cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An Investigation of the Mechanism and Stereochemistry of the Peterson Reaction
Creators: name: Ellis, Richard John
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1983

description: The Peterson reaction is a method of carbonyl olefination and may be regarded as the silicon analogue of the Wittig reaction. The main purpose of this project has been to try to determine how the stereochemistry of the Peterson reaction may be affected by changing reaction conditions and changing the groups about the silicon atom. The results obtained show that the stereochemistry of the Peterson reaction is largely unaffected by performing the reaction in different solvents, at different temperatures, in the presence of inorganic salts and with different counterion ions. However, placing sterically bulky groups about the silicon atom causes an increase in the proportion of cis olefin being produced. M.N.D.O. calculations have also been performed in order to determine the nature of an a-silyl carbanion and to determine the importance of silicon oxygen interaction in the intermediate of the Peterson reaction.
title: THE CHANGING ASPECTS OF SETTLEMENT IN CENTRAL SOMERSET FROM THE ELEVENTH TO THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
Creators: name: Langdon, Marjorie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1987

description: The study covers an area in north-west Somerset within the hinterland of Bridgwater, that is, within a radius of approximately fifteen miles of the town. Developments in settlement patterns, economy and social conditions are reviewed between the late eleventh and early seventeenth centuries. The region was largely agricultrual; but the economy was influenced by local industry and markets and by ports on the Severn estuary and on the existence of navigable rivers. Published works dealing with developments are examined in the context of England as a whole and for Somerset in particular. The discussion is summarised under four sections dealing with (1) the historical geography at Domesday; (2) changes to the early fourteenth century; (3) the late fifteenth century, and (4) the situation in the early seventeenth century. The processes of change move progressively from a feudal economy and social structure to a capitalist society. The themes of changing elements in the space economy consider (1) the control of land use, (2) developing industry and trade, and (3) effects on social conditions. Extensive land reclamation and the woollen textile trade produced considerable wealth but the prosperity was not spread generally throughout the whole area, or amongst all members of the population, Money from wool and cloth, coinciding with the fourteenth century failure of demesne farming, encouraged the ruse of larger independent farming units. The sale of monastic property gave further opportunities to those with capital to acquire estates. New spatial structures were formed. In northern and eastern areas prosperous farms with mixed produce emerged and these were owned or rented from landowners or merchants. Newly-built houses and churches indicated wealth. In the hilly southern and western districts small holdings continued to exist, with less apparent growth, and large estates were formed from previous monastic land or waste. Trading and industrial centre constituted a third sector of the local economy. Overall, socially and economically, divisions between social classes were increased - especially between those with land and wealth and the landless poor.
Faraday spectroscopy in an optical lattice: a continuous probe of atom dynamics
Creators: name: Smith, Greg
name: Chaudhury, Souma
name: Jessen, Poul S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear Faraday effect is used to implement a continuous measurement of the spin of a sample of laser cooled atoms trapped in an optical lattice. One of the optical lattice beams serves also as a probe beam, thereby allowing one to monitor the atomic dynamics in real time and with minimal perturbation. A simple theory is developed to predict the measurement sensitivity and associated cost in terms of decoherence caused by the scattering of probe photons. Calculated signal-to-noise ratios in measurements of Larmor precession are found to agree with experimental data for a wide range of lattice intensity and detuning. Finally, quantum backaction is estimated by comparing the measurement sensitivity to spin projection noise, and shown to be insignificant in the current experiment. A continuous quantum measurement based on Faraday spectroscopy in optical lattices may open up new possibilities for the study of quantum feedback and classically chaotic quantum systems.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to J. Opt. B
Discrimination and estimation of incoherent sources under misalignment
Creators: name: de Almeida, J. O.
name: Kołodyński, J.
name: Hirche, C.
name: Lewenstein, M.
