cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Facebook Brand Page on Consumer Purchase Intention with Reference to Fashion Retailing Industry
Creators: name: Dk, Thilina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The competition in the fashion retail industry of Sri Lanka is reaching new heights due to various demands of the fashion consumers in Sri Lanka. As per the significant growth in the fashion retailing sector in Sri Lanka the marketers need to define the strategies to address their customer intentions. Especially with the rapid growth of the social networking sites especially Facebook in Sri Lanka, fashion retailers have to align their social media strategies with the online behavior of the consumers. This is study; mainly focused to understand the influence of Facebook fashion retailers’ brand page and purchase intention among the Sri Lankan Face book users. Objectives of this research were to understand the influence of engaging on Facebook brand page on purchase intention for fashion retail in Sri Lanka, therefore the researcher has investigated main construct of Perceived Usefulness (PU) and Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU) of the Facebook brand page and their relationship with both Attitude towards Brand (ATB) and Purchase Intention respectively. Finally, to see whether there is a mediating effect of Attitude towards Brand on the relationship between PU and Purchase Intention and PEOU and Purchase Intension respectively. The review is based on the theoretical rationale and supportive empirical findings. A descriptive statistical review is presented to reasoning why fashion industry is considered as a context to be examined whilst empirical evidences are presented to support the arguments. The paper concludes with research propositions to examine how Facebook Brand Page make an influence on Consumer Purchase Intention.
Reproductive Health Awareness of College Students.pdf
Creators: name: Asio, John Mark R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111404 Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: 111709 Health Care Administration
subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: 111708 Health and Community Services

description: This descriptive study examines the reproductive health awareness of 100 randomly selected college students in selected private colleges in Olongapo City. The survey covered six basic and common reproductive health issues: maternal and child health, family planning, promotion of breastfeeding, adolescent reproductive health, prevention and management of abortion, prevention and management of reproductive tract infections. The data were subjected using weighted mean, and Pearson –r. The following information was generated: student-respondents were aware of the six basic and common reproductive health issues. On the sources of students' information, which included socio-economic conditions, status of women, social and gender issues, culture and psycho-social issues, the respondents perceived all of these factors as important. The correlational analysis also revealed a moderate to strong relationship values in all six health issues. The sources of students’ information significantly affected the levels of awareness in the different issues about reproductive health. Moreover, the sources of reproductive health information come from the following according as ranked by the respondents: parents, nurse/ doctor, television, friends, and the internet.
Potential Savings by Shipping Cauliflower in Double-Layer Packs
Creators: name: Masters, B. M.
name: Winter, J. C.
name: Rosanoff, B. P.
name: Masters, B. M.
name: Winter, J. C.
name: Rosanoff, B. P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Excerpts from the report Introduction: California is by far the most important source of cauliflower, but producers in that State have realized a steadily diminishing return from their output over the last 11 years. There have been times during the shipping seasons when it was uneconomical to harvest all of the crop and large quantities of cauliflower had to be abandoned in the field. Although this was due in part to a decline in wholesale prices at the terminal markets, the unfortunate situation could be attributed more directly to steadily mounting costs of containers, packing, shipping, and transportation. Established shipping practices were reappraised and double-layer packing of closely trimmed cauliflower heads in broccoli crates, of somewhat larger capacity than the present cauliflower crate, was tried out and the technical aspects of the problem evaluated by the field personnel of the Western Growers Association. The results of those studies and experiments are set forth in this report.
Reply to Millis et al. on "A Tale of Two Theories: Quantum Griffiths Effects in Metallic Systems"
Creators: name: Neto, A. H. Castro
name: Jones, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper (cond-mat/0411197) we showed the equivalence of two seemingly contradictory theories on Griffiths-McCoy singularities (GMS) in metallic antiferromagnets close to a quantum critical point (QCP). In a recent comment, Millis {\it et al.} (cond-mat/0411738) argue that in heavy-fermion materials the electronic damping is large leading to the freezing of locally magnetically ordered droplets at high temperatures. In this reply we show that this erroneous conclusion is based on a treatment of the problem of disorder close to a QCP which is not self-consistent. We argue that a self-consistent treatment of the ordered droplets must lead to weak damping and to a large region of GMS behavior, in agreement with the our ealier results.
description: 2 pages. Updated version
ALTERNATIVE CALIBRATION AND AUCTION INSTITUTIONS FOR PREDICTING CONSUMER WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY FOR NON-GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN CHIPS
Creators: name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Daniel, M. Scott
name: Mark, Darrell R.
name: Lusk, Christine L.
name: Lusk, Jayson L.
name: Daniel, M. Scott
name: Mark, Darrell R.
name: Lusk, Christine L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis

