cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Managing natural resources without forgetting future generations: Two alternatives to discounting
Creators: name: Figuieres, Charles
name: Tidball, Mabel
name: Figuieres, Charles
name: Tidball, Mabel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Our current choices regarding the fight against deforestation and climatic disorder, against the overexploitation of natural resources or the erosion of ecologic heritage, have effects which will last long after we disappear. Must we make immediate and major sacrifices for the well-being of our descendants? Speaking only about developed countries, they will anyway be better off than we are if the trend in growth observed for the last two centuries continues. Unless, as scientists and GIEC Experts who work on biodiversity and ecosystem services fear, we are approaching the natural limits which commit here and now our responsibility towards future generations. In a context where current choices have uneven distributed effects in time, how do we arbitrate between the present and future, between the interests of the various generations? One way of considering the problem is to incorporate some normative requirements into a criterion of inter-temporal social choice, and estimate the legitimacy of alternative futures according to their classification by this criterion. This approach results in a general message as important as it is frustrating: looking for the trajectories of management which avoid waste cannot usually be achieved without favouring certain generations. Therefore, the concern for our descendants can be summed up to one question: what are the desirable compromises between efficiency and impartiality? Discounting the utilities of every generation before adding them together is a possible answer. But such a criterion, for a long time applied by default, presents an all the more contestable discrimination against future generations, all the more so as alternatives exist. This note briefly presents the works of the scientists of the SAE2 department on two alternatives to discounting. Chichilnisky’s criterion and the mixed Bentham-Rawls (MBR) criterion are two possible answers to the efficiency-impartiality dilemma.
Serendipitous discovery of seven new southern L-dwarfs
Creators: name: Kendall, T. R.
name: Mauron, N.
name: Azzopardi, M.
name: Gigoyan, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of seven hitherto unknown L-dwarfs found as a result of a spectroscopic search for distant AGB stars. Their far-red and near-infrared colours are very similar to known dwarfs of the same spectral type. One new object is among the ~30 brightest L-dwarfs, with K_s=12.12, and is nearby, ~20pc. Using low resolution spectroscopy from the Danish 1.54 m ESO telescope, spectral types in the range L0.5 - L5 are derived for these seven L-dwarfs by direct comparison to L-type standards taken from Kirkpatrick et al. (1999). Distances are determined from existing calibrations, and together with measured proper motions, yield kinematics for the seven new dwarfs consistent with that expected for the solar neighbourhood disk population.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures, accepted by A&A
CAP Effects on Agricultural Investment Demand in Europe
Creators: name: Guastella, G.
name: Moro, D.
name: Sckokai, P.
name: Veneziani, M.
name: Guastella, G.
name: Moro, D.
name: Sckokai, P.
name: Veneziani, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: farm investment
subject: threshold models
subject: simulations
subject: FADN data
subject: common agricultural policy

description: The paper develops a comparative analysis, among selected European Union Member States, of the investment demand, for farm buildings and machinery and equipment, of a sample of specialised arable crop farms as determined - inter alia - by different types and levels of Common Agricultual Policy (CAP) support. The empirical analysis investigates the role of long and short run determinants of investment levels as well as accounts for the presence of irregularities in the cost adjustment function due to the existence of threshold-type behaviours. Throughout the estimated models a consistent and significant long-run dynamic adjustment towards lower levels of the farms' capital stocks is detected. The effect of CAP support on both types of investments is positive, although seldom significant. The elasticities of average net investment with respect to CAP payments are employed to simulate the effects of the recently proposed, reductions in the Pillar I CAP Direct Payments (DPs). Since these reform options imply, almost exclusively, a reduction in the level of support granted through DPs, simulated effects largely respect the expectation of worsening of the farm investment prospects for both asset types (i.e., a larger negative investment or a smaller positive one). Notable exceptions concern investment in machinery and equipment in France and Italy which improve , irrespectively of the magnitude of the implemented cuts in DPs.
Effects of Electromagnetic Field on the Structure of Massive Compact Objects
Creators: name: Bhatti, M. Z.
name: Tariq, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper encompasses a set of stellar equations that administer the formation and evolution of self-gravitating, dissipative spherically symmetric fluid distributions having anisotropic stresses in the presence of electromagnetic field. The Riemann tensor is split orthogonally to procure five scalar functions named as structure scalars which are then utilized in the stellar equations. It is shown that some basic fluid properties such as energy density inhomogeneity, pressure anisotropy and heat flux are interlinked with the obtained scalars. Further, it is shown that all the solutions to Einstein equations can be written in terms of these five scalars keeping in view the static case.
description: 24 pages
Wavelets and WMAP non-Gaussianity
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Pia
name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the statistical properties of the 1st year WMAP data on different scales using the spherical mexican hat wavelet transform. Consistent with the results of Vielva et al. (2003) we find a deviation from Gaussianity in the form of kurtosis of wavelet coefficients on $3-4^\circ$ scales in the southern Galactic hemisphere. This paper extends the work of Vielva et al. as follows. We find that the non-Gaussian signal shows up more strongly in the form of a larger than expected number of cold pixels and also in the form of scale-scale correlations amongst wavelet coefficients. We establish the robustness of the non-Gaussian signal under more wide-ranging assumptions regarding the Galactic mask applied to the data and the noise statistics. This signal is unlikely to be due to the usual quadratic term parametrized by the non-linearity parameter $f_{NL}$. We use the skewness of the spherical mexican hat wavelet coefficients to constrain $f_{NL}$ with the 1st year WMAP data. Our results constrain $f_{NL}$ to be $50\pm 80$ at 68% confidence, and less than 280 at 99% confidence.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures, ApJ accepted
Motivational Interviewing for Smoking Cessation in Primary Care
Creators: name: Pool-Krok-Horton, Kara E
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