name: Skotiniotis, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatially resolving two incoherent point sources whose separation is well below the diffraction limit dictated by classical optics has recently been shown possible using techniques that decompose the incoming radiation into orthogonal transverse modes. Such a demultiplexing procedure, however, must be perfectly calibrated to the transverse profile of the incoming light as any misalignment of the modes effectively restores the diffraction limit for small source separations. We study by how much can one mitigate such an effect at the level of measurement which, after being imperfectly demultiplexed due to inevitable misalignment, may still be partially corrected by linearly transforming the relevant dominating transverse modes. We consider two complementary tasks: the estimation of the separation between the two sources and the discrimination between one and two incoherent point sources. We show that, although one cannot fully restore super-resolving powers even when the value of the misalignment is perfectly known its negative impact on the ultimate sensitivity can be significantly reduced. In the case of estimation we analytically determine the exact relation between the minimal resolvable separation as a function of misalignment whereas for discrimination we analytically determine the relation between misalignment and the probability of error, as well as numerically determine how the latter scales in the limit of long interrogation times.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures
Efficient coroutine generation of constrained Gray sequences
Creators: name: Knuth, Donald E.
name: Ruskey, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study an interesting family of cooperating coroutines, which is able to generate all patterns of bits that satisfy certain fairly general ordering constraints, changing only one bit at a time. (More precisely, the directed graph of constraints is required to be cycle-free when it is regarded as an undirected graph.) If the coroutines are implemented carefully, they yield an algorithm that needs only a bounded amount of computation per bit change, thereby solving an open problem in the field of combinatorial pattern generation.
On the pion cloud of the nucleon
Creators: name: Hammer, H. -W.
name: Drechsel, D.
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the two--pion contribution to the nucleon electromagnetic form factors by use of dispersion analysis and chiral perturbation theory. After subtraction of the rho--meson component, we calculate the distributions of charge and magnetization in coordinate space, which can be interpreted as the effects of the pion cloud. We find that the charge distribution of this pion cloud effect peaks at distances of about 0.3 fm. Furthermore, we calculate the contribution of the pion cloud to the isovector charges and radii of the nucleon.
description: 7 pages, latex, 3 ps figures, minor changes
The use of religious values as a basis for an alternative development paradigm: The case of the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Maier, Rudolf
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Religion has long played an important role in the political, economic, and social lives of Asia. It is in this complex context that this dissertation assesses the impact of religion and religious values on the process of development. This research is placed in the context of the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka which has its philosophical roots in the works of Mahatma Gandhi but has been modified and adapted to reflect Buddhist culture. The significance of this research is that it breaks out of the conventional paradigms of development thought by going beyond a single-discipline analysis, narrow quantification, and a priori theorizing. It also goes beyond the traditional neoclassical and Marxist thinking but seeks to understand Asian reality by studying the effects of cultural values in the implementation of development activities. The unique contribution of such research is to understand development, based not on customary Judeo-Christian (now mainly Western) values, but inspired by Eastern (especially Buddhist) philosophy. In most of today's development approaches, religious and moral issues are not considered as being part of a development strategy. The reluctance to include these non-economic value systems in the current development thinking has led to a partial and incomplete structure of knowledge. The research centers on the following three questions: (1) What is the historical context in which present government policies of development have evolved, and what impact have they had on the environmental condition in Sri Lanka? (2) What are the familiar, traditional (Buddhist and indigenous) values of the Sri Lankan village society in regard to development, and how well have they been incorporated into the development ideology of Sarvodaya? (3) How well has the Sarvodaya Movement been able to preserve its own identity and integrity (based on the premise of being a grassroots organization based on traditional and religious values) in the context of government development policies?
title: The County Bench and Crime in Sussex 1775-1820
Creators: name: Wilson, Stephen Roger
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1985

description: This thesis is based primarily upon the records of the Sussex Court of Quarter Sessions and more especially upon the gaol calendars contained in the Quarter Session Order Books. Themes are pursued within the framework of the judicial business of the Court. The introduction considers the nature and limitations of the documentary material available to the student of eighteenth century crime* The first chapter presents an analysis of the workings of the Sussex Court of Quarter Sessions and considers both the judicial and administrative functions of the Court. The second chapter is concerned with theft and seeks to cant some li^t on the relationship between larceny and rural depression, particularly in the aftermath of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. In the third chapter the impact of hi^ grain prices, particularly during the 1790s, is considered, and attention is drawn to the ways in which the gentry handled the disaffection generated as a result of dearth. The game laws provide the basis of chapter four and the impact of game legislation within the County is considered. Attention here focuses upon the summary proceedings of the justices acting out of sessions since most game law offenders were brought up before the individual magistrate. The various offences ^lich fell under the general heading of misdemeanour are examined in the fifth chapter. Since assault and vagrancy were at the forefront of the list of misdemeanours frequently presented to the justices in Quarter Sessions these two areas form the basis of this chapter. Finally, in chapter six, the measures used by the justices to punish offenders are considered. The various developments that took place within the County's gaols and houses of correction are at the forefront of this section of the thesis.
