cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reconstruction for Liquid Argon TPC Neutrino Detectors Using Parallel Architectures
Creators: name: Berkman, Sophie
name: Cerati, Giuseppe
name: Gravelle, Brian
name: Norris, Boyana
name: Hall, Allison Reinsvold
name: Wang, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrinos are particles that interact rarely, so identifying them requires large detectors which produce lots of data. Processing this data with the computing power available is becoming more difficult as the detectors increase in size to reach their physics goals. In liquid argon time projection chambers (TPCs) the charged particles from neutrino interactions produce ionization electrons which drift in an electric field towards a series of collection wires, and the signal on the wires is used to reconstruct the interaction. The MicroBooNE detector currently collecting data at Fermilab has 8000 wires, and planned future experiments like DUNE will have 100 times more, which means that the time required to reconstruct an event will scale accordingly. Modernization of liquid argon TPC reconstruction code, including vectorization, parallelization and code portability to GPUs, will help to mitigate these challenges. The liquid argon TPC hit finding algorithm within the \texttt{LArSoft}\xspace framework used across multiple experiments has been vectorized and parallelized. This increases the speed of the algorithm on the order of ten times within a standalone version on Intel architectures. This new version has been incorporated back into \texttt{LArSoft}\xspace so that it can be generally used. These methods will also be applied to other low-level reconstruction algorithms of the wire signals such as the deconvolution. The applications and performance of this modernized liquid argon TPC wire reconstruction will be presented.
Is the Banning of Importation of Second-Hand Clothes and Shoes a Panacea to Industrialization in East Africa?
Creators: name: Kagome Wetengere, Kitojo
name: Kagome Wetengere, Kitojo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Ban
subject: second-hand clothes and shoes
subject: industrialization
subject: conductive environment

description: The objective of this study was to investigate if the banning of importation of second-hand clothes and shoes is a panacea to industrialization in East Africa. Qualitative and quantitative secondary data were employed to validate the research objectives. The study found that most people used second-hand clothes and shoes bacause they were cheaper, good quality and fashionable. Likewise, the trade of second-hand clothes and shoes created employment, generated revenue and filled the gap during shortage. Nevertheless, the second-hand clothes and shoes trade contributed to the collapse and hamper the current initiative to revive the textiles and leather industries. Similarly, the trade has been associated with some skin diseases, had negative impact on self-esteem of the consumers and conflicted with some African values and traditions. Besides, there were some socio-economic and technical factors, influx of clothes and shoes from Asia as well as un-competitive local environment which contributed to the collapse of the former industries. In view of the above, the following were recommended: First, the phase-out of second-hand clothes and shoes should be gradual and implemented over a longer period of time (5-10 years) to lessen the impact of the ban on the lives of the consumers and traders. Second, the governments should put in place effective policies to control unfair competition of Asian products. Finally, the governments should rectify all factors that led to the collapse of the former industries and put in place a conducive business and investment environment necessary for the growth of the new industries.
Lifetime of a quasiparticle in an electron liquid
Creators: name: Qian, Zhixin
name: Vignale, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the inelastic lifetime of an electron quasiparticle due to Coulomb interactions in an electron liquid at low (or zero) temperature in two and three spatial dimensions. The contribution of "exchange" processes is calculated analytically and is shown to be non-negligible even in the high-density limit in two dimensions. Exchange effects must therefore be taken into account in a quantitive comparison between theory and experiment. The derivation in the two-dimensional case is presented in detail in order to clarify the origin of the disagreements that exist among the results of previous calculations, even the ones that only took into account "direct" processes.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Gymnothorax vicinus
Creators: name: Smith-Vaniz, William F.
name: Jelks, Howard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Muraenidae
Gymnothorax
Gymnothorax vicinus

description: Gymnothorax vicinus (Castelnau 1855) — Purplemouth Moray
Justification: UF (BIRNM, 23); REEF (6/15).
