cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Moduli spaces of framed symplectic and orthogonal bundles on P2 and the K-theoretic Nekrasov partition functions
Creators: name: Choy, Jaeyoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14D21, 81T13

description: Let $K$ be the compact Lie group $USp(N/2)$ or $SO(N, R)$. Let $M^K_n$ be the moduli space of framed K-instantons over $S^4$ with the instanton number $n$. By Donaldson (1984), $M^K_n$ is endowed with a natural scheme structure. It is a Zariski open subset of a GIT quotient of $μ^{-1}(0)$, where $μ$ is a holomorphic moment map such that $μ^{-1}(0)$ consists of the ADHM data. The purpose of the paper is to study the geometric properties of $μ^{-1}(0)$ and its GIT quotient, such as complete intersection, irreducibility, reducedness and normality. If $K=USp(N/2)$ then $μ$ is flat and $μ^{-1}(0)$ is an irreducible normal variety for any $n$ and even $N$. If $K = SO(N, R)$ the similar results are proven for low $n$ and $N$. As an application one can obtain a mathematical interpretation of the K-theoretic Nekrasov partition function of Nekrasov and Shadchin (2004).
description: 32 pages, 1 figure; 7 pages (corrigendum and addendum)
Development, formation and use of defined medium for improved antibody fragment production in E. coli using a heat-inducible expression vector
Creators: name: Gloria., Benjamin C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Asymptotic expansions of solutions of fractional diffusion equations
Creators: name: Ishige, Kazuhiro
name: Kawakami, Tatsuki
name: Michihisa, Hironori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35C20, 35R11, 35K58, 35B44

description: In this paper we obtain the precise description of the asymptotic behavior of the solution $u$ of $$ \partial_t u+(-Δ)^{\fracθ{2}}u=0\quad\mbox{in}\quad{\bf R}^N\times(0,\infty), \qquad u(x,0)=φ(x)\quad\mbox{in}\quad{\bf R}^N, $$ where $01+θ/N$.
Documentation of the Apecosm Python Package
Creators: name: Nicolas, Barrier
name: Jonathan, Rault
name: Adrien, Brunel
name: Olivier, Maury
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: apecosm

description: PDF documentation of the Apecosm Python package. The code is available on https://github.com/apecosm/python-apecosm
Predictability of Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Girma, Tewodros
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Foreign aid is one source of physical capital accumulation in Ethiopia. It is also a main media of government revenue in meeting increasing trends of government expenditure. To investigate the impact of foreign aid flow on economic growth, various empirical studies were conducted, but they came up with mixed result. This leads to raise question of why impact of aid on economic growth in Ethiopia continues to be paradoxical in its findings. To assess the effectiveness of foreign aid in Ethiopia; this study sets predictability of foreign aid and economic growth in Ethiopia as a general objective. Specifically, the study sought to examine the contribution of foreign aid and the macroeconomic policy environment to economic growth in the country. In order to meet the aforementioned objective, the study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach over the period 1981-2014. The empirical finding shows that in the long run, foreign aid has a positive contribution to economic growth, but in the short run its effect appeared to be insignificant. The predictability of foreign aid has a positive effect both in the short and long run. Macroeconomic policy index also has a positive effect in the long run, but its short run effect become negative. Based on the listed empirical finding, the study came up with policy recommendation; the government should allocate the external assistance on the successful development projects. Moreover, to make the flow of aid more predictable and persistent over time, both the government of Ethiopia and the donor communities should come up mechanism of transparently working jointly.
title: Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with General Across-income Heterogeneity
Creators: name: Ferey, Antoine
name: Lockwood, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: This paper provides general and empirically implementable sufficient statistics formulas for optimal nonlinear tax systems in the presence of across-income heterogeneity in preferences, inheritances, income-shifting capabilities, and other sources. We study unrestricted tax systems on income and savings (or other commodities) that implement the optimal direct-revelation mechanism, as well as simpler tax systems that impose common restrictions like separability between earnings and savings taxes. We characterize the optimum using familiar elasticity concepts and a sufficient statistic for general across-income heterogeneity: the difference between the cross-sectional variation of savings with income, and the causal effect of income on savings. The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem is a knife-edge case corresponding to zero difference, and a number of other key results in optimal tax theory are subsumed as special cases. We provide tractable extensions of these results that include multidimensional heterogeneity, additional efficiency rationales for taxing heterogeneous returns, and corrective motives to encourage more saving. Applying these formulas in a calibrated model of the U.S. economy, we find that the optimal savings tax is positive and progressive.
