cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bounded Cohomology and Geometry
Creators: name: Wienhard, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C35; 22E40; 32M15

description: This work deals with relations between a bounded cohomological invariant and the geometry of Hermitian symmetric spaces of noncompact type. The invariant, obtained from the Kähler class, is used to define and characterize a special class of totally geodesic embeddings, called "tight embeddings". In addition, special isometric actions of finitely generated groups on Hermitian symmetric spaces are studied. Results of a joint work with M. Burger and A. Iozzi about surface group representations are also discussed.
description: Author's Ph.D. thesis, 126 pages
new species for the Italian fauna: Aphaenogaster strioloides, not A. crocea, inhabits Pantelleria Island (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Creators: name: Schifani, Enrico
name: Costa, Simone
name: Mei, Maurizio
name: Alicata, Antonio
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2021

description: Species of the recently recognized Aphaenogaster crocea group, which spreads across Canary Islands, Maghreb region and Southern Italy, have frequently been confused with one another and even with species belonging to other groups. We revised the identity of the population previously attributed to A. crocea from the island of Pantelleria (Sicilian Channel) by comparing voucher specimens of the older records as well as newly collected specimens with type specimens and descriptions of the other members of the group. As a result, we re-identify the population from Pantelleria as A. strioloides, a species so far known to occur exclusively in Algeria and Tunisia. Fi- nally, we discuss the key diagnostic features of this species.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2021)
IMPROVING MARKETING STRATEGIES TO ACCELERATE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE FOR THE BASIC CEREAL: THE NIGER CASE
Creators: name: Abdoulaye, Tahirou
name: Sanders, John H.
name: Abdoulaye, Tahirou
name: Sanders, John H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In Niger as in most of semiarid Sub-Saharan Africa the fallow system has become a historic event as a result of increasing population pressure and has not yet been replaced with increased input use due to low product prices. As a result nutrient mining is becoming prevalent and cereals yields declining. So it is necessary to develop marketing and other strategies to increase farmers' incomes from the use of increased inputs for soil fertility especially inorganic fertilizers. In the farm model, two goals (subsistence food storage and harvest income) are first achieved, before maximizing income, in a linear programming framework with various states of nature. This is an alternative way of handling risk based on farmer's actual observed behavior. Hence this approach is simpler and easier to verify behaviorally than the more abstract trade-offs between expected income and variance used in the general framework of risk analysis. The three marketing strategies considered are: the evolution of new product markets for food and feed to moderate the between year price collapse resulting from good and sometimes even normal weather conditions; the development of alternative public (and NGO) policies rather than subsidized prices or gifts of food aid to drive down the high cereal prices of adverse weather years; the facilitation of inventory credit so that farmers can get access to income for a series of obligations that need to be paid at harvest time without being obligated to sell their grains at the post harvest price collapse period. Individually these marketing strategies result in farmers' income increases of 35%, 38%, and 49% when combined with new technology introduction. The technology alone effect is a 30% increase but most farmers in semiarid region, unless they have had long experience with inorganic fertilizer, do not adopt the technology alone. Introduction of the marketing strategies in various combinations results in further technology diffusion and income gains of 35 to 49% above those of new technology alone. Developed countries are very concerned with having policies to assure the profitability of agriculture and the consequent rapid introduction of new technologies. Developing countries need to develop similar types of policy support without introducing price distortions or discouraging private sector development.
Temperature-Induced Lifshitz Transition and Possible Excitonic Instability in ZrSiSe
Creators: name: Chen, F. C.
name: Fei, Y.
name: Li, S. J.
name: Wang, Q.
name: Luo, X.
name: Yan, J.
name: Lu, W. J.
name: Tong, P.
name: Song, W. H.
name: Zhu, X. B.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhou, H. B.
name: Zheng, F. W.
name: Zhang, P.
name: Lichtenstein, A. L.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
name: Yin, Y.
name: Hao, Ning
name: Sun, Y. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nodal-line semimetals have attracted immense interest due to the unique electronic structures such as the linear dispersion and the vanishing density of states as the Fermi energy approaching the nodes. Here, we report temperature-dependent transport and scanning tunneling microscope (spectroscopy) (STM[S]) measurements on nodal-line semimetal ZrSiSe.Our experimental results and theoretical analyses consistently demonstrate that the temperature induces Lifshitz transitions at 80 and 106 K in ZrSiSe, which results in the transport anomalies at the same temperatures. More strikingly, we observe a V-shaped dip structure around Fermi energy from the STS spectrum at low temperature,which can be attributed to co-effect of the spin-orbit coupling and excitonic instability. Our observations indicate the correlation interaction may play an important role in ZrSiSe, which owns the quasi-two-dimensional electronic structures.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Do Economic Restrictions Improve Forecasts?
