cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Force on an Asymmetric Capacitor
Creators: name: Bahder, Thomas B.
name: Fazi, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a high voltage (~30 kV) is applied to a capacitor whose electrodes have different physical dimensions, the capacitor experiences a net force toward the smaller electrode (Biefeld-Brown effect). We have verified this effect by building four capacitors of different shapes. The effect may have applications to vehicle propulsion and dielectric pumps. We review the history of this effect briefly through the history of patents by Thomas Townsend Brown. At present, the physical basis for the Biefeld-Brown effect is not understood. The order of magnitude of the net force on the asymmetric capacitor is estimated assuming two different mechanisms of charge conduction between its electrodes: ballistic ionic wind and ionic drift. The calculations indicate that ionic wind is at least three orders of magnitude too small to explain the magnitude of the observed force on the capacitor. The ionic drift transport assumption leads to the correct order of magnitude for the force, however, it is difficult to see how ionic drift enters into the theory. Finally, we present a detailed thermodynamic treatment of the net force on an asymmetric capacitor. In the future, to understand this effect, a detailed theoretical model must be constructed that takes into account plasma effects: ionization of gas (or air) in the high electric field region, charge transport, and resulting dynamic forces on the electrodes. The next series of experiments should determine whether the effect occurs in vacuum, and a careful study should be carried out to determine the dependence of the observed force on gas pressure, gas species and applied voltage.
description: 25 pages, new version has corrections of typos and wording, and additional references added. This version is to be published as an Army Research Laboratory Technical Report (in press, March 2003)
Additional file 5: of Validation of the IPF-specific version of St. Georgeâ s Respiratory Questionnaire
Creators: name: Prior, Thomas
name: Hoyer, Nils
name: Shaker, Saher
name: Davidsen, Jesper
name: Yorke, Janelle
name: Hilberg, Ole
name: Bendstrup, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Missing data analyses. (DOCX 17 kb)
The magnon mediated plasmon friction: a functional integral approach
Creators: name: Wang, Yang
name: Zhang, Ruanjing
name: Liu, Feiyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we discuss quantum friction in a system formed by two metallic surfaces separated by a ferromagnetic intermedium of a certain thickness. The internal degrees of freedom in the two metallic surfaces are assumed to be plasmons, while the excitations in the intermediate material are magnons, modeling plasmons coupled to magnons. During relative sliding, one surface moves uniformly parallel to the other, causing friction in the system. By calculating the effective action of the magnons, we can determine the particle production probability, which shows a positive correlation between the probability and the sliding speed. Finally, we derive the frictional force of the system, with both theoretical and numerical results indicating that the friction, like the particle production probability, also has a positive correlation with the speed.
GPUDrive: Data-driven, multi-agent driving simulation at 1 million FPS
Creators: name: Kazemkhani, Saman
name: Pandya, Aarav
name: Cornelisse, Daphne
name: Shacklett, Brennan
name: Vinitsky, Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-agent learning algorithms have been successful at generating superhuman planning in various games but have had limited impact on the design of deployed multi-agent planners. A key bottleneck in applying these techniques to multi-agent planning is that they require billions of steps of experience. To enable the study of multi-agent planning at scale, we present GPUDrive. GPUDrive is a GPU-accelerated, multi-agent simulator built on top of the Madrona Game Engine capable of generating over a million simulation steps per second. Observation, reward, and dynamics functions are written directly in C++, allowing users to define complex, heterogeneous agent behaviors that are lowered to high-performance CUDA. Despite these low-level optimizations, GPUDrive is fully accessible through Python, offering a seamless and efficient workflow for multi-agent, closed-loop simulation. Using GPUDrive, we train reinforcement learning agents on the Waymo Open Motion Dataset, achieving efficient goal-reaching in minutes and scaling to thousands of scenarios in hours. We open-source the code and pre-trained agents at https://github.com/Emerge-Lab/gpudrive.
description: ICLR 2025 camera-ready version
The economy-wide implications of a tax policy to reduce water pollution: a case of the Olifants river basin, South Africa
Creators: name: Kyei, C.
name: Hassan, R.
name: Kyei, C.
