cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
HLA predictions from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples of five patients at the early stage of the Wuhan seafood market COVID-19 outbreak
Creators: name: Warren, Rene L
name: Birol, Inanc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We are in the midst of a global viral pandemic, one with no cure and a high mortality rate. The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) gene complex plays a critical role in host immunity. We predicted HLA class I and II alleles from the transcriptome sequencing data prepared from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples of five patients at the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak. We identified the HLA-I allele A*24:02 in four out of five patients, which is higher than the expected frequency (17.2%) in the South Han Chinese population. The difference is statistically significant with a p-value less than $10^{-4}$. Our analysis results may help provide future insights on disease susceptibility.
description: 4 pages, 2 tables
Physics of W bosons at LEP
Creators: name: Mele, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The high-energy and high-luminosity data-taking campaigns of the LEP e^+e^- collider provided the four collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, with about 50000 W-boson pairs and about a thousand singly-produced W bosons. This unique data sample has an unprecedented reach in probing some aspects of the Standard Model of the electroweak interactions, and this article reviews several achievements in the understanding of W-boson physics at LEP. The measurements of the cross sections for W-boson production are discussed, together with their implication on the existence of the coupling between Z and W bosons. The precision measurements of the magnitude of triple gauge-boson couplings are presented. The observation of the longitudinal helicity component of the W-boson spin, related to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking, is described together with the techniques used to probe the CP and CPT symmetries in the W-boson system. A discussion on the intricacies of the measurement of the mass of the W boson, whose knowledge is indispensable to test the internal consistency of the Standard Model and estimate the mass of the Higgs boson, concludes this review.
description: To appear in a special issue of Physics Reports celebrating the 50th anniversary of CERN
Il ruolo delle donne nell’accoglienza e nell’inclusione dei migranti. Tratteggi di un’agency al femminile
Creators: name: Batholini, Ignazia
Publisher: name: SocietàMutamentoPolitica
Year: 2021

description: Today, the identification of migrants with asylum seekers and the overestimation of inflows – also referred to as the “refugee crisis” – has meant that Italy, as a politically strategic borderland of Europe, coincides with a battleground between sovereign drives and solidarity tensions. If refugees are the most visible object of political contention, governance operated by Ngo’s and, more generally, by civil society, sees women in the front row in a battle aimed at re-humanizing politics. The clash, which lasted for weeks between Captain Rackete of Sea Watch 3 and Minister Salvini, did not only represent a confrontation between reception policies and rejection policies, between the dehumanization of the human and care as a distinguishing element of humanity, but a clash between political power and policy. In the following months, the honorary citizenship conferred on the captain in France reinvigorated the image of a female who pushes against “the established power”, referring to an ancestral symbolic of motherhood that becomes indiscriminate acceptance. The proposed article intends to explore the contribution of the female stakeholder and the elements that connote their gaze towards otherness and the support tools used, in order to focus on its distinguishing features of a female relationship in order to support migrant women victims of proximity violence.
description: SocietàMutamentoPolitica, Vol 11, N° 22 (2020): che Genere di partecipazione?
A general nonconvex large deviation result II
Creators: name: de Acosta, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10. (Primary)

description: We refine the conditions for the lower bound in an abstract large deviation result with nonconvex rate function we had previously introduced. We apply the results to certain stochastic recursive schemes.
description: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000441
Trade Induced Growth Impacts of Corporate Entry in the Food Sector: A Case Study of Fruits & Vegetables Sub-Sector in the Punjab State of India
Creators: name: Goel, Veena
name: Goel, Veena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Fruits & vegetables trade
subject: corporate groups
subject: growth

