cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Sex-specific effects of small-sided games in basketball on psychometric and physiological markers during Ramadan intermittent fasting
title: a pilot study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Brini, Seifeddine
name: Abderrahman, Abderraouf Ben
name: Clark, Cain C. T.
name: Zouita, Sghaeir
name: Hackney, Anthony C.
name: Govindasamy, Karuppasamy
name: Granacher, Urs
name: Zouhal, Hassane
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: We assessed the effects of gender, in association with a four-week small-sided games (SSGs) training program, during Ramadan intermitting fasting (RIF) on changes in psychometric and physiological markers in professional male and female basketball players. Methods: Twenty-four professional basketball players from the first Tunisian (Tunisia) division participated in this study. The players were dichotomized by sex (males [GM = 12]; females [GF = 12]). Both groups completed a 4 weeks SSGs training program with 3 sessions per week. Psychometric (e.g., quality of sleep, fatigue, stress, and delayed onset of muscle soreness [DOMS]) and physiological parameters (e.g., heart rate frequency, blood lactate) were measured during the first week (baseline) and at the end of RIF (post-test). Results: Post hoc tests showed a significant increase in stress levels in both groups (GM [− 81.11%; p < 0.001, d = 0.33, small]; GF [− 36,53%; p = 0.001, d = 0.25, small]). Concerning physiological parameters, ANCOVA revealed significantly lower heart rates in favor of GM at post-test (1.70%, d = 0.38, small, p = 0.002). Conclusions: Our results showed that SSGs training at the end of the RIF negatively impacted psychometric parameters of male and female basketball players. It can be concluded that there are sex-mediated effects of training during RIF in basketball players, and this should be considered by researchers and practitioners when programing training during RIF.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 735
DFT study of Rb/Si(100)-2x1 System
Creators: name: Mete, E.
name: Shaltaf, R.
name: Ellialtıoğlu, Ş.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated Rb adsorption on the Si(100) surface for 0.5 and 1 monolayer coverages using the total energy method with norm-conserving pseudopotentials. For 2$\times$1 reconstruction at 1 ML coverage symmetrized dimers are found to be energetically more favorable. On the other hand, half a ML coverage is found to have symmetrical dimers only for the most stable adsorption model. All possible surface-adatom configurations have been considered in the calculations to find which adsorption sites are energetically favored. In addition to the structural properties, the interface is investigated electronically for the work function and surface states. The results are discussed and compared with the existing experimental findings.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Quasar Microlensing Variability Studies Favor Shallow Accretion Disk Temperature Profiles
Creators: name: Cornachione, Matthew A.
name: Morgan, Christopher W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the microlensing-based continuum emission region size measurements in a sample of 15 gravitationally lensed quasars with estimates of luminosity-based thin disk sizes to constrain the temperature profile of the quasar continuum accretion region. If we adopt the standard thin disk model, we find a significant discrepancy between sizes estimated using the luminosity and those measured by microlensing of $\log(r_{L}/r_μ)=-0.57\pm0.08\,\text{dex}$. If quasar continuum sources are simple, optically thick accretion disks with a generalized temperature profile $T(r) \propto r^{-β}$, the discrepancy between the microlensing measurements and the luminosity-based size estimates can be resolved by a temperature profile slope $0.37 < β< 0.56$ at $1\,σ$ confidence. This is shallower than the standard thin disk model ($β=0.75$) at $3\,σ$ significance. We consider alternate accretion disk models that could produce such a temperature profile and reproduce the empirical continuum size scaling with black hole mass, including disk winds or disks with non-blackbody atmospheres.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Correlation in the transition metal based Heusler compounds Co$_2$MnSi and Co$_2$FeSi
Creators: name: Kandpal, Hem Chandra
name: Fecher, Gerhard H.
name: Felser, Claudia
name: Schönhense, Gerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Half-metallic ferromagnets like the full Heusler compounds with formula X$_2$YZ are supposed to show an integer value of the spin magnetic moment. Calculations reveal in certain cases of X = Co based compounds non-integer values, in contrast to experiments. In order to explain deviations of the magnetic moment calculated for such compounds, the dependency of the electronic structure on the lattice parameter was studied theoretically. In local density approximation (LDA), the minimum total energy of Co$_2$FeSi is found for the experimental lattice parameter, but the calculated magnetic moment is about 12% too low. Half-metallic ferromagnetism and a magnetic moment equal to the experimental value of $6μ_B$ are found, however, only after increasing the lattice parameter by more than 6%. To overcome this discrepancy, the LDA$+U$ scheme was used to respect on-site electron correlation in the calculations. Those calculations revealed for Co$_2$FeSi that an effective Coulomb-exchange interaction $U_{eff}=U-J$ in the range of about 2eV to 5eV leads to half-metallic ferromagnetism and the measured, integer magnetic moment at the measured lattice parameter. Finally, it is shown in the case of Co$_2$MnSi that correlation may also serve to destroy the half-metallic behavior if it becomes too strong (for Co$_2$MnSi above 2eV and for Co$_2$FeSi above 5eV). These findings indicate that on-site correlation may play an important role in the description of Heusler compounds with localized moments.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Discovery of ubiquitous lithium production in low-mass stars
Creators: name: Kumar, Yerra Bharat
name: Reddy, Bacham E.
