cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
System Dynamics Simulation to Test Operational Policies in the Milk-Cheese Supply Chain. Case Study: Piar Municipality, Bolivar State, Venezuela
Creators: name: Rodriguez Monroy, Carlos
name: Fuentes-Pila, Joaquin
name: Guaita, Wilfredo
name: Rodriguez Monroy, Carlos
name: Fuentes-Pila, Joaquin
name: Guaita, Wilfredo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Supply Chain
subject: Milk Producers
subject: Cheese Industry
subject: Dynamic Simulation
subject: Operational Policies

description: With the purpose of detecting the impact that variations of demand cause in the milk-cheese supply chain, and determining how the operational policies of capacity, inventories or labor force can mitigate this impact, a system dynamics simulation model has been designed based on a survey conducted on a sample of cheese manufacturers and their links with milk farms, transportation companies and cheese distributors. This supply chain will be consolidated when a milk center that will collect the raw milk is completed. From this center, and after adequate treatment, milk will be distributed to the different cheese manufacturers in the supply chain. Managing adequately the milk-cheese supply chain represents an important challenge due to the short life of these products. Although this study was done in a region in Latin America, its results can be applicable to food supply chains by introducing some modifications. The milk-cheese supply chain in this case study contemplates three milk producers, one milk supplier, five cheese producers, one wholesaler and several distributing agents. These companies operate individually under normal conditions, but they have understood that their integration in a supply chain improves the competitiveness of all its members. That is to say, the sum is greater than the parts. For its initial design a simulation software model is used in which the resources of the supply chain are optimized. Later the product of this optimization facilitates some initial values to be used in the system dynamics model in which cause-effect or influence relationships have been previously established considering the most representative variables. Finally, changes in operational policies that can reduce the level of pending orders in the supply chain are tested using other simulation software. The main contribution of this research is that it can serve as support or contribute to reduce the uncertainty in the decision making process of the supply chain management due to the speed with which individual or combined policies can be analyzed. In response to a variation of demand the most adequate policy may be selected and that can be done before the policy is implemented.
Ethical Considerations and Statistical Analysis of Industry Involvement in Machine Learning Research
Creators: name: Hagendorff, Thilo
name: Meding, Kristof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Industry involvement in the machine learning (ML) community seems to be increasing. However, the quantitative scale and ethical implications of this influence are rather unknown. For this purpose, we have not only carried out an informed ethical analysis of the field, but have inspected all papers of the main ML conferences NeurIPS, CVPR, and ICML of the last 5 years - almost 11,000 papers in total. Our statistical approach focuses on conflicts of interest, innovation and gender equality. We have obtained four main findings: (1) Academic-corporate collaborations are growing in numbers. At the same time, we found that conflicts of interest are rarely disclosed. (2) Industry publishes papers about trending ML topics on average two years earlier than academia does. (3) Industry papers are not lagging behind academic papers in regard to social impact considerations. (4) Finally, we demonstrate that industrial papers fall short of their academic counterparts with respect to the ratio of gender diversity. We believe that this work is a starting point for an informed debate within and outside of the ML community.
Read out of a Nuclear Spin Qubit
Creators: name: Kindermann, M.
name: Cory, D. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a detector to read out the state of a single nuclear spin, with potential application in future scalable NMR quantum computers. It is based on a ``spin valve'' between bulk nuclear spin systems that is highly sensitive to the state of the measured spin. We suggest a concrete realization of that detector in a Silicon lattice. Transport of spin through the proposed spin valve is analogous to that of charge through an electronic nanostructure, but exhibits distinctive new features.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Morphological regions and oblique incidence dot formation in a model of surface sputtering
Creators: name: Yewande, Emmanuel O.
name: Kree, Reiner
name: Hartmann, Alexander K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study solid surface morphology created by off-normal ion-beam sputtering with an atomistic, solid-on-solid model of sputter erosion. With respect to an earlier version of the model, we extend this model with the inclusion of lateral erosion. Using the 2-dimensional structure factor, we found an upper bound $μ\simeq 2$, in the lateral straggle $μ$, for clear ripple formation. Above this upper bound, for longitudinal straggle $σ\gtrsim 1.7$, we found the possibility of dot formation (without sample rotation). Moreover, a temporal crossover from a hole topography to ripple topography with the same value of collision cascade parameters was found. Finally, a scaling analysis of the roughness, using the consecutive gradient approach, yields the growth exponents $β=0.33$ and 0.67 for two different topographic regimes.
description: 8 pages, 14 figures
Post stroke arm impairment : motor variables and movement control
Creators: name: McCrea, Patrick Heath
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Upper extremity motor impairment is common following stroke and is due to changes in both the central nervous and the musculoskeletal systems. Multiple aspects of stroke induced motor impairment can interfere with one's ability to complete activities of daily living. Weakness (i.e., reduced ability to generate torque) and hypertonia (i.e., increased resistance to passive stretching) impairment dimensions are of particular interest to clinicians as are subsequent adaptations to the control and planning of arm movement. Thus, the purpose of this thesis was to characterize weakness and hypertonia motor impairments and evaluate the planning and control mechanisms underlying a reaching task. We conducted three parallel experiments using twenty persons with chronic arm impairment due to stroke and ten similarly aged healthy control subjects. The first experiment validated a linear spring-damper model of the passive torque response of the elbow and found that mechanical parameters of stiffness and damping were quantitatively related to clinical impairment measures of hypertonia. In the second experiment we characterized the ability to maximally generate torque about eight different joint actions of the upper extremity. We found magnitude and temporal impairments of torque ^ generation in not only the more affected arm but also the less affected arm of individuals with n stroke. The final experiment examined the muscle activation and joint biomechanics underlying natural hand motion during reaching movements to various targets at fast and self-paced speeds. Shoulder abduction was a prominent feature that was related to a clinical scale of motor impairment. Results suggested that post-stroke movement planning is similar to healthy (i.e., different joint trajectories achieved by time scaling joint paths) but that the repertoire of available movement patterns is neurally constrained.
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Circa 2005
Creators: name: Dawson, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in both the theoretical and experimental explorations of electroweak symmetry breaking is surveyed.
description: 12 pages, To be published in the Proceedings of Lepton Photon 2005, XXII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energy, July, 2005, Uppsala, Sweden
Congruences for traces of singular moduli
Creators: name: Osburn, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F33, 11F37 (Primary), 11F50 (Secondary)

