cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PUBLIC FUNDING FOR POVERTY REDUCTION: THE CASE OF UZBEKISTAN
Creators: name: Davletova, Durdona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Human capital development is a crucial driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation. In developing economies, public funding for education, healthcare, and workforce training is fundamental in ensuring equitable access to resources that enhance human capabilities. Uzbekistan has prioritized public investment in human capital as part of its long-term development strategy, aiming to reduce poverty and promote sustainable economic progress. This paper examines the effectiveness of public funding mechanisms in human capital development, analyzing their impact on poverty reduction. Using empirical data, policy analysis, and comparative studies, this research assesses the role of government expenditure in education, healthcare, and social protection programs in shaping economic outcomes. The findings indicate that efficient, targeted, and well-monitored public funding is essential for maximizing human capital returns and reducing income disparities. However, challenges such as inefficient budget allocations, regional inequalities, and labor market mismatches persist, requiring refined policy interventions. The paper concludes by proposing a strategic framework for optimizing public investment in human capital to accelerate poverty reduction and economic stability.
The U.S. Food Marketing System: Recent Developments, 1997-2006
Creators: name: Martinez, Stephen W.
name: Martinez, Stephen W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Food marketing system
subject: food manufacturing
subject: food distributors
subject: concentration
subject: corporate social responsibility
subject: competitive strategies

description: Major recent developments in the U.S. food system include the increasing presence of nontraditional grocery retailers, such as supercenters and drugstores, and competitive responses by traditional grocers, such as supermarket chains. These developments have contributed to sharp increases in concentration in the grocery retail sector, changing conventional relationships among retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. In such a competitive domestic food market, food companies are attempting to differentiate themselves from the competition by reporting voluntary activities that demonstrate social responsibility and by more-tailored advertising campaigns and product offerings.
Additional file 4 of Identification and characterization of differentially expressed genes in Caenorhabditis elegans in response to pathogenic and nonpathogenic Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Creators: name: Radeke, Leah J.
name: Herman, Michael A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4 CRISPR/Cas9 generated alleles. Genes for which CRISPR/Cas9 alleles were generated are shown. Exons are indicated by green boxes and introns are indicated by black lines. Gene sizes are not to scale, but exon/intron size within genes is to scale. Relative location of the gRNAs is indicated by circles above the gene, and location of mutation is indicated in red (lines for deletions, triangles for insertions). All isoforms of K08D8.4 and W02A2.8 are shown. K08D8.4 mutations are predicted to result in loss of function of all isoforms; W02A2.8c may be expressed but is not differentially expressed between treatments. Mutation sequence and flanking sequence is shown on the right, with mutation sequence shown in red font (number in parentheses represents size of deletion).
Cosmological perturbations in the interacting dark sector: Mapping fields and fluids
Creators: name: Johnson, Joseph P
name: Shankaranarayanan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is no unique way to describe the dark energy-dark matter interaction, as we have little information about the nature and dynamics of the dark sector. Hence, in many of the phenomenological dark matter fluid interaction models in the literature, the interaction strength $Q_ν$ in the dark sector is introduced by hand. Demanding that the interaction strength $Q_ν$ in the dark sector must have a field theory description, we obtain a unique form of interaction strength. We show the equivalence between the fields and fluids for the $f(R,χ)$ model where $f$ is an arbitrary, smooth function of $R$ and classical scalar field $χ$, which represents dark matter. Up to first order in perturbations, we show that the one-to-one mapping between the \emph{classical} field theory description and the phenomenological fluid description of interacting dark energy and dark matter exists \emph{only} for this unique form of interaction. We then classify the interacting dark energy models considered in the literature into two categories based on the field-theoretic description. We introduce a novel autonomous system and its stability analysis for the general interacting dark sector. We show that the dark-energy dominated epoch occurs earlier than the non-interacting systems for a specific scalar field potential and a range of coupling strengths.
description: 31 pages, 3 table, 8 figures
Global Growth, Macroeconomic Change, and U.S. Agricultural Trade
Creators: name: Gehlhar, Mark J.
name: Dohlman, Erik
name: Brooks, Nora L.
name: Jerardo, Alberto
name: Vollrath, Thomas L.
name: Gehlhar, Mark J.
name: Dohlman, Erik
name: Brooks, Nora L.
name: Jerardo, Alberto
name: Vollrath, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural trade
subject: trade balance
subject: income growth
subject: economic development
subject: population
subject: macroeconomics
subject: exchange rates
subject: current account
subject: growth projections.

