cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DETERMINANTS OF PART-TIME FARMING AND ITS EFFECT ON FARM PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY
Creators: name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
name: Kumbhakar, Subal C.
name: Hardaker, J. Brian
name: Lien, Gudbrand D.
name: Kumbhakar, Subal C.
name: Hardaker, J. Brian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: off-farm work
subject: productivity
subject: efficiency
subject: unobserved heterogeneity
subject: panel data

description: Little attention has been given in the agricultural economics literature to the impact of off-farm work on farm productivity and efficiency. More knowledge about what determines part-time farming and whether farm productivity and efficiency are affected by part-time farming could help policy makers introduce better targeted rural development policies. This paper aims to fill the above-mentioned gaps by first analysing factors that influence the choice of off-farm work; and then examining how off-farm work influences productivity and technical efficiency at the farm level. An unbalanced panel data set from 1991 to 2005 from Norwegian grain farms is used for this purpose. The results show that the likelihood of off-farm work and the share of time allocated to it increase with increasing age (up to 39 years), and with low relative yields (compared to others farms in the surrounding area/region). The level of support payments is not significantly associated with the extent of off-farm work. Large-scale farms and single farmers tend to have a lower likelihood of off-farm work. Average technical efficiency was found to be 79%. Farmers with low variability in farm revenue were found to be more technically efficient than farmers with high revenue variability. We did not find any evidence of off-farm work share affecting farm productivity − the predicted off-farm work share was not statistically significant. In other words, we did not find any systematic difference in farm productivity and technical efficiency between part-time and full-time farmers.
Cosmic infrared background and early stellar populations
Creators: name: Kashlinsky, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic infrared background (CIB) contains information about galaxy luminosities over the entire history of the Universe and can be a powerful diagnostic of the early populations otherwise inaccessible to telescopic studies. Its measurements are very difficult because of the strong IR foregrounds from the Solar system and the Galaxy. Nevertheless, substantial recent progress in measuring the CIB and its structure has been made. The measurements now allow to set significant constraints on early galaxy evolution and, perhaps, even detect the elusive Population III era. We discuss briefly the theory behind the CIB, review the latest measurements of the CIB and its structure, and discuss their implications for detecting and/or constraining the first stars and their epochs.
description: Invited review to appear in proceedings of Irvine workshop "First light and reionization", eds. E. Barton & A. Cooray. New Astronomy Reviews, in press
Much Ado About Nothing
Creators: name: Balasubramanian, Vijay
name: Larjo, Klaus
name: Simon, Joan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the semiclassical decay of a class of orbifolds of AdS space via a bubble of nothing. The bounce is the small Euclidean AdS-Schwarzschild solution. The negative cosmological constant introduces subtle features in the conservation of energy during the decay. A near-horizon limit of D3-branes in the Milne orbifold spacetime gives rise to our false vacuum. Conversely, a focusing limit in the latter produces flat space compactified on a circle. The dual field theory description involves a novel analytic continuation of the thermal partition function of Yang-Mills theory on a three-sphere times a circle.
description: LaTeX, 26 pages, 3 eps figures
Integrating Commodity and Conservation Programs: Design Options and Outcomes
Creators: name: Claassen, Roger
name: Aillery, Marcel P.
name: Nickerson, Cynthia J.
name: Claassen, Roger
name: Aillery, Marcel P.
name: Nickerson, Cynthia J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: conservation
subject: commodity programs
subject: income support

description: Can a single program support farm income and encourage producers to adopt environmentally sound farming practices? While simple in concept, attempting to roll the farm income support features of existing commodity programs and conservation payments into a single program raises questions. Exactly how would farm commodity and conservation payments be combined? What difference would it make for environmental gain and farm income support? This report approaches the questions in two ways. First, spending patterns in existing commodity and conservation programs are analyzed to determine the extent to which producers who are currently receiving commodity payments also receive conservation payments. Then, a number of hypothetical program scenarios are devised and analyzed to estimate how emphasis on current income support recipients would differ from a combined program that focuses on achieving cost-effective environmental gain. The results show that policymakers face significant tradeoffs between environmental conservation) objectives and farm income support objectives in designing a program that provides both income support and environmental gain.