description: We extend a result of Ahlgren and Ono on congruences for traces of singular moduli of level 1 to traces defined in terms of Hauptmodul associated to certain groups of genus 0 of higher levels.
description: 8 pages, to appear in The Ramanujan Journal
Il «knowing through art» e le scienze cognitive
Creators: name: Consoli, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: What does it mean “knowing through art”? This paper develops an approach of radical cognitivism, suggesting a new way of integrating aesthetics and cognitive sciences.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 5 (2012): Vol 5 (2012) Special Issue – Riconcepire l'estetica
The Effect of Confinement on Capillary Phase Transition In Granular Aggregates
Creators: name: Monfared, Siavash
name: Zhou, Tingtao
name: Andrade, Jose E.
name: Ioannidou, Katerina
name: Radjai, Farhang
name: Ulm, Franz-Josef
name: Pellenq, Roland J. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Utilizing a 3D mean-field lattice-gas model, we analyze the effect of confinement on the nature of capillary phase transition in granular aggregates with varying disorder and their inverse porous structures obtained by interchanging particles and pores. Surprisingly, the confinement effects are found to be much less pronounced in granular aggregates as opposed to porous structures. We show that this discrepancy can be understood in terms of the surface-surface correlation length with a connected path through the fluid domain, suggesting that this length captures the true degree of confinement. We also find that the liquid-gas phase transition in these porous materials is of second order nature near capillary critical temperature, which is shown to represent a true critical temperature, i.e. independent of the degree of disorder and the nature of solid matrix, discrete or continuous. The critical exponents estimated here from finite-size scaling analysis suggest that this transition belongs to the 3D random field Ising model universality class as hypothesized by P.G. de Gennes, with the underlying random fields induced by local disorder in fluid-solid interactions.
Periodic orbit theory and spectral rigidity in pseudointegrable systems
Creators: name: Mellenthin, J.
name: Russ, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate numerically the periodic orbits of pseudointegrable systems of low genus numbers $g$ that arise from rectangular systems with one or two salient corners. From the periodic orbits, we calculate the spectral rigidity $Δ_3(L)$ using semiclassical quantum mechanics with $L$ reaching up to quite large values. We find that the diagonal approximation is applicable when averaging over a suitable energy interval. Comparing systems of various shapes we find that our results agree well with $Δ_3$ calculated directly from the eigenvalues by spectral statistics. Therefore, additional terms as e.g. diffraction terms seem to be small in the case of the systems investigated in this work. By reducing the size of the corners, the spectral statistics of our pseudointegrable systems approaches the one of an integrable system, whereas very large differences between integrable and pseudointegrable systems occur, when the salient corners are large. Both types of behavior can be well understood by the properties of the periodic orbits in the system.
'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex.
Creators: name: Machling, Tess
name: Williamson, Roland
name: Fregni, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: archaeology
gold
torcs
iron age

