cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Self-Reliant Subjects of Finance: Investing and Borrowing in Working-class Households in Contemporary Capitalism
Creators: name: Mulcahy, Niamh
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: subjectivity
sociology of finance
financialisation
inequality
class
critical realism
political economy

description: This thesis examines the integration of households within finance markets in the United Kingdom, through increasing reliance on personal investment and borrowing, in order to understand how finance and risk have been rationalised as effective ways to make ends meet in the subjectivation of individuals and households. Against declining public provision of welfare services, many households invest in unit trusts and private pensions to provide for their futures, while the expansion of retail banking services during the 1980s has enabled the proliferation of borrowing for loans, mortgages and credit. These developments accompany a growing discourse in the UK about the importance of self-reliance and entrepreneurialism among the middle and working classes in creating a prosperous economy. I thus draw on accounts of financial restructuring in Britain, as well as national indicators on investment and borrowing patterns among households, to chart the rise of the entrepreneurial subject leading up to the financial crisis of 2008. These accounts, however, reveal striking disparities between middle- and working-class engagements with finance, with the latter overwhelmingly saving and investing less for their futures, while they tend to borrow more than they can reasonably expect to repay. This, I argue, represents the limits of financial subjectivity, with working-class subjects of finance restricted in their ability to save and borrow by structural inequalities such as stagnating wages or precarious employment. The thesis therefore approaches the issue of contemporary financialised inequality from a critical realist perspective, in order to examine the causal mechanisms underlying the shift to financial subjectivity, and the potential for change contained within new forms of stratification.
description: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
Increasing structural and functional complexity in self-assembled coordination cages
Creators: name: Pullen, Sonja
name: Tessarolo, Jacopo
name: Clever, Guido H.
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Coordination chemistry
subject: Supramolecular chemistry
subject: Metal-mediated self-assembly
subject: Heteroleptic cages
subject: Multifunctional assemblies
subject: Structural complexity
subject: Confined reaction environment
subject: Photoswitch
subject: Nano system
subject: 540

description: Progress in metallo-supramolecular chemistry creates potential to synthesize functional nano systems and intelligent materials of increasing complexity. In the past four decades, metal-mediated self-assembly has produced a wide range of structural motifs such as helicates, grids, links, knots, spheres and cages, with particularly the latter ones catching growing attention, owing to their nano-scale cavities. Assemblies serving as hosts allow application as selective receptors, confined reaction environments and more. Recently, the field has made big steps forward by implementing dedicated functionality, e.g. catalytic centres or photoswitches to allow stimuli control. Besides incorporation in homoleptic systems, composed of one type of ligand, desire arose to include more than one function within the same assembly. Inspiration comes from natural enzymes that congregate, for example, a substrate recognition site, an allosteric regulator element and a reaction centre. Combining several functionalities without creating statistical mixtures, however, requires a toolbox of sophisticated assembly strategies. This review showcases the implementation of function into self-assembled cages and devises strategies to selectively form heteroleptic structures. We discuss first examples resulting from a combination of both principles, namely multicomponent multifunctional host–guest complexes, and their potential in application in areas such as sensing, catalysis, and photo-redox systems.
Energy Levels and Wave Functions of Vector Bosons in Homogeneous Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Sogut, K.
name: Havare, A.
name: Acikgoz, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aimed to obtain the energy levels of spin-1 particles moving in a constant magnetic field. The method used here is completely algebraic. In the process to obtain the energy levels the wave function is choosen in terms of Laguerre Polynomials.
description: 13 pages, no figures
Shape Coexistence in 74Ge, 74Se and 74Kr Investigated by Phenomenological and Microscopic Models
Creators: name: Mennana, A. Ait Ben
name: Benjedi, R.
name: Buganu, P.
name: Budaca, R.
name: Budaca, A. I.
name: Bassem, Y. EL
name: Lahbas, A.
name: Oulne, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The deformation properties of 74Ge, 74Se and 74Kr are studied within the phenomenological Bohr-Mottelson model, having as input the experimental collective energy states, as well with Covariant Density Functional theories based on microscopic structural information. The results of these approaches are shown to be compatible in what concerns the presence of coexisting shapes in the considered nuclei, while the emergence of shape mixing is deduced from the phenomenological calculated collective states.
description: 10 pages
title: The Mechanical Hour
Creators: name: Fulcher, Ryan Thomas
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: Each of the five stories in this collection presents a character who feels compelled to do something out of the ordinary. In "Rock Creek Bridge," a lonely man interferes with a stranger's bleak plan. In "The Day Room," young married man suffers the lingering pangs of an old attachment. "The Mechanical Hour" features a man who suspects himself of harboring an unhealthy impulse. In "Occoquan," a young lobbyist falls lower than he thought possible. In "Ballplayers," an alternate take on the classic form of the baseball story, a man recounts his version of a theft he committed as a youth. While these stories vary in subject matter and narration, they all explore the perimeter of the unruined world.
title: Interbank Transactions on the Intraday Frequency: -Different Market States and the Effects of the Financial Crisis-
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Demertzidis, Anastasios
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft
financial crisis
intraday frequency
Interbank credit market
e-MID

