cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On Appell sequences of polynomials of Bernoulli and Euler type
Creators: name: Tempesta, Piergiulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A construction of new sequences of generalized Bernoulli polynomials of first and second kind is proposed. These sequences share with the classical Bernoulli polynomials many algebraic and number--theoretical properties. A new class of Euler--type polynomials is also presented.
description: 20 pages, no figures. This is a revised version of the published paper. Some remarks have been added and misprints corrected
7295: Leonard M. Rochford
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Leonard M. Rochford was born on the 10th November 1896. He had been interested in flying from a young age, and learned to fly so that he could join the air force, which he did in 1915. He saw action on the Western Front in France. He logged 803 flying hours and was the 13th highest scorer in flying aces, shooting down 29 enemy aircraft. His name was put forward as shooting down the 'Red Baron', Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, but he denied this. Leonard went on to serve in the Second World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross (his medals are in a museum). He died in December 1986.
From optimal measurement to efficient quantum algorithms for the hidden subgroup problem over semidirect product groups
Creators: name: Bacon, Dave
name: Childs, Andrew M.
name: van Dam, Wim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We approach the hidden subgroup problem by performing the so-called pretty good measurement on hidden subgroup states. For various groups that can be expressed as the semidirect product of an abelian group and a cyclic group, we show that the pretty good measurement is optimal and that its probability of success and unitary implementation are closely related to an average-case algebraic problem. By solving this problem, we find efficient quantum algorithms for a number of nonabelian hidden subgroup problems, including some for which no efficient algorithm was previously known: certain metacyclic groups as well as all groups of the form (Z_p)^r X| Z_p for fixed r (including the Heisenberg group, r=2). In particular, our results show that entangled measurements across multiple copies of hidden subgroup states can be useful for efficiently solving the nonabelian HSP.
description: 18 pages; v2: updated references on optimal measurement
A Case Study to Analyze Ageing Phenomenon in Reliability Theory
Creators: name: Pulak Swain
name: Subarna Bhattacharjee
name: Misra, Satya Kr.
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ageing phenomenon
hazard rate
ageing intensity function

description: Hazard rate, and ageing intensity (AI) are measures or functions required for qualitative and quantitative analysis of ageing phenomena of a system with a well defined statistical distribution respectively. In this paper, we reiterate upon the fact that in a few cases hazard rate and ageing intensity do not depict the same pattern as far as monotonicity is concerned. So, a question naturally arises which among hazard rate, and ageing intensity is a preferable measure for characterizing ageing phenomena of a system. As a consequence, an example involving two design systems are analyzed and is illustrated to answer the aforementioned question.
Playful, streamlike computation
Creators: name: Curien, Pierre-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We offer a short tour into the interactive interpretation of sequential programs. We emphasize streamlike computation -- that is, computation of successive bits of information upon request. The core of the approach surveyed here dates back to the work of Berry and the author on sequential algorithms on concrete data structures in the late seventies, culminating in the design of the programming language CDS, in which the semantics of programs of any type can be explored interactively. Around one decade later, two major insights of Cartwright and Felleisen on one hand, and of Lamarche on the other hand gave new, decisive impulses to the study of sequentiality. Cartwright and Felleisen observed that sequential algorithms give a direct semantics to control operators like call-cc\" and proposed to include explicit errors both in the syntax and in the semantics of the language PCF. Lamarche (unpublished) connected sequential algorithms to linear logic and games. The successful program of games semantics has spanned over the nineties until now, starting with syntax-independent characterizations of the term model of PCF by Abramsky, Jagadeesan, and Malacaria on one hand, and by Hyland and Ong on the other hand.
Measuring Market Power in the Ready-To-Eat Cereal Industry
Creators: name: Nevo, Aviv
name: Nevo, Aviv
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: discrete choice models
subject: random coefficients
subject: product differentiation
subject: ready-to-eat cereal industry
subject: market power
subject: price competition

