cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Asymptotic quasinormal modes of a coupled scalar field in the Gibbons-Maeda dilaton spacetime
Creators: name: Chen, Songbai
name: Jing, Jiliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adopting the monodromy technique devised by Motl and Neitzke, we investigate analytically the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies of a coupled scalar field in the Gibbons-Maeda dilaton spacetime. We find that it is described by $ e^{βω}=-[1+2\cos{(\frac{\sqrt{2ξ+1}}{2} π)}]-e^{-β_I ω}[2+2\cos{(\frac{\sqrt{2ξ+1}}{2}π)}]$, which depends on the structure parameters of the background spacetime and on the coupling between the scalar and gravitational fields. As the parameters $ξ$ and $β_I$ tend to zero, the real parts of the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies becomes $T_H\ln{3}$, which is consistent with Hod's conjecture. When $ξ={91/18} $, the formula becomes that of the Reissner-Nordström spacetime.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Ideological Manipulation of Controversial Information: The Unusual Case of the Chinese-subtitled Version of House of Cards
Creators: name: Wang, Dingkun
name: Zhang, Xiaochun
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2016
Subjects: Translation, subtitling, China, culture, ideology

description: In recent years, owing to the spread of cultural and economic globalisation, Western values and ideologies have become increasingly accessible via media products to the general public in the People’s Republic of China (Mainland China, or China). Although translation enables the exchange of socio-cultural values and ideas across different languages and cultures, it is susceptible to manipulation in terms of political and ideological control. This paper examines interventions by Chinese authorities in the online distribution of foreign audio-visual products. Such interventions are undertaken to secure broadcasting and distribution rights of the government which also encompass more conventional media from other countries, such as television, in promoting mainstream ideological values and political agendas.  Censorship institutions supervise the selection of specific media products to be imported and translated for the Chinese market not only to ensure ease of comprehension but also for political correctness, with a view to avoid any clashes of cultures and ideologies. In the last decade, Chinese audiences have the rise of new media facilitating the wide-spread online viewing of foreign TV and thereby changing the dynamic of access and dissemination of foreign entertainment media in China. We argue that censorship institutions in China opt to adopt alternative strategies, or in many cases more relaxed criteria, in appraising foreign audiovisual products, in order to cater the demands of the new generation of Chinese audiences in those officially supervised media rather than suppressing their needs outright. We will dwell into the Chinese-subtitled version of the second season of the American political drama House of Cards (Netflix 2014), as released by Sohu, the largest online franchise in China. We consider the outcome of subtitling "honest" in terms of the exposure of sensitive information and controversial cultural and political allusions to the reality in contemporary China. By analysing possible reasons behind such “honest” exposure, we argue that an attempt at ideological manipulation has been made in this subtitled version, serving rather than subverting the political objectives of the Chinese government.
description: Altre Modernità, 2016: NUMERO SPECIALE Ideological Manipulation in Audiovisual Translation
IIB matrix model and regularized big bang
Creators: name: Klinkhamer, F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large-$N$ master field of the Lorentzian IIB matrix model can, in principle, give rise to a particular degenerate metric relevant to a regularized big bang. The length parameter of this degenerate metric is then calculated in terms of the IIB-matrix-model length scale.
description: 14 pages, v6: published version (expanded references in the preprint)
OPTIMAL POST-HARVEST GRAINS STORAGE BY RISK AVERSE FARMERS
Creators: name: Lai, Jing-Yi
name: Myers, Robert J.
name: Hanson, Steven D.
name: Lai, Jing-Yi
name: Myers, Robert J.
name: Hanson, Steven D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Most previous research on post-harvest grain storage by farmers has assumed risk-neutral behavior and/or made restrictive assumptions about underlying price probability distributions. In this study we solve the optimal post-harvest storage problem for a risk averse farmer under more general assumptions about underlying price distributions. The resulting model is applied to Michigan corn farmers and results show that, contrary to the sell all-or-nothing risk-neutral rule, risk averse farmers will spread sales out over the storage season. The optimal pattern for sales by Michigan corn farmers is to sell approximately 50% of corn at harvest in November (a risk-reduction strategy) and approximately 40% in May (a return-enhancing strategy).