Profits, Costs, and the Changing Structure of Dairy Farming
Creators: name: MacDonald, James M.
name: O'Donoghue, Erik J.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Nehring, Richard F.
name: Sandretto, Carmen L.
name: Mosheim, Roberto
name: MacDonald, James M.
name: O'Donoghue, Erik J.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Nehring, Richard F.
name: Sandretto, Carmen L.
name: Mosheim, Roberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Dairy farming
subject: economies of scale
subject: economies of size
subject: dairy farm structure
subject: milk costs

description: U.S. dairy production is consolidating into fewer but larger farms. This report uses data from several USDA surveys to detail that consolidation and to analyze the financial drivers of consolidation. Specifically, larger farms realize lower production costs. Although small dairy farms realize higher revenue per hundredweight of milk sold, the cost advantages of larger size allow large farms to be profitable, on average, even while most small farms are unable to earn enough to replace their capital. Further survey evidence, as well as the financial data, suggest that consolidation is likely to continue.
Entanglement production and decoherence-free subspace of two single-mode cavities embedded in a common environment
Creators: name: An, Jun-Hong
name: Wang, Shun-Jin
name: Luo, Hong-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system consisting of two identical single-mode cavities coupled to a common environment is investigated within the framework of algebraic dynamics. Based on the left and right representations of the Heisenberg-Weyl algebra, the algebraic structure of the master equation is explored and exact analytical solutions of this system are obtained. It is shown that for such a system, the environment can produce entanglement in contrast to its commonly believed role of destroying entanglement. In addition, the collective zero-mode eigen solutions of the system are found to be free of decoherence against the dissipation of the environment. These decoherence-free states may be useful in quantum information and quantum computation.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, Revtex4
Context-Guided BERT for Targeted Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Creators: name: Wu, Zhengxuan
name: Ong, Desmond C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) and Targeted ASBA (TABSA) allow finer-grained inferences about sentiment to be drawn from the same text, depending on context. For example, a given text can have different targets (e.g., neighborhoods) and different aspects (e.g., price or safety), with different sentiment associated with each target-aspect pair. In this paper, we investigate whether adding context to self-attention models improves performance on (T)ABSA. We propose two variants of Context-Guided BERT (CG-BERT) that learn to distribute attention under different contexts. We first adapt a context-aware Transformer to produce a CG-BERT that uses context-guided softmax-attention. Next, we propose an improved Quasi-Attention CG-BERT model that learns a compositional attention that supports subtractive attention. We train both models with pretrained BERT on two (T)ABSA datasets: SentiHood and SemEval-2014 (Task 4). Both models achieve new state-of-the-art results with our QACG-BERT model having the best performance. Furthermore, we provide analyses of the impact of context in the our proposed models. Our work provides more evidence for the utility of adding context-dependencies to pretrained self-attention-based language models for context-based natural language tasks.
Developing a Compton Polarimeter to Measure Polarization of Hard X-Rays in the 50-300 keV Energy Range
Creators: name: Legere, J. S.
name: Bloser, P.
name: Macri, J. R.
name: McConnell, M. L.
name: Narita, T.
name: Ryan, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper discusses the latest progress in the development of GRAPE (Gamma-Ray Polarimeter Experiment), a hard X-ray Compton Polarimeter. The purpose of GRAPE is to measure the polarization of hard X-rays in the 50-300 keV energy range. We are particularly interested in X-rays that are emitted from solar flares and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Accurately measuring the polarization of the emitted radiation from these sources will lead, to a better understating of both the emission mechanisms and source geometries. The GRAPE design consists of an array of plastic scintillators surrounding a central high-Z crystal scintillator. We can monitor individual Compton scatters that occur in the plastics and determine whether the photon is photo absorbed by the high-Z crystal or not. A Compton scattered photon that is immediately photo absorbed by the high-Z crystal constitutes a valid event. These valid events provide us with the interaction locations of each incident photon and ultimately produces a modulation pattern for the Compton scattering of the polarized radiation. Comparing with Monte Carlo simulations of a 100% polarized beam, the level of polarization of the measured beam can then be determined. The complete array is mounted on a flat-panel multi-anode photomultiplier tube (MAPMT) that can measure the deposited energies resulting from the photon interactions. The design of the detector allows for a large field-of-view (>pi steradian), at the same time offering the ability to be close-packed with multiple modules in order to reduce deadspace. We plan to present in this paper the latest laboratory results obtained from GRAPE using partially polarized radiation sources.
description: 10 pages; conference paper presented at the SPIE conference "UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIV." To be published in SPIE Conference Proceedings, vol. 5898
Hohokam Ballcourts and Their Interpretation
Creators: name: Wilcox, David R.
name: Sternberg, Charles
Publisher: name: Cultural Resource Management Division
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Classic Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/125/classic-period
subject: Sedentary Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5504/sedentary-period
subject: Colonial Period
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5377/colonial-period
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Building Materials
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/8/building-materials
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Archaeological Overview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/1/archaeological-overview
subject: Collections Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/3/collections-research
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/6/methodology-theory-or-synthesis
subject: Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/9/research-design-data-recovery-plan

description: This document is a comprehensive report on Hohokam ballcourts prepared by David Wilcox and Charles Sternberg under NPS P.O. CX8100-0-0009. Due to sensitve locational data, permission must be granted to view this document.