description: The ready-to-eat cereal industry is characterized by high concentration, high price-cost margins, large advertising to sales ratios, and numerous introductions of new products. Previous researchers have concluded that the ready-to-eat cereal industry is a classic example of an industry with nearly collusive pricing behavior and intense non-price competition. This paper empirically examines this conclusion. In particular, I estimate price-cost margins, but more importantly I am able empirically to separate these margins into three parts: (1) that which is due to product differentiation; (2) that which is due to multi-product firm pricing; and (3) that due to potential price collusion. The results suggest that given the demand for different brands of cereal, the first two effects explain most of the observed price-cost markups. I conclude that prices in the industry are consistent with non-collusive pricing behavior, despite the high price-cost margins. Leading firms are able to maintain a portfolio of differentiated products, and influence the perceived quality of these products, and it is these two factors that lead to high price-cost margins.
HIGHLIGHTING THE POSSIBILITY OF COVID-19 REINFECTION AFTER RECOVERY: A CASE REPORT FROM NIGERIA
Creators: name: Idowu Oluwaseyi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this article case report, we present a case of Possible reinfection of Covid19 registered in Lagos, Nigeria in July 2020.
IJTIMOIY TARMOQLARDAGI ERKAKLAR VERBAL MULOQOTINING O'ZIGA XOS XUSUSIYATLARI
Creators: name: To'lanboyeva, Gulsanam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada erkaklar verbal muloqoti tahlil qilinadi. Nafaqat umumiy erkaklar verbal muloqoti, balki aynan ijtimoiy tamoqlarda erkaklar verbal muloqotdan qanday foydalanishadi, qanday vositalar yordamida ifoda etilishi o‘rganib chiqiladi. Ushbu tahlilda qanday so‘z tanlash, jumlalar, gaplar tuzish, va o‘zaro ta’sir uslublari kabi bir qancha jihatlar qamrab olinadi.
7290: David Alexander
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: This story has been passed down from the contributor's grandmother, who did not really speak about the war. David Alexander died while trying to defuse a German bomb. His daughter remembers her mother receiving the telegram. David left four sons and a daughter. Two of the sons had to work to provide for the family. Their uncles paid for David's daughter to go to private school. The contributor's grandmother's two brothers also died in the war.
Share, Price and Category Expenditure -- Geographic Market Effects and Private Labels
Creators: name: Putsis, William P.
name: Cotterill, Ronald W.
name: Putsis, William P.
name: Cotterill, Ronald W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: competition
subject: private labels
subject: industrial organization

description: Focusing on the interaction between national brands and private labels, this paper has two main empirical contributions: i) a simultaneous system of demand (share), price and expenditure equations is estimated, and ii) differences in the structure of the local geographic market are incorporated into the analysis. The former represents an important step in understanding the complete nature of private label and national brand interaction, while the latter is important for understanding the impact of the local retail environment on market behavior. IRI scanner data from 1991 and 1992 are used to estimate the three-equation system across 135 food product categories and 59 geographic markets. The results suggest that concentration at both the manufacturer and retailer level can significantly affect private label and national brand price. However, while increased retailer concentration is associated with higher national brand and private label prices, higher manufacturer concentration is associated with higher national brand but lower private label prices. Increases in national brand advertising has the effect of raising national brand price and share, but lowering private label price and share. This is consistent with previous research and suggests that advertising and local market conditions play a significant role in the ability of national brands to price at a premium over private labels. Finally, marketing decision variables such as display activity and private label distribution can have an important impact on total category expenditure.
Symmetry and interactivity in Programming
Creators: name: Curien, Pierre-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We recall some of the early occurrences of the notions of interactivity and symmetry in the operational and denotational semantics of programming languages. We suggest some connections with ludics.
Robust control of an ensemble of springs: Application to Ion Cyclotron Resonance and two-level Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Martikyan, V.
name: Devra, A.
name: Guéry-Odelin, D.
name: Glaser, S.
name: Sugny, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the simultaneous control of an ensemble of springs with different frequencies by means of adiabatic, shortcut to adiabaticity and optimal processes. The linearity of the system allows us to derive analytical expressions for the control fields and the time evolution of the dynamics. We discuss the relative advantages of the different solutions. These results are applied in two different examples. For Ion Cyclotron Resonance, we show how to optimally control ions by means of electric field. Using a mapping between spins and springs, we derive analytical shortcut protocols to realize robust and selective excitations of two-level quantum systems.
description: 25 pages, 7 figures
7291: William Staniforth
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: William Staniforth served in the war with the 279th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. He joined in 1915, possibly underage (the contributor wasn't sure of his date of birth). He served during the Battle of Passchendaele. He survived and was discharged in 1919. As William had drunk Moet champagne during the war, he refused to drink any other brand after it.
Orange Juice: A Private Label Product for the Nineties?
Creators: name: Zellner, James A.
name: Zellner, James A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Orange juice began as a branded product in the 1950s, but private and packer labels son became dominant. Brands gained share during the 1980s with the introduction of a third national brand and the growth of chilled juice. The large number of packer labels makes brand and private label share measures misleading for structure-performance studies. Private label appeals to manufacturers who like the lower risk, the absence of slotting allowances, and fewer entry barriers. Pasteurized orange juice, however, the newest product form to experience rapid private label growth, is uncharacteristic because of large capital investment required for efficient market entry.
Comparative Analysis of Economic Instruments in Intersection Operation: A User-Based Perspective
Creators: name: Lin, DianChao
name: Jabari, Saif Eddin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Focusing on different economic instruments implemented in intersection operations under a connected environment, this paper analyzes their advantages and disadvantages from the travelers' perspective. Travelers' concerns revolve around whether a new instrument is easy to learn and operate, whether it can save time or money, and whether it can reduce the rich-poor gap. After a comparative analysis, we found that both credit and free-market schemes can benefit users. Second-price auctions can only benefit high VOT vehicles. From the perspective of technology deployment and adoption, a credit scheme is not easy to learn and operate for travelers.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables, IEEE-ITSC2020
A NOVEL TRANSPORTATION APPROACH TO SOLVING TYPE 2 TRIANGULAR INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS
Creators: name: Singuluri, Indira
name: N. Ravishankar
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2021
Subjects: IFN
TIFN
IF Optimum solution
TIFTP of type-2