description: The focus of this paper lies in the study of the intraday distribution of the number of transactions and transaction volume (absolute and mean per transaction) in the interbank credit market e-MID in different market states around the events of the financial crisis of 2007. The results show that the distributions of the number and of the volume of transactions can be characterized as U-shaped and the distribution of the mean per transaction as three-peaked. However, there are important differences when it comes to the comparison of the different market states and the differentiation between sell and buy transactions. Moreover, this study detects stylized facts about the market regarding the number of trades and the volume during the day. Sell transactions are higher in each market state. This highlights the fact that this market is used widely to deposit excessive liquidity in all intervals during the day. Furthermore, differences within these variables during different market states can be observed, which highlights the importance of this analysis. This study can strengthen our understanding of the interbank credit market as it is important for policy makers and the daily trading strategies of banks. Additionally, implications can be seen as the basis for further empirical and econometric research.
The counterrotating core and the black hole mass of IC1459
Creators: name: Cappellari, M.
name: Verolme, E. K.
name: van der Marel, R. P.
name: Kleijn, G. A. Verdoes
name: Illingworth, G. D.
name: Franx, M.
name: Carollo, C. M.
name: de Zeeuw, P. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The E3 giant elliptical galaxy IC1459 is the prototypical galaxy with a fast counterrotating stellar core. We obtained one HST/STIS long-slit spectrum along the major axis of this galaxy and CTIO spectra along five position angles. We present self-consistent three-integral axisymmetric models of the stellar kinematics, obtained with Schwarzschild's numerical orbit superposition method. We study the dynamics of the kinematically decoupled core (KDC) in IC1459 and we find it consists of stars that are well-separated from the rest of the galaxy in phase space. The stars in the KDC counterrotate in a disk on orbits that are close to circular. We estimate that the KDC mass is ~0.5% of the total galaxy mass or ~3*10^9 Msun. We estimate the central black hole mass M_BH of IC1459 independently from both its stellar and its gaseous kinematics. Some complications probably explain why we find rather discrepant BH masses with the different methods. The stellar kinematics suggest that M_BH = (2.6 +/- 1.1)*10^9 Msun (3 sigma error). The gas kinematics suggests that M_BH ~ 3.5*10^8 Msun if the gas is assumed to rotate at the circular velocity in a thin disk. If the observed velocity dispersion of the gas is assumed to be gravitational, then M_BH could be as high as ~1.0*10^9 Msun. These different estimates bracket the value M_BH = (1.1 +/- 0.3)*10^9 Msun predicted by the M_BH-sigma relation. It will be an important goal for future studies to assess the reliability of black hole mass determinations with either technique. This is essential if one wants to interpret the correlation between the BH mass and other global galaxy parameters (e.g. velocity dispersion) and in particular the scatter in these correlations (believed to be only ~0.3 dex). [Abridged]
description: 51 pages, LaTeX with 19 PostScript figures. Revised version, with three new figures and data tables. To appear in The Astrophysical Journal, 578, 2002 October 20
title: The Role of R&D-intensive Clusters for Regional Competitiveness
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Kosfeld, Reinhold
name: Mitze, Timo
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Industry clusters
correlated random effects model
regional competitiveness
cluster diversity
Economics
Wirtschaft
cluster specialisation