description: This study explores two important issues in experimental economics: calibration and auction institution. Consumer willingness-to-pay bids for corn chips made with non-genetically modified ingredients are elicited from a 1st price and 2nd price auction. Results suggest that responses to scale differential questions, in a survey, accurately predict consumer willingness-to-pay bids. The 2 nd price auction induces a greater percentage of marginal bidders to offer a positive bid than a 1st price auction. However, average bid levels in the 1st and 2nd price auctions were not statistically different from one other. In a small and unrepresentative sample, 70 percent of student participants were unwilling to pay to exchange a bag of genetically modified corn chips for a bag of non-genetically modified corn chips. However, 20 percent of respondents were willing to pay at least $0.25/oz for the exchange.
Precios, costos y desequilibrio monetario: la experiencia peruana 1981-1988
Creators: name: Escobal D'Angelo, Javier
name: Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime
name: Escobal D'Angelo, Javier
name: Saavedra Chanduvi, Jaime
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Inflacion
subject: Precios
subject: Costos
subject: Modelos econometricos
subject: Inflation
subject: Prices
subject: Costs
subject: Econometric models
subject: Peru

description: Este documento analiza el proceso inflacionario en el Perú durante el período 1981-1988. Los resultados de este trabajo muestran la necesidad de profundizar el estudio de los distintos mecanismos que lo impulsan. Asimismo, se evalúa la importancia de las presiones de costos y de demanda en distintos momentos del ciclo económico y se discute la importancia de los procesos inerciales.
Hidden symmetry algebra and construction of quadratic algebras of superintegrable systems
Creators: name: Campoamor-Stursberg, Rutwig
name: Marquette, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The notion of hidden symmetry algebra used in the context of exactly solvable systems is re-examined from the purely algebraic way, analyzing subspaces of commuting polynomials that generate finite-dimensional quadratic algebras. By construction, these algebras do not depend on the choice of realizations by vector fields of the underlying Lie algebra, allowing to propose a procedure to analyze polynomial algebras as those subspaces in an enveloping algebra that commute with a given algebraic Hamiltonian.
description: 12 pages
Recipes for bolometric corrections and Gaia luminosities of B-type stars: Application to an asteroseismic sample
Creators: name: Pedersen, May G.
name: Escorza, Ana
name: Papics, Peter I.
name: Aerts, Conny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide three statistical model prescriptions for the bolometric corrections appropriate for B-type stars as a function of: 1) T_eff, 2) T_eff, log g, and 3) T_eff, log g, [M/H]. These statistical models have been calculated for 27 different filters, including those of the Gaia space mission, and were derived based on two different grids of bolometric corrections assuming LTE and LTE+NLTE, respectively. Previous such work has mainly been limited to a single photometric passband without taking into account NLTE effects on the bolometric corrections. Using these statistical models, we calculate the luminosities of 34 slowly pulsating B-type (SPB) stars with available spectroscopic parameters, to place them in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and compare their position to the theoretical SPB instability strip. We find that excluding NLTE effects has no significant impact on the derived luminosities for the temperature range 11500-21000 K. We conclude that spectroscopic parameters are needed in order to achieve meaningful luminosities of B-type stars. The three prescriptions for the bolometric corrections are valid for any galactic B-type star with effective temperatures and surface gravities in the ranges 10000-30000 K and 2.5-4.5 dex, respectively, covering regimes below the Eddington limit.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Unsupervised Differentiable Multi-aspect Network Embedding
Creators: name: Park, Chanyoung
name: Yang, Carl
name: Zhu, Qi
name: Kim, Donghyun
name: Yu, Hwanjo