Smoking is hazardous to human health and continues to be devastating to a patient’s physical health as well as to the entirety of the health care system. Smoking is both a public and personal health concern. The overall prevalence of tobacco dependence has decreased since smoking became a known health hazard, but it remains high in the general population as well as for the patients utilizing primary care in Rutland, Vermont. Nurse practitioners are holistic practitioners and are well suited to assist patients to change unhealthy behaviors. Behavior change, especially smoking cessation, is particularly difficult for patients. Motivational interviewing is an evidenced based method that has been extensively investigated to assist patients to overcome their tobacco addiction. This paper includes description of a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Project, health intervention, utilizing a motivational interviewing method to assist tobacco dependent patients in primary care. This project was based on the Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change and principles of motivational interviewing utilized to assist patients to progress along the stages of change towards cessation. Data was collected to provide programmatic evaluation and an understanding of barriers associated with assisting tobacco dependent patients in primary care. This paper provides a review of recent literature about motivational interviewing for smoking cessation, a detailed description of the DNP project implementation, data collected during the implementation, analysis and implications of the data collected, as well as a plan for project sustainment.
More connected, more active: galaxy clusters and groups at z~1 and the connection between their quiescent galaxy fractions and large-scale environments
Creators: name: Lee, Seong-Kook
name: Im, Myungshin
name: Hyun, Minhee
name: Park, Bomi
name: Kim, Jae-Woo
name: Kim, Dohyeong
name: Kim, Yongjung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-redshift galaxy clusters, unlike local counterparts, show diverse star formation activities. However, it is still unclear what keeps some of the high-redshift clusters active in star formation. To address this issue, we performed a multi-object spectroscopic (MOS) observation of 226 high-redshift (0.8 < z < 1.3) galaxies in galaxy cluster candidates and the areas surrounding them. Our spectroscopic observation reveals six to eight clusters/groups at z ~ 0.9 and z ~ 1.3. The redshift measurements demonstrate the reliability of our photometric redshift measurements, which in turn gives credibility for using photometric redshift members for the analysis of large-scale structures (LSSs). Our investigation of the large-scale environment (~10 Mpc) surrounding each galaxy cluster reveals LSSs --- structures up to ~10 Mpc scale --- around many of, but not all, the confirmed overdensities and the cluster candidates. We investigate the correlation between quiescent galaxy fraction of galaxy overdensities and their surrounding LSSs, with a larger sample of ~ 20 overdensities including photometrically selected overdensities at 0.6 < z < 0.9. Interestingly, galaxy overdensities embedded within these extended LSSs show a lower fraction of quiescent galaxies (~ 20 %) than isolated ones at similar redshifts (with a quiescent galaxy fraction of ~ 50 %). Furthermore, we find a possible indication that clusters/groups with a high quiescent galaxy fraction are more centrally concentrated. Based on these results, we suggest that LSSs are the main reservoirs of gas and star-forming galaxies to keep galaxy clusters fresh and extended in size at z ~ 1.
description: 56 pages, 23 figures, 4 tables, published in MNRAS
Additional file 13 of Global genome analysis of the shikimic acid pathway reveals greater gene loss in host-associated than in free-living bacteria
Creators: name: Zucko, Jurica
name: Dunlap, Walter C
name: J Malcolm Shick
name: Cullum, John
name: Cercelet, François
name: Bijal Amin
name: Hammen, Lena
name: Lau, Timothy
name: Williams, Jamal
name: Daslav Hranueli
name: Long, Paul F
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Authors’ original file for figure 3
A Global Wheat Market Model (GLOWMM) for the Analysis of Wheat Export Prices
Creators: name: Gutierrez, L.
name: Piras, F.
name: Gutierrez, L.
name: Piras, F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: global dynamic models
subject: price analysis
subject: wheat market

