cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Environmental Impact Statement for the Issuance of an Incidental Take Statement under the Endangered Species Act for Salmon Fisheries in Southeast Alaska Subject to the Pacific Salmon Treaty and Funding to the State of Alaska to Implement the Pacific Salmon Treaty
Creators: name: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
Publisher: name: National Marine Fisheries Research Institute
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03x3g5758
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: This Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) provides decision-makers and the public with an assessment of the environmental, economic, and social impacts of alternative approaches to the issuance of an Incidental Take Statement (ITS) under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that would exempt take of threatened or endangered ESA-listed species by participants in Southeast Alaska salmon fisheries that are subject to the 2019 Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement, as well as the continuation of funding to the State of Alaska to implement the Pacific Salmon Treaty. NMFS issuance of an ITS, consistent with requirements of the ESA, in conjunction with a biological opinion that evaluates the effects of two federal agency actions related to the Southeast Alaska salmon fisheries on ESA-listed species and critical habitat, concludes ESA consultation on those agency actions. This EIS directly responds to a court order and analyzes the effects of the issuance of an ITS for two agency actions related to the Southeast Alaska salmon fisheries.
ECONOMIC AND WATER QUALITY IMPACTS OF REDUCING NITROGEN AND PESTICIDE USE IN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Randhir, Timothy O.
name: Lee, John G.
name: Randhir, Timothy O.
name: Lee, John G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: A multiyear regional risk programming model was used in evaluating the impacts of different environmental policies on cropping systems, input use, nonpoint source pollution, farm income and risk. A direct expected utility maximizing problem (DEMP) objective with a Von Neuman Morgenstern utility function was used in deriving optimal cropping systems. A biophysical simulation model provided input for the optimization. Three types of policies-taxing, regulating the aggregate, and regulating the per acre level-were studied for two farm inputs-nitrogen and atazine. It was observed that policies had varied and multiple cross-effects on pollutant loads, farm income, and risk. This information is crucial in developing successful policies toward improving water quality. If an appropriate input policy is chosen, both targeted and nontargeted pollutant loads can be managed. The three policies varied in their effects on pollutant loads and involved tradeoffs in water quality and economic attributes.
Natural Little Hierarchy from a Partially Goldstone Twin Higgs
Creators: name: Chacko, Z.
name: Nomura, Yasunori
name: Papucci, Michele
name: Perez, Gilad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a simple theory in which the fine-tuning of the standard model is significantly reduced. Radiative corrections to the quadratic part of the scalar potential are constrained to be symmetric under a global U(4) x U(4)' symmetry due to a discrete Z_2 "twin" parity, while the quartic part does not possess this symmetry. As a consequence, when the global symmetry is broken the Higgs fields emerge as light pseudo-Goldstone bosons, but with sizable quartic self-interactions. This structure allows the cutoff scale, Λ, to be raised to the multi-TeV region without significant fine-tuning. In the minimal version of the theory, the amount of fine-tuning is about 15% for Λ= 5 TeV, while it is about 30% in an extended model. This provides a solution to the little hierarchy problem. In the minimal model, the "visible" particle content is exactly that of the two Higgs doublet standard model, while the extended model also contains extra vector-like fermions with masses ~(1-2)TeV. At the LHC, our minimal model may appear exactly as the two Higgs doublet standard model, and new physics responsible for cutting off the divergences of the Higgs mass-squared parameter may not be discovered. Several possible processes that may be used to discriminate our model from the simple two Higgs doublet model are discussed for the LHC and for a linear collider.
description: 22 pages
AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF ENERGY PRICE ESCALATIONS DURING THE 1970S ON HAWAII BEEF PRODUCTION AND PRICES
Creators: name: Roberts, Roland K.
name: Vieth, Gary R.
name: Nolan, James C.
name: Roberts, Roland K.
name: Vieth, Gary R.
name: Nolan, James C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: A quarterly econometric model of the Hawaii beef production sector is estimated. Energy prices influence the model through Hawaii beef and feed prices which are a function of Mainland-to-Hawaii freight rates. Energy prices also influence the decision of whether to allocate feeder animals to feedlots or pasture. Through simulation, it was found that rapidly increasing energy prices after 1973 resulted in a 22 percent reduction in total Hawaii beef production. The composition of production also changed toward more grain fed and less grass fed beef. Given these results, other state and national beef modelers might find it useful to include energy prices in their models.