ผลการจัดการเรียนรู้แบบผสมผสาน (Blended Learning) โดยใช้เกมเป็นฐาน ที่มีต่อผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน เรื่องคำศัพท์ ไวยากรณ์ สำนวนเพื่อการนำเสนอเป็นภาษาอังกฤษอย่างเป็นทางการ รายวิชาภาษาอังกฤษเพื่อการนำเสนอของนักศึกษา สาขาวิชาวิทยาการคอมพิวเตอร์ มหาวิทยาลัยสวนดุสิต
Creators: name: ณัฏฐา ผิวมา
Publisher: name: Faculty of Management Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Isan Surin Campus
Year: 2023
Subjects: การเรียนรู้แบบผสมผสาน
การจัดการเรียนรู้โดยใช้เกมเป็นฐาน
ผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน

description: วารสารวิชาการเทคโนโลยีการจัดการ, 4, 2, 84-96
ECONOMIC MODELING OF LAND DEGRADATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Coxhead, Ian A.
name: Coxhead, Ian A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The history of economic models of land degradation is short, and yet fundamental changes have occurred in the structural assumptions underlying land degradation models and the questions they are used to address. Many of these changes are the results of studies in developing countries, where the problem of land degradation is proportionally much more severe. In this paper I first review the conventional single-farm approach, then present and explore some recent modifications and extensions. In an era of sometimes sweeping economic change in developing countries, the relationship between agricultural prices and land degradation is of particular importance. I examine ways in which different models predict the likely land degradation effects of economic reforms.
A Vertex Formalism for Local Ruled Surfaces
Creators: name: Diaconescu, Duiliu-Emanuel
name: Florea, Bogdan
name: Saulina, Natalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a vertex formalism for topological string amplitudes on ruled surfaces with an arbitrary number of reducible fibers embedded in a Calabi-Yau threefold. Our construction is based on large N duality and localization with respect to a degenerate torus action. We also discuss potential generalizations of our formalism to a broader class of Calabi-Yau threefolds using the same underlying principles.
description: 24 pages, 12 figures; v2: minor changes; v3: explanations added, results unchanged
SUNK COSTS AND RESOURCE MOBILITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Barham, Bradford L.
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Barham, Bradford L.
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The implications of sunk costs for many key questions in agricultural economics have yet to be explored. This paper uses a dynamic model of investment behavior to explore how sunk costs can shape market outcomes in ways that might not match predictions of standard competitive models. Applying the model to several key issues in agricultural markets and international trade offers new perspectives that challenge conventional wisdoms. Institutional and policy innovations are also examined for their potential to improve welfare outcomes when sunk costs impede factor mobility.
Accelerating frequency-domain numerical methods for weakly nonlinear focused ultrasound using nested meshes
Creators: name: Groth, Samuel P.
name: Gélat, Pierre
name: Haqshenas, Seyyed R.
name: Saffari, Nader
name: Wout, Elwin van 't
name: Betcke, Timo
name: Wells, Garth N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The numerical simulation of weakly nonlinear ultrasound is important in treatment planning for focused ultrasound (FUS) therapies. However, the large domain sizes and generation of higher harmonics at the focus make these problems extremely computationally demanding. Numerical methods typically employ a uniform mesh fine enough to resolve the highest harmonic present in the problem, leading to a very large number of degrees of freedom. This paper proposes a more efficient strategy in which each harmonic is approximated on a separate mesh, the size of which is proportional to the wavelength of the harmonic. The increase in resolution required to resolve a smaller wavelength is balanced by a reduction in the domain size. This nested meshing is feasible owing to the increasingly localised nature of higher harmonics near the focus. Numerical experiments are performed for FUS transducers in homogeneous media in order to determine the size of the meshes required to accurately represent the harmonics. In particular, a fast \emph{volume potential} approach is proposed and employed to perform convergence experiments as the computation domain size is modified. This approach allows each harmonic to be computed via the evaluation of an integral over the domain. Discretising this integral using the midpoint rule allows the computations to be performed rapidly with the FFT. It is shown that at least an order of magnitude reduction in memory consumption and computation time can be achieved with nested meshing. Finally, it is demonstrated how to generalise this approach to inhomogeneous propagation domains.
Urban Growth, Rural Land Conversion and the Fiscal Well-Being of Local Municipalities
Creators: name: Deller, Steven C.
name: Deller, Steven C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: The economic and fiscal impact of five alternative economic development events are compared and contrasted using a conjoined input-output/econometric modeling system. The five hypothetical events include retail, services (hospital) and manufacturing developments along with two housing developments. For the case study the simulation results suggest that impacts can vary wildly across the types of development and that scenario development plays a key role in the analysis. Along this line, experimental simulations must take care to make scenarios comparable. In the end there are seldom "rules of thumb," such as the Cost of Community Service Studies (COCS) offered by the American Farmland Trust, which can be applied in the community setting
[Shasta field notes]
Creators: name: Bright, William
name: Sambo, Sargent
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: kyh
subject: Karuk language
subject: sht
subject: Shasta language

description: Third of 4 notebooks, labeled "Book V" on cover. Shasta vocabulary and text; one page with a single Karuk word.
