen Romantypen an: dem Zeitroman, dem p olitischen Roman und dem Familien- bzw. Eheroman. Eine Gegenlibers tellung der handelnden oder leidenden Protagonisten und ihrer Schicksale zeigt ihre analogen Verhaltensweisen im Konflikt, der sich bei dem Zusammenprall zweier Welten einstellt. Die eine Seite bringt den bestehenden gesetzten Ordnungen noch Verbindli c hkeit entgege n, die andere Se ite wac h st aus diesen Ordnungen heraus, indem sich neue menschliche Krafte auftun. Der Untergang der Protago - nisten erfolgt auf ihre Unfahigkeit, diesen Konflikt zu losen und wird poetisch dargestellt in verschiedenen Motiven, die eng mit dem Tod verknlipft sind wie Klinstlertum, Krankheit, Maskendasein und Einsamkeit . Eine Unte rsuc hung der Struktur der Romane zeigt, da~ die verwendeten erzahltechnischen Darstellungsmittel formal das wiedergeben und verdeutlichen, was inhaltlich und themat is ch dargestellt wurde: die ambivalente Weltsicht, die vorurteilslose und skeptische Haltung den menschlichen Erscheinungsformen gegenliber und die Scheu, sich auf eine Aussage festzulegen.
Chevet type inequality and norms of submatrices
Creators: name: Adamczak, Radosław
name: Latała, Rafał
name: Litvak, Alexander E.
name: Pajor, Alain
name: Tomczak-Jaegermann, Nicole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 52A23, 46B06, 46B09, 60E15 Secondary 15B52, 94B75

description: We prove a Chevet type inequality which gives an upper bound for the norm of an isotropic log-concave unconditional random matrix in terms of expectation of the supremum of "symmetric exponential" processes compared to the Gaussian ones in the Chevet inequality. This is used to give sharp upper estimate for a quantity $Γ_{k,m}$ that controls uniformly the Euclidean operator norm of the sub-matrices with $k$ rows and $m$ columns of an isotropic log-concave unconditional random matrix. We apply these estimates to give a sharp bound for the Restricted Isometry Constant of a random matrix with independent log-concave unconditional rows. We show also that our Chevet type inequality does not extend to general isotropic log-concave random matrices.
Finite-time blowup for a Navier-Stokes model equation for the self-amplification of strain
Creators: name: Miller, Evan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q30

description: In this paper, we consider a model equation for the Navier--Stokes strain equation. This model equation has the same identity for enstrophy growth and a number of the same regularity criteria as the full Navier-Stokes strain equation, and is also an evolution equation on the same constraint space. We prove finite-time blowup for this model equation, which shows that the identity for enstrophy growth and the strain constraint space are not sufficient on their own to guarantee global regularity for Navier-Stokes. The mechanism for the finite-time blowup of this model equation is the self-amplification of strain, which is consistent with recent research suggesting that strain self-amplification, not vortex stretching, is the main mechanism behind the turbulent energy cascade. Because the strain self-amplification model equation is obtained by dropping certain terms from the full Navier-Stokes strain equation, we will also prove a conditional blowup result for the full Navier-Stokes equation involving a perturbative condition on the terms neglected in the model equation.
Work fluctuations for Bose particles in grand canonical initial states
Creators: name: Yi, Juyeon
name: Kim, Yong Woon
name: Talkner, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider bosons in a harmonic trap and investigate the fluctuations of the work performed by an adiabatic change of the trap curvature. Depending on the reservoir conditions such as temperature and chemical potential that provide the initial equilibrium state, the exponentiated work average (EWA) defined in the context of the Crooks relation and the Jarzynski equality may diverge if the trap becomes wider. We investigate how the probability distribution function (PDF) of the work signals this divergence. It is shown that at low temperatures the PDF is highly asymmetric with a steep fall off at one side and an exponential tail at the other side. For high temperatures it is closer to a symmetric distribution approaching a Gaussian form. These properties of the work PDF are discussed in relation to the convergence of the EWA and to the existence of the hypothetical equilibrium state to which those thermodynamic potential changes refer that enter both the Crooks relation and the Jarzynski equality.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
title: Color Your Plate
title: A Pilot Nutrition Education Intervention to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Older Adults Participating in the Congregate Meal Site Program in Kentucky Senior Centers
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Dickens, Emily
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition

description: The purpose of this study was to determine if the amount and variety of fruit and vegetable intake increased among community-dwelling older adults participating in Kentucky’s congregate meal site program following a series of educational nutrition lessons. A convenience sample (n=35) of community-dwelling older adults at two intervention (n=19) and two control (n=16) senior centers in central Kentucky participated in this quasi-experimental pre-post pilot study. Following the intervention there was a trend towards increased self-reported intake in the variety of fruit and vegetables among the intervention group (range:0.03±3.31 to 1.32±2.75 servings per week); a significant increase in the number of days participants incorporated at least 4.5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day intake; significant increases in the incorporation of fruits and vegetables in evening meal, and all meals (p≤0.05); and phytochemical knowledge (p≤0.05). Actual fruit and vegetable intake at the congregate meal increased post-intervention among the intervention group only (p≤0.05) as measured by plate waste. The mean Phytochemical Index score was 25.4, with participants consuming 79% of the phytochemical- rich component to their meal. These results indicate that theory-based educational nutrition lessons among older adults is linked to favorable trends towards increased fruit and vegetable consumption and phytochemical knowledge.
Inhomogeneous Dependency Modelling with Time Varying Copulae
Creators: name: Giacomini, Enzo
name: Härdle, Wolfgang Karl
name: Ignatieva, Ekaterina
name: Spokoiny, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: adaptive estimation
subject: Value-at-Risk
subject: nonparametric estimation
subject: time varying copula
subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: 17 Wirtschaft

description: Measuring dependence in a multivariate time series is tantamount to modelling its dynamicstructure in space and time. In the context of a multivariate normally distributed time series,the evolution of the covariance (or correlation) matrix over time describes this dynamic. A wide variety of applications, though, requires a modelling framework different from the multivariate normal. In risk management the non-normal behaviour of most financial time series calls for nonlinear (i.e. non-gaussian) dependency. The correct modelling of non-gaussian dependencies is therefore a key issue in the analysis of multivariate time series. In this paper we use copulaefunctions with adaptively estimated time varying parameters for modelling the distribution of returns, free from the usual normality assumptions. Further, we apply copulae to estimation of Value-at-Risk (VaR) of a portfolio and show its better performance over the RiskMetrics approach, a widely used methodology for VaR estimation.
Heinrich Bolls `Groppenbild mit Dame'
Creators: name: Thorhallsson, Hrefna
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: PT 2603 O394 G772 1975 Microfiche
subject: Boll, Heinrich, 1917-1985. Gruppenbild mit Dame

description: Bibliography: p. 69-72.
Evidence for nodeless superconducting gap in NaFe$_{1-x}$Co$_x$As from low-temperature thermal conductivity measurements
Creators: name: Zhou, S. Y.
name: Hong, X. C.
name: Qiu, X.
name: Pan, B. Y.
name: Zhang, Z.
name: Li, X. L.
name: Dong, W. N.
name: Wang, A. F.
name: Luo, X. G.
name: Chen, X. H.
name: Li, S. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal conductivity of optimally doped NaFe$_{0.972}$Co$_{0.028}$As ($T_c \sim$ 20 K) and overdoped NaFe$_{0.925}$Co$_{0.075}$As ($T_c \sim$ 11 K) single crystals were measured down to 50 mK. No residual linear term $κ_0/T$ is found in zero magnetic field for both compounds, which is an evidence for nodeless superconducting gap. Applying field up to $H$ = 9 T ($\approx H_{c2}/4$) does not noticeably increase $κ_0/T$ in NaFe$_{1.972}$Co$_{0.028}$As, which is consistent with multiple isotropic gaps with similar magnitudes. The $κ_0/T$ of overdoped NaFe$_{1.925}$Co$_{0.075}$As shows a relatively faster field dependence, indicating the increase of the ratio between the magnitudes of different gaps, or the enhancement of gap anisotropy upon increasing doping.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Confidence intervals centred on bootstrap smoothed estimators: an impossibility result
Creators: name: Kabaila, Paul
name: Wijethunga, Christeen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, Kabaila and Wijethunga assessed the performance of a confidence interval centred on a bootstrap smoothed estimator, with width proportional to an estimator of Efron's delta method approximation to the standard deviation of this estimator. They used a testbed situation consisting of two nested linear regression models, with error variance assumed known, and model selection using a preliminary hypothesis test. This assessment was in terms of coverage and scaled expected length, where the scaling is with respect to the expected length of the usual confidence interval with the same minimum coverage probability. They found that this confidence interval has scaled expected length that (a) has a maximum value that may be much greater than 1 and (b) is greater than a number slightly less than 1 when the simpler model is correct. We therefore ask the following question. For a confidence interval, centred on the bootstrap smoothed estimator, does there exist a formula for its data-based width such that, in this testbed situation, it has the desired minimum coverage and scaled expected length that (a) has a maximum value that is not too much larger than 1 and (b) is substantially less than 1 when the simpler model is correct? Using a recent decision-theoretic performance bound due to Kabaila and Kong, it is shown that the answer to this question is `no' for a wide range of scenarios.
The Effect of Victim Religion on Juror Perceptions of Hate Crimes
Creators: name: Magyarics, Casey
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Law and Psychology
subject: Law and Race
subject: Social Psychology

