cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Meniscomyces layueensis Q. M. Wang, F. Y. Bai & A. H. Li 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, A. - H.
name: Yuan, F. - X.
name: Groenewald, M.
name: Bensch, K.
name: Yurkov, A. M.
name: Li, K.
name: Han, P. - J.
name: Guo, L. - D.
name: Aime, M. C.
name: Sampaio, J. P.
name: Jindamorakot, S.
name: Turchetti, B.
name: Inacio, J.
name: Fungsin, B.
name: Wang, Q. - M.
name: Bai, F. - Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Spiculogloeomycetes
Spiculogloeales
Meniscomyces
Meniscomyces layueensis

description: Meniscomyces layueensis Q.M. Wang, F.Y. Bai & A.H. Li sp. nov. MycoBank MB828816. Figs 11E and 15D.
 Etymology: the specific epithet layueensis refers to geographic origin of the type strain, Layue county, Tibet.
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 Culture characteristics: In YM broth, after 7 d at 17 °C, cells are lunate, allantoids and falcate, 1.4– 2.6 × 7.1–10.0 μm and single, budding is polar (Fig. 15D), a sediment is present. After 1 mo at 17 °C, a sediment is present. On YM agar, after 1 mo at 17 °C, the streak culture is cream, butyrous, smooth and glossy. The margin is entire. In Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar, pseudohyphae are not formed. Sexual structures are not observed on YM, PDA, V8 and CM agar. Ballistoconidia are not produced.
 Physiological and biochemical characteristics: Glucose fermentation is absent. Glucose, sucrose, maltose, cellobiose (variable), trehalose, melezitose and succinate are assimilated as sole carbon sources. Galactose, L-sorbose, lactose, melibiose, raffi- nose, inulin, soluble starch, D-xylose, L-arabinose, D-arabinose, D-ribose, L-rhamnose, D-glucosamine, N-Acetyl-D-glucosamine, methanol, ethanol, glycerol, erythritol, ribitol, galactitol, D-mannitol, D-glucitol, Methyl-α- D-glucoside, salicin, D-gluconate, DL-lactate, citrate, myo-inositol and hexadecane are not assimilated. Ammonium sulfate, potassium nitrate, L-lysine and ethylamine hydrochloride (weak) are assimilated as sole nitrogen sources. Sodium nitrite and cadaverine dihydrochloride are not assimilated. Maximum growth temperature is 23 °C. Growth in vitamin-free medium is negative. Starch-like substances are not produced. Growth on 50 % (w/w) glucose-yeast extract agar is negative. Urease activity is positive. Diazonium Blue B reaction is positive.
 Typus: China, Layue county, Tibet, obtained from a leaf of an unidentified plant, Sep. 2014, Q.-M. Wang (holotype CGMCC 2.5818 T preserved in a metabolically inactive state, ex-type CBS 15747 = XZ100).
description: Published as part of Li, A. - H., Yuan, F. - X., Groenewald, M., Bensch, K., Yurkov, A. M., Li, K., Han, P. - J., Guo, L. - D., Aime, M. C., Sampaio, J. P., Jindamorakot, S., Turchetti, B., Inacio, J., Fungsin, B., Wang, Q. - M. & Bai, F. - Y., 2020, Diversity and phylogeny of basidiomycetous yeasts from plant leaves and soil: Proposal of two new orders, three new families, eight new genera and one hundred and seven new species, pp. 17-140 in Studies In Mycology 96 on page 114, DOI: 10.1016/j.simyco.2020.01.002, http://zenodo.org/record/10497182
HUMAN CAPITAL, INCOME, AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: A STATE-LEVEL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Goetz, Stephan J.
name: Debertin, David L.
name: Pagoulatos, Angelos
name: Goetz, Stephan J.
name: Debertin, David L.
name: Pagoulatos, Angelos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Labor and Human Capital

