cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Dynamic Decision Model of Technology Adoption under Uncertainty: Case of Herbicide-Resistant Rice
Creators: name: Annou, Mamane Malam
name: Wailes, Eric J.
name: Thomsen, Michael R.
name: Annou, Mamane Malam
name: Wailes, Eric J.
name: Thomsen, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: biotechnology
subject: herbicide resistance
subject: mathematical programming
subject: profit maximization
subject: rice
subject: risk
subject: rotation
subject: technology
subject: adoption

description: Herbicide-resistant (HR) rice technology is a potential tool for control of red rice in commercial rice production. Using an ex ante mathematical programming framework, this research presents an empirical analysis of HR rice technology adoption under uncertainty. The analysis accounts for stochastic germination of red rice and sheath blight to model a profit maximization problem of crop rotation among HR rice, regular rice, and soybeans. The results demonstrate that risk attitudes and technology efficiency determine adoption rates and optimal rotation patterns.
Late time accelerated Brans-Dicke pressureless solutions and the supernovae type Ia data
Creators: name: Fabris, J. C.
name: Goncalves, S. V. B.
name: Ribeiro, R. de Sa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological solutions for a pressureless fluid in the Brans-Dicke theory exhibit asymptotical accelerated phase for some range of values of the parameter $ω$, interpolating a matter dominated phase and an inflationary phase. The effective gravitational coupling is negative. We test this model against the supernovae type Ia data. The fitting of the observational data is slightly better than that obtained from the $ΛCDM$ model. We make some speculations on how to reconcile the negative gravitational coupling in large scale with the local tests. Some considerations on the structure formation problem in this context are also made.
description: Latex file, 8 pages, 6 figures
Modular Instrumentation for Controlling and Monitoring In-Vitro Cultivation Environment and Image-based Functionality Measurements of Human Stem Cells
Creators: name: Dhanesh Kattipparambil Rajan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90303 Biomedical Instrumentation
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Download the thesis as pdf at https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/121636
Multiple sequence alignment based on set covers
Creators: name: Porto, A. H. L.
name: Barbosa, V. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We introduce a new heuristic for the multiple alignment of a set of sequences. The heuristic is based on a set cover of the residue alphabet of the sequences, and also on the determination of a significant set of blocks comprising subsequences of the sequences to be aligned. These blocks are obtained with the aid of a new data structure, called a suffix-set tree, which is constructed from the input sequences with the guidance of the residue-alphabet set cover and generalizes the well-known suffix tree of the sequence set. We provide performance results on selected BAliBASE amino-acid sequences and compare them with those yielded by some prominent approaches.
Thereva nobilitata
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Therevidae
Thereva
Thereva nobilitata

description: Thereva nobilitata (FABRICIUS, 1775)
Bgld, Donnerskirchen, Teufelsgraben, 19.7.17; St. Margarethen, Gemeindewald, 21.6.17.
Neu für Burgenland.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 769, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Simulations of Dust in Interacting Galaxies I: Dust Attenuation
Creators: name: Jonsson, Patrik
name: Cox, T. J.
name: Primack, Joel R.
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new Monte-Carlo radiative-transfer code, Sunrise, is used in conjunction with hydrodynamic simulations of major galaxy mergers to calculate the effects of dust in such systems. The simulations are in good agreement with observations of dust absorption in starburst galaxies, and the dust has a profound effect on their appearance. The dust attenuation increases with luminosity such that at peak luminosities ~90% of the bolometric luminosity is absorbed by dust. In general, the detailed appearance of the merging event depends on the stage of the merger and the geometry of the encounter. The fraction of bolometric energy absorbed by the dust, however, is a robust quantity that can be predicted from the intrinsic properties bolometric luminosity, baryonic mass, star-formation rate, and metallicity of the system. This paper presents fitting formulae, valid over a wide range of masses and metallicities, from which the absorbed fraction of luminosity (and consequently also the infrared dust luminosity) can be predicted. The attenuation of the luminosity at specific wavelengths can also be predicted, albeit with a larger scatter due to the variation with viewing angle. These formulae for dust attenuation appear to be valid for both isolated and interacting galaxies, are consistent with earlier studies, and would be suitable for inclusion in theoretical models, e.g. semi-analytic models of galaxy formation.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
title: Проблемы защиты интеллектуальных прав в социальных сетях
Creators: name: Филиппов, В.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: В статье анализируются проблемы определения страницы социальной сети как объекта интеллектуальной собственности и защиты интеллектуальных прав в социальных сетях. Целью данной работы является популяризация возможности защиты своих прав в социальных сетях собственниками страниц и профилей, а также указание на несовершенство в регулировании данных прав российским законодательством.
Причиной нарушения интеллектуальных прав правообладателей страниц названа коммерциализация нематериальных активов социальных сетей и активное применение к этим активам механизмов монетизации. Результат работы выражается в предложенных поправках в законодательство, регулирующее подотрасль гражданского права, а именно право интеллектуальной собственности. Статью отличает от смежных
по тематике исследований предложение по содержанию понятия «персональная страница», которое автор считает необходимым включить в перечень видов охраняемых результатов интеллектуальной деятельности.
Determinants of Timberland Use by Ownership and Forest Type in Alabama and Georgia
Creators: name: Nagubadi, Rao V.
name: Zhang, Daowei
name: Nagubadi, Rao V.
name: Zhang, Daowei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: forest type
subject: land use determinants
subject: modified multinomial logit
subject: timberland ownership

