cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Levels and trends of fertility and mortality in Burma
Creators: name: Myint, Nyan
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Fertility, Human Burma
subject: Mortality Burma

description: In Burma, levels of fertility and mortality are usually estimated directly using the data from the incomplete vital registration. These estimates, of course, are under-estimates and fertility and mortality are the areas for further research in Burma. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to estimate the levels and trends of fertility and mortality in Burma. Although the Governments of Burma have never intervened in the fertility attitude of the people, the former socialist Government limited access to any modern methods of contraception. However, this study shows that a fertility decline started in urban areas in the early 1970s. Moreover, the levels of fertility in Burma have never exceeded those in India and Bangladesh. Historically, Burma had lower fertility than India as a whole throughout the pre-War period. The higher age at marriage, the higher status of women, the higher level of female literacy and the main religion in Burma, Buddhism, which does not discourage the use of any methods of contraception, are the main causes of lower fertility in Burma. Recently, various sources, such as the United Nations, ESCAP, the World Bank and the US Bureau of the Census, have given quite different estimates of mortality, especially the level of infant mortality for Burma. Therefore, some indirect estimates of infant and child mortality, using the data on children ever born and children still living from the 1983 Census, are also made in this study. The estimates of both infant and general mortality derived in this study are much higher than both the Government's official estimates and the United Nations estimates. Moreover, this study shows that mortality has declined substantially since the mid-1950s, and the decline was much more faster in urban areas than in rural areas. However, it has apparently slowed down in recent years. The levels of mortality were much lower in Burma than in India throughout the pre-War period, and still lower than in India and Bangladesh but higher than in Thailand.
A Cusp-Core like challenge for Modified Newtonian Dynamics
Creators: name: Eriksen, Mikkel H.
name: Frandsen, Mads T.
name: From, Mogens H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) predict distinct galactic acceleration curve geometries in $g2$-space - the space of total observed centripetal accelerations $g_{\rm tot}$ vs the inferred Newtonian acceleration from baryonic matter $g_{\rm N}$ - and corresponding rotation speed curves: MOND modified gravity predicts cored geometries for isolated galaxies while MOND modified inertia yields neutral geometries, ie. neither cuspy or cored, based on a cusp-core classification of galaxy rotation curve geometry in $g2$-space - rather than on inferred DM density profiles. The classification can be applied both to DM and modified gravity models as well as data and implies a {\it cusp-core} challenge for MOND from observations, for example of cuspy galaxies, which is different from the so-called cusp-core problem of dark matter (DM). We illustrate this challenge by a number of cuspy and also cored galaxies from the SPARC rotation curve database, which deviate significantly from the MOND modified gravity and MOND modified inertia predictions.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures
The influence of the hadronic interaction on the pionium wave functions
Creators: name: Gashi, A.
name: Rasche, G.
name: Woolcock, W. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the hadronic ππinteraction on the wave functions of pionium (the Coulomb bound π^+π^- system) at distances less than 10 fm is calculated for s-states with principal quantum numbers n<5. Hadronic ππpotentials are used that reproduce the scattering phase shifts of two-loop chiral perturbation theory. The pionium wave functions ψ_n (r) are obtained by integrating the coupled Schrödinger equations for the (π^+π^-,π^0π^0) system. We find that, for r<10 fm, n^{3/2} ψ_n (r) is practically independent of n. From this we conclude that the production rates of the s-states of pionium are proportional to n^{-3}, a result needed for the interpretation of the DIRAC experiment currently running at CERN.
description: 9 pages including 2 figures
Luang Wichit Wathakan : official nationalism and political legitimacy prior to World War II
Creators: name: Barme, Scot
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Wi{u010D}hitw{u0101}thak{u0101}n L{u016B}ang, 1898-1962(Kiml{u012B}ang),
subject: Nationalism Thailand
subject: Thailand History 20th century
subject: Thailand Politics and government

description: One of the things that even the casual observer in contemporary Thailand is apt to notice are the endless nationalist appeals by the state calling for unity and co-operation among the Thai public in order for the nation to progress. These official exhortations, which stress loyalty, duty and sacrifice, reflect a phenomenon that first became manifest on a mass level in the turbulent years immediately following the overthrow of the absolute monarchy in 1932. The present work examines the role of the little-studied writer and politician, Luang Wichit Wathakan, in the development of state nationalism during this period of political upheaval and conflict. The study, based upon a range of archival materials, diplomatic dispatches and newspapers, together with a series of interviews, traces Wichif's emergence as the preeminent intellectual figure in pre-World War II Thailand. This involves an examination of his work in relation to the wider social and political environment both before and after the change in government. Under the monarchy it is shown that Wichit acted as an important conduit of various Western notions into Thailand while at the same time promoting the official nationalism articulated by King Vajiravudh (Rama 6). In the latter period it is argued that Wichit was instrumental in formulating an official notion of 'Thai' identity on behalf of the military-dominated state, and helped to have this deployed on a broad scale via the media and through the expanding school system.