Creators: name: Murphy, Elizabeth A.
name: Norwood, F. Bailey
name: Wohlgenant, Michael K.
name: Murphy, Elizabeth A.
name: Norwood, F. Bailey
name: Wohlgenant, Michael K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: A previous study showed that imposing economic restrictions improves the forecasting ability of food demand systems, thus warranting their use even when rejected in-sample. This study attempts to determine whether this is due solely to the fact that restrictions improve degrees of freedom. Results indicate that restrictions improve forecasting ability even when not derived from economic theory, but theoretical restrictions forecast best.
New Categorifications of the Chromatic and the Dichromatic Polynomials for Graphs
Creators: name: Stosic, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: In this paper, for each graph $G$, we def\mbox{}ine a chain complex of graded modules over the ring of polynomials, whose graded Euler characteristic is equal to the chromatic polynomial of $G$. Furthermore, we def\mbox{}ine a chain complex of doubly-graded modules, whose (doubly) graded Euler characteristic is equal to the dichromatic polynomial of $G$. Both constructions use Koszul complexes, and are similar to the new Khovanov-Rozansky categorif\mbox{}ications of HOMFLYPT polynomial. We also give simplif\mbox{}ied def\mbox{}inition of this triply-graded link homology theory.
description: 15 pages, added Section 2
Robust Limits on Lorentz Violation from Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Ellis, John
name: Mavromatos, Nick E.
name: Nanopoulos, Dimitri V.
name: Sakharov, Alexander S.
name: Sarkisyan, Edward K. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We constrain the possibility of a non-trivial refractive index in free space corresponding to an energy-dependent velocity of light: c(E) \simeq c_0 (1 - E/M), where M is a mass scale that might represent effect of quantum-gravitational space-time foam, using the arrival times of sharp features observed in the intensities of radiation with different energies from a large sample of gamma-ray bursters (GRBs) with known redshifts. We use wavelet techniques to identify genuine features, which we confirm in simulations with artificial added noise. Using the weighted averages of the time-lags calculated using correlated features in all the GRB light curves, we find a systematic tendency for more energetic photons to arrive earlier. However, there is a very strong correlation between the parameters characterizing an intrinsic time-lag at the source and a distance-dependent propagation effect. Moreover, the significance of the earlier arrival times is less evident for a subsample of more robust spectral structures. Allowing for intrinsic stochastic time-lags in these features, we establish a statistically robust lower limit: M > 0.9x10^{16} GeV on the scale of violation of Lorentz invariance.
description: 18 pages, 4 eps figures
General Relativistic Mean-field Dynamo Model for Proto-neutron Stars
Creators: name: Franceschetti, K.
name: Del Zanna, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron stars, and magnetars in particular, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. The origin of these strong fields is a matter of controversy. In this preliminary work, via numerical simulations, we study, for the first time in non-ideal general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) regime, the growth of the magnetic field due to the action of the mean-field dynamo due to sub-scale, unresolved turbulence. The dynamo process, combined with the differential rotation of the (proto-)star, is able to produce an exponential growth of any initial magnetic seed field up to the values required to explain the observations. By varying the dynamo coefficient we obtain different growth rates. We find a quasi-linear dependence of the growth rates on the intensity of the dynamo. Furthermore, the time interval in which exponential growth occurs and the growth rates also seems to depend on the initial configuration of the magnetic field.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication on Universe
Die gegebene und die zu schaffende Einheit der Kirche in römisch-katholischer Sicht
Creators: name: Meyer, Heinrich
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 3 Nr. 1 (1954): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 3, Heft 1
Hybrid stars from a three-flavor NJL model with two kinds of tensor condensates
Creators: name: Morimoto, M.
name: Tsue, Y.
name: da Providencia, J.
name: Providencia, C.