Dropout Ensemble Kalman inversion for high dimensional inverse problems
Creators: name: Liu, Shuigen
name: Reich, Sebastian
name: Tong, Xin T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65K10, 90C56, 65M32

description: Ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) is an ensemble-based method to solve inverse problems. Its gradient-free formulation makes it an attractive tool for problems with involved formulation. However, EKI suffers from the ''subspace property'', i.e., the EKI solutions are confined in the subspace spanned by the initial ensemble. It implies that the ensemble size should be larger than the problem dimension to ensure EKI's convergence to the correct solution. Such scaling of ensemble size is impractical and prevents the use of EKI in high dimensional problems. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach using dropout regularization to mitigate the subspace problem. We prove that dropout-EKI converges in the small ensemble settings, and the computational cost of the algorithm scales linearly with dimension. We also show that dropout-EKI reaches the optimal query complexity, up to a constant factor. Numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
Instanton Contribution to the Electro-Magnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon
Creators: name: Faccioli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the electro-magnetic form factors of the nucleon, from small to large momentum transfer, in the context of the Instanton Liquid Model (ILM). As a first step, we analyze the role of single-instanton effects, and show that they dominate the form factors at large momentum transfer. Then, we go beyond the single-instanton approximation and perform a calculation to all order in the 't Hooft interaction. We find that the ILM is in good agreement with the available experimental data. Based on these results, we argue that instantons provide a microscopic mechanism that explains the delay of the onset of the asymptotic perturbative regime, in the electro-magnetic form factors.
description: Final version to appear on Phys. Rev. C
Independent Spectral Evaluation of Subthreshold Signals in Unconfirmed LIGO Events (2019–2020)
Creators: name: Lozano Reyes, Víctor Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This dataset includes a technical report and cover letter proposing an independent spectral analysis of subthreshold signals in unconfirmed LIGO events recorded between 2019 and 2020. The objective is to examine the 44–50 Hz frequency band for potential structured patterns that may have been overlooked by standard interferometric coincidence detection. This submission is part of an open science initiative, with no theoretical claims, intended solely for collaborative statistical exploration.
Agrilus otiosus Say 1833
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus otiosus

description: 33. Agrilus otiosus Say, 1833
 County Records (n = 16): Hennepin, Houston, Olmsted, Otter Tail, Ramsey, Red Lake, Stearns, Washington, and Winona.
Collection Dates: 27 May–28 July.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval hosts recorded as Carya cordiformis, C. ovata, Juglans cinerea, and J. nigra.
 Collection Method: In bark beetle trap and as C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Isolating the Odderon in central production in high energy $pA$ and $AA$ collisions
Creators: name: McNulty, R.
name: Khoze, V. A.
name: Martin, A. D.
name: Ryskin, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the rapidity dependence of the cross section on the rapidity of the central exclusive production cross sections of C-even mesons in $pA$ and $AA$ collisions, where $A$ is a heavy ion. We observe qualitatively different behaviour of the contributions arising from $γ$-Odderon and Pomeron-Pomeron fusion mechanisms. This can be used to extract the Odderon signal from the events of $f_2$ mesons exclusively produced in the forward region. Estimates, obtained using expected values of the Odderon cross section, indicate that the $γ$-Odderon contribution may exceed by a few times the Pomeron-induced background in Pb-Pb collisions. Moreover, the Odderon effect can be clearly seen in terms of the asymmetry in $pA$ and $AA$ collisions with the beam and target reversed. It is particularly interesting to note that the asymmetry for $γ$-Odderon fusion reaches its maximum value close to 1 in the forward direction, whereas the asymmetry for the Pomeron-Pomeron fusion contribution is small. The role of additional interactions of the $f_2$ meson with nucleons in the heavy ion, and also the contributions from secondary Reggeons, are estimated. The photon-Odderon contribution has a large normalisation uncertainty but the enhances cross-section in the forward region combined with a large asymmetry increases the chance of experimentally detecting the Odderon.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures. Version published in EPJC containing extra references
Nucleation pathway of calcium sulfate hemihydrate (bassanite) from solution: implications for calcium sulfates on Mars
Creators: name: Stawski, Tomasz M.
