cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Can a return to Glass-Steagall provide financial stability in the US financial system?
Creators: name: Kregel, Jan
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Instability, Rules, Banking System
subject: E50, G01, G20, F30, N22

description: In the immediate aftermath of the current financial crisis in the United States the response has been to resolve small and medium size banks, while large banks experiencing financial trouble have been given both direct and indirect government support. This, however, has resulted in a number of larger banks absorbing smaller ones, creating an even smaller number of even larger banks that dominate the financial system. This article deals first with a comparison of the problems created by “too big to fail” financial institutions. The second section deals with the possible restoration of Glass-Steagall type legislation as a means of restoring single-function financial institutions. It concludes that alternatives to separation of functions will have to be found to deal with multifunction financial institutions since most lending activity requires securities markets activities. JEL Codes: E50, G01, G20, F30, N22
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 63, N. 252 (2010)
Viable and Stable Compact Stars in $f(\mathcal{Q})$ Theory
Creators: name: Gul, Muhammad Zeeshan
name: Rani, Shamaila
name: Adeel, Muhammad
name: Jawad, Abdul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the viability and stability of anisotropic compact stars in the context of $f(\mathcal{Q})$ theory, where $\mathcal{Q}$ is non-metricity scalar. We use Finch-Skea solutions to investigate the physical properties of compact stars. To determine the values of unknown constants, we match internal spacetime with the exterior region at the boundary surface. Furthermore, we study the various physical quantities, including effective matter variables, energy conditions and equation of state parameters inside the considered compact stars. The equilibrium and stability states of the proposed compact stars are examined through the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation, causality condition, Herrera cracking approach and adiabatic index, respectively. It is found that viable and stable compact stars exist in $f(\mathcal{Q})$ theory as all the necessary conditions are satisfied.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 1 of Pharmacological prevention of surgery-accelerated metastasis in an animal model of osteosarcoma
Creators: name: Kallis, Michelle P.
name: Maloney, Caroline
name: Blank, Brandon
name: Soffer, Samuel Z.
name: Symons, Marc
name: Steinberg, Bettie M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Tumor bearing mice succumb with less metastatic burden.
Magnetometry with entangled atomic samples
Creators: name: Petersen, Vivi
name: Madsen, Lars Bojer
name: Molmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theory for the estimation of a scalar or a vector magnetic field by its influence on an ensemble of trapped spin polarized atoms. The atoms interact off-resonantly with a continuous laser field, and the measurement of the polarization rotation of the probe light, induced by the dispersive atom-light coupling, leads to spin-squeezing of the atomic sample which enables an estimate of the magnetic field which is more precise than that expected from standard counting statistics. For polarized light and polarized atoms, a description of the non-classical components of the collective spin angular momentum for the atoms and the collective Stokes vectors of the light-field in terms of effective gaussian position and momentum variables is practically exact. The gaussian formalism describes the dynamics of the system very effectively and accounts explicitly for the back-action on the atoms due to measurement and for the estimate of the magnetic field. Multi-component magnetic fields are estimated by the measurement of suitably chosen atomic observables and precision and efficiency is gained by dividing the atomic gas in two or more samples which are entangled by the dispersive atom-light interaction.
description: 8 pages, 11 figures
Population Synthesis for Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Yungelson, Lev R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss application of population synthesis for binary stars to progenitors of SN Ia. We show that the only candidate systems able to support the rate of SNe Ia $\sim 10^{-3} yr^{-1}$ both in old and young populations are merging white dwarfs. In young populations ($\sim 1$ Gyr) edge-lit detonations in semidetached systems with nondegenerate helium star donors are also able to support a similar rate. The estimated current Galactic rate of SN Ia with single-degenerate progenitors is $\sim 10^{-4} yr^{-1}$.