description: Land use changes and timberland use by ownership and forest type in Alabama and Georgia between 1972 and 2000 are analyzed using a modified multinomial logit approach. Low average land quality, federal cost-share incentives, and favorable returns to forestry relative to agriculture were the main factors associated with timberland increase. Higher forestry returns helped increase industrial timberland but not nonindustrial private forests. An increase in hardwood forests at the expense of softwood and mixed forests was driven by increasing hardwood returns. Increasing softwood returns and tree planting assistance programs alleviated declines in softwood forests. Because factors influencing timberland use changes differ by ownership and forest type, treating all timberland as one major category may lead to incorrect predications.
AGREGAÇÃO DE VALOR: UMA ALTERNATIVA PARA A EXPANSÃO DO MERCADO DE ALIMENTOS ORGÂNICOS
Creators: name: Vilckas, Mariangela
name: Nantes, Jose Flavio Diniz
name: Vilckas, Mariangela
name: Nantes, Jose Flavio Diniz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: adding value
subject: organic food
subject: rural management

description: The lack of sustainability of many rural companies has caused a position change of the rural producers which have been using management tools in their activities. Adding value is an interesting strategy for the rural producers to improve the profitability of their activity and also to reach new markets. Such strategy may be enhanced by means of products classification in accordance with an established standard, the use of proper packaging, products industrialization and development of a brand for the products. In the present paper, two companies placed in São Paulo State, which produce and add value to organic food, were studied. The results show that adding value to organic food is a very interesting alternative for the development of this market, which is differentiated and formed by demanding costumers who are concerning to the quality control, information availability and convenience.
Variable Stiffness Control with Strict Frequency Domain Constraints for Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Creators: name: Zou, Wulin
name: Duan, Pu
name: Chen, Yawen
name: Yu, Ningbo
name: Shi, Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Variable impedance control is advantageous for physical human-robot interaction to improve safety, adaptability and many other aspects. This paper presents a gain-scheduled variable stiffness control approach under strict frequency-domain constraints. Firstly, to reduce conservativeness, we characterize and constrain the impedance rendering, actuator saturation, disturbance/noise rejection and passivity requirements into their specific frequency bands. This relaxation makes sense because of the restricted frequency properties of the interactive robots. Secondly, a gain-scheduled method is taken to regulate the controller gains with respect to the desired stiffness. Thirdly, the scheduling function is parameterized via a nonsmooth optimization method. Finally, the proposed approach is validated by simulations, experiments and comparisons with a gain-fixed passivity-based PID method.
description: 6 pages, accepted by IROS2020
Schematic capture interface and post-processing for the OVNI power system simulator
Creators: name: Qi, Hao
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: MISE started as a part of the ONVI project. In this project, two programs have been successfully built. Using Microtran as the simulation engine, MISE - an integrated simulation environment for power network transient analysis has been implemented. MISE has been successfully demonstrated from fast schematic capture, automatic node annotation, netlist generation, simulation, to results plotting. MTplot is an independent Windows application used to analyze the MISE simulation results.
Integrated optimisation for dynamic modelling, path planning and energy management in hybrid race vehicles
Creators: name: Reeves, Kieran
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Particle Swarm Optimisation
Parameter Estimation
Validation
Simulation
Trajectory Planning
Race Optimisation
Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Vehicle Dynamics
Energy Management Strategies
Hybrid Race Vehicles