name: Besselink, Rogier
name: Chatzipanagisad, Konstantinos
name: Hoevelmann, Joern
name: Benning, Liane G.
name: Van Driessche, Alexander E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CaSO4 minerals (i.e. gypsum, anhydrite and bassanite) are widespread in natural and industrial environments. During the last several years, a number of studies have revealed that nucleation in the CaSO4-H2O system is non-classical, where the formation of crystalline phases involves several steps. Based on these recent insights we have formulated a tentative general model for calcium sulfate precipitation from solution. This model involves primary species that are formed through the assembly of multiple Ca2+ and SO42- ions into nanoclusters. These nanoclusters assemble into poorly ordered (i.e. amorphous) hydrated aggregates, which in turn undergo ordering into coherent crystalline units. The thermodynamic (meta)stability of any of the three CaSO4 phases is regulated by temperature, pressure and ionic strength with gypsum being the stable form at low temperatures and low to medium ionic strengths, and anhydrite the stable phase at high temperatures and lower temperature at high salinities. Bassanite is metastable across the entire phase diagram but readily forms as the primary phase at high ionic strengths across a wide range of temperatures, and can persist up to several months. Although the physicochemical conditions leading to bassanite formation in aqueous systems are relatively well established, nanoscale insights into the nucleation mechanisms and pathways are still lacking. To fill this gap, and to further improve our general model for calcium sulfate precipitation, we have conducted in situ scattering measurements at small- and wide-angles (SAXS/WAXS) and complemented these with in situ Raman spectroscopic characterization. Based on these experiments we show that the process of formation of bassanite from aqueous solutions is very similar to the formation of gypsum: it involves the aggregation of small primary species into larger disordered aggregates.
description: 32 pages, Supporting Information p.31-32
Agrilus parvus subsp. parvus parvus Saunders 1870
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus parvus
Agrilus parvus parvus saunders, 1870

description: 34. Agrilus parvus parvus Saunders, 1870
 County Records (n = 96): Big Stone, Dakota, Hennepin, Olmsted, Pipestone, Ramsey, Scott, and Traverse.
Collection Dates: 6 June–1 August.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Adults recorded on Amorpha fruticosa L. (Fabaceae). This is likely the larval host as well (Jendek and Poláková 2014).
Collection Method: In Malaise trap.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Charging the $O(N)$ model
Creators: name: Antipin, Oleg
name: Bersini, Jahmall
name: Sannino, Francesco
name: Wang, Zhi-Wei
name: Zhang, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine, for the first time, the scaling dimensions of a family of fixed-charge operators stemming from the critical $O(N)$ model in 4-$ε$ dimensions to the leading and next to leading order terms in the charge expansion but to all-orders in the coupling. We test our results to the maximum known order in perturbation theory while determining higher order terms.
description: 6 pages. v2 Added the 4-loop anomalous dimension of spin-0 operators transforming in the traceless symmetric O(N) representations; corrected some formulae while the rest matches the PRD version
The use of religious values as a basis for an alternative development paradigm: The case of the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Maier, Rudolf
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Religion has long played an important role in the political, economic, and social lives of Asia. It is in this complex context that this dissertation assesses the impact of religion and religious values on the process of development. This research is placed in the context of the Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka which has its philosophical roots in the works of Mahatma Gandhi but has been modified and adapted to reflect Buddhist culture. The significance of this research is that it breaks out of the conventional paradigms of development thought by going beyond a single-discipline analysis, narrow quantification, and a priori theorizing. It also goes beyond the traditional neoclassical and Marxist thinking but seeks to understand Asian reality by studying the effects of cultural values in the implementation of development activities. The unique contribution of such research is to understand development, based not on customary Judeo-Christian (now mainly Western) values, but inspired by Eastern (especially Buddhist) philosophy. In most of today's development approaches, religious and moral issues are not considered as being part of a development strategy. The reluctance to include these non-economic value systems in the current development thinking has led to a partial and incomplete structure of knowledge. The research centers on the following three questions: (1) What is the historical context in which present government policies of development have evolved, and what impact have they had on the environmental condition in Sri Lanka? (2) What are the familiar, traditional (Buddhist and indigenous) values of the Sri Lankan village society in regard to development, and how well have they been incorporated into the development ideology of Sarvodaya? (3) How well has the Sarvodaya Movement been able to preserve its own identity and integrity (based on the premise of being a grassroots organization based on traditional and religious values) in the context of government development policies?
