cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Non-Paradoxical Interpretation of the Gibson Paradox
Creators: name: Coulombe, Serge
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 1998

description: In this study, we show how, to yield the real cost of borrowing, the price level can be combined with the nominal interest rate in a monetary regime where the level of prices is trend stationary. We show that the price level then conveys intertemporal information in a way similar to nominal interest rates. We estimate real interest rate series for the gold-standard period in the United Kingdom under the assumption the agents expect the price level to come back to its long-run equilibrium value. The positive correlation between the price level and the nominal interest rate-known as the Gibson paradox and far from being paradoxical-helps explain why the nominal interest rate was so stable in a period characterized by numerous wars and important gold discoveries. The new real interest rate series provides the opportunity to re-examine Barro's (1987) finding on the effect of temporary military spending on interest rates. It also relaxes the assumption that the nominal long-term interest rate is also the expected real rate.
description: L'auteur de l'étude montre qu'il est possible de calculer le taux d'intérêt réel en combinant le niveau des prix avec le taux d'intérêt nominal dans le cadre d'un régime monétaire où le niveau des prix est stationnaire par rapport à sa tendance. Il constate en effet que, sous un tel régime, le niveau des prix véhicule de l'information intertemporelle tout comme les taux d'intérêt nominaux. L'auteur estime une série chronologique de taux d'intérêt réels pour la totalité de la période de l'étalon-or au Royaume-Uni, en postulant que les agents s'attendent à ce que le niveau des prix retourne à sa valeur d'équilibre à long terme. Loin d'être paradoxale, la corrélation positive observée entre le niveau des prix et le taux d'intérêt nominal (ou paradoxe de Gibson) aide à expliquer pourquoi le taux d'intérêt nominal est resté si stable durant une période marquée par les guerres et d'importantes découvertes d'or. La nouvelle série de taux d'intérêt réels obtenue permet à l'auteur de réexaminer le résultat de Barro (1987) concernant l'incidence des variations temporaires des dépenses militaires sur les taux d'intérêt et de lever l'hypothèse que le taux d'intérêt nominal à long terme est également le taux réel attendu.
Additional file 1 of Pleiotropic genetic association analysis with multiple phenotypes using multivariate response best-subset selection
Creators: name: Guo, Hongping
name: Li, Tong
name: Wang, Zixuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Tables S1-S6 are showed in the Supplementary Materials.
title: Résultats empiriques multi-pays relatifs à l'impact des cibles d'inflation sur la crédibilité de la politique monétaire
Creators: name: Pierre, St-Amant
name: Tessier, David
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 1998

description: Over the last few years, many countries have adopted inflation targets. The objective of this paper is to report some empirical results that bear on the link between the adoption of inflation targets and the behaviour of the main macroeconomic variables. After a discussion of some recent articles analyzing international experience, some simple statistical tests are presented for determining the link between the adoption of inflation targets, the credibility of monetary policy, and the behaviour of the major macroeconomic variables. The literature survey and empirical results lead the authors to conclude that certain statistical properties of inflation may have changed in recent years, and that monetary policy seems to have become more credible in a number of countries, including Canada. Yet the available data do not allow the authors to conclude with any certainty that explicit inflation targets have played a significant role in these changes.
description: Depuis quelques années, bon nombre de pays ont adopté des cibles d'inflation. Notre objectif est ici de rendre compte de certains résultats empiriques portant sur le lien entre l'adoption de telles cibles et le comportement des principales variables macroéconomiques. À cette fin, nous discutons de quelques articles analysant l'expérience de divers pays dans ce domaine et présentons quelques tests statistiques simples visant à déterminer le lien entre l'adoption de cibles d'inflation, la crédibilité de la politique monétaire et le comportement des principales variables macroéconomiques. Notre survol de la littérature et nos résultats empiriques nous portent à conclure que certaines propriétés statistiques de l'inflation pourraient s'être modifiées au cours des dernières années et que la politique monétaire semble être devenue plus crédible, notamment au Canada. Cependant, les données disponibles ne permettent pas de conclure fermement que des cibles d'inflation explicites ont joué un rôle significatif dans ces changements.
On Instantons and Zero Modes of N=1/2 SYM Theory
Creators: name: Imaanpur, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study zero modes of N=1/2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills action in the background of instantons. In this background, because of a quartic antichiral fermionic term in the action, the fermionic solutions of the equations of motion are not in general zero modes of the action. Hence, when there are fermionic solutions, the action is no longer minimized by instantons. By deforming the instanton equation in the presence of fermions, we write down the zero mode equations. The solutions satisfy the equations of motion, and saturate the BPS bound. The deformed instanton equations imply that the finite action solutions have U(1) connections which are not flat anymore.
description: 9 pages, latex file, added references, minor changes
title: Tendance des dépenses publiques et de l'inflation et évolution comparative du taux de chômage au Canada et aux États-Unis
Creators: name: St-Amant, Pierre
name: Tessier, David
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 1998