مدیریت بحران در بناهای تاریخی زیارتگاهی مطالعه موردی امامزاده های استان قزوین
Creators: name: Kheiri, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 120102 Architectural Heritage and Conservation
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: 120104 Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design)
subject: 120105 Architecture Management
subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified
subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: 120299 Building not elsewhere classified
subject: 129999 Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified
subject: 120507 Urban Analysis and Development
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 120508 Urban Design
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: یکی ازبارزترین نمودهای تاریخ وتمدن ایران زمین درمعماری بناهایی جلوه کرده است که ازسال های بسیاردور به عنوان میراثی گرانبها برای نسل کنونی باقی مانده اند و مابا مشاهده آنها بمهارت و پیشرفت آن دوره پی می بریم دراین میان بناهای تاریخی زیارتگاهی علاوه براهمیت کالبدی و تاریخی شان دارای ارزشهای معنوی فرهنگی و اجتماعی نیز می باشند که نیازمندشرایط خاصی جهت تداوم حیات خود هستند این امانتهای با ارزش ازطرفی دراثرفرسودگیهای کالبدی و گذشت ایام ازسویی درمعرض مخاطراتی اتی ازقبیل زلزله سیل اتش سوزی ... ازطرف دیگر درمعرض اسیب های انسانی ازقبیل تخریب جهت گنج یابی و سودجویی گرفته تا وندالیسم عنادبامظاهر دینی اعتقادی عدم رعایت حریم منظری و ... قرارگرفته اند هدف ازاین پژوهش درمرحله نخست کشف ارزشهای نهفته و اشکاردرساختارکالبدی ونظام اجتماعی فرهنگی معنوی بناهای تاریخی مذهبی و ارتباط متقابل این بناها بامحیط پیرامونی شان و همچنین گسترش و بسط این ارزشهاست
REASONS FOR NONPARTICIPATION IN THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM
Creators: name: Blaylock, James R.
name: Smallwood, David M.
name: Blaylock, James R.
name: Smallwood, David M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: This paper analyzed, via a multinomial logit model, the associations between household socioeconomic characteristics and the reasons eligible households give for not entering the Food Stamp Program. Data were taken from the 1979-80 Low Income Supplemental Sample of the USDA Nationwide Food Consumption Survey. Statistical analysis revealed that households either residing in suburban areas, with employed members, or whose head is a high school graduate cited a lack of information about the program as the reason for nonparticipation more frequently than their counterparts without one of these characteristics. An examination of alternative household profiles indicates that government efforts to disseminate information about the Food Stamp Program have been generally successful in reaching those households usually identified as most in need of assistance.
Solvent-dependent termination, size and stability in polyynes synthesis by laser ablation in liquids
Creators: name: Peggiani, Sonia
name: Marabotti, Pietro
name: Lotti, Riccardo Alberto
name: Facibeni, Anna
name: Serafini, Patrick
name: Milani, Alberto
name: Russo, Valeria
name: Bassi, Andrea Li
name: Casari, Carlo Spartaco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years there has been a growing interest in sp-carbon chains as possible novel nanostructures. An example of sp-carbon chains are the so-called polyynes, characterized by the alternation of single and triple bonds that can be synthesized by pulsed laser ablation in liquid (PLAL) of a graphite target. In this work, by exploiting different solvents in the PLAL process, e.g. water, acetonitrile, methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol, we systematically investigate the solvent role in polyyne formation and stability. The presence of methyland cyano-groups in the solutions influences the termination of polyynes, allowing to detect, in addition to hydrogen-capped polyynes up to HC22H, methyl-capped polyynes up to 18 carbon atoms (i.e. HCnCH3) and cyanopolyynes up to HC12CN. The assignment of each species was done by UV-Vis spectroscopy and supported by density functional theory simulations of vibronic spectra. In addition, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy allowed to observe differences, due to different terminations (hydrogen, methyl-and cyano group), in the shape and positions of the characteristic Raman bands of the size-selected polyynes. The evolution in time of each polyyne has been investigated evaluating the chromatographic peak area, and the effect of size, terminations and solvents on polyynes stability has been individuated.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures. Supporting Information of this article is available in the end of this manuscript
HOUSEHOLD DEMAND FOR FRESH POTATOES: A DISAGGREGATED CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Cox, Thomas L.
name: Ziemer, Rod F.
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Cox, Thomas L.
name: Ziemer, Rod F.
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: A model of household fresh potato consumption incorporating prices, income, family size and other socioeconomic effects is estimated by maximum likelihood Tobit procedures. The effects of truncation bias due to non-purchasing households are evaluated and decompositions of the Tobit elasticities are performed for various sub-groups of the data. The market development implications of this type of disaggregated commodity analysis are explored.