 Distribution: Böhlke et al. (1989): WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA), Ascension, EA.
description: Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823
Domestic Resource Mobilization and Long Term Economic Growth in Tanzania
Creators: name: Cyril, Chimilila
name: Cyril, Chimilila
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Domestic resource mobilization
subject: long term growth
subject: ARDL model
subject: Tanzania

description: The objective of this paper is to examine the long term effects of domestic resource mobilization (DRM) on economic growth. This study used macroeconomic data for a period of 20 years spanning 1996 to 2015. By estimating the Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, Error Correction Model (ECM) and Impulse Response Functions (IRF), the study found that DRM has significant positive long term effect on economic growth suggesting that increased DRM enhances government ability to finance its budget for an enhanced growth. Although the short run effect is negative and statistically significant which indicate distortionary effects of taxes in the short run. Distortionary effects are in one way a result of a tax system that targets few easy to tax individuals and corporations due to a large informal sector. This study recommends enhancement of DRM through expansion of the tax base, tapping more non-tax revenue, and effectiveness in public spending.
GOTPM: A Parallel Hybrid Particle-Mesh Treecode
Creators: name: Dubinski, John
name: Kim, Juhan
name: Park, Changbom
name: Humble, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a parallel, cosmological N-body code based on a hybrid scheme using the particle-mesh (PM) and Barnes-Hut (BH) oct-tree algorithm. We call the algorithm GOTPM for Grid-of-Oct-Trees-Particle-Mesh. The code is parallelized using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library and is optimized to run on Beowulf clusters as well as symmetric multi-processors. The gravitational potential is determined on a mesh using a standard PM method with particle forces determined through interpolation. The softened PM force is corrected for short range interactions using a grid of localized BH trees throughout the entire simulation volume in a completely analogous way to P$^3$M methods. This method makes no assumptions about the local density for short range force corrections and so is consistent with the results of the P$^3$M method in the limit that the treecode opening angle parameter, $θ\to 0$. (abridged)
description: 24 pages, 9 figures, submitted to New Astronomy, check out http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/gotpm for more info plus an animation
EFFECTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT GROUP DESIRE FOR CHANGE ON MEMBERS OF A GROUP
Creators: name: Lippitt, Gordon L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-10, page: 4200.
Renormalization Scale Setting for Heavy Quark Pair Production in $e^+e^-$ Annihilation near the Threshold Region
Creators: name: Wang, Sheng-Quan
name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
name: Di Giustino, Leonardo
name: Shen, Jian-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavy fermion pair production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation is a fundamental process in hadron physics and is of considerable interest for various phenomena. In this paper, we will apply the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) to provide a comprehensive analysis of these processes. The PMC provides a systematic, unambiguous method for determining the renormalization scales of the QCD coupling constant for single-scale and multiple-scale applications. The resulting predictions eliminate any renormalization scheme-and-scale ambiguities, eliminate the factorial renormalon divergences, and are consistent with the requirements of the renormalization group. It is remarkable that two distinctly different scales are determined by using the PMC for heavy fermion pair production near the threshold region. One scale is the order of the fermion mass $m_f$, which enters the hard virtual corrections, and the other scale is of order $ v\,m_f$, where $v$ is the quark velocity, which enters the Coulomb rescattering amplitude. The PMC scales yield the correct physical behavior and reflect the virtuality of the propagating gluons (photons) for the QCD (QED) processes. Moreover, we demonstrate the consistency of PMC scale setting from QCD to QED. Perfect agreement between the Abelian unambiguous Gell-Mann-Low and the PMC scale-setting methods in the limit of zero number of colors is demonstrated.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, published version
Marketing Mechanism for Selling Products And Services In Indian Rural Markets
Creators: name: Kamal, Yusuf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: 150302 Business Information Systems
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150499 Commercial Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150501 Consumer-Oriented Product or Service Development
subject: 150303 Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement
subject: 150308 International Business
subject: 150205 Investment and Risk Management
subject: 150309 Logistics and Supply Chain Management
subject: 150105 Management Accounting
subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: 150504 Marketing Measurement
subject: 150505 Marketing Research Methodology
subject: 150506 Marketing Theory
subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified

description: Agricultural commodities are gaining a higheracceptance in terms of higher prices and thusenabling the rural population to earn a higherincome, this rises great scope for advanced andbreathless efforts to be displayed by the marketers. InIndia especially rural marketing is gaining more andmore importance day by day as reforms inagricultural sectors have highlighted the availabilityof huge untapped potential, which attracts marketersfrom India as well as MNCs in India selling theirproducts and services in urban areas. This has alsobeen supported by the infrastructure to go rural andmarket. Any strategy among the business levelstrategies would focus on accessibility, affordabilityand availability. There is a need to be more attentiveso that the uncertainty reduction in management ofthis market place can be achieved with the marketresearch. Moreover it has been observed that theprice elasticity in such markets is highly dominatingother elastics. Hence there is no second thought thatthe division is visible between rural Indian marketand urban Indian market. This article tries toexamine differential suitable strategies and theirscope for rural marketing and to highlight the issuesand challenges with the current and commonly usedgeneric strategies in rural marketing.