description: The authors' purpose in this paper is to isolate the respective contributions of budgetary and monetary policy in Canada and the United States to the behaviour of unemployment rates in the two countries. Their method consists of estimating VAR models and using long-term identification restrictions to perform a structural analysis. Budgetary policy shocks are defined as those VAR innovations that cause a change in the trend of the public-spending-to-GDP ratio, while monetary policy shocks are those innovations that modify the trend of inflation. The major finding is that the comparative evolution of unemployment rates in Canada and the United States is linked primarily to the different budgetary policy choices in the two countries. Monetary policy does have some effect on the behaviour of unemployment rates in the two countries, but it does not explain the divergent trends, the primary cause of the U.S.-Canada unemployment gap that has been apparent since the 1970s. The authors estimate, moreover, that the trend in the Canadian unemployment rate has declined significantly over the last few years.
description: L'objectif des auteurs est ici d'isoler les contributions respectives des politiques budgétaire et monétaire canadiennes et étasuniennes à l'évolution des taux de chômage des deux pays. La méthode utilisée consiste à estimer des modèles VAR et à utiliser des restrictions d'identification de long terme pour faire une analyse structurelle. Les chocs de politique budgétaire sont définis comme la partie des innovations du VAR entraînant un changement de la tendance du ratio des dépenses publiques au PIB. Par choc de politique monétaire, les auteurs entendent la partie des innovations du VAR qui modifie la tendance de l'inflation. Le résultat principal est que l'évolution comparée des taux de chômage canadien et étasunien est liée en premier lieu aux choix différents des deux pays en matière de politique budgétaire. La politique monétaire n'est pas sans effet sur l'évolution du taux de chômage dans les deux pays, mais elle n'explique pas les tendances divergentes, principale cause de l'écart de chômage observé depuis la fin des années 70. Nous estimons par ailleurs que la tendance du taux de chômage canadien a connu une baisse importante au cours des dernières années.
title: A Discussion of the Reliability of Results Obtained with Long-Run Identifying Restrictions
Creators: name: Pierre, St-Amant
name: Tessier, David
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 1998

description: In a recent article, Faust and Leeper (1997) discuss reasons why inference from structural VARs identified with long-run restrictions may not be reliable. In this paper, the authors argue that there are reasons to believe that Faust and Leeper's arguments are not devastating in practice. First, simulation exercises suggest that this approach does well when used with data generated with standard macroeconomic models. Second, empirical applications suggest that it gives results that are much more robust than would be implied by Faust and Leeper's main proposition. A reasonable approach would appear to be, therefore, to follow Sims' (1971; 1972) and Dufour's (1997) recommendation and to present robustness checks, allowing readers to judge for themselves what the effects of possible approximation errors might be.
description: Dans un article récent, Faust et Leeper (1997) analysent les raisons pour lesquelles on ne pourrait se fier aux déductions tirées de vecteurs autorégressifs structurels (VARS) assortis de restrictions d'identification à long terme. Pierre St-Amant et David Tessier soutiennent, dans leur étude, que la portée pratique des arguments invoqués par ces auteurs n'est pas dramatique. Premièrement, les simulations indiquent que la méthode fondée sur l'emploi de restrictions à long terme aboutit à des déductions valables lorsque les données utilisées sont générées au moyen de modèles macroéconomiques standards. Deuxièmement, l'application empirique de cette méthode débouche sur des résultats bien plus robustes que ce que laisse entrevoir l'argument central de Faust et Leeper. Il semble donc qu'une approche raisonnable consisterait à suivre la recommandation de Sims (1971 et 1972) et de Dufour (1997), qui proposent que les auteurs présentent des analyses de sensibilité afin de permettre aux lecteurs de juger par eux-mêmes de l'effet des erreurs possibles d'approximation.
Development of a Super Slim Façade System for InHolland Polytechnic, Delft
Creators: name: Eekhout, M.
name: De Rotten, P.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2010

description: The initial conceptual ‘wild idea’ for the INHolland project by architect Rijk Rietveld, New York, was elaborated through different design brainstorms towards a radical innovative system for ultra-slim glass façades. In this façade system insulated glass panels of a depth of maximum 50 mm are integrated with internal pre-stressed structural composite cables, stabilising the façade against wind forces. Dead weight to be taken over by vertical deadweight rods in between the vertical silicone seams between the panels. The insulated glass panels are sealed by composite spacer frames. Many different solitary tests were done with the sealing and the carbon fibre components, with adhesion of silicone sealant on the carbon fibre frames and on the perforation of the carbon fibre used through the frames. In the actual engineering phase structural analysis was performed and tests on several levels were executed. The composite frames were substituted by conventional metal frames. Due to the refusal by the glass panel manufacturer to supply a guarantee on inadequate number of tests with inadequate quality, the integrated system had to be changed into a duosystem with internal pre-stressed cables and integrated dead weight suspension rods. The façade had to keep in pace with the progress on site.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2 (2010): Challenging Glass 2
title: Predicting Canadian Recessions Using Financial Variables: A Probit Approach
Creators: name: Atta-Mensah, Joseph
name: Tkacz, Greg
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 1998