name: Campbell, Simon W.
name: Maben, Sunayana
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Ting, Yuan-Sen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vast majority of stars with mass similar to the Sun are expected to only destroy lithium over the course of their lives, via low-temperature nuclear burning. This has now been supported by observations of hundreds of thousands of red giant stars (Brown et al. 1989, Kumar et al. 2011, Deepak et al. 2019, Singh et al. 2019, Casey et al. 2019). Here we perform the first large-scale systematic investigation into the Li content of stars in the red clump phase of evolution, which directly follows the red giant branch phase. Surprisingly we find that all red clump stars have high levels of lithium for their evolutionary stage. On average the lithium content increases by a factor of 40 after the end of the red giant branch stage. This suggests that all low-mass stars undergo a lithium production phase between the tip of the red giant branch and the red clump. We demonstrate that our finding is not predicted by stellar theory, revealing a stark tension between observations and models. We also show that the heavily studied (Brown et al. 1989, Reddy et al. 2005, Kumar et al. 2011, Singh et al. 2019, Casey et al. 2019) very Li-rich giants, with A(Li) $> +1.5$ dex, represent only the extreme tail of the lithium enhancement distribution, comprising 3% of red clump stars. Our findings suggest a new definition limit for Li-richness in red clump stars, A(Li) $> -0.9$ dex, which is much lower than the limit of A(Li) $> +1.5$ dex used over many decades (Brown et al. 1989, Castilho et al. 1995, Reddy et al. 2005, Carlberg et al. 2016, Casey et al. 2019, Holanda et al. 2020).
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of Challenges in health service delivery under public-private partnership in Tanzania: stakeholders’ views from Dar es Salaam region
Creators: name: Nuhu, Said
name: Chakupewa Joseph Mpambije
name: Kinamhala Ngussa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Additional file 1. Interview Guide.
EFFECTS OF MARKET STRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS AND SOCIO ECONOMIC FACTORS ON THE RETAIL PRICE OF MILK
Creators: name: Stammer, Richard W.
name: Auslam, David
name: Stammer, Richard W.
name: Auslam, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Once the factors affecting price that would probably not be changed by minimum price legislation were accounted for, no significant price difference between low and high income neighborhoods existed for the majority of milk sold.
Formation of Massive Black Holes in Globular Clusters
Creators: name: Kawakatu, Nozomu
name: Umemura, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hydrodynamic formation of massive black holes (BHs) in globular clusters is considered. In particular, we examine the possibility of the BH formation induced by the radiation drag that is exerted on the interstellar matter by stellar radiation in globular clusters. The radiation drag extracts angular momentum from interstellar gas and thus allows the gas to accrete on to the cluster center.By incorporating the realistic chemical evolution of globular clusters, we scrutinize the efficiency of the radiation drag to assess the total accreted mass. As a result, we find that if a globular cluster is more massive than $\approx 6\times 10^{6}M_{\odot}$ in the present-day stellar component, a massive BH with $>260M_{\odot}$ can form within it. But, the BH-to-cluster mass ratio s considerably smaller than the BH-to-bulge mass ratio ($\approx 10^{-3}$) found in galactic bulges. The results are not sensitive to the assumed stellar initial mass function and star formation rate in the cluster, as long as the resultant color-magnitude relation, metallicity, and mass-to-luminosity ratio satisfy those observed in globular clusters. Hence, the putative linear relation between BH mass and bulge mass($M_{\rm BH}-M_{\rm bulge}$ relation) cannot be extrapolated to globular cluster systems. In the present regime, we discuss the BH formation in M15, G1, $ω$ Cen, the M33 nucleus, and the compact X-ray sources in M82. Finally, we argue observational indications of the formation process of massive BHs in globular clusters. We find that the final phase of BH growth due to the radiation drag can be observed as ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) with $\sim 10^{41}{\rm erg} {\rm s}^{-1}$.
description: 8pages, 5figures, accepted for publication in ApJ (Volume 628, August 1, 2005 issue)
Additional file 6 of The development of a framework of entrustable professional activities for the intern year in Ireland
Creators: name: O’Dowd, Emily
name: Lydon, Sinéad
name: O’Connor, Paul
name: Boland, Josephine
name: Offiah, Gozie
name: Byrne, Dara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 6.