name: Yamamura, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To obtain the equation of state of quark matter and construct hybrid stars, we calculate the thermodynamic potential in the three-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model including the tensor-type four-point interaction and the Kobayashi-Maskawa-'t Hooft interaction. To construct the hybrid stars, it is necessary to impose the beta-equilibrium and charge neutrality conditions on the system. It is shown that tensor condensed phases appear at large chemical potential. Under the possibility of the existence of the tensor condensates, the relationship between the radius and mass of hybrid stars is estimated.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DENGUE IN SOUTHERN DISTRICTS OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA.pdf
Creators: name: Arsalan Rasheed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Zoology
subject: Parasitology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pathology

description: In order tо study thе prevalence rate оf Dengue Fever (DF) іn district Kohat, Karak аnd Dera Ismail Khan, province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, records from Mау 2015 tо Mау 2016 wеrе tаkеn frоm thе local government hospitals оf thе area namely District Head Quarter Teaching Hospital Kohat, Liaqat Memorial Hospital Kohat, Rural Medical Centre Lachi аnd wеrе collected bу Questionnaire thrоugh survey іn endemic area. DF, а mosquito-borne viral disease іѕ emerging globally. DF аlоng wіth іtѕ mоrе severe form (dengue haemorrhagic fever) іѕ caused bу аnу serotypes оf thе dengue virus (DENV) 1, 2, 3 аnd 4 thаt belongs tо thе family Flaviviridae аnd genus Flavivirus. DENV іѕ transmitted bу A. aegypti. In mid-October 2015, аn outbreak оf dengue occur іn district Kohat infecting mоrе thаn 100 people аnd causing 2 deaths whіlе аt thе ѕаmе time nо case wаѕ reported іn district Karak аnd D.I. Khan. 132 cases wеrе reported іn thе study area, males wеrе infected mоѕtlу (83, 79%) thаn females (49, 21%). Mоѕt cases wеrе reported frоm Lachi (tehsil оf Kohat). Rural areas presented high percentage оf DF (88%). People belonging tо middle class family аnd illiterate community wеrе mоѕtlу affected. Rate оf infection wаѕ observed lеаѕt іn children whіlе higher іn thе age group оf 20-40 years. Fever іѕ observed іn еvеrу patient аlоng wіth оthеr symptoms ѕuсh аѕ abdominal pain, vomiting, skin rash аnd bleeding. DENV2 wаѕ fоund іn thе patients оf district Kohat commonly. Thе platelets count/cmm drops bеlоw 50,000 іn mоѕt cases (59%), 50,000-100,000 іn fеw cases (12%) whіlе >100,000 іn ѕоmе cases (29%). Patients’ hospital stay wеrе mоѕtlу 1-3 days. DF іѕ common durіng thе month оf October. Yet, thеrе іѕ nо specific vaccine аgаіnѕt DF but public awareness аnd adopting preventive measures саn eradicate furthеr spread оf DF еvеn wіthоut uѕіng dengue specific vaccine оr drugs. Keywords: DF, Aedes aegypti, Serotypes, Southern districts, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
106. The remarkable cluster Westerlund 1
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: At a distance of about 4 kpc, the young compact star cluster Westerlund 1 contains many rare, evolved, high-mass stars, including red supergiants, yellow hypergiants, one of the largest known stars, and 24 Wolf-Rayet stars. Gaia is pinpointing its distance and its members, and resolving the puzzling question of its age.
Peacebuilding in Cambodia : transforming public dialogue about human rights
Creators: name: Morris, Catherine Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This explorative thesis asks how theories and practices regarding conflict processes might be applicable to peacebuilding, particularly the development of human rights law, policy, institutions, mechanisms and practices, in and for Cambodia. Current legal development and human rights approaches do not seem adequate to address key features of human rights conflicts in Cambodia, including the ethical nature of human rights conflict, the polarized nature of Cambodian public conflicts and the deep mistrust among stakeholders as a result of the turmoil of the past, including the Pol Pot regime and its aftermath. Also, current efforts have not been very effective in addressing the well-identified lack of respected, impartial decision making and dispute resolution bodies in Cambodia. Further, there has been insufficient attention by foreign human rights, legal development and peacebuilding specialists on building local knowledge in participatory fashion with Cambodian partners. Dominant foreign approaches to human rights and legal development have also tended to overlook Cambodian historic and cultural preferences, including preferences for conciliation. Conflict resolution approaches as articulated in Canadian projects in Cambodia in 1995 and 1996 are examined with the conclusion that some features of the actor-oriented, interest-based approaches currently dominant in the North American field of dispute resolution are not suited to the key challenges presented by Cambodian public conflicts. Possibilities for addressing human rights conflict in Cambodia are addressed, including consideration of several newer currents in the field of conflict studies. Included are some poststructuralist and post-modernist perspectives that aim to address public "moral conflict,"and which try to address inadequacies in current conflict resolution myths and theories about "neutrality." These point to the possibility of constructing dialogical processes that may lead to sustained and transformative talk among the many human rights stakeholders in Cambodia. Offered as examples are several Cambodian-initiated projects which have emphasized public participation and multi-stakeholder dialogical processes. There are suggestions for further research and support of these Cambodian experiments to further articulate, draw and utilize local understandings that may move toward national reconciliation and justice within the international human rights framework formally supported in Cambodia.