description: After a decade of uneven export growth and rapidly growing imports, U.S. agriculture has begun to reassert its position in global trade markets. Rising exports and signs of moderating demand for imports mark a departure from previous trends. This report places past trends and emerging developments in perspective by spotlighting the role of two specific factors that help steer U.S. agricultural trade patterns: global growth and shifts in foreign economic activity that affect U.S. exports, and macroeconomic factors underlying the growth of U.S. imports. Consistent with actual changes in the level and destination of U.S. exports, model simulations corroborate the contention that renewed export growth can be sustained by expanding incomes and growing food import demand in emerging economies. In contrast, the rapid growth of U.S. agricultural imports appears less related to domestic income growth than to changing consumer preferences and other, perhaps less sustainable, macroeconomic conditions that fostered the growth of U.S. current account deficits.
First Results of Fast One-dimensional Hybrid Simulation of EAS Using CONEX
Creators: name: Pierog, T.
name: Alekseeva, M. K.
name: Bergmann, T.
name: Chernatkin, V.
name: Engel, R.
name: Heck, D.
name: Kalmykov, N. N.
name: Moyon, J.
name: Ostapchenko, S.
name: Thouw, T.
name: Werner, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hybrid simulation code is developed that is suited for fast one-dimensional simulations of shower profiles, including fluctuations. It combines the Monte Carlo simulation of high energy interactions with a fast numerical solution of cascade equations for the resulting distributions of secondary particles. Results obtained with this new code, called CONEX, are presented and compared to CORSIKA predictions.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the XIII ISVHECRI, Pylos, 2004
NORMS, SELF-SANCTIONING, AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC GOOD
Creators: name: Interis, Matthew G.
name: Haab, Timothy C.
name: Interis, Matthew G.
name: Haab, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: public goods
subject: norms
subject: sanctioning
subject: image

description: The relationship between norms, self-sanctioning, and people’s decisions about contributing to public goods is complex and often misunderstood in the public goods literature. We develop a model in which individuals hold an injunctive norm indicating how much they believe one should contribute to the public good. From the model we derive the following testable hypotheses: an increase in one’s perception of the norm level of contribution to the public good (1) induces negative self-sanctioning and (2) will lead one to contribute more to the public good, and (3) that contributing to the public good induces positive self-sanctioning. To test these hypotheses, we elicit stated preferences for contributions to an organization which offsets carbon emissions and a proxy for self-sanctioning, change in respondent “self-image.”
Reconfigurable Network for Quantum Transport Simulation
Creators: name: Quiroz-Juárez, Mario A.
name: You, Chenglong
name: Carrillo-Martínez, Javier
name: Montiel-Álvarez, Diego
name: Aragón, José L.
name: Magaña-Loaiza, Omar S.
name: León-Montiel, Roberto de J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 1981, Richard Feynman discussed the possibility of performing quantum mechanical simulations of nature. Ever since, there has been an enormous interest in using quantum mechanical systems, known as quantum simulators, to mimic specific physical systems. Hitherto, these controllable systems have been implemented on different platforms that rely on trapped atoms, superconducting circuits and photonic arrays. Unfortunately, these platforms do not seem to satisfy, at once, all desirable features of an universal simulator, namely long-lived coherence, full control of system parameters, low losses, and scalability. Here, we overcome these challenges and demonstrate robust simulation of quantum transport phenomena using a state-of-art reconfigurable electronic network. To test the robustness and precise control of our platform, we explore the ballistic propagation of a single-excitation wavefunction in an ordered lattice, and its localization due to disorder. We implement the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model to directly observe the emergence of topologically-protected one-dimensional edge states. Furthermore, we present the realization of the so-called perfect transport protocol, a key milestone for the development of scalable quantum computing and communication. Finally, we show the first simulation of the exciton dynamics in the B800 ring of the purple bacteria LH2 complex. The high fidelity of our simulations together with the low decoherence of our device make it a robust, versatile and promising platform for the simulation of quantum transport phenomena.