description: An empirical analysis reveals that states with more highly educated populations have better environmental conditions, after controlling for income, population density, and industrial composition. The strategy of raising human capital stocks to maintain or improve environmental quality is proposed as a complement, if not an alternative, to direct government intervention, which consists of command and control, market incentives, and moral suasion. Under this approach, general education becomes the control variable that guides economic behavior in a manner consistent with long-term environmental sustainability.
Khoury, Adel Th.: Das Ethos der Weltreligionen
Creators: name: Suermann, Harald
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 81 (1997): Oriens christianus, Band 81
STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE ANALYSIS OF FUTURES AND OPTION STRATEGIES FOR HEDGING FEEDER CATTLE
Creators: name: Harrison, R. Wes
name: Harrison, R. Wes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Stochastic simulation and generalized stochastic dominance are used to compare the risk-return properties of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures contract with those of the feeder cattle put option contract. Cash marketing, futures, and option strategies are analyzed for four backgrounding systems common to the mid-south region of the United States. The results show that at-the-money put option strategies dominate corresponding futures contract strategies according to generalized stochastic dominance. This implies that at-the-money put option contracts are superior to feeder cattle futures contracts for risk-averse backgrounders in the mid-south region of the United States.
Entanglement Teleportation Through 1D Heisenberg Chain
Creators: name: Hao, X.
name: Zhu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Information transmission of two qubits through two independent 1D Heisenberg chains as a quantum channel is analyzed. It is found that the entanglement of two spin-$\frac 12$ quantum systems is decreased during teleportation via the thermal mixed state in 1D Heisenberg chain. The entanglement teleportation will be realized if the minimal entanglement of the thermal mixed state is provided in such quantum channel. High average fidelity of teleportation with values larger than 2/3 is obtained when the temperature {\it T} is very low. The mutual information $\mathcal{I}$ of the quantum channel declines with the increase of the temperature and the external magnetic field. The entanglement quality of input signal states cannot enhance mutual information of the quantum channel.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Contextuality scenarios arising from networks of stochastic processes
Creators: name: Iglesias, Rodrigo
name: Tohmé, Fernando
name: Auday, Marcelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P13 60G05 60G10

description: An empirical model is a generalization of a probability space. It consists of a simplicial complex of subsets of a class X of random variables such that each simplex has an associated probability distribution. The ensuing marginalizations are coherent, in the sense that the distribution on a face of a simplex coincides with the marginal of the distribution over the entire simplex. An empirical model is said contextual if its distributions cannot be obtained marginalizing a joint distribution over X. Contextual empirical models arise naturally in quantum theory, giving rise to some of its counter-intuitive statistical consequences. In this paper we present a different and classical source of contextual empirical models: the interaction among many stochastic processes. We attach an empirical model to the ensuing network in which each node represents an open stochastic process with input and output random variables. The statistical behavior of the network in the long run makes the empirical model generically contextual and even strongly contextual.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
THE ECONOMICS OF LABELING: AN OVERVIEW OF ISSUES FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURE
Creators: name: Roe, Brian E.
name: Teisl, Mario F.
name: Roe, Brian E.
name: Teisl, Mario F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: During the last two decades, product labeling has become an increasingly used policy tool, particularly with respect to the provision of health and environmental information. Theory holds that the flow of information among market participants plays a critical role in the efficient operation of markets. This paper explores the role of product labeling policy in ameliorating two potential market deficiencies: asymmetric information and costly search behavior. Practical considerations for the design and implementation of labeling policy and of labeling research are explored.
Table_A-T_RegresionCoefficients_OutputTests.pdf
Creators: name: Carmen, Miguel Angel Altamirano Del
name: García, Carlos Gay
name: Porrua, Francisco Estrada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Climate Science
subject: 40107 Meteorology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Atmospheric Sciences

description: Coefficients and misspecification tests applied to regressions at the Global and eight subcontinental land domains with Observational temperature data from HadCRUT4 and GISTEMP. Standard errors are given in parentheses. A value of 1 in columns T1 to T9 indicate that the corresponding misspecification test is significant at the 5% significance level and 0 otherwise.
Photon and dilepton production in the Quark-Gluon plasma: perturbation theory vs lattice QCD
Creators: name: Blaizot, Jean-Paul
name: Gelis, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This talk reviews the status of QCD calculations of photon and dilepton production rates in a Quark-Gluon plasma. Theses rates are known to order ${\cal O}(α_s)$. Their calculations involve various resummations to account for well identified physical effects that are briefly described. Lattice calculations of the spectral functions give also access to the dilepton rates. Comparison with perturbative results points to inconsistencies in both approaches when the dilepton energy becomes small.
description: Talk given at Hard Probes 2004, 6 pages, 8 figures
[Letter from Johan Nordal Fischer Wille]
Creators: name: Wille, Johan Nordal Fischer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1901
Subjects: Jónsson, Helgi
Heydrich, Franz