description: The present study investigated mock juror perceptions of hate crimes in the courtroom, specifically whether a victim’s religion (Atheist, Christian, Jewish, or Muslim) influenced the likelihood that a mock juror would render a hate crime verdict. I employed a mock juror methodology where participants read an assault trial summary, rendered a verdict, and answered a series of rating questions about the victim and defendant. Two theoretical explanations were proposed to explain the main effect of victim religion on participant verdict decisions; that participants would be most likely to render a guilty verdict when the victim is considered an in-group member (i.e., same religion) or when participants perceived the victim’s religion to be commonly targeted in religion-motivated hate crimes. The results showed a main effect of victim religion on participant verdict decisions, such that the Jewish victim received the highest percentage of hate crime verdicts. Participant perceptions of the victim’s trustworthiness and the defendant’s bias mediated the relationship between participant religion (Christian or Jewish) and verdict decisions. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for law enforcement, social psychology, and policy.
Estimating Random Effects via Adjustment for Density Maximization
Creators: name: Morris, Carl
name: Tang, Ruoxi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We develop and evaluate point and interval estimates for the random effects $θ_i$, having made observations $y_i|θ_i\stackrel{\m athit{ind}}{\sim}N[θ_i,V_i],i=1,...,k$ that follow a two-level Normal hierarchical model. Fitting this model requires assessing the Level-2 variance $A\equiv\operatorname {Var}(θ_i)$ to estimate shrinkages $B_i\equiv V_i/(V_i+A)$ toward a (possibly estimated) subspace, with $B_i$ as the target because the conditional means and variances of $θ_i$ depend linearly on $B_i$, not on $A$. Adjustment for density maximization, ADM, can do the fitting for any smooth prior on $A$. Like the MLE, ADM bases inferences on two derivatives, but ADM can approximate with any Pearson family, with Beta distributions being appropriate because shrinkage factors satisfy $0\le B_i\le1$. Our emphasis is on frequency properties, which leads to adopting a uniform prior on $A\ge0$, which then puts Stein's harmonic prior (SHP) on the $k$ random effects. It is known for the "equal variances case" $V_1=...=V_k$ that formal Bayes procedures for this prior produce admissible minimax estimates of the random effects, and that the posterior variances are large enough to provide confidence intervals that meet their nominal coverages. Similar results are seen to hold for our approximating "ADM-SHP" procedure for equal variances and also for the unequal variances situations checked here. For shrinkage coefficient estimation, the ADM-SHP procedure allows an alternative frequency interpretation. Writing $L(A)$ as the likelihood of $B_i$ with $i$ fixed, ADM-SHP estimates $B_i$ as $\hat{B_i}=V_i/(V_i+\hat{A})$ with $\hat{A}\equiv \operatorname {argmax}(A*L(A))$. This justifies the term "adjustment for likelihood maximization," ALM.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-STS349 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
String in AdS Black Hole: A Thermo Field Dynamic Approach
Creators: name: Cantcheff, M. Botta
name: Gadelha, Alexandre L.
name: Marchioro, Dafni F. Z.
name: Nedel, Daniel Luiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on Maldacena's description of an eternal AdS-black hole, we reassess the Thermo Field Dynamics (TFD) formalism in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The model studied here involves the maximally extended AdS-Schwarschild solution and two (non-interacting) copies of the CFT associated to the global AdS spacetime, along with an extension of the string by imposing natural gluing conditions in the horizon. We show that the gluing conditions in the horizon define a string boundary state which is identified with the TFD thermal vacuum, globally defined in the Kruskal extension of the AdS black hole. We emphasize the connection of this picture with unitary SU(1,1) TFD formulation and we show that information about the bulk and the conformal boundary is present in the SU(1,1) parameters. Using the unitary SU(1,1) TFD formulation, a canonical prescription for calculating the worldsheet real time thermal Green's function is made and the entropy associated with the entanglement of the two CFT's is calculated.
description: 24 pages, no figures
Privatisation and Popular Capitalism, August 1989 and April 1991
Creators: name: Saunders, P.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1993

