cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An analysis of sports coverage on Canadian television station websites
Creators: name: Fan, Ying
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Following the early days of the Internet and the World Wide Web, news media in Canada have gone on to develop their own news web sites with the intentions of meeting the on-line needs of media audiences, expanding their audience reach, and adding to revenue production and profitability on- and off-line. Web strategies have varied somewhat across the different media, but anecdotal evidence suggests that sports contents have been important for both print and television. This thesis focused on the latter, sports contents on television network websites, and was undertaken to evaluate how Canadian television stations are utilizing the Internet and web technologies to feature sports news and information. Only a few studies specific to sports television web sites have been done, and these have mainly focused on American news stations. The research objective of the thesis was to systematically examine the web presence of sports contents on Canadian television web sites by conducting a content analysis of identifiably unique sites in the Canadian context. A site analysis protocol was developed through an iterative process. An initial instrument was constructed drawing on past research in this area. In particular, prior work by Bates et al. (1996 & 1997), Pines (1999), Bucy, Lang, Potter & Grabe (1999), Sparks (2001) provided systematic measures for examiriirig the Web presence of television stations. Ha & James's definition of interactivity (1998) was also useful as was the work of Cho (1999), Rogers & Thorson (2000) on Internet advertising. The initial instrument was evaluated and modified during a series of trial scans. The final instrument focused on five areas: body of the home page, types of content, presentation mechanisms, interactivity and advertising. A systematic site analysis was conducted from August to October, 2003, and a total of twenty-one sports home pages were analyzed. Three web sites (TSN, Leafs TV and The Score) were found to have a good balance in the five areas evaluated in the study. The results of independent-samples t-tests showed that general television networks had more sports top news and hyperlinks to other news items than sport specialty networks. By comparison, sports specialty networks tended to have more sport-related search engines and greater efficiency of space. CBC's "Sports Forums" that were configured on its sports home page gave the public broadcaster the highest quotient for interactivity in comparison with the twenty private networks and stations in the study. Advertising was present in all of the sites, and the findings point to an increasing interest in the televisual and sport web site media in producing revenue through web-based advertising.
Blaesoxipha subamericana Rohdendorf 1932
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Blaesoxipha
Blaesoxipha subamericana

description: Blaesoxipha subamericana ROHDENDORF, 1932
OÖ, Grünau, Kasberg, Gipfel, 1747m, 21.7.17, 2 Ex; Grossraming, Almkogel, Gipfel, 1513m, 5.7.17.
Neu für Oberösterreich. Keine Fundangaben in FRANZ (1989), aber nach Fauna Europaea auch in Ö präsent.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 792, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
An Examination of Inverse Demand Models: An Application to the U.S. Crawfish Industry
Creators: name: Lee, Young-Jae
name: Kennedy, P. Lynn
name: Lee, Young-Jae
name: Kennedy, P. Lynn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: inverse demand systems
subject: statistical validity
subject: Allais coefficients

description: This study analyzes quantity impacts of imported crawfish tailmeat on Louisiana crawfish tailmeat prices, and demonstrates the statistical validity and proper interpretation of cross substitution within inverse demand systems. Among five inverse demand systems, the Differential Inverse National Bureau of Research (DINBR) model shows no violation of econometric assumptions for the data analyzed. By using Allais coefficients proposed by Barten and Bettendorf (1989), we show substitutability among the five fish species.
Investing in Methane Digesters on Pennsylvania Dairy Farms: Implication of Scale Economies and Environmental Programs
Creators: name: Leuer, Elizabeth R.
name: Hyde, Jeffrey
name: Richard, Tom L.
name: Leuer, Elizabeth R.
name: Hyde, Jeffrey
name: Richard, Tom L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: anaerobic digester
subject: stochastic capital budget model
subject: dairy farm
subject: alternative energy