description: In this article we propose a new transportation strategy to achieve an ideal answer for triangular intuitionistic fuzzy transportation problem of type – 2 i.e., limits and requests are considered as real numbers and the transportation cost from cause to objective is considered as triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers as product cost per unit. The proposed method is solving by using ranking function. The appropriate response system is delineated with a numerical model.
title:  Crimmigration practices. La detenzione dei migranti in Italia dopo l’entrata in vigore del “decreto sicurezza” alla luce del Diritto internazionale e dell’Unione europea
Creators: name: Colavecchio  ,  Giulia
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2021

description: Democrazia e Sicurezza – 2019, n. 2
The Adoption and Profitability of rbST on Connecticut Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Foltz, Jeremy D.
name: Chang, Hsiu-Hui
name: Foltz, Jeremy D.
name: Chang, Hsiu-Hui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This work estimates Probit and Tobit models of the adoption of rbST on Connecticut dairy farms and then endogenizes that adoption in estimates of milk production and farm profit rates. The work improves on the current literature by allowing the rbST decision to be both continuous and contingent on other technology adoption decisions. The results show that larger farms, with more productivity technologies, and with younger, more educated farmers are more likely to adopt rbST. While rbST is shown to significantly increase milk production there is no evidence it increases profits on a per cow basis.
A Reliability-Inventory Problem Under N-policy of replenishment of component
Creators: name: Achyutha Krishnamoorthy
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2021
Subjects: COLD system
System Reliability
k - out - of - n System
Replenishment policy
Serial and Parallel Systems

description: In this paper a new process is introduced. To some extent it has resemblance with Queueing-Inventory (Inventory with positive service time) (see Sigman and Simchi-Levy [2] and Melikov and Molchanov [1]. We consider a k - out - of - n: G system of identical components, each of which has exponentially distributed life time with parameter l, independent of the others. When the number of working components goes down to N (k ≤ N ≤ n) due to failures, an order for n − k + 1 items is placed. Replenishment time is exponentially distributed with parameter b. On replenishment, all failed components are instantaneously replaced by the new arrivals, subject to a maximum of n − k + 1. This process is investigated and its long run system state distribution derived explicitly. An associated optimization problem is discussed. Throughout this paper the k out of n system is assumed to be COLD.
The B Meson Decay Constant from Unquenched Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Gray, Alan
name: Wingate, Matthew
name: Davies, Christine T. H.
name: Gulez, Emel
name: Lepage, G. Peter
name: Mason, Quentin
name: Nobes, Matthew
name: Shigemitsu, Junko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present determinations of the B meson decay constant f_B and of the ratio f_{B_s}/f_B using the MILC collaboration unquenched gauge configurations which include three flavors of light sea quarks. The mass of one of the sea quarks is kept around the strange quark mass, and we explore a range in masses for the two lighter sea quarks down to m_s/8. The heavy b quark is simulated using Nonrelativistic QCD, and both the valence and sea light quarks are represented by the highly improved (AsqTad) staggered quark action. The good chiral properties of the latter action allow for a much smoother chiral extrapolation to physical up and down quarks than has been possible in the past. We find f_B = 216(9)(19)(4) (6) MeV and f_{B_s} /f_B = 1.20(3)(1).
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
D5.2 Cross-borders computing through portals
Creators: name: Abarenkov, Kessy
name: Fouilloux, Anne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EOSC-Nordic
cross-borders computing
portals
PlutoF
Galaxy