description: Study indicated that the entry of corporate sector in the Punjab State is both in retail and wholesale trade of the fruits & vegetables sub sector. At the organized retail stores these companies have provided its consumers a single window service for the various product assortments while within the fruits & vegetables category (have minuscule scales) widened the product selection choices. Corporate entry in wholesale trade has linked several product specific production belts with medium to high income consumers through various market segments such as organized stores, traditional wholesale/retail markets and the food service. These companies have also provided product variety through imports while opportunities for crop diversification towards higher value crops through exports. In the fruits & vegetables sub sector companies engaged in the retail trade have adopted for short to medium while those in wholesale trade for medium to long-term more sustainable approaches for the sourcing of supplies to build up competitive advantages. This has started generating growth in the Punjab state that has manifested in terms of higher incomes for as the partner farmers and creation of employment for the skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled manpower throughout the supply chain. As the market sizes of these companies expand and diversify in the domestic/global markets it shall enhance growth thereby magnify its impacts.
Analytic study of clustering in shaken granular material using zero-range processes
Creators: name: Torok, Janos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that models used to described granular clustering due to vertical shaking belong to the class of zero-range processes. This correspondence allows us to derive exactly in a very easy and straightforward manner a number of properties of the models like particle distribution functions, phase diagram, and characteristic time of clusterization.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures submitted to PRE
Nonlocal stimulation of three-magnon splitting in a magnetic vortex
Creators: name: Körber, Lukas
name: Schultheiss, Katrin
name: Hula, Tobias
name: Verba, Roman
name: Faßbender, Jürgen
name: Kákay, Attila
name: Schultheiss, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a combined numerical, theoretical and experimental study on stimulated three-magnon splitting in a magnetic disk in the vortex equilibrium state. Our micromagnetic simulations and Brillouin-light-scattering results confirm that three-magnon splitting can be triggered even below threshold by exciting one of the secondary modes by magnons propagating in a waveguide next to the disk. The experiments show that stimulation is possible over an extended range of excitation powers and a wide range of frequencies around the eigenfrequencies of the secondary modes. Rate-equation calculations predict an instantaneous response to stimulation and the possibility to prematurely trigger three-magnon splitting even above threshold in a sustainable manner. These predictions are confirmed experimentally using time-resolved Brillouin-light-scattering measurements and are in a good qualitative agreement with the theoretical results. We believe that the controllable mechanism of stimulated three-magnon splitting could provide a possibility to utilize magnon-based nonlinear networks as hardware for reservoir or neuromorphic computing.
Dentro i confini simbolici del gender order nel volontariato: pratiche e narrazioni della partecipazione delle donne
Creators: name: Milani, Stella
Publisher: name: SocietàMutamentoPolitica
Year: 2021

description: Over the last two decades several sociological contributions have gradually shown a new interest in gender analysis of volunteering. Available statistical data indicate that this field of participation, although crossed by complex and contrasting dynamics, tends to strongly replicate the symbolic boundaries of gender order. Thus, we observe a structural gender-based division of tasks and power’s roles that men and women play within organizations. The conceptual overlapping between voluntary (unpaid) work and care that can occur in women’s volunteering stimulates to explore the symbolic foundations of these gender inequalities. The purpose of this article is to investigate the social construction of gender through the women’s ways of “doing” and “conceiving” voluntary work, focusing on variable articulations of ontological complicity between structures of male domination and women volunteer’s habitus. Using a qualitative approach, volunteer women’s narratives are analysed to examine the links between conceptions of volunteering, meanings of care and perspectives on gendered leadership in voluntary organizations. The findings of this exploratory analysis, showing different sets of meanings related to the experience of women’s volunteering, suggest to further investigate the links between styles of volunteering (collectives and reflexives) and practices by which gender is created and recreated through social participation.
description: SocietàMutamentoPolitica, Vol 11, N° 22 (2020): che Genere di partecipazione?
Bounds on Lorentz-violating Yukawa couplings via lepton electromagnetic moments
Creators: name: Ahuatzi-Avendaño, J. Alfonso
name: Montaño, Javier
name: Novales-Sánchez, Héctor
name: Salinas, Mónica
name: Toscano, J. Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effective-Lagrangian description of Lorentz-invariance violation provided by the so-called Standard-Model Extension covers all the sectors of the Standard Model, allowing for model-independent studies of high-energy phenomena that might leave traces at relatively-low energies. In this context, the quantification of the large set of parameters characterizing Lorentz-violating effects is well motivated. In the present work, effects from the Lorentz-nonconserving Yukawa sector on the electromagnetic moments of charged leptons are calculated, estimated, and discussed. Following a perturbative approach, explicit expressions of leading contributions are derived and upper bounds on Lorentz violation are estimated from current data on electromagnetic moments. Scenarios regarding the coefficients of Lorentz violation are considered. In a scenario of two-point insertions preserving lepton flavor, the bound on the electron electric dipole moment yields limits as stringent as $10^{-28}$, whereas muon and tau-lepton electromagnetic moments determine bounds as restrictive as $10^{-14}$ and $10^{-6}$, respectively. Another scenario, defined by the assumption that Lorentz-violating Yukawa couplings are Hermitian, leads to less stringent bounds, provided by the muon anomalous magnetic moment, which turn out to be as restrictive as $10^{-14}$.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables
Impact of Corporate Ownership on Economic Performance of Agroholdings in Russia
Creators: name: Matyukha, Andriy
name: Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr
name: Saraykin, Valeriy
name: Uzun, Vasilii
name: Matyukha, Andriy
name: Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr
name: Saraykin, Valeriy
name: Uzun, Vasilii
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agroholding
subject: Corporate Ownership
subject: Performance
subject: Russia