description: Simulation software has for many years been developed to enhance the research and development phase of new vehicle introductions. With the introduction of the testing embargo in most forms of world championship motorsport, model validation is a necessity. To optimise the unknown vehicle and tyre parameters and to reduce the error between measured and simulated data in such a multi-input multi-output non-convex optimisation problem, a novel multi-objective particle swarm optimisation (PSO) technique is applied to ensure a fully validated vehicle model is developed and analysed for speed and performance. These optimisation algorithms are further developed to explore the trajectory planning problem to improve the lap time for the shortest path, minimum curvature and a combined approach, producing optimal racing line pathways and vehicle dynamic inputs and output responses by exploring trajectories and vehicle traction circle limits. Finally, a hybrid electric vehicle transient dynamics model for the control of energy management is presented. The hybrid powertrain contains an internal combustion engine, kinetic energy recovery system and heat energy recovery system with deployment and harvesting control parameters. The performance of single-objective and multi-objective particle swarm optimisation algorithms are compared and analysed. The proposed simulation model and optimisation techniques are applied to address an array of problems, including model validation, racing line trajectory design, fastest lap time problem, and energy management strategies. All results are validated and optimised with respect to the experimental data collected on the real track in Silverstone to ensure the results can be applied to physical real-world scenarios.
Thereva strigata
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Therevidae
Thereva
Thereva strigata

description: Thereva strigata (FABRICIUS, 1794)
Bgld, Loretto, Weingraben, 15.6.17.
Neu für Burgenland. In FRANZ (1989) nur 1 Fund aus OÖ.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 769, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
An Investigation of the Marketing of Butterfat by the Canadian Dairy Industry
Creators: name: Clark, J. Stephen
name: Brown, Bettina
name: Dunlop, Diane
name: Yang, Jinbin
name: Prochazka, Petr
name: Clark, J. Stephen
name: Brown, Bettina
name: Dunlop, Diane
name: Yang, Jinbin
name: Prochazka, Petr
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Inferior factors
subject: dairy fat
subject: health policy

description: This study examines the Canadian Dairy Commission’s marketing of butterfat. Previous studies have concentrated on the evaluation of butterfat by using total kilograms of milk. Measuring milk as kilograms is based the assumption of fixed proportions between kilograms of milk and kilograms of butterfat. However, measuring dairy using kilograms may not be a good proxy for the underlying butterfat. In this study we argue that dairy fat maybe an inferior factor of production, whereas kilograms is a normal factor of production. This means that following kilograms within the marketing system may not track butterfat. In fact, butterfat may respond in an opposite direction to kilograms when prices and incomes change. Assuming that butterfat is an inferior factor may explain some of the marketing practices of the provincial marketing boards that on the surface seems to be neither in the interest of consumers or dairy farmers. If the objective of the supply management is to make dairy producers better off, then basing dairy quota on kilograms of butterfat seems logical since the demand for butterfat has been rising over time. In addition, controlling supply at the retail level using minimum milk price supports also benefits producers, although it may not be in the best interest of consumers due to higher dairy prices and increased butterfat consumption.
Finite-temperature density-matrix renormalization group method for electron-phonon systems: Thermodynamics and Holstein-polaron spectral functions
Creators: name: Jansen, David
name: Bonča, Janez
name: Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the thermodynamics and finite-temperature spectral functions of the Holstein polaron using a density-matrix renormalization group method. Our method combines purification and local basis optimization (LBO) as an efficient treatment of phonon modes. LBO is a scheme which relies on finding the optimal local basis by diagonalizing the local reduced density matrix. By transforming the state into this basis, one can truncate the local Hilbert space with a negligible loss of accuracy for a wide range of parameters. In this work, we focus on the crossover regime between large and small polarons of the Holstein model. Here, no analytical solution exists and we show that the thermal expectation values at low temperatures are independent of the phonon Hilbert space truncation provided the basis is chosen large enough. We then demonstrate that we can extract the electron spectral function and establish consistency with results from a finite-temperature Lanczos method. We additionally calculate the electron emission spectrum and the phonon spectral function and show that all the computations are significantly simplified by the local basis optimization. We observe that the electron emission spectrum shifts spectral weight to both lower frequencies and larger momenta as the temperature is increased. The phonon spectral function experiences a large broadening and the polaron peak at large momenta gets significantly flattened and merges almost completely into the free-phonon peak.
description: 19 pages, 17 figures, some of the data can be found as .csv files in the ancillary files
Group, field and isolated early-type galaxies I. Observations and nuclear data
Creators: name: Denicolo, Glenda
name: Terlevich, Roberto
name: Terlevich, Elena
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Terlevich, Alejandro
name: Carrasco, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the first paper of a series on the investigation of stellar population properties and galaxy evolution of an observationally homogeneous sample of early-type galaxies in groups, field and isolated galaxies. We present high S/N long-slit spectroscopy of 86 nearby elliptical and S0 galaxies. 8 of them are isolated, selected according to a rigorous criterion. This survey has the advantage of covering a larger wavelength range than normally found in the literature, including [OIII]5007 and Halpha, both important for emission correction. Among the 86 galaxies with S/N>15 (per resolution element, for r_e/8 central aperture), 57 have their Hbeta-index corrected for emission, average correction is 0.190A in Hbeta; 42 galaxies reveal [OIII]5007 emission, of which 16 also show obvious Halpha emission. Most of the galaxies in the sample do not show obvious signs of disturbances nor tidal features in the morphologies, although 11 belong to the Arp catalogue of peculiar galaxies; only 3 of them (NGC750, NGC751, NGC3226) seem to be strongly interacting. We present the measurement of 25 central line-strength indices calibrated to the Lick/IDS system. Kinematic information is obtained for the sample. We analyse the line-strength index vs velocity dispersion relations for our sample of mainly low density environment galaxies, and compare the slope of the relations with cluster galaxies from the literature. Our main findings are that the index-sigma_0 relations presented for low-density regions are not significantly different from those of cluster E/S0s. The slope of the index-sigma_0 relations does not seem to change for early-type galaxies of different environmental densities, but the scatter of the relations seems larger for group, field and isolated galaxies than for cluster galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in the MNRAS
Dirac eigenvalue correlations in quenched QCD at finite density
Creators: name: Osborn, James C.
name: Wettig, Tilo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare eigenvalue correlations of the Dirac operator with a chemical potential obtained from lattice simulations of quenched QCD with analytic predictions obtained from chiral effective theories in the zero-momentum limit. By comparing the density and two-point correlation function we show that the analytic results agree with QCD at low energies. We also examine the scale (Thouless energy) up to which the zero-momentum approximation is valid.
description: 6 pages, 12 figures, talk given at Lattice 2005
Towards a comprehensive understanding of the role of shear bands on recrystallization behaviour in Ni-24W-22Fe alloy
Creators: name: Kumar, Mirtunjay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Shear band, recrystallization, tungsten heavy alloy