ЎСИМЛИКЛАР ҚОПЛАМИНИ КАРТАГА ОЛИШДА МАСОФАДАН ЗОНДЛАШ МАТЕРИАЛЛАРИНИНГ АҲАМИЯТИ ВА УНДА ГЕНЕРАЛИЗАЦИЯ ИШЛАРИ
Creators: name: Инамова Наргиза Рустамовна Мустақил тадқиқотчи Зарифов Жамшидбек Давронбек ўғли "ТИҚХММИ" МТУ талаба
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Масофадан туриб ўтказилган тадқиқотлар - электромагнитспектрининг кўринадиган диапозонида бажарилган космик съемка, Ерни юзасини расмга олиш, телевизион ва сканерли суратга олишматериаллари ўсимликлар ресурсларини ўрганишда катта аҳамиятга эга. Ушбу мақолада ўсимлик карталарини тузишда масофадан олинган аэрокосмик суратлар асосида спектрозонал ва синтезланган кўпзонали расмлар ўсимликларни дешифровка қилишда самарали эканлиги тўғрисида айрим фикрлар ўз аксини топган.

Калит сўзлар: фотограмметрия, аэросурат, космик сурат, генерализация, ценз.
Non-Perturbative Quark-Antiquark Production From a Constant Chromo-Electric Field via the Schwinger Mechanism
Creators: name: Nayak, Gouranga C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain an exact result for the non-perturbative quark (antiquark) production rate and its p_T distribution from a constant SU(3) chromo-electric field E^a with arbitary color index $a$ by directly evaluating the path integral. Unlike the WKB tunneling result, which depends only on one gauge invariant quantity |E|, the strength of the chromo-electric field, we find that the exact result for the p_T distribution for quark (antiquark) production rate depends on two independent Casimir (gauge) invariants, E^aE^a and [d_{abc}E^aE^bE^c]^2.
description: 7 pages latex. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
Additional file 5 of The development of a framework of entrustable professional activities for the intern year in Ireland
Creators: name: O’Dowd, Emily
name: Lydon, Sinéad
name: O’Connor, Paul
name: Boland, Josephine
name: Offiah, Gozie
name: Byrne, Dara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 5.
[Brev til DKNVS]
Creators: name: Müller, Hans Henrik
name: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1851

description: Meddeler at J. Knudtzon har foræret VS noen "petrifikate Levninger av trær som er funnet utenfor Kairo"
The interplay between chemical reactions and transport in structured spaces
Creators: name: Konkoli, Zoran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a high degree of compartmentalization in the living cell where various compartments sustain different chemical reactions and transport reactants among themselves. It is exactly such situation that is investigated. The main motivation behind this study is to understand interplay between reactions and transport in a geometries that are not compact. Typical examples of compact geometries are box, sphere, etc. On the other hand, a network made of containers C1,C2,...,CN and tubes is a typical example of space that is structured, and such non compact space is main focus on this study. The whole space is divided into a two regions. First, in containers particles react with rate lambda. Second, tubes connecting containers allow for exchange of chemicals with transport rate D. By varying topology of such network and details of chemical reactions it is possible to gain some understanding of interplay between chemical reactions and transport in structured spaces.
description: REVTEX4, 14 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
The host galaxy cluster of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 050509B
Creators: name: Pedersen, K.
name: Eliasdottir, A.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Starling, R.
name: Cerón, J. M. Castro
name: Fynbo, J. P. U.
name: Gorosabel, J.
name: Jakobsson, P.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: Watson, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first arcsecond localization of a short gamma-ray burst, GRB 050509B, has enabled detailed studies of a short burst environment. We here report on studies of the environment of GRB 050509B using the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT). The XRT error circle of the burst overlaps with an elliptical galaxy in the cluster of galaxies ZwCl 1234.0+02916. Based on the measured X-ray flux of the cluster we estimate that the probability for a chance superposition of GRB 050509B and a cluster at least as X-ray bright as this cluster is $< 2\times 10^{-3}$, presenting the first strong case of a short burst located in a cluster of galaxies. We also consider the case for GRB 050509B being located behind ZwCl 1234.0+02916 and gravitationally lensed. From the velocity dispersion of the elliptical galaxy and the temperature of hot intracluster gas, we model the mass distribution in the elliptical galaxy and the cluster, and calculate the gravitational lensing magnification within the XRT error circle. We find that, if GRB050509B would be positioned significantly behind the cluster, it is most likely magnified by a factor less than two, but that the burst could be strongly lensed if it is positioned within 2 arcsec of the center of the bright elliptical galaxy. Further mapping of arcsecond size short burst error boxes is a new promising route to determine the spatial distribution of old stars throughout the Universe.