description: The ‘Pulborough Area’ torc is a chimera: apparently made from the correct Iron Age material, using a valid construction technique and in a known form, however, the elements do not work together as an Iron Age torc. The alloy percentages would suggest the torc should be cast, and yet it is sheet; the decoration mimics continental examples from the 4th century BC, and yet the method is virtually unknown in torc studies, even in wider continental Europe. The quality of construction is poor and yet the making – in relatively high percentage gold – suggests an investment in this artefact.

Here we argue that to understand the ‘Pulborough Area’ torc fully, we must understand where the torc was found and must also examine the exploits of Harry Price – psychic researcher, ghost hunter, author, amateur dramatist and archaeological forger – who lived in Pulborough from 1908 until his death in 1948. We believe Harry Price holds the key to the ‘Pulborough Area’ torc: his involvement could explain why the torc was made, and also why the torc was found beyond the distribution range of other Iron Age torc finds.
Additional file 1 of (Dis)connected by design? Using participatory citizen science to uncover environmental determinants of social connectedness for youth in under-resourced neighbourhoods
Creators: name: Sones, Meridith
name: Holden, Meg
name: Kestens, Yan
name: King, Abby C.
name: Rennie, Mimi
name: Winters, Meghan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1: Survey questions
Working Arrangements of Fruit and Vegetable Processing Cooperatives
Creators: name: Blum, Martin A.
name: Blum, Martin A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Fruit and vegetable cooperatives
subject: joint ventures
subject: contractual agreements
subject: marketing services
subject: processing services