Multiple filamentation induced by input-beam ellipticity
Creators: name: Dubietis, Audrius
name: Tamousauskas, Gintaras
name: Fibich, Gadi
name: Ilan, Boaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard explanation for multiple filamentation (MF) of intense laser beams has been that it is initiated by input beam noise (modulational instability). In this study we provide the first experimental evidence that MF can also be induced by input beam ellipticity. Unlike noise-induced beam breakup, the MF pattern induced by ellipticity is reproducible shot to shot. Moreover, our experiments show that ellipticity can dominate the effect of noise, thus providing the first experimental methodology for controlling the MF pattern of noisy beams. The results are explained using a theoretical model and simulations.
Monopenchelys acuta
Creators: name: Smith-Vaniz, William F.
name: Jelks, Howard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Muraenidae
Monopenchelys
Monopenchelys acuta

description: * Monopenchelys acuta (Parr 1930) — Redface Moray
Justification: UF 164649 (1, 102 mm TL), BIRNM.
 Distribution: Böhlke et al. (1989): WA (BA, GA, LA, WC, nSA), Ascension, IWP.
description: Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823
Dufourea viridis Timberlake 1941
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Dufourea viridis Timberlake, 1941
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Riverside, California, USA; March 27, 1939]
This species occurs in California, USA and BC, Mexico. It was first recorded by Cockerell (1941) in the Coastal Sage Matorral at Santo Tomas in March 1941. See fig. 191.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
An Information-Based Model of Foreign Direct Investment: The Gains form Trade Revisited
Creators: name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Yuen, Chi-Wa
name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Yuen, Chi-Wa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade

description: Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to emerging economies, especially when they are liquidity-constrained internationally during a global financial crisis. The financial aspects of FDI are the focus of the paper. We analyze the problem of channeling domestic savings into productive investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and the other portfolio stakeholders. We explore the role played by FDI in reviving equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by such information problems. In the presence of information asymmetry, the paper identifies how, however, FDI gives rise to foreign overinvestment as well as domestic undersaving. We re-examine the gains from trade argument (applied to intertemporal trade) in this case of informational-asymmetry driven FDI. We show that the gains could be sizable when the domestic credit market is either underdeveloped or failing as a result of a financial crisis. But with well-functioning domestic credit market, the gains turn into losses. Surprisingly, capital may flow into the country even though the autarkic marginal productivity of capital in the domestic economy falls short of the world rate of interest. In such a situation, capital should have efficiently flown out rather than in, and FDI is a loss-generating phenomenon.
Hexanchus nakamurai Teng 1962
Creators: name: Smith-Vaniz, William F.
name: Jelks, Howard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Hexanchiformes
Hexanchidae
Hexanchus
Hexanchus nakamurai

description: Hexanchus nakamurai Teng 1962 — Bigeye Sixgill Shark
 Justification: Listed as Hexanchus griseus (junior synonym of H. nakamurai according to Eschmeyer, 2013), and as "occasional" by Clavijo et al. (1980:4).
Distribution: WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, WC, nSA), EA, IWP.
Remarks: This shark occurs as deep as 600 m but may occasionally come to the surface at night in the tropics (Compagno, 1984a) and has been taken in the Florida Keys in 129– 139 m.