Magnetic resonance imaging manual volumetry methods and variations applied to investigations of knee tibial cartilage osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Glisson., Micheal F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Experimental Analyzes Of Capsules’ Behaviour In A Curved Microchannel
Creators: Saffar, Yeganeh
Nobes, David S.
Sabbagh, Reza
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

The interaction between a capsule (bubble or droplet) and a flow structure of the continuous phase can affect the properties of the liquids, cells, and particles transferring within the capsule. Channel geometry is a common example of the flow structure influencer. Investigating the effect of Dean vortices on the capsule trajectory and top view topology helps to understand the effect of such geometries on the content of the capsules. The effect of curvature length on the capsule shape and trajectory is studied as the azimuthal angle in high continuous phase flow rates. Capsules are generated from a 2-propanol-water mixture with a broad range of diameters 50 (μm) ≤ d ≤ 1000 (μm) in a microchannel with a 270° curvature. Experimental results and image processing schemes provide information on the variation of deformation index (DI) as well as the length and the width of the capsule. It has been shown that when the capsule passes through the curved channel, it migrates from the outer half of the channel toward the inner half. The length of the capsule experiences two peaks with 37% increase in comparison to its starting value through the channel. The width of the capsule is observed to have a reverse relation with the length.

Part of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
BaSn$_2$: A new, wide-gap, strong topological insulator
Creators: name: Young, Steve M
name: Manni, S.
name: Shao, Junping
name: Canfield, Paul C.
name: Kolmogorov, Aleksey N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: BaSn$_2$ has been shown to form as layers of buckled stanene intercalated by barium ions~\cite{Kim_2008}. However, despite an apparently straightforward synthesis and significant interest in stanene as a topological material, BaSn$_2$ has been left largely unexplored, and has only recently been recognized as a potential topological insulator. Belonging to neither the lead nor bismuth chalcogenide families, it would represent a unique manifestation of the topological insulating phase. Here we present a detailed investigation of BaSn$_2$, using both {\it ab initio} and experimental methods. First-principles calculations demonstrate that this overlooked material is a indeed strong topological insulator with a bulk band gap of 360meV, among the largest observed for topological insulators. We characterize the surface state dependence on termination chemistry, providing guidance for experimental efforts to measure and manipulate its topological properties. Additionally, through {\it ab initio} modeling and synthesis experiments we explore the stability and accessibility of this phase, revealing a complicated phase diagram that indicates a challenging path to obtaining single crystals.
title: Koordinatenmesstechnik
Creators: name: Schwenke, Heinrich
name: Härtig, Frank
name: Neuschaefer-Rube, Ulrich
name: Jusko, Otto
name: Hirsch, Jürgen
name: Neugebauer, Michael
name: Franke, Matthias
name: Kniel, Karin
name: Wendt, Klaus
name: Ehrig, Wiebke
name: Wissmann, Mark
name: Bartscher, Markus
name: Hilpert, Uwe
name: Keck, Christian
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2014

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 117 (2007), Heft 4, S. 347 - 424. ISSN 0030-834X
Additional file 1 of Magic mirror on the wall, which is the best meta-analysis one of all?
Creators: name: Taccone, Fabio Silvio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. References for Table 1.
Technical Efficiency of Selected Hospitals in Addis Ababa: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
Creators: name: Kedir, Abdu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2006

description: The study measured the technical efficiency of seventeen hospitals in Addis Ababa using a five year panel data(2000/01-2004/05) employing both parametric and non-parametric models. We used DEA and DEA-Malmquist models (non-parametric approach) to identify the level of efficiency of hospitals, while determinants of technical efficiency were examined using a censored-Tobit regression model (parametric approach). Results of the CRS DEA model showed that 5(29.4%) hospitals were found technically Efficient, while 12(70.6%) were inefficient. The VRS DEA model indicated 9(52.9%) Hospitals were technically efficient and 8(47.1%) Hosppitals were technically inefficient. Out of the sampled hospitals, 5(29.4%) hospitals were found scale efficient, while12 (70.6%) were scale inefficient. The results of the censored-Tobit model indicated that age, size, teaching status, average bed occupancy rate and number of medical doctors to total staff were found significantly associated with technical efficiency scores.