description: In the present work, the effect of deformation heterogeneities such as micro bands and shear bands on recrystallization texture and microstructure is investigated using Ni-24W-22Fe as a model material. Ni-24W-22Fe alloys were subjected to rolling at room temperature upto 70% reduction in thickness following which it was observed that there is extensive shear banding in the microstructure. The rolled samples were subsequently annealed above recrystallization temperature for different time periods to understand the micro-mechanisms of recrystallization texture formation. It was observed that recrystallization starts from the regions of high deformation heterogeneities with nuclei forming at the matrix-shear band interfaces and also within the shear bands. The nuclei’s formed at the interfaces promote rotated Cube orientation, whereas nucleation within shear bands leads to the development of Goss orientation. The growth of these orientations due to favourable orientation relationship with deformation texture components is also discussed.
title: Земельный сервитут: что нового?
Creators: name: Флик, Я.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: В статье анализируются аспекты Концепции Гражданского кодекса Российской Федерации, согласно которым предусматривались внесения изменений в статью установления земельного сервитута. Автор рассматривает ошибки, которые до сих пор возникают при подаче иска в суд независимо от того, что данный аспект был
обобщен в обзоре судебной практики по делам об установлении сервитута на земельный участок.
MODELING PERCEPTIONS OF LOCALLY PRODUCED WINE AMONG RESTAURATEURS IN NEW YORK CITY
Creators: name: Preszler, Trent L.
name: Schmit, Todd M.
name: Preszler, Trent L.
name: Schmit, Todd M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: product perception
subject: restaurant
subject: wine
subject: sommeliers
subject: local
subject: collective reputation
subject: New York
subject: New York City