name: Han, Jiawei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Network embedding is an influential graph mining technique for representing nodes in a graph as distributed vectors. However, the majority of network embedding methods focus on learning a single vector representation for each node, which has been recently criticized for not being capable of modeling multiple aspects of a node. To capture the multiple aspects of each node, existing studies mainly rely on offline graph clustering performed prior to the actual embedding, which results in the cluster membership of each node (i.e., node aspect distribution) fixed throughout training of the embedding model. We argue that this not only makes each node always have the same aspect distribution regardless of its dynamic context, but also hinders the end-to-end training of the model that eventually leads to the final embedding quality largely dependent on the clustering. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end framework for multi-aspect network embedding, called asp2vec, in which the aspects of each node are dynamically assigned based on its local context. More precisely, among multiple aspects, we dynamically assign a single aspect to each node based on its current context, and our aspect selection module is end-to-end differentiable via the Gumbel-Softmax trick. We also introduce the aspect regularization framework to capture the interactions among the multiple aspects in terms of relatedness and diversity. We further demonstrate that our proposed framework can be readily extended to heterogeneous networks. Extensive experiments towards various downstream tasks on various types of homogeneous networks and a heterogeneous network demonstrate the superiority of asp2vec.
description: KDD 2020 (Research Track). 9 Pages + Appendix (2 Pages). Source code can be found https://github.com/pcy1302/asp2vec. Typo fixed in Fig.2
Non-uniqueness of steady-state weak solutions to the surface quasi-geostrophic equations
Creators: name: Cheng, Xinyu
name: Kwon, Hyunju
name: Li, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show the existence of nontrivial stationary weak solutions to the surface quasi-geostrophic equations on the two dimensional periodic torus.
description: 8 pages, improved regularity and added references
Beurling-Ahlfors extension by heat kernel, ${\rm A}_\infty$-weights for VMO, and vanishing Carleson measures
Creators: name: Wei, Huaying
name: Matsuzaki, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate a variant of the Beurling-Ahlfors extension of quasisymmetric homeomorphisms of the real line that is given by the convolution of the heat kernel, and prove that the complex dilatation of such a quasiconformal extension of a strongly symmetric homeomorphism (i.e. its derivative is an ${\rm A}_\infty$-weight whose logarithm is in VMO) induces a vanishing Carleson measure on the upper half-plane.
Costs of Operating Selected Feed Mills as Influenced by Volume, Services, and other Factors
Creators: name: Brensike, V. John
name: Askew, William R.
name: Brensike, V. John
name: Askew, William R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: Excerpts from the report Introduction: This report is the second in a series of studies of the feed milling industry. Subsequent case study analyses are planned in order to ascertain the influence of managerial decisions, plant design, and so forth. The present report analyzes the costs of operating 126 firms to determine the average per-unit costs for firms of various volumes, to show the influence of some of the major services on these costs, and to show the relative importance of some of the major individual cost items. This has been accomplished by analyzing (1) the total expenses of operating a feed-mixing establishment, (2) the wages and salaries paid for producing the mixed feed, and (3) the physical inputs of production labor used in producing the mixed feeds. The term "total expenses," as used in this report, applies to the costs of operating feed-mixing establishments, including the costs incurred in purchasing, handling, warehousing, mixing, and selling. Ingredient costs, cost of freight in and out, and the costs for bags or other containers and tags were not considered.
Holographic Projection of Electromagnetic Maxwell Theory
Creators: name: Bertolini, Erica
name: Maggiore, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 4D Maxwell theory with single-sided planar boundary is considered. As a consequence of the presence of the boundary, two broken Ward identities are recovered, which, on-shell, give rise to two conserved currents living on the edge. A Kaç-Moody algebra formed by a subset of the bulk fields is obtained with central charge proportional to the inverse of the Maxwell coupling constant, and the degrees of freedom of the boundary theory are identified as two vector fields, also suggesting that the 3D theory should be a gauge theory. Finally the holographic contact between bulk and boundary theory is reached in two inequivalent ways, both leading to a unique 3D action describing a new gauge theory of two coupled vector fields with a topological Chern-Simons term with massive coefficient. In order to check that the 3D projection of 4D Maxwell theory is well defined, we computed the energy-momentum tensor and the propagators. The role of discrete symmetries is briefly discussed.
description: 29 pages
title: Departing the parting – Jean-François Lyotard's 'The Hyphen' in light of Jewish and Christian studies
Creators: name: Anderson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Jean-François Lyotard, Daniel Boyarin, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Differends, Idioms, Parting of the Ways.