Comparative analysis of the population structure of Crematogaster subdentata and Lasius neglectus in the primary and secondary ranges (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Creators: name: Stukalyuk, Stanislav
name: Radchenko, Alexander
name: Reshetov, Alexander
name: Akhmedov, Ascar
name: Goncharenko, Igor
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2021

description: The population structure of Crematogaster subdentata Mayr, 1877 in the primary (native) (Uzbekistan) and secondary ranges (Crimea, Rostov-on-Don) is analyzed. The data obtained indicate an uncommon behavior for invasive ants – the formation of supercolonies in the primary range (the size of the foraging area is about 600 m2) in the urban territory. Nesting in houses and in trunks of old trees occurs both in the zone of invasion and in the primary range. The data of the distribution of the second invasive species in the same regions – Lasius neglectus Van Loon et al., 1990 are provided. Comparison of the population structure (ratio of the mono- and polycalic colonies, presence of the supercolonies and their sizes), parameters of the colonies (average number of the nests and forage trees per colony) showed the ad- vantage of Crematogaster subdentata over Lasius neglectus, which is gradually crowded out by the first species in the places of contact.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2021)
Radio continuum and molecular line observations of four bright-rimmed clouds
Creators: name: Urquhart, J. S.
name: Thompson, M. A.
name: Morgan, L. K.
name: White, Glenn J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of radio continuum and molecular line observations conducted using the Mopra millimetre-wave telescope and Australia Telescope Compact Array. These observations reveal the presence of a dense core embedded within each cloud, and the presence of a layer of hot ionised gas coincided with their bright-rims. The ionised gas has electron densities significantly higher than the critical density above which an ionised boundary layer can form and be maintained, strongly supporting the hypothesis that these clouds are being photoionised by the nearby OB star(s). From an evaluation of the pressure balance between the ionised and molecular gas, SFO 58 and SFO 68 are identified as being in a post-pressure balance state, while SFO 75 and SFO 76 are more likely to be in a pre-pressure balance state. We find secondary evidence for the presence of ongoing star formation within SFO 58 and SFO 68, such as molecular outflows, OH, H$_2$O and methanol masers, and identify a potential embedded UC HII region, but find no evidence for any ongoing star formation within SFO 75 and SFO 76. Our results are consistent with the star formation within SFO 58 and SFO 68 having been triggered by the radiatively driven implosion of these clouds.
description: Accepted by A&A, 20 pages, 7 figures. Figures have been compressed - full resolution version available at http://www.ast.leeds.ac.uk/~jsu/
New records of the exotic black little ant Monomorium carbonarium in the Iberian Peninsula and discovery of the ergatoid queen (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Creators: name: Arcos González, Javier
Publisher: name: Fragmenta Entomologica
Year: 2021

description: The exotic ant Monomorium carbonarium (Smith, 1858) is recorded for two new cities in the Iberian Peninsula. A hundred workers of this black little ant were recovered from a pitfall trap in a small urban park in the city of Alacant (SE Iberia). A visual inspection revealed a large colony with numerous nest entrances, but confined in space. Its absence in other colliding parks and green areas of the city sug- gests an early stage of invasion. It is also first detected in three parks in the city of Barcelona (NE Iberia). Two queen phenotypes are imaged, winged and ergatoid, the second one previously unknown. The invasive potential of the species is discussed.
description: Fragmenta Entomologica, Vol. 53 No. 1 (2021)
CHINA'S INTERNATIONAL TOURISM UNDER ECONOMIC TRANSITION: NATIONAL TRENDS AND REGIONAL DISPARITIES
Creators: name: Liang, Chyi-Lyi (Kathleen)
name: Guo, Rong
name: Wang, Qingbin
name: Liang, Chyi-Lyi (Kathleen)
name: Guo, Rong
name: Wang, Qingbin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: China's Tourism industry, especially international tourism, has expanded rapidly since its market-oriented economic reform started in 1978. There has been limited information regarding the trends and regional disparities. This paper examines the national trends of China's international tourism since 1982 and analyzes the changes in regional disparities since 1995. While the trend analysis suggests that China's international tourism is likely to keep growing at a significant rate, the analysis of regional disparities based on Gini coefficient indicates that the regional inequality in the number of international tourists and income has shown a downward trend since 1995. Findings from this study suggest that China's economic reform has stimulated the growth in international tourism and the international tourism has contributed to its economic growth and business development.