description: Food commodity prices fluctuations have important impacts on poverty and food insecurity across the world. Conventional models have not provided a complete picture of recent price spikes in agricultural commodity markets, while there is an urgent need for appropriate policy responses. Perhaps new approaches are needed in order to better understand international spill-overs, the feedback between the real and the financial sectors and also the link between food and energy prices. In this paper, we present results from a new worldwide dynamic model that provides short and long-run impulse responses of wheat international prices to various real and financial shocks.
Vella fallax
Creators: name: Petko, Olga
name: Smith, Paul
name: Stange, Lionel
name: Rios, Sergio D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Brassicales
Brassicaceae
Vella
Vella fallax

description: Vella fallax (Rambur, 1842) (Fig. 6)
 Myrmeleon fallax Rambur 1842: 385. Type, “La Guyane ” (not located).
 Specimens examined. San Pedro (9): Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca (S23 o 48’43.0 '’ W056 o 17’40.8 '’), CZPLT 500 (7 XI 2010, Col. K. Atkinson); CZPLT 969 (VIII or IX 2012, Col. K. Atkinson); CZPLT 969 (VIII or IX 2012, Col. K. Atkinson); CZPLT 2761 (17 XI 2014, Col. O. Petko); CZPLT 2762 (14 XI 2014, Col. O. Petko); CZPLT 2871 (21 XI 2014, Col. O. Petko); CZPLT 2762 (14 XI 2014, Col. O. Petko); CZPLT 3167 (7 II 2015, Col. O. Petko); CZPLT 3168 (7 II 2015, Col. O. Petko). All specimens were collected at house lights or a light trap in a transitional area between Cerrado, Cerrado gallery forest and Atlantic Forest at the Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca. Prior to the collection of these specimens an individual of this species was photographed during the day on 17 February 2010 at the same locality by P. Smith (www.faunaparaguay.com/myrmeleontidae.html, FPMYR009 PH).
description: Published as part of Petko, Olga, Smith, Paul, Stange, Lionel & Rios, Sergio D., 2016, New antlion records (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) from Paraguay, pp. 1-8 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (487) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5171291
Defining sustainable development objectives: a difficult exercise
Creators: name: Martinet, Vincent
name: Martinet, Vincent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The concept of sustainable development requires us to pass on capital to future generations allowing them to meet their economic, environmental and social needs. Defining the nature of that “capital” and how to protect it is a difficult task which can be tackled either through an approach based on prices reflecting the relative value of the various assets, or through a more physical approach based on indicators associated with quantities of assets to be protected. Usually, economists favour the former approach, but they also have methods to describe the necessary trade-off between conflicting factors, and the way of reaching these factors in time, when the second approach is chosen. These methods provide decision-making tools to define socially the thresholds that we wish to impose on the sustainability indicators.
The Tribal-Wide Use of Processes in the Paleolithic Era
Creators: name: Doble, Rick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200204 Cultural Theory
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: I have argued that the use of processes such as stone-tool technology in the Paleolithic era was critical for the development of behavioral modernity. In this article, I argue that the entire tribe used other processes as well, such as the location, harvesting, and preparation of food by women. And because of this, the step-by-step nature of processes became a point of reference that everyone could refer to, which eventually led to a full sense of linear time (time with a past, present, and future) unlike the immediate time of the other animals.
Additional file 1 of Enhanced chromatin accessibility contributes to X chromosome dosage compensation in mammals
Creators: name: Talon, Irene
name: Janiszewski, Adrian
name: Theeuwes, Bart
name: Lefevre, Thomas
name: Song, Juan
name: Bervoets, Greet
name: Vanheer, Lotte
name: De Geest, Natalie
name: Poovathingal, Suresh
name: Allsop, Ryan
name: Marine, Jean-Christophe
name: Rambow, Florian
name: Voet, Thierry
name: Pasque, Vincent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1-S6. Supplementary figure legends and supplementary figures (Fig. S1-S6).
Quantum circuits for the realization of equivalent forms of one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks on near-term quantum hardware
Creators: name: Singh, Shivani
name: Alderete, Cinthia H.
name: Balu, Radhakrishnan
name: Monroe, Christopher
name: Linke, Norbert M.
name: Chandrashekar, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum walks are a promising framework for developing quantum algorithms and quantum simulations. They represent an important test case for the application of quantum computers. Here we present different forms of discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) and show their equivalence for physical realizations. Using an appropriate digital mapping of the position space on which a walker evolves to the multiqubit states of a quantum processor, we present different configurations of quantum circuits for the implementation of DTQWs in one-dimensional position space. We provide example circuits for a five-qubit processor and address scalability to higher dimensions as well as larger quantum processors.
description: Published version, 14 pages, 15 figures, 9 tables
A Study on Vendor Management Cost Optimization in Wind Energy Procurement
Creators: name: S. Muthumani, Dr.
name: M, Swathi
name: Priyada Vinod, Dr.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study examines vendor management and cost optimization in wind energy procurement at Pioneer Wincon. It analyzes key factors such as vendor selection criteria, supply chain risks, cost-reduction strategies, and the impact of GST on procurement costs. Using statistical analysis (chi-square, ANOVA, regression, correlation), the study finds that past performance and reliability are the most critical vendor selection factors. Major risks include price fluctuations, transportation delays, and quality issues. The study also explores the role of Letters of Credit (LCs) and digitalization (blockchain, AI, fintech) in procurement efficiency. Findings suggest strategies for cost reduction, improved supplier relationships, and streamlined procurement processes. These insights help enhance financial sustainability and supply chain resilience in the wind energy sector.
Higgsino mass matrix ansatz for MSSM
Creators: name: Choi, Kang-Sin
name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Hwang, Kyuwan
name: Kim, Jihn E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An ansatz, Det. $M_{\tilde H}=0,$ for the Higgsino mass matrix in string orbifold trinification is suggested toward the minimal supersymmetric standard model(MSSM). Small instanton solutions effective around the GUT scale can fulfil this condition. An argument that the couplings contain a moduli field is given for a dynamical realization of this Higgsino mass matrix ansatz.
description: 15 pages of LaTeX file
How Do Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES’s) Contribute to High Nature Value (HNV) Farmland: A Case Study in Emilia Romagna
Creators: name: Signorotti, Claudio
name: Marconi, Valentina
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Signorotti, Claudio
name: Marconi, Valentina
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: rural development plan
subject: agri-environmental scheme
subject: High Nature Value
subject: statistical indicator
subject: spatial regression

