cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
U.S. Public Equity ESG Fund Composite and Parnassus Core Equity Fund: Performance and Factor Attribution
Creators: name: Buhler, Barrett
name: Nemani, Karthik
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This is the first paper to examine all U.S. public
equity Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
funds offered by the Forum for Sustainable and
Responsible Investment’s (SIF) – for ease of
communication, this will be called the ESG
Composite – institutional member firms from 2005 to
2020. With a Net Asset Value (NAV) over $150
billion, these funds comprise nearly half of the U.S.
public equity ESG investment landscape. The article
finds that the ESG Composite maintains performance
with the S&P 500 total return index on an overall
returns basis with lower volatility, indicating greater
risk-adjusted returns. Factor analysis reveals that the
ESG Composite returns are primarily driven by
underlevered exposure to market returns as well as
prevalence of mid-to-large cap and high beta stocks.
When isolating the largest fund in the ESG
Composite – the Parnassus Core Equity Fund
(PRBLX) portfolio – this study finds significant
outperformance over the S&P 500 on an overall
returns basis. Factor analysis reveals greater
emphasis on underleverage to the market and greater
preference for large cap, high beta stocks. When
compared to the global mutual fund universe, the
ESG Composite outperforms in annualized returns
and annualized Sharpe ratios, whereas the PRBLX
portfolio outperforms in annualized returns,
annualized Sharpe ratios, annualized alphas, and
annualized information ratios. Conclusions drawn
from this study will (1) supplement the discussion on
ESG usefulness and (2) present actionable investment
insights.
Effects of thermal fluctuations on thermal inflation
Creators: name: Hiramatsu, Takashi
name: Miyamoto, Yuhei
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism of thermal inflation, a relatively short period of accelerated expansion after primordial inflation, is a desirable ingredient for a certain class of particle physics models if they are not to be in contention with the cosmology of the early Universe. Though thermal inflation is most simply described in terms of a thermal effective potential, a thermal environment also gives rise to thermal fluctuations that must be taken into account. We numerically study the effects of these thermal fluctuations using lattice simulations. We conclude that though they do not ruin the thermal inflation scenario, the phase transition at the end of thermal inflation proceeds through phase mixing and is therefore not accompanied by the formations of bubbles nor appreciable amplitude of gravitational waves.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Non-Perturbative Theory of Dispersion Interactions
Creators: name: Boström, M.
name: Thiyam, P.
name: Persson, C.
name: Parsons, D. F.
name: Buhmann, S. Y.
name: Brevik, I.
name: Sernelius, Bo E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some open questions exist with fluctuation-induced forces between extended dipoles. Conventional intuition derives from large-separation perturbative approximations to dispersion force theory. Here we present a full non-perturbative theory. In addition we discuss how one can take into account finite dipole size corrections. It is of fundamental value to investigate the limits of validity of the perturbative dispersion force theory.
description: 9 pages, no figures
Analysis of the spin Hall effect in CuIr alloys: Combined approach of density functional theory and Hartree-Fock approximation
Creators: name: Xu, Zhuo
name: Gu, Bo
name: Mori, Michiyasu
name: Ziman, Timothy
name: Maekawa, Sadamichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the spin Hall effect in CuIr alloys in theory by the combined approach of the density functional theory (DFT) and Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation. The SHA is obtained to be negative without the local correlation effects. After including the local correlation effects of the 5d orbitals of Ir impurities, the SHA becomes positive with realistic correlation parameters, and consistent with experiment [Niimi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126601 (2011)]. Moreover, our analysis shows that the DFT+HF approach is a convenient and general method to study the influence of local correlation effects on the spin Hall effect.
Integrating spatial econometric information and optimisation models to improve Agri-Environmental payment design: A resource allocation model for Emilia-Romagna (Italy)
Creators: name: Daniele, Vergamini
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Daniele, Vergamini
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Raggi, Meri
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: European agri-environmental measures
subject: agri-environmental payments
subject: differentiated payments
subject: spatial targeting
subject: optimisation tool
subject: mathematical programming

description: The efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the European Agri-Environmental Measures (AEMs) depends on policy design variables, spatial targeting and participant selection process. This paper develops an optimisation model jointly aimed at optimal AEMs targeting and payment setting. The model tests the potential integration of spatial information into optimisation models simulating spatially differentiated payment mechanism for AEMs in Emilia-Romagna (Italy). The results highlight a significant cost saving with differentiated payments. Spatial information modelled as a proxy of the willingness to accept the payment supports the fine-tuning of the model. The study highlights the importance of using the information on spatial differentiation in optimisation tools searching for optimal incentivecompatible targeting.
Viscosity scaling of fingering instability in finite slices with Korteweg stress
Creators: name: Pramanik, Satyajit
name: Mishra, Manoranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76E15, 76E17