description: To appear in ApJL
Microwave surface resistance measurements of YBa2Cu3o6+x single crystals and melt textured slabs employing a niobium double split-ring resonator
Creators: name: Dosanjh, Pinder S.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The microwave surface impedance of YBa2Cu3O6+x was measured using a new niobium split-ring resonator. For the first time it is shown that this resonator geometry allows one to measure both small single crystals and large area slabs employing the same resonator assembly. By careful polishing of the niobium surfaces the niobium split-ring resonator has achieved a resolution of 0.2µΩ at 2.079GHz, about a factor of 5 better than its predessesor. Results are presented on both the a and b axis at 2.079GHz and 2.942GHz for a high quality YBa2Cu3O6.5 OrthoII single crystal as well as results on two YBa2Cu3O6+x top seeded melt textured slabs. The single crystal results show significant frequency dependence over the narrow range studied, an indication that the width of the Drude peak is less than what has been observed in optimally doped YBa2Cu3O6+x. The scattering rates for both the a and b axis are not well described by a single rate; this is suggestive of two processes contributing to the scattering. As well, the scattering rate in the b direction seems to be impurity limited. Measurements on the two melt textured slabs show that changing the Y2Ba1Cu1O5 concentration from 15-3% has little effect on the surface resistance in the superconducting state. At 77K, the surface resistance for the best slab is only a factor of 1.3 higher than that reported for the best Tl2Ba2Ca1Cu2OΔ thin films. [Scientific formulae used in this abstract could not be reproduced.]
MARKETING AND LOGISTICS ASSITANCE NEEDS OF FOOD PROCESSORS
Creators: name: Jensen, Kimberly L.
name: Pompelli, Greg
name: Jensen, Kimberly L.
name: Pompelli, Greg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The focus of this paper is a study that examines the marketing and logistics assistance needs of Tennessee food processors. Data for the study was drawn from a 1999 survey of Tennessee food processors. The study examines the overall importance of various types of marketing and logistics assistance and the variance of needs across firm size, product type, scope of anticipated market growth, and business experience. The findings from this study are useful for the targeting of assistance services to food processors.
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PRODUCE SUPPLY FIRMS AND RETAILERS IN THE NEW FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN
Creators: name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: O'Rourke, A. Desmond
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: O'Rourke, A. Desmond
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Increased consolidation in the retail food industry, retail discount stores' expansion into food, and the use of information technology have created a new breed of retail grocery establishments that are rapidly capturing a growing share of the retail food business. In order to study the relationships between produce suppliers and buyers and to offer strategies for small and medium-sized produce supply firms, executives representing a Pacific Northwest sample of produce supply firms and major retail chains were interviewed. The results presented and evaluated in this paper are based on information obtained from these interviews, current business practices, and evolving relationships between large retail buyers and small and medium-sized suppliers of fresh produce and frozen fruits and vegetables.
Dwarf galaxies in voids: Suppressing star formation with photo-heating
Creators: name: Hoeft, Matthias
name: Yepes, Gustavo
name: Gottloeber, Stefan
name: Springel, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study structure formation in cosmological void regions using high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations. Despite being significantly underdense, voids are populated abundantly with small dark matter halos which should appear as dwarf galaxies if their star formation is not suppressed significantly. We here investigate to which extent the cosmological UV-background photo-evaporates baryons out of halos of dwarf galaxies, and thereby limits their cooling and star formation rates. Assuming a Haardt & Madau UV-background with reionisation at redshift z=6, our samples of simulated galaxies show that halos with masses below a characteristic mass of M_c(z=0) = 6.5 x 10^9 h^{-1} M_sun are baryon-poor, but in general not completely empty, because baryons that are in the condensed cold phase or are already locked up in stars resist evaporation. In halos with mass M < M_c, we find that photo-heating suppresses further cooling of gas. The redshift and UV-background dependent characteristic mass M_c(z) can be understood from the equilibrium temperature between heating and cooling at a characteristic overdensity of δ~ 1000. If a halo is massive enough to compress gas to this density despite the presence of the UV background, gas is free to `enter' the condensed phase and cooling continues in the halo, otherwise it stalls. By analysing the mass accretion histories of dwarf galaxies in voids, we show that they can build up a significant amount of condensed mass at early times before the epoch of reionisation. Later on, the amount of mass in this phase remains roughly constant, but the masses of the dark matter halos continue to increase. (abridged)
description: revised version as accepted by MNRAS, 15 pages, 15 figures, new simulation results and a significantly extended discussion have been included
Additional file 4 of The development of a framework of entrustable professional activities for the intern year in Ireland
Creators: name: O’Dowd, Emily
name: Lydon, Sinéad
name: O’Connor, Paul
name: Boland, Josephine
name: Offiah, Gozie
name: Byrne, Dara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4.