description: This study conveys the impact of corporate ownership on economic performance of agroholdings – integrated agricultural, processing, marketing, financial and industrial business units in Russia’s agro-food sector. Using a unique database of the All-Russian Nikonov-Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics, we investigate 151 agroholdings in Russia and evaluate their economic performances for 2006. Applying the multiple linear regression analysis we were able to quantify corporate ownership and analyze a priori unobserved factors. The results of the econometric estimation reveal that state ownership exerts negative influence on the economic performance of agroholdings.
Photocatalytic reduction and scavenging of Hg(II) over templated-dewetted Au on TiO$_2$ nanotubes
Creators: name: Spanua, Davide
name: Bestetti, Alessandro
name: Hildebrand, Helga
name: Schmuki, Patrik
name: Altomare, Marco
name: Recchia, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gold-decorated TiO$_2$ nanotubes were used for the photocatalytic abatement of Hg(II) in aqueous solutions. The presence of dewetted Au nanoparticles induces a strong enhancement of photocatalytic reduction and scavenging performances, with respect to naked TiO$_2$. In the presence of chlorides, a massive formation of Hg2Cl2 nanowires, produced from Au nanoparticles, was observed using highly Au loaded photocatalysts to treat a 10 ppm Hg(II) solution. EDS and XPS confirmed the nature of the photo-produced nanowires. In the absence of chlorides and/or at lower Hg(II) starting concentrations, the scavenging of mercury proceeds through the formation of Hg-Au amalgams. Solar light driven Hg(II) abatements up to 90% were observed after 24h. ICP-MS analysis revealed that the removed Hg(II) is accumulated on the photocatalyst surface. Regeneration of Hg-loaded exhaust photocatalysts was easily performed by anodic stripping of Hg(0) and Hg(I) to Hg(II). After four catalytic-regeneration cycles only a 10% decrease of activity was observed.
Effect of in-plane magnetic field on the photoluminescence spectrum of modulation-doped quantum wells and heterojunctions
Creators: name: Ashkinadze, B. M.
name: Linder, E.
name: Cohen, E.
name: Pfeiffer, L. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of modulation-doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (MDQW) and heterojunctions (HJ) is studied under a magnetic field ($B_{\|}$) applied parallel to the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer. The effect of $B_{\|}$ strongly depends on the electron-hole separation ($d_{eh}$), and we revealed remarkable $B_{\|}$-induced modifications of the PL spectra in both types of heterostructures. A model considering the direct optical transitions between the conduction and valence subband that are shifted in k-space under $B_{\|}$, accounts qualitatively for the observed spectral modifications. In the HJs, the PL intensity of the bulk excitons is strongly reduced relatively to that of the 2DEG with increasing $B_{\|}$. This means that the distance between the photoholes and the 2DEG decreases with increased $B_{\|}$, and that free holes are responsible for the hole-2DEG PL.
description: 6pages, 5figures
Additional file 1 of Prevalence and factors associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms among Palestinian medical students
Creators: name: Shawahna, Ramzi
name: Suhaib Hattab
name: Al-Shafei, Rami
name: Tab’ouni, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Items in the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II)
Desafíos y Principales Motivos para el Rechazo de Revistas en la Base Scopus: Cómo Superarlos y Alcanzar la Indexación
Creators: name: Silva, Altieres de Oliveira
Publisher: name: EDITORA ALUMNI IN
Year: 2024
Subjects: SCOPUS
OJS JOURNAL
EDITORIAL GOVERNANCE
BLIND REVIEW
RANKING

description: El documento examina los criterios de selección de revistas para ser indexadas en la base de datos Scopus, abordando los principales desafíos que enfrentan los editores y las razones frecuentes de rechazo. Se destacan aspectos como la calidad científica, el impacto internacional y la consistencia editorial, que son fundamentales para la evaluación. Además, se detallan medidas para superar obstáculos, como mejorar la visibilidad global, aumentar la calidad de las referencias y garantizar que los artículos publicados cumplan con altos estándares de originalidad y rigor académico. El análisis sugiere que las revistas que logran alinear sus prácticas con estos requisitos pueden mejorar significativamente sus posibilidades de aceptación en Scopus.
Phaethon LINNAEUS 1758
Creators: name: Worthy, Trevor H.
name: Burley, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Phaethontiformes
Phaethontidae
Phaethon