name: Hassan, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Public Economics

description: The Olifants river basin, which is one of the nine river basins in South Africa ranks as the third most water-stressed basin as well as the most polluted due to pollution from mining activities, irrigation agriculture, and industrial waste disposal. As a result, the government has implemented a series of pollution control measures with the view to mitigating pollution and water shortage in the basin. In this paper, we analysed the regional economic and environmental impacts of a tax policy to reduce water pollution using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Firstly, an extended Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) which includes water pollution related activities was constructed for the basin using the framework of environmentally extended SAM. Secondly, we simulate a reduction in current pollution load by increasing the pollution tax rate under alternative revenue recycling schemes. The analyses reveal that internalising the cost of pollution control will effectively reduce the pollution situation in the river basin with marginal negative impact on Real Regional Gross Domestic Product (RRGDP). However, revenue recycling through uniform lump-sum transfers may positively impact RRGDP. In addition, the policy will lead to a change in regional production structure from heavy polluting sectors to less pollution-intensive sectors with benefits to sustainable development and the aquatic ecosystem. JEL codes: C68, Q25, Q28 Keywords: water quality, Olifants River, computable general equilibrium model, South Africa, market-based incentives
Quark mass effects in B -> Xs gamma
Creators: name: Gambino, Paolo
name: Misiak, Mikolaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charm-loop contribution to B -> Xs gamma is found to be numerically dominant and very stable under logarithmic QCD corrections. The strong enhancement of the branching ratio by QCD logarithms is mainly due to the b-quark mass evolution in the top-quark sector. These observations allow us to achieve better control over residual scale dependence at the next-to-leading order. Furthermore, we observe that the sensitivity of the matrix element < Xs gamma | (sc)_(V-A)(cb)_(V-A) | b > to mc/mb is the source of a sizeable uncertainty that has not been properly taken into account in previous analyses. Replacing mc^pole/mb^pole in this matrix element by the more appropriate mc(mu)/mb^pole with mc < mu < mb causes an 11% enhancement of the SM prediction for BR[B -> Xs gamma]. For E_gamma > 1.6 GeV in the B-meson rest frame, we find BR[ B -> Xs gamma]_{E_gamma > 1.6 GeV} = (3.60 +_ 0.30) * 10^-4. The difference between our result and the current experimental world average is consistent with zero at the level of 1 sigma. We also discuss the implementation of new physics effects in our calculation. The lower bound on the charged Higgs boson mass in 2HDM(II) is found the be higher than 350 GeV.
description: Nucl. Phys. B 611 (2001) 338. Comparison with experiment is updated in the present hep-ph version. In particular, the published results of CLEO (hep-ex/0108032) are taken into account. 30 pages, 6 figures, uses graphicx
Gluon-fusion contributions to Higgs plus two-jet production
Creators: name: Del Duca, V.
name: Kilgore, W.
name: Oleari, C.
name: Schmidt, C.
name: Zeppenfeld, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Real emission corrections to Higgs production via gluon fusion, at order alpha_s^4, lead to a Higgs plus two-jet final state. We present the calculation of these scattering amplitudes, as induced by top-quark triangle-, box- and pentagon-loop diagrams. These diagrams are evaluated analytically for arbitrary top mass m_t. We study the renormalization and factorization scale-dependence of the resulting H + 2 jet cross section, and discuss phenomenologically important distributions at the LHC. The gluon fusion results are compared to expectations for weak-boson fusion cross sections.
description: 37 pages, 13 figures
A Dynamic Embedding Model of the Media Landscape
Creators: name: Rappaz, Jeremie
name: Bourgeois, Dylan
name: Aberer, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Information about world events is disseminated through a wide variety of news channels, each with specific considerations in the choice of their reporting. Although the multiplicity of these outlets should ensure a variety of viewpoints, recent reports suggest that the rising concentration of media ownership may void this assumption. This observation motivates the study of the impact of ownership on the global media landscape and its influence on the coverage the actual viewer receives. To this end, the selection of reported events has been shown to be informative about the high-level structure of the news ecosystem. However, existing methods only provide a static view into an inherently dynamic system, providing underperforming statistical models and hindering our understanding of the media landscape as a whole. In this work, we present a dynamic embedding method that learns to capture the decision process of individual news sources in their selection of reported events while also enabling the systematic detection of large-scale transformations in the media landscape over prolonged periods of time. In an experiment covering over 580M real-world event mentions, we show our approach to outperform static embedding methods in predictive terms. We demonstrate the potential of the method for news monitoring applications and investigative journalism by shedding light on important changes in programming induced by mergers and acquisitions, policy changes, or network-wide content diffusion. These findings offer evidence of strong content convergence trends inside large broadcasting groups, influencing the news ecosystem in a time of increasing media ownership concentration.