description: Expresses gratitude for receiving the publications of DKNVS Skrifter. When he read Agardh's Chlorophyceae, he found that his Apiocystis wilsonii is a Diatomacea. The request to participate in the investigation of [chromatophorame] in Lithothamnion is in order. Comments about the disagreement between Foslie and Heydrich.
THE IMPORTANCE OF NUTRITION LABELING AND HEALTH CLAIM REGULATION ON PRODUCT CHOICE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE COOKING OILS MARKET
Creators: name: Mathios, Alan D.
name: Mathios, Alan D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) prohibits health claims for foods containing more than a certain amount of fat per serving. This disqualifier level eliminates health claims for cooking oils since these products have approximately 14 grams of fat per serving, above the acceptable threshold. However, a number of scientific studies indicate that, from a heart-health perspective, cooking oils lower in saturated fat and higher in monounsaturated fats are superior to other oils. Prior to the NLEA, firms actively competed on this basis, with manufacturers of cooking oils making explicit heart-health claims in print advertising and labeling. This study utilizes supermarket scanner data from twenty stores to examine the type of cooking oil chosen by consumers. The results indicate that after implementation of the NLEA, consumers shifted purchases toward cooking oils higher in saturated fat and lower in monounsaturated fat. This study does not address whether consumers changed their total consumption of cooking oil after implementation of the NLEA.
Divergent beams of nonlocally entangled electrons emitted from hybrid normal-superconducting structures
Creators: name: Prada, Elsa
name: Sols, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the use of normal and Andreev resonances in normal-superconducting structures to generate divergent beams of nonlocally entangled electrons. Resonant levels are tuned to selectively transmit electrons with specific values of the perpendicular energy, thus fixing the magnitude of the exit angle. When the normal metal is a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas, the proposed scheme guarantees arbitrarily large spatial separation of the entangled electron beams emitted from a finite interface. We perform a quantitative study of the linear and nonlinear transport properties of some suitable structures, taking into account the large mismatch in effective masses and Fermi wavelengths. Numerical estimates confirm the feasibility of the proposed beam separation method.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures. Corrected typos. Published version
Discreteness and its effect on the water-wave turbulence
Creators: name: Lvov, Yuri V.
name: Nazarenko, Sergey
name: Pokorni, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform numerical simulations of the dynamical equations for free water surface in finite basin in presence of gravity. Wave Turbulence (WT) is a theory derived for describing statistics of weakly nonlinear waves in the infinite basin limit. Its formal applicability condition on the minimal size of the computational basin is impossible to satisfy in present numerical simulations, and the number of wave resonances is significantly depleted due to the wavenumber discreteness. The goal of this paper will be to examine which WT predictions survive in such discrete systems with depleted resonances and which properties arise specifically due to the discreteness effects. As in \cite{DKZ,onorato,naoto}, our results for the wave spectrum agree with the Zakharov-Filonenko spectrum predicted within WT. We also go beyond finding the spectra and compute probability density function (PDF) of the wave amplitudes and observe an anomalously large, with respect to Gaussian, probability of strong waves which is consistent with recent theory \cite{clnp,cln}. Using a simple model for quasi-resonances we predict an effect arising purely due to discreteness: existence of a threshold wave intensity above which turbulent cascade develops and proceeds to arbitrarily small scales. Numerically, we observe that the energy cascade is very ``bursty'' in time and is somewhat similar to sporadic sandpile avalanches. We explain this as a cycle: a cascade arrest due to discreteness leads to accumulation of energy near the forcing scale which, in turn, leads to widening of the nonlinear resonance and, therefore, triggering of the cascade draining the turbulence levels and returning the system to the beginning of the cycle. ~
Protecting the protected: World Heritage Sites and collections; defining, recognising and protecting Outstanding Universal Value in its entirety
Creators: name: Fabry, Samantha
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: World Heritage protection has been subject to social influences and therefore displays differences in philosophical thought and variations in perspectives which have been built over many decades. The way that we perceive the world and create value around immoveable and moveable cultural heritage is largely socially constructed and as a result is manifested through the policies and laws which have been written to protect cultural heritage. This research sets out to question whether material culture of national significance should be recognised and protected through the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (or 1972 Convention) in conjunction with a World Heritage Site or museum. Drawing on memory studies and the role of built structures and moveable material culture in the formation of our individual and collective memory, the research builds the case for a review of the 1972 Convention towards the protection of objects and collections deemed as having national and international significance. Through including highly significant objects in a site’s nomination application for World Heritage Listing, they will be documented and protected under the 1972 Convention against environmental and manmade threats and disasters. The research has been supported through three World Heritage museums as case studies. Each museum encompasses an archaeological collection that marks significant periods in history and are nationally and internationally recognised. These include: The Hyde Park Barracks - Sydney, Australia, The Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum - Paola, Malta and Vindolanda – Hadrian’s Wall - Northumberland, Great Britain.
EXPERIMENTAL MARKETS AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Creators: name: Shogren, Jason F.
name: Shogren, Jason F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Experimental markets can be a useful tool to guide and evaluate environmental policy. This paper reviews four experiments to illustrate. Two institutional experiments are considered-Coasian bargaining with positive transaction costs, and a gaming experiment of dynamic choice in a conflict. Two valuation experiments are also discussed-the impact of sequential reduction mechanisms on the value of risk, and experimental auction markets to elicit the value of safer food.
[Letter from Anna Antoinette Weber van Bosse]
Creators: name: Weber Van Bosse, Anna Antoinette
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1901
Subjects: Heydrich, Franz