description: The aim of subtask T5.2.1 is to facilitate data pre- and post-processing workflows (High Performance Computing (HPC) or High Throughput Computing) on distributed data and computing resources across borders by enabling community specific or thematic portals, such as PlutoF and Galaxy flavours, traditionally designed to submit jobs on local clusters, to allow scheduling of jobs on remote resources.
 This deliverable presents generic modules and solutions, i.e. independent from the architecture and the technology of any given portal, designed to support submission of computations from community-specific portals to a variety of scheduling systems. These modules allow the integration between the Galaxy and the PlutoF portals with the different schedulers present in Nordic HPC clusters.
description: DRAFT NOT YET APPROVED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Myogenic and endothelial properties of the mouse septal artery in health and disease
Creators: name: Lui, Amy Hoi-Mel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis I examined vascular responses of the mouse ventricular septal artery to increases in intravascular pressure and pertinent vasoactive mediators in two contrasting models: health and cardiac disease. This work is pertinent because the mouse has been extensively used as a cardiovascular and genetically modified animal model, with the differences between human and mouse genetics not as great as one would expect. Thus it is important to understand murine pharmacology in the context of its use as a tool to understand human pathology. In our first study, responses in the "normal", "healthy" mouse coronary artery were characterized and quantified. Pressure-constriction and concentration-response curves were constructed and compared to published human coronary pharmacology. It was found that myogenic tone was higher in mice than in humans and rats, greatly contributed to by endothelin. Noradrenaline produced concentration-dependent vasodilation, mediated by endothelium- located α2- adrenoceptors and smooth muscle-located β-adrenoceptors. Acetylcholine also produced vasorelaxation, which was abolished with L-NAME. Interestingly, the endothelium-dependent vasodilators bradykinin and substance P produced no vasomotor effect on the coronary arteries, possibly indicating the absence of specific corresponding receptors. In the second study, a murine coxsackie B3-induced myocarditis was used as a representative model of cardiac disease. Again, myogenic and endothelial function was evaluated in this pathological condition. Although hemotoxylin and eosin immunostaining confirmed extensive myocyte damage due to infection, immunohistological methods did not reveal increased endothelin-1 levels near the coronary vasculature. Our study found no difference in coronary arterial pressure-induced vasoconstriction between infected and uninfected/sham-infected mice in the physiological pressure range, as well as between time points in the infected group. However, at a lower pressure range (10-60 mmHg), data from the early time points (1,3 and 7 days post-infection) indicated enhanced vessel tone which could be the result of increased release of vasocontrictor factors. Endothelial dysfunction manifested as a diminished response to acetylcholine occurred at 28 days post-infection, which was recovered with pre-treatment using the mixed endothelin A/B receptor antagonist bosentan. The results in this thesis have allowed a further insight into the use of the mouse as a relevant human model of disease. In addition, information with regards to coronary microvascular function in myocarditis has been obtained and contributes to the overall understanding of the mechanism of pathogenesis.
Gene Copy Number and Cell Cycle Arrest
Creators: name: Ghosh, Bhaswar
name: Bose, Indrani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The cell cycle is an orderly sequence of events which ultimately lead to the division of a single cell into two daughter cells. In the case of DNA damage by radiation or chemicals, the damage checkpoints in the $G_{1}$ and $G_{2}$ phases of the cell cycle are activated. This results in an arrest of the cell cycle so that the DNA damage can be repaired. Once this is done, the cell continues with its usual cycle of activity. We study a mathematical model of the DNA damage checkpoint in the $G_{2}$ phase which arrests the transition from the $G_{2}$ to the $M$ (mitotic) phase of the cell cycle. The tumor suppressor protein p53 plays a key role in activating the pathways leading to cell cycle arrest in mammalian systems. If the DNA damage is severe, the p53 proteins activate other pathways which bring about apoptosis, i.e., programmed cell death. Loss of the p53 gene results in the proliferation of cells containing damaged DNA, i.e., in the growth of tumors which may ultimately become cancerous. There is some recent experimental evidence which suggests that the mutation of a single copy of the p53 gene (in the normal cell each gene has two identical copies) is sufficient to trigger the formation of tumors. We study the effect of reducing the gene copy number of the p53 and two other genes on cell cycle arrest and obtain results consistent with experimental observations.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
Certain modern developments in stochastic extreme value theory, on occasion of 110th birthday of Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko
Creators: name: V.I. Piterbarg
name: I.V. Rodionov
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2021
Subjects: Gnedenko
stochastic extreme value theory
modern developments
extreme value theorem