description: This study analyses the sociological significance of privatisation in Britian through a case study of the privatisiation of the water industry. It considers how consumers experienced the change, and the effects of share purchase on the political attitudes and cultural values of those who bought. (A separate survey - not included - also analyses how the change affected employees). Changes were documented between 1989 (before privatisation) and 1991 through repeat interviews with 828 members of the public.
Correlations in a Generalized Elastic Model: Fractional Langevin Equation Approach
Creators: name: Taloni, Alessandro
name: Chechkin, Aleksei
name: Klafter, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Generalized Elastic Model (GEM) provides the evolution equation which governs the stochastic motion of several many-body systems in nature, such as polymers, membranes, growing interfaces. On the other hand a probe (\emph{tracer}) particle in these systems performs a fractional Brownian motion due to the spatial interactions with the other system's components. The tracer's anomalous dynamics can be described by a Fractional Langevin Equation (FLE) with a space-time correlated noise. We demonstrate that the description given in terms of GEM coincides with that furnished by the relative FLE, by showing that the correlation functions of the stochastic field obtained within the FLE framework agree to the corresponding quantities calculated from the GEM. Furthermore we show that the Fox $H$-function formalism appears to be very convenient to describe the correlation properties within the FLE approach.
Schwarze Spinne von Jeremias Gotthelf: Der Besuch der alten Dame von Friedrich Durrenmatt : ein Vergleich
Creators: name: Boehrnsen, Sylvia
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: PT 1819 B6 Z568 1974 Microfiche
subject: Bitzius, Albert, 1797-1854. Die Schwarze Spinne
subject: Durrenmatt, Friedrich, 1921- Der Besuch der alten Dame

description: Bibliography: p. 97-107.
description: Die folgende Arbeit vergleic ht Die sc hwarze Spinne , von J·eremias Gotthelf mi t dem Be such der al ten Dame, von Friedrich Dlirrenma t t. Der Vergleich ergibt sich aus Ahnlichkeiten im Aufbau des Dramas mit der dramatischen Struktur der Binnenerzahlung und aus der Thematik beider Werke. Wesentliche Unterschiede konnen dagegen in der Perspektive der Dichter gesehen werden, woraus sich Gegenliberstellungen der Darstellungsweise ergeben. Zu Vergleichen und Gegenliberstellungen regen ferner die einzelnen Gestalten an, die sich zum Teil decken, zum Teil liberschneiden: so wird zum Beispiel die alte Dame mit Christine, dem Grlinen und der schwarzen Spinne verglichen. Die Interpretation erfolgt c hronologisch aus der Gegenliberstellung beider Texte. Auf die Mannigfaltigke i t der Sekundarliteratur wird hauptsachlich im Kapitel "Moglichkeiten der Deutung" hingewiesen. Die Zusammenfassung hebt noch einmal bedeutende Unterschiede und Ahnlichkeiten beider Werke hervor. Als wesentlichste Aussage wird die Konzeption der Freiheit des Menschen und die dadurch begrlindete moralische Forderung nach verantwortlichem Handeln des Einzelnen erkannt, die von beiden Dichtern gestellt wird.
title: STRAIGHT TIME AND SCANDAL
title: TRAVESTI URBAN POLITICS IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Woodward, Christine L.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Human Geography
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