description: Has sent some Lithothamnia to Heydrich. Has asked him to send Lithophyllum cephaloides, L. bamleri, L. tamiense and L. fibulatum, and will forward them if possible.
Heine, Susanne (Hrsg.): Islam zwischen Selbstbild und Klischee
Creators: name: Suermann, Harald
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 81 (1997): Oriens christianus, Band 81
An affective student model to assess emotions in an educational game
Creators: name: Zhou, Xiaoming
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Electronic educational games integrate the target domain knowledge in a game-like environment in order to help students learn. While, in general, these educational games are more engaging than the traditional computer-based educational software, they often do not necessarily trigger learning. One explanation is that many students play the games without actively reasoning about the underlying domain knowledge. To make learning more effective in educational games, we are designing intelligent pedagogical agents that can provide tailored interventions to students. However, in order not to compromise the high level of engagement that is the main advantage of educational games, it is important for these agents to consider students' emotional states in addition to their cognitive states (such as learning) to decide when and how to provide interventions. This thesis focuses on the creation of an affective student model that assesses the students' emotional states while they are playing an educational game Prime Climb. The affective student model explicitly represents the cognitive appraisal process of emotions by implementing the cognitive theory of emotions (OCC Model). It relies on Dynamic Decision Networks (DDNs) to deal with the high level of uncertainty involved in affective user modeling. The initial version of the model was built based on the observation of two preliminary Prime Climb user studies, our intuitions, and psychological findings. This model was then revised based on the results of a third Prime Climb study.
[Letter from Ivar Arwidsson]
Creators: name: Arwidsson, Ivar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1901
Subjects: Heydrich, Franz

description: Professor Kjellman has sent some Lithothamnia to Heydrich. Kjellman has got some branched specimens of L. glaciale. Has not found any fertile specimens among Kjellman's Lithothamnia.
Characterisation of the classical and lectin pathways of complement activation and the roles of complement inhibitors LAIR-2 and BBK32
Creators: name: Almitairi, Jamal O.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The complement system is part of innate immunity and fights invading pathogens via opsonisation and cell lysis. Three pathways activate complement: the classical (CP), the lectin (LP) and the alternative pathway (AP). The CP is initiated by a multimeric 790 kDa complex named C1. This complex is formed from a hexameric, bouquet-like protein called C1q assembled from three polypeptide chains A, B and C and four associated serine proteases; two C1r and two C1s, as a Ca2+-dependant heterotetramer. C1r and C1s are homologous modular proteases composed of an N-terminal CUB1 domain, followed by an EGF-like domain, a CUB2 domain followed by two CCP modules, and a serine protease domain (SP). Several models have been proposed to explain how C1 is assembled. In this thesis I have determined the crystal structure of the C1r-C1s complex and propose a detailed model for assembly of C1. In this model, C1r2C1s2 complexes adopt an extended S-shaped structure that fold up to form a more compact structure when binding to C1q. Additional crystal structures of a fragment of C1s in complex with collagen-like peptides derived from the A, B and C chains of C1q suggest that C1qC is the leading chain and C1qA is the middle and C1qB is the lagging chain in each collagen-like domain. I also characterised the role of the immune modulator LAIR-2 in downregulating the activation of the CP and LP. Data reported here shows that LAIR-2 binds to the collagen like domain of MBL and thereby regulates activation of the LP. Finally, I assessed the interaction between the Borrelia burgdorferi surface protein BBK32 and C1r. Previous studies have suggested that BBK32 inhibits the CP by binding to C1r-CUB1-EGF-CUB2. However, the data reported here shows no interaction between BBK32 and C1r-CUB1-EGF-CUB2 domains.
Interpreting the Hydrogen IR Lines - Impact of Improved Electron Collision Data
Creators: name: Przybilla, Norbert
name: Butler, Keith
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the effect of variations in the electron-impact excitation cross sections on the non-LTE line formation for hydrogen in early-type stars. While the Balmer lines are basically unaffected by the choice of atomic data, the Brackett and Pfund series members allow us to discriminate between the different models. Non-LTE calculations based on the widely-used approximations of Mihalas, Heasley & Auer and of Johnson fail to simultaneously reproduce the observed optical and IR spectra over the entire parameter range. Instead, we recommend a reference model using data from ab-initio calculations up to principal quantum number n<=7 for quantitative work. This model is of general interest due to the ubiquity of the hydrogen spectrum.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Land Reform and Development of Agricultural Land Markets in Russia
Creators: name: Lerman, Zvi
name: Shagaida, Natalya
name: Lerman, Zvi
name: Shagaida, Natalya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: land reform
subject: land market
subject: land leasing
subject: transition