description: Modern cluster theory provides reasons for positive external effects that ac-crue from the interaction of spatially proximate firms operating in common and related fields of economic activity. In this paper, we examine the impact of R&D-intensive clus-ters as a key factor of regional competitiveness on productivity and innovation growth. In analogy to the industry-oriented concepts of related and unrelated variety (Frenken, Van Oort, Verburg 2007), we differentiate between effects of cluster specialisation and diversity. The identification of R&D-intensive clusters is based on a hybrid approach of qualitative input-output analysis and spatial scanning (Kosfeld and Titze 2017). Our empirical study is conducted for a panel of German NUTS-3 regions in 2001-2011. To comprehensive account for specialisation and diversity effects of clustering we adopt a spatial econometric approach, which allows us to identify these effects beyond the geographical boundaries of a single region. After controlling for regional characteristics and unobserved heterogeneity, a robust ‘cluster strength’ effect (i.e. specialization) on productivity growth is found within the context of conditional convergence across Ger-man regions. With regard to the underlying mechanisms, we find that the presence of a limited number of R&D-intensive clusters in specific technological fields is most strongly linked to higher levels of regional productivity growth. While we also observe a positive effect of cluster strength on innovation growth once we account for spatial spillovers, no significant effects of ‘cluster diversity’ can be identified. This indicates that some but not all cluster-based regional development strategies are promising pol-icy tools to foster regional growth processes.
Eikan shiryaku, 7
瀛環志略 七
Creators: name: Inoue, Shunyō.
Publisher: name: Tokushima : Konishi Kichibei and Miyajimaya Izaemon
Year: 2021

description: Roads, towns and provinces indicated. Chinese title: Ying huan zhi lue, by Xu Ji Yu (Chinese) published in 1849; 43 maps, based on western cartography.
Electron-momentum dependence of electron-phonon coupling underlies dramatic phonon renormalization in YNi$_2$B$_2$C
Creators: name: Kurzhals, Philipp
name: Kremer, Geoffroy
name: Jaouen, Thomas
name: Nicholson, Christopher W.
name: Heid, Rolf
name: Nagel, Peter
name: Castellan, John-Paul
name: Ivanov, Alexandre
name: Muntwiler, Matthias
name: Rumo, Maxime
name: Salzmann, Bjoern
name: Strocov, Vladimir N.
name: Reznik, Dmitry
name: Monney, Claude
name: Weber, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron-phonon coupling, i.e., the scattering of lattice vibrations by electrons and vice versa, is ubiquitous in solids and can lead to emergent ground states such as superconductivity and charge-density wave order. Strong coupling of phonons to electrons near the Fermi surface, which reduces the phonon lifetimes and broadens the phonon peaks in scattering experiments, is often associated with Fermi surface nesting. Here, we show that strong phonon broadening can occur in the absence of both Fermi surface nesting and lattice anharmonicity, if electron-phonon coupling is strongly enhanced for specific values of electron-momentum, k. We use inelastic neutron scattering, soft x-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements and ab-initio lattice dynamical and electronic band structure calculations to demonstrate this scenario in the highly anisotropic tetragonal electron-phonon superconductor YNi$_2$B$_2$C. This new scenario likely applies to a wide range of compounds.
Development of Novel Therapies for Marfan Syndrome using a Human iPSC-disease model
Creators: name: McNamara, Madeline Elizabeth Odile
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: iPSC
marfan syndrome
aortic disease
drug-screen