description: A stochastic capital budget was used to analyze the effect of net metering policies and carbon credits on profitability of anaerobic digesters on dairy farms in Pennsylvania. We analyzed three different farm sizes—500, 1,000, and 2,000 cows—and considered the addition of a solids separator to the project. Results indicate that net metering policies and carbon credits increase the expected net present value (NPV) of digesters. Moreover, the addition of a solids separator further increases the mean NPV of the venture. In general, the technology is profitable only for very large farms (1,000+ cows) that use the separated solids as bedding material.
Bouncing or sticky droplets: impalement transitions on superhydrophobic micropatterned surfaces
Creators: name: Bartolo, Denis
name: Bouamrirene, Farid
name: Verneuil, Emilie
name: Buguin, Axel
name: Silberzan, Pascal
name: Moulinet, Sebastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a liquid drops impinges a hydrophobic rough surface it can either bounce off the surface (fakir droplets) or be impaled and strongly stuck on it (Wenzel droplets). The analysis of drop impact and quasi static ''loading'' experiments on model microfabricated surfaces allows to clearly identify the forces hindering the impalement transitions. A simple semi-quantitative model is proposed to account for the observed relation between the surface topography and the robustness of fakir non-wetting states. Motivated by potential applications in microfluidics and in the fabrication of self cleaning surfaces, we finally propose some guidelines to design robust superhydrophobic surfaces.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
title: Dans ses yeux : au miroir de la société argentine
Creators: name: Heitz, Françoise
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2012

description: Le film Dans ses yeux (El Secreto de sus ojos) du cinéaste argentin Juan José Campanella, adaptation du roman d’Eduardo Sacheri, a remporté l’Oscar du meilleur film étranger en 2010, ainsi que deux Goyas et plusieurs autres prix. Le metteur en scène est – comme on le dit dans Les Cahiers du cinéma – un « habile artisan qui sait conjuguer à la perfection l’idiosyncrasie nationale (Le Fils de la mariée [El Hijo de la novia, 2001] et Luna de Avellaneda [2004] font partie, avec Dans ses yeux, des plus gros succès de l’histoire du cinéma argentin) et un savoir-faire tout américain (il signe certains épisodes des séries Dr. House [House, M. D., puis House], et New-York, Unité spéciale [Law & Order Special Victims Unit]) ». Le succès planétaire des séries américaines lui assure les moyens financiers pour continuer à créer pour le cinéma, seul medium où il puisse s’exprimer en liberté, intervenant toujours dans l’élaboration du scénario.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 01 (2012): Images et insularité
title: Pedro Almodóvar : au commencement était la Movida
Creators: name: Berthier, Nancy
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2012