ETROC2: the first full size, full functionality Precision Timing ASIC prototype forLGAD-based CMS Endcap Timing Layer (ETL) Upgrade
Creators: name: Liu, Tiehui
name: Gong, Datao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Endcap Timing ReadOut Chip (ETROC) is designed to process LGAD signals with time resolution down to about 40-50ps per hit. The ETROC2 is the first full size (16x16) prototype design with the front-end based on and scaled up from the ETROC1 (4x4). The readout designs at pixel and global level and the system interfaces are all new and are compatible with the final chip specifications in terms of functionality. The ETROC2 is intended as a learning chip, as a stepstone to the ETROC3 which is intended as the pre-production design. The ETROC2 design and test results will be presented.
Ultrametric theory of conformational dynamics of protein molecules in a functional state and the description of experiments on the kinetics of CO binding to myoglobin
Creators: name: Bikulov, A. Kh.
name: Zubarev, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35S05, 60J76, 82C44

description: The paper is devoted to a systematic account of the theory of conformational dynamics of protein molecules. As an example of application of this theory, we provide a complete analytical description of experiments on the kinetics of CO binding to myoglobin, which were carried out by the group of Frauenfelder more than 30 years ago and acquired the status of base experiments for studying the properties of the fluctuation dynamic mobility of protein molecules. As early as 2001, the authors could demonstrate that, within the model of ultrametric random walk with a reaction sink, the experimental curves of CO binding to myoglobin can be reproduced in the high-temperature region. Later, in 2010, the authors proposed a modified model and, based on its numerical analysis, demonstrated that this model can reproduces the experimental results over the whole temperature range covered in the experiment. In the present study, based on the previously proposed model, we formulate a rigorous mathematical theory of conformational dynamics of protein molecules. We demonstrate that the proposed theory provides not only a complete description of the experiment over the whole temperature range of $\left(60\div300\right)$ K and in the observation time window of $\left(10^{-7}\div10^{2}\right)$ s but also a unified picture of the conformational mobility of a protein molecule, as well as allows one to realize the fact that the mobility changes in a self-similar way. This specific feature of protein molecules, which has remained hidden to date, significantly expands the ideas of dynamic symmetry that proteins apparently possess. In addition, we show that the model provides a prediction for the behavior of the kinetic curves of the experiment in the low-temperature range of $\left(60\div180\right)$ K at times not covered by the experiment (more than $10^{2}$ s).
description: 18 pages, 1 figure
Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs and Obesity: 1976-2002
Creators: name: Ver Ploeg, Michele
name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Ver Ploeg, Michele
name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food and nutrition assistance programs
subject: food stamps
subject: WIC
subject: overweight
subject: obesity
subject: Body Mass Index
subject: weight trends
subject: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

description: The Food Stamp Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) address poor nutrition among low-income adults, infants, and children in the United States. Higher rates of obesity among the populations these programs serve have led to concern that the programs may, ironically, contribute to the problem. To analyze the relationships between program participation and body weight, the study used cross-sectional data spanning the period 1976-2002. The authors compared participants with nonparticipants subdivided into three income categories: income-eligible for food and nutrition assistance, moderate income, and higher income. Results were most striking for adult women receiving food stamps. The most recent data showed that, in contrast to prior years, women food stamp participants had a Body Mass Index similar to that of income-eligible nonparticipating women and women with moderate incomes and were no more likely to be overweight or obese. For other sex and age groups, the associations between program participation and weight were inconsistent over time and varied by race and ethnicity. These variations illustrate the difficulty of using cross-sectional data to establish causal relationships between food and nutrition assistance program participation and weight status.
Household Food Security in the United States, 2006
Creators: name: Nord, Mark
name: Andrews, Margaret S.
name: Carlson, Steven
name: Nord, Mark
name: Andrews, Margaret S.
name: Carlson, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food security
subject: food insecurity
subject: food spending
subject: food pantry
subject: soup kitchen
subject: emergency kitchen
subject: material well-being
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: WIC

description: Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2006, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (10.9 percent) were food insecure at least some time during the year. About one-third of food insecure households (4.0 percent of all U.S. households) had very low food security—meaning that the food intake of one or more adults was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food. Prevalence rates of food insecurity and very low food security were essentially unchanged from those in 2005. The typical food-secure household spent 31 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Just over half of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs during the month prior to USDA’s annual Food Security Survey.
