cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Where does the Stimulus go? Deep Generative Model for Commercial Banking Deposits
Creators: name: Zhan, Ni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper examines deposits of individuals ("retail") and large companies ("wholesale") in the U.S. banking industry, and how these deposit types are impacted by macroeconomic factors, such as quantitative easing (QE). Actual data for deposits by holder are unavailable. We use a dataset on banks' financial information and probabilistic generative model to predict industry retail-wholesale deposit split from 2000 to 2020. Our model assumes account balances arise from separate retail and wholesale lognormal distributions and fit parameters of distributions by minimizing error between actual bank metrics and simulated metrics using the model's generative process. We use time-series regression to forward predict retail-wholesale deposits as function of loans, retail loans, and reserve balances at Fed banks. We find increase in reserves (representing QE) increases wholesale but not retail deposits, and increase in loans increase both wholesale and retail deposits evenly. The result shows that QE following the 2008 financial crisis benefited large companies more than average individuals, a relevant finding for economic decision making. In addition, this work benefits bank management strategy by providing forecasting capability for retail-wholesale deposits.
Refraction and rightness in photonic crystals
Creators: name: Gajic, Rados
name: Meisels, Ronald
name: Kuchar, Friedemar
name: Hingerl, Kurt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study on relation between the refraction and rightness effects in photonic crystals applied on a 2D square lattice photonic crystal. The plane wave (the band and equifrequency contour analyses) and FDTD calculations for both TM and TE modes revealed all possible refraction and rightness cases in photonic crystal structures in the first three bands. In particular, we show for the first time, a possibility of the left-handed positive refraction. This means that left-handedness does not necessarily imply negative refraction in photonic crystals.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures, pdf
Seismic Evaluation of the Cumberland River Bridges on I-24 in Western Kentucky
Creators: name: Zatar, Wael A.
name: Ren, Wei-Xin
name: Harik, Issam E.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The main objective of this study is to assess the structural integrity of the I-24 parallel bridges at the Cumberland River crossing in western Kentucky. Due to its importance, the bridge is evaluated for the 250-year event and the maximum credible 500-year event. The scope of the work included: 1) Field testing of the main bridge; 2) Finite element modeling and calibration; 3) Time-history seismic response analysis for the main spans; and 4) Seismic evaluation for both the main and the approach spans. The seismic analysis for the 250-year event indicates that the main spans of the bridge can resist the event without yielding or loss-of-span at the supports. However, the anchor bolts on some of the piers are expected to fail in shear. Retrofitting measures are recommended. The seismic analysis for the 500-year event shows that few members of the main spans would yield due to the event. Also, the capacity of the bearing shear bolts of few piers of the main and approach spans are exceeded, and retrofitting measures are recommended.
Urban performance at different boundaries in England and Wales through the settlement scaling theory
Creators: name: Arbabi, Hadi
name: Mayfield, Martin
name: Dabinett, Gordon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: The relationship between transport-led agglomeration and economic performance is evaluated in an English and Welsh context. We examine the effects of scale, i.e., inter- versus intra-city mobility infrastructure, on urban size–cost performance. An additional contribution of this paper lies in its use of power-law scaling models of urban systems, enabling an assessment of optimality in the trade-off between economic output and mobility costs accounting for ease of access within cities coupled with their built density. Findings suggest economic underperformance coincides with inadequate mobility at both inter- and intra-city scales, while overperformance is accompanied by overgrown urbanized area and escalating mobility costs.
Anomalous asymmetry of magnetoresistance in NbSe$_3$ single crystals
Creators: name: Sinchenko, A. A.
name: Latyshev, Yu. I.
name: Orlov, A. P.
name: Monceau, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A pronounced asymmetry of magnetoresistance with respect to the magnetic field direction is observed for NbSe$_3$ crystals placed in a magnetic field perpendicular to their conducting planes. It is shown that the effect persists in a wide temperature range and manifests itself starting from a certain magnetic induction value $B_0$, which at $T=4.2$ K corresponds to the transition to the quantum limit, i.to the state where the Landay level splitting exceeds the temperature.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, to be appeared in JETP Lett
Interstellar Extinction and Elemental Abundances
Creators: name: Zuo, W. B.