A radio and infrared exploration of the Cygnus X-3 environments
Creators: name: Marti, J.
name: Perez-Ramirez, D.
name: Luque-Escamilla, P.
name: Garrido, J. L.
name: Paredes, J. M.
name: Munoz-Arjonilla, A. J.
name: Sanchez-Sutil, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To confirm, or rule out, the possible hot spot nature of two previously detected radio sources in the vicinity of the Cygnus X-3 microquasar. We present the results of a radio and near infrared exploration of the several arc-minute field around the well known galactic relativistic jet source Cygnus X-3 using the Very Large Array and the Calar Alto 3.5~m telescope. The data this paper is based on do not presently support the hot spot hypothesis. Instead, our new observations suggest that these sources are most likely background or foreground objects. Actually, none of them appears to be even barely extended as would be expected if they were part of a bow shock structure. Our near infrared observations also include a search for extended emission in the Bracket $γ$ (2.166 $μ$m) and $H_{2}$ (2.122 $μ$m) lines as possible tracers of shocked gas in the Cygnus X-3 surroundings. The results were similarly negative and the corresponding upper limits are reported.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A; 5 pages, 4 figures
Pump-probe study of plasma dynamics in gas-filled photonic crystal fiber using counter-propagating solitons
Creators: name: Suresh, Mallika I.
name: Köttig, Felix
name: Koehler, Johannes R.
name: Tani, Francesco
name: Russell, Philip St. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a pump-probe technique for monitoring ultrafast polarizability changes. In particular, we use it to measure the plasma density created at the temporal focus of a self-compressing higher-order pump soliton in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. This is done by monitoring the wavelength of the dispersive wave emission from a counter-propagating probe soliton. By varying the relative delay between pump and probe, the plasma density distribution along the fiber can be mapped out. Compared to the recently introduced interferometric side-probing for monitoring the plasma density, our new technique is relatively immune to instabilities caused by air turbulence and mechanical vibration. The results of two experiments on argon- and krypton-filled fiber are presented, and compared to numerical simulations. The technique provides an important new tool for probing photoionization in many different gases and gas mixtures as well as ultrafast changes in dispersion in many other contexts.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, peer-reviewed and published
AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TO GOVERNMENT POLICIES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
Creators: name: Ahearn, Mary Clare
name: Yee, Jet
name: Korb, Penelope J.
name: Ahearn, Mary Clare
name: Yee, Jet
name: Korb, Penelope J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: government payments
subject: productivity
subject: farm size
subject: farm exits
subject: off-farm work
subject: consolidation

description: Economic theory alone cannot predict the impacts of government payments on farm structure. We estimate a 5-equation model for the 1978-96 period to measure the impacts using state micro and macro data sets. We found that government payments were positively associated with farm size and farm exits, but negatively associated with the extent of consolidation in farm production and the off-farm work of operators.
ECR AND THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLABORATION FOR SUPERMARKETS
Creators: name: Dooley, Frank J.
name: Roucan, Maud
name: King, Robert P.
name: Dooley, Frank J.
name: Roucan, Maud
name: King, Robert P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Collaboration and advanced information technology are considered essential for successful supply chain management. The effect of supply chain factors, along with store characteristics, market characteristics, and competitive position are considered upon performance measures for sales productivity and labor efficiency for food retailers.
Number of books at home as an indicator of socioeconomic status: Examining its extensions and their incremental validity for academic achievement
Creators: name: Heppt, Birgit
name: Olczyk, Melanie
name: Volodina, Anna
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Books-at-home measure
subject: Validity
subject: Socioeconomic status
subject: Cultural capital
subject: eBooks
subject: Academic language
subject: 370 Bildung und Erziehung

description: The present study investigates the incremental validity of the traditional books-at-home measure and selected extensions (i.e., number of children’s books and number of ebooks) for explaining students’ academic achievement as measured by their academic language comprehension. Using multiple linear regressions, we additionally explore the role of the source of information (i.e., whether information is given by parents or children). Based on cross-sectional data of a German sample of 2353 elementary school children from Grades 2 through 4, we found that parents’ information on the number of books and children’s books contributed to students’ academic language comprehension over and above parental occupation and education. Children’s information on the number of books did not further increase the amount of explained variance, and the effects were smaller than those for parents’ information. Yet, when investigated separately, both parents’ and children’s information on the number of books and children’s books at home predicted students’ academic language comprehension and mediated the relationship between more distal structural features of socioeconomic status (i.e., parents’ occupational status and education) and the outcome variable. No effect emerged for the number of ebooks. Our findings point to the robustness of the traditional books-at-home measure when used in parent questionnaires.