General Relativity and Cosmology: Unsolved Questions and Future Directions
Creators: name: Debono, Ivan
name: Smoot, George F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the last 100 years, General Relativity (GR) has taken over the gravitational theory mantle held by Newtonian Gravity for the previous 200 years. This article reviews the status of GR in terms of its self-consistency, completeness, and the evidence provided by observations, which have allowed GR to remain the champion of gravitational theories against several other classes of competing theories. We pay particular attention to the role of GR and gravity in cosmology, one of the areas in which one gravity dominates and new phenomena and effects challenge the orthodoxy. We also review other areas where there are likely conflicts pointing to the need to replace or revise GR to represent correctly observations and consistent theoretical framework. Observations have long been key both to the theoretical liveliness and viability of GR. We conclude with a discussion of the likely developments over the next 100 years.
description: 82 pages, 8 figures
Tibial stress injuries in athletes : mechanical analyses and computer modelling
Creators: name: Franklyn., Melanie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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The effects of the reservoir geometry on the velocity distribution in a simple microchannel
Creators: Maleksabet, Zahra
Zare, Azam
Tarokh,  Ali
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Capillary microfluidics is gaining popularity due to its role in recent advances in life science applications. Designing a new and optimized microfluidic platform, as well as having a broader understanding of its function and fundamental physics, are still significant technological problems. However, numerical simulations reveal underlying mechanisms and examine various geometrical effects in microfluidics. In this study, the influence of reservoir geometry in the shape of a circle, square, and rectangle on capillary flow in the microchannel was explored numerically. This study was done by running two-phase flow level set model simulations using the Finite Element Method. The capillary flow characteristics in a microfluidic design were investigated, as well as the filling time, velocity, and pressure drop for various reservoir geometries. The computational result was validated against the analytical solution. It has been demonstrated that the reservoir geometry changes liquid velocity in a microchannel. Microchannel filling time is shorter for the circular reservoir geometry. Therefore, reservoir geometry can be considered a parameter in designing and optimizing a microfluidic platform.

Part of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Ethiopia (A co-integration analysis)
Creators: name: Bitew, Tesfahun
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Most studies about the relationship of foreign aid and economic growth are usually cross country studies which often found inconclusive or mixed results. On the other hand, there is very little in the empirical literature which looks on a single country time series data and mostly on focused Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper deviates from the mainstream empirical literature by investigating the aid-growth relationship on Ethiopia. Using a growth equation inspired from an outward-oriented neoclassical production function and cointegration methodology this paper finds the existence of a long term relationship between foreign aid and economic growth for Ethiopia. This paper found that foreign aid has a negative effect on economic growth in the short run and becomes positive in the long run. Using Granger Causality technique this study also found that there is Evidence to support the presence of unidirectional causality of foreign aid to economic growth for Ethiopia.
Impact of nonlinear effective interactions on GFT quantum gravity condensates
Creators: name: Pithis, Andreas G. A.
name: Sakellariadou, Mairi
name: Tomov, Petar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the numerical analysis of effectively interacting Group Field Theory (GFT) models in the context of the GFT quantum gravity condensate analogue of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for real Bose-Einstein condensates including combinatorially local interaction terms. Thus we go beyond the usually considered construction for free models. More precisely, considering such interactions in a weak regime, we find solutions for which the expectation value of the number operator N is finite, as in the free case. When tuning the interaction to the strongly nonlinear regime, however, we obtain solutions for which N grows and eventually blows up, which is reminiscent of what one observes for real Bose-Einstein condensates, where a strong interaction regime can only be realized at high density. This behaviour suggests the breakdown of the Bogoliubov ansatz for quantum gravity condensates and the need for non-Fock representations to describe the system when the condensate constituents are strongly correlated. Furthermore, we study the expectation values of certain geometric operators imported from Loop Quantum Gravity in the free and interacting cases. In particular, computing solutions around the nontrivial minima of the interaction potentials, one finds, already in the weakly interacting case, a nonvanishing condensate population for which the spectra are dominated by the lowest nontrivial configuration of the quantum geometry. This result indicates that the condensate may indeed consist of many smallest building blocks giving rise to an effectively continuous geometry, thus suggesting the interpretation of the condensate phase to correspond to a geometric phase.
description: 22 pages, 18 figures; closest to published version
Additional file 1 of Conflicting forces in the implementation of medicinal cannabis regulation in Uruguay
Creators: name: Alvarez, Eliana
name: Queirolo, Rosario
name: Sotto, Belen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Interviews Guide.