description: Poor perceived product quality, an inadequate sales force, and intense competition from wines produced elsewhere are common reasons cited for why New York wines have not achieved broad acceptance in the New York City (NYC) market. NYC restaurant owners, sommeliers, and chefs were surveyed regarding their perceptions and purchasing decisions of wines grown and bottled in New York State. Factor analysis was applied to examine the structure of interrelationships among key indicators of product perception, and an ordinal logistic regression model was used to identify the characteristics of restaurants that show a strong propensity to adopt local wines. The results indicate that a NYC restaurant’s type of cuisine does not affect its propensity to adopt local wine, nor does a restaurant’s desire to offer a large, geographically diverse wine list. The perceived collective reputation for a wine region’s excellence in one particular grape varietal was found to be the most significant factor in the probability of adoption of local wines in NYC. An important implication of these results is that being local is not enough, and New York winery stakeholders could establish a more prominent presence in NYC by emphasizing their collective reputation for particular grape varietals.
Empis (Empis) fasciculata Strobl 1901
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Empis
Empis fasciculata

description: Empis (Empis) fasciculata STROBL, 1901
Bgld, Donnerskirchen, Kirchberg, 25.4.17.
Neu für Burgenland. In FRANZ (1989) eine Fundangabe aus der Stmk.
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 769, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Individual and Collective Reputation: Lessons from the Wine Market
Creators: name: Castriota, Stefano
name: Delmastro, Marco
name: Castriota, Stefano
name: Delmastro, Marco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: reputation
subject: credibility
subject: asymmetric information
subject: quality standards

description: The concept of reputation has been used in every field of economic research, given its capacity to affect the outcome of all economic and financial transactions. The theoretical debate on reputation is very rich, but the mechanisms of reputation building have not been explored enough from the empirical viewpoint. In this paper we investigate the determinants of firm reputation taking into consideration the interactions between individual and collective reputation. This paper is one of the first attempts to provide robust evidence on the determinants of firm reputation using a large set of controls applied to a database not affected by self-selection bias. In fact, we constructed a new database containing the universe of wineries located in four regions of the North-West of Italy with an established national reputation and focus on the determinants of the “jump” from national to international reputation. Our research confirms the prediction of the theoretical literature and shows the positive effect of firm age, size, investments and producer’s intrinsic motivations, and of collective reputation on individual firm reputation. Cooperatives seem to decrease their reputation when the number of associated members rises, due to free-riding and traceability problems. In contrast with previous research, relying on well-known external consultants does not acquire any outside reputation. Finally, by comparing the regression results on the determinants of national and international reputation it emerges the relevance of the mechanisms of the evaluation process: the higher proximity to the wineries of a national observer permits a better and more technical knowledge of the quality provided, allowing small niche producers with very low productivity to emerge and be known. For the same reason, the national classification system (i.e. the DOCG system) exerts a significant effect only on the international reputation of wineries, but not on the national one where the effect of collective reputation (i.e. the reputation of single denominations like Barolo) seems to prevail.
Biological Carbon Sinks: Transaction Costs and Governance
Creators: name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: carbon sequestration
subject: transaction costs
subject: climate change