description: History is narrated, as any good storyteller knows, and narration depends for its effects on our notions and metaphors. In their 2002 introduction to 'The Ways That Never Parted', Annette Yoshiko Reed and Adam H. Becker write “The notion of an early and absolute split between Judaism and Christianity, but also the 'master narrative' about Jewish and Christian history that pivots on this notion is being called into question” (2007, p.4). In this thesis, by bringing the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard’s 'The Hyphen' into dialogue with both the “parting of the ways” and many other voices from within Jewish and Christian studies, I continue this calling into question. This dismantling does not leave us bereft of notions, narratives, and concepts but with the beginnings of new ones; as Judith Lieu has claimed “a more flexible 'map' [is] required”, as are “different models to answer different questions or maintain different interpretations” (1995, p.101). In a series of chapters, Lyotard’s concepts of “designators”, “idioms”, “obligation” and “differends”, are offered as some potential new models, and their interactions clarified. As well as conveying the, often implicit, sense these concepts had for Lyotard, further distinctions are layered in that he left unsaid. By way of this, a new conceptual schema for discussing religious “phrases” – encompassing both linguistic and other acts – is outlined and the areas for further elaboration within it are indicated. In each chapter, this schema is applied to specific texts from within Jewish and Christian studies, to see what new light it can cast on these debates, as well as to refine and test it. All of this is offered in support of a second level argument, that a renewed dialogue between Lyotard’s writings and Jewish and Christian studies could generate ways out of the impasses in each of their paths ahead.
Políticas de precios y subsidios agrícolas: impactos macroeconómico y sectorial: Perú 1985-1988
Creators: name: Escobal D'Angelo, Javier
name: Escobal D'Angelo, Javier
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Economia agraria
subject: Politica agraria
subject: Sector agropecuario
subject: Precios agricolas
subject: Politica de precios
subject: Subsidios
subject: Peru
subject: Agricultural economics
subject: Agrarian policy
subject: Agricultural sector
subject: Agricultural prices
subject: Prices policy
subject: Subsidies

description: Este documento presenta y analiza las principales políticas aplicadas por el gobierno aprista para reactivar el agro peruano, evaluando su viabilidad financiera de corto y mediano plazo y sus efectos sobre el propio sector agrario y la economía en su conjunto. Describe y analiza la política de precios agrícolas, la política cambiaria y la política crediticia; evalúa los efectos de las políticas macroeconómicas descritas y de los subsidios agrícolas, en especial aquéllos que inciden sobre la inflación, el déficit fiscal y los términos de intercambio intersectoriales.
Perspectivas a largo plazo de la acuicultura en el Perú
Creators: name: Salazar, Raul
name: Salazar, Raul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Acuacultura
subject: Aquaculture
subject: Peru

description: Este documento presenta una visión general de la situación y perspectivas de la acuicultura en el Perú, con énfasis en el aspecto económico. Analiza la situación actual de la acuicultura a escala mundial y sus perspectivas a largo plazo, y evalúa el potencial acuícola del país, encontrándose que en el ámbito marino el Perú dispone de ventajas en relación a otros países. Por último, evalúa la experiencia peruana en diversos tipos de acuicultura.
Decisiones de precio en alta inflación: una revisión
Creators: name: Paredes, Carlos E.
name: Paredes, Carlos E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Politica de precios
subject: Modelos econometricos
subject: Inflacion
subject: Peru
subject: Prices policy
subject: Econometric models
subject: Inflation

description: Este documento revisa un modelo de determinacióln de precios en un entorno de alta inflación e incertidumbre. Se centra en el análisis de los efectos del cambio en el nivel de incertidumbre sobre la tasa "óptima" de inflación. Propone, además, una línea de investigación para comprobar la validez empírica del modelo.
Indicadores comparativos de los resultados de la investigación científica y tecnológica en América Latina
Creators: name: Arregui, Patricia McLauchlan De
name: Arregui, Patricia McLauchlan De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Ciencia y tecnologia
subject: Investigacion
subject: Indicadores
subject: America Latina
subject: Science and technology
subject: Research
subject: Indicators
subject: Latin America

description: Este documento, buscando describir la situación de la ciencia y tecnología en América Latina, presenta y analiza las principales estadísticas disponibles para medir la producción, la distribución por áreas temáticas, el impacto y la calidad de la investigación científica y tecnológica realizada en América Latina entre 1973 y 1984. El documento contiene, también, una evaluación de los indicadores convencionales de resultados de la investigación (publicaciones, citaciones, patentes y premios científicos), describe las fuentes de donde provienen los datos y la metodología utilizada para la elaboración de los resultados presentados.
A Blockchain-based Decentralized Federated Learning Framework with Committee Consensus
Creators: name: Li, Yuzheng
name: Chen, Chuan
name: Liu, Nan
name: Huang, Huawei
name: Zheng, Zibin
name: Yan, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Federated learning has been widely studied and applied to various scenarios. In mobile computing scenarios, federated learning protects users from exposing their private data, while cooperatively training the global model for a variety of real-world applications. However, the security of federated learning is increasingly being questioned, due to the malicious clients or central servers' constant attack to the global model or user privacy data. To address these security issues, we proposed a decentralized federated learning framework based on blockchain, i.e., a Blockchain-based Federated Learning framework with Committee consensus (BFLC). The framework uses blockchain for the global model storage and the local model update exchange. To enable the proposed BFLC, we also devised an innovative committee consensus mechanism, which can effectively reduce the amount of consensus computing and reduce malicious attacks. We then discussed the scalability of BFLC, including theoretical security, storage optimization, and incentives. Finally, we performed experiments using real-world datasets to verify the effectiveness of the BFLC framework.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures and 1 table
Política económica, industrialización y exportaciones de manufacturas en el Perú
Creators: name: Paredes, Carlos E.
name: Paredes, Carlos E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Politica economica
subject: Politica de exportacion
subject: Diversificacion de exportaciones
subject: Peru
subject: Economic policy
subject: Export policy
subject: Export diversification