description: Pour le grand public, la filmographie d'Almodóvar est restée associée à la série de films postérieurs à Femmes au bord de la crise de nerfs, c’est-à-dire à une esthétique de la maturité (il avait presque 40 ans au moment de sa sortie), dont l’hommage qui lui a été rendu à la Cinémathèque Française entre mai et juillet 2006 rendait bien compte. Le cinéaste s’identifie désormais à un style qui renvoie lui-même à une image de l’Espagne moderne, pleinement intégrée à l’Europe. Cependant, on ne peut comprendre l’Almodóvar d’aujourd’hui si on ne comprend pas l’Almodóvar d’hier. Son style, qui de nos jours semble si intemporel qu’il est capable de toucher un public international, bien au-delà des Pyrénées, est le résultat d’une histoire personnelle indissociable d’une histoire collective, ancrée dans un contexte tout à fait spécifique. Dans le cadre de cet article, nous reviendrons sur cette dernière et rendrons compte de la genèse du cinéma almodovarien en mettant en évidence les liens qui l’unissent à l’histoire de son pays, en particulier dans le contexte de la Movida. En effet, la Movida ne peut être comprise sans Pedro Almodóvar et le cinéma de Pedro Almodóvar ne peut s’expliquer sans la Movida. Après un bref rappel de ce qu’a signifié la Movida dans l’histoire de l’Espagne, nous nous attacherons à définir la manière dont l’œuvre du cinéaste de la Mancha y est intimement rattachée.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 01 (2012): Images et insularité
Pinning Is Futile: You Need More Than Local Dependency Versioning to Defend against Supply Chain Attacks
Creators: name: He, Hao
name: Vasilescu, Bogdan
name: Kästner, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent high-profile incidents in open-source software have greatly raised practitioner attention on software supply chain attacks. To guard against potential malicious package updates, security practitioners advocate pinning dependency to specific versions rather than floating in version ranges. However, it remains controversial whether pinning carries a meaningful security benefit that outweighs the cost of maintaining outdated and possibly vulnerable dependencies. In this paper, we quantify, through counterfactual analysis and simulations, the security and maintenance impact of version constraints in the npm ecosystem. By simulating dependency resolutions over historical time points, we find that pinning direct dependencies not only (as expected) increases the cost of maintaining vulnerable and outdated dependencies, but also (surprisingly) even increases the risk of exposure to malicious package updates in larger dependency graphs due to the specifics of npm's dependency resolution mechanism. Finally, we explore collective pinning strategies to secure the ecosystem against supply chain attacks, suggesting specific changes to npm to enable such interventions. Our study provides guidance for practitioners and tool designers to manage their supply chains more securely.
Moments of Wigner function and Renyi entropies at freeze-out
Creators: name: Bialas, A.
name: Czyz, W.
name: Zalewski, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relation between Renyi entropies and moments of the Wigner function, representing the quantum mechanical description of the M-particle semi-inclusive distribution at freeze-out, is investigated. It is shown that in the limit of infinite volume of the system, the classical and quantum descriptions are equivalent. Finite volume corrections are derived and shown to be small for systems encountered in relativistic heavy ion collisions.
description: 15 pages, one figure
Mechanical design of apertures and the infolding of pollen grain
Creators: name: Bozic, Anze
name: Siber, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When pollen grains become exposed to the environment, they rapidly desiccate. To protect themselves until rehydration, the grains undergo characteristic infolding with the help of special structures in the grain wall---apertures---where the otherwise thick exine shell is absent or reduced in thickness. Recent theoretical studies have highlighted the importance of apertures for the elastic response and the folding of the grain. Experimental observations show that different pollen grains sharing the same number and type of apertures can nonetheless fold in quite diverse fashion. Using thin-shell theory of elasticity, we show how both the absolute elastic properties of the pollen wall as well as the relative elastic differences between the exine wall and the apertures play an important role in determining pollen folding upon desiccation. Focusing primarily on colpate pollen, we delineate the regions of pollen elastic parameters where desiccation leads to a regular, complete closing of all apertures and thus to an infolding which protects the grain against water loss. Phase diagrams of pollen folding pathways indicate that an increase in the number of apertures leads to a reduction of the region of elastic parameters where the apertures close in a regular fashion. The infolding also depends on the details of the aperture shape and size, and our study explains how the features of the mechanical design of apertures influence the pollen folding patterns. Understanding the mechanical principles behind pollen folding pathways should also prove useful for the design of the elastic response of artificial inhomogeneous shells.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures; 9 pages and 6 figures of SI
Simulations of financial markets in a Potts-like model
Creators: name: Takaishi, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A three-state model based on the Potts model is proposed to simulate financial markets. The three states are assigned to "buy", "sell" and "inactive" states. The model shows the main stylized facts observed in the financial market: fat-tailed distributions of returns and long time correlations in the absolute returns. At low inactivity rate, the model effectively reduces to the two-state model of Bornholdt and shows similar results to the Bornholdt model. As the inactivity increases, we observe the exponential distributions of returns.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Metopia argyrocephala
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Metopia
Metopia argyrocephala

description: Metopia argyrocephala (MEIGEN, 1824)
Bgld, Donnerskirchen, Teufelsgraben, 22.6.17; Zurndorf, NSG, 14.6.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 792, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Evaluating Labor Productivity in Food Retailing
Creators: name: Park, Timothy A.
name: Park, Timothy A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: elasticity of complementarity
subject: employee compensation
subject: food retailing
subject: inverse price elasticities

description: Competition from new store formats including supercenters, warehouse clubs, and mass merchandisers has emerged as a major threat to traditional grocery chains. A primary objective of this paper is to understand how the store-level performance is related to the workforce composition of full-time and part-time employees chosen by the food retailer along with benefits and incentives provided to employees. The elasticity of complementarity for food retailers measures how changes in store size affect use of full-time and part-time employees. Larger store size increases the marginal value of labor, and firm hiring decisions shift to expanded use of part-time employees.
title: « Mon cinéma est comme un journal » : les films d’Eloy de la Iglesia comme chronique de la Transition
Creators: name: Montero, Laureano
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2012