description: 10 pages, 4 figires, to be published in White Dwarfs: Galactic and Cosmological Probes, Editors: E.M. Sion, H.L. Shipman and S. Vennes, Kluwer Academic Publishers
The reconstruction of historical national accounts: the case of Italy
Creators: name: Fenoaltea, Stefano
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: National Accounts, Italy, Historical Reconstruction
subject: C82, N01, N13

description: This paper reviews the evolution of Italy’s historical national accounts. The Italian accounts were among the very first to be compiled; they have also been more thoroughly critiqued and revised than perhaps any other, and the process has yet to reach closure. This paper considers the Italian real product series for the period between Unification and World War I. After briefly reviewing the available sources and the evolution of the estimates themselves, it moves on to methodological issues; and these are of general import, for Italy’s historical accounts were initially compiled with the standard methodology that also informed, and largely continues to inform, their counterparts for other countries. The revision of the Italian accounts highlights the pitfalls of that methodology, and, correspondingly, the weakness of the extant world-wide corpus of historical national accounts. JEL Codes: C82, N01, N13
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 63, N. 252 (2010)
Observation of the B$^0_\mathrm{s}$ $\to$ X(3872)$ϕ$ decay
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a data sample of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the CMS experiment in 2016-2018, the B$^0_\mathrm{s}$ $\to$ X(3872)$ϕ$ decay is observed. Decays into J/$ψ\,π^+π^-$ and K$^+$K$^-$ are used to reconstruct, respectively, the X(3872) and $ϕ$. The ratio of the product of branching fractions $\mathcal{B}($B$^0_\mathrm{s}$ $\to$ X(3872)$ϕ)\,\mathcal{B}($X(3872) $\to$ J$/ψ\,π^+π^-)$ to the product $\mathcal{B}($B$^0_\mathrm{s}$ $\to$ $ψ$(2S)$ϕ)\,\mathcal{B}(ψ$(2S) $\to$ J/$ψ\,π^+π^-)$ is measured to be (2.21 $\pm$ 0.29 (stat) $\pm$ 0.17 (syst))%. The ratio $\mathcal{B}($B$^0_\mathrm{s}$ $\to$ X(3872)$ϕ) / \mathcal{B}($B$^{0}$ $\to$ X(3872)K$^0)$ is found to be consistent with one, while the ratio $\mathcal{B}($B$^0_\mathrm{s}$ $\to$ X(3872)$ϕ) / \mathcal{B}($B$^+$ $\to$ X(3872)K$^+)$ is two times smaller. This suggests a difference in the production dynamics of the X(3872) in B$^0$ and B$^0_\mathrm{s}$ meson decays compared to B$^+$. The reported observation may shed new light on the nature of the X(3872) particle.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables, including additional supplementary figures, can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/BPH-17-005 (CMS Public Pages)
Rules, instability and crisis
Creators: name: Roncaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: rules, instability, crisis
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: This special issue of the PSL Quarterly Review includes some articles which appeared over the years in the first series of our journal (then entitled BNL Quarterly Review: see Roncaglia 2008). The articles published here have been selected among those that can help us to best understand the roots of the current economic crisis and the problems that may compromise our efforts to overcome it, or even worse, may generate yet further difficulties. Our journal is starting a new life, as from 2010 returning to its old quarterly schedule. With this special issue, we wish to illustrate certain aspects of its traditional approach that we mean to retain in the new series. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
The 1930s and 1980s: parallels and differences
Creators: name: Kindleberger, Charles P.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Instability, Rules
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: The possibility of crisis in the years ahead, as in the years that followed the first half of 1930, lies in private revulsion against the dollar − e.g. by Japanese insurance companies with their vast savings and limited investment opportunities at home, unmatched by public governmental efforts in support of the dollar as lenders of last resort. If the leadership of the United States in providing economic stability is waning, as appears possible, what follows? It is possible that the habits of cooperation built up during the period of United States leadership will ensure, what the political scientists call a "regime". Such is the hope. My prediction, however, is that the path ahead stretches out uncertainly, with twists and turns, surprises, some perhaps unpleasant. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 41 n. 165, June 1988, pp. 135-145. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
Time dependent mixing in He-burning cores: the case of NGC1866
Creators: name: Ventura, P.