description: The main objective of the paper is to inquiry if the Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES’s) included in the Rural Development Plan in Emilia Romagna have played a role in enhancing the Nature Value of regional farmland. High Nature Value (HNV) farmland is a concept that aims to identify the agricultural systems which are hospitable to animal and vegetal species, leading to a level of biodiversity which is particularly high. As a preliminary step, we measured the level and distribution of the HNV in Emilia Romagna at the municipality level, as derived by elaborations on the data of the two last censuses, year 2000 and 2010. Then the relationship between HNV and participation to rural development measures is analyzed in both directions of causality with econometric techniques. First we investigated the relationship between the participation to measure 214 (AES’s) of the Rural Development Plan and the HNV in order to explore if the participation is affected by the HNV. Rather than integrated farming or the protection of less favoured areas, ordinary least square models suggest a link between organic farming and HNV farmland: the results indicate that participation to the measure of organic farming in the Rural Development Plan 2007-2013 is significantly dependent upon the HNV in year 2000. Secondly, as an effect of the participation to AES’s on the HNV we analyzed the change of HNV between 2000 and 2010 with ordinary least squares and spatial regression techniques. The regression models show that the variations depend upon the farmers’ participation to the organic farming measure and the presence of a mountainous territory. With regard to the other measures, integrated farming is not relevant and the participation to the measure for less favoured areas is related to the variation in a negative way.
The soft X-ray counterpart of Hanny's Voorwerp near IC 2497
Creators: name: Fabbiano, G.
name: Elvis, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection in Chandra ACIS archival data of an elongated soft (<3 keV) X-ray feature tp the south of the Compton Thick Active Galactic Nucleus (CT AGN) galaxy IC 2497, coincident with the emission feature known as Hanny's Voorwerp (HV). The data are consistent with the spatial correspondence between X-ray, optical emission line, and radio features detected in nearby obscured AGNs (e.g., ESO 428-G014). The X-ray luminosity of the (0.3-3.0 keV) soft feature is ~1.2x10^40 erg/s. We infer an [OIII]/Soft-X-ray ratio in the range of ~200, consistent with the highest values measured in some of the clouds of NGC 4151. Overall, given the uncertainties, Hanny's Voorwerp appears to be a feature consistent with the ionization cone emission of nearby AGNs. We estimate an X-ray recombination time of 2x10^7 yr, longer than the [OIII] recombination time (~8000 yr). This suggests that extended soft X-ray components may be a better diagnostic of overall long-term activity, while detection of an [OIII] HV would point to a time-limited activity burst.
description: ApJ in press
Testing for habit formation, autocorrelation and theoretical restrictions in linear expenditure systems
Creators: name: Green, Richard D.
name: Hassan, Zuhair A.
name: Johnson, S.R.
name: Green, Richard D.
name: Hassan, Zuhair A.
name: Johnson, S.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1980
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Reprinted from Southern Economic Journal, Vol.47, No.2, October 1980
Exploring CP Violation through B Decays
Creators: name: Fleischer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The B-meson system provides many strategies to perform stringent tests of the Standard-Model description of CP violation. In this brief review, we discuss implications of the currently available B-factory data on the angles alpha, beta and gamma of the unitarity triangle, emphasize the importance of Bs studies at hadronic B experiments, and discuss new, theoretically clean strategies to determine gamma.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures, invited brief review for Modern Physics Letters A
Additional file 14 of Global genome analysis of the shikimic acid pathway reveals greater gene loss in host-associated than in free-living bacteria
Creators: name: Zucko, Jurica
name: Dunlap, Walter C
name: J Malcolm Shick
name: Cullum, John
name: Cercelet, François
name: Bijal Amin
name: Hammen, Lena
name: Lau, Timothy
name: Williams, Jamal
name: Daslav Hranueli
name: Long, Paul F
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Authors’ original file for figure 4
Additional file 16 of Global genome analysis of the shikimic acid pathway reveals greater gene loss in host-associated than in free-living bacteria
Creators: name: Zucko, Jurica
name: Dunlap, Walter C
name: J Malcolm Shick
name: Cullum, John
name: Cercelet, François
name: Bijal Amin
name: Hammen, Lena
name: Lau, Timothy
name: Williams, Jamal
name: Daslav Hranueli
name: Long, Paul F
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Authors’ original file for figure 6
Probing Trilinear Gauge Boson Interactions via Single Electroweak Gauge Boson Production at the LHC
Creators: name: Eboli, O. J. P.
name: Gonzalez-Garcia, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to study anomalous trilinear vector-boson interactions W^+ W^- γand W^+ W^- Z through the single production of electroweak gauge bosons via the weak boson fusion processes q q -> q q W (-> \ell^\pm ν) and q q -> q q Z(-> \ell^+ \ell^-) with \ell = e or μ. After a careful study of the standard model backgrounds, we show that the single production of electroweak bosons at the LHC can provide stringent tests on deviations of these vertices from the standard model prediction. In particular, we show that single gauge boson production exhibits a sensitivity to the couplings Δκ_{Z,γ} similar to that attainable from the analysis of electroweak boson pair production.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Superconducting On-chip Fourier Transform Spectrometer
Creators: name: Thakur, R. Basu
name: Klimovich, N.
name: Day, P. K .
name: Shirokoff, E.
name: Mauskopf, P. D.
name: Faramarzi, F.
name: Barry, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinetic inductance in thin film superconductors has been used as the basis for low-temperature, low-noise photon detectors. In particular thin films such as NbTiN, TiN, NbN, the kinetic inductance effect is strongly non-linear in the applied current, which can be utilized to realize novel devices. We present results from transmission lines made with these materials, where DC (current) control is used to modulate the phase velocity thereby enabling an on-chip spectrometer. The utility of such compact spectrometers are discussed, along with their natural connection with parametric amplifiers.
On_the_evolution_of_universe_using_relativistic_cosmology.pdf
Creators: name: Ramamoorthy, Vigneswaran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Cosmology