description: Eloy de la Iglesia est un réalisateur très controversé. Les choses ont heureusement quelque peu changé depuis, ses films suscitent une attention croissante de la part de la recherche universitaire, principalement en Angleterre, aux États-Unis et en France. Toutes ces contributions proposent des lectures diverses et complémentaires d’une œuvre cinématographique beaucoup plus riche et complexe qu’il n’y paraît de prime abord. Elles confortent également la légitimité et la pertinence du cinéma d’Eloy de la Iglesia comme objet d’étude pour rendre compte de l’évolution de la société espagnole, notamment pendant la Transition, une époque d’intense activité pour le réalisateur.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 01 (2012): Images et insularité
On the Limitations of Combining Sentiment Analysis Tools in a Cross-Platform Setting
Creators: name: Obaidi, Martin
name: Holm, Henrik
name: Schneider, Kurt
name: Klünder, Jil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A positive working climate is essential in modern software development. It enhances productivity since a satisfied developer tends to deliver better results. Sentiment analysis tools are a means to analyze and classify textual communication between developers according to the polarity of the statements. Most of these tools deliver promising results when used with test data from the domain they are developed for (e.g., GitHub). But the tools' outcomes lack reliability when used in a different domain (e.g., Stack Overflow). One possible way to mitigate this problem is to combine different tools trained in different domains. In this paper, we analyze a combination of three sentiment analysis tools in a voting classifier according to their reliability and performance. The tools are trained and evaluated using five already existing polarity data sets (e.g. from GitHub). The results indicate that this kind of combination of tools is a good choice in the within-platform setting. However, a majority vote does not necessarily lead to better results when applying in cross-platform domains. In most cases, the best individual tool in the ensemble is preferable. This is mainly due to the often large difference in performance of the individual tools, even on the same data set. However, this may also be due to the different annotated data sets.
description: This paper has been accepted at the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21388-5_8
title: Les « quinquis » d’Eloy de la Iglesia : mal désincarné, mâles fantasmés
Creators: name: Breysse, Maxime
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2012

description: Quelques années avant que les jeunes délinquants des banlieues n’envahissent le cinéma de la Transition démocratique, José María Rodríguez Méndez (1925-2009), dramaturge madrilène qui choisit de rester dans son pays, malgré les multiples pressions de la censure franquiste, avait déjà mis en scène, dans un théâtre très engagé, la vie des jeunes « quinquis », figure à laquelle les Espagnols commençaient à s’intéresser et qui deviendra, après la mort du dictateur, un véritable mythe. Déjà, dans Quinquis de Madriz, le dramaturge dénonçait, comme le fera Eloy de la Iglesia au cinéma, quelques années plus tard, l’injustice que vivent les « quinquis », ces jeunes habitants des quartiers périphériques, connus pour leurs braquages à main armée légendaires et leurs vols à la tire, symbole d’une insécurité urbaine grandissante. À la lecture de cette courte pièce, Rodríguez Méndez nous apparaît comme l’un des premiers défenseurs de la « cause quinqui », faisant de ces adolescents, souvent livrés à eux-mêmes, vivant dans une pauvreté extrême, les victimes d’une société qui les stigmatise et les diabolise.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 01 (2012): Images et insularité
All-Optical Information Processing Capacity of Diffractive Surfaces
Creators: name: Kulce, Onur
name: Mengu, Deniz
name: Rivenson, Yair
name: Ozcan, Aydogan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precise engineering of materials and surfaces has been at the heart of some of the recent advances in optics and photonics. These advances around the engineering of materials with new functionalities have also opened up exciting avenues for designing trainable surfaces that can perform computation and machine learning tasks through light-matter interaction and diffraction. Here, we analyze the information processing capacity of coherent optical networks formed by diffractive surfaces that are trained to perform an all-optical computational task between a given input and output field-of-view. We show that the dimensionality of the all-optical solution space covering the complex-valued transformations between the input and output fields-of-view is linearly proportional to the number of diffractive surfaces within the optical network, up to a limit that is dictated by the extent of the input and output fields-of-view. Deeper diffractive networks that are composed of larger numbers of trainable surfaces can cover a higher dimensional subspace of the complex-valued linear transformations between a larger input field-of-view and a larger output field-of-view, and exhibit depth advantages in terms of their statistical inference, learning and generalization capabilities for different image classification tasks, when compared with a single trainable diffractive surface. These analyses and conclusions are broadly applicable to various forms of diffractive surfaces, including e.g., plasmonic and/or dielectric-based metasurfaces and flat optics that can be used to form all-optical processors.
description: 31 Pages, 6 Figures, 1 Table
Metopia campestris
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Metopia
Metopia campestris