name: Castellani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the convective core helium burning phase of intermediate mass stars, and investigate the role of coupling of nuclear burning and mixing on the extension and duration of the blue loop phase. We compare the theoretical scenario with the distribution of stars in the colour-magnitude (CM) diagram of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) cluster NGC1866, whose largely populated clump of He-burning stars is equally populated in the blue and red side. We compare the distributions expected by adopting either a diffusive scheme within the instability regions, in which nuclear burning and mixing are self-consistently coupled, or the traditional instantaneous mixing approximation. We analyze with particular care the sensitivity of the results to: a) the e-folding distance with which the velocity of convective eddies decays outside the formal border of the convective regions fixed by the Schwarzschild criterion; b) the convective model adopted to evaluate the temperature gradient; c) the rate of reaction C12+alpha -> O16. Models not including convective overshoot are also commented.
description: 14 pages,16 figures. Accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics
Asset inflation and monetary policy
Creators: name: Kindleberger, Charles P.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Instability, Asset Inflation
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: Asset inflation is characterised by an increase in the prices of assets while output prices are relatively stable or on a decline. In the event of asset inflation, international coordination of monetary policy is an observable trend. For instance, in 1989, when Japan was at the worst phase of the recession, the Bank of Japan lowered interest rates and the US and German discount rates also declined at the same time. However, most mainstream economists believe that monetary policy should be aimed at the stability of the general price level rather than zeroing on asset prices. The nature, importance and historical evolutionary of concern with asset inflation are discussed. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 48 n. 192, March, 1995 pp. 17-37. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
The Leo Triplet: Common origin or late encounter?
Creators: name: Afanasiev, Victor L.
name: Sil'chenko, Olga K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The kinematics, structure, and stellar population properties in the centers of two early-type spiral galaxies of the Leo Triplet, NGC 3623 and NGC 3627, are studied by means of integral-field spectroscopy. Unlike our previous targets, NGC 3384/NGC 3368 in the Leo I group and NGC 5574/NGC 5576 in LGG379, NGC 3623 and NGC 3627 do not appear to experience a synchronous evolution. The mean ages of their circumnuclear stellar populations are quite different, and the magnesium overabundance of the nucleus in NGC 3627 is evidence for a very brief last star formation event 1 Gyr ago whereas the evolution of the central part of NGC 3623 looks more quiescent. In the center of NGC 3627 we observe noticeable gas radial motions, and the stars and the ionized gas in the center of NGC 3623 demonstrate more or less stable rotation. However, NGC 3623 has a chemically distinct core -- a relic of a past star formation burst -- which is shaped as a compact, dynamically cold stellar disk with a radius of about 250-350 pc which has been formed not later than 5 Gyr ago.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Globalization, stability and the financial markets
Creators: name: Volcker, Paul A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Instability, Globalization
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: The turbulence in East Asia, the contagious effects on financial markets of other emerging economies and even on the major world stock markets, and the renewed instability in exchange rates are, I think, warnings of trouble in a world in which capital is free to flow as never before around the world in amounts and at a speed without precedent. In calling attention to these troubles, I do not want to be misunderstood. There are powerful forces supporting growth through much of the developing world. Yet, we would be naively optimistic to think that all is serene that the recent disturbances are simply a passing blip on our radar screen, without systemic implications, and that rapid growth is assured. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, Special Issue, Supplement to n. 204, March 1998, pp. 139-144. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
The role of the surface evapotranspiration in regional climate modelling: Evaluation and near-term future changes
Creators: name: Ojeda, Matilde García-Valdecasas
name: Rosa-Cánovas, Juan José
name: Romero-Jiménez, Emilio
name: Yeste, P.
name: Gámiz-Fortis, Sonia R.