Evolution of electronic and ionic structure of Mg-clusters with the growth cluster size
Creators: name: Lyalin, Andrey
name: Solov'yov, Ilia A
name: Solov'yov, Andrey V
name: Greiner, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optimized structure and electronic properties of neutral and singly charged magnesium clusters have been investigated using ab initio theoretical methods based on density-functional theory and systematic post-Hartree-Fock many-body perturbation theory accounting for all electrons in the system. We have systematically calculated the optimized geometries of neutral and singly charged magnesium clusters consisting of up to 21 atoms, electronic shell closures, binding energies per atom, ionization potentials and the gap between the highest occupied and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals. We have investigated the transition to the hcp structure and metallic evolution of the magnesium clusters, as well as the stability of linear chains and rings of magnesium atoms. The results obtained are compared with the available experimental data and the results of other theoretical works.
description: 30 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables
Semi-Simple Unification on T^6/Z_12 Orientifold in the Type IIB Supergravity
Creators: name: Watari, T.
name: Yanagida, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The semi-simple unification model based on SU(5)_GUT \times U(3)_H gauge group is an interesting extension of the minimal SU(5)_GUT grand unification theory (GUT), since it solves the two serious problems in the standard GUT: the triplet-doublet splitting problem and the presence of dangerous dimension five operators for proton decay. Here, the extra U(3)_H gauge interaction plays a crucial role on the GUT breaking. In this paper, we show that the full multiplet structure of the U(3)_H sector required for the desired GUT breaking is reproduced naturally on T^6/Z_12 orientifold in the type IIB supergravity with a D3-D7 system. The SU(5)_GUT vector multiplet lives on D7-branes and the U(3)_H sector resides on D3-branes. We also show that various interesting features in the original SU(5)_GUT \times U(3)_H model are explained in the present brane-world scenario. A possible extension to the type IIB string theory is also discussed.
description: 13 pages, including 1 table and 1 figure, UT-959
Exact physical quantities of the XYZ spin chain in the thermodynamic limit
Creators: name: Xin, Zhirong
name: Cao, Junpeng
name: Yang, Wen-Li
name: Wang, Yupeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamic limits of the XYZ spin chain with periodic or twisted boundary conditions are studied. By using the technique of characterizing the eigenvalue of the transfer matrix by the $T-Q$ relation and by the zeros of the associated polynomial, we obtain the constraints of the Bethe roots and the zeros for the eigenvalues. With the help of structure of Bethe roots, we obtain the distribution patterns of zeros. Based on them, the physical quantities such as the surface energy and excitation energy are calculated. We find that both of them depend on the parity of sites number due to the topological long-range Neel order on the Mobius manifold in the spin space. We also check our results with those obtaining by the density matrix renormalization group. The method provided in this paper can be applied to study the thermodynamic properties at the thermal equilibrium state with finite temperature.
description: 32 pages, 12 figures
Spectra of regular quantum graphs
Creators: name: Dabaghian, Yu.
name: Jensen, R. V.
name: Blümel, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a class of simple quasi one-dimensional classically non-integrable systems which capture the essence of the periodic orbit structure of general hyperbolic nonintegrable dynamical systems. Their behavior is simple enough to allow a detailed investigation of both classical and quantum regimes. Despite their classical chaoticity, these systems exhibit a ``nonintegrable analog'' of the Einstein-Brillouin-Keller quantization formula which provides their spectra explicitly, state by state, by means of convergent periodic orbit expansions.