description: Organization and operations of nine working arrangements developed by fruit and vegetable processing cooperatives are described and evaluated. Three distinct approaches are identified - contractual agreement, affiliation through membership status, and formation of separate business entity. The specific structure and functions of joint undertakings reflect the needs and preferences of the participants. Benefits perceived in the cases cited included scale economies in processing and marketing, capital cost avoidance, product diversification, assured commodity supply, and enhanced market entry.
Angular Correlation Estimates for Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Finley, Chad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anisotropy in arrival directions of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays offers the most direct way to search for the sources of these particles. We present estimates of the angular correlation in the HiRes sample of stereo events above 10 EeV, and in the combined sample of HiRes and AGASA events above 40 EeV.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the proceedings of DPF 2004, Riverside, 26 - 31 Aug. 2004 (Int.J.Mod.Phys.A)
Additional file 2 of (Dis)connected by design? Using participatory citizen science to uncover environmental determinants of social connectedness for youth in under-resourced neighbourhoods
Creators: name: Sones, Meridith
name: Holden, Meg
name: Kestens, Yan
name: King, Abby C.
name: Rennie, Mimi
name: Winters, Meghan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 2: Table A1 (detailing the participatory analysis process) and Table A2 (outlining illustrative photos and quotes by theme)
86 GHz SiO maser survey of late-type stars in the Inner Galaxy III. Interstellar extinction and colours of the SiO targets
Creators: name: Messineo, M.
name: Habing, H. J.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Omont, A.
name: Sjouwerman, L. O.
name: Bertoldi, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have determined extinction corrections for a sample of 441 late-type stars in the inner Galaxy, which we previously searched for SiO maser emission, using the 2MASS near-infrared photometry of the surrounding stars. From this, the near-infrared extinction law is found to be approximated by a power law A$_λ\propto λ^{-1.9\pm0.1}$. Near- and mid-infrared colour-colour properties of known Mira stars are reviewed. From the distribution of the dereddened infrared colours of the SiO target stars we infer mass-loss rates between $10^{-7}$ and $10^{-5}$ M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A 21/01/2005
Stability of the Cauchy horizon in accelerating black-hole spacetimes
Creators: name: Destounis, Kyriakos
name: Fontana, Rodrigo D. B.
name: Mena, Filipe C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extendibility of spacetime and the existence of weak solutions to the Einstein field equations beyond Cauchy horizons, is a crucial ingredient to examine the limits of General Relativity. Strong Cosmic Censorship serves as a firewall for gravitation by demanding inextendibility of spacetime beyond the Cauchy horizon. For asymptotically flat spacetimes, the predominance of the blueshift instability and the subsequent formation of a mass-inflation singularity at the Cauchy horizon have, so far, substantiated the conjecture. Accelerating black holes, described by the $C-$metric, are exact solutions of the field equations without a cosmological constant, which possess an acceleration horizon with similar causal properties to the cosmological horizon of de Sitter spacetime. Here, by considering linear scalar field perturbations, we provide numerical evidence for the stability of the Cauchy horizon of charged accelerating black holes. In particular, we show that the stability of Cauchy horizons in accelerating charged black holes is connected to quasinormal modes, we discuss the regularity requirement for which weak solutions to the field equations exist at the Cauchy horizon and show that Strong Cosmic Censorship may be violated near extremality.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, minor corrections, accepted for publication in PRD, title changed to match published version
The galaxies in the field of the nearby GRB980425/SN1998bw
Creators: name: Foley, S.
name: Watson, D.
name: Gorosabel, J.
name: Fynbo, J. P. U.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: McGlynn, S.
name: McBreen, B.
name: Hjorth, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopic observations of ESO 184-G82, the host galaxy of GRB980425/SN1998bw, and six galaxies in its field. A host redshift of z=0.0087+/-0.0006 is derived, consistent with that measured by Tinney et al. (1998). Redshifts are obtained for the six surrounding galaxies observed. Three of these galaxies lie within 11 Mpc of each other, confirming the suggestion that some of these galaxies form a group. However, all of the field galaxies observed lie at significantly greater distances than ESO 184-G82 and are therefore not associated with it. The host galaxy of GRB980425/SN1998bw thus appears to be an isolated dwarf galaxy and interactions with other galaxies do not seem to be responsible for its star formation.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Generalised cosmology of codimension-two braneworlds
Creators: name: Vinet, Jérémie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been argued that codimension-two braneworlds offer a promising line of attack on the cosmological constant problem, since in such models the Hubble rate is not directly related to the brane tension. We point out challenges to building more general models where the brane content is not restricted to pure tension. In order to address these challenges, we construct a thick brane model which we linearize around a well known static solution. We show that the model's cosmology does reduce to standard FRW behaviour, but find no hint of a self-tuning mechanism which might help solve the cosmological constant problem whithin the context of non-supersymmetric Einstein gravity.
description: 8 pages, talk given at MRST 2004: From Quarks to Cosmology, Concordia University, Montreal, May 2004
Modelling Non-Linear Consensus Dynamics on Hypergraphs
Creators: name: Sahasrabuddhe, Rohit
name: Neuhäuser, Leonie
name: Lambiotte, Renaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The basic interaction unit of many dynamical systems involves more than two nodes. In such situations where networks are not an appropriate modelling framework, it has recently become increasingly popular to turn to higher-order models, including hypergraphs. In this paper, we explore the non-linear dynamics of consensus on hypergraphs, allowing for interactions within hyperedges of any cardinality. After discussing the different ways in which non-linearities can be incorporated in the dynamical model, building on different sociological theories, we explore its mathematical properties and perform simulations to investigate them numerically. After focussing on synthetic hypergraphs, namely on block hypergraphs, we investigate the dynamics on real-world structures, and explore in detail the role of involvement and stubbornness on polarisation.
Pattern and purpose: a new story about the creation of the Snettisham Great torc.
Creators: name: Machling, Tess
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The Snettisham Great torc is one of the most recognisable and well known Iron Age artefacts in Britain. Found in 1950 by Tom Rout, whilst ploughing fields on the Ken Hill estate in Snettisham, Norfolk, the torc has long been seen as the pinnacle of Iron Age goldwork found in the UK. However, it remains poorly understood and it’s precise manufacturing methods and techniques have yet to be thoroughly explored.

In previous papers (Machling &Williamson 2018, 2019a, 2020) we have demonstrated that the terminals of this torc were created separately in sheet gold alloy, using a tripartitie construction technique (a shell, core and collar) (Fig. 1). We have also suggested that the terminals of the Great torc were poorly fixed and perhaps not created to fit the neck ring to which they are currently attached.

