cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Field-induced non-Fermi-liquid resistivity of stoichiometric YbAgGe single crystals
Creators: name: Niklowitz, P. G.
name: Knebel, G.
name: Flouquet, J.
name: Bud'ko, S. L.
name: Canfield, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated hexagonal YbAgGe down to 70 mK by measuring the magnetic-field and temperature dependence of the resistivity rho of single crystals in fields up to 14 T. Our results extend the H-T phase diagram to the lowest temperatures for H applied in the basal plane and along the c-axis. In particular, critical fields for the suppression of several magnetic phases are determined. The temperature dependence of rho(T) is unusual: whereas at low H, rho(T) reveals a temperature exponent n>=2, we find 1<=n<1.5 and strong enhancement of the temperature dependence of rho(T) close to and beyond the highest critical field for each field direction. For H applied in the basal plane, at high fields a conventional T^2 dependence of rho(T) is reached above 10 T accompanied by an approach to saturation of a strong drop in the residual resistivity. YbAgGe appears to be one of few Yb-based stoichiometric systems, where quantum-critical behaviour may be induced by a magnetic field.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures; revised version; accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.B
MARKETING AUSTRALIAN BEEF AND EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION SCHEMES
Creators: name: Freebairn, John W.
name: Gruen, Fred H.G.
name: Freebairn, John W.
name: Gruen, Fred H.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The Australian Meat Board (AMB) can influence the quantities sent to and the prices received for Australian beef and veal in the domestic and various export markets. Through its power to grant export licences and the conditions to be met in obtaining export licences the AMB can adopt the role of a price discriminating monopolist without supply control. This paper evaluates the price, quantity, efficiency and distribution effects of the export diversification scheme introduced by the AMB in 1968, of some modified schemes proposed in 1976, and of an alternative system whereby rights to export to premium export markets with quota restrictions are auctioned.
Liberalising Global Labour Markets: Recent Developments at the WTO
Creators: name: Grynberg, Roman
name: Grynberg, Roman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital

description: The paper considers the GATS commitments made by WTO members on the movement of natural persons (mode 4) since the completion of the Uruguay Round. Two groups of demandeurs exist for liberalisation. The first are developed countries which have sought market access for intra-corporate transferees (ICTs) and professionals. While developing countries were demandeurs during the Uruguay Round negotiations they gained little during the round and have made substantial concessions during the process of WTO accession. These commitments made by developing countries have not only been in the traditional areas such as ICTs but in new areas such as "trading rights", which are GATT commitments with unclear and untested implications for the GATS under mode 3 and mode 4. In the run-up to a new round of negotiations on services, new and very innovative proposals have come from labour-exporting developing countries such as India for the liberalisation of mode 4. The paper considers a wide range of mode 4 proposals made by WTO members, some of which will have profound effects upon global labour markets.
Extension of the JIMWLK Equation in the Low Gluon Density Region
Creators: name: Mueller, A. H.
name: Shoshi, A. I.
name: Wong, S. M. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been realized that the Balitsky-JIMWLK equations have serious shortcomings as equations to be used in small-x evolution near the unitarity limit. A recent generalization of the Balitsky equations has been given which corrects these shortcomings. In this paper we present an equivalent discussion, but in terms of the JIMWLK equation where we show that a new (fourth order functional derivative) term should be included. We also present a stochastic version of the new equation which, however, has some unusual mathematical aspects which are not as yet well understood.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure, corrected typos, corrected references, published version
Explaining Natural Language Query Results
Creators: name: Deutch, Daniel
name: Frost, Nave
name: Gilad, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multiple lines of research have developed Natural Language (NL) interfaces for formulating database queries. We build upon this work, but focus on presenting a highly detailed form of the answers in NL. The answers that we present are importantly based on the provenance of tuples in the query result, detailing not only the results but also their explanations. We develop a novel method for transforming provenance information to NL, by leveraging the original NL query structure. Furthermore, since provenance information is typically large and complex, we present two solutions for its effective presentation as NL text: one that is based on provenance factorization, with novel desiderata relevant to the NL case, and one that is based on summarization. We have implemented our solution in an end-to-end system supporting questions, answers and provenance, all expressed in NL. Our experiments, including a user study, indicate the quality of our solution and its scalability.