description: For the collided region of two gravitationally bound structures A and B, geodesic equation is derived using calculus of variations. With the help of geodesic equation derived for the collided region of A and B, a method to calculate any possible curvature of universe beyond observable flat universe is detailed. This relativistic method is used to describe a generic idea on the evolution of gravitationally bound structures and its effect on the evolution of universe. Using this idea, distribution of matter and antimatter in the universe, observed accelerating expansion of universe, cosmic inflation, and large-scale structure of present universe are explained.
Dimares elegans
Creators: name: Petko, Olga
name: Smith, Paul
name: Stange, Lionel
name: Rios, Sergio D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Myrmeleontidae
Dimares
Dimares elegans

description: Dimares elegans (Perty)
 Material studied: 45 males, 41 females. November to May.
 Argentina. Catamarca: Belén, 19.XII.1971, Porter and L. Stange (2f, FSCA, IMLA); 6 km. south Santa Maria, 21. III.1974. L. Stange (2m, 5f, 3 larvae, FSCA); Tinogasta, 8.II.1966, Stange (6m, 2f, FSCA, IMLA). Entre Rios: Concordia, Salto Grande, I.1975 (1m, FSCA). La Pampa: Sierra Lihuel Calel, 1.II.1968, L. Stange (2m, 1f, FSCA). La Rioja: Campanas, II.1966, Stange (1m, FSCA); La Rioja, 6. III.1970, Porter and L. Stange (1m, FSCA); Mazan, 14. III.1969, Stange (1m, FSCA). Santiago del Estero: Las Termas de Rio Hondo, 12.I.1966, Stange (1m, FSCA); Los Tigres, 16.I.1970, Golbach (3m, FSCA). San Luis: Luan, 23.II.1966, Stange (1m, FSCA). San Juan: Chicum, 20.I.1959 (1f, FSCA). Tucumán: Vipos, 21.III.1971, Fidalgo (1m, FSCA).
 Bolivia. Santa Cruz: 3 km. north Brasilio, 7.III.1999, Stange (13m, 12f, FSCA, TAMU); El Palmar Oratoria, 25.I.1980, Stange (1m, 5f, FSCA).
 Brazil. Ceara: Barbalha, V.1960, Alvarenga (2m, 6f, FSCA). Goiás: S. Isabel do Morro, Ilha do Bananal, VI.1961, Alvarenga (2m, 1f, FSCA); 48 km. south Peize, 2.VI.1956, Truxal (3m, 2f, FSCA, LACM). Mato Grosso: Barracao Queimado, XI.1960, Alvarenga (3m, 1f, FSCA); Gustavo Dutra, Cioaba. XI.1963, Alvarenga (3f, FSCA). Pernambuco: Petrolandia, V.1969, Alvarenga (1m, 3f, FSCA). Rondonia: Vilhena, XI.1960, Alvarenga (2m, FSCA).
 Uruguay. Paysandú: Arenitas Blancas, 3.II.1962, San Martin (1f, FSCA).
description: Published as part of Petko, Olga, Smith, Paul, Stange, Lionel & Rios, Sergio D., 2016, New antlion records (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) from Paraguay, pp. 1-8 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (487) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5171291
Towards degeneracy breaking of early universe models
Creators: name: Luan, Ze
name: Qiu, Taotao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are many possibilities of scenarios in the early universe, which can give rise to the same observational signals due to the degeneracy among each other, caused by equivalence under the conformal transformations. In order to break the degeneracy, in this paper we take into account the so-called "frame-invariant variables" proposed by A. Ijjas and P. J. Steinhardt in \cite{Ijjas:2015zma}. We discuss how the different scenarios will distribute in different parametric space constructed from those variables, waiting for the judgement of real observations in the future. Several concrete models with explicit non-minimal coupling functions are also discussed.
description: 13 pages,6 figures, comments welcome
李書維論文-圖書館.pdf
Creators: name: SuWei, Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 91502 Computational Heat Transfer
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91501 Computational Fluid Dynamics