String model description of polarisation and angular distributions in pbar p -> Lambdabar Lambda at low energies
Creators: name: Pomp, Stephan
name: Ingelman, Gunnar
name: Johansson, Tord
name: Ohlsson, Staffan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed polarisation of Lambda hyperons from the inclusive pA -> Lambda X reaction at high energies has previously been well described within the Lund string model through polarised ss quark pair production in the string breaking hadronisation process. This model is here applied to the exclusive pbar p -> Lambdabar Lambda reaction at low energies and compared to available data sets down to an incident beam momentum of 1.835 GeV/c. This required an extension of the diquark scattering model to involve three components: an isotropic part relevant close to threshold, a spectator part and a forward scattering part as in pA -> Lambda X at high energies. The observed angular distributions are then reproduced and, for momentum transfers above |t'| = 0.2 GeV^2, agreement with the measured polarisation is also obtained.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J. A
Additional file 1 of Model strategies to address barriers to cervical cancer treatment and palliative care among women in Zimbabwe: a public health approach
Creators: name: Tapera, Oscar
name: Dreyer, Greta
name: Nyakabau, Anna Mary
name: Kadzatsa, Webster
name: Babill Stray-Pedersen
name: Hendricks, Stephen James Heinrich
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. In-depth interview guide.
Tree-body loss of of trapped ultracold $^{87}$Rb atoms due to a Feshbach resonance
Creators: name: Yurovsky, V. A.
name: Ben-Reuven, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The loss of ultracold trapped atoms in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance is treated as a two-stage reaction, using the Breit-Wigner theory. The first stage is the formation of a resonant diatomic molecule, and the second one is its deactivation by inelastic collisions with other atoms. This model is applied to the analysis of recent experiments on $^{87}$Rb, leading to an estimated value of $7\times 10^{-11}$ cm$^{3}/$s for the deactivation rate coefficient.
description: LaTeX, 4 pages with 1 figures, uses REVTeX4, uses improved experimental data
Biofuels: review of policies and impacts
Creators: name: Janda, Karel
name: Kristoufek, Ladislav
name: Zilberman, David
name: Janda, Karel
name: Kristoufek, Ladislav
name: Zilberman, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: biofuels
subject: ethanol
subject: biodiesel

description: This paper provides an overview of the environmental, economical, and policy considerations related to biofuels. While the biofuel production and consumption exhibited significant increase over the first decade of the new millennium, this and further increases in biofuel production are driven primarily by government policies. Currently available first generation biofuels are with a few exceptions not economically viable in the absence of fiscal incentives or high oil prices. Also the environmental impacts of biofuels as an alternative to fossil fuels are quite ambiguous. The review of the most recent economic models dealing with biofuels and their economic impacts provides a distinction between structural and reduced form models. The review of reduced models is structured toward the time series analysis approach to the dependencies between prices of feedstock, biofuels, and fossil fuels.
The solar LMA neutrino oscillation solution in the Zee model
Creators: name: Balaji, K. R. S.
name: Grimus, W.
name: Schwetz, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the neutrino mass matrix in the version of Zee model where both Higgs doublets couple to the leptons. We show that in this case one can accommodate the large mixing angle (LMA) MSW solution of the solar neutrino problem, while avoiding maximal solar mixing and conflicts with constraints on lepton family number-violating interactions. In the simplified scenario we consider, we have the neutrino mass spectrum characterized by $m_1 \simeq m_2 \simeq \sqrt{Δm^2_\mathrm{atm}}/\sin 2θ$ and $m_3/m_1 \simeq \cos 2θ$, where $θ$ is the solar mixing angle.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX, no figures; misprints in Eq. (39) corrected
Direct Detection of Spin-(In)dependent Nuclear Scattering of Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using Molecular Excitations
Creators: name: Essig, Rouven
name: Pérez-Ríos, Jesús
name: Ramani, Harikrishnan
name: Slone, Oren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel direct detection concept to search for dark matter with 100~keV to 100~MeV masses. Such dark matter can scatter off molecules in a gas and transfer an $\mathcal{O}(1)$ fraction of its kinetic energy to excite a vibrational and rotational state. The excited ro-vibrational mode relaxes rapidly and produces a spectacular multi-infrared-photon signal, which can be observed with ultrasensitive photodetectors. We discuss in detail a gas target consisting of carbon monoxide molecules, which enable efficient photon emission even at a relatively low temperature and high vapor pressure. The emitted photons have an energy in the range 180~meV to 265~meV. By mixing together carbon monoxide molecules of different isotopes, including those with an odd number of neutrons, we obtain sensitivity to both spin-independent interactions and spin-dependent interactions with the neutron. We also consider hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen bromide, and scandium hydride molecules, which each provide sensitivity to spin-dependent interactions with the proton. The proposed detection concept can be realized with near-term technology and allows for the exploration of orders of magnitude of new dark matter parameter space.