description: Russia has experienced dramatic changes in land ownership and tenure since 1991: agricultural land has been largely privatized, individual landowners now have legal rights to most agricultural land in the country, and prohibitions on buying and selling of land have been recently removed. The necessary pre-conditions for the development of agricultural land markets have been met and we are beginning to witness transactions that involve individual landowners, and not only the state. Further development of the land market is circumscribed by the inadequacy of the administrative and technical infrastructure. The paper discusses the evolving legal framework for land reform, considers the impacts on privatization and ownership structure of agricultural land, and analyzes the development of land market transactions. The analysis uses official statistical sources and the results of a 2003 survey in three regions.
Modern Evaluation Strategies and Their Role in Improving the Learning Outcomes of Physical and Sports Activities
Creators: name: Abdelaali, Benyoub
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Evaluation - Modern Evaluation Strategies - Learning Outcomes - Physical aAnd Sports Activities.

description: The object of the study aims to identify the role of modern evaluation strategies in improving the learning of physical and sports activities from the point of view of the professors of the Institute of Science and Technology of Physical and Sports Activities at Souk Ahras University. For this purpose, we used the method of descriptive approach in the survey pattern on a sample composed of 37 deliberately choses as professors. And for data collection, we used the questionnaire tool. After collecting the results and having treated themstatistically, we conclude that it was found that modern evaluation strategies have a positive role in nimproving the cognitive, emotional and motor skills of students. On this basis, the study recommended the need to apply modern evaluation strategies in the educational process by all teachers.
Rayleigh-Jeans condensation of classical light : Observation and thermodynamic characterization
Creators: name: Baudin, K.
name: Fusaro, A.
name: Krupa, K.
name: Garnier, J.
name: Rica, S.
name: Millot, G.
name: Picozzi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical studies on wave turbulence predict that a purely classical system of random waves can exhibit a process of condensation, in analogy with the quantum Bose-Einstein condensation. We report the experimental observation of the transition to condensation of classical optical waves propagating in a multimode fiber, i.e., in a conservative Hamiltonian system without thermal heat bath. In contrast to conventional self-organization processes featured by the non-equilibrium formation of nonlinear coherent structures (solitons, vortices...), here the self-organization originates in the equilibrium Rayleigh-Jeans statistics of classical waves. The experimental results show that the chemical potential reaches the lowest energy level at the transition to condensation, which leads to the macroscopic population of the fundamental mode of the optical fiber. The near-field and far-field measurements of the condensate fraction across the transition to condensation are in quantitative agreement with the Rayleigh-Jeans theory. The thermodynamics of classical wave condensation reveals that, in opposition to quantum Bose-Einstein condensation, the heat capacity takes a constant value in the condensed state and tends to vanish above the transition in the normal state. Our experiments provide the demonstration of a coherent phenomenon of self-organization that is exclusively driven by the statistical equilibrium properties of classical light waves.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Progress in chiral perturbation theory
Creators: name: Ecker, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After a short status report on chiral perturbation theory, I review recent progress in determining some of the low-energy couplings by matching the effective theory to QCD. Consequences for K_{l3} decays and for the extraction of the CKM matrix element V_{us} are reported. Hadronic vacuum polarization at low energies and its impact on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon are discussed.
description: 10 pages, to appear in Proc. of QCD@Work, Conversano, Italy, June 2005
Trust in Authorities Monitoring the Distribution of Genetically Modified Foods: Dimensionality, Measurement Issues, and Determinants
Creators: name: Bocker, Andreas
name: Nocella, Giuseppe
name: Bocker, Andreas
name: Nocella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: consumer trust
subject: genetically modified foods
subject: monitoring
subject: food safety