description: In this study, the algebraic spiral scroll wrap is used to replace the involute scroll wrap. To desgin algebraic spiral air compressors by using computer aided drawing in the same plate size of scroll, number of turns, scroll wrap height, and the same inlet, outlet volume but different scroll wrap heights, which has larger inlet, outlet volumetric efficiency and lower deformation of scroll warp, in order to reduce the air flow leakage of gap caused by deformation of scroll wrap subjected to pressure. To obtain datas of the internal flow field of the algebraic spiral scroll compressor by using numerical method and brought it into the stress analysis to investigate the deformation of scroll wrap subjected to pressure and temperature under different design Parameters (k value, scroll wrap height, inlet and outlet volume).
 The simulation results show that: (1) The velocity of radial air flow leakage is affected by the differential pressure between the front and rear compression chambers, which becomes more faster when the differential pressure is larger; (2) Compares with involute scroll in the same exhaust volume, temperature and pressure(2 MPa), the volume of algebraic spiral scroll with k =0.9, which can be reduced by 11.4%, the radial and axial deformation of its central exhaust chamber can be reduced by 17% and 10%; (3) With same height of scroll wrap of involute, the volume of algebraic spiral with k=0.85, which can be reduced by 6.7％, the volume of its inlet and outlet can be increased by 14% and 29%; (4) The factors affecting the deformation of the scroll wrap are mainly the differential pressure between the compression chambers, the temperature of the scroll and the degree of heat dissipation of the scroll.
Formation of the First Stars by Accretion
Creators: name: Omukai, K.
name: Palla, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The process of star formation from metal-free gas is investigated by following the evolution of accreting protostars with emphasis on the properties of massive objects. The main aim is to establish the physical processes that determine the upper mass limit of the first stars. Although the consensus is that massive stars were commonly formed in the first cosmic structures, our calculations show that their actual formation depends sensitively on the mass accretion rate and its time variation. Even in the rather idealized case in which star formation is mainly determined by dot{M}acc, the characteristic mass scale of the first stars is rather uncertain. We find that there is a critical mass accretion rate dot{M}crit = 4 10^{-3} Msun/yr that separates solutions with dot{M}acc< dot{M}crit in which objects with mass >> 100 Msun can form, provided there is sufficient matter in the parent clouds, from others (dot{M}acc > dot{M}crit) where the maximum mass limit decreases as dot{M}acc increases. In the latter case, the protostellar luminosity reaches the Eddington limit before the onset of hydrogen burning at the center via the CN-cycle. This phase is followed by a rapid and dramatic expansion of the radius, possibly leading to reversal of the accretion flow when the stellar mass is about 100Msun. (abridged)
description: 34 pages, 12 figures. ApJ, in press
Two-dimensional optical chimera states in an array of coupled waveguide resonators
Creators: name: Clerc, M. G.
name: Coulibaly, S.
name: Ferré, M. A.
name: Tlidi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional arrays of coupled waveguides or coupled microcavities allow to confine and manipulate light. Based on a paradigmatic envelope equation, we show that these devices, subject to a coherent optical injection, support coexistence between a coherent and incoherent emission. In this regime, we show that two-dimensional chimera state can be generated. Depending on initial conditions, the system exhibits a family of two-dimensional chimera states and interaction between them. We characterize these two-dimensional structures by computing their Lyapunov spectrum, and Yorke-Kaplan dimension. Finally, we show that two-dimensional chimera states are of spatiotemporal chaotic nature.
description: 4 figures, 4 pages
Higher Fat Low Carbohydrate Diet to Improve Health Related Quality of Life for Overweight or Obese Diabetics in a Primary Care Clinic
Creators: name: Baker, Breck
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