description: We present a short overview of developments of the last decade in asymptotic analysis of extrema of families of random variables. We focus on the methods of investigating the quality of approximations as given by Gnedenko’s extreme value theorem, and its generalizations to the case of dependent random variables.
The Impact of the Northeastern Dairy Compact on New England Consumers: A Report from the Milk Policy Wars
Creators: name: Cotterill, Ronald W.
name: Cotterill, Ronald W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper presents a comparative analysis of three different economic studies that played major roles in the policy debate over the Compact. It draws an important distinction between before-after and counterfactual impact analysis and highlights constraining assumptions in models. Over time the Compact increased raw milk price 2-3 cents per gallon, but if the Compact had not been in place during the first 3 years of its operation raw milk prices would have been approximately 10 cents lower. Over time retail prices went up by much more than 2-3 cents because other costs increased and channel firms increased tacit collusion and net profits. Studies give different counterfactual estimates for retail prices without the Compact. They range from a drop of 5.7 cents per gallon to 20.7 cents per gallon and are very sensitive to modeling approach. Comparative analysis, as done in this article, should contribute to policy formulation rather than appearing ex post.
Multi-Period Inventory Models with Synchronized Stages of Bamboo Biomass Planning for Small Power Plant
Creators: name: Prachya Boonprasurt
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biomass
Bamboo
Gasification
Periodic inventory
Seasonality

description: Science & Technology Asia, 26, 1, 18-29
Reflections upon the Emergence of Hadronic Mass
Creators: name: Roberts, Craig D.
name: Schmidt, Sebastian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With discovery of the Higgs boson, science has located the source for $\lesssim 2$% of the mass of visible matter. The focus of attention can now shift to the search for the origin of the remaining $\gtrsim 98$%. The instruments at work here must be capable of simultaneously generating the 1 GeV mass-scale associated with the nucleon and ensuring that this mass-scale is completely hidden in the chiral-limit pion. This hunt for an understanding of the emergence of hadronic mass (EHM) has actually been underway for many years. What is changing are the impacts of QCD-related theory, through the elucidation of clear signals for EHM in hadron observables, and the ability of modern and planned experimental facilities to access these observables. These developments are exemplified in a discussion of the evolving understanding of pion and kaon parton distributions.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures. Invited contribution to EPJ ST Issue "Strong Correlations in Dense Matter Physics"
CURVATURE TENSORS IN SP-KENMOTSU MANIFOLDS WITH RESPECT TO QUARTERYMMETRIC METRIC CONNECTION
Creators: name: S. Sunitha Devi
name: T. Satyanarayana
name: K.L. Sai Prasad
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2021
Subjects: η-Einstein manifold
SP-Kenmotsu manifold
con-circular curvature tensor
Quartersymmetric metric connection
Ricci tensor
conformal curvature tensor

description: A conformal curvature tensor and con-circular curvature tensor in an SP-Kenmotsu manifold are derived in this article which admits a quarter-symmetric metric connection. Conclusively, we verified our results by considering a case of 3-D SP-Kenmotsu manifold.
title: Approaching non-self: An ethnographic study of Chan practice within the Western Chan Fellowship, a British Lay Buddhist Community
Creators: name: Ni, Haiying
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2024

description: This thesis delves into the practice of contemporary non-monastic British Buddhist practitioners in the UK by focusing on non-self. As a critical Buddhist philosophy, the non-self has yet to be researched in depth among lay Buddhist practitioners in the anthropology of Buddhism. This research is the first long-term ethnographic study in anthropology to focus on non-self and the first time to examine one British Buddhist community in depth anthropologically. It sheds light on how Buddhist practitioners practise non-self on and off their meditation cushions by examining the Western Chan Fellowship (WCF), a British Buddhist lay community with a formal Chinese Chan Buddhist dharma lineage. The researcher of this thesis is an ethnic Chinese who practises Buddhism as an adult, like the WCF members. This unique angle provides novel observations of tradition and the reinventing of Buddhist practice. All conditions combined in investigating the WCF's practice allow this study to challenge the existing knowledge in the anthropology of personhood by introducing a self within a non-self context.