name: Li, Aigen
name: Zhao, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elements in the interstellar medium (ISM) exist in the form of gas or dust. The interstellar extinction and elemental abundances provide crucial constraints on the composition, size and quantity of interstellar dust. Most of the extinction modeling efforts have assumed the total abundances (both in gas and in dust) of the dust-forming elements---known as the "interstellar abundances", the "interstellar reference abundances", or the "cosmic abundances"---to be solar and the gas-phase abundances to be independent of the interstellar environments. However, it remains unclear if the solar abundances are an appropriate representation of the interstellar abundances. Meanwhile, the gas-phase abundances are known to exhibit appreciable variations with the local interstellar environments. In this work we explore the viability of the abundances of B stars, the solar and protosolar abundances, and the protosolar abundances augmented by Galactic chemical enrichment (GCE) as an appropriate representation of the interstellar abundances by quantitatively examining the extinction and elemental abundances of ten interstellar lines of sight for which both the extinction curves and the gas-phase abundances of all the major dust-forming elements (i.e., C, O, Mg, Si and Fe) have been observationally determined. Instead of assuming a specific dust model and then fitting the observed extinction curves, for each sightline we apply the model-independent Kramers-Kronig relation, which relates the wavelength-integrated extinction to the total dust volume, to place a lower limit on the dust depletion. This, together with the observationally-derived gas-phase abundances, allows us to rule out the B-star, solar, and protosolar abundances as the interstellar reference standard. We conclude that the GCE-augmented protosolar abundances are a viable representation of the interstellar abundances.
description: 42 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Quark-Monopole Potentials from Supersymmetric SL(3,R) Deformed IIB Supergravity
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recompute the quark-monopole potential from supersymmetric SL(3,R) deformation of IIB supergravity background dual to deformed Coulomb branch flow of the N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. The marginal deformations strengthen the Coulombic attraction between quarks and monopoles.
description: 12pp; the discussions on (2.8) corrected
title: Echoes and citations in art and its writing
Creators: name: Barnard, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: This thesis defines echoing in relation to the production and interpretation of contemporary art, 
writing and critical practice. Informed by the action of performing to the camera, where a body 
in anticipation of a transmission taking place addresses a perceived audience, and where acts of 
speech, gesture and attention are front and centre, I locate echoing and reverberation within the 
body, as visceral events driving language, social relations and subjectivities.
Following a trajectory from 1970s performance and video art through to twenty-first century 
developments in writing-as-practice, echoing is established as a frame through which to interpret 
citational tendencies in the practice and discourse of contemporary art. Beginning with Nancy 
Holt and Richard Serra’s Boomerang (1974) and Sharon Hayes’s Screed #13 (2003), I consider 
echoing as an auditory effect, breaking it down through Brandon LaBelle’s Lexicon of the Mouth 
(2014) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s ‘Echo’ (1993). I argue that, unlike appropriation, 
echoing is not an exact copy of its source, but one transformed by the interruptions and 
impediments emerging through the circumstances of its respeaking and rewriting at a different 
place and time and called forth by a different body. In exploration of Edward George’s 
expression that ‘the body is a body of citational writing’ (2021) through Martine Syms’s Notes on 
Gesture (2015), I enact writerly practices of citation – such as closely reading a source, embodying 
it through rewriting and respeaking it aloud, reconfiguring, holding and making it visible – and 
test how these can challenge conventions for writing and make way for different messages and 
sensations.
Applying J.L Austin’s speech act theory to writing, both as action and a form that is prepared for 
action, specifically the script, the thesis is written performatively, with the writer, ‘I’, adopting the 
role of an academic researcher undertaking the task of a practice-based research project, one that 
is rooted in writing, in anticipation of the reader, ‘You’, extending the performance through its 
reading. It is modelled and tested through the practice of integrating existing texts and artworks 
into new arrangements via processes of repeating, restaging and rewriting. These 
reconfigurations are presented online, at
https://www.are.na/lisa-barnard/echoes-and-citations-in-art-and-its-writing, and the reader is 
directed to them at certain points in the body of the thesis. The interacting transmissions – of 
reading, writing, enacting, recording and documenting – are viewed as performing points of 
contact between reader, writer, text and practice. Documents and objects (language signs and 
symbols; printed matter; audio visual recordings; workshops) are simultaneously reconfigured as 
source, process and outcome.
Time-optimal variational control of bright matter-wave soliton
Creators: name: Huang, Tang-You
name: Zhang, Jia
name: Li, Jing
name: Chen, Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experiments, we present the time-optimal variational control of bright matter-wave soliton trapped in a quasi-one-dimensional harmonic trap by manipulating the atomic attraction through Feshbach resonances. More specially, we first apply a time-dependent variational method to derive the motion equation for capturing the soliton's shape, and secondly combine inverse engineering with optimal control theory to design the atomic interaction for implementing time-optimal decompression. Since the time-optimal solution is of bang-bang type, the smooth regularization is further adopted to smooth the on-off controller out, thus avoiding the heating and atom loss, induced from magnetic field ramp across a Feshbach resonance in practice.