description: We perform linear stability analyses (LSA) and direct numerical simulations (DNS) to investigate the influence of the dynamic viscosity on viscous fingering (VF) instability in miscible slices. Selecting the characteristic scales appropriately the importance of the magnitude of the dynamic viscosity of individual fluids on VF in miscible slice has been shown in the context of the transient interfacial tension. Further, we have confirmed this result for immiscible fluids and manifest the similarities between VF in immiscible and miscible slices with transient interfacial tension. In a more general setting, the findings of this letter will be very useful for multiphase viscous flow, in which the momentum balance equation contains an additional stress term free from the dynamic viscosity.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
title:  Monte Carlo Analysis of Millimeter-Wave GaN Based Gunn Effect Oscillators
Creators: name: Viswanadham, Sridhara
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2003

description: Gunn diodes are one of the most common high frequency solid-state oscillators at the present time, and are considered as promising devices for millimeter and submillimeter wave applications. Monte Carlo studies of Gunn diodes based on bulk wurtzite GaN have been carried out in this thesis research. Two structures have been examined: (i) devices with conventional single notch structure and (ii) repetitive structures with serial segments to fashion a "multiple domain" device. Wurtzite GaN has been chosen because of the high drift velocity and because analytical expressions for the band structure have recently become available. Performance parameters of interest such as operating frequency, output power and conversion efficiency have been calculated. Variations due to changes in temperature, biasing voltage, and device length are also included. Due to their high frequency and power characteristics, GaN Gunn diodes are used as sources for the generation of millimeter wave signals. It is shown that there is a considerable improvement in output power and operating frequency over the reported results of InP and GaAs. It is also shown that multi-domain Gunn diodes can lead to significant improvements in output power over conventional, single-transit structure, and so such multiple GaN diodes merit serious experimental study.
Valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall phase and disorder induced valley-filtered chiral edge channels
Creators: name: Pan, Hui
name: Li, Xin
name: Jiang, Hua
name: Yao, Yugui
name: Yang, Shengyuan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the topological and transport properties of the recently discovered valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall (VQAH) phase. In single layer, the phase is realized through the competition between two types of spin-orbit coupling, which breaks the symmetry between the two valleys. We show that the topological phase transition from conventional quantum anomalous Hall phase to the VQAH phase is due to the change of topological charges with the generation of additional skyrmions in the real spin texture, when the band gap closes and reopens at one of the valleys. In the presence of short range disorders, pairs of the gapless edge channels (one from each valley in a pair) would be destroyed due to intervalley scattering. However, we discover that in an extended range of moderate scattering strength, the transport through the system is quantized and fully valley-polarized, i.e. the system is equivalent to a quantum anomalous Hall system with valley-filtered chiral edge channels. We further show that with additional layer degree of freedom, much richer phase diagram could be realized with multiple VQAH phases. For a bilayer system, we demonstrate that topological phase transitions could be controlled by the interlayer bias potential.
Skyrmions at room temperature : From magnetic thin films to magnetic multilayers
Creators: name: Moreau-Luchaire, C.
name: Moutafis, C.
name: Reyren, N.
name: Sampaio, J.
name: Van Horne, N.
name: Vaz, C. A. F.
name: Bouzehouane, K.
name: Garcia, K.
name: Deranlot, C.
name: Warnicke, P.
name: Wohlhüter, P.
name: George, J. M.
name: Raabe, J.
name: Cros, V.
name: Fert, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Facing the ever-growing demand for data storage will most probably require a new paradigm. Magnetic skyrmions are anticipated to solve this issue as they are arguably the smallest spin textures in magnetic thin films in nature. We designed cobalt-based multilayered thin films where the cobalt layer is sandwiched between two heavy metals providing additive interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, which reach about 2 mJ/m2 in the case of the Ir/Co/Pt multilayers. Using a magnetization-sensitive scanning x-ray transmission microscopy technique, we imaged magnetic bubble-like domains in these multilayers. The study of their behavir in magnetic field allows us to conclude that they are actually magnetic skyrmions stabilized by the Dzyaloshinsskii-Moriya interaction. This discoevry of stable skyrmions at room temperature in a technologically relevant material opens the way for device applications in a near future.
title: Experimental Analysis of the Stability of Retained Austenite in a Low-Alloy 42CrSi Steel after Different Quenching and Partitioning Heat Treatments
Creators: name: Liehr, Alexander
name: Wegener, Thomas
name: Degener, Sebastian
name: Bolender, Artjom
name: Möller, Nico
name: Niendorf, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: in situ characterizations
subject: microstructures
subject: quenching and partitioning steels
subject: synchrotron diffraction
subject: transformation-induced plasticity effects
subject: X-ray diffraction
subject: 600
subject: In situ
subject: Mikrostruktur
subject: Synchrotron
subject: Röntgenbeugung
subject: Austenit
subject: Stahl