description: Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a connective tissue disorder caused by mutations in fibrillin-1, a matrix component encoded by the gene FBN1, with pleiotropic manifestations including severe cardiovascular complications, such as aortic aneurysms and dissection. Current treatments focus on surgically removing the aneurysm or on minimising aortic wall stress by controlling haemodynamics, but neither of these strategies tackle the underlying pathology. Although MFS is caused by fibrillin-1 mutations, it remains unclear how these lead to the pleiotropic manifestations seen in patients. Defective fibrillin-1 is thought to lead to excessive release of TGF-β in the extracellular environment, which will increase TGF-β signalling activity. Substantial efforts observed that angiotensin II receptor (AngIIR) blockade is able to rescue promiscuous TGF-β signalling and aortic complications in a MFS mouse model (Habashi et al. 2006). However, results in clinical trials have been disappointing (Lacro et al. 2014) and it is increasingly apparent that there is a need to develop better disease models for MFS to improve therapy development. In addition to abnormal TGF-β signalling, matrix degradation is a likely crucial component for pathology development as most clinical studies show extracellular matrix degradation and increased matrix proteolytic enzyme levels in diseased aortas (Chung et al. 2007; Xiong et al. 2012). In this work, I speculate that there are multiple disease perturbations downstream of the FBN1 mutations and that there is a need to develop novel strategies to identify new putative disease mediators and signalling pathways that participate in the pathogenicity. Here, I use a patient iPSC-derived in vitro disease model that recapitulates the complexity of the patient abnormalities (Granata et al. 2017) to develop two potential therapeutic strategies (i) directly interfering at the level of the pathological mutation using an exon skipping approach and (ii) designing an unbiased phenotypic drug screen to identify putative compounds able to rescue abnormal proteolysis in our disease model. These complementary techniques will enable the identification of novel disease-causing pathways and offer strategies for clinical intervention using our in vitro disease model as a platform for drug discovery.
description: BHF Regenerative Medicine
‘The Store’ Oral History Project
Creators: name: Hardy, Ann
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: The Store Oral History Project is a collection of 20 oral histories gathered from members of the Newcastle community in 2019, sharing their thoughts and memories of the Newcastle and Suburban Co-operative Society Ltd, known locally as ‘The Store’. The project builds on existing knowledge about ‘The Store’ that was the biggest and most successful co-operative society in Australia, established in 1898. In 1974, at its peak it operated 15 other retail branches and had 98,000 members and employed 1450 workers. It provided grocery, retail goods, services including a health fund, funeral fund, travel agency. Eventually, increased shopper mobility and competition from suburban shopping centres saw ‘The Store’ close in 1981 after 83 years of service. Closure left a lasting impact upon the community and in the wake of the demolition and renewal of the former Hunter Street site, this project commemorates and celebrates The Store's legacy. This article discusses how the project provided a unique opportunity for a university Library to collaborate with industry partners, the community, employed students and provided Work Integrated learning students’ opportunities to build GLAM sector knowledge and skills. Twenty oral histories are publicly available on Livinghistories@UON. These amplified voices of ‘The Store’ add meaning to existing narratives, as well as the University’s archival holdings of this old Newcastle icon. In 2019, the University of Newcastle (Australia) Auchmuty library embarked on a new project aimed to record stories associated with The Newcastle and Suburban Co-operative Society Ltd, known locally as ‘The Store’, established in Newcastle West, in 1898. The main store building opened in Hunter Street Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1906.
Diversity in Biology: definitions, quantification, and models
Creators: name: Xu, Song
name: Böttcher, Lucas
name: Chou, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Diversity indices are useful single-number metrics for characterizing a complex distribution of a set of attributes across a population of interest. The utility of these different metrics or sets of metrics depend on the context and application, and whether a predictive mechanistic model exists. In this topical review, we first summarize the relevant mathematical principles underlying heterogeneity in a large population before outlining the various definitions of `diversity' and providing examples of scientific topics in which its quantification plays an important role. We then review how diversity has been a ubiquitous concept across multiple fields including ecology, immunology, cellular barcoding experiments, and socioeconomic studies. Since many of these applications involve sampling of populations, we also review how diversity in small samples is related to the diversity in the entire population. Features that arise in each of these applications are highlighted.
description: Revised, corrected, and in press, 22 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
MOESM7 of Agricultural management and plant selection interactively affect rhizosphere microbial community structure and nitrogen cycling
Creators: name: Schmidt, Jennifer
name: Kent, Angela
name: Brisson, Vanessa
name: AmÃ©Lie Gaudin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S6. This file contains Table S6: Genes quantified using qPCR.
Instance Shadow Detection
Creators: name: Wang, Tianyu
name: Hu, Xiaowei
name: Wang, Qiong
name: Heng, Pheng-Ann
name: Fu, Chi-Wing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Instance shadow detection is a brand new problem, aiming to find shadow instances paired with object instances. To approach it, we first prepare a new dataset called SOBA, named after Shadow-OBject Association, with 3,623 pairs of shadow and object instances in 1,000 photos, each with individual labeled masks. Second, we design LISA, named after Light-guided Instance Shadow-object Association, an end-to-end framework to automatically predict the shadow and object instances, together with the shadow-object associations and light direction. Then, we pair up the predicted shadow and object instances, and match them with the predicted shadow-object associations to generate the final results. In our evaluations, we formulate a new metric named the shadow-object average precision to measure the performance of our results. Further, we conducted various experiments and demonstrate our method's applicability on light direction estimation and photo editing.
description: Accepted to CVPR 2020
title: Market Design of Regional Flexibility Markets: A Classification Metric for Flexibility Products and its Application to German Prototypical Flexibility Markets
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Heilmann, Erik
name: Klempp, Nikolai
name: Wetzel, Heike
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft
market design
smart markets
electricity product design
exibility market