The U.S. Grain Consumption Landscape: Who Eats Grain, in What Form, Where, and How Much?
Creators: name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Yen, Steven T.
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Yen, Steven T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Whole grain consumption
subject: grain consumption
subject: dietary guidelines
subject: food consumption survey data.

description: The U.S. Government is promoting whole-grain foods, responding to mounting evidence of their association with maintaining a healthy weight and reducing the risk of heart problems and other diseases. This study compared Americans’ consumption of grains with the recommendations in the Government’s 2005 Dietary Guidelines, using data from USDA’s Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals, 1994-96 and 1998. The analysis confirmed a national preference for refined grains—only 7 percent of survey respondents met the 2005 whole-grain recommendation. The authors compared grain consumption by economic and demographic characteristics of consumers, and also examined the effects of consumers’ social, economic, and demographic characteristics and dietary perceptions and practices. The results suggest that consumers who perceive grain consumption as important and read food labels during shopping tend to eat more whole grains than other people. When data from more recent surveys are analyzed, results of the present study can serve as a baseline from which to gauge changes in the American diet and the consumption of whole grains.
Beyond LDL: Reevaluating the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Barukčić, Ilija
Publisher: name: Causation
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bempedoic acid
Cardiovascular death
Cause
Effect
Ilija Barukčić
Ilija Barukcic
Barukčić, Ilija
Barukcic, Ilija
Barukcic
Barukčić

description: Background:Atherosclerosis is a major contributor to cardiovascular disease, traditionally linked to elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. However, recent findings raise critical questions regarding the causal relationship between LDL and the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis.Material and methods:This study re-analysed data from approximately 14,000 patients, focusing on the relationship between LDL lowering and related deaths. We employed new statistical methods to assess the relationship between LDL levels and outcomes.Results:Our findings revealed a lack of a definitive causal link between LDL levels and the incidence of atherosclerosis. While a reduction in LDL cholesterol was achieved in the patient cohort, this did not caused a significant decrease in all-cause mortality, suggesting that other factors than LDL may play a more critical role in the development of atherosclerosis.Conclusion:The results of this study cast doubt on the established paradigm of LDL as the primary driver of atherosclerosis. This reevaluation invites further investigation into alternative mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis and highlights the necessity for a more nuanced approach to cardiovascular risk assessment and management.
Neel order, quantum spin liquids and quantum criticality in two dimensions
Creators: name: Ghaemi, Pouyan
name: Senthil, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is concerned with the possibility of a direct second order transition out of a collinear Neel phase to a paramagnetic spin liquid in two dimensional quantum antiferromagnets. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we show that such second order quantum transitions can potentially occur to certain spin liquid states popular in theories of the cuprates. We provide a theory of this transition and study its universal properties in an $ε$ expansion. The existence of such a transition has a number of interesting implications for spin liquid based approaches to the underdoped cuprates. In particular it considerably clarifies existing ideas for incorporating antiferromagnetic long range order into such a spin liquid based approach.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures
Commodity Payments, Farm Business Survival, and Farm Size Growth
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Roberts, Michael J.
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Roberts, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: agricultural payments
subject: farm size
subject: farm survival
subject: concentration
subject: consolidation
subject: government payments
subject: commodity programs.

description: In the last 25 years, U.S. crop farms have steadily declined in number and grown in average size, as production has shifted to larger operations. Larger farms tend to receive more commodity program payments because most payments are tied to a farm’s current or historical production, but whether payments have contributed to farm growth is uncertain. This study uses farm-level data from the census of agriculture to determine whether there is a statistical relationship between farm commodity program payments and greater concentration in production. The analysis indicates that, at the regional level, higher commodity program payments per acre are associated with subsequent farm growth. Also, higher payments per acre are associated with higher rates of farm survival and growth.
The Decision to Direct Market: An Analysis of Small Fruit and Specialty-Product Markets in Virginia
Creators: name: Monson, Joseph
name: Mainville, Denise Y.
name: Kuminoff, Nicolai V.
name: Monson, Joseph
name: Mainville, Denise Y.
name: Kuminoff, Nicolai V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Farmers are increasingly interested in high-value alternatives to commodity production. Direct marketing is a potentially attractive marketing alternative, having been shown to offer increased net incomes to farmers. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of literature on the determinants of the decision to direct market. This paper uses an ordered logit regression to analyze how farm size, the importance of high-value crops, organic production, experience, and demographic factors affect a producer’s reliance on direct markets. The results show that farm size, high-value crop production, non-certified organic production methods, and household size are determinants of the share of total farm output sold through direct marketing outlets.