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Understanding diversity in later life through images of old age
Creators: name: Enßle, Friederike
name: Helbrecht, Ilse
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: diversity in later life
subject: images of old age
subject: homophily in social networks
subject: transnational ageing
subject: individual life paths
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: This article aims to enhance the conceptual debate on diversity in old age by exploring the interplay of diversity in later life and images of old age. We argue that the analysis of images of old age on the micro-level is a fruitful methodology in order to unravel the meaning of diversity in later life. Drawing on findings from qualitative research in Berlin, we explore how new and diverse imaginations, experiences and lifestyles of old age emerge. The conceptual focus on images of old age enables us to investigate further what diversity in later life comprises and how it simultaneously fosters the genesis of new images of old age. The manifold new images we found in our research suggest that prevalent societal discourses about old age on the macro-level are rather deceptive and represent mostly stereotypes such as ‘active agers’ or ‘frail and dependent elders’. We offer three explanations why alternative images of old age are currently barely present in public discourse: (a) the actors transmitting images of age; (b) the institutionalisation of the images; and (c) the challenge to communicate complexity. We conclude by suggesting that images of old age are a promising starting point to explore and make visible both the diversity of social groups within the older generation as well as the heterogeneity of older individuals.
A Decision on the Priority Order of the Summer Chinese Cabbage Contract Farming Expansion
Creators: name: Yi, Hyangmi
name: Yi, Hyangmi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Analytic Hierarchy Process
subject: summer chinese cabbage
subject: National Agricultural Cooperative Federation

description: The farming based on contracts with Nonghyup helps make production and consumption predictable. But currently the contract farming is as low as 10% of the total farming. To increase the rate, analyzing the factors that farmers consider when choosing fresh produce distributors is necessary. And the roles of the government and local Nonghyup should be looked into separately. With these in mind, this research identifies relative gravity and priority of evaluation factors that summer chinese cabbage farmers consider when choosing local distributors, and suggests policy priorities through a paired comparison between the government and Nonghyup to help establish contract farming strategies. The method of empirical research used in this study is the AHP analysis for group decision making as multi-stakeholders or multiple decision makers are involved.
An Evaluation of a School-Based Savings Program and Its Effect on Sexual Risk Behaviors and Victimization Among Young Ghanaians
Creators: name: Chowa, Gina
name: Sherraden, Michael
name: Masa, Rainier
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2019

description: The objective of this study was to examine the effect of a financial inclusion project on youthâ€™s sexual risk behaviors and victimization. The project occurred in Ghana, where 100 schools were assigned to either a school-based savings program (SBSP), a marketing campaign, or a control group. Pretest and posttest data were collected in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Given our study objective, we restricted our sample to sexually experienced youth ( n = 957). Using doubly robust methods to estimate treatment effects, the overall financial inclusion project was not associated with positive changes in sexual risk behaviors and victimization. In contrast, SBSP was significantly associated with higher likelihood of condom use and lower probability of sexual victimization. SBSP may be another promising tool that may help young people accumulate material and nonmaterial resources to reduce sexual risk taking and victimization.
Local $h$-polynomials, invariants of subdivisions, and mixed Ehrhart theory
Creators: name: Katz, Eric
name: Stapledon, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B20, 52B05, 14M25