description: Based on a combined internet and mail survey in Germany the independence of indicators of trust in public authorities from indicators of attitudes toward genetically modified food is tested. Despite evidence of a link between trust indicators on the one hand and evaluation of benefits and perceived likelihoods of risks, correlation with other factors is found to be moderate on average. But the trust indicators exhibit only a moderate relation with the respondents' preference for either sole public control or a cooperation of public and private bodies in the monitoring of GM food distribution. Instead, age and location in either the New or the Old Lander are found to be significantly related with such preferences.
Effectiveness of Revised Iranian Accounting Standards No.19 (Business Combination)
Creators: name: Rahmani, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150103 Financial Accounting
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this research, with different stakeholder’s participation (included 148 people: enterprise Chief financial officer, expert external auditors, Chief investment officers and university professors) it has been tried to consider the effectiveness of revised Iranianaccounting standards No.19 (Business Combination) with survey in different aspects. The results show, in general, the requirements which led to revise the accounting standard NO.19, has been resolved and moreover important issues which existed in pooling of interest method has been resolved. Although in stakeholder’s view the appliance of revised standard is operational, there are several fields in comparability and reliability which have the potential to be improved and revised. Furthermore, the information of business combination based on the revised accounting standard NO.19 prepared for users would be useful. What's more, the benefit of accounting methods which are required in the last version is more than the cost of changing users analysis.
Gravitational waves in massive conformal gravity
Creators: name: Faria, F. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First, we obtain the plane wave solution of the linearized massive conformal gravity field equations. It is shown that the theory has seven physical plane waves. In addition, we investigate the gravitational radiation from binary systems in massive conformal gravity. We find that the theory with large graviton mass can reproduce the orbit of binaries by the emission of gravitational waves.
description: 15 pages, no figures; v2: matches the published version
N-body decomposition of bipartite networks
Creators: name: Lambiotte, R.
name: Ausloos, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present a method to project co-authorship networks, that accounts in detail for the geometrical structure of scientists collaborations. By restricting the scope to 3-body interactions, we focus on the number of triangles in the system, and show the importance of multi-scientists (more than 2) collaborations in the social network. This motivates the introduction of generalized networks, where basic connections are not binary, but involve arbitrary number of components. We focus on the 3-body case, and study numerically the percolation transition.
description: 5 pages, submitted to PRE
Exchange coupling constants at finite temperature
Creators: name: Mankovsky, S.
name: Polesya, S.
name: Ebert, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An approach to account for the effect of thermal lattice vibrations when calculating exchange coupling parameters is presented on the basis of the KKR (Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker) Green function method making use of the alloy analogy model. Using several representative systems, it is shown that depending on the material the effect of thermal lattice vibrations can have a significant impact on the isotropic exchange as well as anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). This should lead in turn to an additional contribution to the temperature dependence of the magnetic properties of solids, which cannot be neglected in the general case. As an example, we discuss such an influence on the critical temperature of various magnetic phase transitions. In particular, in the case of skyrmion hosting materials, a strong impact of lattice vibrations on the DMI is an additional source for temperature dependent skyrmion stability which should be taken into consideration.
Expansion of Mercosur's Agricultural Exports to the EU: An Empirical Assessment of the Trade Flows
Creators: name: Niemi, Jyrki S.
name: Huan-Niemi, Ellen
name: Ledebur, Oliver Von
name: Salamon, Petra
name: Niemi, Jyrki S.
name: Huan-Niemi, Ellen
name: Ledebur, Oliver Von
name: Salamon, Petra
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural trade
subject: European Union
subject: Mercosur
subject: econometric models
subject: cointegration