Additional file 6: of Validation of the IPF-specific version of St. Georgeâ s Respiratory Questionnaire
Creators: name: Prior, Thomas
name: Hoyer, Nils
name: Shaker, Saher
name: Davidsen, Jesper
name: Yorke, Janelle
name: Hilberg, Ole
name: Bendstrup, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Known groups validity. (DOCX 15 kb)
Baryogenesis via Lepton Number Violation and Family Replicated Gauge Group
Creators: name: Nielsen, H. B.
name: Takanishi, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We developed a previous model fitting all quark and lepton -- including neutrino quantities in the region of the Large Mixing Angle-MSW solar solution -- order of magnitudewise by only six adjustable parameters (Higgs vacuum expectation values) to also give an agreeing prediction for the amount of baryogenesis produced in the early time of cosmology. We use Fukugita-Yanagida scheme and take into account now also the effect of the remormalisation equation for the Dirac neutrino sector from Planck scale to the see-saw scale. The present version of our model with many approximately conserved (gauge) charges distinguishing various left- and right-Weyl particles has the largest matrix element of the mass matrix for the three flavour see-saw neutrinos being the off-diagonal elements associated with the second- and third-proto-flavour and gives the ratio of baryon number density to the entropy density to 2.59{+17.0\atop-2.25}\times 10^{-11} which agrees perfectly well as do also all the fermion masses and their mixing angles order of magnitudewise.
description: 36 pages, 2 feynmf figures, Latex2e; one ref. added, refree responce slightly modified
Tanaella prolixcauda Larsen & Heard 2004, n. sp.
Creators: name: Larsen, Kim
name: Heard, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Tanaellidae
Tanaella
Tanaella prolixcauda

description: Tanaella prolixcauda n. sp.
(figures 9–11)
 Material examined. Holotype W (USNM 1004423), body length 2.4 mm, Stn W 2-6, 27°43.55∞N, 92°30.01∞W, 550 m. One W paratype (USNM 1004424), same locality. Two W, Stn W 2-5, 27°43.55∞N, 92°30.14∞W, 550 m. One manca, Stn C 3-5, 27°49.6∞N, 90°07.1∞W, 841 m. One W, Stn E 3-4475-1, 28°09.22∞N, 86°24.41∞W, 819 m. One juvenile, Stn E 3-4483-3, 28°09.22∞N, 86°24.41∞W, 819 m. One W, Stn E 3-4485-5, 28°09.22∞N, 86°24.41∞W, 819 m. One W, Stn E 3C-4490-4, 28°15.48∞N, 86°36.58∞W, 847 m. One juvenile, seven mancas, Stn NB 4-1, 26°15.2711∞N, 92°23.6978∞W, 2030 m. One juvenile, Stn S 35-2, 667 m. One manca, Stn RW 4-1, 26°44.8861∞N, 95°14.7680∞W, 1570 m. One juvenile, Stn RW 2-1, 27°15.2435∞N, 95°44.6186∞W, 950 m.
 Diagnosis, male. Antennule article 2 shorter than half the length of article 1. Cheliped fixed finger with pronounced proximal serration. Cheliped dactylus without proximal depression or processes. Maxilliped endites with processes. Pleopods present on all five pleonites, all with plumose feather setae. Uropods longer than combined length of pleotelson and last two pleonites. Pleotelson blunt and short (as long as combined length of only two pleonites).
 Etymology. Named after the long uropod (Latin: prolix + cauda =long+tail).
description: Published as part of Larsen, Kim & Heard, Richard, 2004, Revision of the tanaidomorphan deep-sea genus Tanaella (Crustacea: Tanaidacea), pp. 549-579 in Journal of Natural History 38 (5) on page 566, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000036505, http://zenodo.org/record/5258680
of EnRoot: a narrow-diameter, inexpensive and partially 3D-printable minirhizotron for imaging fine root production
Creators: name: Arnaud, Marie
name: Baird, Andy
name: Morris, Paul
name: Harris, Angela
name: Huck, Jonny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: of EnRoot: a narrow-diameter, inexpensive and partially 3D-printable minirhizotron for imaging fine root production
Multidimensional decision analysis in public investment analysis: theory and practice
Creators: name: Perry, Chadwick Raymond
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Decision-making
subject: Investments Mathematical models

description: Most important investment decisions involve several criteria or dimensions, e.g. a weapon system could be judged by cost, portability, reliability and firepower. Moreover, the values of these dimensions that alternative courses of action will produce is rarely known for certain, because they will occur in the future or because analysis to obtain the information would be too expensive or too time- consuming. These comments apply to public sector investment particularly, because the market does not provide a price that incorporates several dimensions for public goods, and because much public investment is one-off, having rarely been done before, e.g., Medibank.