description: 32 pages, 10 figures
Marital fertility control in a Kerala village : a microdemographic study
Creators: name: Sushama, Pilakudi Narayan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Fertility, Human India Kerala
subject: Birth control India Kerala
subject: Kerala (India) Social life and customs

description: Rapid fertility decline in Kerala did not conform with demographic transition theory, as the decline occurred in a still predominantly rural setting. This thesis employed a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the motivation and processes of rapid fertility decline in a Kerala village. Fertility has declined in the village during the 1970s and 1980s and current fertility has reached replacement level. Though the proximate determinants are postponement of marriage and extensive use of contraceptives, the changes in these factors were the result of changing socio-economic conditions. At the time of study the singulate mean age at marriage was 29 years for males and 23 years for females, higher than elsewhere in India. Postponement of marriage was a combined effect of favourable attitudes towards higher marriage age, the expansion of education, and economic changes. Higher use of contraceptives is attributed to their availability, but seems to reflect changes in attitude that in turn reflect social and economic changes, as a result of these changes smaller families became advantageous. The factors influencing fertility decline are decreasing agricultural opportunities, expanded education and mortality decline. These changes were taking place in Kerala at the beginning of the century, but when the family planning program was implemented, there were favourable conditions for a rapid fertility decline.
Additional file 2: of Using a reasoned action approach to identify determinants of organized exercise among Hispanics: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Arevalo, Mariana
name: Brown, Louis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Contains the items developed based on our elicitation study findings, but not tested in our study. (DOCX 16 kb)
POLED displays: Robust printing of pixels
Creators: name: Kant, P.
name: Hazel, A. L.
name: Dowling, M.
name: Thompson, A. B.
name: Juel, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fabrication of a high-quality POLED (Polymeric Organic Light Emitting Diode) display requires the deposition of identical, uniform fluid films into a large number of shallow recessed regions that form a regular array of pixels on a display backplane. We determine the protocols required to achieve continuous liquid coverage of the entire pixel area for the case where equally-spaced fluid droplets are sequentially printed along a straight line within a stadium-shaped pixel, and explore how these protocols depend on the wetting properties of the pixel surface. Our investigation uses a combination of experiments and numerical modelling, based on the assumption of fluid redistribution via capillary spreading according to a Cox-Voinov law. We show that the model is able to predict quantitatively the evolution of the liquid deposited in a pixel and provides a computationally inexpensive design tool to determine efficient printing strategies that account for uncertainties arising from imperfect substrate preparation or printhead dysfunction.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The political economy of key currencies : implications of the Yen's rising importance as a world currency
Creators: name: Farrell, Roger
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: International finance
subject: Currency question

description: The international monetary system is not a traditional area of study in international relations and is often discussed using a 'scientific-economic' approach, which assumes that the system is politically neutral. Instead this paper takes a 'pol' tical economic' approach (Johnson, 1971) and argues that the acceptance of a national currency as the dominant medium of exchange for international trade and finance creates a web of economic and political interdependence between the state which issues the 'key' currency and the rest of the world. Moreover the key currency state achieves a measure of monetary hegemony which can have significant costs and benefits both for itself and for other states which accept its currency in international transactions.
Neutrino Telescopes' Sensitivity to Dark Matter
Creators: name: Albuquerque, Ivone F. M.
name: Lamoureux, Jodi
name: Smoot, George F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the dark matter of the Universe is yet unknown and most likely is connected with new physics. The search for its composition is under way through direct and indirect detection. Fundamental physical aspects such as energy threshold, geometry and location are taken into account to investigate proposed neutrino telescopes of km^3 volume sensitivities to dark matter. These sensitivities are just sufficient to test a few WIMP scenarios. Telescopes of km^3 volume, such as IceCube, can definitely discover or exclude superheavy (M > 10^10 GeV) Strong Interacting Massive Particles (Simpzillas). Smaller neutrino telescopes such as ANTARES, AMANDA-II and NESTOR can probe a large region of the Simpzilla parameter space.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures
Microctonus invictus Muesebeck
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus invictus

description: M. invictus Muesebeck
Figures 64–67
 Microctonus invictus Muesebeck, 1961, p 59.
Distribution: Southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
Specimens examined: Seventy-four from 50 collection events.
Flight period: Approximately 85% from March through May.
 Remarks: Most Microctonus species treated here with relatively large eyes are sexually dimorphic with the males having smaller eyes. Both sexes of M. invictus however have similarly large eyes. Many specimen labels note that the collection was at UV light.