 DASYATIDAE —whiptail stingrays (1 species)
description: Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823
„Tanj’Afrique“ Transregionale Verflechtungen einer boomenden Metropole
Creators: name: Wippel, Steffen
Publisher: name: Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies
Year: 2021

description: Der Beitrag untersucht die Verbindungen der nordmarokkanischen Metropole Tanger mit dem subsaharischen Afrika. In den letzten anderthalb Jahrzehnten erlebte die Stadt einen deutlichen Entwicklungsschub, der sich unter anderem in der Etablierung eines Welthafens für den Containerverkehr niederschlug. Zeitgleich forcierte die marokkanische Regierung den Austausch mit Ländern südlich der Sahara, vor allem auf wirtschaftlichem Gebiet. Tanger wurde zu einem wichtigen Umschlaghafen für maritime Handelsströme ins westliche und zentrale Afrika und zog internationale Unternehmen an, die auch afrikanische Märkte bedienen. Zunehmend wird die 2006 eröffnete Tanger-Dakar-Straße für den Handel genutzt, während die Tanger-Halbinsel sich zu einem Knotenpunkt transsaharischer Migration entwickelte. Vermarktungsbemühungen positionieren die Stadt strategisch an der Schnittstelle zwischen Europa und Afrika. Der Beitrag nimmt damit eine lokale Perspektive auf regionale Verflechtungen ein, die sonst zumeist auf nationaler Ebene betrachtet werden; zugleich rückt er transregionale Austauschbeziehungen in den Mittelpunkt, die angesichts vorherrschender Abgrenzungen von Weltregionen lange Zeit vernachlässigt wurden. Aufgrund der immer dichteren Kontakte lässt sich von einem Verflechtungsraum „Tanj’Afrique“ sprechen; konzeptionell erlaubt die Bezeichnung – angelehnt an ähnliche Wortkombinationen – ebenso ungleichgewichtige Süd-Süd-Verhältnisse herauszuarbeiten.
Micralictoides ruficaudus
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Micralictoides ruficaudus (Michener, 1937) **
[Holotype: CASC; Altadena, California, USA: April 18, 1935]
Micralictoides ruficaudus represents a new species and genus record for Mexico and the BCP. This species specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Eschscholzia Cham. Bohart and Griswold (1987). The BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in March 2022 (1 ♂) and April 2023 (1 ♀; MABC). See fig. 192.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Interplay of Magnetism and Topological Superconductivity in Bilayer Kagome Metals
Creators: name: Baidya, Santu
name: Mallik, Aabhaas Vineet
name: Bhattacharjee, Subhro
name: Saha-Dasgupta, Tanusri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The binary intermetallic materials, $M_3$Sn$_2$ ($M$ = 3d transition metal) present a new class of strongly correlated systems that naturally allows for the interplay of magnetism and metallicity. Using first principles calculations we confirm that bulk Fe$_3$Sn$_2$ is a ferromagnetic metal, and show that $M$ = Ni and Cu are paramagnetic metals with non-trivial band structures. Focusing on Fe$_3$Sn$_2$ to understand the effect of enhanced correlations in an experimentally relevant atomistically thin single kagome-bilayer, our ab-initio results show that dimensional confinement naturally exposes the flatness of band structure associated with the bilayer kagome geometry in a resultant ferromagnetic Chern metal. We use a multistage minimal modeling of the magnetic bands progressively closer to the Fermi energy. This effectively captures the physics of the Chern metal with a non-zero anomalous Hall response over a material relevant parameter regime along with a possible superconducting instability of the spin-polarised band resulting in a topological superconductor.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables
Improving Snack Program In SandPiper Childcare Centre In Vancouver
Creators: name: Huang, Paige
name: Shu, Zowie
name: Yu, Stephanie
name: Ye, Zilu
name: Zhu, Puchen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The aim of this case study is to improve the current snack program in Sandpiper Child Care Services Centre in order to provide nutritionally adequate snacks to the children. The study follows the five-step nutrition care process (NCP), and dietary and ecological assessment are chosen as our areas of focus. Snack calendars provided by the childcare center are analyzed for the nutrition and energy content of each snack item, and surveys are conducted with the staff about their nutritional education background. From the assessment, we discovered the limited incorporation of all four food groups in snack preparation as well as a lack of awareness of healthy snack preparation amongst the child care staffs. From the assessment and the analysis of the results, a PES statement is developed: Imbalanced macronutrient intake related to childcare staffs’ lack of nutritional knowledge evidenced by low awareness of balanced diet in staff reported in surveying and lack of variety in food group selections in snack preparation. In order to improve the current situation, short-term and long-term intervention plans are proposed. Regarding short-term, alternative recipes with nutrient dense snacks are provided. On the other hand, for long-term, nutrition workshops for the staff every 6 months are suggested to refresh their nutritional knowledge. The goal of the interventions would be to improve staff’s nutrition knowledge and promote healthy eating habits in the children at the childcare. The same questionnaire used in assessment will be redistributed to staffs after interventions for monitoring purposes. Even though there are limitations in the case study, such as the limited representation of children’s dietary habits due to restricted observation opportunities, this study hopes to increase the awareness of providing nutritious food in childcare centres of the general public especially the childcare centres’ stakeholders, which are the parents and child care staffs. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Probing the Seesaw Mechanism with Cosmological Data
Creators: name: Rodrigues, J. G.