An efficient application of Bayesian optimization to an industrial MDO framework for aircraft design
Creators: name: Priem, Remy
name: Gagnon, Hugo
name: Chittick, Ian
name: Dufresne, Stephane
name: Diouane, Youssef
name: Bartoli, Nathalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The multi-level, multi-disciplinary and multi-fidelity optimization framework developed at Bombardier Aviation has shown great results to explore efficient and competitive aircraft configurations. This optimization framework has been developed within the Isight software, the latter offers a set of ready-to-use optimizers. Unfortunately, the computational effort required by the Isight optimizers can be prohibitive with respect to the requirements of an industrial context. In this paper, a constrained Bayesian optimization optimizer, namely the super efficient global optimization with mixture of experts, is used to reduce the optimization computational effort. The obtained results showed significant improvements compared to two of the popular Isight optimizers. The capabilities of the tested constrained Bayesian optimization solver are demonstrated on Bombardier research aircraft configuration study cases.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM
The expression of acute pain reactions in children with autism : a comparative analysis
Creators: name: Nader, Rami
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The present study examined acute pain expressions of children with autism. It has been widely reported that reduced pain sensitivity is a common feature of children with autism. However, the evidence supporting this conclusion is based on anecdotal observations and studies using questionable measures of pain. Assessment of pain in children with autism is difficult due to self-report and nonverbal expression communication impairments. Caregivers often must provide proxy reports. The current study used objective behavioral measures of pain (facial activity and distress responses). Twenty-one children with autism were videotaped while receiving a venepuncture, with parental assessments of pain collected before and after the procedure. Twenty-two children without autism served as an age and gender matched control group. The results showed that children with autism display a significant behavioral response to the venepuncture procedure, with the response comparable to that observed in the control children. The concordance between parental reports of pain and observed pain responses of the child was consistently greater for the control group over the autism group. The results put into question the validity of parental global report as an assessment tool for pain in children with autism. The findings are explained using the sociocommunicative model of pain which views pain as not solely an internal experience, but as an interpersonal phenomenon and takes into account the encoding and decoding processes involved in the communication of pain.
Intermittency at critical transitions and aging dynamics at edge of chaos
Creators: name: Robledo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recall that, at both the intermittency transitions and at the Feigenbaum attractor in unimodal maps of non-linearity of order $ζ>1$, the dynamics rigorously obeys the Tsallis statistics. We account for the $q$-indices and the generalized Lyapunov coefficients $λ_{q}$ that characterize the universality classes of the pitchfork and tangent bifurcations. We identify the Mori singularities in the Lyapunov spectrum at the edge of chaos with the appearance of a special value for the entropic index $q$. The physical area of the Tsallis statistics is further probed by considering the dynamics near criticality and glass formation in thermal systems. In both cases a close connection is made with states in unimodal maps with vanishing Lyapunov coefficients.
description: Proceedings of: STATPHYS 2004 - 22nd IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, National Science Seminar Complex, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 4-9 July 2004. Pramana, in press
Puroindoline ( pina-D1 and pinb-D1) and waxy (Wx-1) genes in Iranian bread wheat Triticum aestivum landraces
Creators: name: Maryami, Zahra
name: Azimi, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 70302 Agronomy
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: This appendix has been provided by the authors to give readers additional information about thier work.Supplemental to:Puroindoline (pina-D1and pinb-D1) and waxy (Wx-1) genes in Iranian bread wheat (Triticum eastivum) landraces.
SEMIPARAMETRIC BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF SIMULTANEOUS SYSTEMS WITH AN APPLICATION TO JAPANESE MEAT DEMAND
Creators: name: Xi, Jing
name: Heckelei, Thomas
name: Mittelhammer, Ronald C.
name: Xi, Jing
name: Heckelei, Thomas
name: Mittelhammer, Ronald C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: This paper motivates and applies a variant of the Bayesian Bootstrap Multivariate Regression by Heckelei and Mittelhammer (2003) to a Japanese meat demand specification with endogenous regressors. The methodology is first given an alternative and more elegants motivation and then extended to incorporate microtheoretic restrictions and to apply in the context of a simultaneous equation models. The results of the application are compared to results based on an earlier approach used by Heckelei, Mittelhammer, and Wahl (1996).