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
Landau theory of restart transitions
Creators: name: Pal, Arnab
name: Prasad, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a Landau like theory to characterize the phase transitions in resetting systems. Restart can either accelerate or hinder the completion of a first passage process. The transition between these two phases is characterized by the behavioral change in the order parameter of the system namely the optimal restart rate. Like in the original theory of Landau, the optimal restart rate can undergo a first or second order transition depending on the details of the system. Nonetheless, there exists no unified framework which can capture the onset of such novel phenomena. We unravel this in a comprehensive manner and show how the transition can be understood by analyzing the first passage time moments. Power of our approach is demonstrated in two canonical paradigm setup namely the Michaelis Menten chemical reaction and diffusion under restart.
Teaching with Physlets: Examples from Optics
Creators: name: Dancy, Melissa
name: Christian, Wolfgang
name: Belloni, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physlets are scriptable Java applets that can be used for physics instruction. In this article we discuss the pedagogical foundations of Physlet use and provide a sample of Physlet-based exercises that could be used to teach optics.
description: Published in The Physics Teacher, November 2002, pp. 494-499. 9 pages, 7 figures
Modeling Advertising Expenditures and Spillover Effects Applied to the U.S. Non-Alcoholic Beverage Industry: Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Polynomial Distributed Lag (PDL) Approaches
Creators: name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Capps, Oral
name: Bessler, David A.
name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Capps, Oral
name: Bessler, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: non-alcoholic beverages
subject: vector autoregression
subject: polynomial distributed lags
subject: beverage advertizing
subject: directed acyclic graphs

description: The non-alcoholic beverage market in the U.S. is a multi-billion dollar industry growing steadily over the past decade. Also, non-alcoholic beverages are among the most heavily advertised food and beverage groups in the United States. Several studies pertaining to non-alcoholic beverages including the incorporation of advertising effects have been conducted, but most of these have centered attention on milk consumption. Some studies have considered demand interrelationships for several beverages including advertising effects in systems-wide analyses. In our analysis, we develop and employ a unique monthly time-series data set derived from Nielsen Homsescan panels for household purchases of non-alcoholic beverages over the period from January 1998 through December 2009. This data set is subjected to the use of vector autoregression (VAR) and polynomial distributed lags (PDL) to examine own-advertising and cross-advertising effects for non-alcoholic beverages. Contemporaneous causal structures among advertising expenditures, quantities and prices of various non-alcoholic beverages also are studied using artificial intelligence approaches such as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). Once the VAR and PDL (through augmenting the AIDS model) are estimated, we can ascertain own- and cross-advertising effects of various beverages. Impulse response functions gleaned from the use of the VAR approach would show us the impacts of advertising expenditures of various beverages to a one-time-only shock. The direction and the strength of the impulse would speak to the effect of the adverting expenditure of one beverage on others. Error variance decompositions help us determine the magnitude of the contribution of advertising expenditures of several beverages on a given beverage. Similarly, own- and cross-adverting expenditure elasticities generated through the PDL help us determine the negative and positive spillover effects of advertising expenditure of one beverage on several others. The contemporaneous causal structure pertaining to advertising expenditures, quantities and prices of various beverages help identify endogenous, exogenous and/or weakly exogenous factors. Ultimately, the better model to ascertain the effect of advertising expenditures of various non-alcoholic beverages is identified through the study of out-of-sample forecasts generated though both models.
The Higgs Boson Sector of the Complex MSSM in the Feynman-diagrammatic approach
Creators: name: Heinemeyer, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with complex parameters (cMSSM) we calculate higher order corrections to the Higgs boson sector in the Feynman-diagrammatic approach using the on-shell renormalization scheme. The application of this approach to the cMSSM, being complementary to existing approaches, is analyzed in detail. Numerical examples for the leading fermionic corrections, including the leading two-loop effects, are presented. Numerical agreement within 10% with other approaches is found for small and moderate mixing in the scalar top sector. The leading fermionic corrections, supplemented by the full logarithmic one-loop and the leading two-loop contributions are implemented into the public Fortran code FeynHiggsFastC.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures. Extended analytical comparison with different approaches. Version to appear in Eur. Phys. Jour. C
The origin of the algebra of quantum operators in the stochastic formulation of quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Davidson, Mark P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of the algebra of the non-commuting operators of quantum mechanics is explained in the general Fenyes-Nelson stochastic models in which the diffusion constant is a free parameter. This is achieved by continuing the diffusion constant to imaginary values, a continuation which destroys the physical interpretation, but does not affect experimental predictions. This continuation leads to great mathematical simplification in the stochastic theory, and to an understanding of the entire mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics. It is more than a formal construction because the diffusion parameter is not an observable in these theories.