description: This paper provides new evidence on income and price elasticities of demand for agricultural exports from Mercosur countries to the EU. Econometric models are constructed for eight agricultural commodities - beef, cocoa, coffee, orange juice, poultry, sugar, soya and wheat - exported from Mercosur to the EU. A modelling approach based on the error correction mechanism is used in order to emphasise the importance of the dynamics of trade functions. The results indicate that there is a relatively weak demand response to income and price changes in the EU. However, the results also suggest that relative-price variations affect significantly the demand for Mercosur commodity exports, implying that the exporter's market share is influenced by price competitiveness.
Compression Bases in Unital Groups
Creators: name: Foulis, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study unital groups with a distinguished family of compressions called a compression base. A motivating example is the partially ordered additive group of a von Neumann algebra with all Naimark compressions as the compression base.
description: 8 pages
Nonsymmorphic Dirac semimetal and carrier dynamics in doped spin-orbit-coupled Mott insulator Sr$_2$IrO$_4$
Creators: name: Han, J. W.
name: Kim, Sun-Woo
name: Kyung, W. S.
name: Kim, C.
name: Cao, G.
name: Chen, X.
name: Wilson, S. D.
name: Cheon, Sangmo
name: Lee, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Dirac fermion emerges as a result of interplay between symmetry and topology in condensed matter. Current research moves towards investigating the Dirac fermions in the presence of manybody effects in correlated system. Here, we demonstrate the emergence of correlation-induced symmetry-protected Dirac semimetal state in the lightly-doped spin-orbit-coupled Mott insulator Sr$_2$IrO$_4$. We find that the nonsymmorphic crystalline symmetry stabilizes a Dirac line-node semimetal and that the correlation-induced symmetry-breaking electronic order further leads to a phase transition from the Dirac line-node to a Dirac point-node semimetal. The latter state is experimentally confirmed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and terahertz spectroscopy on Sr$_2$(Ir,Tb)O$_4$ and (Sr,La)$_2$IrO$_4$. Remarkably, the electrodynamics of the massless Dirac carriers is governed by the extremely small scattering rate of about 6 cm$^{-1}$ even at room temperature, which is iconic behavior of relativistic quasiparticles. Temperature-dependent changes in electrodynamic parameters are also consistently explained based on the Dirac point-node semimetal state.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures + Supplemental Material
Numerical Simulation of A Cubic Spout-Fluid Bed: Influences of Inlet Gas Temperature and Jet to Bed Cross-Section Ratio
Creators: name: Rahmani, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150103 Financial Accounting
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper, we study the role of inlet gas temperature and jet to bed cross-section ratio on hydrodynamics and circulation patterns of particles in a spout-fluid bed. The system is modeled using CFD-TFM approach based on Eulerian-Eulerian method. Simulation results are validated by experimental data measured by (Link 2008. “PEPT and Discrete Particle Simulation Study of Spout-fluid Bed Regimes.” Aiche Journal 54 (5): 1189–202). First, the sensitivity analysis of simulation results versus the most significant parameters are conducted to find the optimum values for each parameter. Subsequently, the role of inlet gas temperature and cross-section ratios are studied in detail. The simulation results clearly demonstrate that increasing the inlet gas temperature raises particles’ velocity in the bed and affects the circulation pattern in annulus region. Additionally, it is shown that higher gas temperature leads to existence of hot spots in the annulus region. In case of jet to bed cross-section ratio, using larger ratios results in higher velocities and lower pressure drop along the bed
Measurement of $Δ$ and $K^{*}$ Production in $d$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV
Creators: name: Mishra, Dipak
name: Fachini, Patricia
name: Ruan, Lijuan
name: Tai, An
name: Xu, Zhangbu
name: Zhang, Haibin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The measurements of the transverse momentum spectra and the invariant mass distributions of $Δ(1232)$ $\to πp$, $K^{*}(892)\to πK$ resonances in $d$+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV using the STAR Time Projection Chamber (TPC) at RHIC are presented. The in-medium modification of the $Δ$ and $K^{*}$ mass and width has been studied as a function of transverse momentum ($p_T$). The particle ratios $K^{*}/K$, $Δ/p$ and the average transverse momentum ($$) as a function of different collision centrality has been reported. The nuclear modification factors ($R_{CP}$ and $R_{dAu}$) of $Δ$ and $K^{*}$ are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 9 figures, proceeding (poster) of the 18th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (QM2005), Aug.4-9, Budapest, Hungary
CAP Reform and the Mediterranean EU-Member States
Creators: name: Borresch, Rene
name: Kavallari, Aikaterini
name: Schmitz, P. Michael
name: Borresch, Rene
name: Kavallari, Aikaterini
name: Schmitz, P. Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: decoupling
subject: partial equilibrium model
subject: CAP reform
subject: Greece
subject: Italy
subject: Spain

description: In the previous years the Mediterranean Member States of the EU came across the Reform of the CAP and especially last year faced the second wave of the Reform for three typical Mediterranean products, namely cotton, olive oil and tobacco. In this paper a partial equilibrium model is used to simulate the impacts of decoupling, as a key point of the decided CAP Reform. The second wave of the Reform appears to be of crucial importance for the southern EU countries and although the producer's income is reduced, there are positive welfare effects.
EU Preferential Partners in Search of New Policy Strategies for Agriculture: The Case of Citrus Sector in Trinidad and Tobago
Creators: name: Jacque, Andrew Eliel
name: Dell'Aquila, Crescenzo
name: Perito, Maria Angela
name: Jacque, Andrew Eliel
name: Dell'Aquila, Crescenzo
name: Perito, Maria Angela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: competitiveness
subject: policy analysis matrix
subject: agricultural trade policy
subject: citrus industry

description: The paper assesses the competitive position of T&T's citrus industry and explains the declining productivity. It covers supply chain and agricultural trade policy issues and involves assembling two Policy Analysis Matrices, either with full cost of production or excluding establishment costs. Domestic and trade policy support shows significant for the sector. Production is internationally competitive, or possesses comparative advantage, only if costs of establishment are excluded. These results suggest that free trade agreements under the FTAA and the ACP-EU would work against the planting of new orchards and reinforce the decline of the sector.
Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Strategic Environmental Policy
Creators: name: Glebe, Thilo W.
name: Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe
name: Glebe, Thilo W.
name: Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: trade liberalisation
subject: strategic environmental policy
subject: multifunctionality
subject: agri-environmental policy
subject: WTO