Clubiona pterogona Yang, Song & Zhu 2003
Creators: name: Wang, Luyu
name: Chen, Huiming
name: Wu, Panlong
name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Clubionidae
Clubiona
Clubiona pterogona

description: Clubiona pterogona Yang, Song & Zhu, 2003 (Figs 13A–C)
 Clubiona pterogona Yang et al., 2003: 8, figs 3A–C (♀).
Material examined. 1♀, Mianxuling (27°54.626′N, 108°40.288′E; elev. 1997m), 25.VII.2013, L.Y. Wang, T. Lu & X.K. Jiang leg.
 Description. See Yang et al. (2003). Female habitus as shown in Fig. 13A. Epigyne as in Figs 13B–C. Male unknown.
Distribution. Known only from Mt. Fanjing, Guizhou, China.
 Comments. Judging from the shape of epigyne this species may belong to the C. marmorata- group as defined by Mikhailov (1995). Three species described here on the basis of males belong to the C. corticalis -group and therefore cannot be conspecific with this species.
description: Published as part of Wang, Luyu, Chen, Huiming, Wu, Panlong, Zhang, Feng & Zhang, Zhisheng, 2018, Spider diversity in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, II: Clubionidae (Araneae), pp. 317-333 in Zoological Systematics 43 (3) on page 327, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201827, http://zenodo.org/record/5366468
Quantum field theory and dense measurement
Creators: name: Bar, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show, using quantum field theory, that performing a large number of identical repetitions of the same measurement does not only preserve the initial state of the wave function (the Zeno effect), but also produces additional physical effects. We first demonstrate that a Zeno type effect can emerges also in the framework of quantum field theory, that is, as a quantum field phenomenon. We also derive a Zeno type effect from quantum field theory for the general case in which the initial and final states are different. The basic physical entities dealt with in this work are not the conventional once-perfomed physical processes, but their $n$ times repetition where $n$ tends to infinity. We show that the presence of these repetitions entails the presence of additional excited state energies, and the absence of them entails the absence of these excited energies. We also show that in the presence of these repetitions the Schroedinger equation may be derived from the functional generalization of quantum mechanics.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures, Section 4 has been removed
The Impact of Debt Structure on the Production Efficiency of Broadcare Farms in Western Australia
Creators: name: Mugera, Amin W.
name: Mugera, Amin W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: farm debt structure
subject: return on assets
subject: input-oriented technical efficiency
subject: broadacre farming
subject: Western Australia.

description: Farming activities are often financed using debt yet empirical studies that investigate the relationship between farm debt structure and performance are still rare. In a ten years unbalanced panel (1995-2005) of Western Australia broadacre farms, we relate the impact of long-term debt, short-term debt and tax liability on farm performance measured by input-oriented technical efficiency and return on assets (ROA). To check for the robustness of our results, both data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) methods are employed. Results from both models are consistent: farm production efficiency is positively related to shortterm debt, tax liability and investment and negative related to off-farm income activities. Longterm debt has no effect on production efficiency and ROA.
Manifestation of the Purcell effect in current transport through a dot-cavity-QED system
Creators: name: Abdullah, Nzar Rauf
name: Tang, Chi-Shung
name: Manolescu, Andrei
name: Gudmundsson, Vidar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transport properties of a wire-dot system coupled to a cavity and a photon reservoir. Tuning the photon energy, Rabi-resonant states emerge and in turn resonant current peaks are observed. We demonstrate the effects of the cavity-photon reservoir coupling, the mean photon number in the reservoir, the electron-photon coupling and the photon polarization on the intraband transitions occurring between the Rabi-resonant states, and on the corresponding resonant current peaks. The Rabi-splitting can be controlled by the photon polarization and the electron-photon coupling strength. In the selected range of parameters, we observe the results of the Purcell effect enhancing the current peaks through the cavity by increasing the cavity-reservoir coupling, while they decrease with increasing the electron-photon coupling. In addition, the resonant current peaks are also sensitive to the mean number of photons in the reservoir.
description: RevTeX, 8 pages with 7 included eps figures
Additional file of Performance measurement for new mobile data services during generation upgrading period: a case of China’s telecom industry
Creators: name: Du, Yu
name: Zhang, Xiao H.
name: Li, Zheng R.