description: 10 pages
Libnotes (Libnotes) wanensis Men 2015
Creators: name: Men, Qiulei
name: Lu, Zhiyong
name: Sheng, Pingping
name: Gui, Xiang
name: Wang, Zhizhong
name: Mu, Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Libnotes
Libnotes wanensis

description: Libnotes (Libnotes) wanensis Men, 2015
 Libnotes (Libnotes) wanensis Men, 2015a: 82.
Material examined. 1♂ (holotype), Anhui, Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, 14 August 2013, coll. Qiulei Men. 1♂ (paratype), 16 August 2013, same data as holotype.
Distribution. China (Anhui).
description: Published as part of Men, Qiulei, Lu, Zhiyong, Sheng, Pingping, Gui, Xiang, Wang, Zhizhong & Mu, Dan, 2017, Taxonomy on crane flies in family Tipulidae and Limoniidae (Diptera: Tipuloidea) from Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, Anhui, China, pp. 476-489 in Zoological Systematics 42 (4) on page 478, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201720, http://zenodo.org/record/5366761
Before and After: How has the SNO NC measurement changed things?
Creators: name: Bahcall, John N.
name: Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C.
name: Peña-Garay, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present "Before and After" global oscillation solutions, as well as predicted "Before and After" values and ranges for ten future solar neutrino observables (for BOREXINO, KamLAND, SNO, and a generic p-p neutrino detector). We have performed global analyses using the full SNO day-night energy spectrum and, alternatively, just the SNO CC and NC rates and the day-night asymmetry.The ``Before'' case includes all solar neutrino data (and some theoretical improvements) available prior to April 20, 2002 and the ``After'' case includes, in addition, the new SNO data on the CC, NC, and day-night asymmetry. The LMA solution is the only currently allowed MSW oscillation solution at ~99% CL. The LOW solution is allowed only at more than 2.5 sigma, SMA at 3.7 sigma or 4.7 sigma (depending upon analysis strategy), and pure sterile oscillations at 4.7sigma. Small mixing angles are ``out''(pure sterile is ``way out''); MSW with large mixing angles is definitely ``in''. Vacuum oscillations are allowed at 3 sigma, but not a 2 sigma. Precise maximal mixing is excluded at 3.2 sigma for MSW solutions and at 2.8 sigma for vacuum solutions. Most of the predicted values for future observables for the BOREXINO, KamLAND, and future SNO measurements are changed only by minor amounts by the inclusion of the recent SNO data. In order to test the robustness of the allowed neutrino oscillation regions and the predictions for future observables, we have carried out calculations using a variety of strategies to analyze the SNO and other solar neutrino data.
description: Added global analysis with full SNO day-night energy spectrum. Results essentially unchanged
Owner occupation and profit : the creation and capture of value through Canberra's residential property market
Creators: name: Beer, Andrew
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Home ownership Economic aspects Australia Canberra (A.C.T.)
subject: Housing Economic aspects Australia Canberra (A.C.T.)
subject: Real property Australia Canberra (A.C.T.)

description: This study examines the material advantages attached to owner occupation in Canberra between 1962 and 1981. Canberra's housing market was used to review the debate on domestic property and land rent A number of authors (Saunders, 1978, 1979; Pratt 1982) contend that ownership of residential property generates significant economic interests independent of production within society. Other researchers rejected this view and denied the significance of gains through housing (Edel, 1982; Edel, Sclar and Lamia, 1984). One of the first objectives of this thesis therefore was to ascertain the nature, size and origins of any benefits accrued through the ownership of housing. The history of property ownership in nine suburbs was examined and the benefits associated with property ownership calculated. The study found that home purchasers in Canberra with bank finance were typically $32,000 better-off once their dwelling was sold. The level of benefits received varied according to socio-economic status. The largest gains were accrued by the owners of the most expensive dwellings. The rats of return on the household's capital, however, was not influenced by factors associated with social class or prestige. Market conditions determined the rate of return with the greatest percentage gains to households which purchased while the market was low and sold during a boom. The receipt of benefits through housing reflected the history of real property within societies with a British legal heritage, Canberra's special development history and Australia's post-War housing system. It was concluded that explanations of housing-related benefits must recognise that land is property like any other. The commodity nature of housing \s a function of the the importance of production and the conditions associated with the production of wealth in society. In addition, the market's role in the capture of benefits through housing must be accepted. Price fluctuations determine the nature and size of any gains collected.