Heat transport through a two-level system embedded between two harmonic resonators
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi
name: Kato, Takeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate heat transport through an assembly consisting of a two-level system coupled between two harmonic oscillators, which is described by the quantum Rabi model, as a prototype of nanoscale heat devices using controllable multi-level systems. Using the noninteracting-blip approximation (NIBA), we find that the linear thermal conductance shows a characteristic temperature dependence with a two-peak structure. We also show that heat transport is sensitive to model parameters for weak system-bath coupling and strong hybridization between the two-level system and the harmonic oscillators. This property characteristic of the multi-level system is advantageous for applications such as a heat transistor, and can be examined in superconducting circuits.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
An Analysis of Retail and Service Sector Count Data: Identification of Market Potential for Wisconsin Counties
Creators: name: Deller, Steven C.
name: Kures, Matt
name: Ryan, William
name: Deller, Steven C.
name: Kures, Matt
name: Ryan, William
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The objective of this applied research project is to use Wisconsin county sales tax data to identify the strengths and weaknesses of selected retail and service sectors. Using "count" data on the number of businesses that report taxable sales we apply regression analysis to develop an estimate of the expected number of firms in the county. By comparing the observed and expected number of firms we can identify strengths and weaknesses. Through the regression analysis we can also identify which socioeconomic characteristics are associated with which types of retail and service firms. The method that we offer we refer to as Firm Count Analysis (FCA) and can be viewed as a complement to Trade Area Analysis (TAA) and the analysis of sales data.
Polarized QED cascades
Creators: name: Seipt, Daniel
name: Ridgers, Christopher P.
name: Del Sorbo, Dario
name: Thomas, Alec G. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By taking the spin and polarization of the electrons, positrons and photons into account in the strong-field QED processes of nonlinear Compton emission and pair production, we find that the growth rate of QED cascades in ultra-intense laser fields can be substantially reduced. While this means that fewer particles are produced, we also found them to be highly polarized. We further find that the high-energy tail of the particle spectra is polarized opposite to that expected from Sokolov-Ternov theory, which cannot be explained by just taking into account spin-asymmetries in the pair production process, but results significantly from "spin-straggling". We employ a kinetic equation approach for the electron, positron and photon distributions, each of them spin/polarization-resolved, with the QED effects of photon emission and pair production modelled by a spin/polarization dependent Boltzmann-type collision operator. For photon-seeded cascades, depending on the photon polarization, we find an excess or a shortage of particle production in the early stages of cascade development, which provides a path towards a controlled experiment. Throughout this paper we focus on rotating electric field configuration, which represent an idealized model and allows for a straightforward interpretation of the observed effects.
description: 31 pages, 5 figures
The signature of subsurface Kondo impurities in the local tunnel current
Creators: name: Avotina, Ye. S.
name: Kolesnichenko, Yu. A.
name: van Ruitenbeek, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conductance of a tunnel point-contact in an STM-like geometry having a single defect placed below the surface is investigated theoretically. The effect of multiple electron scattering by the defect after reflections by the metal surface is taken into account. In the approximation of s-wave scattering the dependence of the conductance on the applied voltage and the position of the defect is obtained. The results are illustrated for a model s-wave phase shift describing Kondo-resonance scattering. We demonstrate that multiple electron scattering by the magnetic impurity plays a decisive role in the point-contact conductance at voltages near the Kondo resonance. We find that the sign and shape of the Kondo anomaly depends on the position of the defect.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures. To be published in J. Phys.: Cond. Mat
SEQUENCING CAPITAL AND LAND MARKET REFORMS FOR BROADLY BASED GROWTH
Creators: name: Carter, Michael R.
name: Carter, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: After developing a conceptual apparatus, this paper econometrically explores the basis and bias of agrarian growth in contemporary Paraguay, a country where increasing land scarcity and rural unrest have occurred in the midst of rapid export growth. By taking apart the microeconomics of the growth boom, the goal is not only to uncover what is happening, but to identify policy options which might modify the outcome. The paper's chief finding is that more broadly based or inclusionary growth not only requires a microeconomic activism which reaches beyond the broad dictates of liberalization, but also attention to the specific temporal sequencing or ordering of these sectoral policies.