CASTER - a concept for a Black Hole Finder Probe based on the use of new scintillator technologies
Creators: name: McConnell, Mark L.
name: Bloser, Peter F.
name: Case, Gary
name: Cherry, Michael
name: Cravens, James
name: Guzik, T. Gregory
name: Hurley, Kevin
name: Kippen, R. Marc
name: Macri, John
name: Miller, Richard S.
name: Paciesas, William
name: Ryan, James M.
name: Schaefer, Bradley
name: Stacy, J. Gregory
name: Vestrand, W. Thomas
name: Wefel, John P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The primary scientific mission of the Black Hole Finder Probe (BHFP), part of the NASA Beyond Einstein program, is to survey the local Universe for black holes over a wide range of mass and accretion rate. One approach to such a survey is a hard X-ray coded-aperture imaging mission operating in the 10--600 keV energy band, a spectral range that is considered to be especially useful in the detection of black hole sources. The development of new inorganic scintillator materials provides improved performance (for example, with regards to energy resolution and timing) that is well suited to the BHFP science requirements. Detection planes formed with these materials coupled with a new generation of readout devices represent a major advancement in the performance capabilities of scintillator-based gamma cameras. Here, we discuss the Coded Aperture Survey Telescope for Energetic Radiation (CASTER), a concept that represents a BHFP based on the use of the latest scintillator technology.
description: 12 pages; conference paper presented at the SPIE conference "UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIV." To be published in SPIE Conference Proceedings, vol. 5898
The Dusty Heart of NGC 4151 Revealed by $λ\sim$1-40 $μ$m Reverberation Mapping and Variability: A Challenge to Current Clumpy Torus Models
Creators: name: Lyu, Jianwei
name: Rieke, George H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We probe the dusty environment of the archetypical type-1 AGN in NGC 4151 with comprehensive IR reverberation mapping over several decades, in J ($\sim1.22μ$m), H ($\sim1.63μ$m), K ($\sim2.19μ$m), L ($\sim3.45μ$m) and N-band ($\sim10.6μm$), plus multiple measurements at 20--40 $μ$m. At 1--4$μ$m, the hot dust reverberation signals come from two distinct dust populations at separate radii ($\sim$0.033 pc and $\sim$0.076 pc), with temperatures of $\sim$1500--2500 K and $\sim$900--1000 K, consistent with the expected properties of sublimating graphite and silicate dust grains. The domination of the torus infrared output by carbon and silicate grains near their sublimation temperatures and radii may account for the general similarity of AGN near-IR spectral energy distributions. The torus inner edge defined by the hottest dust remains at roughly the same radius independent of the AGN optical luminosity over $\sim$25 years. The emission by hot dust warmed directly by the optical/UV AGN output has increased gradually by $\sim$4\%/year, indicating a possibly growing torus. A third dust component at $\sim$700 K does not seem to participate directly in the IR reverberation behavior and its emission may originate deep in the circumnuclear torus. We find a reverberation signal at $\sim10μ$m with an inferred radius for the warm dust of $\sim$2.2--3.1 pc. The lack of variability at 20--40$μ$m indicates the far-IR emission comes from even more extended regions. The torus properties revealed by dust reverberation analysis are inconsistent with predictions from pure clumpy torus models. Instead, the longer wavelength emission possibly originates in a flared torus or the polar wind.
description: 34 pages, 23 figures, 2 tables; ApJ in press
Air quality and radiative impacts of downward propagating sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs)
Creators: name: Williams, Ryan
name: Hegglin, Michaela
name: Jöckel, Patrick
name: Garny, Hella
name: Shine, Keith
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2023

description: doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-1175
Implementing Asymmetric Dark Matter and Dark Electroweak Baryogenesis in a Mirror Two-Higgs-Doublet Model
Creators: name: Ritter, Alexander C.