Transfer Potentials shape and equilibrate Monetary Systems
Creators: name: Braun, Dieter
name: Fischer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We analyze a monetary system of random money transfer on the basis of double entry bookkeeping. Without boundary conditions, we do not reach a price equilibrium and violate text-book formulas of economists quantity theory (MV=PQ). To match the resulting quantity of money with the model assumption of a constant price, we have to impose boundary conditions. They either restrict specific transfers globally or impose transfers locally. Both connect through a general framework of transfer potentials. We show that either restricted or imposed transfers can shape gaussian, tent-shape exponential, boltzmann-exponential, pareto or periodic equilibrium distributions. We derive the master equation and find its general time dependent approximate solution. An equivalent of quantity theory for random money transfer under the boundary conditions of transfer potentials is given.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
String Balls at the LHC and Beyond
Creators: name: Dimopoulos, Savas
name: Emparan, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In string theory, black holes have a minimum mass below which they transition into highly excited long and jagged strings --- ``string balls''. These are the stringy progenitors of black holes; because they are lighter, in theories of TeV-gravity, they may be more accessible to the LHC or the VLHC. They share some of the characteristics of black holes, such as large production cross sections. Furthermore, they evaporate thermally at the Hagedorn temperature and give rise to high-multiplicity events containing hard primary photons and charged leptons, which have negligible standard-model background.
description: 7 pages
Additional file 12: of iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic and physiological analysis of the response to N deficiency and the compensation effect in rice
Creators: name: Qiangqiang Xiong
name: Zhong, Lei
name: Tianhua Shen
name: Chaohao Cao
name: Haohua He
name: Xiaorong Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S3. DEP proteinâ protein interaction analysis between NCP and NDT. (DOCX 525 kb)
Multiple return times in the quantum baker map
Creators: name: Fannes, M.
name: Spincemaille, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For chaotic classical systems, the distribution of return times to a small region of phase space is universal. We propose a simple tool to investigate multiple returns in quantum systems. Numerical evidence for the baker map and kicked top points, also in the quantum case, at a universal distribution.
description: 6 pages, 13 figures
Untangling Magellanic Streams
Creators: name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: Chandra, Vedant
name: Conroy, Charlie
name: Bonaca, Ana
name: Cargile, Phillip A.
name: Naidu, Rohan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Magellanic Stream (MS) has long been known to contain multiple H I strands and corresponding stellar populations are beginning to be discovered. Combining a sample of 17 stars from the H3 ("Hectochelle in the Halo at High Resolution") survey with 891 stars drawn from the Gaia DR3 catalog, we trace stars along a sub-dominant strand of the MS, as defined by gas content, across 30$^\circ$ on the sky. We find that the corresponding dominant strand at the similar position along the MS is devoid of stars with Galactocentric distance $\lesssim 55$ kpc while the subdominant strand shows a close correspondence to such stars. We conclude that (1) these two Stream strands have different origins, (2) they are likely only close in projection, (3) the subdominant strand is tidal in origin, and (4) the subdominant strand is composed of "disk" material, gas and stars, with a chemical composition that marginally favors it coming from the Small Magellanic Cloud.
description: Accepted for publication by the Open Journal of Astrophysics, 10 pages, 10 figures
Are Consumers Willing to Pay for Organic When the Food is Already Local?