name: Benetti, Micol
name: Campista, Marcela
name: Alcaniz, Jailson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate cosmological consequences of an inflationary model which incorporates a generic seesaw extension (types I and II) of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A non-minimal coupling between the inflaton field and the Ricci scalar is considered as well as radiative corrections at one loop order. This connection between the inflationary dynamics with neutrino physics results in a predictive model whose observational viability is investigated in light of the current cosmic microwave background data, baryon acoustic oscillation observations and type Ia supernovae measurements. Our results show that the non-minimal coupled seesaw potential provides a good description of the observational data when radiative corrections are positive. Such result favours the type II seesaw mechanism over type I and may be an indication for physics beyond the Standard Model.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures. References added, typos corrected. Matches version published in JCAP
Possibility of a dynamical Higgs mechanism and of the respective phase transition induced by a boundary
Creators: name: Sissakian, A. N.
name: Shevchenko, O. Yu.
name: Samoilov, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamical quantum effects arising due to the boundary presence with two types of boundary conditions (BC) satisfied by scalar fields are studied. It is shown that while the Neumann BC lead to the usual scalar field mass generation, the Dirichlet BC give rise to the dynamical mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking. Due to the later, there arises the possibility of the respective phase transition from the normal phase to the spontaneously broken one. In particular, at the critical value of the combined evolution parameter the usual massless scalar QED transforms to the Higgs model.
Coordination without communication: optimal regret in two players multi-armed bandits
Creators: name: Bubeck, Sébastien
name: Budzinski, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider two agents playing simultaneously the same stochastic three-armed bandit problem. The two agents are cooperating but they cannot communicate. We propose a strategy with no collisions at all between the players (with very high probability), and with near-optimal regret $O(\sqrt{T \log(T)})$. We also argue that the extra logarithmic term $\sqrt{\log(T)}$ should be necessary by proving a lower bound for a full information variant of the problem.
description: 28 pages, 5 figures. V2: minor revision
Aspects and consequences of a dressed-quark-gluon vertex
Creators: name: Bhagwat, M. S.
name: Hoell, A.
name: Krassnigg, A.
name: Roberts, C. D.
name: Tandy, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Features of the dressed-quark-gluon vertex and their role in the gap and Bethe-Salpeter equations are explored. It is argued that quenched lattice data indicate the existence of net attraction in the colour-octet projection of the quark-antiquark scattering kernel. This attraction affects the uniformity with which solutions of truncated equations converge pointwise to solutions of the complete gap and vertex equations. For current-quark masses less than the scale set by dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, the dependence of the dressed-quark-gluon vertex on the current-quark mass is weak. The study employs a vertex model whose diagrammatic content is explicitly enumerable. That enables the systematic construction of a vertex-consistent Bethe-Salpeter kernel and thereby an exploration of the consequences for the strong interaction spectrum of attraction in the colour-octet channel. With rising current-quark mass the rainbow-ladder truncation is shown to provide an increasingly accurate estimate of a bound state's mass. Moreover, the calculated splitting between vector and pseudoscalar meson masses vanishes as the current-quark mass increases, which argues for the mass of the pseudoscalar partner of the Υ(1S) to be above 9.4 GeV. The absence of colour-antitriplet diquarks from the strong interaction spectrum is contingent upon the net amount of attraction in the octet projected quark-antiquark scattering kernel. There is a window within which diquarks appear. The amount of attraction suggested by lattice results is outside this domain.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures
Parton showers beyond leading logarithmic accuracy
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Mrinal
name: Dreyer, Frédéric A.