Market Power, Price Adjustment, and Inflation
Creators: name: Head, Allen
name: Kumar, Alok
name: Lapham, Beverly
name: Head, Allen
name: Kumar, Alok
name: Lapham, Beverly
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Financial Economics

description: Endogenous fluctuations in mark-ups driven by changes in consumers’ search intensity are studied in a monetary search economy. These fluctuations in market power determine the extent to which real and nominal prices adjust to shocks to productivity and the money growth rate in the absence of costs or temporal restrictions on sellers’ ability to change prices. A calibrated version of the economy is consistent with several empirical regularities documented in the literatures on exchange rate pass-through and the cyclical properties of mark-ups. In particular, both the pass-through of cost movements to real and nominal prices and the adjustment of nominal prices to changes in the money growth rate are incomplete. Also, mark-up fluctuations may be either pro- or countercyclical depending on their source. Furthermore, a higher average rate of inflation results in both a lower average mark-up and increasing sensitivity of prices to fluctuations in either productivity or money growth.
Scale setting for $N_f=3+1$ QCD
Creators: name: Höllwieser, Roman
name: Knechtli, Francesco
name: Korzec, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the scale setting for a new set of gauge configurations generated with $N_f=3+1$ Wilson quarks with a non-perturbatively determined clover coefficient in a massive O($a$) improvement scheme. The three light quarks are degenerate, with the sum of their masses being equal to its value in nature and the charm quark has its physical mass. We use open boundary conditions in time direction to avoid the problem of topological freezing at small lattice spacings and twisted-mass reweighting for improved stability of the simulations. The decoupling of charm at low energy allows us to set the scale by measuring the value of the low-energy quantity $t_0^\star/a^2$, which is the flow scale $t_0$ at our mass point, and comparing it to an $N_f=2+1$ result in physical units. We present the details of the algorithmic setup and tuning procedure and give the bare parameters of ensembles with two lattice spacings a=0.054 fm and a=0.043 fm. We discuss finite volume effects and lattice artifacts and present physical results for the charmonium spectrum. In particular the hyperfine splitting between the $η_c$ and $J/ψ$ mesons agrees very well with its physical value.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures. Version accepted for publication in the European Physical Journal C
The rate of return to education and the gender earnings differential: A comparison of the United States and the Republic of Ireland
Creators: name: Morris, Maureen Carron
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: International evidence shows that while the size of the gender earnings differential varies across countries, the U.S. and Ireland seem to have some of the largest differentials among western European and Scandinavian countries. There are several possible factors including differences in the prices of labor market skills, differences in the quantities of labor market skills, and differences in unobservable factors between men and women in the U.S. and Ireland that prevent the reduction of the gender earnings differentials in the two countries. The aim of this dissertation is to measure and analyze the separate components of the gender earnings differentials including a decomposition of the residual for both the U.S. and Ireland to determine what is impeding wage convergence within each country. Three models are used: the first estimates the rate of return to education; the second determines the gender earnings differential; and the third decomposes the gender earnings differential residual into predicted and residual components using a decomposition of the cross-country gender earnings differential for the U.S. and Ireland. The findings indicate that both the U.S. and Ireland experienced an increase in the rate of return to education for women which has been shown to have a significant impact in narrowing the gender earnings differential. Additionally, the results indicate that the level of wage inequality in both countries is decreasing between 1987 and 1993. In the U.S., the result of the decrease in the productivity and discriminatory differentials combined with an increase in the mean female percentile in the male wage distribution caused a substantial narrowing of the gender earnings differential between 1987 and 1993. However, in Ireland, gender-specific factors play an important role in the gender earnings differential, and, as a result, even though the productivity differential decreased along with an increase in the mean female percentile in the male wage distribution, the discriminatory differential increased which prevented a significant narrowing of the gender earnings differential between 1987 and 1993.