An evaluative framework for watershed restoration initiatives, as applied to the Squamish River watershed restoration project
Creators: name: Tyler, John Dawes
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Watershed restoration has in recent years received a great deal of attention from policy makers and other stakeholders in British Columbia. Two hundred twenty seven watershed restoration projects were approved for funding by Forest Renewal British Columbia during the 1995-1996 fiscal year, with an approved budget of $22.2 million dollars. Despite this attention, there is no clear agreement on what watershed restoration is or how it should be evaluated. There is a pressing need for a watershed restoration evaluation process to be developed and implemented at the program level. The purpose of this research is to develop an evaluative framework for watershed restoration initiatives generally, and apply it to the Squamish River Watershed Restoration Project as a means of testing and improving the framework. In the process an evaluation of the Squamish River Watershed Restoration Project is conducted. The methods used to conduct this research included: (1) a comprehensive review of project reports, proposals and other relevant literature, (2) the design and application of a structured evaluative framework and (3) informational interviews with individuals representing legitimate interests in the case study. The evaluative framework appeared to be successful at measuring the performance of the case study, and may have great potential as a program evaluation tool. Application of this evaluative framework to other watershed restoration initiatives may help advance the goals of ecological restoration and sustainable development through investment in natural capital. It is recommended that future initiatives could benefit by: • Utilizing an ecosystem approach to natural resource management, one that emphasizes investment in natural capital, the establishment and maintenance of self sustaining social and ecological systems. • Utilizing a commonly recognized definition of ecological restoration, as promoting: (1) ecologically and socially desirable ecosystem values; (2) identifies functional and structural elements essential to self-sustaining systems; (3) facilitation of ecosystem recovery. • Applying the principles of decision analysis, and the use of the fundamental objectives that have been developed as a part of this work throughout the different phases of the project. • Incorporating the principles and practice of Adaptive Management. • Incorporating a collaborative approach to problem solving and, decision making when appropriate.
Letter from J. Corbet at The Canadian Bank of Commerce to "Sir" [James Goldie], February 13, 1913
Creators: name: Canadian Bank Of Commerce
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Letter to "Sir" [James Goldie] from J. Corbet at The Canadian Bank of Commerce, dated February 13, 1913, advising James Goldie that he received his letter.
Dust, gas, and metal content in star-forming galaxies at $z\sim3.3$ revealed with ALMA and Near-IR spectroscopy
Creators: name: Suzuki, Tomoko L.
name: Onodera, Masato
name: Kodama, Tadayuki
name: Daddi, Emanuele
name: Hayashi, Masao
name: Koyama, Yusei
name: Shimakawa, Rhythm
name: Smail, Ian
name: Sobral, David
name: Tacchella, Sandro
name: Tanaka, Ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted sub-millimeter observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) of star-forming galaxies at $z\sim3.3$, whose gas-phase metallicities have been previously measured. We investigate the dust and gas contents of the galaxies at $z\sim3.3$ and study how galaxies are interacting with their circumgalactic/intergalactic medium at this epoch by probing their gas mass fractions and gas-phase metallicities. Single-band dust continuum emission tracing dust mass and the relation between the gas-phase metallicity and gas-to-dust mass ratio are used to estimate the gas masses. The estimated gas mass fractions and depletion timescales are $f_{\rm gas}=$ 0.20-0.75 and $t_{\rm dep}=$ 0.09-1.55 Gyr, respectively. Although the galaxies appear to tightly distribute around the star-forming main sequence at $z\sim3.3$, both quantities show a wider spread at a fixed stellar mass than expected from the scaling relation, suggesting a large diversity of fundamental gas properties among star-forming galaxies apparently on the main sequence. Comparing gas mass fraction and gas-phase metallicity between the star-forming galaxies at $z\sim3.3$ and at lower redshifts, star-forming galaxies at $z\sim3.3$ appear to be more metal-poor than local galaxies with similar gas mass fractions. Using the gas regulator model to interpret this offset, we find that it can be explained by a higher mass-loading factor, suggesting that the mass-loading factor in outflows increases at earlier cosmic times.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Historical shocks and persistence of economic activity: evidence on self-employment from a unique natural experiment
Creators: name: Fritsch, Michael
name: Sorgner, Alina
name: Wyrwich, Michael
name: Zazdravnykh, Evguenii
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: This paper investigates the persistence of self-employment in the districts of Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave, between 1925 and 2010. The area experienced a number of disruptive historical shocks during this period. This setting rules out the fact that the persistence of self-employment can be explained by the persistence of institutions and culture. Nevertheless, a high level of persistence of industry-specific self-employment rates is found. It is argued that a historical tradition of entrepreneurship created an awareness about the entrepreneurial potential of regions among the new population that was yielded after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This effect seems to be higher in regions where a specific industry was advanced in terms of technology use.