Lepton angular asymmetries in semileptonic charmful B decays
Creators: name: Chen, Chuan-Hung
name: Geng, Chao-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the lepton angular distributions in $B\to D^{(*)} \ell ν_{\ell}$ decays. The lepton angular asymmetries in the decays with the general effective interactions are examined. We demonstrate that the asymmetries are sensitive to new physics with a right-handed quark current.
description: 10 pages, 2 tables, 4 figures, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D (BR)
CHORIZOS: a CHi-square cOde for parameteRized modelIng and characteriZation of phOtometry and Spectrophotometry
Creators: name: Maíz-Apellániz, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a CHi-square cOde for parameteRized modelIng and characteriZation of phOtometry and Spectrophotometry (CHORIZOS). CHORIZOS can use up to two intrinsic free parameters (e.g. temperature and gravity for stars; type and redshift for galaxies; or age and metallicity for stellar clusters) and two extrinsic ones (amount and type of extinction). The code uses chi-square minimization to find all models compatible with the observed data in the model N-dimensional (N=1,2,3,4) parameter space. CHORIZOS can use either correlated or uncorrelated colors as input and is especially designed to identify possible parameter degeneracies and multiple solutions. The code is written in IDL and is available to the astronomical community. Here we present the techniques used, test the code, apply it to a few well-known astronomical problems, and suggest possible applications. As a first scientific result from CHORIZOS, we confirm from photometry the need for a revised temperature-spectral type scale for OB stars previously derived from spectroscopy.
description: 32 pages, 13 figures. To appear in the September 2004 issue of PASP
The Scalable Systems Laboratory: a Platform for Software Innovation for HEP
Creators: name: Gardner, Robert
name: Bryant, Lincoln
name: Neubauer, Mark
name: Wuerthwein, Frank
name: Stephen, Judith
name: Chien, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Scalable Systems Laboratory (SSL), part of the IRIS-HEP Software Institute, provides Institute participants and HEP software developers generally with a means to transition their R&D from conceptual toys to testbeds to production-scale prototypes. The SSL enables tooling, infrastructure, and services supporting the innovation of novel analysis and data architectures, development of software elements and tool-chains, reproducible functional and scalability testing of service components, and foundational systems R&D for accelerated services developed by the Institute. The SSL is constructed with a core team having expertise in scale testing and deployment of services across a wide range of cyberinfrastructure. The core team embeds and partners with other areas in the Institute, and with LHC and other HEP development and operations teams as appropriate, to define investigations and required service deployment patterns. We describe the approach and experiences with early application deployments, including analysis platforms and intelligent data delivery systems.
Consumer Preferences for Pasture-Raised Animal Products: Results from Michigan
Creators: name: Conner, David S.
name: Campbell-Arvai, Victoria
name: Hamm, Michael W.
name: Conner, David S.
name: Campbell-Arvai, Victoria
name: Hamm, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: The pasture-based model of agriculture potentially offers opportunities for small- and medium-scale livestock producers in local, regional, and national markets. Our data indicate that many consumers value the attributes associated with locally produced pasture-raised products. We used ordered probit and binary probit analyses of these data to identify the demographic segments that showed the greatest interest in these attributes. This interest suggests a broad education and marketing effort to articulate salient attributes and to differentiate and increase the availability of these products in the marketplace.
Entangling the vibrational modes of two massive ferromagnetic spheres using cavity magnomechanics
Creators: name: Li, Jie
name: Gröblacher, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scheme to entangle the vibrational phonon modes of two massive ferromagnetic spheres in a dual-cavity magnomechanical system. In each cavity, a microwave cavity mode couples to a magnon mode (spin wave) via the magnetic dipole interaction, and the latter further couples to a deformation phonon mode of the ferromagnetic sphere via a nonlinear magnetostrictive interaction. We show that by directly driving the magnon mode with a red-detuned microwave field to activate the magnomechanical anti-Stokes process a cavity-magnon-phonon state-swap interaction can be realized. Therefore, if the two cavities are further driven by a two-mode squeezed vacuum field, the quantum correlation of the driving fields is successively transferred to the two magnon modes and subsequently to the two phonon modes, i.e., the two ferromagnetic spheres become remotely entangled. Our work demonstrates that cavity magnomechanical systems allow to prepare quantum entangled states at a more massive scale than currently possible with other schemes.