description: Metopia campestris (FALLÉN, 1810)
Bgld, Donnerskirchen, Teufelsgraben, 22.6.17, 3 Ex.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 792, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Hermitian-holomorphic Deligne cohomology, Deligne pairing for singular metrics, and hyperbolic metrics
Creators: name: Aldrovandi, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a model for Hermitian holormorphic Deligne cohomology on a projective algebraic manifold which allows to incorporate singular hermitian structures along a normal crossing divisor. In the case of a projective curve, the cup-product in cohomology is shown to correspond to a generalization of the Deligne pairing to line bundles with "good" hermitian metrics in the sense of Mumford and others. A particular case is that of the tangent bundle of the curve twisted by the negative of the singularity divisor of a hyperbolic metric: its cup square (corrected by the total area) is shown to be a functional whose extrema are the metrics of constant negative curvature.
description: LaTeX + amsmath + mathrsfs + textcomp. 21 pages, no figures Added one clarifying lemma at the end, no changes to the main results
Survival probabilities in biased random walks: To restart or not to restart? that is the question
Creators: name: Hod, Shahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The time-dependent survival probability function $S(t;x_0,q)$ of biased Sisyphus random walkers, who at each time step have a finite probability $q$ to step towards an absorbing trap at the origin and a complementary probability $1-q$ to return to their initial position $x_0$, is derived {\it analytically}. In particular, we explicitly prove that the survival probability function of the walkers decays exponentially at asymptotically late times. Interestingly, our analysis reveals the fact that, for a given value $q$ of the biased jumping probability, the survival probability function $S(t;x_0,q)$ is characterized by a {\it critical} (marginal) value $x^{\text{crit}}_0(q)$ of the initial gap between the walkers and the trap, above which the late-time survival probability of the biased Sisyphus random walkers is {\it larger} than the corresponding survival probability of standard random walkers.
description: 10 pages
Magnetic-field-induced supercurrent enhancement in hybrid superconductor/magnetic metal structures
Creators: name: Krivoruchko, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dc transport properties of the (S/M)I(M/S) tunnel structure - proximity coupled superconductor (S) and magnetic (M) layers separated by an insulator (I) - in a parallel magnetic field have been investigated. We choose for the M metal the one in which the effective magnetic interaction, whether it arises from direct exchange interaction or due to configuration mixing, aligns spins of the conducting electrons antiparallel to the localized spins of magnetic ions. For tunnel structures under consideration, we predict that there are the conditions when the destructive action of the internal and applied magnetic fields on Cooper pairs is weakened and the increase of the applied magnetic field causes the field-induced enhancement of the tunnel critical current. The experimental realization of the novel interesting effect of the interplay between superconducting and magnetic orders is also discussed.
description: 6 pages 2 figures
Neutrino mixing and CP violation from Dirac-Majorana bimaximal mixture and quark-lepton unification
Creators: name: Harada, Junpei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that only two ansatz can produce the features of the neutrino mixing angles. The first ansatz comes from the quark-lepton grand unification; $ν_{Di} = V_{CKM} ν_α$ is satisfied for left-handed neutrinos, where $ν_{Di}$ are the Dirac mass eigenstates and $ν_α$ are the flavour eigenstates. The second ansatz comes from the assumption; $ν_{Di} = U_{bimaximal} ν_{i}$ is satisfied between the Dirac mass eigenstates $ν_{Di}$ and the light Majorana neutrino mass eigenstates $ν_{i}$, where $U_{bimaximal}$ is the bimaximal mixing matrix. By these two ansatz, the Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix is given by $U_{MNS} = V_{CKM}^\dagger U_{bimaximal}$. We find that in this model the novel relation $θ_{sol} + θ_{13} = π/4$ is satisfied, where $θ_{sol}$ and $θ_{13}$ are solar and CHOOZ angle respectively. This "Solar-CHOOZ Complementarity" relation indicates that only if the CHOOZ angle $θ_{13}$ is sizable, the solar angle $θ_{sol}$ can deviate from the maximal mixing. We also infer the CP violation in neutrino oscillations. The leptonic Dirac CP phase $δ_{MNS}$ is predicted as $\sin δ_{MNS} \simeq A λ^2 η$, where $A, λ, η$ are the CKM parameters in Wolfenstein parametrization. Furthermore, we remark that the ratio of the Jarlskog CP violation factor for quarks and leptons is important, because the large uncertainty on $η$ is cancelled out in the ratio, $R_J \equiv J_{CKM}/J_{MNS} \simeq 4\sqrt{2} A λ^3 \simeq 5 \times 10^{-2}$.
description: 9 pages, no figures; v2 references added, v3 references added
title: L' île de la folie (Shutter Island , Martin Scorsese, 2010)
Creators: name: Dumora, Florence
name: Heitz, Françoise
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2012