Optical Properties of ZnO-based Quantum Structures
Creators: name: Makino, Takayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical properties of ZnO quantum wells, which have potential application of short-wavelength semiconductor laser utilizing a high-density excitonic effect, were investigated. Stimulated emission of excitons was observed at temperatures well above room temperature due to the adoption of the lattice-matched substrates. The mechanism of stimulated emission from ZnO quantum wells is discussed in this paper
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, proceeding of the Euro-MRS 2005 held in Strasbourg, to appear in Superlattices and Microstructures
A variational sinc collocation method for strong-coupling problems
Creators: name: Amore, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have devised a variational sinc collocation method (VSCM) which can be used to obtain accurate numerical solutions to many strong-coupling problems. Sinc functions with an optimal grid spacing are used to solve the linear and non-linear Schrödinger equations and a lattice $ϕ^4$ model in $(1+1)$. Our results indicate that errors decrease exponentially with the number of grid points and that a limited numerical effort is needed to reach high precision.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
On existing of filtered multiplicative bases in group algebras
Creators: name: Balogh, Zsolt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C05, 16S34, 20D15

description: We give an explicit list of all p-groups G of order at most p^4 or 2^5 such that the group algebra KG over the field K of characteristic p has a filtered multiplicative K-basis.
ON THE SIZE AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF TURKEY
Creators: name: Saracoglu, Durdane Sirin
name: Saracoglu, Durdane Sirin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: This paper studies a three-sector growth model with households differentiated in their factor endowments, resulting in asset and income inequality among the households. Production occurs in agricultural, formal, and informal sectors. In particular, household preferences display Engel effects in two of the goods: agricultural and informally produced goods. Income elasticity of demand for formally produced goods, on the other hand, is equal to one. The model is calibrated to Turkish National data for 1997, and the simulation results indicate that as the economy transitions into the long-run equilibrium with the process of capital accumulation, the importance of agricultural and informal sectors diminish, and that of the formal sector increases, given any degree of inequality. However, with higher degrees of asset inequality, the results show that in the long-run, the economy ends up with a larger informal sector output and a smaller formal sector output. Furthermore, it is shown that lowering the labor taxes in the formal sector yields favorable results in terms of capital stock, income, and formal sector output in both transition and the long-run.
Charged Particle Motion in a Highly Ionized Plasma
Creators: name: Brown, Lowell S.
name: Preston, Dean L.
name: Singleton, Robert L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently introduced method utilizing dimensional continuation is employed to compute the energy loss rate for a non-relativistic particle moving through a highly ionized plasma. No restriction is made on the charge, mass, or speed of this particle. It is, however, assumed that the plasma is not strongly coupled in the sense that the dimensionless plasma coupling parameter g=e^2κ_D/ 4πT is small, where κ_D is the Debye wave number of the plasma. To leading and next-to-leading order in this coupling, dE/dx is of the generic form g^2 \ln[C g^2]. The precise numerical coefficient out in front of the logarithm is well known. We compute the constant C under the logarithm exactly for arbitrary particle speeds. Our exact results differ from approximations given in the literature. The differences are in the range of 20% for cases relevant to inertial confinement fusion experiments. The same method is also employed to compute the rate of momentum loss for a projectile moving in a plasma, and the rate at which two plasmas at different temperatures come into thermal equilibrium. Again these calculations are done precisely to the order given above. The loss rates of energy and momentum uniquely define a Fokker-Planck equation that describes particle motion in the plasma. The coefficients determined in this way are thus well-defined, contain no arbitrary parameters or cutoffs, and are accurate to the order described. This Fokker-Planck equation describes the longitudinal straggling and the transverse diffusion of a beam of particles. It should be emphasized that our work does not involve a model, but rather it is a precisely defined evaluation of the leading terms in a well-defined perturbation theory.
description: Comments: Published in Phys. Rep. 410/4 (2005) 237; RevTeX, 111 Pages, 17 Figures; Transcription error corrected in temperature equilibration rate (3.61) and (12.44) which replaces \gamma-2 by \gamma-1
Hyperfine structure of $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}^+$: toward resolving the $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}$ nuclear octupole moment puzzle
Creators: name: Xiao, Di
name: Li, Jiguang
name: Campbell, Wesley C.
name: Dellaert, Thomas
name: McMillin, Patrick
name: Ransford, Anthony
name: Roman, Conrad
name: Derevianko, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyperfine structure (HFS) of atomic energy levels arises due to interactions of atomic electrons with a hierarchy of nuclear multipole moments, including magnetic dipole, electric quadrupole and higher rank moments. Recently, a determination of the magnetic octupole moment of the $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}$ nucleus was reported from HFS measurements in neutral ${}^{173}\mathrm{Yb}$ [PRA 87, 012512 (2013)], and is four orders of magnitude larger than the nuclear theory prediction. Considering this substantial discrepancy between the spectroscopically extracted value and nuclear theory, here we propose to use an alternative system to resolve this tension, a singly charged ion of the same $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}$ isotope. Utilizing the substantial suite of tools developed around $\mathrm{Yb}^+$ for quantum information applications, we propose to extract nuclear octupole and hexadecapole moments from measuring hyperfine splittings in the extremely long lived first excited state ($4f^{13}(^2\!F^{o})6s^2$, $J=7/2$) of $^{173}\mathrm{Yb}^+$. We present results of atomic structure calculations in support of the proposed measurements.