description: Este documento revisa el proceso de industrialización peruano a partir de los años cincuenta, desde la perspectiva de la evolución de su sesgo pro o antiexportador. Además, analiza la evolución de las políticas que afectaron la rentabilidad de la actividad exportadora en general y su efecto sobre las exportaciones de manufacturas, para lo cual se estima un modelo econométrico de oferta de exportaciones. Finalmente, se presenta una serie de simulaciones sobre la evolución futura de la balanza de pagos del país.
title: Silicon nitride waveguides and micro-ring resonators for photonic integrated circuits
Creators: name: Sinclair, Martin
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Photonics, waveguide, microring, ring resonator, resonator, atomic systems, MEMS, silicon nitride, nanofabrication, electron beam lithography, nanophotonics.

description: This work represents significant progress in the development of a Si3N4 waveguide platform for near infra-red wavelengths as required for 87Rb chip-scale atomic systems. The theoretical framework provided by ray optic and electromagnetic theory have formed a basis for understanding waveguide phenomena. Coupled mode theory has been used to determine the microring resonator coupling coefficient. An analytical model of a micro-ring resonator has been used to show that Q factor can be optimised by the decreasing the coupling coefficient. The Lacey-Payne scattering model suggests that increased waveguide width and reduced index contrast results in decreased loss due to sidewall scattering. Q factor has therefore been optimised by increasing waveguide width, developing a top cladding process, and operating in the undercoupled regime. By this approach, a record high Q factor value of (1.38*0.04)*10^6 has been demonstrated for buried waveguide micro-ring resonators operating around 780 nm corresponding to a propagation loss of 0.261*0.009 dB cm^−1. This high-Q micro-ring resonator could serve as a frequency reference for laser frequency stabilisation but a temperature dependent resonance wavelength shift of 7.34 pmK^−1 is expected and would require active temperature stabilisation to within 25mK. Passive athermalisation of a micro-ring resonator by optimising the thickness of polymer top cladding materials with a negative thermo-optic coeffcient has been investigated by simulation. A significant reduction of the temperature dependent wavelength shift of a micro-ring resonance peak has been found for PMMA and SU8 top cladding layers, 1.20 pmK^−1 and 0.14 pmK^−1 respectively corresponding to a required temperature stability of 167mK and 1.43K. Coupling of light from a Si3N4 waveguide to collimated free-space Gaussian beam has been considered within the context of developing an on-chip interferometer intended to measure the displacement of a MEMS gravimeter proof-mass. The divergence of a free-space coupled Gaussian beam has been determined. Taking into account the use of an SU8 spot-size converter, the Fresnel reflectance of the SU8 waveguide, and the measured reflectance of the silicon proof mass, the beam divergence is still found to be the dominant loss mechanism for the propagation distances involved in this application. Use of a micro-ball lens to collimate the beam was considered using various simulation techniques, determining that the vertical positioning of the lens would pose the greatest fabrication challenge. Processes were developed to produce SU8 waveguides, registration blocks, and micro-ball lens receptacles.
Reversed Cherenkov-transition radiation in a waveguide partly filled with an anisotropic dispersive medium
Creators: name: Alekhina, T. Yu.
name: Tyukhtin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the electromagnetic field of a bunch that moves uniformly in a circular metal waveguide and crosses a boundary between a vacuum area and an area filled with an anisotropic dispersive nonmagnetic medium. The medium is characterized by the diagonal dielectric permittivity tensor with components possessing frequency dispersion of plasma types. The investigation of the waveguide mode components is performed with the methods of the complex variable function theory. It is shown that in compliance with the parameters of the medium, Cherenkov radiation (CR) generated in the filled area of the waveguide can have reversed direction in relation to the bunch motion. CR can penetrate into the vacuum area of the waveguide, that is, the intensive reversed Cherenkov-transition radiation (RCTR) can be generated. The main properties of this radiation are described, and essential differences from the RCTR in the case of isotropic left-handed medium are revealed.
The Victorian Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor Submission: Monitoring the Family Violence Reforms
Creators: name: Fitz-Gibbon, Kate
name: McCulloch, Jude
name: JaneMaree Maher
name: Meyer, Silke
name: Segrave, Marie
name: Pfitzner, Naomi
name: McGowan, Jasmine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This submission has been prepared by members of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (MGFVPC).Our submission focuses on how the family violence service system has changed since the Royal Commission and what we believe is still required to ensure Victoria continues to lead the world in improving responses to, and the prevention of, all forms of family violence. In the final section of our submission we have outlined findings from our recent research examining the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on responses to women and children experiencing violence in Victoria.The submission also provides summary details of Royal Commission research completed by MGFVPC researchers as well as current research that we are leading examining family violence and the COVID-19 global health pandemic.
Improving Feeder Cattle Basis Forecasts
Creators: name: Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
name: Swanser, Kole
name: Kastens, Terry L.
name: Mintert, James R.
name: Crosby, Brett
name: Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
name: Swanser, Kole
name: Kastens, Terry L.
name: Mintert, James R.
name: Crosby, Brett
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: basis
subject: basis forecasts
subject: cattle prices
subject: feeder cattle
subject: hedging
subject: price risk management