description: São Paulo, Brazil is currently pursuing a project of creative urbanism. Though city rhetoric insists this project is rooted in tolerance of sexual diversity, I suggest that city policy effectively perpetuates normative conceptions of family and respectability. Using data gathered through a series of qualitative interviews with transgender and travesti individuals living in São Paulo, I argue that the straight time of São Paulo’s creative urbanism generates exclusionary temporalities and spatialities in the city that render travestis out of time and out of place. Furthermore, I argue that travestis use their capacity to enact shame through scandals to generate temporalities and spatialities of their own, ones not aligned with the reproductive, progressive futurity of straight time. In doing so, travestis participate in their own kind of creative urbanism and provide an affective challenge to the hetero- and homonormativity of São Paulo’s creative urban project. Building on recent scholarship in queer urbanism and affect, this thesis adds to critical efforts to understand how creative urbanism sexualizes space and time in contexts outside of EuroAmerica and how a queer theoretical approach contributes to critiques of progressive modernity.
title: The (De-)Anchoring of Inflation Expectations
title: New Evidence from the Euro Area
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Pagenhardt, Laura
name: Nautz, Dieter
name: Strohsal, Till
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Anchoring of Inflation Expectations
subject: Break-Even Inflation Rates
subject: News-Regressions
subject: Multiple Structural Break Tests
subject: 310 Sammlungen allgemeiner Statistiken
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: Well-anchored inflation expectations are a key factor for achieving economic stability. This paper provides new empirical results on the anchoring of long-term inflation expectations in the euro area. In line with earlier evidence, we find that euro area inflation expectations have been anchored until fall 2011. Since then, however, they respond significantly to macroeconomic news. Our results obtained from multiple endogenous break point tests suggest that euro area inflation expectations have remained de-anchored ever since.
Strong semiclassical limit from Hartree and Hartree-Fock to Vlasov-Poisson equation
Creators: name: Lafleche, Laurent
name: Saffirio, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82C10, 35Q41, 35Q55 (Primary) 82C05, 35Q83 (Secondary)

description: We consider the semiclassical limit from the Hartree to the Vlasov equation with general singular interaction potential including the Coulomb and gravitational interactions, and we prove explicit bounds in the strong topologies of Schatten norms. Moreover, in the case of fermions, we provide estimates on the size of the exchange term in the Hartree-Fock equation and also obtain a rate of convergence for the semiclassical limit from the Hartree-Fock to the Vlasov equation in Schatten norms. Our results hold for general initial data in some Sobolev space and any fixed time interval.
description: 37 pages, minor modifications
THE RHEOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CELL ACTIVATION ON THE FLOW BEHAVIOR OF NEUTROPHILS
Creators: name: Horrall, Nolan M.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biomechanics and Biotransport

description: Previously, it was reported that the morphological changes (pseudopod projection) that circulating neutrophils adopt due to cell activation raises peripheral vascular resistance by disrupting microvascular rheology. Studies utilized murine muscle preparations to link neutrophil pseudopod formation to cell activation and a viscous impact on hemodynamic resistance. But because of the complexity associated with the organization of the vasculature and microvasculature in tissues, it was unclear whether the effects of neutrophil activation on hemodynamic resistance were associated with the macro-/micro- circulation. This research describes an in vitro analysis using viscometry and microvascular network mimics (microporous membranes) to assess the rheological impact of pseudopods on capillary-like flow. Suspensions of neutrophil-like HL-60 promyelocytes (dHL60’s) and human neutrophils, stimulated with 10 nM fMLP were used, with/without hematocrit. Stimulation of dHL60s or human neutrophils with fMLP altered their flow behavior, which was detected as an increase in solution viscosity. Addition of hematocrit negated the effect of neutrophil activation on suspension viscosity. Moreover, cell activation increased the resistance of microporous membranes to flow of neutrophil suspensions with addition of hematocrit exacerbating this effect. Combined, the results of this study provided evidence that activated neutrophils influence microscale flow resistance via a rheological impact.
Teaching Package for the Database Management System SIR, 1980
Creators: name: Dale, A.
Publisher: name: Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
Year: 1993

description: The aim of the project was to provide instructional material on the basics of using SIR. Access to the SIR package is therefore a pre-requisite for use of this study.
 The data supplied with this package are not suitable for research purposes. They do not form a representative sample from the GHS and should only be used for working through the examples in the workbook.
Ancient Computers
Creators: name: Stephenson, Stephen Kent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Pebbles (calculos in Latin) are the "bits" used in the Ancients' four function calculator / computer. The Ancient Computer's normal mode is to work with numbers in what we would call exponential notation. Decimal numbers can have up to 10 significant digits in the coefficient (a fraction < 1 with no leading zeros) and up to 4 significant digits in the exponent (a radix shift). Duodecimal and sexagesimal numbers can have up to 5 significant digits in the coefficient and up to 2 significant digits in the exponent. Coefficients and exponents can be either positive or negative. Built-in error checking is included since an addend can be entered and checked before accumulation. The Ancient Computer is time tested; it or its predecessors have been in use since before 2000 BC.
description: 41 pages
Primitive multiple schemes
Creators: name: Drézet, Jean--Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D20, 14B20