No-scale D=5 supergravity from Scherk-Schwarz reduction of D=6 theories
Creators: name: Andrianopoli, L.
name: Ferrara, S.
name: Lledo, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a generalized dimensional reduction of six dimensional supergravity theories to five dimensions. We consider the minimal $(2,0)$ and the maximal $(4,4)$ theories. In each case the reduction allows us to obtain gauged supergravities of no-scale type in dimension five with gauge groups that escape previous classifications. In the minimal case, the geometric data of the reduced theory correspond to particular cases of the D=5 real special geometry. In the maximal case we find a four parameter solution which allows partial breaking of supersymmetry.
description: AMS-LaTeX 16 pages. A reference added, some minor changes performed
Growth, Cycles and Welfare: A Schumpeterian Perspective
Creators: name: Francois, Patrick
name: Lloyd-Ellis, Huw
name: Francois, Patrick
name: Lloyd-Ellis, Huw
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: We use a Schumpeterian model in which both the economy's growth rate and its volatility are en- dogenously determined to assess some welfare and policy implications associated with business cycle ßuctuations. Because it features a higher average growth rate than its acyclical counterpart, steady- state welfare is higher along the cyclical equilibrium growth path of the model. We assess the impact of alternative stabilization policies designed to smooth cyclical ßuctuations. Although, it is possible to signiÞcantly reduce the variance of output growth via simple policy measures, the welfare benefits are at best negligible and at worst completely offset by the resulting reduction long-term productivity growth.
The rate of return to education and the gender earnings differential: A comparison of the United States and the Republic of Ireland
Creators: name: Morris, Maureen Carron
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: International evidence shows that while the size of the gender earnings differential varies across countries, the U.S. and Ireland seem to have some of the largest differentials among western European and Scandinavian countries. There are several possible factors including differences in the prices of labor market skills, differences in the quantities of labor market skills, and differences in unobservable factors between men and women in the U.S. and Ireland that prevent the reduction of the gender earnings differentials in the two countries. The aim of this dissertation is to measure and analyze the separate components of the gender earnings differentials including a decomposition of the residual for both the U.S. and Ireland to determine what is impeding wage convergence within each country. Three models are used: the first estimates the rate of return to education; the second determines the gender earnings differential; and the third decomposes the gender earnings differential residual into predicted and residual components using a decomposition of the cross-country gender earnings differential for the U.S. and Ireland. The findings indicate that both the U.S. and Ireland experienced an increase in the rate of return to education for women which has been shown to have a significant impact in narrowing the gender earnings differential. Additionally, the results indicate that the level of wage inequality in both countries is decreasing between 1987 and 1993. In the U.S., the result of the decrease in the productivity and discriminatory differentials combined with an increase in the mean female percentile in the male wage distribution caused a substantial narrowing of the gender earnings differential between 1987 and 1993. However, in Ireland, gender-specific factors play an important role in the gender earnings differential, and, as a result, even though the productivity differential decreased along with an increase in the mean female percentile in the male wage distribution, the discriminatory differential increased which prevented a significant narrowing of the gender earnings differential between 1987 and 1993.
Teleportation-based number state manipulation with number sum measurement
Creators: name: Kitagawa, Akira
name: Yamamoto, Katsuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine various manipulations of photon number states which can be implemented by teleportation technique with number sum measurement. The preparations of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen resources as well as the number sum measurement resulting in projection to certain Bell state may be done conditionally with linear optical elements, i.e., beam splitters, phase shifters and zero-one-photon detectors. Squeezed vacuum states are used as primary entanglement resource, while single-photon sources are not required.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, Misprints are corrected. 3 figures for number sum measurement are added. Discussion on manipulations are expanded. Calculations for success probabilities are added. Fig.4 is added
Size Matters: Covariance Matrix Estimation Under the Alternative
Creators: name: Allen, Jason
name: Allen, Jason
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Size
subject: Power
subject: Generalized Method of Moments
subject: Overidentifying Restrictions

description: The purpose of this paper is to investigate, using Monte Carlo methods, whether or not Hall’s (2000) centered test of overidentifying restrictions for parameters estimated by Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) is more powerful, once the test is size-adjusted, than the standard test introduced by Hansen (1982). The Monte Carlo evidence shows that very little size-adjusted power is gained over the standard uncentered calculation. Empirical examples using Epstein and Zin (1991) preferences demonstrates that the centered and uncentered tests sometimes lead to different conclusions about model specification.