Did the GDPR increase trust in data collectors? Evidence from observational and experimental data
Creators: name: Bauer, Paul C.
name: Gerdon, Frederic
name: Keusch, Florian
name: Kreuter, Frauke
name: Vannette, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the wake of the digital revolution and connected technologies, societies store an ever-increasing amount of data on humans, their preferences, and behavior. These modern technologies create a trust challenge, insofar as individuals have to trust data collectors such as private organizations, government institutions, and researchers that their data is not misused. Privacy regulations should increase trust because they provide laws that increase transparency and allow for punishment in cases in which the trustee violates trust. The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018 – a wide-reaching regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy that covers millions of individuals in Europe – provides a unique setting to study the impact of privacy regulation on trust in data collectors. We collected survey panel data in Germany around the implementation date and ran a survey experiment with a GDPR information treatment. Our observational and experimental evidence does not support the hypothesis that the GDPR has positively affected trust. This finding and our discussion of the underlying reasons are relevant for the wider research field of trust, privacy, and big data.
SIMULATED IMPACT OF A REGIONAL SHIFT IN FED CATTLE PRODUCTION ON THE LOCATION OF FED CATTLE SLAUGHTER
Creators: name: Faminow, Merle D.
name: Sarhan, M.E.
name: Faminow, Merle D.
name: Sarhan, M.E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: During the past decade fed cattle slaughter has relocated to states situated in the southwest plains. Concern has developed that the economic depletion of groundwater used for irrigating feeding activity could result in reduced levels of cattle feeding in that region. A reduction in cattle feeding activity could result in slaughtering plant closures and a relocation in slaughter activity to other regions. A mixed integer programming model was developed to simulate the possible effect of a declining cattle feeding industry in the southwest plains on the location of the fed cattle slaughtering and processing industry. Solution of the model indicated that the primary readjustment to lower levels of cattle feeding in the southwest plains would be in terms of plant and aggregate area volume, not plant location readjustment.
Cryphalus upoluensis Schedl 1951
Creators: name: Rabaglia, Robert J.
name: Beaver, Roger A.
name: Johnson, Andrew J.
name: Schmaedick, Mark A.
name: Smith, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Cryphalus
Cryphalus upoluensis

description: Cryphalus upoluensis Schedl
 Cryphalus upoluensis Schedl, 1951a: 144.
Schedl (1951a) described this species based on specimens from Tutuila (Fagasa trail and Matafao trail), as well as Samoa.
Current survey records: Not found in current survey.
description: Published as part of Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, pp. 171-195 in Zootaxa 4808 (1) on page 175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3927891
Possible evidence of induced repetitive magnetic reconnection in a superflare from a young solar-type star
Creators: name: Mancuso, S.
name: Barghini, D.
name: Telloni, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of multiple quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) observed during the flaring activity of KIC 8414845, a young, active solar-type star observed by the Kepler mission launched by NASA. We analyzed the QQP signal using a data-driven, nonparametric method called singular spectrum analysis (SSA), which has never been utilized previously for analyzing solar or stellar QPPs. Because it is not based on a prescribed choice of basis functions, SSA is particularly suitable for analyzing nonstationary, nonlinear signals such as those observed in QPPs during major flares. The analysis has revealed that the apparent anharmonic shape of the QPP in this superflare results from a superposition of two intrinsic modes of periods of 49 min and 86 min, which display quasi-harmonic behaviors and different modulation patterns. The two reconstructed signals are consistent with slow-mode transverse and/or longitudinal magnetohydrodynamic oscillations excited in a coronal loop inducing periodic releases of flaring energy in a nearby loop through a mechanism of repetitive reconnection. The peculiar amplitude modulation of the two modes evinced by SSA favors the interpretation of the observed QPP pattern as due to the excitation in a coronal loop of the second harmonic of a standing slow-mode magnetoacoustic oscillation and a global kink oscillation periodically triggering magnetic reconnection in a nearby loop. Concurrent interpretations cannot however be ruled out on the basis of the available data.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
A prairie ocean : the new tidal wave of globalisation and prairie wheat marketing policy
Creators: name: Röpke, Peter Norman
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation examines the multifaceted and pervasive impact of globalisation on the Canadian public policy environment through a detailed analysis of the monopoly marketing of prairie wheat. The study argues that forces associated with globalisation, working through regionally differentiated configurations of farmer opinion and interest groups amidst varying partisan settings, are key to understanding the changing nature of policy-making processes, structures, and outcomes in the wheat marketing arena. The forces associated with globalisation include the increased presence of transnational corporations, the expansion of international trade regimes, increased interaction and cooperation between Canadian provincial governments and US state governments, the international harmonisation of regulations, advances in transportation technology, and heightened levels of education, knowledge, and information. In attempting to understand how globalisation influences the wheat policy arena, the examination uses a comparative analysis focusing on Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The inter-governmental harmony that had prevailed since the 1940s on the matter of Canadian Wheat Board's (CWB's) wheat monopoly was replaced by conflict by the 1990s as the forces of globalisation washed across the Canadian prairies. The dissertation shows that where the absence of these forces once reinforced the CWB's wheat monopoly, the presence of these forces now poses a formidable challenge to its continuation. Farmer opinion data indicates that a trend away from monopoly selling toward open marketing is present throughout the prairies. Like the presence of the forces of globalisation, anti-monopoly opinion is particularly strong in Alberta. The dissertation will also show how the conflict over monopoly wheat marketing was projected into the policy arena through differentiated sets of interest group configurations and partisan environments. In doing so, the examination points out that institutions, while often providing resistance to change, can also serve as conduits facilitating change. The analysis shows that the public policy network involved with the marketing of prairie wheat, as well as actors within this network, have become increasingly internationalised. The examination indicates that domestic governmental regulation and control have been severely undermined in the wheat marketing arena as north-south ties increasingly undermine and replace the east-west unity previously forged by the National Policy.