Optimal design of nanoplasmonic materials using genetic algorithms as a multi-parameter optimization tool
Creators: name: Yelk, Joseph
name: Sukharev, Maxim
name: Seideman, Tamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An optimal control approach based on multiple parameter genetic algorithms is applied to the design of plasmonic nanoconstructs with pre-determined optical properties and functionalities. We first develop nanoscale metallic lenses that focus an incident plane wave onto a pre-specified, spatially confined spot. Our results illustrate the role of symmetry breaking and unravel the principles that favor dimeric constructs for optimal light localization. Next we design a periodic array of silver particles to modify the polarization of an incident, linearly-polarized plane wave in a desired fashion while localizing the light in space. The results provide insight into the structural features that determine the birefringence properties of metal nanoparticles and their arrays. Of the variety of potential applications that may be envisioned, we note the design of nanoscale light sources with controllable coherence and polarization properties that could serve for coherent control of molecular or electronic dynamics in the nanoscale.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Evolution of spheroidal dust in electrically active sub-stellar atmospheres
Creators: name: Stark, Craig R.
name: Diver, Declan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the source of sub-stellar polarimetric observations in the optical and near-infrared is key to characterizing sub-stellar objects and developing potential diagnostics for determining properties of their atmospheres. Differential scattering from a population of aligned, non-spherical dust grains is a potential source of polarization that could be used to determine geometric properties of the dust clouds. This paper addresses the problem of the spheroidal growth of dust grains in electrically activated sub-stellar atmospheres. It presents the novel application of a mechanism whereby non-spherical, elongated dust grains can be grown via plasma deposition as a consequence of the surface electric field effects of charged dust grains. We numerically solve the differential equations governing the spheroidal growth of charged dust grains via plasma deposition as a result of surface electric field effects in order to determine how the dust eccentricity and the dust particle eccentricity distribution function evolve with time. From these results, we determine the effect of spheroidal dust on the observed linear polarization. Numerical solutions show that $e\approx 0.94$ defines a watershed eccentricity, where the eccentricity of grains with an initial eccentricity less than (greater than) this value decreases (increases) and spherical (spheroidal) growth occurs. This produces a characteristic bimodal eccentricity distribution function yielding a fractional change in the observed linear polarization of up to $\approx0.1$ corresponding to dust grains of maximal eccentricity at wavelengths of $\approx1 μ$m, consistent with the near infrared observational window. The results presented here are relevant to the growth of non-spherical, irregularly shaped dust grains of general geometry where non-uniform surface electric field effects of charged dust grains are significant.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lessons for regional energy modelling: enhancing demand-side transport and residential policies in Madrid
Creators: name: García-Gusano, Diego
name: O’Mahony, Tadhg
name: Iribarren, Diego
name: Dufour, Javier
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: The subnational level embodied by regions and cities presents unique challenges for energy policy. Large metropolitan areas tend to be consumers rather than producers of energy, with two of the most critical sectors being transport and residential. The Madrid region in Spain – one of Europe’s most significant urban areas – represents such a phenomenon. The Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) modelling approach has been applied to Madrid for long-term sustainable energy planning. This paper presents the model, a business-as-usual projection and two alternate scenarios to 2050. The results show that by applying measures to decarbonize the transport and residential sectors, significant reductions in energy demand are possible.
COVID-19 Working Paper: The Effects of COVID-19 on Food Sales
Creators: name: Dong, Xiao
name: Zeballos, Eliana
name: Dong, Xiao
name: Zeballos, Eliana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: COVID-19, pandemic, recession, food sales, FAH, food at home, FAFH, food away from home, food services, retail food, restaurants, county-level unemployment

description: This article investigates the effects of economic recessions and changes in local economic conditions on the growth of food-at-home and food-away-from-home sales at the county level and estimates the likely impacts of the COVID-19-induced recession on food sales. On average, we show the recessionary effects of COVID-19 are likely to increase the growth of food-at-home sales by 1 percent and decrease the growth of food-away-from-home sales by 0.9 percent. These results indicate the recessionary effects of COVID-19 on food sales are small compared to the pandemic and public health effects of COVID-19 on food sales.