name: Castro-Díez, Yolanda
name: Esteban-Parra, María Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface evapotranspiration (SFCEVP) plays an essential role in climate, being the link between the hydrological and energy cycles. Therefore, how it is approximated and its implication in the regional climate are important aspects to understand the effects of climate change, especially over transitional zones such as the Iberian Peninsula (IP). This study aims to investigate the spatiotemporal patterns of the SFCEVP using a regional climate model (RCM), the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. With this purpose, a set of WRF simulations were completed using different driving data. On the first hand, a recent present (1980-2017) simulation driven by the ERA-Interim reanalysis was carried out to evaluate the suitability of the RCM performance. On the other hand, two global climate models (GCMs) from the CMIP5 initiative, the CCSM4 and the MPI-ESM-LR, were used as driving data to evaluate the GCM-RCM couplings, which is essential to climate change applications. Finally, projected changes were also investigated for a near-term future (2021-2050) paradigm. In general, the results pointed out the WRF model as a valuable tool to study the spatiotemporal patterns of the SFCEVP in the IP, showing an overall and acceptable ability at different spatial and temporal scales. Concerning projections, the results indicate that the IP is likely to undergo significant changes in the SFCEVP in the near future. These changes will be more apparent over the southernmost, and particularly during spring and summer, being in the latter season the SFCEVP fundamentally reduced. These results agree with projected changes in soil moisture, which is probably associated with changes in precipitation patterns. Additionally, the results reveal the major role of SFCEVP in modulating the climate over this region, which is involved in the complex land-atmosphere processes.
Prospects for the world economy
Creators: name: Sylos Labini, Paolo
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Sustainability, Public Debt, Private Debt
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: The analysis here is founded on certain analogies with the Great Depression of the Thirties and four fundamental points: innovations, changes in the market forms, changes in income distribution and the sustainability of debts. The duration of prosperity depends first of all on the importance and variety of investment opportunities opened up by them, whereas crisis duration is conditioned by the size of indebtedness. The central problem in America today is precisely that of the sustainability of debts, to evaluate which criteria are studied in this paper. Full recovery will only be possible once past the stage in which firms and families contract debts primarily to repay other debts falling due and avoid bankruptcy. Proof that debts have fully reacquired the function of supporting growth will be given by the recovery of investments. In any case, the crisis is unlikely to reach the gravity of the Great Depression not only because a price fall is to excluded, but also because repetition of the mistakes in monetary policy are to be ruled out. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 56 n. 226, September 2003, pp.179-206. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
Additional file 2 of Gut bacterial ClpB-like gene function is associated with decreased body weight and a characteristic microbiota profile
Creators: name: Arnoriaga-Rodríguez, María
name: Mayneris-Perxachs, Jordi
name: Burokas, Aurelijus
name: Pérez-Brocal, Vicente
name: Moya, Andrés
name: Portero-Otin, Manuel
name: Wifredo Ricart
name: Maldonado, Rafael
name: José-Manuel Fernández-Real
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Alignments of the mimetic amino acid motif of the α-MSH, the ClpB from E. coli str K12 and the predicted ORFs from each sequence of the samples 1, 30 and 143.
Multi-Scale Analysis of Agricultural Drought Propagation on the Iberian Peninsula Using Non-Parametric Indices
Creators: name: Possega, M.
name: Ojeda, M. García-Valdecasas
name: Gámiz-Fortis, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present study examined a multi-year reanalysis dataset (ERA5-Land) including numerous drought events across the Iberian Peninsula, with a specific emphasis on the 2005 episode. The mechanisms underlying the transition from meteorological to agricultural drought and its features were investigated. Various non-parametric standardized drought indices were utilized. For meteorological droughts, the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) was employed, while the Standardized Soil Moisture Index (SSI), Multivariate Standardized Drought Index (MSDI), and Standard Precipitation, Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture Index (SPESMI) were utilized for agricultural droughts, while their ability to identify relative vegetation stress in areas affected by severe droughts was investigated using the Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) Anomaly provided by the Copernicus European Drought Observatory (EDO). A statistical approach based on run theory was employed to analyze several characteristics of drought propagation, such as response time scale, propagation probability, and lag time at monthly, seasonal, and six-month time scales. The retrieved response time scale was fast, about 1-2 months, and the probability of occurrence increased with the severity of the originating meteorological drought. The duration of agricultural drought was shorter than that of meteorological drought, with a delayed onset but the same term. The results obtained by multi-variate indices showed a more rapid propagation process and a tendency to identify more severe events than uni-variate indices. In general terms, agricultural indices were found to be effective in assessing vegetation stress in the Iberian Peninsula. A newly developed combined agricultural drought index was found to balance the characteristics of the other adopted indices and may be useful for future studies.