LOCAL PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCE: ARE WISCONSIN CITY AND VILLAGE TAXES TOO HIGH?
Creators: name: Deller, Steven C.
name: Lledo, Victor
name: Deller, Steven C.
name: Lledo, Victor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Public Economics

description: This applied research project examines questions concerning the economic efficiency of municipal government spending and taxation levels in Wisconsin. Using economic notions of local government effectiveness and efficiency, a theoretical and empirical model is presented and estimated using data from Wisconsin cities and villages. Theory suggests that expenditure and taxation levels are capitalized into local property values. In short, public goods and services and corresponding taxes are viewed as a normal good in an economic sense: more is better, too much is bad. From a property valuation perceptive, higher levels of public goods and services should increase property values. But, overprovision of the public good places downward pressure on property values. This inverted-U relationship is easily estimated from an empirical perspective. Two separate tests are estimated. The first examines capitalization rates of service provision (i.e., expenditures) into property values. The second complementary test examines capitalization rates of taxation levels (i.e., municipal taxes) into property values. Results for Wisconsin cities and villages suggest that service and taxation levels are positively related to property values suggesting that neither services or local taxation is not systematically too high. In other words, based on rigorous economic theory, spending and taxing in Wisconsin's cities and villages are not too high and may indeed be too low. It is important to note that this applied research study focuses on city and village taxation and spending, attention is not paid to public schools, counties, towns or other special districts that have taxing authority.
Roofpedia: Automatic mapping of green and solar roofs for an open roofscape registry and evaluation of urban sustainability
Creators: name: Wu, Abraham Noah
name: Biljecki, Filip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sustainable roofs, such as those with greenery and photovoltaic panels, contribute to the roadmap for reducing the carbon footprint of cities. However, research on sustainable urban roofscapes is rather focused on their potential and it is hindered by the scarcity of data, limiting our understanding of their current content, spatial distribution, and temporal evolution. To tackle this issue, we introduce Roofpedia, a set of three contributions: (i) automatic mapping of relevant urban roof typology from satellite imagery; (ii) an open roof registry mapping the spatial distribution and area of solar and green roofs of more than one million buildings across 17 cities; and (iii) the Roofpedia Index, a derivative of the registry, to benchmark the cities by the extent of sustainable roofscape in term of solar and green roof penetration. This project, partly inspired by its street greenery counterpart `Treepedia', is made possible by a multi-step pipeline that combines deep learning and geospatial techniques, demonstrating the feasibility of an automated methodology that generalises successfully across cities with an accuracy of detecting sustainable roofs of up to 100% in some cities. We offer our results as an interactive map and open dataset so that our work could aid researchers, local governments, and the public to uncover the pattern of sustainable rooftops across cities, track and monitor the current use of rooftops, complement studies on their potential, evaluate the effectiveness of existing incentives, verify the use of subsidies and fulfilment of climate pledges, estimate carbon offset capacities of cities, and ultimately support better policies and strategies to increase the adoption of instruments contributing to the sustainable development of cities.
Split spoon penetration testing in gravels
Creators: name: Daniel, Christopher Ryan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The widely used "Standard Penetration Test" (SPT) is considered unreliable for gravel deposits because gravel particles can be larger than the opening of the SPT split-spoon sampler and because drilling methods normally employed for SPT in sands are often impractical in gravels. The "Large Penetration Test" (LPT) potentially reduces the effect of the former through the use of oversized split-spoon samplers. This thesis presents a method of predicting SPT from LPT blow counts so that currently available empirical design methods based on the SPT may be used in gravel deposits. The proposed method considers input energy and sampler dimensions and can be used with any LPT system (i.e. any combination of hammer and split-spoon). The results of the proposed method are compared to those of an existing correlation method and to empirical SPT-LPT correlation factors from the literature, including correlations for the "Japanese LPT" (JLPT) and "Italian LPT" (ILPT). In addition, three field research programs were conducted to develop an empirical correlation factor between the SPT and the "North American LPT" (NALPT). Field tests revealed that the proposed correlation method requires an empirical correction factor of 0.82. Review of the JLPT data set revealed that the SPT-JLPT correlation factor might be unreliable. If the JLPT data is excluded and if the empirical correction factor is applied, it is found that the correlation factors predicted using the proposed method range from 83% to 96% of those observed in sands. The equivalent range for the existing correlation method was 39% to 73%. The author attempted to obtain preliminary insight into the problem of grain size effects using the available test data. The observed SPT-NALPT and SPT-ILPT correlation factors appear to decrease with increasing grain size. Data illustrating a fair relationship between the observed correlation factor and the portion of the soil that is too coarse to enter the SPT split-spoon is presented.