Creators: name: Connolly, Cristina
name: Klaiber, H. Allen
name: Connolly, Cristina
name: Klaiber, H. Allen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Organic
subject: Local
subject: Matching
subject: Hedonic
subject: Community supported agriculture

description: The emergence of community supported agriculture (CSA) farms has provided a new way for small farms to remain competitive while engaging their local community through direct marketing. In this study, we report on some of the first revealed preference valuation of CSA attributes, including the willingness to pay for competing organic certification programs. Using data on the prices and attributes of 188 CSA farms spanning Ohio and Pennsylvania we estimate willingness to pay measures from both hedonic and nearest-neighbor matching methods. Results from a semi-log hedonic reveal a willingness to pay of approximately 9% for organic branding compared to natural, which translates into an additional $48 per summer season share. We also find a statistically significant premium associated with longer seasons, delivery, and the provision of additional products beyond fruits and vegetables. In contrast we find no premium associated with competing certification programs.
An algorithm for calculating the Lorentz angle in silicon detectors
Creators: name: Bartsch, V.
name: de Boer, W.
name: Bol, J.
name: Dierlamm, A.
name: Grigoriev, E.
name: Hauler, F.
name: Heising, S.
name: Jungermann, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future experiments will use silicon sensors in the harsh radiation environment of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and high magnetic fields. The drift direction of the charge carriers is affected by the Lorentz force due to the high magnetic field. Also the resulting radiation damage changes the properties of the drift. In this paper measurements of the Lorentz angle of electrons and holes before and after irradiation are reviewed and compared with a simple algorithm to compute the Lorentz angle.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, final version accepted by NIMA. Mainly clarifications included and slightly shortened
Accurate ground state- and quasiparticle energies: beyond the RPA and GW methods with adiabatic exchange-correlation kernels
Creators: name: Olsen, Thomas
name: Patrick, Christopher E.
name: Bates, Jefferson E.
name: Ruzsinszky, Adrienn
name: Thygesen, Kristian S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the theory and application of adiabatic exchange-correlation (xc-) kernels for ab initio calculations of ground state energies and quasiparticle excitations within the frameworks of the adiabatic connection fluctuation dissipation theorem and Hedin's equations, respectively. Various different xc-kernels, which are all rooted in the homogeneous electron gas, are introduced but hereafter we focus on the specific class of renormalized adiabatic kernels, in particular the rALDA and rAPBE. The kernels drastically improve the description of short-range correlations as compared to the random phase approximation (RPA), resulting in significantly better correlation energies. This effect greatly reduces the reliance on error cancellations, which is essential in RPA, and systematically improves covalent bond energies while preserving the good performance of the RPA for dispersive interactions. For quasiparticle energies, the xc-kernels account for vertex corrections that are missing in the GW self-energy. In this context, we show that the short-range correlations mainly correct the absolute band positions while the band gap is less affected in agreement with the known good performance of GW for the latter. The renormalized xc-kernels offer a rigorous extension of the RPA and GW methods with clear improvements in terms of accuracy at little extra computational cost.
description: Review article. 53 pages-
Transport and development : inter-island shipping in Vanuatu
Creators: name: Dunbar, Anne C
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Shipping Vanuatu
subject: Vanuatu Economic conditions
subject: Vanuatu Social conditions

description: This thesis examines some of the relationships between ownership and control of transport resources and the evolution of the national space-economy. It is argued that, by controlling transport (through routeing, vehicle/vessel ownership, pricing and other restrictive measures), individuals or groups of individuals can control the accessibility of others to social and economic opportunities. The conventional view of transport as a 'neutral' or 'passive' infrastructural element, neatly conforming to the demands of seemingly 'natural' market forces, is inadequate.- By considering transport provision and operation in a political economy context, rather than as the focus for an econometric study, it is argued that the evolving transport systems should be considered as the embodiment of the changing power structures and not merely as the groundplan of the commercial system. In taking such an approach, emphasis has been placed on the power held by governments, companies and individuals to structure the decision-field of others located in geographic space. It necessarily involves consideration of perceptions of economic and social cost, perceptions of 'development', and of many other value-loaded, behavioural factors. In the case study of Vanuatu, control over sea transport sets the basis for control over many other social, economic and political activities. As the developments of the colonial and post-independence eras suggest, transport investments, regulations, ownership and control are all means whereby political and economic power can be spatially consolidated . Thus, the forces of centralisation set in motion with the incorporation of the archipelago into the world economy during the colonial era, reflect a centralised power system focused on the two international port towns. The resulting spatial differentiation between core and periphery now confronts the independent government with seemingly intractable problems of outer island isolation and of a ' downward spiral ' caused by the interplay between inadequate shipping and low levels of production. The recent government response has been to consider ways of establishing its own control over the shipping sector in an attempt to restructure the internal space-economy in accordance with its own perspectives on national development. However, government options for rationalisation and control remain constrained by the political realities of being a 'price-taker' and a 'consumer of security' on the international scene, and by the physical realities of the nation's own smallness, fragmentation and remoteness from the global centres of economic power and influence.