On Motives Associated to Graph Polynomials
Creators: name: Bloch, Spencer
name: Esnault, Hélène
name: Kreimer, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The appearance of multiple zeta values in anomalous dimensions and $β$-functions of renormalizable quantum field theories has given evidence towards a motivic interpretation of these renormalization group functions. In this paper we start to hunt the motive, restricting our attention to a subclass of graphs in four dimensional scalar field theory which give scheme independent contributions to the above functions.
description: 54 p
Deinking and kraft mill sludge dewatering using a laboratory sludge process
Creators: name: Zhao, Hongmei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A laboratory sludge press was used to investigate the dewatering of various wastewater treatment sludges generated in deinking mills and kraft pulp: mills. The effects of pressure applied to the sludge, pressing time and temperature were studied in terms of their effects on sludge cake solids consistency, filtrate flowrate and filtrate suspended solids (TSS). The effects of various combinations of primary and secondary sludge were tested. Secondary sludge alone could not be dewatered in the press. Addition of primary sludge made pressing possible and increasing the ratio of primary to secondary sludge improved performance. Sawdust and hog fuel were shown to be effective filter aids. The use of single polymer flocculants was compared to dual polymer coagulant/flocculant additions for various sludges. The use of a coagulant in a dual polymer system didn't improve dewatering compared to using a single polymer flocculant in term of cake solids consistency and filtrate flowrate although it did reduce the total amount of flocculant necessary. But a dual polymer system did reduce filtrate TSS. FeCl₃ and an inorganic polymer polyaluminum chloride (PAC) could be used to replace organic coagulants. FeCl₃ is cheaper than organic coagulants, but PAC is more expensive. Measurement of sludge particle charge was shown to be useful in detecting polymer overdosing. The laboratory sludge press was shown to be an effective tool for evaluating the use of polymeric conditioners in sludge dewatering. This press can distinguish the two mechanisms by which sludge dewatering occurs in practice, filtration and cake compression.
Gallup/Potomac Poll # 1964-633POS: National Survey of Attitudes, Hopes, and Fears
Creators: name: Potomac Associates
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Location of birth (1); human nature (1); hopes and wishes for future (52); fears and worries for future (51); life situation (5); hopes and wishes for country (59); fears and worries for country (53); country's situation (4); situation of country with President Lyndon Johnson (1); situation of country with Barry Goldwater (1); federal aid to education (1); medical insurance program (1); Civil Rights law (2); separation of church and state (1); federal housing program (1); urban renewal program (1); aid to foreign countries (1); aid to Tito's Yugoslavia (1); American defense effort (1); immigration (1); agree with common comments (11); opinions on poor and minorities (2); government power (1); communism (2); U.S. in Vietnam (2); Cuban issue (1); identifying various political figures (7); federal government (3); trust in citizens (1); reasons for success (9); reasons for failure (10); education of children (11); agreement with various statements (6); international statements (6); U.S. prestige abroad (1); NATO (4); partisan opinions (8); upcoming Presidential elections (5); Johnson vs. Goldwater (15); Vice Presidential candidates (3); 1960 Presidential election (1); 1962 Congressional election (1).
Liberalising Global Labour Markets: Recent Developments at the WTO: Technical Annex
Creators: name: Grynberg, Roman
name: Grynberg, Roman
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital

description: This document is the technical annex to the full paper "Liberalising Global Labour Markets: Recent Developments at the WTO" which is available separately.
New symmetries for the Ablowitz-Ladik hierarchies
Creators: name: Zhang, Da-jun
name: Ning, Tong-ke
name: Bi, Jin-bo
name: Chen, Deng-yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the letter we give new symmetries for the isospectral and non-isospectral Ablowitz-Ladik hierarchies by means of the zero curvature representations of evolution equations related to the Ablowitz-Ladik spectral problem. Lie algebras constructed by symmetries are further obtained. We also discuss the relations between the recursion operator and isospectral and non-isospectral flows. Our method can be generalized to other systems to construct symmetries for non-isospectral equations.
description: 11 pages
Economics of the US - Canada Softwood Lumber Dispute: A Historical Perspective
Creators: name: Rahman, S.M. Osman
name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Rahman, S.M. Osman
name: Devadoss, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: antidumping and countervailing duties
subject: lumber
subject: trade distortions
subject: welfare

description: This paper reviews the U.S.-Canada softwood lumber dispute over the past two decades by outlining the key developments and critically appraising the arguments put forward by both countries. It also presents a welfare analysis of lumber trade distortions. Given the importance of lumber trade between Canada and the United States, an expeditious resolution of this long-running trade dispute would be beneficial for both countries.