[O II] line ratios
Creators: name: Pradhan, Anil K.
name: Montenegro, Maximiliano
name: Nahar, Sultana N.
name: Eissner, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on new calculations we reconfirm the low and high density limits on the forbidden fine structure line ratio [O II] I(3729)/I(3726): lim_{N_ e} --> 0} = 1.5 and lim_{N_ e} --> \infty} = 0.35. Employing [O II] collision strengths calculated using the Breit-Pauli R-matrix method we rule out any significant deviation due to relativistic effects from these canonical values. The present results are in substantial agreement with older calculations by Pradhan (1976) and validate the extensive observational analysis of gaseous nebulae by Copetti and Writzel (2002) and Wang et al (2004) that reach the same conclusions. The present theoretical results and the recent observational analyses differ significantly from the calculations by MacLaughlin and Bell (1998) and Keenan et al (1999). The new maxwellian averaged effective collision strengths are presented for the 10 transitions among the first 5 levels to enable computations of [O II] line ratios.
description: Submitted to MNRAS (Letters), 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
AN ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE US MIDWEST
Creators: name: Monchuk, Daniel C.
name: Miranowski, John A.
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
name: Monchuk, Daniel C.
name: Miranowski, John A.
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: In this paper we examine more closely some of the forces that underlie economic growth at the county level. In an effort to describe a much more comprehensive regional economic growth model, we address a variety of different growth hypotheses by introducing a large number of growth related variables. When formulating our hypotheses and specifying our growth model we make liberal use of GIS mapping software to "paint" a picture of where growth spots exist and why. Our empirical estimation indicates amenities, state and local tax burdens, population, amount of agricultural activity, and demographics have important economic growth impacts.
Quantum-noise--randomized data-encryption for WDM fiber-optic networks
Creators: name: Corndorf, Eric
name: Liang, Chuang
name: Kanter, Gerg S.
name: Kumar, Prem
name: Yuen, Horace P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate high-rate randomized data-encryption through optical fibers using the inherent quantum-measurement noise of coherent states of light. Specifically, we demonstrate 650Mbps data encryption through a 10Gbps data-bearing, in-line amplified 200km-long line. In our protocol, legitimate users (who share a short secret-key) communicate using an M-ry signal set while an attacker (who does not share the secret key) is forced to contend with the fundamental and irreducible quantum-measurement noise of coherent states. Implementations of our protocol using both polarization-encoded signal sets as well as polarization-insensitive phase-keyed signal sets are experimentally and theoretically evaluated. Different from the performance criteria for the cryptographic objective of key generation (quantum key-generation), one possible set of performance criteria for the cryptographic objective of data encryption is established and carefully considered.
description: Version 2: Some errors have been corrected and arguments refined. To appear in Physical Review A. Version 3: Minor corrections to version 2
Consumer benefits of labels and bans on genetically modified food - An empirical analysis using Choice Experiments
Creators: name: Carlsson, Fredrik
name: Frykblom, Peter
name: Lagerkvist, Carl Johan
name: Carlsson, Fredrik
name: Frykblom, Peter
name: Lagerkvist, Carl Johan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: Applying an experiment on the choice of consumer goods, we show that Swedish consumers do not regard genetically modified (GM) food as being equivalent to conventional food. A central argument by proponents of GM is that the end products are identical to those where GM has not been used. That respondents in our survey disagree with this argument is supported by two observations. First, a positive significant WTP is found for a mandatory labeling policy. This result confirms previous observations that GM food can be a credence good causing a market failure. Second, consumers are also willing to pay a significantly higher product price to ensure a total ban on the use of GM in animal fodder. Even if scientists and politicians argue that most of today's GM food is indistinguishable from GM-free food, consumers disagree.
[Brev til DKNVS]
Creators: name: Kirkedepartementet
name: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1851

description: Meddeler at departementet har bevilget 300 Rdr for fortsettelsen av Ivar Aasens forskninger i norske dialekter
Correlation and response in a driven dissipative model
Creators: name: Levanony, Dana
name: Levine, Dov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a simple dissipative system with spatial structure in contact with a heat bath. The system always exhibits correlations except in the cases of zero and maximal dissipation. We explicitly calculate the correlation function and the nonlocal response function of the system and show that they have the same spatial dependence. Finally, we examine heat transfer in the model, which agrees qualitatively with simulations of vibrated granular gases.