name: Volkas, Raymond R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models of asymmetric dark matter (ADM) seek to explain the apparent coincidence between the present-day mass densities of visible and dark matter, $Ω_{\mathrm{DM}} \simeq 5Ω_{\mathrm{VM}}$. However, most ADM models only relate the number densities of visible and dark matter without motivating the similar particle masses. We expand upon a recent work that obtained a natural mass relationship in a mirror matter ADM model with two Higgs doublets in each sector, by looking to implement dark electroweak baryogenesis as the means of asymmetry generation. We explore two aspects of the mechanism: the nature of the dark electroweak phase transition, and the transfer of particle asymmetries between the sectors by the use of portal interactions. We find that both aspects can be implemented successfully for various regions of the parameter space. We also analyse one portal interaction -- the neutron portal -- in greater detail, in order to satisfy the observational constraints on dark radiation.
description: 58 pages, 6 figures. Matches published version. New content added, primarily in Sec.IV.A
Retelling of Reel #3 (collection LA 256)
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio and video files VP-180317-10: Verdena retells what she saw in Reel #3 from the LA 256 collection at SCOIL in Hupa (one of six reels of 8mm film created by Verdena in the 1960s, featuring scenes of everyday life around Hoopa Valley as well as Brush Dances). Due to re-numbering, Reel #3 has been assigned the CLA item number LA256.042.
Physical component analysis of galaxy cluster weak gravitational lensing data
Creators: name: Marshall, Phil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel approach for reconstructing the projected mass distribution of clusters of galaxies from sparse and noisy weak gravitational lensing shear data. The reconstructions are regularised using knowledge gained from numerical simulations of clusters: trial mass distributions are constructed from N physically-motivated components, each of which has the universal density profile and characteristic geometry observed in simulated clusters. The parameters of these components are assumed to be distributed \emph{a priori} in the same way as they are in the simulated clusters. Sampling mass distributions from the components' parameters' posterior probability density function allows estimates of the mass distribution to be generated, with error bars. The appropriate number of components is inferred from the data itself via the Bayesian evidence, and is typically found to be small, reflecting the quality of the simulated data used in this work. Ensemble average mass maps are found to be robust to the details of the noise realisation, and succeed in recovering the input mass distribution (from a realistic simulated cluster) over a wide range of scales. We comment on the residuals of the reconstruction and their implications, and discuss the extension of the method to include strong lensing information.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
EXPERT OPINION VERSUS TRANSACTION EVIDENCE: USING THE REILLY INDEX TO MEASURE OPEN SPACE PREMIUMS IN THE URBAN-RURAL FRINGE
Creators: name: Cotteleer, Geerte
name: Stobbe, Tracy
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Cotteleer, Geerte
name: Stobbe, Tracy
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Hedonic pricing models
subject: Assessed property values
subject: Value of open space
subject: Geographical Information System
subject: Reilly
subject: GMM
subject: Spatial dependence

description: Due to economic and population growth farmland and to a lesser extend other undeveloped areas are under pressure in the urban-rural fringe in British Columbia, Canada. The objectives of this paper are to determine if residential property values near Victoria, BC include open-space premiums for farmland or parks or both, and to determine if using assessed values instead of market prices of the property result in the same findings. We estimate a SUR (Seemingly Unrelated Regression) model with two hedonic pricing equations, one with actual market values as the dependent variable and one with assessed property values, and compare the resulting estimates of shadow prices for open space amenities. Furthermore, we take account of spatial autocorrelation and combine Method of Moment estimates of the spatial parameters in both equations.
title: Enhancement of heavy ion track-etching in polyimide membranes with organic solvents
Creators: name: Froehlich, Kristina
name: Scheuerlein, Martin Christoph
name: Ali, Mubarak
name: Nasir, Saima
name: Ensinger, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: The effect of organic solvents on the ion track-etching of polyimide (PI) membranes is studied to enhance the nanopore fabrication process and the control over pore diameter growth. To this end, two approaches are employed to investigate the influence of organic solvents on the nanopore fabrication in PI membranes. In the first approach, the heavy ion irradiated PI samples are pretreated with organic solvents and then chemically etched with sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) solution, resulting up to ∼4.4 times larger pore size compared to untreated ones. The second approach is based on a single-step track-etching process where the etchant (NaOCl) solution contains varying amounts of organic solvent (by vol%). The experimental data shows that a significant increase in both the bulk-etch and track-etch rates is observed by using the etchant mixture, which leads to ∼47% decrease in the nanopore fabrication time. This enhancement of nanopore fabrication process in PI membranes would open up new opportunities for their implementation in various potential applications.