The study highlights the influence of Chan's methods, which embodied non-self, on personal practice in dealing with the spiritual heritage of Christianity and the community's operations as an unbounded organisation connected by cultivating virtue ethics through ambience instead of belonging with or in faith. It argues against the notion of 'dual identities' in religious life by presenting a more complex picture of spiritual identity deeply influenced by the philosophy of non-self. It shows that non-self practice builds a new layer of self among practitioners. This new layer makes practitioners feel flexible in social and cultural identification. Therefore, the self within non-self offers fresh perspectives on religious practice in the digital age, transcendence in daily life, and engaged Buddhism from an individual practice perspective rather than purposes from organisations as social movements.

The critical theoretical contribution of this thesis is that all anthropological topics need to be rethought from a perspective of self within non-self. A non-self society is still a society, and there can still be selves. Notably, the concept of non-self is approached with the understanding that whatever actions a practitioner takes are motivated by and aligned with the principles of virtue ethics in Chan Buddhism context, both as a means and an end in their practice.
Introduction to linear logic and ludics, part I
Creators: name: Curien, Pierre-Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This two-parts paper offers a survey of linear logic and ludics, which were introduced by Girard in 1986 and 2001, respectively. Both theories revisit mathematical logic from first principles, with inspiration from and applications to computer science. The present part I covers an introduction to the connectives and proof rules of linear logic, to its decidability properties, and to its models. Part II will deal with proof nets, a graph-like representation of proofs which is one of the major innovations of linear logic, and will present an introduction to ludics.
Phonon collapse and van der Waals melting of the 3D charge density wave of VSe$_2$
Creators: name: Diego, Josu
name: Said, A. H.
name: Mahatha, S. K.
name: Bianco, Raffaello
name: Monacelli, Lorenzo
name: Calandra, Matteo
name: Mauri, Francesco
name: Rossnagel, K.
name: Errea, Ion
name: Blanco-Canosa, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), VSe$_2$ is considered to develop a purely 3-dimensional (3D) charge-density wave (CDW) at T$_{CDW}$=110 K. Here, by means of high resolution inelastic x-ray scattering (IXS), we show that the CDW transition is driven by the collapse of an acoustic mode at the critical wavevector \textit{q}$_{CDW}$= (2.25 0 0.7) r.l.u. and critical temperature T$_{CDW}$=110 K. The softening of this mode starts to be pronounced for temperatures below 2$\times$ T$_{CDW}$ and expands over a rather wide region of the Brillouin zone, suggesting a large contribution of the electron-phonon interaction to the CDW formation. This interpretation is supported by our first principles calculations that determine a large momentum-dependence of the electron-phonon interaction, peaking at the CDW wavevector, in the presence of nesting. Fully anharmonic {\it ab initio} calculations confirm the softening of one acoustic branch at \textit{q}$_{CDW}$ as responsible for the CDW formation and show that van der Waals interactions are crucial to melt the CDW. Our work also highlights the important role of out-of-plane interactions to describe 3D CDWs in TMDs.
EFFECTIVENESS RETENTION RATIO AND MULTISTATE SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Netes, Victor
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2021
Subjects: dependability
multistate systems
partial failures
effectiveness retention ratio
international standards
additive and multimode systems