description: A primitive multiple scheme is a complex Cohen-Macaulay scheme $Y$ such that the associated reduced scheme $X=Y_{red}$ is smooth, irreducible, and that $Y$ can be locally embedded in a smooth variety of dimension $\dim(X)+1$. If $n$ is the multiplicity of $Y$, there is a canonical filtration $X=X_1\subset X_2\subset\cdots\subset X_n=Y$, such that $X_i$ is a primitive multiple scheme of multiplicity $i$. The simplest example is the trivial primitive multiple scheme of multiplicity $n$ associated to a line bundle $L$ on $X$: it is the $n$-th infinitesimal neighborhood of $X$, embedded if the line bundle $L^*$ by the zero section. Let ${\bf Z}_n={spec}(C[t]/(t^n))$. The primitive multiple schemes of multiplicity $n$ are obtained by taking an open cover $(U_i)$ of a smooth variety $X$ and by gluing the schemes $U_i\times{\bf Z}_n$ using automorphisms of $U_{ij}\times {\bf Z}_n$ that leave $U_{ij}$ invariant. This leads to the study of the sheaf of nonabelian groups $G_n$ of automorphisms of $X\times {\bf Z}_n$ that leave the $X$ invariant, and to the study of its first cohomology set. If $n\geq 2$ there is an obstruction to the extension of $X_n$ to a primitive multiple scheme of multiplicity $n+1$, which lies in the second cohomology group $H^2(X,E)$ of a suitable vector bundle $E$ on $X$. In this paper we study these obstructions and the parametrization of primitive multiple schemes. As an example we show that if $X=P_m$ with $m>=3$ all the primitive multiple schemes are trivial. If $X=P_2$, there are only two non trivial primitive multiple schemes, of multiplicities $2$ and $4$, which are not quasi-projective. On the other hand, if $X$ is a projective bundle over a curve, we show that there are infinite sequences $X=X_1\subset X_2\subset\cdots\subset X_n\subset X_{n+1}\subset\cdots$ of non trivial primitive multiple schemes.
description: 54 p
Tail estimates for norms of sums of log-concave random vectors
Creators: name: Adamczak, Radosław
name: Latała, Rafał
name: Litvak, Alexander E.
name: Pajor, Alain
name: Tomczak-Jaegermann, Nicole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B06, 15B52, 60E15, 60B20

description: We establish new tail estimates for order statistics and for the Euclidean norms of projections of an isotropic log-concave random vector. More generally, we prove tail estimates for the norms of projections of sums of independent log-concave random vectors, and uniform versions of these in the form of tail estimates for operator norms of matrices and their sub-matrices in the setting of a log-concave ensemble. This is used to study a quantity $A_{k,m}$ that controls uniformly the operator norm of the sub-matrices with $k$ rows and $m$ columns of a matrix $A$ with independent isotropic log-concave random rows. We apply our tail estimates of $A_{k,m}$ to the study of Restricted Isometry Property that plays a major role in the Compressive Sensing theory.
title: Am I Able to Predict How I Will Do?
title: Examining Calibration in an Undergraduate Biology Course
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Turner, Trisha A.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Educational Psychology

description: Students who are self-regulated are more likely to succeed academically, whereas students who have deficiencies in their learning have been recognized as having a lack of metacognitive awareness (Valdez, 2013; Zimmerman, 2002). If students are metacognitively unaware in large introductory courses, they may have difficulty knowing when to self-regulate and modify their learning (Lin & Zabrucky, 1998; Stone, 2000). One manner in which researchers have assessed students’ metacognitive awareness is by asking students to estimate how they think they will do on tasks compared to their actual performance, known as calibration. The purpose of this study was to examine students’ calibration and study habits. Participants were undergraduates (N = 384) in an introductory biology course at a southeastern U.S. university. Students completed four surveys that assessed their exam score expectations and the study habits they used prior to each exam. Results showed that students’ estimates are most discrepant from their actual performance early in the semester and become more accurate at the end of the semester. A closer look at students’ study habits revealed that the inaccuracy of students’ exam judgments showed little connection to the study strategies that students used. Findings from this study are important for biology instructors.
Economic and Social Research Council 16-19 Initiative; a Longitudinal Study of Two Cohorts of Young People, 1987-1989
a Longitudinal Study of Two Cohorts of Young People, 1987-1989
Creators: name: Banks, M.
name: Jamieson, L.
name: Roberts, K.
name: Breakwell, G.
name: Emler, N.
name: Bynner, J.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1993