description: Activities that remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in forest and agricultural ecosystems can generate CO2-offset credits that can thus substitute for CO2 emissions reduction. Are biological CO2-uptake activities competitive with CO2 offsets from reduced fossil fuel use? In this paper, it is argued that transaction costs impose a formidable obstacle to direct substitution of carbon uptake offsets for emissions reduction in trading schemes, and that separate caps should be set for emissions reduction and sink-related activities. While a tax/subsidy scheme is preferred to emissions trading for incorporating biologically-generated CO2 offsets, contracts that focus on the activity and not the amount of carbon sequestered are most likely to lead to the lowest transaction costs.
Resonant τ-Leptogenesis with Observable Lepton Number Violation
Creators: name: Pilaftsis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a minimal extension of the Standard Model with one singlet neutrino per generation that can realize resonant leptogenesis at the electroweak scale. In particular, the baryon asymmetry in the Universe can be created by resonant lepton-to-baryon conversion of an individual lepton number, for example that of the $τ$-lepton. The solar and atmospheric neutrino data can be explained by a simple CP-violating Yukawa texture. The model has several testable phenomenological implications. Most interestingly, it predicts heavy Majorana neutrinos at the sub-TeV scale, which can be probed at $e^+e^-$ linear colliders, as well as $e$- and $μ$-lepton-number-violating processes, such as $0νββ$ decay and $μ\to eγ$, with rates that are within reach of experimental sensitivity.
description: 4 ReVTeX pages, 1 eps figure, minor rewordings, to appear in Physical Review Letters
Heart Sound Segmentation using Bidirectional LSTMs with Attention
Creators: name: Fernando, Tharindu
name: Ghaemmaghami, Houman
name: Denman, Simon
name: Sridharan, Sridha
name: Hussain, Nayyar
name: Fookes, Clinton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper proposes a novel framework for the segmentation of phonocardiogram (PCG) signals into heart states, exploiting the temporal evolution of the PCG as well as considering the salient information that it provides for the detection of the heart state. We propose the use of recurrent neural networks and exploit recent advancements in attention based learning to segment the PCG signal. This allows the network to identify the most salient aspects of the signal and disregard uninformative information. The proposed method attains state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks including both human and animal heart recordings. Furthermore, we empirically analyse different feature combinations including envelop features, wavelet and Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), and provide quantitative measurements that explore the importance of different features in the proposed approach. We demonstrate that a recurrent neural network coupled with attention mechanisms can effectively learn from irregular and noisy PCG recordings. Our analysis of different feature combinations shows that MFCC features and their derivatives offer the best performance compared to classical wavelet and envelop features. Heart sound segmentation is a crucial pre-processing step for many diagnostic applications. The proposed method provides a cost effective alternative to labour extensive manual segmentation, and provides a more accurate segmentation than existing methods. As such, it can improve the performance of further analysis including the detection of murmurs and ejection clicks. The proposed method is also applicable for detection and segmentation of other one dimensional biomedical signals.
description: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 25 October 2019
The Intrinsic Alignment of Dark Halo Substructures
Creators: name: Lee, Jounghun
name: Kang, Xi
name: Jing, Yipeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the intrinsic alignments of dark halo substructures with their host halo major-axis orientations both analytically and numerically. Analytically, we derive the probability density distribution of the angles between the minor axes of the substructures and the major axes of their host halos from the physical principles, under the assumption that the substructure alignment on galaxy scale is a consequence of the tidal fields of the host halo gravitational potential. Numerically, we use a sample of four cluster-scale halos and their galaxy-scale substructures from recent high-resolution N-body simulations to measure the probability density distribution. We compare the numerical distribution with the analytic prediction, and find that the two results agree with each other very well. We conclude that our analytic model provides a quantitative physical explanation for the intrinsic alignment of dark halo substructures. We also discuss the possibility of discriminating our model from the anisotropic infall scenario by testing it against very large N-body simulations in the future.
description: accepted version, ApJL in press, minor revision, 12 pages, 2 figures
Nobeyama Millimeter Array Observations of GRB 030329: a Decay of Afterglow with Bumps and Molecular Gas in the Host Galaxy
Creators: name: Kohno, K.
name: Tosaki, T.
name: Okuda, T.
name: Nakanishi, K.
name: Kamazaki, T.
name: Muraoka, K.
name: Onodera, S.
name: Sofue, Y.
name: Okumura, S. K.
name: Kuno, N.
name: Nakai, N.
name: Ohta, K.
name: Ishizuki, S.
name: Kawabe, R.
name: Kawai, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nobeyama Millimeter Array was used to observe millimeter-wave afterglow of GRB 030329 at 93 GHz and 141 GHz from 2003 April 6 to 2003 May 30. A sensitive search for CO(J=1-0) emission/absorption from the host galaxy of GRB 030329 was also carried out. Unresolved millimeter continuum emission at the position of GRB 030329 was detected until 2003 April 21. We found a steep decline of continuum flux (\propto t^{-2.0}) during this period, in accord with a previous report. Moreover, our data implies that the decay was accompanied by possible plateaus phases, or bumps, on a time scale of several days. From an integrated spectrum, produced by summing up the data from 2003 April 10 to 2003 May 30, we found a possible emission feature, which could be a redshifted CO(J=1-0) line. Its position and redshift coincide well with those of GRB 030329, though further observations are required to confirm the detection. If the emission feature is real, the observed CO flux is 1.4 +/- 0.52 Jy km/s, corresponding to a large molecular gas mass of M(H_2) > 10^9 Mo. This implies that the host galaxy, which is optically faint, is highly obscured due to a rich interstellar medium.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, to appear in PASJ
Empis (Empis) genualis Strobl 1893
Creators: name: Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Empis
Empis genualis