description: We use an extended partial equilibrium trade model to derive optimal environmental policy responses to tariff reduction requirements and assess the impact of such policies on the welfare of trading partners. We find that countries which attribute preferential political weights to farmers' welfare have an incentive to implement environmental policies that deviate from the Pigouvian solution - even if production is not de facto linked to environmental externalities. We clarify the conditions under which trading partners do not gain from unilateral trade liberalisation if trade concessions are accompanied by strategic environmental policy changes. We postulate a role for the WTO in overseeing the process of domestic policy formulation.
High accuracy short-term PWV operational forecast at the VLT and perspectives for sky background forecast
Creators: name: Turchi, A.
name: Masciadri, E.
name: Pathak, P.
name: Kasper, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the first results ever obtained by applying the autoregressive (AR) technique to the precipitable water vapour (PWV). The study is performed at the Very Large Telescope. The AR technique has been recently proposed to provide forecasts of atmospheric and astroclimatic parameters at short time scales (up to a few hours) by achieving much better performances with respect to the 'standard forecasts' provided early afternoon for the coming night. The AR method uses the real-time measurements of the parameter of interest to improve the forecasts performed with atmospherical models. We used here measurements provided by LHATPRO, a radiometer measuring continuously the PWV at the VLT. When comparing the AR forecast at 1h to the standard forecast, we observe a gain factor of $\sim$ 8 (i.e. $\sim$ 800 per cent) in terms of forecast accuracy. In the PWV $\leq$ 1 mm range, which is extremely critical for infrared astronomical applications, the RMSE of the predictions is of the order of just a few hundredth of millimetres (0.04 mm). We proved therefore that the AR technique provides an important benefit to VLT science operations for all the instruments sensitive to the PWV. Besides, we show how such an ability in predicting the PWV can be useful also to predict the sky background in the infrared range (extremely appealing for METIS). We quantify such an ability by applying this method to the NEAR project (New Earth in the Alpha Cen region) supported by ESO and Breakthrough Initiatives.
Production Risk and Technical Inefficiency in Russian Agriculture
Creators: name: Bokusheva, Raushan
name: Hockmann, Heinrich
name: Bokusheva, Raushan
name: Hockmann, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: production risk
subject: technical efficiency
subject: panel data
subject: Russian agriculture

description: This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of possible causes of considerable production variability that characterised Russian agriculture during the last decade. The study investigates production risk and technical inefficiency as two sources that influence production variability. Using panel data from 1996 to 2001, an empirical analysis of 443 large agricultural enterprises from three regions in central, southern and Volga Russia is conducted. A production function specification accounting for the effect of inputs on both risk and technical inefficiency is found to describe production technologies of Russian farms more appropriately than the traditional stochastic frontier formulation.
The shadow of light: Lorentz invariance and complementarity principle in anomalous photon behaviour
Creators: name: Cardone, F.
name: Mignani, R.
name: Perconti, W.
name: Petrucci, A.
name: Scrimaglio, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the results of two double-slit-like experiments in the infrared range, which evidence an anomalous behaviour of photon systems under particular (energy and space) constraints. These outcomes (independently confirmed by crossing photon beam experiments in both the optical and the microwave range) apparently rule out the Copenhagen interpretation of the quantum wave, i.e. the probability wave, by admitting an interpretation in terms of the Einstein-de Broglie-Bohm hollow wave for photons. Moreover, these experiments support the interpretation of the hollow wave as a deformation of the Minkowski space-time geometry. We stress the implications of these experimental results and of their interpretation for the concept of action-at-a-distance, the Einstein relativistic correlation and the Bohr principle of complementarity.
IMPLICATIONS OF AN INFRASTRUCTURE CORRIDOR FOR ALBERTA’S ECONOMY
Creators: name: Tombe, Trevor
name: Munzur, Alaz
name: Fellows, G. Kent
Publisher: name: The School of Public Policy Publications
Year: 2021

description: The benefits of increased pipeline access for Alberta’s economy are well known. The benefits of infrastructure corridors, however, go far beyond pipelines. By reducing interprovincial and international trade costs, multi-modal infrastructure corridors of road, rail, utilities and communications can potentially create large economic benefits. In this paper, we quantify the potential economic gains in Alberta from reductions in trade costs and identify the importance of improved access to lower cost transportation options like rail for select commodities. Combining rich data on interprovincial trade flows with mode-specific shipment data on volumes, values, and shipment costs, we find that rail shipments are a lower cost means of exporting goods for long-distance trade. We estimate increased rail penetration lowers trade costs by roughly 0.3 per cent for each percentage point of rail’s share of shipments. We also estimate economic gains from lower trade costs. We find that lowering trade costs substantially increases Alberta’s real GDP through its effect on international and interprovincial trade flows. Infrastructure capacity is particularly valuable, as we find that increasing the share of exports shipped by rail by ten percentage points may increase Alberta’s GDP by nearly 1.5 per cent in the short-run and over 2.5 per cent in the long-run — equivalent to over $9 billion per year in economic activity.
description: The School of Public Policy Publications, Vol. 14 (2021)