An analysis of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable in higher education
Creators: name: Nardick, Daryl Lynn
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: In 1994, the American Association of Higher Education provided support for a pilot program designed to improve teaching and learning in U.S. institutions of higher education. Four years later, in 1998, over 400 institutions worldwide had adopted the program. Today the pilot program is an established project entitled the Teaching, Learning Technology Roundtable (TLTR). The TLTR is a model of communications and organizational change designed to inform information technology planning processes for the purposes of improving teaching and learning. The TLTR is a response to: (1) the need for information technology planning to become more decentralized within higher education institutions and; (2) the need for teaching and learning to assume a more critical role in the information technology planning process. Today adoption of the TLTR is largely based on anecdotal information. No empirical data exists describing how campuses implement the TLTR and suspected implementation variations among campuses. Without empirical data to understand how and why campuses implement the program, the ability of the TLTR to do what it purports to do cannot be determined. The proposed study intends to gather information to address the current lack of TLTR empirical data. It will look at why and how campuses implement a TLTR, gathering data from both current TLTR institutions and from institutions who have discontinued the program. Variations of implementation processes will also be assessed specifically in relation to campus cultural and organizational factors. The proposed study is significant in that it will contribute to the knowledge on the effective implementation of a TLTR. This data will have benefit to both current and prospective TLTR institutions. Findings will also be useful to other constituencies interested in models of communications and organizational change unique to higher education. The proposed study will be a descriptive, cross-sectional analysis employing a quantitative research design. Data will be gathered via a postal mail survey sent to all known TLTRs throughout the United States.
title: The cult of Vesta in the Roman world
Creators: name: Cobb, Jennifer Mary
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: This thesis comprises a study of the origins, history and importance of the cult of Vesta in the Roman world. Its principal findings are that the cult was probably derived from the Greek cult of Hestia and entered Rome from the Greek colonies of Southern Italy no later than the sixth century BC., the period when it first appeared in the Forum. The organisation of the Vestal Virgins and the position of the temple near the Regia strongly suggests that the cult was connected with the monarchy and survived the expulsion of the regal family because the goddess had by then become regarded as one of the guardians of the State, whilst the Vestal Virgins participated in festivals such as the Parilia and the Argei which were connected with Rome's spiritual and material wellbeing. The public cult was confined to these areas where Roman influence was paramount, especially to Rome itself, Tibur and Colonia or military settlements in Spain, Gaul and Germany. Evidence for a private cult comprises scattered references by classical writers and Pompeian wall paintings discovered in private houses and pistrina which depict Vesta in the company of an ass. Her association with the ass probably occurred at an early period in the development of the cult and resulted in her becoming a goddess favoured by the baking trade, following the growth of the large baking establishments and the introduction of the donkey-driven mill in the second century BC. The cult achieved its greatest influence during the Empire when it became closely associated with the imperial house. Evidence from inscriptions and coinage indicates its prestige reached its zenith in the second and third centuries AD.; thereafter it declined owing to the rise of Christianity. There is no evidence of its survival into the fifth century.
Critical Field of MGB2 : Crossover from Clean to Dirty Regimes
Creators: name: Putti, M.
name: Braccini, V.
name: Ferdeghini, C.
name: Pallecchi, I.
name: Siri, A. S.
name: Gatti, F.
name: Manfrinetti, P.
name: Palenzona, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the upper critical field, Bc2, in poly-crystalline MgB2 samples in which disorder was varied in a controlled way to carry selectively p and s bands from clean to dirty limit. We have found that the clean regime survives when p bands are dirty and s bands are midway between clean and dirty. In this framework we can explain the anomalous behaviour of Al doped samples, in which Bc2 decreases as doping increases.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Lifting mappings over invariants of finite groups
Creators: name: Kriegl, Andreas
name: Losik, Mark
name: Michor, Peter W.
name: Rainer, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14L24, 14L30

description: We characterize those regular, holomorphic or formal maps into the orbit space $V/G$ of a complex representation of a finite group $G$ which admit a regular, holomorphic or formal lift to the representation space $V$. In particular, the case of complex reflection groups is investigated.
description: 29 pages, AMSTeX
Agrilus pensus Horn 1891
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus pensus

description: 35. Agrilus pensus Horn, 1891
 County Records (n = 17): Chisago, Clearwater, Ramsey, and Washington.