description: Cet article propose une double étude sémiotique de l’image et du thème de l’insularité dans le film Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010).
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 01 (2012): Images et insularité
Traversable wormholes with logarithmic shape function in f(R, T) gravity
Creators: name: Dixit, Archana
name: Chawla, Chanchal
name: Pradhan, Anirudh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work, a new form of the logarithmic shape function is proposed for the linear $f(R,T)$ gravity, $f(R,T)=R+2λT$ where $λ$ is an arbitrary coupling constant, in wormhole geometry. The desired logarithmic shape function accomplishes all necessary conditions for traversable and asymptotically flat wormholes. The obtained wormhole solutions are analyzed from the energy conditions for different values of $λ$. It has been observed that our proposed shape function for the linear form of $f(R,T)$ gravity, represents the existence of exotic matter and non-exotic matter. Moreover, for $λ=0$ i.e. for the general relativity case, the existence of exotic matter for the wormhole geometry has been confirmed. Further, the behaviour of the radial state parameter $ω_{r}$, the tangential state parameter $ω_{t}$ and the anisotropy parameter $\triangle$ describing the geometry of the universe, has been presented for different values of $λ$ chosen in $[-100,100]$.
description: 21 pages; 41 Figures; Table 6
The Bargaining Strength of a Milk Marketing Cooperative
Creators: name: Prasertsri, Peerapon
name: Kilmer, Richard L.
name: Prasertsri, Peerapon
name: Kilmer, Richard L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: cooperative
subject: bargaining
subject: bilateral monopoly
subject: dairy
subject: processors

description: As a result of economies of size, food processors are generally large and few in number. These characteristics put processors at a bargaining advantage over independent farmers. Marketing cooperatives were established to counter the uneven bargaining position of individual farmers. This article investigates the relative bargaining strength of one milk marketing cooperative and several fluid milk processors. The Nash bargaining model can be used to analyze the negotiated price in the Florida fluid milk market which acts like a bilateral monopoly. The milk marketing cooperatives have bargained well with the milk marketing processors. The monthly bargaining strength of the Southeast Dairy Cooperative, Inc. (SDC), exceeds the monthly bargaining strength of the processors in all twelve months, ranging from a low of 0.6664 in January to a high of 0.7831 in September. The monthly average bargaining strength across all months for SDC is 0.7326.
Wind Power Development: Opportunities and Challenges
Creators: name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Timilsina, Govinda R.
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Timilsina, Govinda R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: wind energy
subject: renewable energy
subject: electricity grids

description: In this study, the prospects of wind power at the global level are reviewed. Existing studies indicate that the earth’s wind energy supply potential significantly exceeds global energy demand. Yet, only 1% of the global electricity demand is currently derived from wind power despite 40% annual growth in wind generating capacity over the last 25 years. More than 98% of total current wind power capacity is installed in the developed countries plus China and India. Existing studies estimate that wind power could supply 7% to 34% of global electricity needs by 2050. Wind power faces a large number of technical, financial, institutional, market and other barriers. To overcome these, many countries have employed various policy instruments, including capital subsidies, tax incentives, tradable energy certificates, feed-in tariffs, grid access guarantees and mandatory standards. Besides these policies, climate change mitigation initiatives resulting from the Kyoto Protocol (e.g., CO2-emission reduction targets in developed, the Clean Development Mechanism in developing countries) have played a pivotal role in promoting wind power.
Exchange Rates, Foreign Income, and U.S. Agricultural Exports
Creators: name: Shane, Mathew
name: Roe, Terry L.
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Shane, Mathew
name: Roe, Terry L.
name: Somwaru, Agapi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: exchange rates
subject: U.S. agricultural trade
subject: U.S. agricultural commodity exports
subject: U.S. agricultural export prices
subject: foreign income