Observation of High-frequency Transverse Phonons in Metallic Glasses
Creators: name: Li, Xiyang
name: Zhang, Huaping
name: Lan, Si
name: Abernathy, Douglas L.
name: Otomo, Toshiya
name: Wang, Fangwei
name: Ren, Yang
name: Li, Maozhi
name: Wang, Xun-Li.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using inelastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulations on a model Zr-Cu-Al metallic glass, we show that transverse phonons persist well into the high-frequency regime, and can be detected at large momentum transfer. Furthermore, the apparent peak width of the transverse phonons was found to follow the static structure factor. The one-to-one correspondence, which was demonstrated for both Zr-Cu-Al metallic glass and a 3-dimensional Lennard-Jones model glass, suggests a universal correlation between the phonon dynamics and the underlying disordered structure. This remarkable correlation, not found for longitudinal phonons, underscores the key role that transverse phonons hold for understanding the structure-dynamics relationship in disordered materials.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures
A Club No More - The WTO after Doha
Creators: name: Kerr, William A.
name: Kerr, William A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: club
subject: developing countries
subject: Doha
subject: international trade
subject: multilateral organization
subject: WTO

description: Since its inception the GATT, and subsequently the WTO, has been able to operate in a fashion that is more consistent with a club than an inclusive organization that encouraged the active participation of all its members. The WTO Ministerial Meeting in Doha in November 2001 appears to have been a watershed in how the organization functions, and the club model may no longer be appropriate. While it is not yet clear what will replace the previous model, it is apparent that decision making will be much more diffused and the interests of a much broader spectrum of member countries taken into account. The central question is whether or not the transformed organization can still serve the interests of those who were previously able to dominate the club the major trading nations. If it cannot, they may look for another club that will better serve their purposes, and all the effort that has gone into building a well functioning multilateral trade regime will have been for naught. Those members that worked so hard to end the club may not reap the benefits they expect unless they are prudent in how they use the power that they now hold within the WTO.
The phases of isospin asymmetric matter in the two flavor NJL model
Creators: name: Lawley, S.
name: Bentz, W.
name: Thomas, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the phase diagram of isospin asymmetric matter at T=0 in the two flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. Our approach describes the single nucleon as a confined quark-diquark state, the saturation properties of nuclear matter at normal densities, and the phase transition to normal or color superconducting quark matter at higher densities. The resulting equation of state of charge neutral matter is discussed.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, minor changes including 1 additional figure. Accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
FEDReD I: 3D extinction and stellar maps by Bayesian deconvolution
Creators: name: Babusiaux, C.
name: Fourtune-Ravard, C.
name: Hottier, C.
name: Arenou, F.
name: Gomez, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. While Gaia enables to probe in great detail the extended local neighbourhood, the thin disk structure at larger distances remains sparsely explored. Aims. We aim here to build a non-parametric 3D model of the thin disc structures handling both the extinction and the stellar density simultaneously. Methods. We developed a Bayesian deconvolution method in two dimensions: extinction and distance. It uses a reference catalogue which completeness information defines the selection function. It is designed so that any complementary information from other catalogues can be added. It has also been designed to be robust to outliers, frequent in crowded fields, and differential extinction. The prior information is designed to be minimal: only a reference H-R diagram. We derived for this an empirical H-R diagram of the thin disk using Gaia DR2 data and synthetic isochrone-based H-R diagrams can also be used. Results. We validated the method on simulations and real fields using 2MASS and UKIDSS data complemented by Gaia DR2 photometry and parallaxes. We detail the results of two test fields: a 2MASS field centred around the NGC 4815 open cluster which shows an over-density of both extinction and stellar density at the cluster distance, and a UKIDSS field at $l=10^{\circ}$ where we recover the position of the Galactic bar.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
Multifunctional Agriculture and Domestic/International Policy Choice
Creators: name: Blandford, David
name: Boisvert, Richard N.
name: Blandford, David
name: Boisvert, Richard N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: agriculture
subject: domestic policy
subject: multifunctionality
subject: trade policy
subject: WTO

description: The concept of multifunctionality, in which agriculture is viewed as a source of both commodity and non-commodity outputs, has stimulated debate on the desirability of further trade liberalization. We explore the economics of multifunctionality and its policy implications. We argue for a new policy approach in which land and natural resource managers are remunerated for positive non-commodity outputs and penalized for negative outputs. This would require devolution in policy implementation from the centre to the local level. Such an approach would permit countries to achieve broader social objectives, while at the same time continuing to pursue trade liberalization.