This blog revisits this previous work, and examines the Great torc in greater detail, looking further at the construction technique and decorative evidence and uses this to create a new object biography regarding the origins and creation of this artefact.
Automated Content Grading Using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Chauhan, Rahul Kr
name: Saharan, Ravinder
name: Singh, Siddhartha
name: Sharma, Priti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Grading of examination papers is a hectic, time-labor intensive task and is often subjected to inefficiency and bias in checking. This research project is a primitive experiment in the automation of grading of theoretical answers written in exams by students in technical courses which yet had continued to be human graded. In this paper, we show how the algorithmic approach in machine learning can be used to automatically examine and grade theoretical content in exam answer papers. Bag of words, their vectors & centroids, and a few semantic and lexical text features have been used overall. Machine learning models have been implemented on datasets manually built from exams given by graduating students enrolled in technical courses. These models have been compared to show the effectiveness of each model.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Noisy certification of continuous variables graph states
Creators: name: Descamps, Éloi
name: Markham, Damian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous variables (CV) offer a promising platform for the development of various applications, such as quantum communication, computing, and sensing, and CV graph states represent a family of powerful entangled resource states for all these areas. In many of these protocols, a crucial aspect is the certification of the quantum state subsequently used. While numerous protocols exist, most rely on assumptions unrealistic for physical continuous variable states, such as infinite precision in quadrature measurement or the use of states requiring infinite squeezing. In this work, we adapt existing protocols to deal with these unavoidable considerations, and use them to certify their application for different quantum information tasks. More specifically, we show how CV graph states can be efficiently verified and certified even in a noisy and imperfect setting. We then discuss how our findings impact the usability of states obtained after the protocol for different applications, including quantum teleportation, computing, and sensing.
Future Smart Connected Communities to Fight COVID-19 Outbreak
Creators: name: Gupta, Deepti
name: Bhatt, Smriti
name: Gupta, Maanak
name: Tosun, Ali Saman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Internet of Things (IoT) has grown rapidly in the last decade and continue to develop in terms of dimension and complexity offering wide range of devices to support diverse set of applications. With ubiquitous Internet, connected sensors and actuators, networking and communication technology, and artificial intelligence (AI), smart cyber-physical systems (CPS) provide services rendering assistance to humans in their daily lives. However, the recent outbreak of COVID-19 (also known as coronavirus) pandemic has exposed and highlighted the limitations of current technological deployments to curtail this disease. IoT and smart connected technologies together with data-driven applications can play a crucial role not only in prevention, continuous monitoring, and mitigation of the disease, but also enable prompt enforcement of guidelines, rules and government orders to contain such future outbreaks. In this paper, we envision an IoT-enabled ecosystem for intelligent monitoring, pro-active prevention and control, and mitigation of COVID-19. We propose different architectures, applications and technology systems for various smart infrastructures including E-health, smart home, smart supply chain management, smart locality, and smart city, to develop future connected communities to manage and mitigate similar outbreaks. Furthermore, we present research challenges together with future directions to enable and develop these smart communities and infrastructures to fight and prepare against such outbreaks.
description: Accepted
title: « Monsieur, JE JOUE MON PERSONNAGE » : Jean Lorrain, construire sa propre légende
Creators: name: Burin, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2020

description: Cet article propose d’étudier les nombreuses représentations textuelles et visuelles de Jean Lorrain, chroniqueur et écrivain scandaleux de la Belle Époque. Lorrain a tout au long de sa carrière frayé avec ses héros, en jouant de manière systématique, dans son œuvre comme dans sa vie, sur la porosité des frontières qui séparent les mondes de la fiction et de la réalité. L’intense autoréflexivité qui caractérise sa production journalistique et littéraire permet de saisir la mise en place d’une subjectivité – voire d’un ethos auctorial – à une période où mise en scène médiatique et mystifications littéraires prolifèrent de manière prodigieuse. Cet article entend montrer que Lorrain participe activement à la construction de sa propre légende sur trois niveaux de représentation : le réel, le textuel et l’imaginaire.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 12 (2020): Portraits d’auteurs : l’écrivain mis en images
Consumer Cohorts and Demand Systems
Creators: name: Gustavsen, Geir Waehler
name: Rickertsen, Kyrre
name: Gustavsen, Geir Waehler
name: Rickertsen, Kyrre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: cohort effects
subject: demand system
subject: milk