Cosmology of the string derived flipped $SU(5)$
Creators: name: Antoniadis, Ignatios
name: Nanopoulos, Dimitri V.
name: Rizos, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
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 study the cosmology of a string derived supersymmetric flipped $SU(5)$ model in the context of free-fermionic heterotic constructions that allow full calculability of the effective supergravity in perturbation theory around the fermionic vacuum where all string moduli have fixed values. The model has 3 generations of chiral families and a Higgs sector leading to particle phenomenology consistent with low energy data, that has been extensively studied in the past. Here, we show that it can also accommodate a novel successful cosmology, based on the no-scale effective supergravity derived from string theory as well as an appropriate induced superpotential suppressed by five powers of the string scale. It utilises two gauge singlet chiral superfields present in the low energy spectrum: the inflaton $y$, identified as the superpartner of a state mixed with R-handed neutrinos, and the goldstino $z$ with a superpotential of the form $W_I=M_I z(y-λy^2)$ (in supergravity units) where $λ$ is a dimensionless ${\cal O}\left(1\right)$ parameter and $M_I$ the mass scale of inflation generated at 5th order by the breaking of an anomalous $U(1)_A$ gauge symmetry, characteristic of heterotic string chiral vacua. The resulting scalar potential leads to Starobinsky type inflation. Our results can be easily generalised to a large class of models with similar properties.
description: 29 pages, no figures, minor changes, typos corrected
Retelling of Reel #2 (collection LA 256)
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio and video files VP-180317-07: Verdena retells what she saw in Reel #2 from the LA 256 collection at SCOIL in Hupa (one of six reels of 8mm film created by Verdena in the 1960s, featuring scenes of everyday life around Hoopa Valley as well as Brush Dances). Due to re-numbering, Reel #2 has been assigned the CLA item number LA256.041.
Outline for Developing Preliminary Geologic Data on the Effect of Mining at Structure Sites
Creators: name: Kautz, Harold
name: Kautz, Harold
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1967
Subjects: Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: 1967 USDA-SCS Instructions: Staff and Planning Staff specialists concerned with planning watershed impoundment-type structures over or in the vicinity of mined-out areas or potential and active mine areas. We recommend that staff geologists use the Guide for developing geologic data: (1) To interpret structure foundation conditions; and (2) to facilitate establishing minimum limits for mineral rights. It also m y be helpful in preparing A&E contracts and negotiating with selected consultants.
Watersheds - Rounding of Numbers in Work Plans
Creators: name: Lewis, John T.
name: Folsche, W. Richard
name: Hofstad, O. Wesley
name: Buland, David
name: Lewis, John T.
name: Folsche, W. Richard
name: Hofstad, O. Wesley
name: Buland, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This Technical Note provides a guide for rounding numbers used in the agreement, narrative and tables of Watershed Work Plans and River Basin Reports. Rounded numbers improve appearance and creditability, and reduces errors and conflicts. Ideas presented herein and in the attachments can serve as a guide. However, they will not rule out the necessity for prudent judgment in each case. Therefore, in review of the examples attached, recognize that rodding of values for a particular Watershed Work Plan must be tailored for that particular plan.
ขายหัวเราะ - มหาสนุก ฉบับในหลวงรัชกาลที่ 9: การ์ตูนกับการเทิดพระเกียรติและการแสดงความอาลัย
Creators: name: วัชราภรณ์ ดิษฐ์ป้าน
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2017
Subjects: ขายหัวเราะ-มหาสนุก
การ์ตูนไทย
พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรมินทรมหาภูมิพลอดุลยเดช
การเทิดพระเกียรติ

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 17, พฤศจิกายน, 84-131
Universal constraints on selection strength in lineage trees
Creators: name: Genthon, Arthur
name: Lacoste, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain general inequalities constraining the difference between the average of an arbitrary function of a phenotypic trait, which includes the fitness landscape of the trait itself, in the presence or in the absence of natural selection. These inequalities imply bounds on the strength of selection, which can be measured from the statistics of trait values and divisions along lineages. The upper bound is related to recent generalizations of linear response relations in Stochastic Thermodynamics, and shares common features with Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection, and with its generalization by Price, although they define different measures of selection. The lower bound follows from recent improvements on Jensen's inequality, and both bounds depend on the variability of the fitness landscape. We illustrate our results using numerical simulations of growing cell colonies and with experimental data of time-lapse microscopy experiments of bacteria cell colonies.