The developing recession in the United States
Creators: name: Godley, Wymme
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Sustainability, Public Debt, Private Debt
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: The strategic prospects for the US (or any) economy can be evaluated by reference to the financial balances of its main sectors, which are related to one another by a consistent accounting system. The 1992-2000 expansion, accompanied by a rising budget surplus, was greeted by a storm of self-congratulation in the US and widely expected to last indefinitely. But inspection of the balances revealed that the configuration of driving forces was unsustainable and that the fiscal stance should drastically change at some stage. Eventually, there has indeed been a huge fiscal expansion which warded off an incipient recession. But the new configuration of financial balances again reveals an unsustainable situation, with government, foreign and private debt all rising excessively fast. Sustained growth in the medium term can only be achieved if there is now a prolonged expansion in net export demand--for which the rest of the world does not seem to be well prepared. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 57 n. 229, June 2004, pp 131-139. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
The US economy: weaknesses of the "strong" recovery
Creators: name: Godley, Wynne
name: Izurieta, Alex
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Sustainability, Public Debt, Private Debt
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: Macroeconomic analysis is facilitated if the main income and expenditure variables which make up the GDP are arranged in a double entry format so that they can all be seen as transactions involving at least two parties. Such a framework shows how the gap between each sector’s receipts and outlays implies an equivalent rise or fall in its net acquisition of financial assets. Using this methodology, the paper considers the medium term prospects for the US economy, concluding that they look pretty stark. Either an uncovenanted and sustained rise in net export demand provides a motor for expansion in a quite new way, or the fiscal policy continues to generate twin (budget and balance of payments) deficits, possibly growing, with surely unacceptable implications for indebtedness at home and abroad; or the US economy relapses into stagnation. The rest of the world must stop relying on the US to provide the motor for growth. It will have to generate a motor of its own and, probably, accept that the dollar must depreciate quite a lot more. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 57 n. 229, June 1995, pp. 131-139. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
title: Premium brand strategy in the automotive industry : what are the characteristics of a successful premium automotive strategy?
Creators: name: Horváth, László András
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: automotive strategy
subject: premium automotive industry
subject: premium automotive brands
subject: premium best practice

description: Premium car brands are more successful in the last years than ever. These strong brands sell more and more units per year and reach record profits. The purpose of the thesis is to look behind the "right products" and the "right way" to build up and/or lead a successful premium brand, in particular to identify the key areas of an OEM's strategy, where a different approach is needed, if compared to a volume brand or a budget brand and also to identify differences between diverse premium strategies based on three case studies. The Thesis is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 and 2 serve as a theoretical introduction. Chapter 1 is to give an overview of the topic - examining the definitions of the "premium" brands, including the identification of the boundaries to other brand segments. Chapter 1 also gives an overview about the benefits of the premium strategy and a rough overview of the key players of this market segment. In Chapter 2 the particular strategy fields are examined, where the different approach compared to a volume brand is of the highest importance. the strategy fields are limited in the thesis to some key issues: innovation (research and development), sales-brand building-marketing, finance, production, HR and general organization. The assumption of the Master's Thesis is that premium brands have different approaches in all the six defined business fields and these can be identified in specific values or other facts (with definition of specific KPIs). In Chapter 2, these specific KPIs are also defined and analyzed to give as a result a comparison of volume and premium strategy in general. After the identification of the key strategy fields, in the case studies of Chapter 3 the theory in the real world is examined; three undoubtedly premium brands with three completely different best practices - a traditional luxury brand, one of the first ones in the world, "downgrading" itself to a very successful premium brand (Mercedes-Benz), the opposite: one of Volkswagen's daughters- very deliberate way to upgrade itself from mass to premium (Audi), and BMW's approach to revitalize Britain's iconic (but before the takeover far from premium) brand MINI and to lay down the foundation for premium cars in the small car segment. Finally, Chapter 4 is to summarize the results of the best practices and to give a rough outlook into the future of the premium car market.