description: The Norwegian purchases pattern of non-alcoholic beverages has changed substantially. The observed changes cannot be fully explained by changes in relative prices and income, and other variables are likely to be important. Cohort variables have not been given much attention in demand analysis. Our main contribution is to include age, period, and cohort (APC) variables into a demand system. The system is applied to purchases of non-alcoholic beverages. Wald tests show the importance of including APC variables. A Monte-Carlo analysis shows how replacing the APC variables with an age and a trend variable results in misleading age effects on milk purchases.
Aharonov-Bohm Effect on Noncommutative Plane: A Coherent State Approach
Creators: name: Anacleto, M. A.
name: Nascimento, J. R.
name: Petrov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the coherent state approach to study Aharonov-Bohm effect in the field theory context. We verify that, contrarily to the commutative result, the scattering amplitude is ultraviolet finite. However, we have logarithmic singularities as the noncommutative parameter tends to zero. Thus, the inclusion of a quartic self-interaction for the scalar field is necessary to obtain a smooth commutative limit.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, minor corrections
Dairy Product Manufacturing Costs at Cooperative Plants
Creators: name: Ling, K. Charles
name: Ling, K. Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cooperatives
subject: dairy
subject: average cost curve
subject: productivity
subject: capacity utilization
subject: seasonal variation
subject: economies of scale

description: Cost data are summarized for 14 plants manufacturing cheese, butter, and powder and average costs are presented for each product. Average cost curves are estimated for each plant. The scale of plant for least-cost operations is identified for plants of each product type. Plant capacity utilization and seasonal volume variation and their impacts on manufacturing cost are delineated.
Shrinkage estimation for dose-response modeling in phase II trials with multiple schedules
Creators: name: Günhan, Burak Kürsad
name: Meyvisch, Paul
name: Friede, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, phase II trials with multiple schedules (frequency of administrations) have become more popular, for instance in the development of treatments for atopic dermatitis. If the relationship of the dose and response is described by a parametric model, a simplistic approach is to pool doses from different schedules. However, this approach ignores the potential heterogeneity in dose-response curves between schedules. A more reasonable approach is the partial pooling, i.e. certain parameters of the dose-response curves are shared, while others are allowed to vary. Rather than using schedule-specific fixed-effects, we propose a Bayesian hierarchical model with random-effects to model the between-schedule heterogeneity with regard to certain parameters. Schedule-specific dose-response relationships can then be estimated using shrinkage estimation. Considering Emax models, the proposed method displayed desirable performance in terms of the mean absolute error and the coverage probabilities for the dose-response curve compared to the complete pooling. Furthermore, it outperformed the partial pooling with schedule-specific fixed-effects by producing lower mean absolute error and shorter credible intervals. The methods are illustrated using simulations and a phase II trial example in atopic dermatitis. A publicly available R package, \texttt{ModStan}, is developed to automate the implementation of the proposed method (\href{https://github.com/gunhanb/ModStan}{https://github.com/gunhanb/ModStan}).
Multi-Amplifier Sensing Charge-coupled Devices for Next Generation Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Lin, Kenneth W.
name: Karcher, Armin
name: Guy, Julien
name: Holland, Stephen E.
name: Kolbe, William F.
name: Nugent, Peter E.
name: Drlica-Wagner, Alex
name: Botti, Ana M.
name: Tiffenberg, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present characterization results and performance of a prototype Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor with 16 channels potentially suitable for faint object astronomical spectroscopy and low-signal, photon-limited imaging. The MAS CCD is designed to reach sub-electron readout noise by repeatedly measuring charge through a line of amplifiers during the serial transfer shifts. Using synchronized readout electronics based on the DESI CCD controller, we report a read noise of 1.03 e$^-$ rms/pix at a speed of 26 $μ$s/pix with a single-sample readout scheme where charge in a pixel is measured only once for each output stage. At these operating parameters, we find the amplifier-to-amplifier charge transfer efficiency (ACTE) to be $>0.9995$ at low counts for all amplifiers but one for which the ACTE is 0.997. This charge transfer efficiency falls above 50,000 electrons for the read-noise optimized voltage configuration we chose for the serial clocks and gates. The amplifier linearity across a broad dynamic range from $\sim$300 to 35,000 e$^-$ was also measured to be $\pm 2.5\%$. We describe key operating parameters to optimize on these characteristics and describe the specific applications for which the MAS CCD may be a suitable detector candidate.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, accepted to PASP
Additional file 1 of FOXO3a/miR-4259-driven LDHA expression as a key mechanism of gemcitabine sensitivity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Hsu, Tung-Wei
name: Wang, Wan-Yu
name: Chen, Hsin-An
name: Wang, Tzu-Hsuan
name: Su, Chih-Ming
name: Liao, Po-Hsiang
name: Chen, Alvin
name: Tsai, Kuei-Yen
name: Kokotos, George
name: Kuo, Cheng-Chin
name: Chiu, Ching-Feng
name: Su, Yen-Hao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
A rediscovered Iron Age torus torc terminal fragment from 'Near Stowmarket', Suffolk.
Creators: name: Machling, Tess
name: Williamson, Roland
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: In May 1996, a metal detectorist working fields close to Stowmarket found a fragment of gold from a torus torc terminal. The field has been walked and detected regularly over the years and no other Iron Age material has been found in this location. The exact find spot is known and recorded, but for security reasons neither that, nor the name of the detectorist, can be released. For ease of reference, the new torc fragment will be known as the ‘Near Stowmarket’ torc.