description: There are natural polynomial invariants of polytopes and lattice polytopes coming from enumerative combinatorics and Ehrhart theory, namely the $h$- and $h^*$-polynomials, respectively. In this paper, we study their generalization to subdivisions and lattice subdivisions of polytopes. By abstracting constructions in mixed Hodge theory, we introduce multivariable polynomials which specialize to the $h$-, $h^*$- polynomials. These polynomials, the mixed $h$-polynomial and the (refined) limit mixed $h^*$-polynomial have rich symmetry, non-negativity, and unimodality properties, which both refine known properties of the classical polynomials, and reveal new structure. For example, we prove a lower bound theorem for a related invariant called the local $h^*$-polynomial. We introduce our polynomials by developing a very general formalism for studying subdivisions of Eulerian posets that extends the work of Stanley, Brenti and Athanasiadis on local $h$-vectors. In particular, we prove a conjecture of Nill and Schepers, and answer a question of Athanasiadis.
description: 54 pages
Local Manipulation of the Energy Levels of 2D TMDCs on the Microscale Level via Microprinted Self-Assembled Monolayers
Creators: name: Grützmacher, Sarah
name: Heyl, Max
name: Nardi, Marco Vittorio
name: Koch, Norbert
name: List-Kratochvil, Emil J.W.
name: Ligorio, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: The article processing charge was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 491192747 and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
description: 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are atomically-thick semiconductors with great potential for next-generation optoelectronic applications, such as transistors and sensors. Their large surface-to-volume ratio makes them energy-efficient but also extremely sensitive to the physical-chemical surroundings. The latter must be carefully considered when predicting the electronic behavior, such as their energy level alignment, which ultimately affects the charge carrier injection and transport in devices. Here, local doping is demonstrated and thus adjusting the opto-electronic properties of monolayer TMDCs (WSe2 and MoS2) by chemically engineering the surface of the supporting substrate. This is achieved by decorating the substrate by microcontact printing with patterns of two different self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). The SAMs posses distinct molecular dipoles and dielectric constants, significantly influencing the TMDCs electronic and optical properties. By analyzing (on various substrtates), it is confirmed that these effects arise solely from the interaction between SAMs and TMDCs. Understanding the diverse dielectric environments experienced by TMDCs allows for a correlation between electronic and optical behaviours. The changes primarily involve alteration in the electronic band gap width, which can be calculated using the Schottky-Mott rule, incorporating the dielectric screening of the TMDCs surroundings. This knowledge enables accurate prediction of the (opto-)electronic behavior of monolayer TMDCs for advanced device design.
MPEC 2023-U85 : 2023 UA1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 UA1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Asset Ownership and Academic Achievement Among Youth in Ghana: Examining Associations Based on Asset Type and Academic Subject
Creators: name: Masa, Rainier
name: Chowa, Gina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019

description: This cross-sectional study examined the relationships between asset type and academic achievement among Ghanaian junior high school students. Results suggest that the positive relationship between asset ownership and academic achievement depends on the type of asset and academic subject. Homeownership was positively and significantly associated with math achievement. Ownership of transport-related assets was positively and significantly associated with English achievement. Findings have implications for asset-building programs to promote academic proficiency and progress for all youth.
Lifetime determination of the 5d$^{2}$~$^{3}$F$_{2}$ state in barium using trapped atoms
Creators: name: De, S.
name: Dammalapati, U.
name: Willmann, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magneto-optically trapped atoms enable the determination of lifetimes of metastable states and higher lying excited states like the $\rm{5d^{2}~^{3}F_{2}}$ state in barium. The state is efficiently populated by driving strong transitions from metastable states within the cooling cycle of the barium MOT. The lifetime is inferred from the increase of MOT fluorescence after the transfer of up to $30\,\%$ of the trapped atoms to this state. The radiative decay of the $\rm{5d^{2}~^{3}F_{2}}$ state cascades to the cooling cycle of the MOT with a probability of $96.0(7)\,\%$ corresponding to a trap loss of $4.0(7)\,\%$ and its lifetime is determined to $\rm{160(10)~μs}$. This is in good agreement with the theoretically calculated lifetime of $\rm{190~μs}$ [J. Phys. B, {\bf 40}, 227 (2007)]. The determined loss of $4.0(7)\,\%$ from the cooling cycle is compared with the theoretically calculated branching ratios. This measurement extends the efficacy of trapped atoms to measure lifetimes of higher, long-lived states and validate the atomic structure calculations of heavy multi-electron systems.
description: 5 pages, accepted for publication in Physical Review A
Impact of Strategic Vendor Management to Improve Supply Chain Performance
Creators: name: Muzahidur Rahman
name: Tamim W. Islam
name: A.T.M. Toha Himel
name: Tonmoy R. Islam
Publisher: name: BIHRM Supply Chain
Year: 2023