description: This paper examines the ability of a number of financial variables to predict Canadian recessions. Regarding methodology, we follow closely the technique employed by Estrella and Mishkin (1998), who use a probit model to predict U.S. recessions up to eight quarters in advance. Our main finding is that the spread between the yield on Canadian long bonds and the 90-day commercial paper rate is particularly useful in predicting Canadian recessions. This result is consistent with those of Estrella and Mishkin (1998).
description: Les auteurs étudient la faculté de certaines variables financières d'aider à prévoir les récessions au Canada. Sur le plan méthodologique, ils s'inspirent étroitement d'Estrella et Mishkin (1998), qui utilisent un modèle probit pour prédire les récessions de l'économie américaine jusqu'à huit trimestres à l'avance. Leur principale conclusion est que l'écart entre le rendement des obligations à long terme canadiennes et le taux du papier commercial à 90 jours est une variable très utile pour la prévision des récessions au Canada. Ce résultat est conforme à ceux qui ont été obtenus par Estrella et Mishkin (1998).
A New Façade Concept
Creators: name: Moonen, L.
name: Lichtenberg, J.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2010

description: This paper is focussing on the development and opportunities for new façade concepts. In a survey on the possibilities for energy saving in the supply chain of the Dutch glass industry it appeared that there are major opportunities for applications of glass in the European building stock. The integral application of several glass products was the basis for the development of a new façade concept. Apart from saving energy this concept also solves some major problems in the construction industry and the refurbishment of the European building stock. Therefore this paper also contains information about shortcomings and developments in the European construction industry as well as the scale and characteristics of the European building stock suitable for the application of the new concept.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2 (2010): Challenging Glass 2
Near-direct bandgap $WSe_2$/$ReS_2$ type-II pn heterojunction for enhanced ultrafast photodetection and high-performance photovoltaics
Creators: name: Varghese, Abin
name: Saha, Dipankar
name: Thakar, Kartikey
name: Jindal, Vishwas
name: Ghosh, Sayantan
name: Medhekar, Nikhil V
name: Ghosh, Sandip
name: Lodha, Saurabh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PN heterojunctions comprising layered van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors have been used to demonstrate current rectifiers, photodetectors, and photovoltaic devices. However, a direct or near-direct bandgap at the heterointerface that can significantly enhance optical generation, for high light absorbing few/multi-layer vdW materials, has not yet been shown. In this work, for the first time, few-layer group-6 transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) $WSe_2$ is shown to form a sizeable (0.7 eV) near-direct bandgap with type-II band alignment at its interface with the group-7 TMD $ReS_2$ through density functional theory calculations. Further, the type-II alignment and photogeneration across the interlayer bandgap have been experimentally confirmed through micro-photoluminescence and IR photodetection measurements, respectively. High optical absorption in few-layer flakes, large conduction and valence band offsets for efficient electron-hole separation and stacking of light facing, direct bandgap $ReS_2$ on top of gate tunable $WSe_2$ are shown to result in excellent and tunable photodetection as well as photovoltaic performance through flake thickness dependent optoelectronic measurements. Few-layer flakes demonstrate ultrafast response time (5 $μ$s) at high responsivity (3 A/W) and large photocurrent generation and responsivity enhancement at the heterostructure overlap region (10-100X) for 532 nm laser illumination. Large open-circuit voltage of 0.64 V and short-circuit current of 2.6 $μ$A enables high output electrical power. Finally, long term air-stability and a facile single contact metal fabrication process makes the multi-functional few-layer $WSe_2$/$ReS_2$ heterostructure diode technologically promising for next-generation optoelectronic applications.
description: Manuscript- 27 pages, 8 figures. Supporting Information- 17 pages, 17 figures
Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Glued Steel-Glass Joints
Creators: name: Netusil, M.
name: Eliasova, M.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2010