name: Guo, Yi J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file of Performance measurement for new mobile data services during generation upgrading period: a case of China’s telecom industry
Comparing Vibrotactile and Skin-Stretch Haptic Feedback for Conveying Spatial Information of Virtual Objects to Blind VR Users
Creators: name: Li, Jiasheng
name: Zhang, Zining
name: Yan, Zeyu
name: Zhao, Yuhang
name: Peng, Huaishu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Perceiving spatial information of a virtual object (e.g, direction, distance) is critical yet challenging for blind users seeking an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience. To facilitate VR accessibility for blind users, in this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of two types of haptic cues - vibrotactile and skin-stretch cues - in conveying the spatial information of a virtual object when applied to the dorsal side of a blind user's hand. We conducted a user study with 10 blind users to investigate how they perceive static and moving objects in VR with a custom-made haptic apparatus. Our results reveal that blind users can more accurately understand an object's location and movement when receiving skin-stretch cues, as opposed to vibrotactile cues. We discuss the pros and cons of both types of haptic cues and conclude with design recommendations for future haptic solutions for VR accessibility.
Additional file 10 of Gene coexpression clusters and putative regulatory elements underlying seed storage reserve accumulation in Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Peng, Fred Y
name: Weselake, Randall J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 5
Tanaella propinquus Dojiri and Sieg 1997
Creators: name: Larsen, Kim
name: Heard, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Tanaellidae
Tanaella
Tanaella propinquus

description: Tanaella propinquus Dojiri and Sieg, 1997
 Distribution. Tanaella propinquus has been reported from the American west coast from Santa Maria Basin in the north to Baja California in the south. Bathymetric range 59– 320 m.
 Remarks. This species is fairly common in relatively shallow water and apparently not very selective with regards to substratum. The characteristics of this genus are: the biarticulated uropod endopod, the long cephalothorax, the flat pleotelson apex and the lack of pointed denticles on the cheliped fixed finger.
description: Published as part of Larsen, Kim & Heard, Richard, 2004, Revision of the tanaidomorphan deep-sea genus Tanaella (Crustacea: Tanaidacea), pp. 549-579 in Journal of Natural History 38 (5) on page 570, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000036505, http://zenodo.org/record/5258680
The exponential-nonexponential transition in quantum decay as a phenomenon of interference in time domain of the decaying particle with itself
Creators: name: García-Calderón, Gastón
name: Romo, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using an exact analytical non-Hermitian approach in terms of resonance (quasinormal) states we express the decaying wave function as the sum of exponential and nonexponential decaying solutions to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. We show that the exponential-nonexponential transition of decay at long times represents physically a process of interference in time domain of the decaying particle with itself.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 11 of Gene coexpression clusters and putative regulatory elements underlying seed storage reserve accumulation in Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Peng, Fred Y
name: Weselake, Randall J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 6
Pristidia ramosa Yu, Sun & Zhang 2012
Creators: name: Wang, Luyu
name: Chen, Huiming
name: Wu, Panlong
name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Clubionidae
Pristidia
Pristidia ramosa

description: Pristidia ramosa Yu, Sun & Zhang, 2012 (Figs 19A–C)
 Pristidia ramosa Yu et al., 2012: 45, figs 1–16 (♂ ♀).
Material examined. 1♀, Heiwanhe (27°50.80′N, 108°46.29′E; elev. 588 m), 18.VII.2013, L.Y. Wang, T. Lu & X.K. Jiang leg.; 1♀, Heiwanhe, 24.VII.2013, L.Y. Wang, T. Lu & X.K. Jiang leg.; 1♀, Zhiwuyuan (27°50′2.42″N, 108°45′30.08″E; elev. 532 m), 26.VII.2013, L.Y. Wang, T. Lu & X.K. Jiang leg.
 Description. See Yu et al. (2012). Habitus as shown in Fig. 19A, epigyne as in Figs 19B–C.
Distribution. China (Fujiang, Guizhou, Guangxi, Jiangxi).
 Funding This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31471974, 31672278) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (XDJK 2017B003) to Zhisheng Zhang, and the Foundation of Biologic Resource and Environment Big Data ([2015] 4013) to Huiming Chen.