Accessing the Full Superconducting Dome in Pristine YBa2Cu3O6+x Under Pressure
Creators: name: Alireza, P. L.
name: Zhang, G. H.
name: Guo, W.
name: Porras, J.
name: Loew, T.
name: Hsu, Y. -T.
name: Lonzarich, G. G.
name: Tacon, M. Le
name: Keimer, B.
name: Sebastian, Suchitra E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We attain the previously unaccessed full superconducting dome in a pristine high temperature cuprate superconductor by applying pressures up to 280 kbar to samples of near stoichiometric YBa2Cu3O7. The obtained superconducting phase boundary as a function of hole doping closely follows the superconducting dome in La2-xSrxCuO4. Measurements are now enabled to trace the evolution of various entangled phases and the Fermi surface from the underdoped to overdoped regime in a single high purity cuprate superconducting family of materials.
First-principles Study of Rashba Effect in Ultra-thin Bismuth Surface Alloys
Creators: name: Yamaguchi, Naoya
name: Kotaka, Hiroki
name: Ishii, Fumiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed density functional calculations for ultra-thin bismuth surface alloys: surface alloys of bismuth and face-centered cubic metals Bi/$M$(111)-$(\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3})R30°$ ($M$=Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Co, and Fe). Our calculated Rashba parameters for the Bi/Ag are consistent with the previous experimental and theoretical results. We predicted a trend in the Rashba coefficients $α_R$ of bands around the Fermi energy for noble metals as follows: Bi/Ag > Bi/Cu > Bi/Au. As for the transition metals, there is a trend in $α_R$: Bi/Ni > Bi/Co > Bi/Fe. Our finding may lead to design efficient spin-charge conversion materials.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
A Collective Responsibility: Addressing the School Social Worker Shortage
Creators: name: Vahdani, Tara
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023

description: Given their proximity to students, school social workers play a critical role in supporting the well-being of youth. As mental health awareness has grown, so has the demand for school-based social workers. Due to an existing shortage of such professionals, however, and the current challenges to hiring more, access to mental health care continues to be limited or nonexistent in many schools across the United States. This paper positions this persistent workforce problem as a collective responsibility, outlining the engagement demanded from a broad range of actors, specifically school districts, government agencies, and social work education programs. Working together, they can strategically reduce barriers to entering the field and ultimately diversify and expand the ranks of the school social work profession.
Message from Monte Carlo : a framework for minimum message length inference using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods
Creators: name: Fitzgibbon., Leigh J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Triple-resonant Brillouin light scattering in magneto-optical cavities
Creators: name: Haigh, J. A.
name: Nunnenkamp, A.
name: Ramsay, A. J.
name: Ferguson, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An enhancement in Brillouin light scattering of optical photons with magnons is demonstrated in magneto-optical whispering gallery mode resonators tuned to a triple resonance point. This occurs when both the input and output optical modes are resonant with those of the whispering gallery resonator, with a separation given by the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) frequency. The identification and excitation of specific optical modes allows us to gain a clear understanding of the mode-matching conditions. A selection rule due to wavevector matching leads to an intrinsic single-sideband excitation. Strong suppression of one sideband is essential for one-to-one frequency mapping in coherent optical-to-microwave conversion.