description: QST Special issue on "Quantum Optomechanics". The source data for the figures is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4446839
Additional file 5 of A novel mechanism of phenotypic heterogeneity in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Creators: name: Nemani, Satish K.
name: Xiangzhu Xiao
name: Cali, Ignazio
name: Cracco, Laura
name: Puoti, Gianfranco
name: Nigro, Massimiliano
name: Lavrich, Jody
name: Singh, Anuradha Bharara
name: Appleby, Brian S.
name: Sim, Valerie L.
name: Notari, Silvio
name: Surewicz, Witold K.
name: Gambetti, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional File 5: Figure S3. Mass spectrometry data from the individual cases examined. The resPrPD 129 M percentages for each of the 3 “pure” cases were: MV2C: 90.3, 88.9, 69.2; MV2K: 31.9, 26.7, 9.3; MV1: 45.2, 51, 47.9. The M:V proportions of the two MV2K-C mixed cases are reported in the legend of Fig. 4.
Factor and Cluster Analysis of Willingness to Pay for Organic and Non-GM Food
Creators: name: Gifford, Katie
name: Bernard, John C.
name: Gifford, Katie
name: Bernard, John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: A large segment of consumers appear to value niche products including organic, “non-GM,” “pesticide-free,” and “no antibiotics used” more in fresh products than in processed. About ten percent of the respondents were especially interested in non-GM products. These consumers feel that GM labeling is important, but felt that other types of food labels were relatively unimportant. The non-GM audience defied easy demographic profiling. Data were collected by both surveys and experimental auctions, with factor analysis and cluster analysis used to interpret the data. The survey and experimental auction data yielded different willingness-to-pay values but showed similar patterns of consumer preferences.
Maximal planar networks with large clustering coefficient and power-law degree distribution
Creators: name: Zhou, Tao
name: Yan, Gang
name: Wang, Bing-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we propose a simple rule that generates scale-free networks with very large clustering coefficient and very small average distance. These networks are called {\bf Random Apollonian Networks}(RAN) as they can be considered as a variation of Apollonian networks. We obtain the analytic results of power-law exponent $γ=3$ and clustering coefficient $C={46/3}-36\texttt{ln}{3/2}\approx 0.74$, which agree very well with the simulation results. We prove that the increasing tendency of average distance of RAN is a little slower than the logarithm of the number of nodes in RAN. Since most real-life networks are both scale-free and small-world networks, RAN may perform well in mimicking the reality. The RAN possess hierarchical structure as $C(k)\sim k^{-1}$ that in accord with the observations of many real-life networks. In addition, we prove that RAN are maximal planar networks, which are of particular practicability for layout of printed circuits and so on. The percolation and epidemic spreading process are also studies and the comparison between RAN and Barabási-Albert(BA) as well as Newman-Watts(NW) networks are shown. We find that, when the network order $N$(the total number of nodes) is relatively small(as $N\sim 10^4$), the performance of RAN under intentional attack is not sensitive to $N$, while that of BA networks is much affected by $N$. And the diseases spread slower in RAN than BA networks during the outbreaks, indicating that the large clustering coefficient may slower the spreading velocity especially in the outbreaks.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Milq
Creators: name: Brochu, Eric
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Computers cannot, of course, appreciate the emotional qualities of music. But can they describe music with emotional adjectives that match what a human might expect? I have implemented a system, MILQ, to explore this hypothesis. Using a large data set, a selected set of labels (including both genre and style labels like INDIE ROCK and tone labels like CATHARTIC), and proven feature extraction techniques, I was able to construct a set of nonlinear logistic discriminative networks using Neural Network techniques, which computed marginal probabilities for each label. Such techniques and other Machine Learning methods have been used before to construct genre classifiers and my model works well for those. Estimating the probabilities of the tonal labels is much more difficult, however, as these can have a very strong cultural component, as well as an acoustical one. Therefore, I add a second Bayesian network stage. This uses a set of labels from the logistic network as the priors for the belief of each label, treating the labels as nodes in a directed, loopy Bayesian network. Using a modified version of loopy belief propagation, the posterior of each label conditioned on its neighbours is computed to approximate the cultural component of the labellings by using the co-occurrence frequency of the labels as potential functions on the network. A number of evaluations and examples suggest that the model can be used with a fair degree of accuracy to assign tone-based adjectives to music.