description: This survey was undertaken in order to understand the processes involved in economic and political socialisation of young people aged 16-19 in four British localities; Swindon,Sheffield, Liverpool and Kirkcaldy
 An associated qualitative dataset, Economic and Political Socialisation, 16-19 : a Scottish Study, 1987-1989, which covers the Kircaldy sample only, is available as SN: 4926
Pedestrian-pedestrian interaction and its effects on vibration serviceability
Creators: name: Soczawa-Stronczyk, Artur A.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: To this day, excessive response of structures subjected to pedestrian loading has been attributed to two separate phenomena: pedestrian-structure interaction (PSI) and pedestrian-pedestrian interaction (PPI). Whilst the former has been widely researched in the wake of the London Millennium Bridge failure, there is little empirical data on the latter in the context of vibration serviceability. This is due to significant logistical and financial challenges associated with full-scale crowd testing, and the uncertainties related to human studies. To this end, this study provides baseline information on walkers’ ability to coordinate their gait with auditory stimuli, gives some of the first evidence of spontaneous PPI in walking groups, and assess its subsequent effects on the structural response of a simulated footbridge. The magnitude of PPI was quantified using the bivariate phase difference analysis framework, based on Shannon entropy of the gait cycle time series. Furthermore, to alleviate some of the limitations of real-word crowd testing, a novel virtual reality (VR) platform was developed and validated. The platform provides a highly controlled environment for PPI testing and allows the implementation of repeatable experimental protocols whilst collecting data on pedestrian behaviour in real-time. The study describes fundamental gait parameters during solitary, overground walking, as well as insights into modes of gait coordination when subjected to repetitive auditory cues. During group walking, it was found that the overall PPI is rather weak, substantially below the levels previously reported for walking in pairs, and it strongly depends on a group’s walking speed. Numerical simulations showed that the PPI phenomenon only affects the structural response when the group’s pacing frequency is compatible with the structure’s natural frequency. The VR platform yielded qualitatively compatible results with the real-word setting for walking in pairs; however, some quantitative differences were found in terms of PPI magnitude and its directionality.
Self-actualization and marital adjustment scores of adult women as affected by a group counseling program
Creators: name: Roney, Bronwen Gail
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: HQ 1457 R64 1975 Microfiche
subject: Women - Canada
subject: Self-actualization (Psychology)
subject: Group counseling

description: Bibliography: p. 49-54.
Candidate stellar occultations by large trans-neptunian objects up to 2015
Creators: name: Assafin, M.
name: Camargo, J. I. B.
name: Martins, R. Vieira
name: Braga-Ribas, F.
name: Sicardy, B.
name: Andrei, A. H.
name: Neto, D. N. da Silva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study large trans-neptunian objects (TNOs) using stellar occultations. We derive precise astrometric predictions for stellar occultations by Eris, Haumea, Ixion, Makemake, Orcus, Quaoar, Sedna, Varuna, 2002 TX300, and 2003 AZ84 for 2011-2015. We construct local astrometric catalogs of stars in the UCAC2 (Second US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog) frame covering the sky path of these objects. For that purpose, during 2007-2009, we carried out an observational program at the ESO2p2/WFI (2.2 m Max-Planck ESO telescope with the Wide Field Imager) instrument. Astrometric catalogs with proper motions were produced for each TNO, containing more than 5.35 million stars covering the sky paths with 30' width in declination. The magnitude completeness is about R = 19 with a limit of about R = 21. We predicted 2717 stellar occultation candidates for all targets. Ephemeris offsets with about from 50 mas to 100 mas precision were applied to each TNO orbit to improve the predictions. They were obtained during 2007-2010 from a parallel observational campaign carried out with from 0.6 m to 2.2 m in size telescopes. This extends our previous work for the Pluto system to large TNOs, using the same observational and astrometric procedures. The obtained astrometric catalogs are useful for follow-up programs at small to large telescopes used to improve the candidate star positions and TNO ephemeris. They also furnish valuable photometric information for the field stars. For each TNO, updates on the ephemeris offsets and candidate star positions (geometric conditions of predictions and finding charts) are made available in the web by the group.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astronomy & Astrophysics in March 9th, 2012
Extensions of Hardy-type true-implies-false gadgets to classically obtain indistinguishability
Creators: name: Svozil, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum logical terms, Hardy-type arguments can be uniformly presented and extended as collections of intertwined contexts and their observables. If interpreted classically those structures serve as graph-theoretic "gadgets" that enforce correlations on the respective preselected and postselected observable terminal points. The method allows the generalization and extension to other types of relational properties, in particular, to novel joint properties predicting classical equality of quantum mechanically distinct observables. It also facilitates finding faithful orthogonal representations of quantum observables.
description: 14 pages, 6 Figures, completed partition logic representation by adding atoms 19, 20 and 21 in Table I
Editorial
Creators: name: Oesterreich, Miriam
name: Neff, Franziska
Publisher: name: Miradas - Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte der Amérikas und der iberischen Halbinsel
Year: 2020