Super quantum Dirac operator on the q-deformed super fuzzy sphere in instanton sector using quantum super Ginsparg-Wilson algebra
Creators: name: Lotfizadeh, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been constructed the quantum super fuzzy Dirac and chirality operators on q-deformed super fuzzy sphere. Using the quantum super fuzzy Ginsparg-Wilson algebra, it has been studied the q-deformed super gauged fuzzy Dirac and chirality operators in instanton sector. It has been showed that they have correct commutative limit in the limit case when noncommutative parameter $ l $ tends to infinity and q tends to unit.
title: The odyssey of a rococo dresser. What became of the interior of Steinort Palace
Creators: name: Lachauer, Ulla
Publisher: name: Herder-Institut
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 943 Geschichte Mitteleuropas; Deutschlands

description: For more than 150 years, the Rococo dresser stood on the upper floor of the Steinort castle, in the so-called "Simson room". It bears witness to the lifestyle of an East Prussian noble family. Behind it lies an adventurous journey that began after the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, when Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff, the last lord of the castle, was arrested and executed.
Additional file 1 of Self-directed behaviors differentially explain associations between emotion dysregulation and eating disorder psychopathology in patients with or without objective binge-eating
Creators: name: Monell, Elin
name: Clinton, David
name: Birgegård, Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Intercorrelations between DERS scales, SASB Affiliation Score, EDE-Q Global score, age, ED duration and BMI in participants without objective binge-eating episodes. N = 439.
Structural biases in prudential regulation of banks
Creators: name: Tonveronachi, Mario
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Instability, Rules, Basel
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: The Basle rules produce distortions that are no less serious than those attributed to the former structural regulation. Excessive competition is no less harmful than low competition, the level playing field approach helps the large dimension and "too big to fail" results, capital crunches produce serious effects on the economy while the regulatory costs go on absorbing important resources in small banks. It is a matter for further research to verify if the new approach to regulation has also fostered an increase in the part of GDP absorbed by the financial system without bringing about a better distribution of risks and a proportionate increase in what James Tobin (1984) termed full-insurance efficiency. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 54 n. 219, December 2001, pp. 341-353. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
Implications of Basel II for financial stability. Clouds are darker for developing countries
Creators: name: Tonveronachi, Mario
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Instability, Rules, Basel
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: Placing Basel II in the perspective of the more general trend in financial regulation, the paper analyses its efficacy and efficiency as a device to foster financial resiliency. In assessing the criticisms levelled against the New Accord, special attention is devoted to the case of the emerging countries. I suggest that Basel II is neither a sufficient, nor a necessary condition to attain systemic financial stability, especially in weak institutional and macro-policy environments. Taking also into account just how complex and onerous the scheme is, I conclude that the emerging countries should look for new international institutional arrangements based on the principle of astability level playing field. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 60 n. 241, June 2007, pp. 111-135. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
The Revised Third Cambridge Catalogue at 60: To Jet or Not to Jet ...
Creators: name: Barthel, Peter
name: Padovani, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sixty years after the publication of the seminal 3CR catalogue, astronomers are getting to grips with the nature of the radio emissions in active galaxies: black-hole-accretion- and star-formation-driven radio emissions occur in concert, with greatly varying contributions. However, what exactly drives the formation of jets remains to be solved. To jet or not to jet-that is the question!
description: Published as an Editorial in Galaxies as part of the Special Issue "The Symbiosis between Radio Source and Galaxy Evolution". 5 pages, 3 figures
An economic policy for the fifth long wave
Creators: name: Reati, Angelo
name: Toporowski, Jan
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Sustainability, Public Debt, Private Debt
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: The paper starts by reviewing some recent contributions on long waves, arguing that the present technological revolution in ICT is part of the broad phenomenon of a new long wave. It follows that the main focus of economic policy should be to support the diffusion of the new technology and to favour the institutional changes required by such an objective. Four broad guidelines are suggested: i) a Keynesian policy for demand going beyond the straitjacket of the Maastricht criteria and improving the income distribution in favour of employees; i) a policy to re-establish the primacy of productive capital through systematic concerted open market operations to regulate financial liquidity; iii) a reconstruction of the employment relationship that preserves the essential features of the "European social model" and a targeted flexibility of labour, that contrasts with the neoclassical all-out market flexibility; and iv) a regime for intellectual property rights that avoids the drawbacks--both ethical and economic--of current US practices. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly Review, vol. 57 n. 231, December 2004, pp. 395-437. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
A cluster algorithm for Lattice Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Alet, F.