description: This research article aims to explore the impact of strategic vendor management on improving supply chain performance. In today's dynamic and competitive business environment, effective supply chain management plays a pivotal role in enhancing organizational performance and achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. One critical aspect of supply chain management is vendor management, which involves developing and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers to ensure the timely and efficient flow of goods and services also It plays a vital role in cost reduction, effective operation and control, meet customer satisfaction & mitigate risks. Through a comprehensive review of existing literature, case studies, and empirical evidence as well as we collected our primary data by a likert scale survey and taking interview among supply chain professionals of Bangladesh, this study seeks to provide valuable insights into the strategies and practices that can foster successful vendor management and its consequent effects on overall supply chain performance.
Supplementary methods from Host behaviour alteration by its parasite: from brain gene expression to functional test
Creators: name: Grecias, Lucie
name: Francois Olivier Hebert
name: Verônica Angelica Alves
name: Barber, Iain
name: Aubin-Horth, Nadia
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Many parasites with complex life cycles modify their intermediate hosts' behaviour, presumably to increase transmission to their final host. The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is an intermediate host in the cestode Schistocephalus solidus life cycle, which ends in an avian host, and shows increased risky behaviours when infected. We studied brain gene expression profiles of sticklebacks infected with S. solidus to determine the proximal causes of these behavioural alterations. We show that infected fish have altered expression levels in genes involved in the inositol pathway. We thus tested the functional implication of this pathway and successfully rescued normal behaviours in infected sticklebacks using lithium exposure. We also show that exposed but uninfected fish have a distinct gene expression profile from both infected fish and control individuals, allowing us to separate gene activity related to parasite exposure from consequences of a successful infection. Finally, we find that Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor-treated sticklebacks and infected fish do not have similarly altered gene expression, despite their comparable behaviours, suggesting that the serotonin pathway is probably not the main driver of phenotypic changes in infected sticklebacks. Taken together, our results allow us to predict that if S. solidus directly manipulates its host, it could target the inositol pathway.
A New Hadron Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Olsen, Stephen Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD-motivated models for hadrons predict an assortment of "exotic" hadrons that have structures that are more complex than the quark-antiquark mesons and three-quark baryons of the original quark-parton model. These include pentaquark baryons, the six-quark H-dibaryon, and tetraquark, hybrid and glueball mesons. Despite extensive experimental searches, no unambiguous candidates for any of these exotic configurations have been identified. On the other hand, a number of meson states, one that seems to be a proton-antiproton bound state, and others that contain either charmed-anticharmed quark pairs or bottom-antibottom quark pairs, have been recently discovered that neither fit into the quark-antiquark meson picture nor match the expected properties of the QCD-inspired exotics. Here I briefly review results from a recent search for the H-dibaryon, and discuss some properties of the newly discovered states --the proton-antiproton state and the so-called XYZ mesons-- and compare them with expectations for conventional quark-antiquark mesons and the predicted QCD-exotic states.
description: 34 pages, 22 figures, a review article that will appear in Frontiers of Physics
Correlates of animal source food consumption and its association with psychosocial functioning of adults in rural Western Uganda
Creators: name: Chowa, Gina
name: Masa, Rainier
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2019

description: The objective of this study was to examine the correlates of animal source food consumption and its association with psychosocial functioning of adults living in a rural district in Western Uganda. A cross-sectional sample of 326 rural adults living in 12 villages in Masindi District was surveyed using a questionnaire that included items on various animal source foods (ASF), psychosocial functioning, and social and economic characteristics. We calculated ASF scores using three methods suggested in the literature, including the World Food Programmeâ€™s calculation of a food consumption score. We defined psychosocial functioning as ability to complete activities of daily living or to engage in future-oriented behaviors. Multivariable results indicated that being satisfied with current household financial status, living in better dwelling conditions, ownership of livestock, and higher levels of social support were significantly associated with higher ASF scores. Household size and age were negatively associated with ASF scores. ASF consumption was positively and significantly associated with psychosocial functioning, including orientation toward success, expectations for future economic conditions, and self-perceived health. Study findings expand evidence on correlates of ASF consumption and its association with psychosocial functioning. Findings may underscore both opportunities and challenges associated with ASF consumption. Alongside hunger and undernutrition associated with low ASF consumption, the countryâ€™s increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity associated with high ASF consumption may require an integrated approach for tackling the double burden of malnutrition.
title: Brexit, EU Financial Markets and Differentiated Integration
Creators: name: Donnelly, Shawn
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: financial regulation
subject: company law
subject: harmonisation
subject: battle of systems
subject: regime complexity
subject: legal norms