description: PHAETHON LINNAEUS, 1758
PHAETHON LEPTURUS DAUDIN, 1802, WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD
description: Published as part of Worthy, Trevor H. & Burley, David V., 2020, Prehistoric avifaunas from the Kingdom of Tonga, pp. 998-1045 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189 on page 1021
Photoanodes Based on TiO$_2$ and $α$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ for Solar Water Splitting Superior Role of 1D Nanoarchitectures and of Combined Heterostructures
Creators: name: Kment, Stepan
name: Riboni, Francesca
name: Pausova, Sarka
name: Wang, Lei
name: Wang, Lingyun
name: Han, Hyungkyu
name: Hubicka, Zdenek
name: Krysa, Josef
name: Schmuki, Patrik
name: Zboril, Radek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar driven photoelectrochemical water splitting (PEC-WS) using semiconductor photoelectrodes represents a promising approach for a sustainable and environmentally friendly production of renewable energy vectors and fuel sources, such as dihydrogen (H2). In this context, titanium dioxide (TiO$_2$) and iron oxide (hematite, $α$-Fe$_2$O$_3$) are among the most investigated candidates as photoanode materials, mainly owing to their resistance to photocorrosion, non-toxicity, natural abundance, and low production cost. Major drawbacks are, however, an inherently low electrical conductivity and a limited hole diffusion length that significantly affect the performance of TiO$_2$ and $α$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ in PEC devices. To this regard, one-dimensional (1D) nanostructuring is typically applied as it provides several superior features such as a significant enlargement of the material surface area, extended contact between the semiconductor and the electrolyte and, most remarkably, preferential electrical transport that overall suppress charge carrier recombination and improve TiO$_2$ and $α$-Fe$_2$O$_3$ photo-electrocatalytic properties. The present review describes various synthetic methods, properties and PEC applications of 1D-photoanodes (nanotubes, nanorods, nanofibers, nanowires) based on titania, hematite, and on $α$-Fe$_2$O$_3$/TiO$_2$ heterostructures. Various routes towards modification and enhancement of PEC activity of 1D photoanodes are also discussed including doping, decoration with co-catalysts and heterojunction engineering. Finally, the challenges related to the optimization of charge transfer kinetics in both oxides are highlighted.
Prostituzione e sfruttamento tra vulnerabilità, familismo e segregazione sociale: il caso delle donne Rom
Creators: name: Baldoni, Emiliana
Publisher: name: SocietàMutamentoPolitica
Year: 2021

description: The article faces the issue of the sexual exploitation of Roma women, assuming that their marginal position in the global prostitution market, as a system that reflects the social inequalities, is the product of the inextricable intertwining of individual vulnerability factors and the condition of segregation. In Italy, the situation of extreme marginality that characterizes the so-called “nomad camps”, on an equal terms with other non-Roma women, increases the risk of violent exploitation and reduces the possibility of emancipation and self-determination. Therefore, even if they represent a minority of the total number of exploited women, the protection of Roma women requires the implementation of ad hoc measures within a global approach aimed at overcoming the “nomad camps”.
description: SocietàMutamentoPolitica, Vol 11, N° 22 (2020): che Genere di partecipazione?
Two-loop electroweak corrections to Higgs production at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Degrassi, Giuseppe
name: Maltoni, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the two-loop electroweak corrections due to the top quark to the gluon fusion production cross section of an intermediate-mass Higgs boson. This result, together with the previously known contribution due to the light fermions, allows a complete determination of the two-loop electroweak corrections to this production cross section. For Higgs mass values above 120 GeV the top corrections have opposite sign of the light fermions contribution, however they are always smaller in size reaching at most 15% of the latter. The total electroweak corrections to the gluon fusion production cross section for 115 GeV < m_H < 2 m_W range from 5% to 8% of the lowest order term.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 3 of Improving the effectiveness of point of care tests for malaria and anaemia: a qualitative study across three Ghanaian antenatal clinics
Creators: name: Tanith Palmer
name: Abiola O. Aiyenigba
name: Bates, Imelda
name: Okyere, Doris Dokua
name: Tagbor, Harry
name: Gifty Dufie Ampofo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3 Pathways to treatment of anaemia and malaria in antenatal care: in-depth interview topic guide for laboratory managers.
EFICIÊNCIA NA INDÚSTRIA DE MÓVEIS NO BRASIL: O IMPACTO DA ABERTURA COMERCIAL NOS ESTADOS E REGIÕES DO BRASIL.
Creators: name: Santos, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento Dos
name: Santos, Francivane Teles Pampolha Dos
name: Sousa, Alexandre Gervasio
name: Santos, Ricardo Bruno Nascimento Dos
name: Santos, Francivane Teles Pampolha Dos
name: Sousa, Alexandre Gervasio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Eficiência Técnica
subject: DEA
subject: Índice Malmiquist de Produtividade
subject: Technical Efficiency
subject: Malmiquist of Productivity Index