In 1996, the find was shown to Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service and then sent to the British Museum for examination. The Coroner was informed and a decision was made that the object did not meet the Treasure Trove requirements of the time and so was returned to the finder.

In late 2019, a record of the find was located at the British Museum by curator, Dr Julia Farley, and the information passed to us. At that stage the location of the terminal piece was unknown. Email conversations then led us to the current location of the torc piece – which had been retained by the finder – and in December 2019 they kindly allowed us to see the torc fragment so that it could be recorded and published.
The estimation of $γ$-ray Doppler factor for Fermi/LAT-detected blazars
Creators: name: Pei, Zhiyuan
name: Fan, Junhui
name: Yang, Jianghe
name: Bastieri, Denis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with extreme observation properties, which is caused by the beaming effect, expressed by a Doppler factor, in a relativistic jet. Doppler factor is an important parameter in the blazars paradigm to indicate all of the observation properties, and many methods were proposed to estimate its value. In this paper, we present a method following Mattox et al. to calculate the lower limit on gamma-ray Doppler factor for 809 selected Fermi/LAT-detected gamma-ray blazars by adopting the available gamma-ray and X-ray data. Our sample included 342 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 467 BL Lac objects (BL Lacs), out of which 507 sources are compiled with available radio core-dominance parameter (R) from our previous study. Our calculation shows that the average values of the lower limit on gamma-ray Doppler factor for FSRQs and BL Lacs are 6.87 and 4.31, respectively. We compare and discuss our results with those from the literature. We found that the derived lower limit on gamma-ray Doppler factor for some sources are higher than that from the radio estimation, which could be possibly explained by the jet bending within those blazars. Our results also suggest that the gamma-ray and radio regions perhaps share the same relativistic effects. The gamma-ray Doppler factor has been found to be correlated with both the gamma-ray luminosity and core-dominance parameter, implying that the jet is possibly continuous in the gamma-ray bands, and R is perhaps an indicator for a beaming effect.
description: 13 pages, 4 Figures, 1 Table. Accepted by Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Baryons in the Gross-Neveu model in 1+1 dimensions at finite number of flavors
Creators: name: Lenz, Julian J.
name: Pannullo, Laurin
name: Wagner, Marc
name: Wellegehausen, Björn
name: Wipf, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent work we studied the phase structure of the Gross-Neveu (GN) model in $1+1$ dimensions at finite number of fermion flavors $N_\mathrm{f} = 2, 8, 16$, finite temperature and finite chemical potential using lattice field theory. Most importantly, we found an inhomogeneous phase at low temperature and large chemical potential, quite similar to the analytically solvable $N_\mathrm{f} \rightarrow \infty$ limit. In the present work we continue our lattice field theory investigation of the finite-$N_\mathrm{f}$ GN model by studying the formation of baryons, their spatial distribution and their relation to the chiral condensate. As a preparatory step we also discuss a linear coupling of lattice fermions to the chemical potential.
description: 8 pages + 2 pages appendix, 12 figures, text files with the data to reproduce the figures provided in source; version accepted for publication in PRD
Quantum coherence in a ferromagnetic metal: time-dependent conductance fluctuations
Creators: name: Lee, S.
name: Trionfi, A.
name: Natelson, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum coherence of electrons in ferromagnetic metals is difficult to assess experimentally. We report the first measurements of time-dependent universal conductance fluctuations in ferromagnetic metal (Ni$_{0.8}$Fe$_{0.2}$) nanostructures as a function of temperature and magnetic field strength and orientation. We find that the cooperon contribution to this quantum correction is suppressed, and that domain wall motion can be a source of coherence-enhanced conductance fluctuations. The fluctuations are more strongly temperature dependent than those in normal metals, hinting that an unusual dephasing mechanism may be at work.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Recent Run II QCD Results from DO
Creators: name: Wobisch, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present recent QCD results from the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV. Results are presented for the inclusive jet and dijet cross sections, a measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelations, studies of elastic scattering, and a search for diffractively produced Z bosons.
description: To be published in the Proceedings of the 15th Topical Conference on Hadron Collider Physics, HCP 2004, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, June 14-18, 2004
Photis melanica McKinney 1980
Creators: name: Sir, Sally J.
name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Photidae
Photis
Photis melanica