Link Floer homology also detects split links
Creators: name: Wang, Joshua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Inspired by work of Lipshitz-Sarkar, we show that the module structure on link Floer homology detects split links. Using results of Ni, Alishahi-Lipshitz, and Lipshitz-Sarkar, we establish an analogous detection result for sutured Floer homology.
description: 9 pages
Trade, Liberalization, Resource Degradation and Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries: An Integrated Analysis
Creators: name: Coxhead, Ian A.
name: Jayasuriya, Sisira
name: Coxhead, Ian A.
name: Jayasuriya, Sisira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: "Environmental damage" is in reality many different types of phenomena, each with a unique set of causes and characteristics. We present an analytical model identifying intersectoral and interregional links of economy and environment, and explore consequences of trade policy and world price changes. The model contains explicit spatial and institutional features relevant to developing economies. We show that similar trade or policy shocks can have different effects, depending on initial economic structure, trade orientation and policies. Further, when there is more than one sectoral source of environmental damage, a policy or price shock may have unexpected environmental and welfare results.
The Cryogenic Target for the G$^0$ Experiment at Jefferson Lab
Creators: name: Covrig, S. D.
name: Beise, E. J.
name: Carr, R.
name: Gustafsson, K. K.
name: Hannelius, L.
name: Herda, M. -C.
name: Jones, C. E.
name: Liu, J.
name: McKeown, R. D.
name: Neveling, R.
name: Rauf, A. W.
name: Smith, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A cryogenic horizontal single loop target has been designed, built, tested and operated for the G$^0$ experiment in Hall C at Jefferson Lab. The target cell is 20 cm long, the loop volume is 6.5 l and the target operates with the cryogenic pump fully immersed in the fluid. The target has been designed to operate at 30 Hz rotational pump speed with either liquid hydrogen or liquid deuterium. The high power heat exchanger is able to remove 1000 W of heat from the liquid hydrogen, while the nominal electron beam with current of 40 $μ$A and energy of 3 GeV deposits about 320 W of heat into the liquid. The increase in the systematic uncertainty due to the liquid hydrogen target is negligible on the scale of a parity violation experiment. The global normalized yield reduction for 40 $μ$A beam is about 1.5 % and the target density fluctuations contribute less than 238 ppm (parts per million) to the total asymmetry width, typically about 1200 ppm, in a Q$^2$ bin.
description: 27 pages, 14 figures
Topological Stars and Black Holes
Creators: name: Bah, Ibrahima
name: Heidmann, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study smooth bubble spacetimes in five-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory that resemble four-dimensional magnetic black holes upon Kaluza-Klein reduction. We denote them as Topological Stars since they have topological cycles supported by magnetic flux. They can be macroscopically large compared to the size of the Kaluza-Klein circle and could describe qualitative properties of microstate geometries for astrophysical black holes. We also describe five-dimensional black strings without curvature singularity, the interior caps as a two-dimensional Milne space with a bubble.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected, matches version published in PRL
Fast SWAP gate by adiabatic passage
Creators: name: Sangouard, N.
name: Lacour, X.
name: Guérin, S.
name: Jauslin, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a process for the construction of a SWAP gate which does not require a composition of elementary gates from a universal set. We propose to employ direct techniques adapted to the preparation of this specific gate. The mechanism, based on adiabatic passage, constitutes a decoherence-free method in the sense that spontaneous emission and cavity damping are avoided.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev
ON PRICE RISK AND THE INVERSE FARM SIZE-PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONSHIP
Creators: name: Barrett, Christopher B.
name: Barrett, Christopher B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: The oft-observed inverse relationship between farm size and productivity is generally explained by labor market imperfections. Although other explanations exist (e.g., size-sensitive cropping patterns and variable soil quality), the literature ignores uncertainty as an explanation. Using a simple two-period model of an agricultural household that both produces and consumes under price uncertainty at the time labor allocation decisions are made, this paper demonstrates analytically that an inverse relationship may exist, even absent any of the more common explanations. A simple data exercise suggests the plausibility of temporal price risk as an explanation for this phenomenon.