description: While it is generally accepted that change in the real value of the dollar is an important determinant of exports, it has not been rigorously demonstrated that this relationship, derivable from theory, holds empirically for agricultural exports and the components of agricultural exports. Starting with a dynamic maximizing framework, this paper estimates the real trade-weighted exchange rate and trade partner income effects on U.S. agricultural exports. For the period 1970–2006, a one percent annual increase in trade partners’ income is found to increase total agricultural exports by about 0.75 percent, while a one percent appreciation of the dollar relative to trade partner trade-weighted currencies decreases total agricultural exports by about 0.5 percent. While these effects carry over to 12 commodity subcategories, they are conditioned by differences between bulk and high value commodities, and differences in the export demand from high compared to low income countries. We use a directed acyclic graphs (DAG) technique to identify the inverted fork causal relationships from vector autoregression (VAR) models. We also find that there is an asymmetric exchange rate effect so that the negative effect of exchange rate appreciation on exports sometimes dominates the positive effect of foreign income growth.
The effect of a 10-week training regimen on lumbo-pelvic stability, balance, agility and leg power in college and university-level female athletes
Creators: name: Mills, Jonathan Denis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study investigated the capacity of female athletes to improve stability within the lumbo-pelvic region, and quantified a relationship between lumbo-pelvic stability and athletic performance. Thirty participants were selected from university and college female volleyball and basketball teams and randomly assigned to either a treatment, pseudo-treatment, or no-treatment control group. The treatment and pseudo-treatment groups participated in distinct 10-week training regimens emphasizing recruitment of either the transversus abdominus and lumbar multifidus muscles of the lumbar spine or the rectus abdominis and external obliques of the abdomen. Lumbo-pelvic stability (Stabilizer pressure biofeedback unit), balance (static and dynamic Bass tests), agility (T-test), and leg power (Sargent's vertical jump test) were measured before and immediately after the 10-week study period. A combination of repeated measures ANOVA and nonparametric Friedman and Wilcoxon analyses identified significant differences between the improvements in lumbo-pelvic stability for both the treatment and pseudo-treatment groups relative to the control group. The agility and leg power of the treatment group improved relative to both the pseudo-treatment and the control groups. There were, however, no significant differences between the improvements of any of the groups on the static and dynamic balance measures. Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient identified significant relationships between the measures of lumbo-pelvic stability and athletic performance, but, there were no significant correlations between the impovements in lumbo-pelvic stability and the improvements in athletic performance. The results of this study demonstrate that lumbo-pelvic stability can be improved through training, although the focus of training (local stability vs. global mobility) seems to account for little difference in the extent of this improvement. While athletes with the most stable lumbo-pelvic regions demonstrated the best scores for both agility and leg power, there was no correlation found between improvements in lumbo-pelvic stability and improvements in athletic performance. The findings of this study indicate that athletes can improve stability of the lumbo-pelvic region by participating in training regimens which focus on the recruitment of either local stability or global mobility muscles. However, improvements in athletic performance are not likely to occur as a result of improvements in lumbo-pelvic stability alone.
Variation in Environmental Regulations in California and Effects on Dairy Location
Creators: name: Sneeringer, Stacy E.
name: Hogle, Regina
name: Sneeringer, Stacy E.
name: Hogle, Regina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: pollution haven
subject: California
subject: dairy
subject: environmental regulation

description: In recent decades, urban encroachment and increasing environmental regulation have impacted California’s dairy industry. A complicated set of environmental legislation affects dairies in the state, and can differ depending on location, creating the possibility for within-state pollution havens. This article details the regional, state, and federal environmental regulation of California’s dairy industry, and examines data to see if it matches a hypothesis of regulation affecting dairy location. Using county-year data, we show evidence of changing dairy location within the state matching times of local legislative action. The Central Valley gained production, while the more regulated and urban-affected Los Angeles area lost. Large dairies have increased by 150 percent in the Central Valley, even as the number of small farms in the region declined by 40 percent. More rigorous analysis is necessary to discern the relative impacts of land prices and regulation on dairy location.
Illicit Agricultural Trade
Creators: name: Ferrier, Peyton Michael
name: Ferrier, Peyton Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: illicit trade
subject: invasive species
subject: smuggling
subject: SPS Agreement
subject: CITES
subject: Endangered Species Act
subject: regionalization

description: Agricultural and wildlife trade is subject to sudden, disruptive import restrictions arising from concerns over sanitary and phytosanitary safety and the conservation of natural resources. These restrictions can create significant international price differences that encourage the smuggling of goods across borders. This article presents an equilibrium model of smuggling where the supply and demand for smuggled goods depend on interregional price disparities in the presence of a trade ban. In this model, smuggling is more prevalent when demand and supply among trade partners is more inelastic or when there are fewer total trade partners at the time a trade ban is enacted. Applications are presented for regionalization, destruction of goods in government eradication programs, price support, stockpiling, and the development of substitutes. Regionalization may increase smuggling under certain production and consumption patterns.
Simulated Trading for Maryland's Nitrogen Loadings in the Chesapeake Bay
Creators: name: Hanson, James C.
name: McConnell, Kenneth E.
name: Hanson, James C.
name: McConnell, Kenneth E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Chesapeake Bay
subject: cover crops
subject: nitrogen abatement
subject: nutrient trading
subject: sewage treatment plants
subject: trading ratios
subject: water pollution