description: 6 pages + 3 pages supp. information
The Assessment of e-LMIS Implementation and User Satisfaction for Pharmaceutical Management in Public Health Facilities of the Addis Ababa Regional Health Bureau
Creators: name: Tewfik, Sami
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2018

description: The Federal Ministry of Health and Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agency (PFSA) in collaboration with development partners have been implementing electronic Logistic Management Information System (eLMIS) – Health Commodity Management Information System (HCMIS), Facility Edition (FE) in more than 800 public health hospitals and health centers. The system is designed to support inventory control, and logistics management information system. The need for continuous improvement to fulfill evolving needs and the system's ability to match the growth in increased commodity through puts will continue to be a challenge. In addition, data contained within eLMIS HCMIS is occasionally unreliable, inconsistent, or incomplete; and data are not used routinely enough for decisionmaking. Last but not least, the system is not linked in real-time to the HCMIS Warehouse (Warehouse Management System at PFSA), so real-time data visibility at the facility level is still a challenge due to internet access and reliability. The purpose of this study is to assess effectiveness of the e-LMIS implementation to optimize pharmaceutical management practices and enhance efficiency at hospitals and health centers under Addis Ababa Regional Health Bureau. Data was collected from sample of 39 users out of 49 mature e-LMIS HCMIS implementing public health facilities in Addis Ababa. Generally, system's ability to give easy access to relevant, customized, and complete logistics information in timely manner (visibility) was good even though the use of system generated data for decision making needs improvement. The study also found that three of the factors: Information quality (β =0.554), perceived usefulness (β=0.377), and system support (β =0.398) had statistically significant and information quality have the strongest predictor for user satisfaction. The eLMIS – HCMIS system requires significant upgrade to fulfill its purpose in the supply chain context but good level of LMIS data visibility for all stakeholders was observed and PFSA stood first. In addition to building the logistics information management systems, creating a data use culture is equally important. Creating and improving data use culture by empowering and training staff to analyze and use data for decision making will be key to improving supply chain performance. Identify the hook or factors that forces data use and quality to enhance use is also equally important. Given that the model only explains 58.1% of the factors that contributed to users satisfaction then in the future studies should focus on adding other factors that will explain more (60% and above) of the factors that contributed to users satisfaction
D2.1 Report on CCs analysis
Creators: name: Longo Danila
name: Roversi Rossella
name: Orlandi Serena
name: Turillazzi Beatrice
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The main goal of the 4CH Project is to set up the methodological, procedural, and organizational framework of a European Competence Centre (CC) about Cultural Heritage (CH) able to seamlessly work with a network of national, regional, and local cultural Institutions, providing them with advice, support, and services. This report describes the survey results on existing Competence/Knowledge Centres and other similar entities, implemented with the aim to get useful feedbacks and lessons learnt to outline the future 4CH Competence Centre (4CH CC) organization, governance, funding and business plan, provision of services and other related and relevant aspects.
On the instability of two entropic dynamical models
Creators: name: Henry, Guillermo
name: Rodriguez, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study two entropic dynamical models from the viewpoint of information geometry. We study the geometry structures of the associated statistical manifolds. In order to analyse the character of the instability of the systems, we obtain their geodesics and compute their Jacobi vector fields. The results of this work improve and extend a recent advance in this topics studied in [13]
description: Accepted for publication in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
The Effect of Depreciation of Birr on Major Export Products of Ethiopia: The Case of Hides and Skins
Creators: name: A., Elias
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2011

description: The paper analyses the effects of trade and exchange rate policies on one of Ethiopia's agricultural export item, hides and skins. The problem which motivated this study is the theoretical debates and empirical contradictions given on the matter of effect of devaluation/depreciation of domestic currency on the performance of export of the country. Ethiopia, as one of the most endowed in enormous capacity in livestock population, it is a potential advantage to the country to be a country with higher competitive advantage in the sub sector of export of hides and skins. But the reality is the exact opposite. The country at the head in livestock population is at the tail of world exporters of hides and skins. one of the policy measures taken by the government in the last couple of decades in order to improve the level of export of the country in general is devaluation (and continuous depreciation) of birr. The step towards market based determination of exchange rate is intended to give an enhanced performance of exports especially in sectors which the country has great potentials. Therefore, the study asks and answers what happened in the export of hides and skins when the exchange rate depreciates continuously for the last 17 years. The empirical findings of the study reveal that real exchange rate is one factor, among many others, that affects the volume of export of hides and skins. Hence, it is recommended that policy towards liberalized exchange rate determination should be complement by other policy measures which are in harmony with the economic agenda of export enhancement.
The World of Fast Moving Objects
Creators: name: Rozumnyi, Denys
name: Kotera, Jan
name: Sroubek, Filip
name: Novotny, Lukas
name: Matas, Jiri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The notion of a Fast Moving Object (FMO), i.e. an object that moves over a distance exceeding its size within the exposure time, is introduced. FMOs may, and typically do, rotate with high angular speed. FMOs are very common in sports videos, but are not rare elsewhere. In a single frame, such objects are often barely visible and appear as semi-transparent streaks. A method for the detection and tracking of FMOs is proposed. The method consists of three distinct algorithms, which form an efficient localization pipeline that operates successfully in a broad range of conditions. We show that it is possible to recover the appearance of the object and its axis of rotation, despite its blurred appearance. The proposed method is evaluated on a new annotated dataset. The results show that existing trackers are inadequate for the problem of FMO localization and a new approach is required. Two applications of localization, temporal super-resolution and highlighting, are presented.