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titleType: Subtitle
title: Thermal stress state of the massive foundation structure of the Marchenovsk wind turbine
Creators: name: ÐÐ°Ð²Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð°, ÐÑÐ¸Ð½Ð°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2023
Subjects: ÐÐµÑÐ¾Ð½Ð½ÑÐµ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÑÑÐºÑÐ¸Ð¸
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thermal stressed state
thermal cracking resistance
exothermic reaction of cement

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description: In the given work thermal stress state calculations of the massive foundation slab of the Marchenovsk wind power plant during the construction period are carried out with different options for dividing the slab into concreting blocks in height. As a result of the work, the main technological parameters for conducting concrete work during the construction period are developed, dedicated to the care of concrete ac-cording to the calculations of the thermal stress state of the structure. The thermal stress state of the reinforced concrete foundation slab of the Marchenovsk wind power plant was determined in the TERM software and computer system.
Normalizing Trade Relations with Cuba: GATT-compliant Options for the Allocation of the U.S. Sugar Tariff-rate Quota
Creators: name: Boughner, Devry S.
name: Coleman, Jonathan R.
name: Boughner, Devry S.
name: Coleman, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: allocation options
subject: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
subject: historical base period
subject: Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN)
subject: substantial interest
subject: tariff-rate quota (TRQ)
subject: World Trade Organization (WTO)

description: Even after 40 years of sanctions, there remain huge differences of opinion on U.S.-Cuba relations. One point all sides agree on, however, is that sooner or later sanctions will be removed. Lifting sanctions raises several issues concerning sugar trade between the two countries. With U.S. sugar prices kept significantly higher than world levels, the U.S. market would be highly attractive for Cuban sugar exporters upon the removal of sanctions. Cuba almost certainly would request access to the U.S. sugar market based on U.S. trade obligations under the World Trade Organization (WTO). The purpose of this paper is to suggest the legal context of U.S. obligations under the WTO with respect to sugar imports from Cuba and to present several options for allocation of the U.S. sugar tariff-rate quota to Cuba under a normalized trade relationship.
Stürmer, Karl, Konzilien und Ökumenische Kirchenversammlungen
Creators: name: Küppers, Werner
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1963): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 12, Heft 1
The Non-event of Produce and NAFTA
Creators: name: Beilock, Richard P.
name: Espinel, Ramon L.
name: Nalampang, Sikavas
name: Beilock, Richard P.
name: Espinel, Ramon L.
name: Nalampang, Sikavas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: During negotiations leading up to NAFTA there was considerable opposition from produce producers in U.S. southern tier states. These producers feared that NAFTA, combined with Mexico's low labour and land costs, would unleash an unstoppable torrent of Mexican imports. Since enactment of NAFTA, Mexico's market share for produce in the U.S. has increased, while those of the southern tier producers have fallen. Seemingly this confirms earlier fears and threatens to harden sentiments against broader trade agreements. However, analyses of the volumes and distributions of produce shipments from 1985 through 1998 for southern tier states, Mexico, and, to facilitate comparisons, Canada and Chile, suggest that NAFTA had little, if anything, to do with these changes.
Optical conductivity of the one-dimensional dimerized Hubbard model at quarter filling
Creators: name: Benthien, Holger
name: Jeckelmann, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the optical conductivity in the Mott insulating phase of the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model with alternating hopping terms (dimerization) at quarter band filling. Optical spectra are calculated for the various parameter regimes using the dynamical density-matrix renormalization group method. The study of limiting cases allows us to explain the various structures found numerically in the optical conductivity of this model. Our calculations show that the dimerization and the nearest-neighbor repulsion determine the main features of the spectrum. The on-site repulsion plays only a secondary role. We discuss the consequences of our results for the theory of the optical conductivity in the Bechgaard salts.
description: 11 pages and 12 figures
Options for World Trade Organization Involvement in Food Aid
Creators: name: Young, Linda M.
name: Young, Linda M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: agricultural trade
subject: food aid
subject: food security
subject: WTO negotiations on agriculture

description: WTO members have presented diverse positions on food aid issues to the current round of negotiations on agriculture. Some members desire increased disciplines on food aid, while others are adamant that the WTO needs to fulfill past promises and meet the current need to increase the food security of developing countries. Underlying this debate are questions about the role of the WTO in food aid issues. It is proposed that a new, more cohesive institution for food aid be adopted to partner with the WTO.