L'illuminismo esoterico religioso medievale: Leo Strauss interprete di al-Farabi
Creators: name: Stella, Federico
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Lo scopo di questo articolo è di mostrare come Leo Strauss usi la parola esoterico riguardo alla filosofia islamica ed in particolare ad al-Fārābī. La parola esoterico è usata da Strauss in due differenti modi. Nel primo modo, Strauss usa la parola per spiegare la differenza tra opere popolari (essoterici) e opere esoteriche, le quali contengono il reale pensiero del filosofo. Il secondo modo è il più importante e il meno studiato. In questo significato esoterico è una metodologia di studio e di spiegazione della filosofia. L’articolo si concentra specialmente su questo secondo significato della parola esoterico e sul ruolo di questa parola per comprendere meglio la visione socio-politica della filosofia di al-Fārābī

The aim of this article is to show how Leo Strauss uses the word esoteric about the Islamic philosophy, and in particular about al-Fārābī. The word esoteric is used by Strauss in two different ways. In the first way, Strauss uses the word to explain the difference between the popular (exoteric) works of al-Fārābī, and the esoteric works, which contain the real thought of the philosopher. The second way is the most important and the least studied. In this meaning esoteric is a methodology to study and explain philosophy. The article focuses especially on this second meaning of the word esoteric and on the role of this word to better understand the political and social view of al-Fārābī’s philosophy.
description: Doctor Virtualis, No 13 (2015): Filologia e filosofia
MulDE: Multi-teacher Knowledge Distillation for Low-dimensional Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Creators: name: Wang, Kai
name: Liu, Yu
name: Ma, Qian
name: Sheng, Quan Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Link prediction based on knowledge graph embeddings (KGE) aims to predict new triples to automatically construct knowledge graphs (KGs). However, recent KGE models achieve performance improvements by excessively increasing the embedding dimensions, which may cause enormous training costs and require more storage space. In this paper, instead of training high-dimensional models, we propose MulDE, a novel knowledge distillation framework, which includes multiple low-dimensional hyperbolic KGE models as teachers and two student components, namely Junior and Senior. Under a novel iterative distillation strategy, the Junior component, a low-dimensional KGE model, asks teachers actively based on its preliminary prediction results, and the Senior component integrates teachers' knowledge adaptively to train the Junior component based on two mechanisms: relation-specific scaling and contrast attention. The experimental results show that MulDE can effectively improve the performance and training speed of low-dimensional KGE models. The distilled 32-dimensional model is competitive compared to the state-of-the-art high-dimensional methods on several widely-used datasets.
description: Accepted for publication at the Web Conference 2021
Thermodynamics of a Fermi liquid beyond the low-energy limit
Creators: name: Chubukov, Andrey V.
name: Maslov, Dmitrii L.
name: Gangadharaiah, Suhas
name: Glazman, Leonid I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the non-analytic temperature dependences of the specific heat coefficient, C(T)/T, and spin susceptibility, χ_{s} (T), of 2D interacting fermions beyond the weak-coupling limit. We demonstrate within the Luttinger-Ward formalism that the leading temperature dependences of C(T)/T and χ_s (T) are linear in T, and are described by the Fermi liquid theory. We show that these temperature dependences are universally determined by the states near the Fermi level and, for a generic interaction, are expressed via the spin and charge components of the exact backscattering amplitude of quasi-particles. We compare our theory to recent experiments on monolayers of 3He.
description: 5 pages, 1 eps figure, submitted to PRL
Attraction and condensation of driven tracers in a narrow channel
Creators: name: Miron, Asaf
name: Mukamel, David
name: Posch, Harald A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emergent bath-mediated attraction and condensation arise when multiple particles are simultaneously driven through an equilibrated bath under geometric constraints. While such scenarios are observed in a variety of non-equilibrium phenomena, with an abundance of experimental and numerical evidence, little quantitative understanding of how these interactions arise is currently available. Here we approach the problem by studying the behavior of two driven "tracer" particles, propagating through a bath in a 1D lattice with excluded-volume interactions. We analytically explore the mechanism responsible for the tracers' emergent interactions and compute the resulting effective attractive potential. This mechanism is then numerically shown to extend to a realistic model of hard driven Brownian discs confined to a narrow 2D channel.
description: 12 pages
title: If they be two: relationships in women’s coauthored experimental film and video
Creators: name: Herron Coleman, Kim
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: This research project claims that coauthorship in women’s moving image has been triplemarginalised because it is made by women, doesn't conform to the notion of the individual auteur,
and exists between and across individual artists’ oeuvres. I propose that a study of women’s
coauthored moving image, the relationships that generated it, the motivations that drove the
coauthorships, and how the technology was used, generates a new understanding of the moving
image field. I hope that this new understanding will help inform contemporary art practice, as well
as my own in which coauthorship has been central.