Structural Change via Threshold Effects: Estimating U.S. Meat Demand Using Smooth Transition Functions
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Nestor
name: Eales, James S.
name: Rodriguez, Nestor
name: Eales, James S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Food demand
subject: Econometrics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Meat demand
subject: Applied Microeconomics
subject: Time Series

description: Structural change remains a contentious issue in the literature. This study focuses on analyzing structural change in consumer demand for meats, which are modeled over the past half century. A standard inverse demand model is combined with a variant of the Smooth Transition Autoregressive (STAR) model. Results indicate that structural change has occurred and that con- sumers' preferences for meat are sensitive to in ation.
Ignoring the Multi-species Aspect of Labor Supply Decisions in Spatially Explicit Bio-economic Fishery Models
Creators: name: Stafford, Tess
name: Stafford, Tess
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Multi-species fisheries
subject: labor supply
subject: fisheries management

description: This paper analyzes the bias associated with ignoring the multi-species aspect of labor supply decisions in spatially explicit bioeconomic fishery models. Recent advancements have been made to simultaneously model the biology of a marine species and the strategic behavior of harvesters over both time and space in order to more accurately predict the effect of regulatory policies on harvester effort and resource population. These models assume a nested choice structure in which the harvester first faces a dichotomous decision between fishing for the target species or not on a given day and then chooses a location to fish conditional on participation. This structure implicitly groups all non-target species options together in the first nest forcing participation-specific coefficients to be the same for all outside options, including fishing for an alternative species and staying home, two very different choices. Using a complete 15-year panel of all fishing trips made by fishermen possessing a Florida spiny lobster license, including non-lobster trips, I show that the simplifying assumption of a dichotomous choice structure in the first nest is not innocuous and that the participation probabilities can change substantially with the addition of another species as an outside alternative.
Additional file 1: of Using a reasoned action approach to identify determinants of organized exercise among Hispanics: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Arevalo, Mariana
name: Brown, Louis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Contains the elicitation open-ended questions, in English and Spanish language. (DOCX 17 kb)
Linking Surveys and Digital Trace Data - An introduction and guide for researchers
Creators: name: Breuer, Johannes
name: Hegedűs, Péter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: surveys
digital trace data
data linking

description: An increasing number of researchers in the social sciences use digital trace data to answer a variety of research questions. While these data have certain advantages over survey data, such as being less influenced by social desirability, they also have their own limitations, including a lack of information about individuals or relevant outcome variables. Linking surveys and digital trace data is an approach that allows for combining the unique strengths of these two data types and addressing their respective limitations. This guide provides an introduction to this approach that holds great potential for research in the social sciences. After providing a definition of digital trace data and briefly presenting their key strengths as well as notable limitations, different ways of accessing digital trace data are discussed as they determine how these data can be linked with survey data. Following this, different ways of linking surveys and digital trace data are introduced and compared. The guide then also addresses ethical considerations for working with linked survey and digital trace data as well as things that need to be considered for sharing and archiving these data. While finding the best solutions for linking surveys and digital trace data always depends on the specific kinds of data and the research interest, this document is meant to provide some general guidance for researchers who want to combine these two data types.
Power corrections of off-forward quark distributions and harmonic operators with definite twist
Creators: name: Geyer, Bodo
name: Lazar, Markus
name: Robaschik, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A group theoretical procedure for parametrizing non-forward matrix elements of non-local QCD operators is introduced. The related (two-variable) distribution amplitudes are given as sum over power corrections of the double distributions. For totally symmetric (local) operators the infinite twist decomposition is given completely and for operators with non-trivial symmetry type up to twist 3. The power corrections for most of the phenomenological relevant double distributions and the vector meson wave functions are determined. They may be obtained, by harmonic extension, from the corresponding operators or distribution amplitudes on the light-cone.
description: 26 pages, Revtex; addition of references, correction of few typos