Broad band X-ray spectrum of KS 1947+300 with BeppoSAX
Creators: name: Naik, S.
name: Callanan, P. J.
name: Paul, B.
name: Dotani, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results obtained from three BeppoSAX observations of the accretion-powered transient X-ray pulsar KS 1947+300 carried out during the declining phase of its 2000 November -- 2001 June outburst. A detailed spectral study of KS 1947+300 across a wide X-ray band (0.1--100.0 keV) is attempted for the first time here. Timing analysis of the data clearly shows a 18.7 s pulsation in the X-ray light curves in the above energy band. The pulse profile of KS 1947+300 is characterized by a broad peak with sharp rise followed by a narrow dip. The dip in the pulse profile shows a very strong energy dependence. Broad-band pulse-phase-averaged spectroscopy obtained with three of the BeppoSAX instruments shows that the energy spectrum in the 0.1--100 keV energy band has three components, a Comptonized component, a ~0.6 keV blackbody component, and a narrow and weak iron emission line at 6.7 keV with a low column density of material in the line of sight. We place an upper limit on the equivalent width of the iron K_αline at 6.4 keV of ~13 eV (for a width of 100 eV). Assuming a spherical blackbody emitting region and the distance of the source to be 10 kpc, the radius of the emitting region is found to be in the range of 14--22 km, which rules out the inner accretion disk as the soft X-ray emitting region.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
A fast and large bandwidth superconducting variable coupler
Creators: name: Chang, Hung-Shen
name: Satzinger, Kevin J.
name: Zhong, Youpeng
name: Bienfait, Audrey
name: Chou, Ming-Han
name: Conner, Christopher R.
name: Dumur, Étienne
name: Grebel, Joel
name: Peairs, Gregory A.
name: Povey, Rhys G.
name: Cleland, Andrew N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variable microwave-frequency couplers are highly useful components in classical communication systems, and likely will play an important role in quantum communication applications. Conventional semiconductor-based microwave couplers have been used with superconducting quantum circuits, enabling for example the in situ measurements of multiple devices via a common readout chain. However, the semiconducting elements are lossy, and furthermore dissipate energy when switched, making them unsuitable for cryogenic applications requiring rapid, repeated switching. Superconducting Josephson junction-based couplers can be designed for dissipation-free operation with fast switching and are easily integrated with superconducting quantum circuits. These enable on-chip, quantum-coherent routing of microwave photons, providing an appealing alternative to semiconductor switches. Here, we present and characterize a chip-based broadband microwave variable coupler, tunable over 4-8 GHz with over 1.5 GHz instantaneous bandwidth, based on the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with two parallel Josephson junctions. The coupler is dissipation-free, features large on-off ratios in excess of 40 dB, and the coupling can be changed in about 10 ns. The simple design presented here can be readily integrated with superconducting qubit circuits, and can be easily generalized to realize a four- or more port device.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
บทบาทของกฎหมายที่มีต่อชีวิตสามัญชน: กฎหมายละเมิดและนโยบายสังคม
Creators: name: Engel, David M.
Publisher: name: คณะนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่
Year: 2004

description: 1, 2, วารสารนิติสังคมศาสตร์
วิจารณ์หนังสือ Thai Folktales&Law เขียนโดย Alexander Shytov
Creators: name: นัทมน คงเจริญ
Publisher: name: คณะนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่
Year: 2004

description: 1, 2, วารสารนิติสังคมศาสตร์
Regional employment and housing impacts of tax increment financing districts
Creators: name: Funderburg, Richard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: This paper estimates the impacts of tax increment financing (TIF) districts on employment and residential development in Polk County, Iowa, using quasi-experimental methods. A spatially lagged-adjustment model is adapted for use at the parcel level. Results indicate that TIF districts contributed gross declines in private sector, non-governmental employment. Job losses attributable to TIF totalled 110 jobs per square mile, and the negative employment effects were sustained over the long term between 2001 and 2011. In contrast, there is some evidence that TIF districts have contributed positively to residential development, although the increase in housing near the districts was not found to be statistically significant in the quasi-experimental integrated lagged adjustment model.