ENDOGENOUS GROWTH MODELS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE: AN ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Creators: name: Bhattarai, Gandhi Raj
name: Hite, Diane
name: Hatch, L. Upton
name: Thompson, Henry
name: Bhattarai, Gandhi Raj
name: Hite, Diane
name: Hatch, L. Upton
name: Thompson, Henry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Fertilizer consumption per cubic meter of freshwater is taken as a proxy for global water quality indicator. A global model of environmental quality for 121 countries confirms the Kuznet's hypothesis. Global turning point is reached at nearly five times the average income of all countries. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) was significant to increase the national income. Increased aid and larger farm size per capita favored higher environmental quality, albeit insignificant. A flow of better technology and possible non-agricultural employment might help improve water quality in developing countries when their net income increases.
Implementation of the orthodoxy test as a validity check on experimental field emission data
Creators: name: Allaham, Mohammad M.
name: Forbes, Richard G.
name: Knapek, Alexander
name: Mousa, Marwan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In field electron emission (FE) studies, it is important to check and analyse the quality and validity of experimental current-voltage data, which is usually plotted in one of a small number of standard forms. These include the so-called Fowler-Nordheim (FN), Millikan-Lauritsen (ML) and Murphy-Good (MG) plots. The Field Emission Orthodoxy Test is a simple quantitative test that aims to check for the reasonableness of the values of the parameter "scaled field" that can be extracted from these plots. This is done in order to establish whether characterization parameters extracted from the plot will be reliable or, alternative, likely to be spurious. This paper summarises the theory behind the orthodoxy test, for each of the plot forms, and confirms that it is easy to apply it to the newly developed MG plot. A simple web tool has been developed that extracts scaled-field values from any of these three plot forms, and tests for lack of field emission orthodoxy.
description: 14 typescript pages, 2 figures
Середньовічні укріплення в смт Народичі на Житомирщині
Creators: name: Томашевський, Андрій
name: Павленко Сергій
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Томашевський А., Павленко С. Середньовічні укріплення в смт Народичі на Житомирщині. Нові дослідження пам'яток козацької доби в Україні. Збірник статей. Присвячується 100-річчю від дня народження Д.Я. Телегіна. Випуск 28. с.41-52
The Organization and Use of the Maryland Militia in The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
Creators: name: Rogers, Robin Michael
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1978

description: This thesis is directed at the use of the Maryland militia during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 in western Pennsylvania. The call for militia, made by President Washington, was not well received in the state. The quota was not tilled, and attempts to fill it touched off riots in western Maryland. These riots made another call necessary, this time made by Maryland Governor Thomas Sim Less. Only Maryland troops were requested, and the quota was filled completely and quickly. The difference in the militia's response is an important part of this thesis because it affords an examination of the condition of federal state relations in the first few years after the ratification of the Constitution. Evidence discussed in this thesis provides material from which several conclusions may be drawn. The examination of the federal and state militia law shows that the federal government was uncertain of its position in attempting to dictate legislation to the states. The state government was uncertain too, about how much it should be dictated to. The result of these uncertainties was a set of weak militia laws that left the responsibility of the obedience to them up the individual militia men. Indeed, the two governments were not only unsure of their positions with each other, but also unsure of their position with the citizens. They were not certain that the citizens would support militia laws, or militia calls. The difference in the militia's response to the two calls also shows that the militia was not certain of its responsibility to answer a requisition. Troops from Maryland were much more concerned with protecting their own state, and possibly homes and families, than they were with protecting the federal government's whiskey excise. Aside from the natural desire for self preservation, the difference indicates that the militia and its leaders were willing to inconvenience themselves for the state, but not for the Union.