description: Miradas - Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte der Amérikas und der iberischen Halbinsel, Bd. 4 (2018): Miradas
title: The Impact of Grammar on the Construal of Discourse Alternatives in German and English
Creators: name: Dimroth, Christine
name: Starren, Marianne
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 410 Linguistics
subject: 420 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
subject: 430 German and related languages

description: This paper investigates additive links to discourse alternatives in picture comparison dialogues produced by adult native speakers of English and German. Additive relations are established across turns when participants are confirming the presence of matching objects on both pictures (A: "I have X". B: "I also have X"). Speakers thereby describe their own picture and construe the interlocutor (or rather: the interlocutor’s picture) as a discourse alternative. Whereas the vast majority of the confirming descriptions in German contain an additive particle (auch), less than half of the corresponding confirmations in the English data do ("also", "too", etc.). Numbers differ even more drastically in polarity questions ("Do you (also) have X?") that are equally typical for the dialogue task. Such frequency differences are at odds with recent accounts treating additive particles as being quasi obligatory when their presupposition is satisfied. An in-depth contrastive analysis of lexical, syntactic and information structural properties reveals that the default mapping of information units on syntactic functions (subject) in conjunction with the SVO word order of English leads to a structure in which subject, initial (topic) position and the particle’s associated constituent coincide. This would make the relation to its discourse alternative more prominent than warranted by the dialogue task and speakers of English leave this relation unmarked or resort to alternative constructions instead. The V2 syntax of German, on the other hand, allows for a dissociation of discourse topic and associated constituent. It allows the speaker to topicalize reference to the matching object, to highlight the confirmation of its presence on the speaker’s picture, and to relate the changing information to its discourse alternative in a non-contrastive way.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
1891 Census Project, Spitalfields
Creators: name: Rau, D.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1994

description: The Census Project was set up by the Jewish Historical Society and the Board of Deputies Community Research Unit. A database was compiled of the population of an area in Spitalfields in the East End of London in 1891, using Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet and working from photocopies of the microfilm of the enumerators' books. It built on a pilot project using the 1881 census for the same area, developing the methodology and providing a comparative dataset.
 The area was chosen for the 1891 Census Project because of its high concentration of Jewish population, as shown on the Russell and Lewis Jewish East London map of 1901. The database contains the complete population of the area.
Impact of Foreign Multi-National Investment in Britain Since 1850
Creators: name: Bostock, F.
name: Jones, G.
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1994

description: The research aimed to establish a database on inward investment into Britain between the 1850s and the 1960s. Research on secondary and primary sources was undertaken to collect accurate firm-level data on each foreign direct investment, with the aim of providing for the first time a reliable aggregate picture of the level, timing, industry distribution and nationality of foreign direct investors in Britain before the first official statistics were published in 1962.
Genetic Programming for Multibiometrics
Creators: name: Giot, Romain
name: Rosenberger, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Biometric systems suffer from some drawbacks: a biometric system can provide in general good performances except with some individuals as its performance depends highly on the quality of the capture. One solution to solve some of these problems is to use multibiometrics where different biometric systems are combined together (multiple captures of the same biometric modality, multiple feature extraction algorithms, multiple biometric modalities...). In this paper, we are interested in score level fusion functions application (i.e., we use a multibiometric authentication scheme which accept or deny the claimant for using an application). In the state of the art, the weighted sum of scores (which is a linear classifier) and the use of an SVM (which is a non linear classifier) provided by different biometric systems provide one of the best performances. We present a new method based on the use of genetic programming giving similar or better performances (depending on the complexity of the database). We derive a score fusion function by assembling some classical primitives functions (+, *, -, ...). We have validated the proposed method on three significant biometric benchmark datasets from the state of the art.