On the Orbit Decomposition of Finite Quandles
Creators: name: Nelson, Sam
name: Wong, Chau-Yim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57M25

description: We study the structure of finite quandles in terms of subquandles. Every finite quandle $Q$ decomposes in a natural way as a union of disjoint $Q$-complemented subquandles; this decomposition coincides with the usual orbit decomposition of $Q$. Conversely, the structure of a finite quandle with a given orbit decomposition is determined by its structure maps. We describe a procedure for finding all non-connected quandle structures on a disjoint union of subquandles.
description: Version 3 includes changes suggested by referee. To appear in JKTR
Economics - Floodwater Damages to Roads and Bridges
Creators: name: Hofstad, O. Wesley
name: Hodges, Thomas C.G.
name: Buland, David
name: Hofstad, O. Wesley
name: Hodges, Thomas C.G.
name: Buland, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1967
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Public Economics

description: The purpose of this technical note is to update an earlier 1961 Memorandum, EWP-59, which had been cancelled, to provide planning staffs with a list of the types of data needed to appraise floodwater damages to roads and bridges and conditions likely to cause bridge failurc. Basic to the analysis of floodwater damage is the determination of the elevation at which damages begin, the elevation at which maximum damage is most likely to occur, and damage estimates at intermediate elevations. The following is a list of data that needs to be obtained and developed by the engineer, hydrologist, geologist, and economist to make a joint appraisal of floodwater damages.
Valuing Private Sector Incentives to Invest in Food Protection Measures in the Milk and Green Onion Sectors
Creators: name: Lewis, Andrew
name: Nganje, William E.
name: Mattson, Jeremy W.
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Wilson, William W.
name: Lewis, Andrew
name: Nganje, William E.
name: Mattson, Jeremy W.
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Wilson, William W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Agro-terrorism
subject: Stochastic optimization
subject: Real options
subject: Game theory
subject: Milk
subject: Green onions

description: This study provides a framework to value investment strategies to mitigate possible agro-terrorism occurrences in the food supply chain and to determine where these investments would reduce the most risk. This framework is applied to two food sectors that could be at risk: milk and green onions. Stochastic optimization is used to determine the costs and risk premiums of alternative tracking strategies. The real options method along with a portfolio of options, also referred to as the "tomato garden" framework, is used to determine where and when alternative intervention strategies should be implemented to reduce the most risk. Finally, policy implications are derived on the cost-risk tradeoffs, probability of attacks, and containment efforts if there is an attack by using game theory to determine the incentives needed to motivate participants in the milk and green onion supply chains to invest in security measures.
title: Indigenous-driven conservation: exploring the planning of Qikiqtait protected area in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut
Creators: name: Haycock-Chavez, Natasha
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Biodiversity loss is increasing worldwide due to anthropogenic pressures. Protected areas are viewed as a primary tool to prevent biodiversity loss. However, protected areas do not always meet local needs and biodiversity goals simultaneously. Increasingly, local, and Indigenous communities globally are initiating protected areas that better reflect local needs while at the same time meeting conservation objectives. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how an Indigenous, community-driven approach to protected area planning differs from the model more typically used by conservation and government agencies in Canada. Using literature and examples of community-based protected areas in Canada, this research sought to synthesize the current conservation framework. Focusing on the Belcher Islands, Nunavut, this research examines the proposed protected area of Qikiqtait, a community-based, Indigenous-led protected area initiated by the community of Sanikiluaq, Nunavut. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) spatially compare Priority Areas for Conservation (PACs) derived from two different approaches: the community of Sanikiluaq, and World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF). The analyses indicated a large overlap between areas of importance for the community and areas of conservation importance for the region identified by the WWF. Overall, the community planning offers a finer spatial resolution more suitable to local planning, as well as encompassing a broader range of conservation and livelihood priorities. Following the literature review and spatial analysis, this research concludes that while Canada’s conservation framework is increasingly making space for greater Indigenous leadership and participation, lessons remain on how to achieve optimum potential in community-based protected areas.
The Financial Performance of North Dakota Agricultural Cooperatives
Creators: name: McKee, Gregory J.
name: McKee, Gregory J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Agricultural input supply and marketing cooperatives are an important part of North Dakota's agricultural economy. North Dakota agricultural cooperatives purchase and merchandise feed and food grains, maintain inventories of farm inputs, and provide specialized services. In 2004, 224 farm supply, agricultural processing, and grain handling cooperatives were present in the state (Coon and Leistritz 2005). These include independent local cooperatives and those affiliated with federated cooperatives. The objective of this research is to assess the financial performance of North Dakota agricultural input supply and grain handling cooperatives between 2002 and 2006. In section one, the characteristics of a cooperative business and how this relates to the financial benefits a cooperative provides are described. In section two, cooperative businesses features affecting financial performance are described. In section three, data and methods used in this analysis are presented. In section four, the results are presented and discussed. Section five presents concluding remarks. The results of this analysis suggest no statistical relationship between North Dakota agricultural cooperative profitability and business size. There were consistent differences in investment behavior between relatively profitable and less profitable agricultural input supply and grain handling cooperatives in North Dakota between 2002 and 2006.