Spherical-harmonic tensors
Creators: name: Ledesma, Francisco Gonzalez
name: Mewes, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The connection between spherical harmonics and symmetric tensors is explored. For each spherical harmonic, a corresponding traceless symmetric tensor is constructed. These tensors are then extended to include nonzero traces, providing an orthonormal angular-momentum eigenbasis for symmetric tensors of any rank. The relationship between the spherical-harmonic tensors and spin-weighted spherical harmonics is derived. The results facilitate the spherical-harmonic expansion of a large class of tensor-valued functions. Several simple illustrative examples are discussed, and the formalism is used to derive the leading-order effects of violations of Lorentz invariance in Newtonian gravity.
description: 17 pages
Wh-in-situ phenomena in French
Creators: name: Chang, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The goal of this thesis is to provide an alternative theory of how wh-expressions are interpreted. I propose that French wh-words are interpreted through an A-bar binding relation subject to a modified Generalized Binding Theory (cf. Aoun, 1985; henceforth GBT) which is an LF module of the Minimalist Framework (Chomsky, 1995). Among the four interrogative strategies available in French, it will be demonstrated that wh-clefts and wh-in-situ pattern together as they can only be used in strongly presupposed contexts unlike reinforced interrogatives and inversion+wh-fronting. French exhibits a puzzle in the domain of Wh/QP interaction. Standard analyses predict an ambiguity/non-ambiguity contrast depending on the c-command relation between the wh-word and the QP (May, 1985, etc.). Crucially, a wh-in-situ c-commanded by a universal QP (among other A'-elements) lacks a non-echo interpretation; only an echo reading is available. Furthermore, a wh-in-situ within an embedded clause only has an echo reading. Contrastively, an overtly moved wh-word can always be interpreted as non-echo regardless of an intervening A'- element or a clause boundary. I argue that French in-situ facts can be captured by the GBT. I propose that wh-words are A'-anaphors that receive an interrogative interpretation by being bound to a null Q operator (C°). This binding relation is subject to locality conditions. First, the lack of a non-echo reading of a wh-in-situ c-commanded by a QP is a violation of a Specified Antecedent Condition which requires an A'-anaphor to be bound by the closest potential antecedent. Second, the matrix clause restriction is captured by a Matrix Clause Condition requiring an A'-anaphor to be bound within its minimal finite clause. Under minimalist views of movement, a strong [wh] feature of French null Q attracts a wh-word to raise overtly and adjoin to the root. Because overtly moved whwords enter LF in the most local binding relation possible with the null Q (spec-head), they may always be interpreted as non-echo. Lastly, I adopt Chierchia's (1993) Weak Crossover (WCO) analysis of Wh/QP interaction to capture the ambiguity/non-ambiguity contrast in French overt syntax. The WCO approach further supports our proposals concerning the composition of French wh-words; they are made up of a [wh] feature and an A'-anaphoric pronominal element, pro.
Subharmonic functions, generalizations and separately subharmonic functions
Creators: name: Riihentaus, Juhani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31B05;31C05

description: First, we give the definition for quasi-nearly subharmonic functions, now for general, not necessarily nonnegative functions, unlike previously. We point out that our function class incudes, among others, quasisubharmonic functions, nearly subharmonic functions (in a slightly generalized sense) and almost subharmonic functions. We also give some basic properties of quasi-nearly subharmonic functions. Second, after recalling some of the existing subharmonicity results of separately subharmonic functions, we give the corresponding counterparts for separately quasi-nearly subharmonic functions, thus improving previous results of ours, of Lelong, of Avanissian and of Arsove. Third, we give two results concerning the subharmonicity of a function subharmonic with respect to the first variable and harmonic with respect to the second variable. The first result improves a result of Arsove, concerning the case when the function has, in addition, locally a negative integrable minorant. The second result improves a result of Kołodziej and Thorbiörnson concerning the subharmonicity of a function subharmonic and ${\mathcal{C}}^2$ in the first variable and harmonic in the second.
description: A talk at the XIV Conference on Analytic Functions, July 22-28, 2007, Chelm, Poland. Some misprints of the previous version arXiv:math/0610259v4, 27 Dec 2007, corrected, also some final publication details added to a couple of references. In addition, the publication information is given
title: Shaping the spatial correlations of photon pairs for quantum imaging applications
Creators: name: Cameron, Patrick
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2024

description: The field of quantum imaging exploits the quantum properties of light to surpass fundamental classical limits and to develop novel imaging modalities. For example, the use of nonclassical states of light can offer enhanced resolution, increased sensitivity, and improved noise performance compared to classical techniques. In recent years, significant advances in non-classical sources- particularly sources of photon pairs- and camera technologies have enabled many new quantum imaging schemes, primarily in the form of proof of concept experiments, but increasingly approaching real-world applications.