name: Hamilton, Keith
name: Monni, Pier Francesco
name: Salam, Gavin P.
name: Soyez, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parton showers are among the most widely used tools in collider physics. Despite their key importance, none so far has been able to demonstrate accuracy beyond a basic level known as leading logarithmic (LL) order, with ensuing limitations across a broad spectrum of physics applications. In this letter, we propose criteria for showers to be considered next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accurate. We then introduce new classes of shower, for final-state radiation, that satisfy the main elements of these criteria in the widely used large-$N_C$ limit. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate these showers' agreement with all-order analytical NLL calculations for a range of observables, something never so far achieved for any parton shower.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, plus supplemental material; v2 brings extra references and clarifications, as accepted by Physical Review Letters
Unskilled Migration: A Burden or a Boon for the Welfare State
Creators: name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
name: Razin, Assaf
name: Sadka, Efraim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Low Skilled Migrants
subject: Pay-As-You-Go Pension
subject: Heterogeneous Population
subject: Overlapping Generations
subject: Migration Quotas

description: Being relatively low earners, migrants are net beneficiaries of the welfare state. Therefore, in a static setup migration may be resisted by the entire native-born population. However, it is shown that in a dynamic setup with a pension system which is an important pillar of any welfare state, migration is,beneficial to all income (high and low) and age (old and young) groups when the economy has a good access to international capital markets. The pro-migration feature of the dynamic model is weakened and possibly overturned when the economy does not have good access to the world capital markets. In this case, to the extent that factor prices are significantly affected by migration because of low substitution between labor and capital, low-skill native born and possibly also high-skill native born may lose.
Enchelycore nigricans
Creators: name: Smith-Vaniz, William F.
name: Jelks, Howard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Anguilliformes
Muraenidae
Enchelycore
Enchelycore nigricans

description: Enchelycore nigricans (Bonnaterre 1788) — Viper Moray
Justification: UF (BIRNM, 36).
 Distribution: Böhlke et al. (1989): WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA), Ascension, EA.
description: Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823
Telling the tale of the first stars
Creators: name: Beers, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HE 0107-5240 is a star in more than once sense of the word. Chemically, it is the most primitive object yet discovered, and it is at the centre of debate about the origins of the first elements in the Universe.
description: 3 pages, 0 figures, published in Nature "News and Views," Apr. 24, 2003
A Framework for Online Support of Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Research
Creators: name: R.M. Van (Rianne) Lambalgen
Publisher: name: Utrecht University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: The poster presents a framework for blended support for students to perform interdisciplinary research in teams. Important touchpoints are included for online and offline activities to facilitate the interdisciplinary research process, as identified by students and supervisors at the bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University. In addition, a model is proposed on how to provide online support to allow for undergraduate students from different backgrounds to collaborate on interdisciplinary research projects.
Immigration, Search and Loss of Skill
Creators: name: Weiss, Yoram
name: Sauer, Robert M.
name: Gotlibovski, Menachem
name: Weiss, Yoram
name: Sauer, Robert M.
name: Gotlibovski, Menachem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper analyzes the process of entry into the Israeli labor market among a panel of highly skilled immigrants who moved from the former USSR to Israel. We estimate a nonstationary, finite horizon search model with exogenous wage growth that is capable of capturing the main features of this process; a speedy entry into the labor force, an initial phase of work at low skill occupations, a gradual occupational upgrading and a sharp increase in wages. The estimated parameters of the model, together with information on the wages of immigrants from earlier waves, allow us to predict an occupational path and associated wages, for each new immigrant, from the time of arrival until retirement. We compare predicted lifetime earnings at the time of arrival to the hypothetical lifetime earnings immigrants would have received had their imported observable skills been valued in the same way as comparable Israelis. We estimate that, on the average, immigrants can expect lifetime earnings to fall short of the lifetime earnings of comparable Israelis by 42.6 percent. Of this figure, 8.3 percentage points reflect frictions associated with unemployment and occupational mismatch and 34.3 percentage points reflect the gradual adaptation of imported schooling and experience to the local labor market.