description: Photis melanica McKinney, 1980
Figs 24, 32 H
Photis melanicus McKinney, 1980: 57–61, fig. 1.
Photis melanica: LeCroy 2000: 154, fig. 187; LeCroy et al. 2009: 941–972.
Photis sp. B: McKinney 1977: 112, fig. 19.
Material examined.
Panama • 1.7 mm • 1 ♀; Bocas del Toro, Laboratory Dock; 9.4159°N, 82.2489°W; depth 14 m, in light trap; 8 Aug 2005; T. A. Haney leg.; GCRL 6671.
Diagnosis.
Ocular lobe distal margin subacute. Coxae 1–4 ventral margins lined with long setae. Coxa 1 anteroventral margin evenly rounded. Female gnathopod 2 propodus palmar margin lacking process. Pereopod 3 merus with long plumose setae. Pereopod 5 basis bare. Pereopods 6 and 7 propodus with few setae shorter than dactylus; dactylus with accessory claw. Uropod 1 inner ramus 1.2 × length of outer ramus. Uropod 3 peduncle with plumose distoventral seta; inner ramus 0.2 × length of outer ramus, apical margin with setae.
Distribution.
U. S. A.: Florida Bay, Tampa Bay, Florida (LeCroy 2000), South of Galveston, Texas (McKinney 1977, 1980), Gulf of Mexico (LeCroy et al. 2009); Venezuela: exact location unspecified (Martín and Diaz 2003; LeCroy et al. 2009). Panama: Bocas del Toro (present study).
Ecology and remarks.
This species was collected with light traps at a depth of 14 m. Panamanian specimens agree closely with previous descriptions. Ethanol-preserved specimens retained faint brown coloration on most of body.
description: Published as part of Sir, Sally J. & White, Kristine N., 2025, Caribbean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of Panama. Part IV: parvorder Caprellidira, pp. 151-205 in ZooKeys 1234 on pages 151-205, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1234.145826
The sheet torus torcs from Britain: an update.
Creators: name: Machling, Tess
name: Williamson, Roland
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In our 2018 Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society paper (Machling & Williamson 2018) we discussed the manufacturing techniques of the Netherurd terminal, the Newark torc and suggested ideas regarding the Snettisham Great torc. Having furthered our research and – with a copy of the Snettisham Great torc x-radiograph now available in the public domain (Flynn 2017) – in this paper we update the evidence for the manufacturing methods of the known sheet torus torcs and detail our refined understanding of this technique, which has now been recognized in a number of torcs.
Interfacce virtuali
Creators: name: Diodato, Roberto
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2012

description: The essay concerns the notion of interface. From theoretical point of view, interface is a virtual environment develops in the interaction with a user; in this context “virtual” means the dynamic configuration of forces which have the intrinsic tendency of being actualised in a form not entirely pre-existing. The virtual in this case has to do with Aesthetics and its present status as discipline, since it is a field of continuous formal invention and of a particular type of interaction author/user rendered possible by the specific characteristics of the electronic medium.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 5 (2012): Vol 5 (2012) Special Issue – Riconcepire l'estetica
Southern Dairy Farmers' Evaluation of Milk Handlers
Creators: name: Liebrand, Carolyn
name: Carley, Dale H.
name: Ling, K. Charles
name: Liebrand, Carolyn
name: Carley, Dale H.
name: Ling, K. Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cooperative
subject: milk handler
subject: proprietary handler
subject: assured market
subject: price
subject: S-217

description: Southern dairy farmers' perception of their cooperative's or proprietary handler's performance, level of satisfaction with the milk handler, and reasons for staying with the handler, or for shifting handlers, were evaluated. The data were from a 1989 mail survey of Southern dairy farmers. The dairy farmers' differing evaluations of their milk handlers depended on the type of handler they dealt with, geographic location, and/or the characteristics of the farm and farmer. Generally, dairy farmers were concerned about price, deductions, and assessments. The price farmers received appeared to be a significant factor affecting farmers' satisfaction level. There appeared to be a tradeoff between price and deductions versus service, and market and payment assurance. Dairy farmers wanted cooperatives to provide an assured market for members' milk.