Black hole entropy and topological strings on generalized CY manifolds
Creators: name: Pestun, Vasily
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The H. Ooguri, A. Strominger and C. Vafa conjecture $Z_{BH}=|Z_{top}|^2$ is extended for the topological strings on generalized CY manifolds. It is argued that the classical black hole entropy is given by the generalized Hitchin functional, which defines by critical points a generalized complex structure on $X$. This geometry differs from an ordinary geometry if $b_1(X)$ does not vanish. In a critical point the generalized Hitchin functional equals to Legendre transform of the free energy of generalized topological string. The examples of $T^6$ and $T^2 \times K3$ are considered in details.
description: 19 pages; v2: references added, typos corrected
COMBINING ANNUAL ECONOMETRIC FORECASTS WITH QUARTERLY ARIMA FROECASTS: A HEURISTIC APPROACH
Creators: name: Myer, Gordon L.
name: Yanagida, John F.
name: Myer, Gordon L.
name: Yanagida, John F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Data limitations often limit the time framework in which agricultural commodities are modeled and prices forecasted. Our research provides a technique to alleviate this constraint. By combining an annual econometric model with a quarterly ARIMA model, quarterly forecasts can be made which utilize the theoretical and structural foundations in econometric modeling.
RISK EVALUATION OF EARLY TERMINATION FOR PEST CONTROL IN COTTON
Creators: name: Moffitt, L. Joe
name: Burrows, Thomas M.
name: Baritelle, John L.
name: Sevacherian, Vahram
name: Moffitt, L. Joe
name: Burrows, Thomas M.
name: Baritelle, John L.
name: Sevacherian, Vahram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The exponential utility, moment-generating function approach to stochastic efficiency is used to evaluate pest control technologies for cotton under normal, gamma, and beta distributed crop yields. Results suggest that early termination of cotton is more profitable than current practice but may not be preferred if risk aversion characterizes grower behavior. Research directions and policy implications are indicated.
Local Cloning of Arbitrarily Entangled Multipartite States
Creators: name: Kay, Alastair
name: Ericsson, Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the perfect cloning of non-local, orthogonal states with only local operations and classical communication. We provide a complete characterisation of the states that can be cloned under these restrictions, and their relation to distinguishability. We also consider the case of catalytic cloning, which we show provides no enhancement to the set of clonable states.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
A FLEXIBLE METHOD FOR EMPIRICALLY ESTIMATING PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS
Creators: name: Taylor, C. Robert
name: Taylor, C. Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper presents a hyperbolic trigonometric (HT) transformation procedure for empirically estimating a cumulative probability distribution function (cdf), from which the probability density function (pdf) can be obtained by differentiation. Maximum likelihood (ML) is the appropriate estimation technique, but a particularly appealing feature of the HT transformation as opposed to other zero-one transformations is that the transformed cdf can be fitted with ordinary least squares (OLS) regression. Although OLS estimates are biased and inconsistent, they are usually very close to ML estimates; thus use of OLS estimates as starting values greatly facilitates use of numerical search procedures to obtain ML estimates. ML estimates have desirable asymptotic properties. The procedure is no more difficult to use than unconstrained nonlinear regression. Advantages of the procedure as compared to alternative procedures for fitting probability functions are discussed in the manuscript. Use of the conditional method is illustrated by application to two sets of yield response data.