Comment on "Quantum entropy and special relativity" [by A. Peres, P. F. Scudo, and D. R. Terno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 230402 (2002)]
Creators: name: Czachor, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two subtleties of this paper are discussed.
description: version probably to appear in Phys. Rev. Letters
The Integration of Immigrants for the Former Soviet Union in the Israeli Labor Market
Creators: name: Eckstein, Zvi
name: Weiss, Yoram
name: Eckstein, Zvi
name: Weiss, Yoram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital

description: This paper analyzes the recent mass immigration from the USSR to Israel. We examine three interrelated features of the assimilation process; the rise in the productive capacity of immigrants as they gradually adapt to the Israeli labor market, the rising rewards that immigrants receive for their imported skills and the role of the family in facilitating the acquisition of local skills. We estimate wage regressions to capture the growth in wages with time spent in Israel, for immigrants with different skills. We use these estimates for quality adjustment of aggregate labor and show that the aggregate capital labor ratio remained almost constant during the period of mass immigration. This explains the stable average wage of native Israelis combined with rising wages of immigrants. We find a large marriage premium for immigrants, in contrast to the small and insignificant marriage premium among native Israelis. We interpret this difference in differences as evidence for stronger within family coordination of work activities among immigrants.
SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS OF WOMEN UNDER SOCIAL SECURITY
Creators: name: Polinsky, Ella Joan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-07, page: 2609.
AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE VARIOUS HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION CURRICULA IN SELECTED LAND-GRANT COLLEGES OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC REGION
Creators: name: Spencer, Mabel Sidell
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-10, page: 4045.
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONFUSION IN SEX-ROLE IDENTIFICATION AND SOCIAL MALADJUSTMENT IN CHILDHOOD
Creators: name: Spock, Anne Ingersoll
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-07, page: 2893.
Different kinds of long-term variability from Cygnus X-1
Creators: name: Benlloch, S.
name: Pottschmidt, K.
name: Wilms, J.
name: Nowak, M. A.
name: Gleissner, T.
name: Pooley, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the long-term variability of Cyg X-1 using data from the RXTE/ASM and the RXTE/PCA during the time between the two soft states of 1996 and 2001/2002. This period has been characterized by many short ASM flaring episodes which we have identified as "failed state transitions". The 150 d period which has been seen before and shortly after the 1996 soft state is not obviously present in the ASM rate during most of this time. Applying selection criteria from our pointed RXTE/PCA observations to exclude the flaring episodes we show that the 150 d period can indeed still be significantly detected in the hard state. Furthermore, while the ~420 d timescale associated with the flaring is reduced in the selected hard state count rate, it is still pronounced in the temporal evolution of the corresponding hardness ratios. The Ryle radio flux is also consistent with the 150 d period being present but distorted during this time.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Proceedings of "X-ray Timing 2003: Rossi and Beyond", ed. P. Kaaret, F.K. Lamb, & J.H. Swank
A STUDY OF THE FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON ITS MAJOR BUDGETARY AND PLANNING ASPECTS
Creators: name: Kurylo, Walter
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-07, page: 2880.
Accountability, Credibility, Transparency and Stabilization Policy in the Eurosystem
Creators: name: Cukierman, Alex
name: Cukierman, Alex
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper surveys and evaluates alternative views regarding the desirable combination of accountability, credibility and transparency in the newly created ECB, including recent controversies regarding publication of minutes, Council member votes and ECB forecasts. The paper shows that premature publication of central bank forecasts reduces the ability of the bank to engage in stabilization policy while maintaining inflation reasonably close to its inflation objective. This is demonstrated for an economy in which the transmission mechanism is characterized by a conventional, expectations' augmented Phillips relation. When the transmission mechanism operates via a Keynesian real interest rate channel (of the type used in a number of econometric models, and compactly summarized in Svensson (1997a)) premature publication of forecasts does not affect expected social welfare provided only price stability and stabilization policy matter. But when (due, possibly, to detrimental effects of interest rate variability on financial stability) social welfare is also negatively related to interest rate variability, premature publication of forecasts, again, reduces expected social welfare.