[Brev til DKNVS]
Creators: name: Müller, Hans Henrik
name: Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1851

description: Meddeler at "Selskabet for Folkeoplysningens Fremme" har konstituert seg. Diskuterer hvordan VS skal utbetale penger fra Mad. Aas' testamente
HOW LARGE IS THE COMPETITIVE EDGE THAT U.S.-BASED FUTURES PROVIDE TO U.S. FARMERS?
Creators: name: Lence, Sergio H.
name: Lence, Sergio H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Commodity markets
subject: derivative markets
subject: futures markets
subject: welfare analysis
subject: rational expectations

description: The present study advocates a simulation approach to analyze quantitatively the impact of having locally-based markets for price derivatives. A major result is that market outcomes do not appear to be sensitive to most of the underlying parameters of the model other than demand elasticity and transportation costs. For the case of inelastic demand, introduction of a futures market in a country provides domestic producers with a competitive edge if transportation costs. The most important insight of the present analysis is that, under realistic scenarios it need not be the case that local producers will gain a competitive edge over foreign producers by introducing a futures market based on the local spot prices.
Additional file 1 of Syndecan-4/PAR-3 signaling regulates focal adhesion dynamics in mesenchymal cells
Creators: name: Valdivia, Alejandra
name: Areli Cárdenas
name: Brenet, Marianne
name: Maldonado, Horacio
name: Milene Kong
name: Díaz, Jorge
name: Burridge, Keith
name: Schneider, Pascal
name: Martín, Alejandra San
name: García-Mata, Rafael
name: Quest, Andrew F. G.
name: Leyton, Lisette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics
Biochemistry
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Precipitation of Syndecan-4 binding Proteins for MS. (A) Syndecan-4 cytoplasmic tail contains three different regions named C1-V-C2. The peptides used to precipitate Syndecan-4 binding proteins contain the last 10 amino acids indicated (SDC4). In control peptides (CTRL) the last 4 amino acids, EFYA have been replaced to four glycine. (B) Protein extracts from DI TNC1 cells, stimulated or not (NS) with fetal bovine serum (FBS), were precipitated with either biotinylated peptides of the Syndecan-4 (SDC4)-C-terminal sequence, which includes the C2 sequence, or the control peptide (CTRL). Precipitates were size-fractionated by 4–12% SDS-PAGE and silver stained. Bands differentially precipitated with SDC4 peptides were cut from the gel and analyzed by MS as described in Material and Methods. Relative molecular weight (Mr) is indicated to the right in kDa. The symbols (*) and (*’) indicate the bands identified as PAR-3 and Syntenin, respectively.
Additional file 3 of The development of a framework of entrustable professional activities for the intern year in Ireland
Creators: name: O’Dowd, Emily
name: Lydon, Sinéad
name: O’Connor, Paul
name: Boland, Josephine
name: Offiah, Gozie
name: Byrne, Dara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 3.
EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCAL FOOD PRODUCTS IN HISPANIC MARKETS
Creators: name: Martinez, Samuel Cardona
name: Patterson, Paul M.
name: Martinez, Samuel Cardona
name: Patterson, Paul M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Evaluations on the effectiveness of state and origin branding programs remain relatively scant and generally have not focused on specific target populations, including the fastest growing group-Hispanic consumers. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Arizona Grown brand and the nascent Mexico Selected Quality brand in differentiating and promoting food products in Hispanic markets. It was found that Hispanic consumers tend to view these food product brands as nearly identical in perceived quality. Furthermore, they are willing to pay nearly equal premiums for products branded as such. These consumers saw no value in country of origin information alone.
Energisation of interstellar media and cosmic ray production by jets from X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Fender, Rob
name: Maccarone, Tom
name: van Kesteren, Zdenko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Drawing on recent estimates of the power of jets from X-ray binary systems as a function of X-ray luminosity, combined with improved estimates of the relevant Log(N)-Log(L_X) luminosity functions, we calculate the total energy input to the interstellar medium (ISM) from these objects. The input of kinetic energy to the ISM via jets is dominated by those of the black hole systems, in contrast to the radiative input, which is dominated by accreting neutron stars. Summing the energy input from black hole jets L_J in the Milky Way, we find that it is likely to correspond to >1% of L_SNe, the time-averaged kinetic luminosity of supernovae, and >5% of L_CR, the cosmic ray luminosity. Given uncertainties in jet power estimates, significantly larger contributions are possible. Furthermore, in elliptical galaxies with comparable distributions of low mass X-ray binaries, but far fewer supernovae, the ratio L_J / L_SNe is likely to be larger by a factor of ~5. We conclude that jets from X-ray binaries may be an important, distributed, source of kinetic energy to the ISM in the form of relativistic shocks, and as a result are likely to be a major source of cosmic rays.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
67. Where is Gaia?
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Gaia observes from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, about 1.5 million km from Earth, in the direction away from the Sun. Various interesting properties of the L2 orbit have made it a popular destination for science missions observing deep space. But a special observation programme is need to continuously monitor Gaia's position.