description: Com a abertura comercial na década de 90, muitos setores da economia que estavam em processo de industrialização se viram em dificuldade em enfrentar uma nova estrutura de competição, isso por sua vez acarretou numa industrialização tardia para algumas empresas do setor industrial, principalmente para as empresas de fabricação de móveis. Analisando esta entrada, este trabalho teve como objetivo verificar se o processo de abertura comercial causou impactos na eficiência dos estados nas indústrias de móveis, bem como o impacto na produtividade física. Para atingir esse objetivo, foi utilizado o Modelo de Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA), que se baseia em programação matemática. Como insumos foram utilizados pessoal ocupado no setor, salários e remunerações e custo médio das operações industriais, como produto foram utilizados o valor bruto da produção menos as exportações. O que se percebeu foi uma queda da eficiência, aumentando a desigualdade regional da indústria de móveis, porém essa queda de eficiência foi acompanhada de aumento na produtividade.-------------------------------------------With the opening trade in the 1990’s, many sectors of the economy that were in the industrialization process were in difficulty in facing a new structure of competition, this bring to a late industrialization some companies in the industrial sector, particularly for firms manufacturing of furniture. Analyzing this entry, this study has a objective to determine whether the process of opening up trade caused impacts on the efficiency of the states in the industries of furniture, as well as the impact on physics productivity. To achieve that goal, we used the model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is based on mathematical programming. As inputs were used staff busy in the industry, wages and salaries and the average cost of the industrial operations, such as product were used the rule value of the production less exports. What if realized was a fall in efficiency, increasing inequality regional furniture industry, but this efficiency fall has been accompanied by an increase in productivity.
Self-normalized processes: exponential inequalities, moment bounds and iterated logarithm laws
Creators: name: de la Pena, Victor H.
name: Klass, Michael J.
name: Lai, Tze Leung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60E15, 60G42, 60G44 (Primary) 60G40. (Secondary)

description: Self-normalized processes arise naturally in statistical applications. Being unit free, they are not affected by scale changes. Moreover, self-normalization often eliminates or weakens moment assumptions. In this paper we present several exponential and moment inequalities, particularly those related to laws of the iterated logarithm, for self-normalized random variables including martingales. Tail probability bounds are also derived. For random variables B_t>0 and A_t, let Y_t(λ)=\exp{λA_t-λ^2B_t^2/2}. We develop inequalities for the moments of A_t/B_{t} or sup_{t\geq 0}A_t/{B_t(\log \log B_{t})^{1/2}} and variants thereof, when EY_t(λ)\leq 1 or when Y_t(λ) is a supermartingale, for all λbelonging to some interval. Our results are valid for a wide class of random processes including continuous martingales with A_t=M_t and B_t=\sqrt < M>_t, and sums of conditionally symmetric variables d_i with A_t=\sum_{i=1}^td_i and B_t=\sqrt\sum_{i=1}^td_i^2. A sharp maximal inequality for conditionally symmetric random variables and for continuous local martingales with values in R^m, m\ge 1, is also established. Another development in this paper is a bounded law of the iterated logarithm for general adapted sequences that are centered at certain truncated conditional expectations and self-normalized by the square root of the sum of squares. The key ingredient in this development is a new exponential supermartingale involving \sum_{i=1}^td_i and \sum_{i=1}^td_i^2.
description: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000397
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
Creators: name: Blais, Alexandre
name: Grimsmo, Arne L.
name: Girvin, S. M.
name: Wallraff, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum mechanical effects at the macroscopic level were first explored in Josephson junction-based superconducting circuits in the 1980's. In the last twenty years, the emergence of quantum information science has intensified research toward using these circuits as qubits in quantum information processors. The realization that superconducting qubits can be made to strongly and controllably interact with microwave photons, the quantized electromagnetic fields stored in superconducting circuits, led to the creation of the field of circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED), the topic of this review. While atomic cavity QED inspired many of the early developments of circuit QED, the latter has now become an independent and thriving field of research in its own right. Circuit QED allows the study and control of light-matter interaction at the quantum level in unprecedented detail. It also plays an essential role in all current approaches to quantum information processing with superconducting circuits. In addition, circuit QED enables the study of hybrid quantum systems interacting with microwave photons. Here, we review the coherent coupling of superconducting qubits to microwave photons in high-quality oscillators focussing on the physics of the Jaynes-Cummings model, its dispersive limit, and the different regimes of light-matter interaction in this system. We discuss coupling of superconducting circuits to their environment, which is necessary for coherent control and measurements in circuit QED, but which also invariably leads to decoherence. Dispersive qubit readout, a central ingredient in almost all circuit QED experiments, is also described. Following an introduction to these fundamental concepts that are at the heart of circuit QED, we discuss important use cases of these ideas in quantum information processing and in quantum optics.
description: 82 pages, 34 figures
Oltre le specificità di genere. Cura e diritti nella prospettiva relazionale di Amartya Sen e Martha Nussbaum
Creators: name: Erasmo, Valentina
Publisher: name: SocietàMutamentoPolitica
Year: 2021