UNITED NATIONS PARTICIPATION IN KOREAN AFFAIRS: 1945-1954
Creators: name: Yoon, Young Kyo
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-07, page: 2880.
La responsabilità medica: l’efficacia dei recenti interventi normativi, ed orientamenti giurisprudenziali, per l’attenuazione delle responsabilità penali, civili ed erariali
Creators: name: Bottino, Gabriele
name: Padrin, Chiara
name: Poli, Pier Francesco
Publisher: name: CERIDAP
Year: 2022

CERIDAP, 1 (2022)
ERROR AND NON-ERROR MODELS IN BIO-ASSAY
Creators: name: Patwary, Kamini Mohan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-12, page: 4550.
ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS: A MEASUREMENT OF PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS FOR AMERICAN MANUFACTURING IN 1949-1955 AND AN APPRAISAL OF THE COBB-DOUGLAS METHODOLOGY
Creators: name: Tachino, Tadami
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 20-11, page: 4306.
Unifying continuous, discrete, and hybrid susceptible-infected-recovered processes on networks
Creators: name: Böttcher, Lucas
name: Antulov-Fantulin, Nino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Waiting times between two consecutive infection and recovery events in spreading processes are often assumed to be exponentially distributed, which results in Markovian (i.e., memoryless) continuous spreading dynamics. However, this is not taking into account memory (correlation) effects and discrete interactions that have been identified as relevant in social, transportation, and disease dynamics. We introduce a framework to model continuous, discrete, and hybrid forms of (non-)Markovian susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) stochastic processes on networks. The hybrid SIR processes that we study in this paper describe infections as discrete-time Markovian and recovery events as continuous-time non-Markovian processes, which mimic the distribution of cell cycles. Our results suggest that the effective-infection-rate description of epidemic processes fails to uniquely capture the behavior of such hybrid and also general non-Markovian disease dynamics. Providing a unifying description of general Markovian and non-Markovian disease outbreaks, we instead show that the mean transmissibility produces the same phase diagrams independent of the underlying inter-event-time distributions.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Observing Strategy for the Legacy Surveys
Creators: name: Burleigh, Kaylan J.
name: Landriau, Martin
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Lang, Dustin
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Nugent, Peter E.
name: Blum, Robert
name: Findlay, Joseph R.
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
name: Herrera, David
name: Honscheid, Klaus
name: Juneau, Stéphanie
name: McGreer, Ian
name: Meisner, Aaron M.
name: Moustakas, John
name: Myers, Adam D.
name: Patej, Anna
name: Schlafly, Edward F.
name: Valdes, Francisco
name: Walker, Alistair R.
name: Weaver, Benjamin A.
name: Yèche, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Legacy Surveys, a combination of three ground-based imaging surveys, have mapped 16,000 deg$^2$ in three optical bands ($g$, $r$, and $z$) to a depth 1--$2$~mag deeper than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our work addresses one of the major challenges of wide-field imaging surveys conducted at ground-based observatories: the varying depth that results from varying observing conditions at Earth-bound sites. To mitigate these effects, two of the Legacy Surveys (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, or DECaLS; and the Mayall $z$-band Legacy Survey, or MzLS) employed a unique strategy to dynamically adjust the exposure times as rapidly as possible in response to the changing observing conditions. We present the tiling and observing strategies used by these surveys. We demonstrate that the tiling and dynamic observing strategies jointly result in a more uniform-depth survey that has higher efficiency for a given total observing time compared with the traditional approach of using fixed exposure times.
description: v1: 14 pages, 3 tables and 5 figures; v2: 15 pages, 3 tables and 6 figures. Changes in response to referee comments; matches published version