Diabetes and obesity are chronic diseases that affect individuals worldwide. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have developed guidelines for management of diabetes and obesity. The DNP student examined the use of the Higher Fat Low Carbohydrate (HFLC) diet, which conflicts with these frequently used guidelines. The literature on a HFLC diet suggests positive effects for type 2 diabetics, including weight loss, improved HA1c, lower BMI and no detrimental impact on metabolic markers such as cholesterol, triglycerides, or low and high density lipoproteins. The purpose of this project was to provide type 2 diabetics who are overweight or obese with a HFLC dietary educational tool and assess health related quality of life (HRQOL). Using a qualitative approach follow up included a monthly phone call for 2 months after the education with questions on the participant’s experience following the HFLC diet in order to evaluate and modify the tool. A pre and post project survey was also used to examine HRQOL. The project survey results showed decreased experiences of being overwhelmed related to the diabetes diagnosis, not knowing if mood or feelings were related to diabetes, and worrying about low blood sugar or other complications. Although HA1c and BMI were not assessed in this project, future work should examine these outcomes for patients following a HFLC diet.
Additional file 17 of Global genome analysis of the shikimic acid pathway reveals greater gene loss in host-associated than in free-living bacteria
Creators: name: Zucko, Jurica
name: Dunlap, Walter C
name: J Malcolm Shick
name: Cullum, John
name: Cercelet, François
name: Bijal Amin
name: Hammen, Lena
name: Lau, Timothy
name: Williams, Jamal
name: Daslav Hranueli
name: Long, Paul F
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Authors’ original file for figure 7
supplementary-material-PLMIX-Rscript.R
Creators: name: Tardella, Luca
name: Mollica, Cristina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 80306 Open Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling
subject: 80308 Programming Languages

description: Supplementary R code file attached to the manuscript:
"PLMIX: An R Package for Modeling and Clustering Partially
Ranked Data"

by anonymous (for peer review)

The PLMIX package o ffers a comprehensive framework aimed at endowing the R statistical environment with some recent methodological advances in modeling and clustering partially ranked data. The usefulness of the PLMIX package can be motivated from several perspectives: (i) it contributes to ll the gap concerning Bayesian estimation of ranking models in R, by focusing on the Plackett-Luce model and its extension within the nite mixture approach as the generative sampling distribution; (ii) it addresses computational complexity by combining the flexibility of R routines and the speed of compiled C++ code, with possibly parallel execution; (iii) it covers the fundamental phases of ranking data analysis allowing for a more careful and critical application of ranking models in real contexts; (iv) it provides eff ective tools for clustering heterogeneous partially ranked data. Specfii c S3 classes and methods are also supplied to enhance the usability and foster exchange with other packages.
The functionality of the novel package is illustrated with several applications to simulated and real datasets.
Implementing Post-Fall Staff Huddles
Creators: name: courtney, kathleen a
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2011