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(3), 1265-1285
description: I. Introduction. - II. Differentiated law prior to Brexit. - III. Regime complexity and EU relations with non-Member States. - IV. The five worlds of financial market regulation. - IV.1. Securities and assets law and regulation. - IV.2. Banking law and regulation. - IV.3. Financial reporting law and regulation. - IV.4. Company law and regulation. - IV.5. Insurance law and regulation. - V. Conclusions.
description: How does Brexit affect the manner in which the EU manages financial rules and regulations with the UK? How does it change the EU's need to rely on differentiated law internally to overcome intergovernmental conflict over the proposed legislation? This Article examines five different areas of financial market regulation and shows how significant differences between the UK and the rest of the EU, but often Germany, could only be combined in EU law by significant discretions in how national law applied to a common policy, and protections to keep those distinctions intact. A consequence of Brexit is that the EU need not rely on differentiated law as much as in the past. A risk to this convergence is the potential for the EU becoming a rule taker from the UK through regime complexity, which would allow the UK to de facto determine EU financial market law.
Quantum limit of heat flow across a single electronic channel
Creators: name: Jezouin, S.
name: Parmentier, F. D.
name: Anthore, A.
name: Gennser, U.
name: Cavanna, A.
name: Jin, Y.
name: Pierre, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum physics predicts that there is a fundamental maximum heat conductance across a single transport channel, and that this thermal conductance quantum $G_Q$ is universal, independent of the type of particles carrying the heat. Such universality, combined with the relationship between heat and information, signals a general limit on information transfer. We report on the quantitative measurement of the quantum limited heat flow for Fermi particles across a single electronic channel, using noise thermometry. The demonstrated agreement with the predicted $G_Q$ establishes experimentally this basic building block of quantum thermal transport. The achieved accuracy of below 10\% opens access to many experiments involving the quantum manipulation of heat.
description: manuscript (5 pages, 3 figures) and supplementary materials (8 pages, 9 figures, 1 table)
title: With or Without EU: Differentiated Integration and the Politics of Post-Brexit EU-UK Security Collaboration
Creators: name: Martill, Benjamin
name: Sus, Monika
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Brexit
subject: differentiated integration
subject: Ukraine War
subject: European security
subject: EU-UK relations
subject: United Kingdom

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(3), 1287-1302
description: I. Introduction. - II. Post-Brexit security and defence cooperation as differentiated disintegration - III. Theresa May and the proposed "security partnership". - IV. The trade and cooperation agreement and beyond. - V. The war in Ukraine: A game changer? - VI. Conclusion.
description: Research on differentiated integration has flourished in recent years, highlighting the political and efficiency gains to be had from selective participation and third country engagement in EU policy areas. Proposals for an EU-UK security and defence agreement represented a paradigmatic example of differentiated disintegration, for which both strategic and political prospects initially appeared positive, yet which ultimately foundered on the back of the EU's reluctance to create new third country models and subsequent political upheaval in the UK. This Article asks why these proposals failed and what this can tell us about the politics of differentiated (dis)integration, focusing on the referendum to the recent Ukraine crisis, and drawing on several elite interviews conducted with policymakers in London and Brussels. It shows that while the strategic benefits of differentiation increased following the Brexit vote, the growing concern in Brussels for the precedent set by Brexit, the collapse of issue-specific dynamics into a singular concern for UK "cherry picking", and the rightward shift in UK politics occasioned by the Brexit negotiations all undermined the prospects for a differentiated outcome in security and defence. The Ukraine crisis, while precipitating significant changes in many European states, had thus far failed to alter the new status quo locked in after Brexit.
Welcome to this Brave Bro’s World: the (Re)production of hegemonic masculinity in a Chinese manosphere
Creators: name: Sun, Luhang
name: Dai, Linjie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Building on a feminist critical discourse analysis, this study reveals the mechanism of the continuous reproduction of hegemonic masculinity in a Chinese manosphere, Hupu, the biggest sports fandom platform in China. As an ideological foundation on Hupu, hegemonic masculinity directs misogynistic practices (e.g. sexualization of women and misogynistic lexicon development) and shapes an imagined community of toxic brotherhood. In turn, the misogynistic practices and this community of brotherhood also reproduce hegemonic masculinity, ensuring a cycle of the maintenance of a toxic manosphere. We further consider the socio-political context in contemporary China to criticize how state power, platform affordances, and hegemonic masculinity are intertwined and jeopardize Chinese feminism both online and offline.
Carbon Nanotube Based Delay Model For High Speed Energy Efficient on Chip Data Transmission Using: Current Mode Technique
Creators: name: Jadav, Sunil
name: Vashistah, Munish
name: Chandel, Rajeevan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speed is a major concern for high density VLSI networks. In this paper the closed form delay model for current mode signalling in VLSI interconnects has been proposed with resistive load termination. RLC interconnect line is modelled using characteristic impedance of transmission line and inductive effect. The inductive effect is dominant at lower technology node is modelled into an equivalent resistance. In this model first order transfer function is designed using finite difference equation, and by applying the boundary conditions at the source and load termination. It has been observed that the dominant pole determines system response and delay in the proposed model. Using CNIA tool (carbon nanotube interconnect analyzer) the interconnect line parameters has been estimated at 45nm technology node. The novel proposed current mode model superiority has been validated for CNT type of material. It superiority factor remains to 66.66% as compared to voltage mode signalling. And current mode dissipates 0.015pJ energy where as VM consume 0.045pJ for a single bit transmission across the interconnect over CNT material. Secondly the damping factor of a lumped RLC circuit is shown to be a useful figure of merit.
description: 12 Figures, appears in Electrical and Electronics Engineering: An International Journal, November 2014
title: PESCO as a Game-Changer for Differentiated Integration in CSDP after Brexit
Creators: name: Cózar-Murillo, Beatriz
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: PESCO
subject: differentiated integration
subject: game-changer
subject: CSDP
subject: Brexit
subject: third States