name: Lucini, B.
name: Vettorazzo, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new algorithm for simulating compact U(1) lattice gauge theory in three dimensions is presented which is based on global changes in the configuration space. We show that this algorithm provides an effective way to extract partition functions at given external flux. As an application, we study numerically the finite temperature deconfinement phase transition.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at the Conference on Computational Physics, Genova, Italy, Sept. 2004
The effect of data encoding on the expressive power of variational quantum machine learning models
Creators: name: Schuld, Maria
name: Sweke, Ryan
name: Meyer, Johannes Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum computers can be used for supervised learning by treating parametrised quantum circuits as models that map data inputs to predictions. While a lot of work has been done to investigate practical implications of this approach, many important theoretical properties of these models remain unknown. Here we investigate how the strategy with which data is encoded into the model influences the expressive power of parametrised quantum circuits as function approximators. We show that one can naturally write a quantum model as a partial Fourier series in the data, where the accessible frequencies are determined by the nature of the data encoding gates in the circuit. By repeating simple data encoding gates multiple times, quantum models can access increasingly rich frequency spectra. We show that there exist quantum models which can realise all possible sets of Fourier coefficients, and therefore, if the accessible frequency spectrum is asymptotically rich enough, such models are universal function approximators.
description: Minor corrections, including credits to a closely related paper. Source code available at https://github.com/XanaduAI/expressive_power_of_quantum_models
Nonlinear Elasticity of Single Collapsed Polyelectrolytes
Creators: name: Wada, Hirofumi
name: Murayama, Yoshihiro
name: Sano, Masaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear elastic responses of short and stiff polyelectrolytes are investigated by dynamic simulations on a single molecule level. When a polyelectrolyte condensate undergoes a mechanical unfolding, two types of force-extension curves, i.e., a force plateau and a stick-release pattern, are observed depending on the strength of the electrostatic interaction. We provide a physical interpretation of such force-extension behavior in terms of intramolecular structures of the condensates. We also describe a charge distribution of condensed counterions onto a highly stretched polyelectrolyte, which clarifies a formation of one-dimensional strongly correlated liquid at large Coulomb coupling regime where a stick-release pattern is observed. These findings may provide significant insights into the relationship between a molecular elasticity and a molecular mechanism of like-charge attractions observed in a wide range of charged biopolymer systems.
description: 5pages, 5figures
QuinCe: An online tool for data reduction and quality control of surface ocean fCO2 data
Creators: name: Jones, Steve D.
name: Henriksen, Jonas F.
name: Karlsen, Maren K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: co2, quality control, automation

description: Scientists collecting surface ocean CO2 measurements must perform data reduction and quality control (QC) prior to further usage of the data. Tools for these tasks are typically developed by the scientists themselves, leading to dozens of different software programs in use across the community. This leads to inconsistent data handling, and a lack of provenance tracking increases the overall uncertainty of these observations. The Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC) of the pan-European Research Infrastructure Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) is developing online software to provide data reduction and QC tools for anyone measuring surface ocean CO2. Scientists submit the raw data from their instruments, which will be processed to calculate surface fCO2 using a fully open source set of algorithms based upon internationally agreed and defined criteria. Automatic QC tools will identify basic issues (out-of-range data, outliers etc.), and flag them for verification by the scientist. Plotting and mapping tools will allow detailed inspection of the data to locate further potential issues. Each data record will be assigned a quality flag. All flags from both automatic and manual QC will be recorded to ensure reproducibility. The QCed data can be exported in several formats and/or submitted directly to central data archives such as the ICOS Carbon Portal or SOCAT. Metadata will be integrated using internationally approved protocols and schemas which are currently under development. Unified tools like QuinCe will streamline data processing, helping to meet increasing demands for up-to-date climate data. Planned features such as accepting near real time data streams transmitted directly from the instruments themselves and more sophisticated automatic QC checks will allow even greater time savings. Data centres will be assured that data submitted via QuinCe will have complete records of both the automatic and manual QC providing complete transparency and improved stewardship.