In parallel, light structuring techniques have strongly developed in the realm of classical imaging. Revolutionary tools, such as spatial light modulators(SLMs), allow the manipulation of the phase and amplitude of coherent light beams with extremely high precision. Shaping light with such digital holograms can, for example, enable imaging through scattering media or transforming light from one transverse spatial mode to another. Over the past few years, such tools have had a significant impact on various fields of optics, including metrology, imaging, microscopy, and communications.

This thesis investigates how the concepts of classical light shaping can be adapted and applied to improve techniques of quantum imaging with photon pairs. A theoretical framework describing such shaping is developed, and the key differences between classical and photon-pair shaping are highlighted. These concepts are then applied to the practical problem of imaging through aberrations. A novel adaptive optics method to correct for aberrations in an imaging system is demonstrated, with potential applications in classical and quantum microscopy. Beyond imaging, some applications of two-photon shaping for quantum communications are also explored.
Local Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Muon-Polaron Complexes in Fe$_2$O$_3$
Creators: name: Dehn, M. H.
name: Shenton, J. K.
name: Arseneau, D. J.
name: MacFarlane, W. A.
name: Morris, G. D.
name: Maigné, A.
name: Spaldin, N. A.
name: Kiefl, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform detailed muon spin rotation ($μ$SR) measurements in the classic antiferromagnet Fe$_2$O$_3$ and explain the spectra by considering dynamic population and dissociation of charge-neutral muon-polaron complexes. We show that charge-neutral muon states in Fe$_2$O$_3$, despite lacking the signatures typical of charge-neutral muonium centers in nonmagnetic materials, have a significant impact on the measured $μ$SR frequencies and relaxation rates. Our identification of such polaronic muon centers in Fe$_2$O$_3$ suggests that isolated hydrogen (H) impurities form analogous complexes, and that H interstitials may be a source of charge carrier density in Fe$_2$O$_3$.
Crystal structure built from a GeO$_6$-GeO$_5$ polyhedra network with high thermal stability: $β$-SrGe$_2$O$_5$
Creators: name: Niedermeier, Christian A.
name: Yamaura, Jun-ichi
name: Wu, Jiazhen
name: He, Xinyi
name: Katase, Takayoshi
name: Hosono, Hideo
name: Kamiya, Toshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By tackling the challenge of extending transparent oxide semiconductors to Ge based oxides, we have found a not-yet-reported crystal structure, named $β$-SrGe$_2$O$_5$, which is composed of edge-sharing GeO$_6$ octahedra interconnected by GeO$_5$ bipyramids. Single crystals were successfully grown by the high-pressure flux method. $β$-SrGe$_2$O$_5$ has a band gap of 5.2 eV and a dispersive conduction band with an effective mass as small as 0.34 times the electron rest mass, which originates from the edge-sharing GeO$_6$ octahedra network. Although known compounds with octahedral GeO$_6$ coordination are commonly unstable at atmospheric pressure and elevated temperatures, $β$-SrGe$_2$O$_5$ exhibits thermal stability up to 700 $^\circ$C.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures
Composite solitary waves in three-component scalar field theory: II. Three-body low-energy scattering
Creators: name: Izquierdo, A. Alonso
name: Guilarte, J. Mateos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss time evolution of some solitary waves described in the first part of this work. The adiabatic motion of the non-linear non-dispersive waves composed of three lumps is interpreted as three-body low energy scattering of these particle-like kinks.
description: LaTeX file, 9 pages, 3 figures; References added, minor corrections, to be published in Physica D in a single paper with nlin.PS/0602058
Translating Imperial Practices, Knowledge, and Taste Across the Mediterranean: Giulio Ferrario and Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson
Creators: name: Calvi, Giulia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Descriptions of material culture open up a web of words and images, and outline the circulation of textual and visual knowledge across the Mediterranean, from the Ottoman Empire to France and Italy. By focusing on the work of Giulio Ferrario and Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson, we showed the close connections between their writings and the unique ways in which the former - with his team of artists and engravers - borrowed from the latter.