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2022 7(3), 1303-1324
description: I. Introduction. - II. PESCO and differentiated integration in European Defence. - II.1. Approaching the definition of differentiated integration. - II.2. Pre-PESCO landscape. - II.3. Differentiated integration via PESCO. - III. The participation of third States. - IV. Strategic Review 2020. - V. Conclusions.
description: After decades of bi-national and multinational military programmes that arrived in dribs and drabs, and once the United Kingdom decided to withdraw from the EU, the launch and implementation of the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) in 2017 has emerged as a real game-changer. Thus, favouring differentiated integration in defence matters within the European Union after Brexit. This Article focuses on the analysis of both horizontal and vertical differentiated integration from an eminently practical point of view. All of this, aimed at illustrating the distinction between the pre-PESCO scenario and the current one with 60 projects underway within its framework. In this sense, the analysis makes it possible to distinguish a real group of frontrunners in the implementation of PESCO and the window of opportunity that opens up by allowing third states to participate in individual projects, with particular attention to the case of the United Kingdom.
Supplementary figures from Host behaviour alteration by its parasite: from brain gene expression to functional test
Creators: name: Grecias, Lucie
name: Francois Olivier Hebert
name: Verônica Angelica Alves
name: Barber, Iain
name: Aubin-Horth, Nadia
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Many parasites with complex life cycles modify their intermediate hosts' behaviour, presumably to increase transmission to their final host. The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is an intermediate host in the cestode Schistocephalus solidus life cycle, which ends in an avian host, and shows increased risky behaviours when infected. We studied brain gene expression profiles of sticklebacks infected with S. solidus to determine the proximal causes of these behavioural alterations. We show that infected fish have altered expression levels in genes involved in the inositol pathway. We thus tested the functional implication of this pathway and successfully rescued normal behaviours in infected sticklebacks using lithium exposure. We also show that exposed but uninfected fish have a distinct gene expression profile from both infected fish and control individuals, allowing us to separate gene activity related to parasite exposure from consequences of a successful infection. Finally, we find that Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor-treated sticklebacks and infected fish do not have similarly altered gene expression, despite their comparable behaviours, suggesting that the serotonin pathway is probably not the main driver of phenotypic changes in infected sticklebacks. Taken together, our results allow us to predict that if S. solidus directly manipulates its host, it could target the inositol pathway.
The impact of new regulations on water pricing in the agricultural sector: a case study from Northern Italy
Creators: name: Galioto, Francesco
name: Guerra, Elisa
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
name: Galioto, Francesco
name: Guerra, Elisa
name: Raggi, Meri
name: Viaggi, Davide
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: WFD
subject: water pricing
subject: irrigation
subject: mathematical programming