description: This paper analyzes approaches to dependability assessment of multistate systems in which partial failures can occur. It is shown that for many multistate systems it is advisable to use the effectiveness retention ratio as a dependability measure. The paper explains the meaning and advantages of this measure, and presents methods for its calculation for two classes of systems covering typical situations. They are additive systems in which the output effect is obtained by summing the output effects of the subsystems, and multimode systems that can perform some function or task in different modes depending on their state. Besides that, the presence and use of the effectiveness retention ratio in international and regional Euro-Asian standards are considered.
SLK-NER: Exploiting Second-order Lexicon Knowledge for Chinese NER
Creators: name: Hu, Dou
name: Wei, Lingwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although character-based models using lexicon have achieved promising results for Chinese named entity recognition (NER) task, some lexical words would introduce erroneous information due to wrongly matched words. Existing researches proposed many strategies to integrate lexicon knowledge. However, they performed with simple first-order lexicon knowledge, which provided insufficient word information and still faced the challenge of matched word boundary conflicts; or explored the lexicon knowledge with graph where higher-order information introducing negative words may disturb the identification. To alleviate the above limitations, we present new insight into second-order lexicon knowledge (SLK) of each character in the sentence to provide more lexical word information including semantic and word boundary features. Based on these, we propose a SLK-based model with a novel strategy to integrate the above lexicon knowledge. The proposed model can exploit more discernible lexical words information with the help of global context. Experimental results on three public datasets demonstrate the validity of SLK. The proposed model achieves more excellent performance than the state-of-the-art comparison methods.
description: 5 pages, The work is accepted by SEKE2020
Pengaruh Penerapan Self Assessment System Dan Sistem Penerapan E-Filling Terhadap Kepatuhan Wajib Pajak Pada Kantor Pelayanan Pajak Pratama Padang Satu
Creators: name: Ananda, Febryandhie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150107 Taxation Accounting
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Charges are a budgetary source for state incomes, so that the assess specialists as the charge collector must perform outreach to charge payers and make strides charge compliance. This study aims to analyze the influence of self assessment system Implementation and E-Filling System Implementation on on tax payer lompliance. This research data is obtained from questionnaire (Primary) which is distributed to as many as 110 copies of the KPP Pratama in Padang area 1.The statistical method used to test the hypothesis is multiple regression with the help of SPSS version 16.0. The result of research that the self assessment systeem Implementation and E-Filling System Implementation positively and significantly inflence on tax payer compliance
Directly imaged exoplanets in reflected starlight. The importance of knowing the planet radius
Creators: name: Carrión-González, Óscar
name: Muñoz, Antonio García
name: Cabrera, Juan
name: Csizmadia, Szilárd
name: Santos, Nuno C.
name: Rauer, Heike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the information content in reflected-starlight spectra of exoplanets. We specify our analysis to Barnard's Star b candidate super-Earth, for which we assume a radius 0.6 times that of Neptune, an atmosphere dominated by H$_2$-He, and a CH$_4$ volume mixing ratio of 5$\cdot$10$^{-3}$. The main conclusions of our study are however planet-independent. We set up a model of the exoplanet described by seven parameters including its radius, atmospheric methane abundance and basic properties of a cloud layer. We generate synthetic spectra at zero phase (full disk illumination) from 500 to 900 nm and spectral resolution R$\sim$125-225. We simulate a measured spectrum with a simplified, wavelength-independent noise model at Signal-to-Noise ratio S/N=10. With an MCMC-based retrieval methodology, we analyse which planet/atmosphere parameters can be inferred from the measured spectrum and the theoretical correlations amongst them. We consider limiting cases in which the planet radius is either known or completely unknown, and intermediate cases in which the planet radius is partly constrained. If the planet radius is known, we can generally discriminate between cloud-free and cloudy atmospheres, and constrain the methane abundance to within two orders of magnitude. If the planet radius is unknown, new correlations between model parameters occur and the accuracy of the retrievals decreases. Without a radius determination, it is challenging to discern whether the planet has clouds, and the estimates on methane abundance degrade. However, we find the planet radius is constrained to within a factor of two for all the cases explored. Having a priori information on the planet radius, even if approximate, helps improve the retrievals. We urge exoplanet detection efforts to extend the population of long-period planets with mass and radius determinations.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A. 22 pages, 6 Tables, 16 figures. The abstract has been shortened to meet arXiv requirements
Pengaruh Total Quality Management, Sistem Pengukuran Kinerja Dan Sistem Reward Terhadap Kinerja Manajerial Pada Bumn Sektor Asuransi Di Kota Padang
Creators: name: Ananda, Febryandhie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150105 Management Accounting
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The company's competition in the global market causes intense competition among companies. The company must manage the business effectively and efficiently through improved execution, in expansion to progressing the quality of items and administrations. The issue detailing ofto Quality Administration impact, execution estimation framework and remunerate framewok to administrative performance.The information utilizebout is essential information within the frame of survey with Likert scale. The respondents were managerial level employees of BUMN Insurance sector in Padang City, with a sample of about 65 respondents. Analysis of the effect using multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that total quality management, performance measurement system and organizational culture have positive significantly influence on managerial performance
Interaction effects between impurities in low dimensional spin-1/2 antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Anfuso, Fabrizio
name: Eggert, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are considering the interplay between several non-magnetic impurities in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet in chains, ladders and planes by introducing static vacancies in numerical quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The effective potential between two and more impurities is accurately determined, which gives a direct measure of the quantum correlations in the systems. Large effective interaction potentials are an indication of strong quantum correlations in the system and reflect the detailed nature of the valence bond ground states. In two-dimensions (2D) the interactions are smaller, but can still be analyzed in terms of valence bonds.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted by Europhys. Lett. The latest pdf file is available at http://www.physik.uni-kl.de/eggert/papers/interact2d.pdf
7293: Henry Smith Craven
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Henry Smith Craven was a clerk in the Civil Service who became a purser on the SS Orduna, an ocean liner built in 1913-14 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. Henry, who was responsible for navigating the ship, sailed across the Atlantic and spoke four languages. He died around 1916.
Does the King Use Its Power? Price Competition in U.S. Brewing
Creators: name: Rojas, Christian
name: Rojas, Christian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Agribusiness
Demand and Price Analysis
Industrial Organization