Zero resource speech synthesis using transcripts derived from perceptual acoustic units
Creators: name: S, Karthik Pandia D
name: Murthy, Hema A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Zerospeech synthesis is the task of building vocabulary independent speech synthesis systems, where transcriptions are not available for training data. It is, therefore, necessary to convert training data into a sequence of fundamental acoustic units that can be used for synthesis during the test. This paper attempts to discover, and model perceptual acoustic units consisting of steady-state, and transient regions in speech. The transients roughly correspond to CV, VC units, while the steady-state corresponds to sonorants and fricatives. The speech signal is first preprocessed by segmenting the same into CVC-like units using a short-term energy-like contour. These CVC segments are clustered using a connected components-based graph clustering technique. The clustered CVC segments are initialized such that the onset (CV) and decays (VC) correspond to transients, and the rhyme corresponds to steady-states. Following this initialization, the units are allowed to re-organise on the continuous speech into a final set of AUs in an HMM-GMM framework. AU sequences thus obtained are used to train synthesis models. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated on the Zerospeech 2019 challenge database. Subjective and objective scores show that reasonably good quality synthesis with low bit rate encoding can be achieved using the proposed AUs.
Marketing Charges for Potatoes Sold in Cleveland, Ohio, February-June 1950
Creators: name: Garrott, William N.
name: Garrott, William N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1952
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report: This is a report of the charges made at each step in the marketing process for potatoes. It takes into consideration the services performed by marketing agencies, and the channels through which potatoes move from producing areas to consumers in Cleveland, Ohio. This report provides specific information concerning marketing margins for potatoes according to area of production and type of potato. The study upon which this report is based analyzed the charges for marketing potatoes in Cleveland from February through June 1950. Retail store cost of and selling prices for potatoes were obtained for 1,543 lots, of which 137 were traced from the terminal market back to shipping point to obtain applicable marketing charges. Analysis of these data was carried out with reference to type of potato, method of sale, size of store, and season of the year in which sold. Marketing services studied were those applicable to potatoes during movement from the various shipping points to consumers at retail stores in Cleveland. Charges for these marketing services include the retailer's margin, the wholesaler's margin, procurement charges, and transportation charges.
Investigación bibliográfica sobre inclusión digital de adultos mayores
Creators: name: Vargas-Gastélum, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390405
subject: Educational technology and computing
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education
classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: Three published investigations on the digital literacy of older adults were reviewed: an intervention proposal based on a qualitative approach, a report of empirical studies and an intervention using a quantitative, quasi-experimental approach of pre- and post-test comparison; making a summary of their contribution as well as constructive criticism of each of them, and general conclusions were drawn.
Computing maximum likelihood estimates in recursive linear models with correlated errors
Creators: name: Drton, Mathias
name: Eichler, Michael
name: Richardson, Thomas S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62H05; 62J05

description: In recursive linear models, the multivariate normal joint distribution of all variables exhibits a dependence structure induced by a recursive (or acyclic) system of linear structural equations. These linear models have a long tradition and appear in seemingly unrelated regressions, structural equation modelling, and approaches to causal inference. They are also related to Gaussian graphical models via a classical representation known as a path diagram. Despite the models' long history, a number of problems remain open. In this paper, we address the problem of computing maximum likelihood estimates in the subclass of `bow-free' recursive linear models. The term `bow-free' refers to the condition that the errors for variables $i$ and $j$ be uncorrelated if variable $i$ occurs in the structural equation for variable $j$. We introduce a new algorithm, termed Residual Iterative Conditional Fitting (RICF), that can be implemented using only least squares computations. In contrast to existing algorithms, RICF has clear convergence properties and finds parameter estimates in closed form whenever possible.