A new class of mass dimension one fermions
Creators: name: Ahluwalia, Dharam Vir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These are notes on the square root of $4\times4$ identity matrix and associated quantum fields of spin one half. The method is illustrated by constructing a new mass dimension one fermionic field. The presented field is local. The field energy is bounded from below. It is argued that these fermions are a first-principle candidate for dark matter with an unsuppressed quartic self interaction.
description: Accepted for publication in Proc. Roy. Soc. A. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1908.09627
Implementing Non-Projective Measurements via Linear Optics: an Approach Based on Optimal Quantum State Discrimination
Creators: name: van Loock, Peter
name: Nemoto, Kae
name: Munro, William J.
name: Raynal, Philippe
name: Lütkenhaus, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the problem of implementing generalized measurements (POVMs) with linear optics, either based upon a static linear array or including conditional dynamics. In our approach, a given POVM shall be identified as a solution to an optimization problem for a chosen cost function. We formulate a general principle: the implementation is only possible if a linear-optics circuit exists for which the quantum mechanical optimum (minimum) is still attainable after dephasing the corresponding quantum states. The general principle enables us, for instance, to derive a set of necessary conditions for the linear-optics implementation of the POVM that realizes the quantum mechanically optimal unambiguous discrimination of two pure nonorthogonal states. This extends our previous results on projection measurements and the exact discrimination of orthogonal states.
description: final published version
ReHyb: D7.1 Report on ReHyb interaction scenario development
Creators: name: de la Torre, Javier
name: Mariani, Milton
name: Maier, Martina
name: Wróbel, Agata Eva
name: Mura, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: interaction scenarios, rehabilitation, VR, AR

description: The deliverable describes the architecture of the computerised interaction scenarios for all derived use cases.
Magnetotransport and Complexity of Holographic Metal-Insulator Transitions
Creators: name: An, Yu-Sen
name: Ji, Teng
name: Li, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetotransport in a minimal holographic setup of a metal-insulator transition in two spatial dimensions. Some generic features are obtained without referring to the non-linear details of the holographic theory. The temperature dependence of resistivity is found to be well scaled with a single parameter $T_0$, which approaches zero at some critical charge density $ρ_c$, and increases as a power law $T_0\sim|ρ-ρ_c|^{1/2}$ both in metallic $(ρ>ρ_c)$ and insulating $(ρ
description: 31 pages, 17 figures. v3: comments and references added, to appear in JHEP
Gilbert (2020) Online Appendix.pdf
Creators: name: Gilbert, Danielle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This is the online appendix for Danielle Gilbert (2020): The Oxygen of Publicity: Explaining U.S. Media Coverage of International Kidnapping, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2020.1792723
HEDONIC PRICES IN THE MALTING BARLEY MARKET
Creators: name: Wilson, William W.
name: Wilson, William W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1984
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: An important characteristic in the malting barley market is the multitude of quality variables which affect the value of particular samples. The purpose of this study was to estimate implicit (or hedonic) prices for selected quality factors. An econometric model was used to analyze factors affecting the variability in malting barley prices, and to estimate implicit prices for plumpness and protein. The results indicate that a change may be evolving in the price determination process for malting barley. In particular, the feed grains sector has had increasingly less effect on malting barley prices in recent years.
Partial Boolean functions with exact quantum 1-query complexity
Creators: name: Xu, Guoliang
name: Qiu, Daowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We provide two sufficient and necessary conditions to characterize any $n$-bit partial Boolean function with exact quantum 1-query complexity. Using the first characterization, we present all $n$-bit partial Boolean functions that depend on $n$ bits and have exact quantum 1-query complexity. Due to the second characterization, we construct a function $F$ that maps any $n$-bit partial Boolean function to some integer, and if an $n$-bit partial Boolean function $f$ depends on $k$ bits and has exact quantum 1-query complexity, then $F(f)$ is non-positive. In addition, we show that the number of all $n$-bit partial Boolean functions that depend on $k$ bits and have exact quantum 1-query complexity is not bigger than $n^{2}2^{2^{n-1}(1+2^{2-k})+2n^{2}}$ for all $n\geq 3$ and $k\geq 2$.
description: 11pages; comments are welcome
Cryphalus Erichson 1836
Creators: name: Rabaglia, Robert J.
name: Beaver, Roger A.
name: Johnson, Andrew J.
name: Schmaedick, Mark A.
name: Smith, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Cryphalus

description: * Cryphalus sp.