description: At the thresholds of 2020, gender differences are still reason of inequalities, even in the most economically advanced countries, as shown by the Global Gender Gap Report. Indeed, democratic and liberal societies are dominated by behavioural ‘masculine’ dynamics, according to homo economicus’ paradigm. Many representatives of feminism, as Ortner, complain the strong competitiveness of homo economicus for representing individual decisions, where are lost those horizons not regulated by markets laws: one of these is caregiving, understood as health and/or home care, where female figures prevail. I would suggest an alternative to these perspectives, androcentric and feminist, which enables to go beyond gender specificity. I have proceeded with Sen’s anthropological proposal where man is ‘relation’ with himself herself, into intrapersonal space, and with the others, into interpersonal space. Thanks to ‘multiple identities’, we can rediscover the value of reciprocity in social interactions, culminated in the birth of relational goods which returns the importance of care in these interactions which increase social capital, as in caregiving. Since the creation of relational goods two questions arise: on the one hand, asking if this may become the starting point for an expansion of care’s reciprocity from the intersubjective domain to their reference community; on the other, discussing whether an ethics of care may coexist with an ethics of rights. The answer is affirmative for both, but it requires the overcoming of gender’s dichotomy, where the ethics of care is declined with a female voice, as compassion, and the ethics of rights with a male voice, as rationality. A choral answer is required, able to harmonise, without confusing, the level of care with the respect of rights, like the goals-rights system of Sen in dialogue with the ethics of care of Nussbaum, careful to the most human aspects of the existence.
description: SocietàMutamentoPolitica, Vol 11, N° 22 (2020): che Genere di partecipazione?
3737: Nellie Foster
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: My aunt, Nellie Foster (b 1896), met John (Jack) B Speight of 28 Tudor St, Manchester Rd., before the war. He was reported missing but there is no information regarding his service. Nellie never married and died in 1977. The brooch was sent by John to Nellie from France.
Fruit and Vegetables, and the Role They Have Played in Determining the EU’s Aggregate Measurement of Support
Creators: name: Swinbank, Alan
name: Swinbank, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: amber box
subject: CAP
subject: fruit
subject: vegetables
subject: WTO

description: In its periodic declarations of domestic support to the WTO, the EU has progressively reduced its amber-box declarations in line with its changing system of farm support. Surprisingly, however, in 2007/08 it managed to more than halve its amber box compared with that of the previous year, easily achieving the reduction targets being touted in the Doha Round. This was largely due to a change in the calculations for fresh fruits and vegetables. These had been linked to the entry price system, which was not affected by the 2008 fruit and vegetables reform. Why the EU chose to make this change during the ongoing Doha Round negotiations remains unclear.
Hypotaenidia REICHENBACH 1853
Creators: name: Worthy, Trevor H.
name: Burley, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Gruiformes
Rallidae
Hypotaenidia

description: HYPOTAENIDIA REICHENBACH, 1853
HYPOTAENIDIA PHILIPPENSIS (LINNAEUS, 1766), BUFF-BANDED RAIL
Material: Nukuleka: NISP = 1, MNI = 1. Falevai: NISP = 1, MNI = 1. Ofu: NISP = 4, MNI = 1. Otea: NISP = 3, MNI = 1. Vuna: NISP = 1, MNI = 1.
Measurements (in millimetres): Ka2.05.XX.00FE0b, dL fem, SW = 3.8, DW = 8.9; Of1.05.03.07, dR tib, DW = 5.9; Of1.05.08.06, sR hum, SW = 3.0; Of1.05.08.09a, pR tib, PW articular surface = 7.7; Ka1.05.10.14, dL fem, DW = 7.5; Ka1.05.10.15, dR hum, DW = 6.2; Ka1.05.12.15, dR tib, DW = 6.2; Pa1.04.19.08, dR tib, DW = 6.4.
Remarks: These specimens are indistinguishable from Hypotaenidia philippensis (= Gallirallus philippensis, sensu Kirchman, 2012), which includes 22 subspecies (Dickinson & Remsen, 2013). In describing the prehistoric fossil bones of Gallirallus from Tonga, Kirchman & Steadman (2005) attributed most from Ha'apai and Tongatapu to Gallirallus philippensis. However, from ' Eua, they noted that all remains that post-dated human arrival were from Gallirallus philippensis, but that in older layers, a now extinct species (Gallirallus vekamatolu) was the sole one present. Material of Hypotaenidia philippensis ecaudata (J. F. Miller, 1783), the subspecies in the Tongan region, was not available to us, but the Tongan bones were qualitatively similar to and about the same size as SAM B.36299, an example of the Australian form Hypotaenidia philippensis mellori (Mathews, 1912), with which they were compared. All bones fell within the size range of those given for Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu for this sexually size-dimorphic species (Kirchman & Steadman, 2005) and were much smaller than for those of the following species.
HYPOTAENIDIA VAVAUENSIS WORTHY & BURLEY SP.
description: Published as part of Worthy, Trevor H. & Burley, David V., 2020, Prehistoric avifaunas from the Kingdom of Tonga, pp. 998-1045 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189 on page 1022
Dynamics of the U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Trade: Market and Welfare Effects of the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement
Creators: name: Baek, Jungho
name: Baek, Jungho
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Political Economy
subject: Public Economics
subject: exchange rates
subject: housing starts
subject: softwood lumber trade
subject: trade restrictions
subject: U.S. import demand