Collection Dates: 14 June–30 July.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval host recorded as Betula nigra. Adults also on Alnus incana (L.) Moench, Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. ssp. crispa (Ait.) Turrill, and Ostrya virginiana.
 Collection Method: As C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 178, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
An analysis of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable in higher education
Creators: name: Nardick, Daryl Lynn
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In 1994, the American Association of Higher Education provided support for a pilot program designed to improve teaching and learning in U.S. institutions of higher education. Four years later, in 1998, over 400 institutions worldwide had adopted the program. Today the pilot program is an established project entitled the Teaching, Learning Technology Roundtable (TLTR). The TLTR is a model of communications and organizational change designed to inform information technology planning processes for the purposes of improving teaching and learning. The TLTR is a response to: (1) the need for information technology planning to become more decentralized within higher education institutions and; (2) the need for teaching and learning to assume a more critical role in the information technology planning process. Today adoption of the TLTR is largely based on anecdotal information. No empirical data exists describing how campuses implement the TLTR and suspected implementation variations among campuses. Without empirical data to understand how and why campuses implement the program, the ability of the TLTR to do what it purports to do cannot be determined. The proposed study intends to gather information to address the current lack of TLTR empirical data. It will look at why and how campuses implement a TLTR, gathering data from both current TLTR institutions and from institutions who have discontinued the program. Variations of implementation processes will also be assessed specifically in relation to campus cultural and organizational factors. The proposed study is significant in that it will contribute to the knowledge on the effective implementation of a TLTR. This data will have benefit to both current and prospective TLTR institutions. Findings will also be useful to other constituencies interested in models of communications and organizational change unique to higher education. The proposed study will be a descriptive, cross-sectional analysis employing a quantitative research design. Data will be gathered via a postal mail survey sent to all known TLTRs throughout the United States.
Hooray for Hollywood: Gender and sexual nonconformity in the classical Hollywood era
Creators: name: Abrams, Brett Leslie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Most historical scholarship has asserted that the mainstream motion picture industry has reflected and created images that promote very traditional gender roles and idealized versions of heterosexual romantic and sexual behavior. This study, however, takes issue with that belief. When filmic and extra-filmic representations of the motion picture industry in novels, motion pictures, and newspaper stories focusing on Hollywood between 1917 and 1941, a greater range of gender and sexual behavior appeared. A wide variety of these three media forms presented representations of people connected to the motion picture industry who adopted mannerisms of the opposite gender and exhibited romantic and sexual interest toward members of their biological sex. This dissertation argues that the depictions of nontraditional gender and sexuality played a significant role in Hollywood publicity. These images brought private activities into two public locations, a place in Hollywood and the mass media. The link between sexuality and both public locations reprivatized the image and offered audiences the thrill of receiving titillation and private information. Hollywood developed a mystique as a special place, summarized in the phrase "dream factory of the masses." This mystique, built by the movies and by the marketing of itself, occurred by showing motion picture celebrities in particular locations specifically associated with Hollywood or in places Hollywood "made" spectacular. Among the most prevalent locations were the nightlife locales, the celebrity home, the Hollywood party, and behind the scenes of the studio. This dissertation asks how these ambi-sextrous images help differentiate the representations of these Hollywood locations from the images of similar locations that also appeared in the mass media? The study also asks how these images of nontraditional gender and sexuality shaped the understanding of each of these locations and the mystique of the rich, exciting, and absurd Hollywood lifestyle. This study observes that these images have implications for current celebrity and entertainment culture. These Hollywood images represent a precursor to the depictions of the private lives of celebrities that appear in abundance throughout current day mass media. Images of nontraditional sexuality in fictional characters is prevalent in today's television programming. Like these Interwar Hollywood images, these televised depictions of gays and lesbians offer audiences peaks at the "exotic" while amusing them and enables these programs to distinguish themselves from other shows.