This project also incorporates my own visual art practice. In this study I contextualise my own
artworks through case studies of coauthored moving image by Shirley and Wendy Clarke,
Marie Menken and Andy Warhol, Kathy Acker and Alan Sondheim, Carole Roussopoulos and
Delphine Seyrig, Barbara Hammer and Max Almy, and others. I also analyse my own work,
considering how the processes, relationships, and themes in my own art-making (including my
coauthorships) in relation to historic moving image coauthorships by women. By examining why the
project became important to me, I consider the dyadic relationships in my own works and how
these relate to the dyadic relationships that produced the works in my case studies. I ask how one
can examine the methods and intentions of coauthored film and video through making coauthored
video, and what the resulting works look like. And how an individual such as I can critique/reflect
on coauthorship through individually-made artworks
Averroès et la censure de l'histoire
Creators: name: Forte, Francesca
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Il contributo intende ricostruire il dibattito storiografico intorno all’eredità di Averroè a partire dalla sua nascita, con la riscoperta di Averroè da parte dell’orientalismo francese (Renan) arrivando fino agli intellettuali arabo-musulmani contemporanei, che hanno fatto del filosofo di Cordoba un rappresentante dell’illuminismo  ante litteram. Scopo del saggio è dunque quello di ripercorrere brevemente la storia di questo dibattito per mettere in luce l’uso esplicitamente politico e ideologico di un autore medievale e, in ultima analisi, sottolineare che ogni storia delle filosofia porta con sé uno sguardo orientato e mai neutro sulla propria tradizione.

This paper aims to outline the historical debate about the Averroes’ heritage since its beginning, with the revival of Averroes by French Orientalism (Renan) coming up to contemporary Arab-Muslim intellectuals, who made this author an Enlightenment’s representative before its time. The aim of the contribution  is therefore to recall briefly the history of this debate to highlight the political and ideological utilization of a medieval author and, ultimately, to emphasize that every history of philosophy  implies a view oriented and never neutral on its tradition.
description: Doctor Virtualis, No 13 (2015): Filologia e filosofia
Evidence for hierarchical black hole mergers in the second LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave catalog
Creators: name: Kimball, Chase
name: Talbot, Colm
name: Berry, Christopher P. L.
name: Zevin, Michael
name: Thrane, Eric
name: Kalogera, Vicky
name: Buscicchio, Riccardo
name: Carney, Matthew
name: Dent, Thomas
name: Middleton, Hannah
name: Payne, Ethan
name: Veitch, John
name: Williams, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the population properties of merging binary black holes in the second LIGO--Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog assuming they were all formed dynamically in gravitationally bound clusters. Using a phenomenological population model, we infer the mass and spin distribution of first-generation black holes, while self-consistently accounting for hierarchical mergers. Considering a range of cluster masses, we see compelling evidence for hierarchical mergers in clusters with escape velocities $\gtrsim 100~\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$. For our most probable cluster mass, we find that the catalog contains at least one second-generation merger with $99\%$ credibility. We find that the hierarchical model is preferred over an alternative model with no hierarchical mergers (Bayes factor $\mathcal{B} > 1400$) and that GW190521 is favored to contain two second-generation black holes with odds $\mathcal{O}>700$, and GW190519, GW190602, GW190620, and GW190706 are mixed-generation binaries with $\mathcal{O} > 10$. However, our results depend strongly on the cluster escape velocity, with more modest evidence for hierarchical mergers when the escape velocity is $\lesssim 100~\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$. Assuming that all binary black holes are formed dynamically in globular clusters with escape velocities on the order of tens of $\mathrm{km\,s^{-1}}$, GW190519 and GW190521 are favored to include a second-generation black hole with odds $\mathcal{O}>1$. In this case, we find that $99\%$ of black holes from the inferred total population have masses that are less than $49\,M_{\odot}$, and that this constraint is robust to our choice of prior on the maximum black hole mass.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, 1 appendix
[Field notes on languages of northwestern California]
Creators: name: Bateman, Haynes
name: Bright, William
name: Brown, Sam
name: Gordon, Emily
name: Jackson, Ned
name: Wix, Clara
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: hup
subject: Hupa language
subject: kyh
subject: Karuk language
subject: sht
subject: Shasta language
subject: yur
subject: Yurok language
subject: cid
subject: Chimariko language

description: First of 4 notebooks, labeled "Book II" on cover. Vocabulary from several languages and texts from Karuk.