description: Due to the intensive progress and research on the field of glass structures, possibilities for using glass as a load carrying elements are increasing every day. Different types of hybrid constructions, consisting of glass and another material, are analyzed or even newly developed focusing on an optimal structural interaction between both materials and in respect to architectural, static-structural and fabrication criteria. Glued joint, realized by polymer adhesive is very often the key element of whole composite structure, therefore also the key aspect of research, development and numerical modeling. This paper deals with the research pointed on the description of different adhesive behaviour under increasing load, ultimate carrying capacity of the area glued joints according to the thickness of the adhesive layer and working FE models of polymer adhesives, transferred from industry to glass construction design (epoxies, acrylics, polyurethanes, silicones).
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2 (2010): Challenging Glass 2
Muon Spin Rotation study of the $(TMTSF)_2ClO_4$ system
Creators: name: Greer, A. J.
name: Harshman, D. R.
name: Kossler, W. J.
name: Goonewardene, A.
name: Williams, D. Ll.
name: Koster, E.
name: Kang, W.
name: Kleiman, R. N.
name: Haddon, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a study of the organic compound $(TMTSF)_2 ClO_4$ in both a sample cooled very slowly through the anion ordering temperature (relaxed state) and a sample cooled more rapidly (intermediate state). For the relaxed state the entire sample is observed to be superconducting below about T_c ~ 1.2 K. The second moment of the internal field distribution was measured for the relaxed state yielding an in-plane penetration depth of ~ 12000 Angstroms. The intermediate state sample entered a mixed phase state, characterized by coexisting macroscopic sized regions of superconducting and spin density wave (SDW) regions, below T_c ~ 0.87 K. These data were analyzed using a back-to-back cutoff exponential function, allowing the extraction of the first three moments of the magnetic field distribution. Formation of a vortex lattice is observed below 0.87 K as evidenced by the diamagnetic shift for the two fields in which we took intermediate state data.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, to be submitted to Physica C
MOESM4 of Genomes and secretomes of Ascomycota fungi reveal diverse functions in plant biomass decomposition and pathogenesis
Creators: name: Challacombe, Jean
name: Cedar Hesse
name: Bramer, Lisa
name: McCue, Lee
name: Lipton, Mary
name: Purvine, Samuel
name: Nicora, Carrie
name: La Gallegos-Graves
name: Porras-Alfaro, Andrea
name: Kuske, Cheryl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Labeled volcano plot chitin vs sucrose all fungi. Labeled volcano plot showing proteins with increased expression in all fungi in chitin cultures compared to sucrose control cultures.
Additional file 2 of Identification of genes associated with fatty acid biosynthesis based on 214 safflower core germplasm
Creators: name: Fan, Kangjun
name: Qin, Yonghua
name: Hu, Xueli
name: Xu, Jindong
name: Ye, Qingzhi
name: Zhang, Chengyang
name: Ding, Yangyang
name: Li, Gang
name: Chen, Yan
name: Liu, Jiao
name: Wang, Peiqi
name: Hu, Zunhong
name: Yan, Xingchu
name: Xiong, Hairong
name: Liu, Hong
name: Qin, Rui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Differences in the fatty acid content of safflower seeds at different developmental stages. DAF, days after flowering.
Super-quantum discord in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials
Creators: name: Fedorova, A. V.
name: Byrnes, T.
name: Pyrkov, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Super-quantum discord is an extension of the quantum discord concept where weak measurements are made instead of projective measurements. We study the temperature behavior of the super-quantum discord for two real magnetic materials. We extract information about super-quantum discord from the magnetic susceptibility data for iron nitrosyl complexes $\mathrm{ Fe_2(SC_3 H_5N_2)_2(NO)_4}$ and binuclear Cu(II) acetate complex $\mathrm{[Cu_2 L(OAc)]\cdot 6 H_2O}$, where $\mathrm{ L}$ is a ligand that allows us to compare the super-quantum discord with the standard one. The dependence of the super-quantum discord on the parameter describing weak measurements is studied. Obtained difference between super-quantum and quantum discords confirms the detection of additional quantum correlations that are usually destroyed during projective measurements. The use of the approach allows to predict quantitatively in advance the advantages of use of weak measurements versus projective one for quantum technologies in real settings where quantum discord is used as resource. This can be relevant particularly in macroscopic quantum systems where weak measurements can be used to extract information about the system.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Quantum Information Processing
Does Early Cash-Based Interventions in a Food Crisis Enhance Resilience? Evidence from Niger
Creators: name: Tumusiime, Emmanuel
name: Tumusiime, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Early cash transfer
subject: Food crisis
subject: Niger
subject: Vulnerability
subject: Resilience

description: This study examined how households’ responded in the Tillabery region, Niger given early cash transfer intervention and the impact on household food access and ability to cope and recover from a food crisis. Data was also collected from households that did not benefit from the cash transfer program for comparative purposes. Food access indicators are linked to the cash transfer program and structural characteristics of households and the relationships estimated using a propensity weighted econometric model. Results indicate that early cash transfer intervention had a positive impact on staving off short term food deficiency and reducing vulnerability but limited in contributing to longer lasting impact. The results also demonstrate that certain social-structural characteristics of a household, namely, more economically active adults, male head of a household and concerted decision making, are important for improved food access status. Focusing safety net programs based on these household characteristics could benefit efforts to better target those most vulnerable.
A new Façade Concept for an Existing Office Building
Creators: name: Maniatis, I.
name: Siebert, B.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2010