description: Empis (Empis) genualis STROBL, 1893
OÖ, Losenstein, Dandlgraben, 23.8.17, 2 Ex
Die Art ist neu für Österreich!
description: Published as part of Schlüsslmayr, Gerhard, 2018, Erstnachweise von Fliegen (Diptera) für Österreich und einige Bundesländer, pp. 765-800 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1) on page 769, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4004374
Automorphic Distributions, L-functions, and Voronoi Summation for GL(3)
Creators: name: Miller, Stephen D.
name: Schmid, Wilfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is third in a series of three, following "Summation Formulas, from Poisson and Voronoi to the Present" (math.NT/0304187) and "Distributions and Analytic Continuation of Dirichlet Series" (math.FA/0403030). The first is primarily an expository paper explaining the present one, whereas the second contains some distributional machinery used here as well. These papers concern the boundary distributions of automorphic forms, and how they can be applied to study questions about cusp forms on semisimple Lie groups. The main result of this paper is a Voronoi-style summation formula for the Fourier coefficients of a cusp form on GL(3,Z)\GL(3,R). We also give a treatment of the standard L-function on GL(3), focusing on the archimedean analysis as performed using distributions. Finally a new proof is given of the GL(3)xGL(1) converse theorem of Jacquet, Piatetski-Shapiro, and Shalika. This paper is also related to the later papers math.NT/0402382 and math.NT/0404521.
description: 66 pages, published version
Online Homework for Agricultural Economics Instruction: Frankenstein’s Monster or Robo TA?
Creators: name: Dahlgran, Roger A.
name: Dahlgran, Roger A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: computer-aided instruction
subject: economics teaching methods
subject: instruction cost effectiveness
subject: online homework

description: This paper describes the programming required for online homework, evaluates its use, and presents methods for student identification and for processing student input. Online homework applications were evaluated in a real class setting. Generally, online homework is cost effective for large classes that have numerous assignments and repeated usage. Online homework appears to increase learning through increased student study-time allocations. Students felt that online homework made course website interaction more productive. They also indicated that online homework increased their perception of the value of lectures and that its use in other courses would be welcome. All findings were highly statistically significant.
Secondary somatosensory area is involved in vibrotactile temporal-structure processing: MEG analysis of slow cortical potential shifts in humans
Creators: name: Hagiwara, Koichi
name: Ogata, Katsuya
name: Naruhito Hironaga
name: Tobimatsu, Shozo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Purpose: Temporal-structure discrimination is an essential dimension of tactile processing. Exploring object surface by touch generates vibrotactile input with various temporal dynamics, which gives diversity to tactile percepts. Here, we examined whether slow cortical potential shifts (SCPs) (<1 Hz) evoked by long vibrotactile stimuli can reflect active temporal-structure processing. Materials and methods: Vibrotactile-evoked magnetic brain responses were recorded in 10 right-handed healthy volunteers using a piezoelectric-based stimulator and whole-head magnetoencephalography. A series of vibrotactile train stimuli with various temporal structures were delivered to the right index finger. While all trains consisted of identical number (15) of stimuli delivered within a fixed duration (1500 ms), temporal structures were varied by modulating inter-stimulus intervals (ISIs). Participants judged regularity/irregularity of ISI for each train in the active condition, whereas they ignored the stimuli while performing a visual distraction task in the passive condition. We analysed the spatiotemporal features of SCPs and their behaviour using the minimum norm estimates with the dynamic statistical parametric mapping. Results: SCPs were localized to contralateral primary somatosensory area (S1), contralateral superior temporal gyrus, and contralateral as well as ipsilateral secondary somatosensory areas (S2). A significant enhancement of SCPs was observed in the ipsilateral S2 (S2i) in the active condition, whereas such effects were absent in the other regions. We also found a significant larger amplitude difference between the regular- and irregular-stimulus evoked S2i responses during the active condition than during the passive condition. Conclusions: This study suggests that S2 subserves the temporal dimension of vibrotactile processing.
title: Современные виды мошенничества, способы совершения и их предупреждение
Creators: name: Фурман, В.
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: В статье рассматриваются преступные действия аферистов, выдающих себя за работников медицины, работодателей и благотворителей. Обоснована актуальность исследования данных видов мошенничества на современном этапе, приведены факторы широкой распространенности рассматриваемых видов аферизма.
Характеризуются некоторые особенности психологического типа мошенника как представителя преступной сферы, что имеет определенное значение в вопросах своевременного привлечения аферистов к ответственности.
Ethanol Plant Location Determinants and County Comparative Advantage
Creators: name: Lambert, Dayton M.
name: Wilcox, Michael D.
name: English, Alicia
name: Stewart, Lance A.
name: Lambert, Dayton M.
name: Wilcox, Michael D.
name: English, Alicia
name: Stewart, Lance A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: cluster analysis
subject: comparative advantage
subject: ethanol production
subject: location model