description: We investigate nutrient trading for point and non-point sources for the Bay Restoration Fund in Maryland. We demonstrate how to use the proceeds from the tax revenue to mimic a market by trading high-cost upgrades of sewage treatment plants for low-cost winter cover crops. Under an optimistic assumption about costs for non-point sources and naïve assumptions about the lag from planting cover crops to changes in nitrogen load, we calculate that 100 percent of abatement could be achieved at 56 percent of total costs, while in a pessimistic scenario, 100 percent of abatement could be could be achieved at 83 percent of total costs.
HybridSeeding: A standalone track reconstruction algorithm for scintillating fibre tracker at LHCb
Creators: name: Aiola, Salvatore
name: Amhis, Yasmine
name: Billoir, Pierre
name: Jashal, Brij Kishor
name: Henry, Louis
name: Campos, Arantza Oyanguren
name: Benito, Carla Marin
name: Polci, Francesco
name: Quagliani, Renato
name: Schiller, Manuel
name: Wang, Mengzhen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the Hybrid seeding, a standalone pattern recognition algorithm aiming at finding charged particle trajectories for the LHCb upgrade. A significant improvement to the charged particle reconstruction efficiency is accomplished by exploiting the knowledge of the LHCb magnetic field and the position of energy deposits in the scintillating fibre tracker detector. Moreover, we achieve a low fake rate and a small contribution to the overall timing budget of the LHCb real-time data processing.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Modeling Recreational Amenities in an Urban Setting: Location, Congestion, and Substitution Effects
Creators: name: Homans, Frances R.
name: Marshall, Elizabeth P.
name: Homans, Frances R.
name: Marshall, Elizabeth P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: urban structure
subject: greenbelt
subject: congestion

description: In this article, we introduce a recreational amenity—a greenbelt park—into a simple urban economic model. For multiple possible park placements, we solve for the associated equilibrium urban structure, including the equilibrium rent gradient, city boundary, total number of park visits, the overall utility level, and total vehicle miles traveled. We examine how these change with alternative park placement sites. We then show how two modifications of the basic model—allowing congestion at the site to affect site quality, and introducing the possibility of a substitute site at the city’s periphery—affect our conclusions about how greenbelt location influences urban structure.
title: Avian life in a seasonally arid tropical environment : adaptations and mechanisms in breeding, molt and immune function
Creators: name: Nwaogu, Chima Josiah
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: There is a growing appreciation of the diversity and uniqueness of tropical organisms, but evidence about the selection pressures that shape this diversity remains sketchy. In this thesis, I investigated how variation in life history traits arises from tropical environmental seasonality, starting with the exploration of the annual cycle of the Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus in Nigeria. This revealed that breeding was not seasonal, but moult was timed almost entirely to the wet season with only few individuals extending moult into the dry season This confirmed that breeding and to a lesser extent moult, are decoupled from season, thus, allowing me to test how breeding and moult affect immune function independent of seasonal environmental conditions. On testing this, I found that season explained variation in immune function better than breeding or moult, but unexpectedly, immune indices were higher in the dry season and during breeding, contrary to what I would expect if infection risk is higher in the wet season, and if breeding constrains resources for immune function. Furthermore, I compared immune indices along the cool-wet to hot-dry environmental gradient in Nigeria and found that immune indices were rather similar. I then tested the effect of diet alteration on immune function, body mass and moult of Common Bulbuls in captivity and found that bulbuls fed on fruits had a more immune function, body mass and onset of moult than those fed on invertebrates. These findings together suggest that environmental conditions affect immune function more directly than via resource allocation trade-offs, but that variation in immune function does not follow simple environmental productivity pattern as previously expected.
Metopodia pilicornis
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Metopodia
Metopodia pilicornis

description: Metopodia pilicornis (PANDELLE, 1895)
Bgld, St. Margarethen, NSG Nord, 21.6.17.
Nach Fauna Europaea neu für Österreich!
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 792, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374