Superconducting qubit network with controllable nearest neighbor coupling
Creators: name: Wallquist, M.
name: Lantz, J.
name: Shumeiko, V. S.
name: Wendin, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the design and functionality of a network of loop-shaped charge qubits with switchable nearest-neighbor coupling. The qubit coupling is achieved by placing large Josephson junctions at the intersections of the qubit loops and selectively applying bias currents. The network is scalable and makes it possible to perform a universal set of quantum gates. The coupling scheme allows gate operation at the charge degeneracy point of each qubit, and also applies to charge-phase qubits. Additional Josephson junctions included in the qubit loops for qubit readout can also be employed for qubit coupling.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures
Multi-wavelength observations of the 2002 outburst of GX 339-4: two patterns of X-ray-optical/near-infrared behavior
Creators: name: Homan, Jeroen
name: Buxton, Michelle
name: Markoff, Sera
name: Bailyn, Charles D.
name: Nespoli, Elisa
name: Belloni, Tomaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We report on RXTE and optical/near-infrared (nIR) observations of the black hole transient GX 339-4, made over a time span of 8 months in 2002 and covering the initial rise and transition from a hard to a soft spectral state. Two patterns of correlated X-ray-optical/nIR behavior were found. During the hard state the optical/nIR and X-ray fluxes correlated well, with a nIR vs. X-ray flux relation similar to the relation between X-ray and radio fluxes found in previous studies of GX 339-4 and other black hole binaries. As GX 339-4 went through an intermediate state the optical/nIR fluxes decreased rapidly and once it had entered the spectrally soft state, the optical/nIR spectrum was much bluer and the ratio of X-ray to nIR flux was higher by a factor of more than 10 compared to the hard state. In the spectrally soft state nIR-changes preceded those in the X-rays by more than 2 weeks, indicating a disk origin of the nIR. We present SEDs, including radio data, and discuss possible sources for the optical/nIR emission. We conclude that in the hard state this emission probably originates in the optically thin part of a jet and that in none of the X-ray states X-ray reprocessing is the dominant source of optical/nIR emission. Finally, comparing the light curves from the ASM and PCA instruments, we find that the X-ray/nIR delay depends critically on the sensitivity of the X-ray detector, with the delay inferred from the PCA (if present at all) being a factor of 3-6 times shorter than the delay inferred from the ASM; this may be important in interpreting previously reported X-ray-optical/nIR lags.
description: 13 pages, including 7 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
COURTS AND CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT IN AGRICULTURAL TRANSITION - THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM POLAND
Creators: name: Beckmann, Volker
name: Boger, Silke
name: Beckmann, Volker
name: Boger, Silke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The paper investigates theoretically and empirically the role of courts for contract enforcement in transition agriculture. We develop a theoretical model, based on the costs and benefits of court enforcement that captures the boundary between contracts to be judged as court "enforceable" and "not-enforceable" and, simultaneously, identifies the threshold of taking legal action. The empirical analysis based on a survey of 306 Polish hog farmer conducted in 1999 strongly supports our model.
Extending Active Learning for Improved Long-Term Return On Investment of Learning Systems
Creators: name: Kumar, Mohit
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 460902
subject: Decision support and group support systems

description: Decision support problems like error prediction, fraud detection, information filtering, network intrusion detection, surveillance etc are important class of business problems. They are called decision support problems because the system is expected to assist in the human decision making by recommending which transactions to review and also assisting in the detailed review process. Data mining systems for such problems deal with building classifiers that are not working by themselves but are part of a larger interactive system with an expert in the loop (figure 1.1). Characteristics of these domains include skewed class distribution, lots of unlabeled data, concept/feature drift over time, biased sampling of labeled data and expensive domain experts. Such systems are expected to be deployed and to maintain their effectiveness over a long time. Learning in such interactive settings typically involves deploying a classifier to suggest relevant positive examples to human experts for review. The cost and availability of these experts makes labeling and review of these examples expensive. The goal of a machine learning system in these settings is to not only provide immediate benefit to the users, but also to continuously improve its future performance while minimizing the expert labeling/reviewing costs and increasing the overall effectiveness of these experts.
Beaming effect from increased-index photonic crystal waveguides
Creators: name: Morrison, Steven K.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the beaming effect of light for the case of increased-index photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides, formed through the omission of low-dielectric media in the waveguide region. We employ the finite-difference time-domain numerical method for characterizing the beaming effect and determining the mechanisms of loss and the overall efficiency of the directional emission. We find that, while this type of PhC waveguides is capable of producing a highly collimated emission as was demonstrated experimentally, the inherent characteristics of the structure result in a restrictively low efficiency in the coupling of light into the collimated beam of light.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Applied Physics B
Ulstadløkken. En ny murgaard, som allerede da var opført - eller under opførelse - klods ind paa gaarden, tilhøire i nærværende billede, er ikke medtaget i tegnngen. Men ellers er gaarden gjengivet som den da stod.
Creators: name: Mathiesen, Henrik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1912
Subjects: Udefinert

description: Ulstadløkka.
description: Tegning, original.