description: In this paper a case study is presented relating to the redesign of an office building dating from the 1960s. Especially the detailing and the structural complexity of designing the new double skin façade are described. The building consists of a twostorey podium topped by a nine-storey tower, the overall height is 40m above ground level. In order to optimise the building's energy efficiency and present the public a modern appearance the whole building is completely renovated. The existing building envelope which mainly consisted of prefabricated concrete elements was dismantled and is now replaced by a transparent floor to floor double skin façade. Within the renovation two new storeys (12th and 13th floor) are added.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2 (2010): Challenging Glass 2
Positive mutations and mutation-dependent Verhulst factor in Penna ageing model
Creators: name: de Oliveira, S. Moss
name: Stauffer, D.
name: de Oliveira, P. M. C
name: Martins, J. S. Sa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We twice modify the Penna model for biological ageing. First we introduce back (good) mutations and a memory for them into the model. It allows us to observe an improvement of the species fitness over long time scales as well as punctuated equilibrium. Second we adopt a food/space competition factor that depends on the number of accumulated mutations in the individuals genomes, and get rid of the fixed limiting number of allowed mutations. Besides reproducing the main results of the standard model, we also observe a mortality maximum for the oldest old.
description: 9 pages, including 3 figures, to be submitted to Physica A
title: Uncertainty and Multiple Paradigms of the Transmission Mechanism
Creators: name: Engert, Walter
name: Selody, Jack
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 1998

description: An important challenge facing central banks is making decisions under uncertainty about the dynamic effects of monetary policy actions. The authors stress the importance of explicitly recognizing uncertainty about the transmission mechanism when formulating policy advice. They argue that one way to manage monetary policy under uncertainty is to draw on both an output-gap paradigm and a money paradigm of the transmission mechanism to inform decision-making. Taking an eclectic, diversified approach to guide policy judgements could improve the policy outcome.
description: Un important défi que les banques centrales ont à relever est de décider des mesures à prendre en matière de politique monétaire dans un contexte où les effets dynamiques de celles-ci ne sont pas connus avec certitude. Les auteurs soulignent l'importance qu'il y a à reconnaître expressément, au moment de formuler des conseils concernant la politique monétaire, l'incertitude qui entoure le mécanisme de transmission. Compte tenu de cette incertitude, ils soutiennent qu'un moyen d'éclairer la prise de décisions est de faire appel à la fois à deux modèles du mécanisme de transmission, soit un paradigme fondé sur l'écart de production et un autre axé sur la monnaie. En fondant les décisions en matière de politique monétaire sur une démarche éclectique, les autorités obtiendraient peut-être de meilleurs résultats.
Numerical study of anharmonic vibrational decay in amorphous and paracrystalline silicon
Creators: name: Fabian, Jaroslav
name: Feldman, Joseph L.
name: Hellberg, C. Stephen
name: Nakhmanson, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anharmonic decay rates of atomic vibrations in amorphous silicon (a-Si) and paracrystalline silicon (p-Si), containing small crystalline grains embedded in a disordered matrix, are calculated using realistic structural models. The models are 1000-atom four-coordinated networks relaxed to a local minimum of the Stillinger-Weber interatomic potential. The vibrational decay rates are calculated numerically by perturbation theory, taking into account cubic anharmonicity as the perturbation. The vibrational lifetimes for a-Si are found to be on picosecond time scales, in agreement with the previous perturbative and classical molecular dynamics calculations on a 216-atom model. The calculated decay rates for p-Si are similar to those of a-Si. No modes in p-Si reside entirely on the crystalline cluster, decoupled from the amorphous matrix. The localized modes with the largest (up to 59%) weight on the cluster decay primarily to two diffusons. The numerical results are discussed in relation to a recent suggestion by van der Voort et al. [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 62}, 8072 (2000)] that long vibrational relaxation inferred experimentally may be due to possible crystalline nanostructures in some types of a-Si.
description: 9 two-column pages, 13 figures
Pseudocrenilabrina Fowler 1934
Creators: name: Oliver, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cichlidae