description: With a growing number of distributed energy resources, the electricity network is challenged with a higher quantity of technical problems such as capacity congestions and over- or under-voltages. One often-discussed approach to solve these problems, especially in the European zonal electricity system, is regional exibility markets. We provide a novel metric for the design of exibility products by combining technical requirements with a background in auction theory. This is a valuable contribution to the discussion of regional exibility markets, which currently occurs on a largely technical or conceptual level. The metric structures 23 product parameters in four stages of di_erent abstraction levels. By applying this metric to _ve exibility market approaches used in current German research projects, we demonstrate its usability for consistent description and comparison of exibility products. Therefore, the metric we have developed, is a powerful instrument for structured analysis and assessment of the vast diversity of approaches to exibility markets and products at a high level of detail. This metric can empower national and international policy makers and practitioners in developing and assessing exibility markets holistically and can help to simplify the implementation of best-practice solutions.
The negative impact of Dota 2 and other esports games on players' health
Creators: name: Hawk.live LLC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Video games
subject: Video Games
subject: Microscopy, Video/ethics
subject: Dota 2

description: Esports has become an integral part of modern culture, attracting millions of playersand viewers worldwide. One of the most popular games in this sphere is Dota 2,which not only captivates but also raises serious questions about its impact onplayers' mental and physical health.Source: Hawk.live
Tepidopleustes Karaman & Barnard 1979
Creators: name: Just, Jean
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Pleustidae
Tepidopleustes

description: Tepidopleustes Karaman & Barnard, 1979
 Tepidopleustes Karaman & Barnard, 1979: 113. — Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 653 (diagnosis).
description: Published as part of Just, Jean, 2009, Pleustidae *, pp. 836-840 in Zootaxa 2260 (1) on page 837, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2260.1.46, http://zenodo.org/record/5307959
Nonlinearity and asymmetric vertical transmission in U.S. fresh vegetable prices
Creators: name: Tavernier, Edmund M.
name: Onyango, Benjamin M.
name: Hossain, Ferdaus
name: Tavernier, Edmund M.
name: Onyango, Benjamin M.
name: Hossain, Ferdaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: vegetable prices
subject: vertical linkage
subject: non-linearity
subject: asymmetric adjustment
subject: cointegration.

description: The presence of nonlinearity, threshold behavior and cointegration under asymmetric adjustment are investigated in the vertical transmission of shocks between farm and retail prices for vegetable products in the U.S. Empirical results confirm the presence of nonlinearity and threshold behavior in the adjustment processes of farm and retail prices. Retail and farm prices are found to be cointegrated, implying long-run equilibrium relation between the two prices. However, for four of the five products included in this study, price transmissions are characterized by asymmetric adjustments. While retail prices adjust quickly in response to shocks that reduce the farm-retail spread below a certain threshold, it hardly responds to shocks that widen the spread. Farm prices are mostly unresponsive to retail market movements. Causation runs from farm to retail prices.
High contrast imaging with Fizeau interferometry: The case of Altair
Creators: name: Spalding, Eckhart
name: Morzinski, Katie M.
name: Hinz, Phil
name: Males, Jared
name: Meyer, Michael
name: Quanz, Sascha P.
name: Leisenring, Jarron
name: Power, Jennifer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) has two 8.4-m primary mirrors that produce beams that can be combined coherently in a "Fizeau" interferometric mode. In principle, the Fizeau PSF enables the probing of structure at a resolution up to three times better than that of the adaptive-optics-corrected PSF of a single 8.4-m telescope. In this work, we examined the nearby star Altair (5.13 pc, type A7V, $\sim$100s Myr to $\approx$1.4 Gyr) in the Fizeau mode with the LBT at Br-$α$ (4.05 $μ$m) and carried out angular differential imaging to search for companions. This work presents the first filled-aperture LBT Fizeau science dataset to benefit from a correcting mirror which provides active phase control. In the analysis of the $λ/D$ angular regime, the sensitivity of the dataset is down to $\approx$0.5 $M_{\odot}$ at 1" for a 1.0 Gyr system. This sensitivity remains limited by the small amount of integration time, which is in turn limited by the instability of the Fizeau PSF. However, in the Fizeau fringe regime we attain sensitivities of $Δm \approx 5$ at 0.2" and put constraints to companions of 1.3 $M_{\odot}$ down to an inner angle of $\approx$0.15", closer than any previously published direct imaging of Altair. This analysis is a pathfinder for future datasets of this type, and represents some of the first steps to unlocking the potential of the first ELT. Fizeau observations will be able to reach dimmer targets with upgrades to the instrument, in particular the phase detector.
description: Published in AJ
Histories of Liberty in Scottish Thought, 1747-1787
Creators: name: Pye, Tom
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: historiography
scotland
eighteenth century