Design of 280 GHz feedhorn-coupled TES arrays for the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER
Creators: name: Hubmayr, Johannes
name: Austermann, Jason E.
name: Beall, James A.
name: Becker, Daniel T.
name: Benton, Steven J.
name: Bergman, A. Stevie
name: Bond, J. Richard
name: Bryan, Sean
name: Duff, Shannon M.
name: Duivenvoorden, Adri J.
name: Eriksen, H. K.
name: Filippini, Jeffrey P.
name: Fraisse, Aurelien A.
name: Galloway, Mathew
name: Gambrel, Anne E.
name: Ganga, K.
name: Grigorian, Arpi L.
name: Gualtieri, Riccardo
name: Gudmundsson, Jon E.
name: Hartley, John W.
name: Halpern, M.
name: Hilton, Gene C.
name: Jones, William C.
name: McMahon, Jeffrey J.
name: Moncelsi, Lorenzo
name: Nagy, Johanna M.
name: Netterfield, C. B.
name: Osherson, Benjamin
name: Padilla, Ivan
name: Rahlin, Alexandra S.
name: Racine, B.
name: Ruhl, John
name: Ruud, T. M.
name: Shariff, J. A.
name: Soler, J. D.
name: Song, Xue
name: Ullom, Joel N.
name: Van Lanen, Jeff
name: Vissers, Michael R.
name: Wehus, I. K.
name: Wen, Shyang
name: Wiebe, D. V.
name: Young, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe 280 GHz bolometric detector arrays that instrument the balloon-borne polarimeter SPIDER. A primary science goal of SPIDER is to measure the large-scale B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background in search of the cosmic-inflation, gravitational-wave signature. 280 GHz channels aid this science goal by constraining the level of B-mode contamination from galactic dust emission. We present the focal plane unit design, which consists of a 16$\times$16 array of conical, corrugated feedhorns coupled to a monolithic detector array fabricated on a 150 mm diameter silicon wafer. Detector arrays are capable of polarimetric sensing via waveguide probe-coupling to a multiplexed array of transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers. The SPIDER receiver has three focal plane units at 280 GHz, which in total contains 765 spatial pixels and 1,530 polarization sensitive bolometers. By fabrication and measurement of single feedhorns, we demonstrate 14.7$^{\circ}$ FHWM Gaussian-shaped beams with $
description: Proceedings of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2016
An interface language for the development of reliable and dynamic distributed object systems
Creators: name: Exton., Christopher Martin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Preparing for the invasion: Pest survey cards on non-EU tephritids
Creators: name: Graziosi, Ignazio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: plant pests
subject: plant health
subject: surveillance
subject: survey preparation
subject: survey design
subject: invasive species
subject: pest survey cards
subject: survey guidelines
subject: http://artemide.art.uniroma2.it/skosmos/gacs/en/page/C10651
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22surveillance%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22invasive%20species%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22host%20plants%22
subject: https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=subject.term:%22plant%20pests%22

description: Presentation "Preparing for the invasion: Pest survey cards on non-EU tephritids" for the EURL workshop on Insects and Mites on 29 November 2022.
description: EU; en; PDF; PLANTS@efsa.europa.eu
Neurophysiological measures and correlates of cognitive load in ADHD, ASD, and dyslexia
Creators: name: Le Cunff, Anne-Laure
name: Dommett, Eleanor
name: Giampietro, Vincent
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Neuroscience
subject: Disability and Equity in Education
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Education
subject: Neuroscience and Neurobiology
subject: adhd
subject: asd
subject: cognitive load
subject: dyslexia
subject: neurodiversity
subject: scoping review
subject: working memory

description: This registration contains a protocol for a scoping review. The review will map neurophysiological measures of working memory used in neurodiversity research, with a focus on ADHD, ASD, and dyslexia, and to explore how working memory is investigated across those three neurodevelopmental conditions.