description: This article examines the effects of macroeconomic variables (i.e., housing starts, disposable income, and the exchange rate), market variables (i.e., lumber price and wage rate) and the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA06) on U.S. lumber imports from Canada. It also looks at the welfare consequences of the SLA06. Results suggest that macroeconomic variables are more important than lumber price in determining the bilateral trade in softwood lumber. It is also found that, although the SLA06 has a significant negative effect on lumber imports from Canada, the market and welfare impacts of the trade restriction are moderate.
Data-driven Computational Social Science: A Survey
Creators: name: Zhang, Jun
name: Wang, Wei
name: Xia, Feng
name: Lin, Yu-Ru
name: Tong, Hanghang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social science concerns issues on individuals, relationships, and the whole society. The complexity of research topics in social science makes it the amalgamation of multiple disciplines, such as economics, political science, and sociology, etc. For centuries, scientists have conducted many studies to understand the mechanisms of the society. However, due to the limitations of traditional research methods, there exist many critical social issues to be explored. To solve those issues, computational social science emerges due to the rapid advancements of computation technologies and the profound studies on social science. With the aids of the advanced research techniques, various kinds of data from diverse areas can be acquired nowadays, and they can help us look into social problems with a new eye. As a result, utilizing various data to reveal issues derived from computational social science area has attracted more and more attentions. In this paper, to the best of our knowledge, we present a survey on data-driven computational social science for the first time which primarily focuses on reviewing application domains involving human dynamics. The state-of-the-art research on human dynamics is reviewed from three aspects: individuals, relationships, and collectives. Specifically, the research methodologies used to address research challenges in aforementioned application domains are summarized. In addition, some important open challenges with respect to both emerging research topics and research methods are discussed.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 2 of Prevalence and factors associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms among Palestinian medical students
Creators: name: Shawahna, Ramzi
name: Suhaib Hattab
name: Al-Shafei, Rami
name: Tab’ouni, Mahmoud
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Items in the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
title: “Headquarter in Hangzhou – the metropolitan hybrid
Creators: name: Neuber, Matthias
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bürogebäude
subject: Hangzhou
subject: Headquarter
subject: Hangzhou

description: Qianjiang Century City (QCC) befindet sich im zentralen Teil des Bezirks „Xiaoshan“ (Hangzhou, China), mit Blick auf den Bezirk „Jiangan“, sowie den alten Stadtkern, welche sich auf der anderen Seite des „Qiantang“ Flusses befinden. Der städtebauliche Plan (veröffentlicht vom „Planning Bureaux of Hangzhou“) sieht vor, dass QCC nach Fertigstellung das „neue Zentrum“ von Hangzhou wird. Der gewählte Bauplatz für das Thesis-Projekt befindet sich im Zentrum von QCC, direkt bei der U-Bahntransferstation „Yingfeng Lu“. Der Ort bietet ein großes Potential für ein Gebäude mit gemischter Nutzung- einem Programm, das alle modernen Annehmlichkeiten der Stadt umfasst, wie Einzelhandel, Büros, Wohnungen, Hotels und Freiflächenanlagen.
description: Qianjiang Century City (QCC) is located in the central part of “Xiaoshan” district (Hangzhou, China) with a great view to “Jiangan” district across the “Qiantang” River, were the ancient town center of Hangzhou is located. The urban development plan envisages that QCC will become the ‘new center of Hangzhou after completion. The chosen project site is the center of QCC, next to “Yingfeng Lu” subway transfer station. The place provides a great potential for a mixed-use headquarter building to support the urban surroundings a development consisting of all the cutting-edge amenities of the city: retail, offices, housing, hotel and open space facilities.
Thalasseus BOIE 1822
Creators: name: Worthy, Trevor H.
name: Burley, David V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Charadriiformes
Laridae
Thalasseus