description: The present study intends to investigate the expected impact of changes in pricing policies applied to the use of water resources recently experienced in an agricultural area located in Northern Italy. The study begins introducing the pricing criterion adopted by a water authority in different region supplied by its irrigation network. This pricing criterion is, then, analysed in light of the new regional mandatory requirement on water pricing and modified accordingly. A methodology is developed to evaluate the expected impact of the new pricing policy on the amount of water applied, land allocation and irrigation technology adoption. The methodology follows a two-step approach. In a first step we estimate the yield response to decreased water uses for the main crops cultivated in the area and for different irrigation techniques. In a second step, the estimated production function is integrated into an economic optimisation model to calculate relevant impacts. The results highlight that the change in pricing criteria would not cause substantial variations in water uses. This is mainly due to inelastic demand for water in agriculture. However, the new pricing criteria incentivize the adoption of water saving technologies. The study concludes by addressing that attention should be paid to synergies of water pricing with co-financing subsidies on investments for further promoting the adoption of water saving technologies.
Household food insecurity and educational outcomes in school-going adolescents in Ghana
Creators: name: Chowa, Gina
name: Masa, Rainier
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Year: 2020

description: OBJECTIVES: We examined the association of household food insecurity with educational outcomes and explored the moderating effect of gender and school lunch programme. DESIGN: The study used a cross-sectional design. Data were collected in 2014 using interviewer-administered questionnaires and school administrative records. We measured household food insecurity using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale. Educational outcomes referred to knowledge, attitudes and skills that students are expected to obtain while attending school. We obtained sixteen different measures of educational outcomes, ranging from academic grades to beliefs and attitudes towards school and education. Data were analysed using multilevel modelling with covariates at the student and school levels. We conducted moderation tests by adding a two-way interaction between food insecurity and gender, and between food insecurity and school lunch programme. SETTING: The study was conducted in 100 schools located in fifty-four districts within Ghana's eight administrative regions in 2014. PARTICIPANTS: Participants included 2201 school-going adolescents aged 15-19 years. RESULTS: More than 60 % of adolescents were from food-insecure households. Household food insecurity was negatively associated with Math grade and school attendance. Food insecurity was also inversely associated with socio-emotional outcomes, including academic self-efficacy, commitment to school and academic aspirations and expectations. We did not find a moderating effect of gender and school lunch programme. CONCLUSIONS: Food insecurity is negatively associated with wide-ranging educational outcomes related to both learning and socio-emotional abilities. Our study supports prior evidence suggesting the importance of food access on both cognitive and non-cognitive educational outcomes.
Trends in land productivity from 1910 to 1961 in Korea; a case study on Juksan-myeon, Gimje-si
Creators: name: Cho, Seokgon
name: Cho, Seokgon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: land productivity in colonial Korea
subject: Land Reform
subject: colonial landlord system

description: This paper analyzes trends of land productivity from the early 1910s to the late 1950s in Korea. The land productivity increased rapidly during the colonial era especially in the lands owned by Japanese landlords, mainly because they had purchased cheaper lands with low productivity. Although the land productivity in Japanese-owned lands increased rapidly, it did not exceed that of Korean-owned lands. This was because the land productivity in Korean-owned lands increased as well. Moreover, after the Korean Land Reform, the land productivity in the late 1950s recovered or exceeded that of the late 1930s, even after the chaotic years of the Korean War. The implications of the results are as follows: first, while land productivity increased under the colonial landlord system, Korean landlords had also contributed to the increase as much as Japanese landlords. Secondly, the fact that the land productivity under the owner-peasant system was as good as the colonial landlord system shows that the agricultural skills embedded in petty peasants were important as good as the role of colonial landlords was.
Formation of quantum dots in the potential fluctuations of InGaAs heterostructures probed by scanning gate microscopy
Creators: name: Liu, P.
name: Martins, F.
name: Hackens, B.
name: Desplanque, L.
name: Wallart, X.
name: Pala, M. G.
name: Huant, S.
name: Bayot, V.
name: Sellier, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The disordered potential landscape in an InGaAs/InAlAs two-dimensional electron gas patterned into narrow wires is investigated by means of scanning gate microscopy. It is found that scanning a negatively charged tip above particular sites of the wires produces conductance oscillations that are periodic in the tip voltage. These oscillations take the shape of concentric circles whose number and diameter increase for more negative tip voltages until full depletion occurs in the probed region. These observations cannot be explained by charging events in material traps, but are consistent with Coulomb blockade in quantum dots forming when the potential fluctuations are raised locally at the Fermi level by the gating action of the tip. This interpretation is supported by simple electrostatic simulations in the case of a disorder potential induced by ionized dopants. This work represents a local investigation of the mechanisms responsible for the disorder-induced metal-to-insulator transition observed in macroscopic two-dimensional electron systems at low enough density.