Valuing the Economic Benefit of Irrigation Water: Application of Choice Experiment and Contingent Valuation Methods to Ribb Irrigation and Drainage Project in South Gonder, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Assefa, Nega
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: This study analyses the determinants of households" willingness to pay for irrigation water supply by using contingent valuation and choice experiment methods. A sample of 300 farm households living in the command area was interviewed to obtain households" willingness to pay for irrigation water supply. A single bounded value elicitation format with an open ended follow up question were used for the CVM and four attributes were identified with three environmental attributes (irrigation water availability, fish stock abundance and productivity) and a monetary attribute (annual payment). Probit, multinomial logit and random parameter logit models were used to analyze the factors influencing households" willingness to pay and estimate measures of welfare change for farm households. Results of the study showed households were willing to pay for the provision of irrigation water. The important variables identified in this study to determine households" WTP for irrigation water include practical irrigation experience of households, average annual income, participation in off-farm activities, and market access,. The mean willingness to pay from the single bounded and follow up open ended questions were birr 614 and birr 417.49 per 0.25 ha of irrigable land respectively. The expected aggregate willingness to pay for irrigation water supply for the closed and open ended questions is estimated to be birr 35,513,760 and 24,147,622 respectively. Based on the willingness to pay of households for improvement of attributes irrigation water availability is the most preferred one followed by fish stock abundance. The mean iv willingness to pay for fish stock abundance, irrigation water availability and productivity were 748, 822 and 1.2 birr respectively from the implicit price estimates. Compensating surplus estimates which reflect overall willingness to pay for a change from the status quo (current situation) to alternative improvement scenarios were also calculated. The estimate for the high impact scenario was estimated to be 5610 birr, for medium impact scenario 4090 birr and for low impact scenario it was 2514 birr per annum. An important policy implication drawn from the study is that farm households are willing to pay for irrigation water supply. If government designs and implements a proper charge of irrigation water in the area based on such studies it will avoid or at least reduce inefficient water use practices and there would be a more sustainable utilization of environmental resources.
Continuous representations of scalar products of Bethe vectors
Creators: name: Galleas, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present families of single determinantal representations of on-shell scalar products of Bethe vectors. Our families of representations are parameterized by a continuous complex variable which can be fixed at convenience. Here we consider Bethe vectors in two versions of the six-vertex model: the case with boundary twists and the case with open boundaries.
description: 21 pages; v2: minor stylistic changes, missing factor in 3.15 and 3.16 added
Deliverable 5.9 – Capacity Building Report
Creators: name: Villegas, Aisha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This deliverable provides an overview of the Capacity Building strategy, which will be carried out during the second and third year of the inDICEs project within WP5 Dissemination, Stakeholder engagement and Exploitation. The document outlines the goals of the Capacity-Building plan and identifies and defines the target audiences of this strategy. Taken from the previous, the document defines the activities and resources that partners of the project will organize to ensure the successful use and uptake of the Open Observatory platform and outcomes of the project by target audiences. This report is the first iteration of two versions. The second version will provide the results of the activities hereby described.
Three-dimensional topological solitons in PT-symmetric optical lattices
Creators: name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Hang, Chao
name: Huang, Guoxiang
name: Torner, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the properties of fully three-dimensional solitons in complex parity-time (PT)-symmetric periodic lattices with focusing Kerr nonlinearity, and uncover that such lattices can stabilize both, fundamental and vortex-carrying soliton states. The imaginary part of the lattice induces internal currents in the solitons that strongly affect their domains of existence and stability. The domain of stability for fundamental solitons can extend nearly up to the PT-symmetry breaking point, where the linear lattice spectrum becomes complex. Vortex solitons feature spatially asymmetric profiles in the PT-symmetric lattices, but they are found to still exist as stable states within narrow regions. Our results provide the first example of continuous families of stable three-dimensional propagating solitons supported by complex potentials.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Optica
Additional file 1 of Mapping change in higher-order networks with multilevel and overlapping communities
Creators: name: Holmgren, Anton
name: Edler, Daniel
name: Rosvall, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 80699
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Information.