description: Pricing behavior of firms in differentiated product markets has been studied intensely in recent empirical work. Despite several accounts in various industries, price leadership has remained mostly unassessed. This study analyzes price competition in the U.S. brewing industry with a focus on price leadership by the largest U.S. beer producer Anheuser-Busch and its heavily marketed "King of Beers" brand Budweiser. This paper employs a unique nationwide data set on brand-level sales collected before and after a 100% increase in the federal excise tax on beer. Brand-level demand estimates are combined with several supply models, including several price leadership scenarios, to simulate prices that would have prevailed under each model after the tax increase. These "predicted" prices are then compared to "actual" prices after the tax increase to determine the fit of the different supply models. While Bertrand-Nash behavior appears to be a more suitable model of price competition, it tends to under-predict price increases of more price-elastic brands and to over-predict price increases of less price-elastic brands. In particular, the predicted price of Budweiser is much larger than its actual value. An interpretation of this result is that Anheuser-Busch could exert more market power through its flagship brand than it actually does. Overall, actual price movements as a result of the tax increase tend to be more similar across brands than predicted by any of the models considered. While this pattern is not inconsistent with leadership behavior, leadership models considered in this paper do not conform with this pattern.
Viscosity of the magnetized strongly coupled one-component plasma
Creators: name: Scheiner, Brett
name: Baalrud, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The viscosity tensor of the magnetized one-component plasma, consisting of five independent shear viscosity coefficients, a bulk viscosity coefficient, and a cross coefficient, is computed using equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations and the Green-Kubo relations. A broad range of Coulomb coupling and magnetization strength conditions are studied. Magnetization is found to strongly influence the shear viscosity coefficients when the gyrofrequency exceeds the Coulomb collision frequency. Three regimes are identified as the Coulomb coupling strength and magnetization strength are varied. The Green-Kubo relations are used to separate kinetic and potential energy contributions to each viscosity coefficient, showing how each contribution depends upon the magnetization strength. The shear viscosity coefficient associated with the component of the stress tensor parallel to the magnetic field, and the two coefficients associated with the component perpendicular to the magnetic field, are all found to merge to a common value at strong Coulomb coupling.
D2.4 Final Conceptualization of Choice Criteria and Incentives
Creators: name: Comerio, Marco
name: Scrocca, Mario
name: Scandolari, Damiano
name: Re Calegari, Gloria
name: Javadian Sabet, Alireza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: RIDE2RAIL
Transport
Shift2Rail
Multi-modal travel
Door-to-door
Survey

description: The deliverable describes the activities of RIDE2RAIL T2.1 related to the conceptualization of choice criteria and incentives for journey planning in the door-to-door multi-modal scenario addressed by Shift2Rail IP4. The deliverable describes the survey designed, administered and analysed by RIDE2RAIL to collect data from European travellers on their choice criteria when looking for a travel solution and on their potential interest in specific incentives to multi-modal travel offers. The deliverable applies clustering techniques to the collected data with the goal to find mobility patterns.
description: {"references": ["Comerio Marco, Scrocca Mario, Scandolari Damiano, Re Calegari Gloria, & Javadian Sabet Alireza. (2020). D2.4 Final Conceptualization of Choice Criteria and Incentives. Zenodo."]}