description: THALASSEUS BOIE, 1822
THALASSEUS BERGII (M. H. LICHTENSTEIN, 1823), CRESTED TERN
description: Published as part of Worthy, Trevor H. & Burley, David V., 2020, Prehistoric avifaunas from the Kingdom of Tonga, pp. 998-1045 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189 on page 1031
Institutional Impediments to Groundwater Trading: the case of the Gnangara groundwater system of Western Australia
Creators: name: Skurray, James H.
name: Pandit, Ram
name: Pannell, David J.
name: Skurray, James H.
name: Pandit, Ram
name: Pannell, David J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Land Economics/Use
Political Economy
Public Economics
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The development of a market in groundwater usage rights can be inhibited by constraints arising from the institutional context. Such impediments may reduce the potential gains from trade and may generate high transaction costs for prospective traders. We analyse the regulations and policies influencing groundwater transfers in a case-study area -- the Gnangara groundwater system around Perth, Western Australia -- and identify significant impediments to a groundwater market. Property rights are found to be conditional, temporary, and vulnerable to amendment. Regulatory approval is required for all transfers. Facilitating infrastructure is lacking, and price information is unavailable. Management area boundaries reflect land ownership and use rather than hydrogeological realities; the limitation of transfers to within these boundaries eliminates much of the potential for gains from trade. Over-allocation and weak monitoring also impede the development of a market. The current management system is likely to obscure unmet demand for water-rights transfers between users and usage-types.
International Emission Strategies under the Threat of a Sudden Jump in Damages
Creators: name: Nkuiya, Bruno
name: Nkuiya, Bruno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Global pollution
subject: Environmental uncertainty
subject: regime shift
subject: stochastic differential games

description: We characterize the equilibrium level of emissions, the equilibrium stock of global pollution and the discounted net social welfare for both the cooperative and non-cooperative equilibria when the countries face the threat of a sudden irreversible jump in the global damages at an unknown date. The goal is to analyze the impact of this type of uncertainty on the equilibrium behavior of the countries. We find that it can have a significant effect on those equilibria. Countries reduce their emissions to mitigate their exposure to this threat. As the level of threat rises, countries adjust their emissions to lower the stock of pollutant. However, although initially this threat has the effect of lowering the discounted net welfare, it can in the long run have a net positive effect on welfare. The emissions trajectory is non-monotonic and discontinuous, but only under the threat.
Certification as a Rationale for Voluntary Agreements
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Patrick
name: Gonzalez, Patrick
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Certification
subject: voluntary agreements
subject: Pigovian taxes
subject: pollution

description: I model the participation of firms in a voluntary agreement as a costly certification process whereby a firm informs the Regulator of its pollution intensity. Without this knowledge, the Regulator imposes the same tax on all firms in a heterogeneous industry, unduly hurting the clean ones with the lowest intensity. Certification allows clean firms to get a tax rebate. It also entails an informational externality as the dispersion of types decreases within the pool of non-participating firms, following an unraveling process. Because participation is a firm’s private decision, there is such a thing as a bad voluntary agreement.
Social values and self-construal in the expression of social anxiety : a cross cultural comparison
Creators: name: Hong, Janie J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Past research findings suggest East Asians are more socially anxious than their Western counterparts (e.g., Norasakkunkit, V. & Kalick, S.M., 2002; Okazaki, S., 1997). Given that these findings stem primarily from Western-based self-report questionnaires, the noted difference may reflect a cultural bias in measurement. Higher endorsement of social anxiety symptoms may be, at least partially, explained by a cultural variation in beliefs about the self, the social context and appropriate social behaviour. Drawing from community samples of Koreans (age M=34.6) and Westerners (age M=35.3), a total of 501 participants completed a battery of 12 questionnaires designed to tap levels of social anxiety, the ways in which individuals view the self in relation to others (i.e., self-construal), and values typically endorsed by East Asian cultures (i.e., self-criticism, selfflexibility, saving face and self-monitoring of behaviour). All Korean participants (n=251; female=177) spent 4 or less years in a Western country and completed the back-translated questionnaires in their own native language. The Western sample (n=250; female=181) was comprised of individuals of European descent and individuals who were at least 3r d generation Canadian. Between-group analyses confirmed expected cross-cultural differences; the Korean sample reported higher levels of social anxiety, more interdependent and less independent self-views, and greater degrees of self-criticism, self-flexibility, and face-saving concerns. Using structural equation modeling procedures, several lines of evidence suggested endorsement of traits, behaviours and self-views that are characteristic of East Asian cultures promote endorsement of social anxiety symptoms. First, interdependent self-construal (i.e., viewing the self as connected with others and emphasizing the maintenance of group harmony) and face-saving concern measures failed to differentiate from social anxiety measures. Second, affiliation with an independent self-construal (i.e., viewing the self as separate from others and emphasizing autonomy), which is more frequently endorsed by Western cultures, negatively predicted social anxiety ratings for both samples. Finally, mediation model analyses indicated that social values typically upheld within East Asian cultures (i.e., self-criticism, self-flexibility) explained the relationship between independent self-construal and social anxiety. Overall, the results appear to suggest that higher social anxiety ratings may be more normative within East Asian cultural frames.