Center manifold and multivariable approximants applied to non-linear stability analysis
Creators: name: Sinou, Jean-Jacques
name: Thouverez, Fabrice
name: Jezequel, Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper presents a research devoted to the study of instability phenomena in non-linear model with a constant brake friction coefficient. This paper outlines the stability analysis and a procedure to reduce and simplify the non-linear system, in order to obtain limit cycle amplitudes. The center manifold approach, the multivariable approximants theory, and the alternate frequency/time domain (AFT) method are applied. Brake vibrations, and more specifically heavy trucks grabbing are concerned. The modelling introduces sprag-slip mechanism based on dynamic coupling due to buttressing. The non-linearity is expressed as a polynomial with quadratic and cubic terms. This model does not require the use of brake negative coefficient, in order to predict the instability phenomena. Finally, the center manifold approach, the multivariable approximants, and the AFT method are used in order to obtain equations for the limit cycle amplitudes. These methods allow the reduction of the number of equations of the original system in order to obtain a simplified system, without loosing the dynamics of the original system, as well as the contributions of non-linear terms. The goal is the validation of this procedure for a complex non-linear model by comparing results obtained by solving the full system and by using these methods. The brake friction coefficient is used as an unfolding parameter of the fundamental Hopf bifurcation point.
Retelling of Reel #1 (collection LA 256)
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio and video files VP-180317-04: Verdena retells what she saw in Reel #1 from the LA 256 collection at SCOIL in Hupa (one of six reels of 8mm film created by Verdena in the 1960s, featuring scenes of everyday life around Hoopa Valley as well as Brush Dances). Due to re-numbering, Reel #1 has been assigned the CLA item number LA256.040.
2007 Outlook of the U.S. and World Sugar Industries, 2006-2016
Creators: name: Koo, Won W.
name: Taylor, Richard D.
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Taylor, Richard D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Sugar
subject: Production
subject: Exports
subject: Consumption
subject: Ending stocks

description: This report evaluates the U.S. and world sugar markets for 2006-2016 using the Global Sugar Policy Simulation Model. This analysis is based on assumptions about general economic conditions, agricultural policies, population growth, weather conditions, and technological changes. Both the U.S. and world sugar economies are predicted to remain profitable over the next ten years mainly because higher world oil prices have increased the conversion of sugar into ethanol by Brazil, while other exporting countries have increased their production in response to those higher prices. Brazil is the largest exporter of sugar, and it is expected that the rate of increase in Brazilian sugar exports may be reduced due to high oil prices. World demand for sugar is expected to grow at a similar rate to world supply, resulting in Carribean sugar prices remaining near the 13.0 -15.0 cents /lb range throughout the forecast period. The U.S. wholesale price of sugar is projected to increase slightly from 29.5 cents/lb in 2006 to 29.8 cents/lb in 2016, if Brazil continues to convert sugar into ethanol. It is projected that Mexico will be able to export 416 thousand metric tons of sugar to the United States by 2016. World trade volumes of sugar are expected to increase throughout the forecast period.
Extraction of Structure Functions from Quasielastic Electron Scattering (e,e') from Medium and Heavy Nuclei
Creators: name: Kim, K. S.