 Acknowledgements Thanks are greatly given to the editor and two anonymous reviewers. Early version of this manuscript benefited from the comments of Yuri Marusik (Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, Russia), Kiril Mikhailov (Moscow Lomonosov State University, Russia) and Charles Haddad (University of the Free State, South Africa) for their helpful suggestions. We thank Dong Wang, Xuankong Jiang, Tian Lu (SWUC) and Junxia Zhang, Chi Jin, Zhizhong Gao (MHBU) for their assistance during the field work.
description: Published as part of Wang, Luyu, Chen, Huiming, Wu, Panlong, Zhang, Feng & Zhang, Zhisheng, 2018, Spider diversity in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, II: Clubionidae (Araneae), pp. 317-333 in Zoological Systematics 43 (3) on page 332, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201827, http://zenodo.org/record/5366468
Optimal transport and colossal ionic mechano-conductance in graphene crown ethers
Creators: name: Sahu, Subin
name: Elenewski, Justin
name: Rohmann, Christoph
name: Zwolak, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Biological ion channels balance electrostatic and dehydration effects to yield large ion selectivities alongside high transport rates. These macromolecular systems are often interrogated through point mutations of their pore domain, limiting the scope of mechanistic studies. In contrast, we demonstrate that graphene crown ether pores afford a simple platform to directly investigate optimal ion transport conditions, i.e., maximum current densities and selectivity. Crown ethers are known for selective ion adsorption. When embedded in graphene, however, transport rates lie below the drift-diffusion limit. We show that small pore strains -- 1 % -- give rise to a colossal -- 100 % -- change in conductance. This process is electromechanically tunable, with optimal transport in a primarily diffusive regime, tending toward barrierless transport, as opposed to a knock-on mechanism. Measurements of mechanical current modulation will yield direct information on the local electrostatic conditions of the pore. These observations suggest a novel setup for nanofluidic devices while giving insight into the physical foundation of evolutionarily--optimized ion transport in biological pores.
Impact on Western Australia’s sheep supply chain of the termination of live sheep exports
Creators: name: Nath, Tanmoy
name: Kingwell, Ross S.
name: Cunningham, Peter
name: Islam, Nazrul
name: Xayavong, Vilaphonh
name: Curtis, Kimbal
name: Feldman, David
name: Anderton, Lucy
name: Mahindua, Truphena
name: Nath, Tanmoy
name: Kingwell, Ross S.
name: Cunningham, Peter
name: Islam, Nazrul
name: Xayavong, Vilaphonh
name: Curtis, Kimbal
name: Feldman, David
name: Anderton, Lucy
name: Mahindua, Truphena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Live sheep export
subject: animal welfare
subject: regional economic impacts
subject: industry value chains

description: Western Australia (WA) supplies around three-quarters of Australia’s exports of live sheep. The number of sheep exported live from WA has ranged from 4.5 million to 2.4 million with the trend in numbers exported being downwards. The future of this export trade appears to be increasingly vulnerable and uncertain, primarily because of the influence of animal welfare lobbyists. This paper uses scenario analysis to assess the impact on WA’s sheep supply chain of the termination of the live sheep export trade. The supply chain comprises three subsectors: farm production, processing/wholesale and retailing/export. The impacts of the trade termination on each of these sub-sectors are reported. These impacts are strongly linked to how producers respond to termination of the trade. If producers choose to exit the industry or reduce their sheep production in response to the likely lower prices that would follow a reduction in the live export trade, then the abattoirs eventually will suffer through reduced throughput and their support industries will have reduced demand for their services. Meat processors will benefit initially through access to sheep that previously would have been exported live, but these processors may not necessarily benefit in the longer term if the sheep population declines. Further, markets that currently accept live sheep may not necessarily accept the equivalent volume of chilled and frozen sheep meat and may not pay equivalent prices to those currently paid for live sheep. There are cultural, religious and economic preferences for live sheep in some Middle East markets so a simple substitution of chilled and frozen sheep meat for live sheep is not possible in some major markets.
The long term investment decision : a case study of the rubber smallholders of Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Jayasuriya, Sisira Kumara Weerawardana
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Rubber industry and trade Sri Lanka
subject: Developing countries Agriculture

description: Millions of smallholder farmers in many of the less developed coiontries engage in the cultivation of perennial cash crops. The productivity of such crops declines with age necessitating periodic asset renewal. Since planting and replanting is a long term investment, planning and policy formulation requires an understanding of the decision-making process of smallholder farmers. This study examines the case of the rubber smallholders of Sri Lanka and attempts to draw out the important theoretical and policy implications of their behaviour. The historical development of cash cropping and the establishment of the rubber smallholding sector is analysed in some detail and the major phases of this process are described. It is shown that the decision-making environment and the decision problem it self that farmers face has changed substantially in different periods. In particular, attention is drawn to the differences between new planting and replanting. The latter problem is substantially more complex than the former. Using a conventional approach of investment theory, a model of asset replacement appropriate to the decision problem facing a rubber smallholder is developed. The model is extended to the case where uncertainty is explicitly included. The implications of changes in such parameters as long and short run price expectations, different types of technological change, subsidies and taxes, etc. for the optimal replacement time and the optimal replacement crop are discussed. On the basis of a f i e l d survey carried out among a sample of rubber smallholders in 1975, the model i s tested with empirical data. Results suggest that there is a significant difference in the decision-making patterns of the better - off farmers, who mainly use hired labour, and the poorer farmers who use family labour. The former group can be broadly considered to maximise (expected) profits as predicted by conventional investment theory. The existence of a replanting subsidy allows the poorer farmers to meet most of the unavoidable cash costs of replanting; for them the investment decision then reduces to one of 'labour investment' now, in expectation of future cash incomes, rather than primarily a choice between present and future cash incomes. Under the present set of circumstances the farmers in the two groups often come to the same decisions, but the underlying decision-making processes are different. However, the role of the replanting subsidy is crucial. Future changes in circumstances may lead to quite different decisions.