The impact of accurate distances to dwarf elliptical galaxies on cosmology
Creators: name: Jerjen, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Surface Brightness Fluctuation method has been shown to be a powerful distance indicator for dwarf elliptical galaxies to very low surface brightness levels. It is applicable to stellar systems that are out of reach for classical indicators requiring resolved stellar populations such as the tip magnitude of the red giant branch. I briefly discuss a few results from recent SBF studies of dEs to demonstrate the significance of the SBF method to address long-standing issues related to cosmography, dark matter in galaxy groups, substructures in clusters, and the discrepancy between the mass function of collapsed objects and the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function. For the analysis of the large number of galaxy images that need to be processed as part of such SBF studies we are currently developing a fast, semi-automatic reduction pipeline that will be made readily available to the astronomical community.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the IAU Colloquium No. 198 "Near-Field Cosmology with Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies"
The targum (1952:Apr. 4 - 1952:Apr. 29)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1952

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Quantum Noise Locking
Creators: name: McKenzie, Kirk
name: Mikhailov, Eugeniy
name: Goda, Keisuke
name: Lam, Ping Koy
name: Grosse, Nicolai
name: Gray, Malcolm B.
name: Mavalvala, Nergis
name: McClelland, David E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum optical states which have no coherent amplitude, such as squeezed vacuum states, can not rely on standard readout techniques to generate error signals for control of the quadrature phase. Here we investigate the use of asymmetry in the quadrature variances to obtain a phase-sensitive readout and to lock the phase of a squeezed vacuum state, a technique which we call noise locking (NL). We carry out a theoretical derivation of the NL error signal and the associated stability of the squeezed and anti-squeezed lock points. Experimental data for the NL technique both in the presence and absence of coherent fields are shown, including a comparison with coherent locking techniques. Finally, we use NL to enable a stable readout of the squeezed vacuum state on a homodyne detector.
description: Accepted for publication in Journal of Optics:B special issue on Quantum Control
lsst-pst/pstn-051: v1.2.1
Creators: name: Jones, Lynne
name: Yoachim, Peter
name: Zeljko Ivezic
name: Eric H. Neilsen, Jr.
name: Ribeiro, Tiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Rubin Observatory

description: Documentation of the scheduler v1.5 and v1.6 runs, post-PCW. This is updated slightly from v1.2 by correcting a few minor typos. v1.7 runs are not included in this version of the report.
Correlated Equilibria in Competitive Staff Selection Problem
Creators: name: Ramsey, David M.
name: Szajowski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91A15, 91A80, 60G40, 90D60, 62L15

description: This paper deals with an extension of the concept of correlated strategies to Markov stopping games. The Nash equilibrium approach to solving nonzero-sum stopping games may give multiple solutions. An arbitrator can suggest to each player the decision to be applied at each stage based on a joint distribution over the players' decisions. This is a form of equilibrium selection. Examples of correlated equilibria in nonzero-sum games related to the staff selection competition in the case of two departments are given. Utilitarian, egalitarian, republican and libertarian concepts of correlated equilibria selection are used.
description: The idea of this paper was presented at Game Theory and Mathematical Economics, International Conference in Memory of Jerzy Los(1920 - 1998), Warsaw, September 2004
Diffusion Monte Carlo evaluation of disiloxane linearization barrier
Creators: name: Hanindriyo, Adie Tri
name: Yadav, Amit Kumar Singh
name: Ichibha, Tom
name: Maezono, Ryo
name: Nakano, Kousuke
name: Hongo, Kenta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The disiloxane molecule is a prime example of silicate compounds containing the Si-O-Si bridge. The molecule is of significant interest within the field of quantum chemistry, owing to the difficulty in theoretically predicting its properties. Herein, the linearisation barrier of disiloxane is investigated using a fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo (FNDMC) approach, which is currently the most reliable {\it ab initio} method in accounting for an electronic correlation. Calculations utilizing the density functional theory (DFT) and the coupled cluster method with single and double substitutions, including noniterative triples (CCSD(T))are carried out alongside FNDMC for comparison. Two families of basis sets are used to investigate the disiloxane linearisation barrier - Dunning's correlation-consistent basis sets cc-pV$x$Z ($x = $ D, T, and Q) and their core-valence correlated counterparts, cc-pCV$x$Z. It is concluded that FNDMC successfully predicts the disiloxane linearisation barrier and does not depend on the completeness of the basis sets as much as DFT or CCSD(T), thus establishing its suitability.