description: Pseudocrenilabrina Fowler, 1934
Diagnosis
A distinct pseudocrenilabrine clade, the “ Pseudocrenilabrus group ” (Weiss et al. 2015, Schedel et al. 2019) is united by molecular characters discovered through analyses of both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA (Schedel et al. 2020). A single morphological synapomorphy further unites all members of the genera Pseudocrenilabrus, Lufubuchromis and Palaeoplex, namely possession at least in adult males of the “ Pseudocrenilabrus blotch ” (Schedel et al. 2020), a red or orange mark covering the distal tip of the soft anal fin. This fin lacks the ocellated egg-dummies of adult males in the Pseudotropheina and the various non-ocellated coloured spots or streaks of adult males in the Cyrtocarina and Rhamphochromina.
Type genus: Pseudocrenilabrus Fowler, 1934
Included genera and additional species as indicated by mitochondrial DNA data (Schedel et al. 2019): Lufubuchromis Schedel, Kupriyanov, Katongo & Schliewen, 2020; Palaeoplex Schedel, Kupriyanov, Katongo & Schliewen, 2020; and Pseudocrenilabrus Fowler, 1934; also Haplochromis moeruensis (Boulenger, 1899); Orthochromis machadoi (Poll, 1967); and four northern Zambian species of Orthochromis: O. kalungwishiensis (Greenwood & Kullander, 1994); O. luongoensis (Greenwood & Kullander, 1994); O. katumbii Schedel, Vreven, Manda, Abwe, Manda, & Schliewen, 2018; and O. mporokoso Schedel, Vreven, Manda, Abwe, Manda, & Schliewen, 2018.
Distribution
Widespread (Pseudocrenilabrus spp.) in northern, central, eastern and southern Africa; other species in northern Zambia, Lake Mweru and Angola (Cunene River).
Notes
Fowler (1934): 462 proposed the subfamily name Pseudocrenilabrinae, whose stem Pseudocrenilabr- is therefore available for use in other family-group names, including subtribe, taking the same authorship and date. Tawil (2001) mentioned a tribe Pseudocrenilabrini and a subtribe Pseudocrenilabrina, without citing their author and date.
Vertebral and pterygiophore counts and most-frequent insertion patterns of the latter, are summarised in Tables 1, 2, but are not distinctive for this subtribe.
description: Published as part of Oliver, Michael K., 2024, African cichlid fishes: morphological data and taxonomic insights from a genus-level survey of supraneurals, pterygiophores, and vertebral counts (Ovalentaria, Blenniiformes, Cichlidae, Pseudocrenilabrinae), pp. e 130707 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130707, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130707
The Impacts of Protected Area Size on Land Acquisition Costs for Conservation
Creators: name: Kim, Taeyoung
name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Larson, Eric R.
name: Armsworth, Paul R.
name: Kim, Taeyoung
name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Larson, Eric R.
name: Armsworth, Paul R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Cost effectiveness
subject: Economies of Scale
subject: Land conservation
subject: Protected area size.

description: The size of the protected area is recognized as one of the key attributes for assessing the effectiveness of investing in protected areas. We evaluate the effectiveness of protected areas by examining economies of scale in size and the average cost of acquiring protected areas depending on the land acquisition contract types and motivations. We use recent land acquisitions (2000-2009) of the central and southern Appalachian forest ecosystems by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) as a case study. Our findings suggest that (1) the purchase of protected areas achieves economies of scale in size on average; (2) the fee simple deals achieve economies of scale in size while the easements do not, and the easement deals are more cost effective than the fee simple deals; (3) targeting the protection of mammals or birds achieves greater economies of scale than not targeting them; and (4) the deals without development pressures achieve greater economies of scale in size than the deals with the threat of development. Our findings will help TNC and other conservation organizations to design more cost effective investments in land conservation.
Bonded Point-Supports: Understanding Today – Optimizing for the Future
Creators: name: Hagl, A.
Publisher: name: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings
Year: 2010

description: Experiments using material specimen of the Silicone adhesive on the one hand and several point support designs on the other hand provide valuable know-how for favourable layout from engineering point of view. The comparison of uni-axial material tests based on dog-bone specimens, of H-type specimens of ETAG 002 type and of circular and rectangular point supports show different working principles of the adhesive material. Test results on planar point supports and comparison with other point support designs show similarities in terms of applicable limit stresses. For advanced point support designs, these similarities might be affected by the support geometry leading to local stress peaks.
description: Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2 (2010): Challenging Glass 2
MOESM5 of Genomes and secretomes of Ascomycota fungi reveal diverse functions in plant biomass decomposition and pathogenesis
Creators: name: Challacombe, Jean
name: Cedar Hesse
name: Bramer, Lisa
name: McCue, Lee
name: Lipton, Mary
name: Purvine, Samuel
name: Nicora, Carrie
name: La Gallegos-Graves
name: Porras-Alfaro, Andrea
name: Kuske, Cheryl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5. Labeled volcano plot grass vs sucrose all fungi. Labeled volcano plot showing proteins with increased expression in all fungi in grass cultures compared to sucrose control cultures.
Additional file 3: of The tick endosymbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii and selenoproteins are essential for the growth of Rickettsia parkeri in the Gulf Coast tick vector
Creators: name: Budachetri, Khemraj
name: Kumar, Deepak
name: Crispell, Gary
name: Beck, Christine
name: Dasch, Gregory
name: Karim, Shahid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S3. Knockdown of tick selenoproteins in naïve (uninfected) A. maculatum. (a) dsSELENOO and (b) dsSELENOS. Gene expression in naïve ticks was normalized against tick β-actin as the reference gene. Compensatory antioxidant expression levels were measured for eukaryotic elongation factor (eEFSec), selenoproteins (SELENOM, SELENOK, SELENOS, SELENOO, TrxR, SELENON, SELENOT), mitochondrial superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD), cytosolic superoxide dismutase (Cu/Zn-SOD), catalase (Cat), glutathione reductase (GSHR), and glutathione peroxidase (Salp25D). (DOCX 231 kb)
Constrained Brownian motion: Fluctuations away from circular and parabolic barriers
Creators: name: Ferrari, Patrik L.
name: Spohn, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60J65 (Primary) 60J60 (Secondary)