THE BIG PICTURE: PRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF REDUCED US OBESITY
Creators: name: Johansson, Robert C.
name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Cooper, Joseph C.
name: Johansson, Robert C.
name: Mancino, Lisa
name: Cooper, Joseph C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: This paper assesses how successfully reducing the incidence of overweight and obesity in the US to meet public health objectives might influence agricultural production. We also examine the consequent agri-environmental effects of the production changes. Our estimates show that a reduction in aggregate consumption by between 2 and 6 percent, associated with public health goals being met, would lead to reduced production of primary agricultural commodities, increased exports, and reduced discharge of agricultural pollutants. In both cases, neither the estimated changes in commodity production nor the subsequent environmental impacts would be uniform across the landscape. Results indicate that in value terms, the largest changes (either positive or negative) in agricultural producer net returns would occur in the Corn Belt and the Lake States; conversely, the largest impacts on consumer surplus would occur in the Northeast and Pacific regions.
High pressure direct injection of natural gas and hydrogen fuel in a diesel engine
Creators: name: Trusca, Bogdan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Emissions and performance of an HPDI single-cylinder diesel engine fueled by natural gas and by a mixture of hydrogen-natural were investigated. A DDC 1-71 engine with electronic controls was used. Natural gas or hydrogen-natural gas mixture was injected late in the compression stroke after a pilot quantity of a diesel was injected. Engine performance and emissions have been measured over a wide range of parameters: gas injection pressure, engine load, injection delay and mass flow percentages for the gaseous fuels. These results were compared with conventional diesel fueling. The purpose of this research was to investigate the potential for reducing the diesel exhaust emissions while maintaining high thermal efficiency. With HPDI of natural gas and hydrogen-natural gas, NOx emissions can be reduced to almost half of those with diesel fueling, by appropriately adjusting the injection timing. NOx concentration is observed to increase with gas injection pressure. For hydrogen-natural gas fueling, an increase of the hydrogen percentage produces an increase in NOx. This is attributed to the higher combustion temperature as the percentage of hydrogen increases. Thermal efficiency of HPDI of natural gas was greater than conventional diesel fueling at high loads but almost identical for medium and low loads. For HPDI of hydrogen-natural gas mixture the thermal efficiency is less than with natural gas fueling. The drop in thermal efficiency has not yet been explained. With hydrogen addition, the unburned hydrocarbons are greatly reduced, for almost all the engine loads. Carbon monoxide emission with HPDI was reduced for high and low loads.
Additional file 1 of Treadmill exercise has minimal impact on obesogenic diet-related gut microbiome changes but alters adipose and hypothalamic gene expression in rats
Creators: name: Sarah-Jane Leigh
name: Kaakoush, Nadeem O.
name: Escorihuela, Rosa M.
name: R. Frederick Westbrook
name: Morris, Margaret J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Taq assay probe information. Supplementary Figure 1. Weekly macronutrient intake and sucrose intake over the study. Supplementary Figure 2. Average composition of phyla between experimental groups. Supplementary Table 2. Distance-based linear modelling to determine contributions of metabolic and gene expression measures to the variance observed in microbiota composition at the OTU level.
Inflation in AdS/CFT
Creators: name: Freivogel, Ben
name: Hubeny, Veronika E.
name: Maloney, Alexander
name: Myers, Robert C.
name: Rangamani, Mukund
name: Shenker, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the AdS/CFT correspondence as a probe of inflation. We assume the existence of a string landscape containing at least one stable AdS vacuum and a (nearby) metastable de Sitter state. Standard arguments imply that the bulk physics in the vicinity of the AdS minimum is described by a boundary CFT. We argue that large enough bubbles of the dS phase, including those able to inflate, are described by mixed states in the CFT. Inflating degrees of freedom are traced over and do not appear explicitly in the boundary description. They nevertheless leave a distinct imprint on the mixed state. In the supergravity approximation, analytic continuation connects AdS/CFT correlators to dS/CFT correlators. This provides a framework for extracting further information as well. Our work also shows that no scattering process can create an inflating region, even by quantum tunneling, since a pure state can never evolve into a mixed state under unitary evolution.
description: 34 pages + appendices, 18 figures. v2: changes and additions made to clarify presentation. refs added. v3: small changes, version to appear in JHEP. v4: minor changes