name: Wright, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a relativistic mean-field single particle knock-out model for (e,e') reactions on nuclei, we investigate approximate treatments of Coulomb distortion effects and the extraction of longitudinal and transverse structure functions. We show that an effective momentum approximation (EMA) when coupled with a focusing factor provides a good description of the transverse contributions to the (e,e') cross sections for electron energies above 300 MeV on 208Pb. This approximation is not as good for the longitudinal contributions even for incident electron eneriges above 1 GeV and if one requires very precise extraction of longitudinal and transverse structure functions in the quasielastic region it is necessary to utilize distortion factors based on a nuclear model and a more accurate inclusion of Coulomb distortion effects.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Design and characterization of an instrumented slider aimed atmeasuring local micro-impact forces between dry rough solids
Creators: name: Grégoire, Camille
name: Laulagnet, Bernard
name: Liaudet, Joël Perret
name: Durand, Thibaut
name: Collet, Manuel
name: Scheibert, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sliding motion between two rough solids under light normal loading involves myriad micro-impacts between antagonist micro-asperities. Those micro-impacts are at the origin of many emerging macroscopic phenomena, including the friction force, the slider's vibrations and the noise radiated in the surroundings. However, the individual properties of the micro-impacts (e.g. maximum force, position along the interface, duration) are essentially elusive to measurement. Here, we introduce an instrumented slider aimed at measuring the position and the normal component of the micro-impact forces during sliding against a rough track. It is based on an array of piezoelectric sensors, each placed under a single model asperity. Its dynamical characteristics are established experimentally and compared to a finite elements model. We then validate its measurement capabilities by using it against a track bearing simple, well-defined topographical features. The measurements are interpreted thanks to a simple multi-asperity contact model. Our slider is expected to be useful in future studies to provide local insights into a variety of tribological questions involving dry rough sliding interfaces.
description: Contents are identical to that of the published paper
Scaling state of dry two-dimensional froths: universal angle deviations and structure
Creators: name: Rutenberg, Andrew D.
name: McCurdy, Micah B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterize the late-time scaling state of dry, coarsening, two-dimensional froths using a detailed, force-based vertex model. We find that the slow evolution of bubbles leads to systematic deviations from 120degree angles at three-fold vertices in the froth, with an amplitude proportional to the vertex speed, v ~ sqrt(t), but with a side-number dependence that is independent of time. We also find that a significant number of T1 side-switching processes occur for macroscopic bubbles in the scaling state, though most bubble annihilations involve four-sided bubbles at microscopic scales.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Vision-Aided Radio: User Identity Match in Radio and Video Domains Using Machine Learning
Creators: name: de Pinho, Vinicius M.
name: de Campos, Marcello L. R.
name: Garcia, Luis Uzeda
name: Popescu, Dalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: 5G is designed to be an essential enabler and a leading infrastructure provider in the communication technology industry by supporting the demand for the growing data traffic and a variety of services with distinct requirements. The use of deep learning and computer vision tools has the means to increase the environmental awareness of the network with information from visual data. Information extracted via computer vision tools such as user position, movement direction, and speed can be promptly available for the network. However, the network must have a mechanism to match the identity of a user in both visual and radio systems. This mechanism is absent in the present literature. Therefore, we propose a framework to match the information from both visual and radio domains. This is an essential step to practical applications of computer vision tools in communications. We detail the proposed framework training and deployment phases for a presented setup. We carried out practical experiments using data collected in different types of environments. The work compares the use of Deep Neural Network and Random Forest classifiers and shows that the former performed better across all experiments, achieving classification accuracy greater than 99%.
description: Accepted for publication in the IEEE Access
Numerical Study of the Stress Response of Two-Dimensional Dense Granular Packings
Creators: name: Gland, N.
name: Wang, P.
name: Makse, Hernan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Green function of two-dimensional dense random packings of grains in order to discriminate between the different theories of stress transmission in granular materials. Our computer simulations allow for a detailed quantitative investigation of the dynamics which is difficult to obtain experimentally. We show that both hyperbolic and parabolic models of stress transmission fail to predict the correct stress distribution in the studied region of the parameters space. We demonstrate that the compressional and shear components of the stress compare very well with the predictions of isotropic elasticity for a wide range of pressures and porosities and for both frictional and frictionless packings. However, the states used in this study do not include the critical isostatic point for frictional particles, so that our results do not preclude the fact that corrections to elasticity may appear at the critical point of jamming, or for other sample preparation protocols, as discussed in the main text. We show that the agreement holds in the bulk of the packings as well as at the boundaries and we validate the linear dependence of the stress profile width with depth.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
THE USE OF REALIA TO IMPROVE YOUNG LEARNERS' VOCABULARY
Creators: name: Kulmamatova, Aziza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Vocabulary is important in everyone's life for those who learn English as a second language. This is because if foreign language learners do not have enough vocabulary, it will significantly affect other language skills. This thesis contains opinions about the basics of using reality to improve the vocabulary of young students.
คำนิยมในนวนิยายเรื่องเพชรพระอุมา: การศึกษาโครงสร้างและลักษณะทางสังคมวัฒนธรรม
Creators: name: พรทิพย์ เฉิดฉินนภา
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2017
Subjects: ค่านิยม
เพชรพระอุมา
อัตถภาควิเคราะห์

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 17, พฤศจิกายน, 132-161