description: Forecasting feeder cattle basis has long been difficult because of the myriad factors that influence basis, including input and output prices and lot characteristics. This research draws upon knowledge of the various factors that influence cash feeder cattle prices to develop hedonic feeder cattle basis models. Out-of-sample test results provide strong evidence that these hedonic models predict basis more accurately than the multi-year average forecasting approach commonly used by livestock producers. Results from this research were used to develop a web tool funded by USDA's Risk Management Agency (BeefBasis.com) that producers can use to forecast and understand feeder cattle basis.
Cost and Benefit Analysis of a Preconditioning Feeder Calf Program
Creators: name: Donnell, Jeri
name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Donnell, Jeri
name: Ward, Clement E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Cattle
subject: calves
subject: preconditioning
subject: prices
subject: costs
subject: age and source verification

description: Objectives were twofold: Determine key factors influencing preconditioning cost and returns; and determine the premium for age and source verified, preconditioned calves sold at a public livestock market. Data provided by the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation show preconditioning returns depend significantly on number of days preconditioned, average daily gain, and cost of vaccinations, hay, feed, and mineral. Noble Foundation cooperators received a premium for age and source verified, preconditioned feeder cattle when sold at market. Significant coefficients averaged across five sales conclude that Noble Foundation management practices receive a $2.49/cwt premium when compared to all other cattle sold at market.
title: Review: "Cultures of Motorway: Localities Through Mobility as an Anthropological Issue" / Waldemar Kuligowski, Agata Stanisz (ed.). Wielichowo: TIPI, 2016. ISBN: 978–83–62490–21–9
Creators: name: Wells, Peter
name: Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (Www.Pol-Int.Org)
Publisher: name: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Year: 2021

description: This book is a charming and compassionate compendium of mostly anthropological research on motorways, motoring and localities. In a series of short but engaging chapters the various authors explore the fascinating mundane, and in so doing elevate mobility from the merely functional to the realm of cultural idiosyncrasy.
Additional file 3 of Motion-corrected 3D whole-heart water-fat high-resolution late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging
Creators: name: Munoz, Camila
name: Bustin, Aurelien
name: Radhouene Neji
name: Kunze, Karl P.
name: Forman, Christoph
name: Schmidt, Michaela
name: Hajhosseiny, Reza
name: Pier-Giorgio Masci
name: Zeilinger, Martin
name: Wuest, Wolfgang
name: Botnar, René M.
name: Prieto, Claudia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3. Multi-planar reformatting of the 3D (water) LGE image acquired every second heartbeat for Patient 16, showing vertical and horizontal long axis and short axis views. The spatial resolution of the images enables a clear depiction of a small anterior sub-endocardial myocardial infarction in the short axis view (red arrow).
Additional file 3 of Valuing All Voices: refining a trauma-informed, intersectional and critical reflexive framework for patient engagement in health research using a qualitative descriptive approach
Creators: name: P. Roche
name: C. Shimmin
name: S. Hickes
name: M. Khan
name: O. Sherzoi
name: E. Wicklund
name: J. G. Lavoie
name: S. Hardie
name: K. D. M. Wittmeier
name: Sibley, K. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Appendix 3. Demographic Questionnaire
Washington Biofuel Feedstock Supply under Price Uncertainty
Creators: name: Zheng, Qiujie
name: Shumway, C. Richard
name: Zheng, Qiujie
name: Shumway, C. Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: biofuel feedstock
subject: price uncertainty
subject: supply