description: Motivated by the polynuclear growth model, we consider a Brownian bridge b(t) with b(\pm T)=0 conditioned to stay above the semicircle c_T(t)=\sqrtT^2-t^2. In the limit of large T, the fluctuation scale of b(t)-c_T(t) is T^{1/3} and its time-correlation scale is T^{2/3}. We prove that, in the sense of weak convergence of path measures, the conditioned Brownian bridge, when properly rescaled, converges to a stationary diffusion process with a drift explicitly given in terms of Airy functions. The dependence on the reference point t=τT, τ\in(-1,1), is only through the second derivative of c_T(t) at t=τT. We also prove a corresponding result where instead of the semicircle the barrier is a parabola of height T^γ, γ>1/2. The fluctuation scale is then T^{(2-γ)/3}. More general conditioning shapes are briefly discussed.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000125 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 1 of Comparing the characteristics and predicting the survival of patients with head and neck melanoma versus body melanoma: a population-based study
Creators: name: Yuxin Ding
name: Runyi Jiang
name: Yuhong Chen
name: Jing, Jing
name: Xiaoshuang Yang
name: Xianjie Wu
name: Xiaoyang Zhang
name: Jiali Xu
name: Piaopiao Xu
name: LiuHuang, Shu Chen
name: Zhongfa Lu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Kaplan-Meier curves of OS. Figure S2. Calibration curves for nomograms of OS.
Tropheina Poll 1986
Creators: name: Oliver, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cichlidae

description: Tropheina Poll, 1986 (new rank)
Diagnosis
According to Takahashi (2003): 379, “ This tribe [now subtribe] is characterized exclusively by extensively granulated cycloid scales at midbody (granulations comprising irregularly arranged, variously shaped protrusions over almost entire exposed surface) ”. Haefeli et al. (2024): 445 extended this diagnosis, noting the presence of “ … additional scales with small ctenii along the midbody, increasing in numbers towards the ventral and posterior side ”.
Type genus: Tropheus Boulenger 1898
Included genera: Interochromis Yamaoka, Hori, & Kuwamura, 1998; Jabarichromis Haefeli, Schedel, Ronco, Indermaur, & Salzburger, 2024; Limnotilapia Regan, 1920; Lobochilotes Boulenger, 1915; Petrochromis Boulenger, 1898; Pseudosimochromis Nelissen, 1977; Shuja Genner, Ngatunga, & Turner, 2022; Simochromis Boulenger, 1898; Tropheus Boulenger, 1898.
Distribution
Lake Tanganyika.
Notes
Multiple molecular phylogenetic studies have recovered the tropheines as a clade nested within Pseudocrenilabrini (Salzburger et al. 2005, Koblmüller et al. 2008, Takahashi and Koblmüller 2011, Dunz and Schliewen 2013, Meyer et al. 2015, Ronco et al. 2021). Thus it is logical to place the tropheines as subordinate within Pseudocrenilabrini and not as a separate tribe. Vertebral and pterygiophore counts and most-frequent insertion patterns of the latter, are summarised in Tables 1, 2, but are not distinctive for the Tropheina.
description: Published as part of Oliver, Michael K., 2024, African cichlid fishes: morphological data and taxonomic insights from a genus-level survey of supraneurals, pterygiophores, and vertebral counts (Ovalentaria, Blenniiformes, Cichlidae, Pseudocrenilabrinae), pp. e 130707 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e130707, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130707
The Non-Linear Dependence of Flux on Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate in Core Dominated Jets
Creators: name: Heinz, S.
name: Sunyaev, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the non-linear relation between the core flux F_{nu} of accretion powered jets at a given frequency and the mass M of the central compact object. For scale invariant jet models, the mathematical structure of the equations describing the synchrotron emission from jets enables us to cancel out the model dependent complications of jet dynamics, retaining only a simple, model independent algebraic relation between F_{nu} and M. This approach allows us to derive the F_{nu}-M relation for any accretion disk scenario that provides a set of input boundary conditions for the magnetic field and the relativistic particle pressure in the jet, such as standard and advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF) disk solutions. Surprisingly, the mass dependence of F_{nu} is very similar in different accretion scenarios. For typical flat-spectrum core dominated radio jets and standard accretion scenarios we find F_{nu}~M^{17/12}. The 7-9 orders of magnitude difference in black hole mass between microquasars and AGN jets imply that AGN jets must be about 3-4 orders of magnitude more radio loud than microquasars, i.e., the ratio of radio to bolometric luminosity is much smaller in microquasars than in AGN jets. Because of the generality of these results, measurements of this F_{nu}-M dependence are a powerful probe of jet and accretion physics. We show how our analysis can be extended to derive a similar scaling relation between the accretion rate mdot and F_{nu} for different accretion disk models. For radiatively inefficient accretion modes we find that the flat spectrum emission follows F_{nu}~(mdot*M)^{17/12}.
description: Added key words and acknowledgements, minor editorial corrections. 6 pages, to appear in MNRAS 343, L59-L64
MOESM6 of Genomes and secretomes of Ascomycota fungi reveal diverse functions in plant biomass decomposition and pathogenesis
Creators: name: Challacombe, Jean
name: Cedar Hesse
name: Bramer, Lisa
name: McCue, Lee
name: Lipton, Mary
name: Purvine, Samuel
name: Nicora, Carrie
name: La Gallegos-Graves
name: Porras-Alfaro, Andrea
name: Kuske, Cheryl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Labeled volcano plot pine vs sucrose all fungi. Labeled volcano plot showing proteins with increased expression in all fungi in pine cultures compared to sucrose control cultures.
title: Dynamic Employment and Hours Effects of Government Spending Shocks
Creators: name: Yuan, Mingwei
name: Li, Wenli
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 1999