Several of the specimens did not match any described species based on original descriptions, and specimens. These are likely to represent an undescribed species. This putative new species is diagnosed by the small size, by the stout body proportions, and by the long interstrial bristles which are only present on interstriae 1, 3, 5 and 7.
 Current survey records: American Samoa: Tutuila Isl.: Afono, -14.2691 -170.6485, 5–12 ii 2013, N. Leifi coll., Malaise trap in secondary forest (UFFE:33377; 1, ASCC); Other sites: Tutuila Isl.: Fagaalu, Fagaitua, Leone, Masausi; Ofu Isl.: Ofu, -14.1674 -169.6761, 16 v–6 vi 2018; M. Schmaedick coll.; Yellow pan trap in Rhus 2° forest; (UFFE:33375; 1, ASCC); Olosega Isl.: Olosega, -14.1814 -169.6130; 16 v–6 vi 2018, M. Schmaedick coll., Malaise trap in Rhus 2° forest (UFFE:33376; 1, ASCC); Ta‘ū Isl.: Faleasao, -14.2175 -169.5085, 15 v–4 vi 2018, M. Schmaedick coll., Yellow pan trap in secondary scrub (UFFE:32040; 1, UFFE). Other locations: Taʻű Isl.: Taʻű.
description: Published as part of Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, pp. 171-195 in Zootaxa 4808 (1) on page 175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3927891
An in silico kinetic model of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2-deoxyguanosine and 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanosine metabolism from intracellular formation to urinary excretion
Creators: name: Jorgensen, Anders
name: Thygesen, Maria Bremholm
name: Kristiansen, Uffe
name: Poulsen, Henrik Enghusen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Oxidatively generated DNA damage is of paramount importance in a wide range of physiological and pathophysiological processes. Urinary 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG) is often used as an outcome marker in studies on the role of oxidatively generated DNA damage, but its exact relation to intracellular damage levels and variations in DNA repair have been unclear. Using a new approach of quantitative kinetic modeling inspired by pharmacokinetics, we find evidence that in steady state – i.e. when systemic consequences of given change in damage or cellular removal rates have stabilized - the urinary excretion of 8-oxodG is closely correlated to rates of damage and intracellular 8-oxodG levels, but independent of the rate of cellular removal. Steady state was calculated to occur within approximately 12 h. A similar pattern was observed in a model of the corresponding RNA marker 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanosine (8-oxoGuo), but with steady-state occurring slower (up to 5 d). These data have significant implications for the planning of studies and interpretation of data involving urinary 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo excretion as outcome.HighlightsThe kinetics of 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo formation, removal and excretion were simulated in silico.The model was based on existing data on 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo levels and removal/excretion rates.Intracellular 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo was closely correlated with urinary excretion in steady state.Changes in removal rates did not influence urinary excretion of 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo. The kinetics of 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo formation, removal and excretion were simulated in silico. The model was based on existing data on 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo levels and removal/excretion rates. Intracellular 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo was closely correlated with urinary excretion in steady state. Changes in removal rates did not influence urinary excretion of 8-oxodG/8-oxoGuo.
Heights and preperiodic points of polynomials over function fields
Creators: name: Benedetto, Robert L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G50 (Primary); 11D45, 37F10 (Secondary)

description: Let K be a function field in one variable over an arbitrary field F. Given a rational function f(z) in K(z) of degree at least two, the associated canonical height on the projective line was defined by Call and Silverman. The preperiodic points of f all have canonical height zero; conversely, if F is a finite field, then every point of canonical height zero is preperiodic. However, if F is an infinite field, then there may be non-preperiodic points of canonical height zero. In this paper, we show that for polynomial f, such points exist only if f is isotrivial. In fact, such K-rational points exist only if f is defined over the constant field of K after a K-rational change of coordinates.
description: 9 pages; added references, corrected minor typos, updated definition of isotrivial for dynamical systems, added Proposition 5.1 to clarify the main proof
مدیریت بحران در بافت های فرسوده نمونه موردی مطالعه شده منطقه عودلاجان تهران
Creators: name: Kheiri, Ali
name: Mollazadeh, Mina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 120102 Architectural Heritage and Conservation
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120104 Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design)
subject: 120105 Architecture Management
subject: 120199 Architecture not elsewhere classified
subject: 120202 Building Science and Techniques
subject: 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning
subject: 120502 History and Theory of the Built Environment (excl. Architecture)
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 120508 Urban Design
subject: 120507 Urban Analysis and Development
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified

description: بافت های فرسوده بخشی ازپیکره و بدنه شهرها هستند که دارای ارزشهای کالبدی عملکردی اقتصادی اجتماعی و فرهنگی اند و باتوان و قابلیت های بالقوه خود سرمایه ای ملی به شمارمیروند ولی درفرایند رشدوتوسعه شهر این بافت های کهن قادربه پاسخگویی به نیازهای زندگی امروز نبوده و درمعرض تهدیدات و بحرانهای بنیادی قرارمیگیرند این پژوهش سعی دارد با شناخت ویژگیهای این بافت ها و وضعیت موجود آنها عوامل اسیب رسان و بحران زا دراین بافت ها و راه کارهای مقابله با آنها را بیابد تا این بافت ها همچنان با سرزندگی و امنیت به پویایی خود ادامه دهند
Effect of electron interactions on the conductivity and exchange coupling energy of disordered metallic magnetic multilayer
Creators: name: Zyuzin, Vladimir A.