Accumulation of spin-polarized states of charge carriers and a spintronic battery
Creators: name: Pastur, L. A.
name: Slavin, V. V.
name: Yanovsky, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin valves based on materials in which the spin-flip is suppressed by the spatial separation of charge carriers, while maintaining electric neutrality in the valve volume, are considered. The possibility of using these valves as electric batteries is discussed. It is shown that if the potential difference across the valve is controlled, incommensurability effects such as the "devil's staircase" may be expected, which are associated with the Coulomb interaction and redistribution of electrons occurring while the battery is charged and discharged. The effects of the emergence and vanishing of spontaneous spin polarization of conduction electrons with a change in the Fermi level in the valve are predicted. Such spin valves can also be used in implementing spintronic memory cells, supercapacitors, and similar devices.
Consumer demands for organic and genetically modified foods
Creators: name: Donaghy, Peter
name: Rolfe, John
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Donaghy, Peter
name: Rolfe, John
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Genetically modified
subject: organic
subject: demand
subject: choice modelling

description: Issues concerning consumer demands for genetically modified and organic food remain topical. It is unclear how consumers perceive issues associated with food production such as food safety, environmental impacts or animal welfare. It is also unclear how consumers might value potential changes in those issues in regional and metropolitan centres. This paper reports on research using the choice modelling technique to estimate and compare consumer demand for genetically modified and organic foods in Australia. The case study considers tomatoes, milk and beef commodities. The results draw comparisons between the contribution of associated factors influencing consumer purchasing decisions in a regional and metropolitan city. The results are relevant to the current policy debate regarding the introduction of GM foods.
Model-independent Study of Magnetic Dipole Transitions in Quarkonium
Creators: name: Brambilla, Nora
name: Jia, Yu
name: Vairo, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study magnetic dipole (M1) transitions between two quarkonia in the framework of non-relativistic effective field theories of QCD. Relativistic corrections of relative order v^2 are investigated in a systematic fashion. Non-perturbative corrections due to color-octet effects are considered for the first time and shown to vanish at leading order. Exact, all order expressions for the relevant 1/m and 1/m^2 operators are derived. The results allow us to scrutinize several potential model claims. In particular, we show that QCD excludes both contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the quarkonium induced by low-energy fluctuations and contributions to the magnetic dipole operators of the type induced by a scalar potential. Finally, we apply our results to the transitions J/psi -> eta_c gamma, Upsilon(1S) -> eta_b gamma, Upsilon(2S) -> eta_b(2S) gamma, Upsilon(2S) -> eta_b gamma, eta_b(2S) -> Upsilon(1S) gamma, h_b(1P) -> chi_{b0,1}(1P) gamma and chi_{b2}(1P) -> h_b(1P) gamma by assuming these quarkonium states in the weak-coupling regime. Our analysis shows that the J/psi -> eta_c gamma width is consistent with a weak-coupling treatment of the charmonium ground state, while such a treatment for the hindered transition Upsilon(2S) -> eta_b gamma appears difficult to accommodate within the CLEO III upper limit.
description: 44 pages, 8 figures; typos corrected, one reference added; to appear in Physical Review D
Valuation of public environmental assets by private companies: optimal dust abatement and air quality
Creators: name: Dunn, Peter
name: Schilizzi, Steven
name: Dunn, Peter
name: Schilizzi, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This study investigates a new problem in the area of environmental valuation: how much is a public environmental asset worth to a private company? We ask this question in the context of dust abatement, where the asset is air quality. A company wants to know what level of dust abatement is optimal, given the engineering costs of abating and the social costs of not abating. We show that the optimal point for the company lies in between the textbook cases of so-called private optimum and social optimum, which constitute, respectively, a lower and an upper bound for dust abatement. We calculate the upper bound and provide elements for the calculation of the lower bound.