Unsupervised Pre-Training for 3D Leaf Instance Segmentation
Creators: name: Roggiolani, Gianmarco
name: Magistri, Federico
name: Guadagnino, Tiziano
name: Behley, Jens
name: Stachniss, Cyrill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Crops for food, feed, fiber, and fuel are key natural resources for our society. Monitoring plants and measuring their traits is an important task in agriculture often referred to as plant phenotyping. Traditionally, this task is done manually, which is time- and labor-intensive. Robots can automate phenotyping providing reproducible and high-frequency measurements. Today's perception systems use deep learning to interpret these measurements, but require a substantial amount of annotated data to work well. Obtaining such labels is challenging as it often requires background knowledge on the side of the labelers. This paper addresses the problem of reducing the labeling effort required to perform leaf instance segmentation on 3D point clouds, which is a first step toward phenotyping in 3D. Separating all leaves allows us to count them and compute relevant traits as their areas, lengths, and widths. We propose a novel self-supervised task-specific pre-training approach to initialize the backbone of a network for leaf instance segmentation. We also introduce a novel automatic postprocessing that considers the difficulty of correctly segmenting the points close to the stem, where all the leaves petiole overlap. The experiments presented in this paper suggest that our approach boosts the performance over all the investigated scenarios. We also evaluate the embeddings to assess the quality of the fully unsupervised approach and see a higher performance of our domain-specific postprocessing.
description: 8 pages, 7 images, RA-L
A Telerehabilitation System for the Selection, Evaluation and Remote Management of Therapies
Creators: name: Anton, David
name: Berges, Idoia
name: Bermúdez, Jesús
name: Goñi, Alfredo
name: Illarramendi, Arantza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Telerehabilitation systems that support physical therapy sessions anywhere can help save healthcare costs while also improving the quality of life of the users that need rehabilitation. The main contribution of this paper is to present, as a whole, all the features supported by the innovative Kinect-based Telerehabilitation System (KiReS). In addition to the functionalities provided by current systems, it handles two new ones that could be incorporated into them, in order to give a step forward towards a new generation of telerehabilitation systems. The knowledge extraction functionality handles knowledge about the physical therapy record of patients and treatment protocols described in an ontology, named TRHONT, to select the adequate exercises for the rehabilitation of patients. The teleimmersion functionality provides a convenient, effective and user-friendly experience when performing the telerehabilitation, through a two-way real-time multimedia communication. The ontology contains about 2300 classes and 100 properties, and the system allows a reliable transmission of Kinect video depth, audio and skeleton data, being able to adapt to various network conditions. Moreover, the system has been tested with patients who suffered from shoulder disorders or total hip replacement.
Beginnings
Creators: name: Minsky, Hyman P.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Crisis, Instability, Rules, Basel
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: Contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on professional experiences of distinguished economists. The author recalls his entire career as an economist, starting from graduation at the University of Chicago in 1941. Reflecting on his personal experience, he concludes by arguing that between 1937 and 1942, the University of Chicago was a "fine place" to be an economist, and that the economists at the University covered a wide spectrum of thought. According to the author, at that time there was no dominant Chicago School. Paper originally published in the BNL Quarterly review,vol. 38 n. 154, September 1985 pp. 211-221. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 62 nn.248-251 (2009)
From BNL-QR to PSL-QR: the history (1947-2007) and prospects of a journal
Creators: name: Roncaglia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Introduction, Financial Crisis, Review, Journal
subject: F3, G1, N1, B5

description: The article introduces the first issue of the PSL Quarterly Review (formerly known as Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, or simply BNL Quarterly Review). In this work, Alessandro Roncaglia, editor of the journal, summarizes and personally re-interprets the decades-long history of the journal and of its sister journal Moneta e Credito. Besides highlighting the major contributions that starting from the 1960s appeared in the journal, the article introduces the new series and lays down the foundations of the editorial policy. JEL Codes: F3, G1, N1, B5 Keywords: Introduction, Financial Crisis, Review, Journal
description: PSL Quarterly Review, vol. 61 nn.244-247 (2008)