description: Biofuels, as alternative transportation fuels, are now being used globally. Taking advantage of in-state feedstock supply is an efficient way to stimulate in-state biofuel industries and the local economy. This paper uses the mean-variance model of utility maximization to estimate supply equations for major biofuel feedstock crops in Washington. We consider price risk, examine the comparative statics results of the model, and use the results to draw important decision-making implications for Washington farmers who are considering production of biofuel feedstocks. Of three potential feedstock crops, only one shows immediate promise in Washington.
A null series with small anti-analytic part
Creators: name: Kozma, Gady
name: Olevskii, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that it is possible for a square integrable function on the circle, which is a sum of an almost everywhere convergent series of exponentials with positive frequencies, to not belong to the Hardy space. A consequence in the uniqueness theory is obtained.
description: 6 pages. Should be identical to journal version except for the French abstract
أثر برنامج بإستخدام تعديل في سلوكات غذائية مصحوب بتمارين المشي على تحسين بعض المتغيرات البيولوجيا و الجسمية لدى سيدات الماكثات في البيت
Creators: name: ﺑﺨﻮش, إﺑﺮاهﻴﻢ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nutritional behaviors . Biometrics . Physical measurements .

description: Through the study, we aim to identify the impact of a proposed program by modifying food behaviors with aerobic exercises for weight loss and improving some biological and physical measurements of women staying at home. The semi-experimental curriculum was used on a sample of 2 women staying at home. The sample was selected in the intended way. (Laboratory) and measurements (oceans) for achieving results, the most important results obtained were that the program for modifying dietary behaviors accompanied by aerobicexercises directly affected weight loss and improvement in physical and biological measurements .
title: Rezension: "Opozycja w NRD i w PRL – wzajemne relacje i oceny" / Piotr Zariczny. Gdańsk, Europejskie Centrum Solidarności, 2013. ISBN: 978-83-62853-07-6
Creators: name: Logemann, Daniel
name: Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (Www.Pol-Int.Org)
Publisher: name: Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt
Year: 2021

description: Mit Piotr Zaricznys Buch liegt eine Übersetzung seiner 2004 auf Deutsch erschienen Arbeit (Oppositionelle Intellektuelle in der DDR und in der Volksrepublik Polen – ihre gegenseitige Perzeption und Kontakte) vor, die im Eigenverlag des Europäischen Zentrums der Solidarność in Gdańsk erschienen ist. Damit kann sich nun auch eine polnische Leserschaft mit diesem wissenschaftlich bisher unterbelichteten Thema befassen, wobei das Europäische Zentrum nicht nur das wissenschaftliche Fachpublikum im Blick gehabt haben dürfte.
On Dual Formulation of Gravity
Creators: name: Zinoviev, Yu. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider a possibility to construct dual formulation of gravity where the main dynamical field is the Lorentz connection ω_μ^{ab} and not that of tetrad e_μ^a or metric g_μν. Our approach is based on the usual dualization procedure which uses first order parent Lagrangians but in (Anti) de Sitter space and not in the flat Minkowski one. It turns out that in d=3 dimensions such dual formulation is related with the so called exotic parity-violating interactions for massless spin-2 particles.
description: 7 pages, plain LaTeX
A mixed-method approach for determining the risk and complexity farmers associate with using forward contracts
Creators: name: Jackson, Elizabeth
name: Quaddus, Mohammed
name: Islam, Nazrul
name: Stanton, John
name: Jackson, Elizabeth
name: Quaddus, Mohammed
name: Islam, Nazrul
name: Stanton, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk
subject: complexity
subject: forward contracts
subject: structural equation modelling
subject: partial least squares