name: Zyuzin, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effect of electron-electron interactions on the current-in-plane (CIP) conductivity and exchange coupling energy of a disordered metallic magnetic multilayer. We analyze its dependence on the value of ferromagnetic splitting of conducting electrons and ferromagnetic layers relative magnetizations orientation. We show that contribution to the CIP conductivity and exchange coupling energy as a periodic function of the angle of magnetizations relative orientation experience $ 2π\to π$ transition depending on the characteristic energies: ferromagnetic splitting of the conducting electrons and the Thouless energy of paramagnetic layer.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Elementary proof of the B. and M. Shapiro conjecture for rational functions
Creators: name: Eremenko, Alexandre
name: Gabrielov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M15, 14N10, 14P99, 26C15

description: We give a new elementary proof of the following theorem: if all critical points of a rational function g belong to the real line then there exists a fractional linear transformation L such that L(g) is a real rational function. Then we interpret the result in terms of Fuchsian differential equations whose general solution is a polynomial and in terms of electrostatics.
description: 21 pages
A robust sample of submillimetre galaxies: constraints on the prevalence of dusty, high-redshift starbursts
Creators: name: Ivison, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop and apply a dual-survey extraction technique to published submm images of the Lockman Hole using the SCUBA and MAMBO bolometer arrays. Cut above 5 sigma, this catalogue of submm galaxies (SMGs) is significantly more robust than previous samples, typically selected above 3.0-3.5 sigma, with a much-reduced likelihood of real, faint SMGs (beneath and around the confusion limit) entering the catalogue via superposition with noise. Our selection technique yields 19 SMGs of which we expect at most two to be due to chance superposition of SCUBA and MAMBO noise peaks. The flux limit of the sample (~5mJy at 0.85mm), which is sensitive to luminous, dusty galaxies at extreme redshifts, is optimally matched to a deep 1.4-GHz image (4.6 uJy/beam rms) which probes starbursts in the z~3-4) are unlikely to make up more than ~10% of the bright SMG population. Finally, the accurate radio positions are used to test the accuracy of positions determined in the submm, with important implications for upcoming surveys with SCUBA-2.
description: 10 pages. To appear in the proceedings of: "The Spectral Energy Distribution of Gas-Rich Galaxies: Confronting Models with Data", Heidelberg, 4-8 Oct. 2004, eds. C.C. Popescu and R.J. Tuffs, AIP Conf. Ser., in press
Evaluation of the Atellica® UAS 800: a new member of the automated urine sediment analyzer family
Creators: name: Aper, Stijn J. A.
name: Gijzen, Karlijn
name: Luimstra, Jolien J.
name: van der Valk, Johanna T. M. H.
name: Russcher, Anne
name: Koçer, Rüya G.
name: Liesting, Eline C.
name: Jacobs, Leo H. J.
name: Lentjes, Eef G. W. M.
name: Demir, Ayşe Y.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: In 2017 the Atellica® UAS 800 urine sediment analyzer was introduced by Siemens Healthineers. We investigated its applicability in the standardization and automation of the laboratory urinalysis workflow, including the prediction of urine culture outcome and glomerular pathology. We evaluated the performance characteristics of the Atellica® UAS 800 and its correlation with the iQ200 (Beckman Coulter). In addition, we studied the agreement between Atellica® UAS 800 and CLINITEK Novus® and determined the predictive value of bacteria and leukocyte counts for urine culture outcome. Furthermore, we investigated the ability of Atellica® UAS 800 to identify pathological casts and dysmorphic erythrocytes in comparison to manual microscopy. Erythrocyte and leukocyte analyses indicated high intra- and inter-run precisions and good correlations with the iQ200. We found that the Atellica® UAS 800 detects bacteria with higher sensitivity than the iQ200. The Atellica® UAS 800 and CLINITEK Novus® showed a high degree of conformity. We determined seven combinations of clinical cut-off values of bacteria and leukocytes for predicting urine culture outcome with sensitivity, specificity, and negative predictive values of 95%, 52%, and 93%, respectively. Using the Atellica® UAS 800, hyaline casts, erythrocyte casts, leukocyte casts, and dysmorphic erythrocytes were correctly recognized in 76%, 22%, 2%, and 39% of the samples, respectively. The Atellica® UAS 800 is a robust, fast, and user-friendly analyzer, which accurately quantifies erythrocytes, leukocytes, bacteria and squamous epithelial cells, and may be utilized for predicting positive urine cultures. The detection of clinically important pathological casts and dysmorphic erythrocytes proved insufficient.