description: In the decades following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, a group of Scottish jurists, historians, and philosophers turned to history in order to understand the parliamentary monarchy to which Scotland had attached itself in the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. In doing so, they stumbled upon the fraught and contested historiography of England’s ‘ancient constitution’—the idiom that gave birth to the ‘whig interpretation’ of English history. Historians agree that this encounter forms a significant episode in the history of eighteenth-century historical and political thought. The prevailing interpretation holds that the Scots brought the philosophical idiom of ‘society’ to bear on English historiography, and weeded out its far-fetched elements; but that they left its conceptual foundations intact. The English had become modern and free, the Scots agreed, because they had republicanised their monarchy in the seventeenth century, destroying their feudal institutions as they did so—a viable history that Scotland had to imitate if the commercial and political opportunities offered by Union were to be taken. This thesis reassesses this Scottish encounter with English historiography. It does so by reconstructing a sceptical alternative to the foundation narrative of English history that originated in Montesquieu’s history of feudal government in Europe. In his 1748 book, 'The Spirit of Laws', he had questioned whether republicanising monarchies would really render them free; the best way of sustaining both liberty and commerce in a monarchy, he argued instead, was through feudal property and feudal courts. This story was picked up in Scotland by John Dalrymple, David Hume, and Adam Smith—each of whom used it to re-think English history. At the same time, their contemporaries attempted to shut them down. Two ways of thinking about English history therefore emerge from the debate: one sceptical, with its origins in Montesquieu’s feudal history; one whiggish, derived from the materials provided by English history itself. Understanding this fracture, the thesis concludes, helps to explain the political stakes of eighteenth-century historical thought, as well as suggesting new routes into the nineteenth century.
Should the United States eliminate unilateral sanctions prohibiting food trade?
Creators: name: Tavernier, Edmund M.
name: Tavernier, Edmund M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Unilateral sanctions
subject: food trade

description: This paper investigates sanctions from the point-of-view of the agricultural sector. Specifically the paper examines whether the US should eliminate unilateral sanctions prohibiting food trade with certain other countries. The model assumes that farm operators maximize an inter-temporal profit function. The paper concludes that taking a broad view of agricultural policy issues may be challenging if the perceived benefits seem distant. Nevertheless taken in their entirety the results suggest that agricultural producers in New Jersey perceive positive benefits from removal of sanctions prohibiting food trade.
Supplementary document for Polarizer-free measurement of the full Stokes vector using a fiber-coupled superconducting nanowire single photon detector with a polarization extinction ratio of ~2 - 6160463.pdf
Creators: name: Fei, Yue
name: Ji, Tianhao
name: Zhu, Guanghao
name: Zhang, Labao
name: Zhang, Lijian
name: tan, jingrou
name: chen, qi
name: Guan, Yanqiu
name: Yin, Rui
name: Wang, Hao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document of theory model and experimental details
title: A Comparison of Individual and Group Behavior in a Competition with Cheating Opportunities
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Dannenberg, Astrid
name: Khachatryan, Elina
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: individual behavior
lying
Economics
Wirtschaft
group behavior
competition
honesty

description: While it is well established that individuals and groups make different economic decisions, the reasons for the behavioral differences are still not fully understood. We experimentally compare individual and group behavior in a competitive setting where cheating can be used to outperform the competitor. Our design allows us to exogenously control for the type of the decision maker, the type of the competitor, and expectations about the competitor’s performance. The results show that there is much more cheating in inter-group competition than inter-individual competition which is in line with findings from other interactive games. We show furthermore that this difference is not caused by a higher propensity to cheat of groups per se, but instead by expectations about the competitor. Once we control for the type of the competitor and the decision makers’ expectations, we no longer find differences between individuals and groups.
title: Forward Guidance Under the Cost Channel
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Finck, David
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Discretion
Forward Guidance
Economics
Wirtschaft
Cost Channel
Sustainability