description: This paper reports on a model that was developed to understand the behavioural determinants surrounding farmers’ adoption of forward contracts for agricultural commodities. Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour and Diffusion of Innovations, 28 hypotheses within the model were written and then tested via a telephone survey that gathered 305 responses from Western Australian wool producers. The data from the telephone survey were analysed using SPSS 14 and the Partial Least Squares approach to Structural Equation Modelling. Most relationships within the model could be explained after rigorous quantitative analysis, however, further explanation was required to understand two final aspects of adoption behaviour: firstly, the sources of risk wool producers perceive about using forward contracts and, secondly, why ‘complexity’, which is normally a limiting factor to adoption, was not significant in the context of using forward contracts to sell wool. Qualitative case studies of four Western Australian wool producers were conducted to fill these gaps. Key findings from the case studies were that profit-raising, the whole farm system as basis for decision making, the mass media and social pressures are important behavioural factors that are limiting the adoption of forward contracts by Australian wool producers.
Neues Licht über die kirchlichen Reformbestrebungen des Patriarchen Dionysios von Tell Maḥrē
Creators: name: Võõbus, Arthur
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 48 (1964): Oriens christianus, Band 48
Integrable Anisotropic Evolution Equations on a Sphere
Creators: name: Meshkov, Anatoly G.
name: Balakhnev, Maxim Ju.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: V.V. Sokolov's modifying symmetry approach is applied to anisotropic evolution equations of the third order on the n-dimensional sphere. The main result is a complete classification of such equations. Auto-Bäcklund transformations are also found for all equations.
description: Published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/
Optimization techniques applied to the trading of natural gas from a restricted storage facility
Creators: name: Fowler, Ellen Frances
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: We apply operations research techniques to the trading of natural gas from a restricted storage facility. In particular, we consider a gas trading firm that has entered into a one-year contract for gas storage whose terms restrict the balance held at any time and the quantities withdrawn and injected each day. Based on price forecasts assumed to be accurate, mathematical models identify optimal trading plans each day with the objective of maximizing net trading proceeds for the year. We conduct a two-part numerical study. First, we contrast the financial performance of a year of trades prescribed by the optimization model to the outcome according to a "naive" strategy, which represents the strategy of a hypothetical trader unaided by such a model. Comparisons are made using perfect price information, to isolate the value of optimization, and using forecasted prices, in order to make a more practical evaluation. Second, we compare the financial outcomes of our optimal trading decisions when hedging is required and when it is not, in order to gain insight into the opportunity cost of hedging. As expected, optimization models lead to better financial performance than naive strategies in all instances when perfect price information is in place. When prices are forecasted and trading decisions are therefore hampered by forecast inaccuracy, the optimization model outperforms the naive strategy on average although not in every instance. The second component of our analysis suggests that a hedging policy, while eliminating price risk, has a dramatic opportunity cost.
Sl-EDGE: Network Slicing at the Edge
Creators: name: D'Oro, Salvatore
name: Bonati, Leonardo
name: Restuccia, Francesco
name: Polese, Michele
name: Zorzi, Michele
name: Melodia, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Network slicing of multi-access edge computing (MEC) resources is expected to be a pivotal technology to the success of 5G networks and beyond. The key challenge that sets MEC slicing apart from traditional resource allocation problems is that edge nodes depend on tightly-intertwined and strictly-constrained networking, computation and storage resources. Therefore, instantiating MEC slices without incurring in resource over-provisioning is hardly addressable with existing slicing algorithms. The main innovation of this paper is Sl-EDGE, a unified MEC slicing framework that allows network operators to instantiate heterogeneous slice services (e.g., video streaming, caching, 5G network access) on edge devices. We first describe the architecture and operations of Sl-EDGE, and then show that the problem of optimally instantiating joint network-MEC slices is NP-hard. Thus, we propose near-optimal algorithms that leverage key similarities among edge nodes and resource virtualization to instantiate heterogeneous slices 7.5x faster and within 0.25 of the optimum. We first assess the performance of our algorithms through extensive numerical analysis, and show that Sl-EDGE instantiates slices 6x more efficiently then state-of-the-art MEC slicing algorithms. Furthermore, experimental results on a 24-radio testbed with 9 smartphones demonstrate that Sl-EDGE provides at once highly-efficient slicing of joint LTE connectivity, video streaming over WiFi, and ffmpeg video transcoding.
Additional file 2 of Valuing All Voices: refining a trauma-informed, intersectional and critical reflexive framework for patient engagement in health research using a qualitative descriptive approach
Creators: name: P. Roche
name: C. Shimmin
name: S. Hickes
name: M. Khan
name: O. Sherzoi
name: E. Wicklund
name: J. G. Lavoie
name: S. Hardie
name: K. D. M. Wittmeier
name: Sibley, K. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Appendix 2. Participant Interview Guide