Trade barriers, international business, and the environment
Creators: name: Baggs, Jennifer Jane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This dissertation consists of three chapters discussing the effects of changing trade barriers for Canadian firms and a final chapter investigating hazardous waste trade, one of the important environmental issues in international business. The first three chapters use simple theoretical structures and firm level data to examine the evolution of Canadian manufacturing following the tariff changes imposed by the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. Chapter one considers the influence of falling tariffs on firm survival, chapter two investigates how trade liberalization effects firm growth in terms of size and productivity, and the third chapter considers the implication o f falling trade barriers for firm financial structure. The fourth chapter diverges from the first three to explore the determinants of international shipments in hazardous waste using a gravity model with factor endowment conditions and waste trade data from 89 countries.
Quantum field theories of arbitrary-spin massive multiplets and Palatini quantum gravity
Creators: name: Anselmi, Damiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate quantum field theories of massive fields of arbitrary spins. The presence of both physical and fake particles, organized into multiplets, makes it possible to fulfill the requirements of locality, unitarity and renormalizability at the same time. The theories admit cubic and quartic self-interactions and can be coupled to quantum gravity and gauge fields. The simplest irreducible bosonic and fermionic multiplets are made of towers of alternating physical and fake particles. Their mass spectrum is constrained by RG invariant relations and depends on just one or two masses. The fixed points of the renormalization-group flow are scale invariant, but not necessarily conformal invariant. The Palatini version of quantum gravity with fakeons is equivalent to the non-Palatini one coupled to a peculiar multiplet of order 3. As a consequence, it is equally renormalizable and unitary.
description: 34 pages; v2: references added, JHEP
Redshifts from Spitzer Spectra for Optically Faint, Radio Selected Infrared Sources
Creators: name: Weedman, D. W.
name: Floc'h, E. Le
name: Higdon, S. J. U.
name: Higdon, J. L.
name: Houck, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectra have been obtained with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope for 18 optically faint sources (R > 23.9,mag) having f(nu) (24um) > 1.0,mJy and having radio detections at 20 cm to a limit of 115 microJy. Sources are within the Spitzer First Look Survey. Redshifts are determined for 14 sources from strong silicate absorption features (12 sources) or strong PAH emission features (2 sources), with median redshift of 2.1. Results confirm that optically faint sources of ~1 mJy at 24um are typically at redshifts z ~ 2, verifying the high efficiency in selecting high redshift sources based on extreme infrared to optical flux ratio, and indicate that 24um sources which also have radio counterparts are not systematically different than samples chosen only by their infrared to optical flux ratios. Using the parameter q = log[f(nu)(24um)/f(nu)(20 cm)] 17 of the 18 sources observed have values of 0 1.0mJy are predominately AGN and represent the upper end of the luminosity function of dusty sources at z ~ 2. Based on the characteristics of the sources observed so far, we predict that the nature of sources selected at 24um will change for f(nu)(24um) < 0.5 mJy to sources dominated primarily by starbursts.
description: Accepted ApJ 20 February 2006, v638 2 issue, 10pages including 3 figures
From NLP to Technical Language Processing (TLP) Slides
Creators: Marcus Liwicki
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

IEEE WCCI 2024
Narrow AI systems have achieved super-human performance in Natural Language Processing (NLP) - this is at least, what some big companies state and publish. But in most applications, specifically in industrial context, we cannot observe a major adoption of NLP methods. Domain-specific data, technical terms, and expectations for perfect performance are hindering the wide-spread use of NLP.
This tutorial will give a short overview of the recent developments in NLP and introduces into the area of technical language processing. Methods for dealing with technical terms, adapting to specific domains, and integrating log data and sensor values will be presented. Furthermore, this tutorial presents langchain and it's usage in practice to create context-aware, reasoning large language model applications in industrial contexts and beyond.