Can the Lepton Flavor Mixing Matrix Be Symmetric?
Creators: name: Xing, Zhi-zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current neutrino oscillation data indicate that the 3x3 lepton flavor mixing matrix V is likely to be symmetric about its V_{e3}-V_{μ2}-V_{τ1} axis. This off-diagonal symmetry corresponds to three pairs of {\it congruent} unitarity triangles in the complex plane. Terrestrial matter effects can substantially modify the genuine CP-violating parameter and off-diagonal asymmetries of V in realistic long-baseline experiments of neutrino oscillations.
description: RexTex 14 pages (4 PS figures). More discussions added
Additional file 4: of Validation of the IPF-specific version of St. Georgeâ s Respiratory Questionnaire
Creators: name: Prior, Thomas
name: Hoyer, Nils
name: Shaker, Saher
name: Davidsen, Jesper
name: Yorke, Janelle
name: Hilberg, Ole
name: Bendstrup, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Missing items at baseline. (DOCX 15 kb)
Tanaella rotundicephala Sieg 1986
Creators: name: Larsen, Kim
name: Heard, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Tanaidacea
Tanaellidae
Tanaella
Tanaella rotundicephala

description: Tanaella rotundicephala Sieg, 1986
 Distribution. This species is only found off the Antarctic Peninsula. Bathymetric range 119– 124 m.
 Remarks. The biarticulated uropod endopod and the short cephalothorax separate this species from all other species of Tanaella. This species is only known from one specimen.
description: Published as part of Larsen, Kim & Heard, Richard, 2004, Revision of the tanaidomorphan deep-sea genus Tanaella (Crustacea: Tanaidacea), pp. 549-579 in Journal of Natural History 38 (5) on page 571, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000036505, http://zenodo.org/record/5258680
Factors behind smallholder rubber flows in Selangor, Malaysia
Creators: name: Cho, George Chin Huat
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Rubber industry and trade Malaysia Selangor

description: This study focuses on the non-behavioural factors behind the shipment of rubber by individual smallholders in Selangor, Malaysia in 1975, It reviews commodity flow studies in geography to reveal the reasons for the particular emphasis on individual rubber smallholders. An examination is then made of the literature on rubber smallholders to isolate the main issues affecting the shipment of rubber — rubber replanting, farm fragmentation, processing and smallholder-dealer interaction. As it was not possible to tackle these issues throughout Selangor a sample of smallholders was taken, The method of sampling is described before examining each of the four key issues in turn. In studying rubber replanting attention is concentrated on non-replanters, in farm fragmentation on dual operators, in processing on government sponsored initiatives such as group processing centres and central processing factories, and in smallholder-dealer interaction on the access of government dealers. These studies are drawn together in a conclusion which reviews the varying impact of these factors on the nature and direction of flows, the felt need for comparative studies of rubber and non-rubber smallholders and the relevance of this study to the analysis of commodity flows.
Additional file 3: of Validation of the IPF-specific version of St. Georgeâ s Respiratory Questionnaire
Creators: name: Prior, Thomas
name: Hoyer, Nils
name: Shaker, Saher
name: Davidsen, Jesper
name: Yorke, Janelle
name: Hilberg, Ole
name: Bendstrup, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Changes and comments in the translation process. (DOCX 14 kb)
Additional file 1 of NucHMM: a method for quantitative modeling of nucleosome organization identifying functional nucleosome states distinctly associated with splicing potentiality
Creators: name: Fang, Kun
name: Li, Tianbao
name: Huang, Yufei
name: Jin, Victor X.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. NucHMM: a method for quantitative modeling of nucleosome organization identifying functional nucleosome states distinctly associated with splicing potentiality: Suppl. Notes, Figures and Tables.