description: A common finding in the literature is that forward guidance cannot be credible
under discretionary policy as long as the zero lower bound is an one-off
event. However, this is not the case when recurring episodes of zero interest
rates are possible. In this paper, we contribute to this new result and assess
the sustainability of forward guidance under the cost channel. We find that
forward guidance can be sustainable under the cost channel. However, we
show that it is less credible compared to a standard New Keynesian model.
Our results show that this finding also depends on the strength of the cost
channel. Furthermore, provide evidence that ignoring the presence of a cost
channel can be costly in terms of steady-state consumption.
Surprising Aspects of Fluctuating "Pulled" Fronts
Creators: name: Panja, Debabrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it has been shown that when an equation that allows so-called pulled fronts in the mean-field limit is modelled with a stochastic model with a finite number $N$ of particles per correlation volume, the convergence to the speed $v^*$ for $N \to \infty$ is extremely slow -- going only as $\ln^{-2}N$. However, this convergence is seen only for very high values of $N$, while there can be significant deviations from it when $N$ is not too large. Pulled fronts are fronts that propagate into an unstable state, and the asymptotic front speed is equal to the linear spreading speed $v^*$ of infinitesimal perturbations around the unstable state. In this paper, we consider front propagation in a simple stochastic lattice model. The microscopic picture of the front dynamics shows that for the description of the far tip of the front, one has to abandon the idea of a uniformly translating front solution. The lattice and finite particle effects lead to a ``halt-and-go'' type dynamics at the far tip of the front, while the average front behind it ``crosses over'' to a uniformly translating solution. In this formulation, the effect of stochasticity on the asymptotic front speed is coded in the probability distribution of the times required for the advancement of the ``foremost occupied lattice site''. These probability distributions are obtained by matching the solution of the far tip with the uniformly translating solution behind in a mean-field type approximation, and the results for the probability distributions compare well to the results of stochastic numerical simulations. This approach allows one to deal with much smaller values of $N$ than it is required to have the $\ln^{-2}N$ asymptotics to be valid.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, intended proceedings for 3rd International Conference Unsolved Problems of Noise (UPoN) and fluctuations in physics, biology and high technology 2002; references updated
Seafood Import Demand in Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM) Area
Creators: name: Nguyen, Giap V.
name: Jolly, Curtis M.
name: Nguyen, Giap V.
name: Jolly, Curtis M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Production Economics
subject: Seafood
subject: import demand
subject: Caribbean

description: An aggregate seafood import demand function for selected Caribbean countries is estimated using Autoregressive Error model and a Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity model to correct autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity. The results show that aggregated seafood import is elastic (-1.12), low-valued import is more elastic (-1.21), but high-valued import is inelastic (-0.72). Exchange rate has a negative effect on seafood import quantity. Income is not a factor in Caribbean seafood imports. Tourism has a positive impact on seafood imports. Seafood imports have a negative effect on domestic fisheries production, and a price increase is important in stimulating domestic fish production. Caribbean policy makers must be careful in articulating policies to encourage domestic production since increases in prices through a tariff may have differential effects on consumer groups.
Diagnostics of collisions between electrons and water molecules in near-ultraviolet and visible wavelengths
Creators: name: Bodewits, D.
name: Országh, J.
name: Noonan, J.
name: Ďurian, M.
name: Matejčík, Š.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied dissociation reactions of electron impact on water vapor for several fragment species at optical and near ultraviolet wavelengths (200 - 850 nm). The resulting spectrum is dominated by the Hydrogen Balmer series, by the OH (A $^2Σ^+$ - X $^2Π$) band, and by the emission of ionic H$_2$O$^+$ (A $^2$A$_1$ - X $^2$B$_1$) and OH$^+$ (A $^3Π$ - X $^3Σ^-$) band systems. Emission cross sections and reaction channel thresholds were determined for energies between 5 - 100 eV. We find that electron impact dissociation of H$_2$O results in an emission spectrum of the OH (A $^2Σ^+$ - X $^2Π$) band that is distinctly different than the emission spectra from other excitation mechanisms seen in planetary astronomy. We attribute the change to a strongly non-thermal population of rotational states seen in planetary astronomy. This difference can be utilized for remote probing of the contribution of different physical reactions in astrophysical environments.
description: 9 Figures, 8 Tables
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy in TTF-TCNQ :direct proof of phase and amplitude modulated charge density waves
Creators: name: Wang, Zhao Z. Z.
name: Jerome, Denis
name: Girard, Jean Christophe
name: Pasquier, Claude
name: Bechgaard, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charge density waves (CDW) have been studied at the surface of a cleaved TTF-TCNQ single crystal using a low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) under ultra high vacuum (UHV) conditions. All CDW phase transitions of TTF-TCNQ have been identified. The measurement of the modulation wave vector along the a direction provides the first evidence for the existence of domains comprising single plane wave modulated structures in the temperature regime where the transverse wave vector of the CDW is temperature dependent, as hinted by the theory more than 20 years ago.
description: To appear in Phys.Rev.Rapid. Comm
THEGREENING OF ‘GREEN’ TECHNOLOGY: ADOPTION OF BIO-PLASTIC PLA
Creators: name: Arjunan, Subramanian
name: Moir, Christopher
name: Kirwan, Kerry
name: Pink, David
name: Arjunan, Subramanian
name: Moir, Christopher
name: Kirwan, Kerry
name: Pink, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Sustainable materials
subject: Adoption
subject: Bioplastics
subject: Polylactic acid
subject: Market failures