BACKGROUND OF PROBLEM:
Falls, can be a devastating source of morbidity and mortality for the older adult. According to a recent CDC Report, “Falls Among the Older Adult”, more than one third of adults aged 65 and older fall each year in the United States and falls are the leading cause of injury deaths. Falls are also the most common cause of nonfatal injuries and hospital admissions for trauma in the older adult population (CDC Report). Unfortunately, the rate of fall-related deaths is increasing over the last decade despite aggressive interventions. Finding the right intervention to prevent falls has been difficult, if not impossible. Because older adults living in long term care institutions continue to fall despite the implementation of evidence-based guidelines to prevent falls, identifying the causes of each fall is critical to preventing future falls. Implementing post-fall huddles (PFH) shows promise for reducing falls in individuals in long term care facilities.
OBJECTIVE:
To implement PFHs and assess the impact of PFHs on the number of patients with repeat falls, the number of falls for each patient with a fall history, and the fall rate at Tewksbury Hospital.
METHODS:
Post-fall Huddles were implemented on all Department of Public Health Units at Tewksbury Hospital for a three month period of time. The primary outcome measure was staff compliance rates for the PFH intervention, measured as a percent of huddle forms completed for each fall. Secondary indicators measured the overall fall rate per 1000 patient days, and a reduction in the number of patients who fell recurrently. Data was compared to rates from the same quarter last year, and for the quarter immediately preceding the intervention.
RESULTS:
Descriptive analysis was used to examine the PFH compliance, fall rates pre and post-intervention, and the number of recurrent fallers. Mean PFH compliance rates were 40% for the entire intervention period. The mean fall rate was 7.62 post-intervention, compared to 7.91 for the same quarter last year. The mean number of patients with repeat falls was 9 compared to 11 for the same quarter last year. Although improvements were small, they may indicate that the implementation of PFHs by a multidisciplinary team may impact patient fall rates in sub-acute long term care facilities.
Recurrence coefficients for discrete orthogonal polynomials with hypergeometric weight and discrete Painlevé equations
Creators: name: Dzhamay, Anton
name: Filipuk, Galina
name: Stokes, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33D45, 34M55, 34M56, 14E07, 39A13

description: Over the last decade it has become clear that discrete Painlevé equations appear in a wide range of important mathematical and physical problems. Thus, the question of recognizing a given non-autonomous recurrence as a discrete Painlevé equation and determining its type according to Sakai's classification scheme, understanding whether it is equivalent to some known (model) example, and especially finding an explicit change of coordinates transforming it to such an example, becomes one of the central ones. Fortunately, Sakai's geometric theory provides an almost algorithmic procedure for answering this question. In this paper we illustrate this procedure by studying an example coming from the theory of discrete orthogonal polynomials. There are many connections between orthogonal polynomials and Painlevé equations, both differential and discrete. In particular, often the coefficients of three-term recurrence relations for discrete orthogonal polynomials can be expressed in terms of solutions of discrete Painlevé equations. In this work we study discrete orthogonal polynomials with general hypergeometric weight and show that their recurrence coefficients satisfy, after some change of variables, the standard discrete Painlevé-V equation. We also provide an explicit change of variables transforming this equation to the standard form.
description: 24 pages
Evidence for B0->pi0pi0
Creators: name: The Belle Collaboration
name: Lee, S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report evidence for the decay B0->pi0pi0. The analysis is based on a data sample of 152million BBbar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4s) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+e- storage ring. We find 25.6+9.3/-8.4(stat)+1.6/-1.4(syst) B0->pi0pi0 signal events with a significance of 3.4 standard deviations. We measure the branching fraction to be (1.7+-0.6(stat)+-0.2(syst))*10^{-6}.
description: Submitted to PRL
Dog owner mental health is associated with dog behavioural problems, dog care and dog-facilitated social interaction: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Mills, Daniel
name: Barcelos, Ana Maria
name: Kargas, Niko
name: Assheton, Phil
name: Maltby, John
name: Hall, Sophie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300999
subject: Veterinary sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Despite numerous qualitative and cross-sectional studies investigating how dog-related factors may impact owners’ well-being, empirical studies to test these causal effects are lacking. This prospective cohort study examined the correlation and potential causal effect of 17 dog-related factors with six well-being outcomes (depression, anxiety, loneliness, suicidal ideation, hedonic well-being and eudaimonic well-being) in dog owners. Over a four-week period, 709 adult dog owners reported their weekly well-being and occurrence of each dog-related factor (e.g. how many times they ran with their dogs). A random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) with significance threshold set at 0.001 was used. Six factors correlated with poorer owner well-being (i.e. aggressive dog behaviour, fearful dog behaviour, poor dog health, failure to provide for the dog, lack of control over the dog, and dog presence). Only ‘friendly conversation with others due to the dog’ correlated with better well-being. Purposeful reductions in the frequency of dog behavioural and health-related issues are likely to improve owner well-being, as well as greater consistency in dog care (i.e. provide for the dog) and more engagement in friendly dog-facilitated social interactions. No potential causal effects were significant. Further studies investigating causal relationships are essential to improve people’s well-being through dog ownership.
Gradient estimates for the Allen-Cahn equation on Riemannian manifolds
Creators: name: Hou, Songbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J91

description: In this paper, we consider bounded positive solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation on complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds without boundary. We derive gradient estimates for those solutions. As an application, we get a Liouville type theorem on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
description: 11 pages