Hydrodynamics within the Electric Double Layer on slipping surfaces
Creators: name: Joly, Laurent
name: Ybert, Christophe
name: Trizac, Emmanuel
name: Bocquet, Lyderic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show, using extensive Molecular Dynamics simulations, that the dynamics of the electric double layer (EDL) is very much dependent on the wettability of the charged surface on which the EDL develops. For a wetting surface, the dynamics, characterized by the so-called Zeta potential, is mainly controlled by the electric properties of the surface, and our work provides a clear interpretation for the traditionally introduced immobile Stern layer. In contrast, the immobile layer disappears for non-wetting surfaces and the Zeta potential deduced from electrokinetic effects is considerably amplified by the existence of a slippage at the solid substrate.
description: accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
A formula for the number of partitions of $n$ in terms of the partial Bell polynomials
Creators: name: Jha, Sumit Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11P81, 05A17

description: We derive a formula for $p(n)$ (the number of partitions of $n$) in terms of the partial Bell polynomials using Faà di Bruno's formula and Euler's pentagonal number theorem.
description: Accepted for publication in the Ramanujan Journal
Additional file 10 of Identification and characterization of differentially expressed genes in Caenorhabditis elegans in response to pathogenic and nonpathogenic Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Creators: name: Radeke, Leah J.
name: Herman, Michael A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10 CRISPR/Cas9 target gene primers. Forward and reverse primers for each gRNA were annealed and ligated into pRB1017. gRNA sequence (20 bp prior to the PAM site) are underlined for each primer, non-underlined bases are included in the primer sequence for proper ligation into BsaI digested pRB1017. Primers flanking the gRNA target loci were used to amplify DNA from candidate mutant worms to detect insertions or deletions based on amplicon size. Odd numbers of flanking primers listed for any gene were tested in combinations (forward primer was tested with each reverse primers).
Greenhouse Gas Abatement Policies and the Value of Carbon Sinks: Do Grazing and Cropping Systems have Different Destinies?
Creators: name: Flugge, Felicity
name: Schilizzi, Steven
name: Flugge, Felicity
name: Schilizzi, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: greenhouse policy
subject: whole-farm modelling
subject: carbon sinks

description: The impact of two greenhouse gas abatement policies on two Mediterranean-type farming systems, grazing dominant and cropping dominant, is examined. The policies analysed are; an emissions taxation policy and an emissions restrictions policy. For both farming systems the restriction policy is found to be more effective and economically efficient than the carbon permit policy. Absolute cost of abatement is less for the livestock dominant system but relative cost is greater, because of lower total farm profits. The analysis found that at predicted emissions permit prices, trees, if credited as a carbon sink, would be adopted by both farming systems to offset farm greenhouse gas emissions.
Animation palette : an interface for prototyping dynamic aerial motions
Creators: name: Zhao, Peng
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents an interface for the interactive design of dynamic aerial stunts, such as platform diving, freestyle aerial ski jumps and half-pipe snowboarding. This has applications for the prototyping of sports motions or for computer character animation in video games. The user selects from a library of actions, such as "stand", "pike" and "extend", in order to create a motion. Some actions define a set of target joint angles for proportional-derivative controllers, while others invoke balance controllers employing closed-loop feedback. A real-time physics based simulation determines the final motion. A motion can be created interactively in real-time, or edited off-line to allow for incremental refinement. Motion timings can be optimized automatically to produce desired outcomes. The interface can be used to explore questions such as "Is this new stunt possible?" or "What if the pike began earlier?" We demonstrate the interface using simulations of platform diving (29 unique dives), freestyle aerial ski jumps (13 unique jumps), and half-pipe snowboarding (4 unique jumps).
Nonequilibrium Reweighting on the Driven Diffusive Lattice Gas
Creators: name: Lee, Hwee Kuan
name: Okabe, Yutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonequilibrium reweighting technique, which was recently developed by the present authors, is used for the study of the nonequilibrium steady states. The renewed formulation of the nonequlibrium reweighting enables us to use the very efficient multi-spin coding. We apply the nonequilibrium reweighting to the driven diffusive lattice gas model. Combining with the dynamical finite-size scaling theory, we estimate the critical temperature Tc and the dynamical exponent z. We also argue that this technique has an interesting feature that enables explicit calculation of derivatives of thermodynamic quantities without resorting to numerical differences.
description: Accepted for publication in J. Phys. A (Lett.)