description: In this paper, we analyze the dynamic behaviour of employment and hours worked per worker in a stochastic general equilibrium model with a matching mechanism between vacancies and unemployed workers. The model is estimated for the United States using the Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) estimation technique. An increase in government spending raises hours worked per worker, and crowds out private consumption due to a negative wealth effect. On the path converging towards the steady state, private consumption is below its long-run average and increases, which implies that the interest rate is above its long-run average and declines. The interest rate effect dominates the pure economic rent effect on the capital value of a hired worker to the firm, causing a reduction of job openings and consequently a decrease in employment. These results are contrasted with the predictions of a version of the Burnside, Eichenbaum and Rebelo's (1993) labor hoarding model.
description: Les auteurs de l'étude analysent le comportement dynamique de l'emploi et du nombre d'heures travaillées par travailleur dans le cadre d'un modèle stochastique d'équilibre général doté d'un mécanisme d'appariement des postes vacants et des chômeurs. Le modèle est estimé pour les États-Unis à l'aide de la méthode des moments généralisés. Une hausse des dépenses publiques entraîne une augmentation du nombre d'heures travaillées par travailleur et provoque l'éviction d'une partie de la consommation privée par le jeu d'un effet de richesse négatif. Durant le processus d'ajustement vers le régime permanent, la consommation privée se situe sous sa moyenne à long terme et augmente graduellement, ce qui implique que le taux d'intérêt est supérieur à sa moyenne à long terme et baisse progressivement. L'effet du taux d'intérêt l'emporte sur celui de la rente économique pure dans la détermination de la valeur en capital d'un travailleur pour l'entreprise, d'où une réduction du nombre de postes disponibles et une diminution consécutive de l'emploi. Les auteurs comparent ces résultats aux prévisions d'une version du modèle de thésaurisation de la main-d'oeuvre de Burnside, Eichenbaum et Rebelo (1993).
The Impact of China's Demographic Transition on Economic Growth and Income Distribution: CGE Modeling with Top-Down Micro-Simulation
Creators: name: Wang, Xinxin
name: Chen, Kevin
name: Huang, Zuhui
name: Wang, Xinxin
name: Chen, Kevin
name: Huang, Zuhui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: Demographic Transition
subject: Economic Growth
subject: Income Distribution
subject: CGE model

description: Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging issue throughout the developing world, and especially in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than most industrial economies. This paper quantifies the economic and distributional effects in the context of demographic transition using the integrated recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with top-down behavioral micro-simulation. The results show that the population aging slow down China’s economy growth rate due to the exhausted of demographic dividend with high cost of labor force. The consequences from the poverty and inequality index indicate that population aging has a negative impact to the reduction of poverty while it is positive as refers to the equality during the process of demographic transition. The average age within a household has a noticeable contribution to total inequality. These findings suggest that measures for stimulating the second demographic dividend should be carried out to promote the economic growth as well as the reduction of poverty. The inequality within the same household groups while with different household age should be put more emphasize on. What’s more, the social pension system should be improved, especially in rural China