Exploring inter-disciplinary approaches to problems in public transport planning
Creators: name: Currie., Graham V.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
Tracking galaxy evolution through low frequency radio continuum observations using SKA and Citizen-science Research using Multi-wavelength data
Creators: name: Hota, Ananda
name: Konar, Chiranjib
name: Stalin, C. S.
name: Vaddi, Sravani
name: Mohanty, Pradeepta K.
name: Dabhade, Pratik
name: Bhoga, Sai Arun Dharmik
name: Rajoria, Megha
name: Sethi, Sagar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a review on galaxy black hole co-evolution through merger, star formation and AGN-jet feedback. We highlight results on transitional galaxies (e.g. NGC1482, NGC6764, NGC3801, Speca, RAD-18 etc.) which has data from Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and other sub-mm, IR, optical, UV and X-ray telescopes. The `smoking gun' relic-evidences of past AGN-jet feedback which is believed to have quenched star formation in transitional galaxies are still missing. Relic radio lobes, as old as a few hundred Myr, can be best detected at low radio frequencies with the GMRT, LOFAR and in future SKA. However, similar relic evidences of quasar activities, known as `Hanny's Voorwerp' discovered by Galaxy Zoo in optical data, are only around a few tens of thousand years old. More discoveries are needed to match these time-scales with time since the decline of star formation in transitional galaxies. Such faint fuzzy relic emissions in optical and angular-scale sensitive radio interferometric images can be discovered most efficiently by citizen-scientists but with a formal training. We describe RAD@home, the only Indian citizen-science research project in astronomy which takes such a modified approach. We present interesting objects, discovered from the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS) by 69 trained citizen-scientists or e-astronomers, like relic radio lobes, episodic radio galaxies, jet-galaxy interaction, bent radio galaxy in filament etc.. This model can provide an equal opportunity of academic-growth to people even in the under-developed regions where we always need to establish our optical and radio telescopes. This can expand the research-activity of city-based research-institutes beyond their four brick walls, and alleviate various socio-economic and geo-political constraints on growth of citizens located in remote areas. #RADatHomeIndia #ABCDresearch
description: To appear in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (JOAA) special issue on "Science with the SKA: an Indian perspective". Currently under review. Please help RAD@home and like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RADatHomeIndia/ Compact pdf version of the paper for colour-printing can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Ya4Y3GPJSZZHNNTkVwdVVYSW8/view?usp=sharing
The Effects of Government Transport Infrastructure Expenditure on Economic Growth in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Ayalew, Tewodros
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The study investigates the effects of government transport infrastructure expenditure on economic growth in Ethiopia between 1975 and 2015 using annual time series data on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), transport infrastructure, human capital, defense, agriculture and culture and sport. The time series property of the data is checked for the presence of unit root using Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test technique .All variables are integrated, which implies that the variables has long run relationship .For the analysis co integration and Error Correction Model together with descriptive statistics (table, graph and chart) are used .The result reveals that government expenditure on transport infrastructure has positive and significant effects on economic growth .Additionally, from the expenditures incorporated for the analysis, expenditures on human capital, agriculture and defense have also positive and significant long run effect. However, expenditure on culture and sport has negative and significant impacts on the economic growth. On the other hand, results from the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) shows that agriculture and transport infrastructure are significant in affecting economic growth in the short run but expenditure on human capital, defense and culture and sport are all insignificant. Based on the finding, the writer would like to recommend that government should allocate more budgets for the transport infrastructure investment together with agriculture, defense and human capital and reduce its expenditure on culture and sport.
Pauli Blockade in a Few-Hole PMOS Double Quantum Dot limited by Spin-Orbit Interaction
Creators: name: Bohuslavskyi, Heorhii
name: Kotekar-Patil, Dharmraj
name: Maurand, Romain
name: Corna, Andrea
name: Barraud, Sylvain
name: Bourdet, Leo
name: Hutin, Louis
name: Niquet, Yann-Michel
name: Jehl, Xavier
name: De Franceschi, Silvano
name: Vinet, Maud
name: Sanquer, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on hole compact double quantum dots fabricated using conventional CMOS technology. We provide evidence of Pauli spin blockade in the few hole regime which is relevant to spin qubit implementations. A current dip is observed around zero magnetic field, in agreement with the expected behavior for the case of strong spin-orbit. We deduce an intradot spin relaxation rate $\approx$120\,kHz for the first holes, an important step towards a robust hole spin-orbit qubit.
Additional file 1 of In-silico molecular designs to treat neurologic and ophthalmologic diseases caused by sorbitol excess: engineering the Agrobacterium vitis protein
Creators: name: Sharma, Shonit Nair
name: Hojati, Ashkhan
name: Gnanasambandam, Bhargavee
name: Yerrabelli, Rahul S.
name: Brozek, Joshua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 80699
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1