description: Abstract: Growing concerns over the impact of rising commodity prices on the global food system has led to a vigorous public debate over the use of plant materials as fuel alternatives. Despite this controversy, several bio-based technologies are being promoted as sustainable materials. This paper examines one such technology - Bio-plastics Polylactic Acid - that is being adopted at a rate that is higher than convention plastics, although energy efficient this technology is still not cost effective. High adoption is most likely driven by disincentives created by end-use packaging legislations and also shortterm concerns for the environment. Two important log-term concerns that are highlighted are divergence between technical and economic superiority and market failure. Thus the main drivers of adoption in the long-run are expected to be declining production cost, environmental legislation concerning waste disposal and composting, and consumer attitudes towards environmental impact.
MOESM1 of Intervention components, mediators, and mechanisms of change of Internet- and mobile-based interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Steubl, Lena
name: Sachser, Cedric
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: Domhardt, Matthias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA-P 2015 Checklist. This checklist has been adapted for use with systematic review protocol submissions to BioMed Central journals from Table 3 in Moher D et al.: Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement. Systematic Reviews 2015 4:1. An Editorial from the Editors-in-Chief of Systematic Reviews details why this checklist was adapted - Moher D, Stewart L & Shekelle P: Implementing PRISMA-P: recommendations for prospective authors. Systematic Reviews 2016 5:15.
Identity of the imaginary-time and real-time thermal propagators for scalar bound states in a one-generation Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model
Creators: name: Zhou, Bang-Rong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By rigorous reanalysis of the results, we have proven that the propagators at finite temperature for scalar bound states in one-generation fermion condensate scheme of electroweak symmetry breaking are in fact identical in the imaginary-time and the real-time formalism. This dismisses the doubt about possible discrepancy between the two formalisms in this problem. Identity of the derived thermal transformation matrices of the real-time matrix propagators for scalar bound states without and with chemical potential and the ones for corresponding elementary scalar particles shows similarity of thermodynamic property between the two types of particles. Only one former inference is modified, i.e. when the two flavors of fermions have unequal nonzero masses, the amplitude of the composite Higgs particle will decay instead grow in time.
description: 5 pages, revtex4, no figures
Virtual Co-Embodiment: Evaluation of the Sense of Agency while Sharing the Control of a Virtual Body among Two Individuals
Creators: name: Fribourg, Rebecca
name: Ogawa, Nami
name: Hoyet, Ludovic
name: Argelaguet, Ferran
name: Narumi, Takuji
name: Hirose, Michitaka
name: Lécuyer, Anatole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce a concept called ''virtual co-embodiment'', which enables a user to share their virtual avatar with another entity (e.g., another user, robot, or autonomous agent). We describe a proof-of-concept in which two users can be immersed from a first-person perspective in a virtual environment and can have complementary levels of control (total, partial, or none) over a shared avatar. In addition, we conducted an experiment to investigate the influence of users' level of control over the shared avatar and prior knowledge of their actions on the users' sense of agency and motor actions. The results showed that participants are good at estimating their real level of control but significantly overestimate their sense of agency when they can anticipate the motion of the avatar. Moreover, participants performed similar body motions regardless of their real control over the avatar. The results also revealed that the internal dimension of the locus of control, which is a personality trait, is negatively correlated with the user's perceived level of control. The combined results unfold a new range of applications in the fields of virtual-reality-based training and collaborative teleoperation, where users would be able to share their virtual body.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
title: The Effect of Inter-Municipal Cooperation on Local Business Development in German Municipalities
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Wolfschütz, Eva
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft
economic development
marginal structural models
Inter-municipal cooperation
Germany

description: Does inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) enhance municipal economic performance? This study employs marginal structural models to address selection into treatment and time-dependent confounding to estimate the effectiveness of IMC in the field of local business development. I use data on municipalities in four West-German states, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland Palatinate, and Bavaria during the years 2008-2015. I find that, over time, IMC has a positive effect on local economic performance and local business development resources are spent more productively in cooperating municipalities.