description: The location of ethanol plants is determined by infrastructure, product and input markets, fiscal attributes of local communities, and state and federal incentives. This empirical analysis uses probit regression along with spatial clustering methods to analyze investment activity of ethanol plants at the county level for the lower U.S. 48 states from 2000 to 2007. The availability of feedstock dominates the site selection decision. Other factors, such as access to navigable rivers or railroads, product markets, producer credit and excise tax exemptions, and methyl tertiary-butyl ether bans provided some counties with a comparative advantage in attracting ethanol plants.
Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity Change in the U.S. Hog Industry
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Mosheim, Roberto
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Mosheim, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: hog production
subject: scale efficiency
subject: stochastic frontier
subject: technical change
subject: total factor productivity growth

description: The U.S. hog industry has experienced dramatic structural changes and rapid increases in farm productivity. A stochastic frontier analysis is used to measure hog enterprise total factor productivity (TFP) growth between 1992 and 2004 and to decompose this growth into technical change and changes in technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and allocative efficiency. Productivity gains over the 12-year period are found to be explained almost entirely by technical progress and by improvements in scale efficiency. Differences in TFP growth rates in the Southeast and Heartland regions were found to be explained primarily by differences in farm size growth rates.
Algebraic Bethe ansatz for $\mathfrak{o}_{2n+1}$-invariant integrable models
Creators: name: Liashyk, A.
name: Pakuliak, S. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A class of $\mathfrak{o}_{2n+1}$-invariant quantum integrable models is investigated in the framework of algebraic Bethe ansatz method. A construction of the $\mathfrak{o}_{2n+1}$-invariant Bethe vector is proposed in terms of the Drinfeld currents for the double of Yangian $\mathcal{D}Y(\mathfrak{o}_{2n + 1})$. Action of the monodromy matrix entries onto off-shell Bethe vectors for these models is calculated. Recursion relations for these vectors were obtained. The action formulas can be used to investigate structure of the scalar products of Bethe vectors in $\mathfrak{o}_{2n+1}$-invariant models.
Permanent Housing for Seasonal Workers? A Generalized Peak Load Investment Model for Farm Worker Housing
Creators: name: Qenani-Petrela, Eivis
name: Mittelhammer, Ronald C.
name: Wandschneider, Philip R.
name: Qenani-Petrela, Eivis
name: Mittelhammer, Ronald C.
name: Wandschneider, Philip R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: farmworker housing
subject: investment rules
subject: peak load model
subject: public housing
subject: seasonal labor

description: Many seasonal workers are housed in transitory accommodations, including tents and vehicles. In this study, we analyze the supply side of this problem by assuming that a public agent must house the workers through direct public investment. A peak load model is adapted to develop investment rules for the least-cost provision of seasonal worker housing, adding an interacting multi-season component to existing models. Based on this model and the data from three prototype projects, the majority of the least-cost investment would be in permanent, but seasonally occupied, housing.
The timing of moulting in wild and captive steller sea lions (eumetopias jubatus)
Creators: name: Daniel, Raychelle G.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: I documented the timing and progression of the moult by sex and age class in a wild population of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) on Lowrie Island, Alaska (Jul-Nov 2001) and from captive animals at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre (1993-2000). In the wild, juveniles (ages 1-2 years) were the first to moult followed by adult females, bulls and pups. The mean date when juveniles started their moult was 21 Jun which was significantly different from the mean start date of 07 Aug for adult females, and differed from the mean start date for pups of 01 Sep (one month later). Mean completion dates were also about one month apart (19 Sept for juveniles, 26 Oct for adult females and 17 Nov for pups). Duration of the moult was about 45 days for each age group (pups and adult females). However, duration of the moult for captive sea lions was longer (averaging 83.5 days) and differed among years and within age classes. Patterns of hair loss in the wild (i.e., the progression of the moult over the body surface) differed among (i) pups, (ii) juveniles and early moulting adult females, and (iii) bulls and later moulting adult females. Differences in the timing and progression of the moult may be related to physiological changes and interactions of hormones associated with body condition and the reproductive cycle.
Has the Quark-Gluon Plasma been seen?
Creators: name: Stachel, Johanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Data from the first three years of running at RHIC are reviewed and put into context with data obtained previously at the AGS and SPS and with the physics question of creation of a quark-gluon plasma in high energy heavy ion collisions. Also some very recent and still preliminary data from run4 are included.
description: plenary paper, Lepton-Photon 2005, Uppsala, Sweden