Inverse transfer of magnetic helicity in direct numerical simulations of compressible isothermal turbulence: scaling laws
Creators: name: Teissier, Jean-Mathieu
name: Müller, Wolf-Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inverse transfer of magnetic helicity is investigated through direct numerical simulations of large-scale-mechanically-driven turbulent flows in the isothermal ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) framework. The mechanical forcing is either purely solenoidal or purely compressive and the turbulent steady-states considered exhibit root mean square (RMS) Mach numbers 0.1 $\lesssim$ M $\lesssim$ 11. A continuous small-scale electromotive forcing injects magnetic helical fluctuations, which lead to the build-up of ever larger magnetic structures. Spectral scaling exponents are observed which, for low Mach numbers, are consistent with previous research done in the incompressible case. Higher compressibility leads to flatter magnetic helicity scaling exponents. The deviations from the incompressible case are comparatively small for solenoidally-driven turbulence, even at high Mach numbers, as compared to those for compressively-driven turbulence, where strong deviations are already visible at relatively mild RMS Mach numbers M $\gtrsim$ 3. Compressible effects can thus play an important role in the inverse transfer of magnetic helicity, especially when the turbulence drivers are rather compressive. Theoretical results observed in the incompressible case can, however, be transferred to supersonic turbulence by an appropriate change of variables, using the Alfvén velocity in place of the magnetic field.
description: submitted to JFM
Site Investigation of Bridges along I-24 in Western Kentucky
Creators: name: Zatar, Wael
name: Harik, Issam E.
name: Yuan, Peng
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Determination of the seismic risk of the I-24 bridges requires evaluating the current condition of all individual elements of the bridges. All bridges along the I-24 were visually inspected, pictured, and the records were stored in a database. Data of the visual inspection and the pictures were combined to form the completed site inspection forms of the I-24 bridges. Main visually observed deficiencies of the bridge elements were pointed out. The site inspection forms of all bridges on/over the I-24 in western Kentucky are used together with the bridge inventory to obtain different statistical figures regarding the characteristics of the bridges. The site inspection forms are considered to be a source that provides images of the existing conditions, assists in pre-earthquake preparation plans, and forms the basis to develop post-earthquake emergency response, inspection, and evaluation plans.
Supersymmetric QCD corrections to single top quark production at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Zhang, Jia Jun
name: Li, Chong Sheng
name: Li, Zhao
name: Yang, Li Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the calculations of the supersymmetric QCD corrections to the total cross sections for single top production at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Our results show that for the s-channel and t-channel, the supersymmetric QCD corrections are at most about 1%, but for the associated production process, the supersymmetric QCD corrections increase the total cross sections significantly, which can reach about 6% for most values of the parameters, and the supersymmetric QCD corrections should be taken into consideration in the future high precision experimental analysis for top physics.
description: 33 pages, 19 figures, version to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Code für die Bearbeitung der Verfügbaren Speleothem and Permafrost-Model Data für die Masterarbeit: "Speläotheme als globale Permafrostproxies"
Creators: name: Müller-Ißberner, Luca Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Der benutzte Code für die Bearbeitung und Darstellung der Speläothem-Datensätze und die Permafrost-Modelle. Die Datengrundlage der Speläothem-Daten und der Permafrost Modelle AWI-ESM und S21 werden für die Bearbeitung benötigt. Authoren, bzw. Ansprechpartner für die jeweilgen Daten sind im Literaturverzeichnis der Arbeit zu finden.
The Field of Streams: Sagittarius and its Siblings
Creators: name: Belokurov, V.
name: Zucker, D. B.
name: Evans, N. W.
name: Gilmore, G.
name: Vidrih, S.
name: Bramich, D. M.
name: Newberg, H. J.
name: Wyse, R. F. G.
name: Irwin, M. J.
name: Fellhauer, M.
name: Hewett, P. C.
name: Walton, N. A.
name: Wilkinson, M. I.
name: Cole, N.
name: Yanny, B.
name: Rockosi, C. M.
name: Beers, T. C.
name: Bell, E. F.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Ivesic, Z.
name: Lupton, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) u,g,r,i,z photometry to study Milky Way halo substructure in the area around the North Galactic Cap. A simple color cut (g-r < 0.4) reveals the tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal, as well as a number of other stellar structures in the field. Two branches (A and B) of the Sagittarius stream are clearly visible in an RGB-composite image created from 3 magnitude slices, and there is also evidence for a still more distant wrap behind the A branch. A comparison of these data with numerical models suggests that the shape of the Galactic dark halo is close to spherical.
description: ApJ (Letters), in press
Notebook B (April/May 1972-July 1972)
Creators: name: Hutchison, Alexander
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060777
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Poetry, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067769
subject: College teachers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/868114
subject: Literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/999953
subject: Poets, Scottish
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1068037
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Theology
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1149559

description: Alexander ("Sandy") Hutchison (1943-2015) was a Scottish poet who taught at various colleges and universities on Vancouver Island between the 1960s-80s, including the Department of English at the University of Victoria in 1966. These notebooks contain content ranging from notes about/from various philosophers, to personal correspondence, to drafts of his poetry.