description: 22 pages; removed an incorrect identifiability claim
Equity Management Practices in Italian Agricultural Cooperatives: A Cluster Analysis Approach
Creators: name: Russo, Carlo
name: Sabbatini, Massimo
name: Russo, Carlo
name: Sabbatini, Massimo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: In this paper, equity management practices of Italian agricultural cooperatives are described and discussed. Financial statements of 1.483 cooperatives are analyzed in order to provide empirical support to the study. Data confirm cooperative undercapitalization and disclose the existence of diversity in equity management practices even within the same business sector. Thus, in order to highlight the relations between cooperative market strategies and equity management practices a cluster analysis is proposed. Seven main strategic approaches for Italian cooperatives are identified and the emerging equity management practices are discussed. The empirical analysis supports the conclusion that a large number of Italian are implementing "perverse" approaches, such as dependence from public funding and minimization of equity and investments. Considering increasing competition, without an innovative equity management approach, the majority of the analyzed cooperative is expected to suffer of relevant competitive disadvantage.
Defensive integration through cooperative re-bordering? How member states use internal border controls in Schengen
Creators: name: Fürst, Johanna Pettersson
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Following the refugee crisis in 2015 and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the use of internal border controls within the EU expanded considerably. This change seems to be at odds with the freedom of movement within the Schengen Area, a cornerstone of European integration. Previous research has been inconclusive as to whether this re-bordering signals a move towards renationalisation and disintegration or if it should be understood as a reconfiguration of European cooperation. This article takes a long-term perspective on the use of internal border controls and compares, through content analysis, the prevalence of renationalisation and European integration themes in member states’ notifications of internal border controls from 2006 to 2020. While controls have become more extensive in duration and scope over time, the results show that, contrary to expectations, increased focus on national security was not accompanied by less commitment to European integration in these notifications. Thus, rather than a sign of disintegration, it is argued that internal border controls can be understood as a reconfiguration of the European border regime towards cooperative but defensive integration.
The Dog on the Ship: The "Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy" as an Outlying Part of the Argo Star System
Creators: name: Rocha-Pinto, Helio J.
name: Majewski, Steven R.
name: Skrutskie, Michael F.
name: Patterson, Richard J.
name: Nakanishi, H.
name: Munoz, R. R.
name: Sofue, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Overdensities in the distribution of low latitude, 2MASS giant stars are revealed by systematically peeling away from sky maps the bulk of the giant stars conforming to ``isotropic'' density laws generally accounting for known Milky Way components. This procedure, combined with a higher resolution treatment of the sky density of both giants and dust allows us to probe to lower Galactic latitudes than previous 2MASS giant star studies. While the results show the swath of excess giants previously associated with the Monoceros ring system in the second and third Galactic quadrants at distances of 6-20 kpc, we also find a several times larger overdensity of giants in the same distance range concentrated in the direction of the ancient constellation Argo. Isodensity contours of the large structure suggest that it is highly elongated and inclined by about 3 deg to the disk, although details of the structure -- including the actual location of highest density, overall extent, true shape -- and its origin, remain unknown because only a fraction of it lies outside highly dust-obscured, low latitude regions. Nevertheless, our results suggest that the 2MASS M giant overdensity previously claimed to represent the core of a dwarf galaxy in Canis Major (l ~ 240 deg) is an artifact of a dust extinction window opening to the overall density rise to the more significant Argo structure centered at larger longitude (l ~ 290 +- 10 deg, b ~ -4 +- 2 deg).
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Social Protection in Rural Areas of Developing Countries: Investigating the Impact of Community Based Health Insurance in Rural Senegal
Creators: name: Jutting, Johannes Paul
name: Jutting, Johannes Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: community based health insurance
subject: impact analysis
subject: social protection
subject: Senegal

description: Community based health insurance schemes are becoming increasingly recognized as an instrument which help farmers in rural areas of low income countries to better manage health. Health risks present a permanent threat to the income earning capacity of poor people. Beside direct economic cost for treatment and lost working time, indirect cost such as a reduction in labor supply materialize which increases the vulnerability of the household. It is often hypothezised that community based health insurance improve social protection, but quantitative analysis is largely missing. Against this background, this paper analyzes if members in a mutual health insurance scheme have a better access to health care than non-members taking "les mutuelles de santes" (mutual health organization) in rural Senegal as an example. Limited dependent and log linear regressions are used to capture the impact of health insurance on the probability of visiting a health care provider and the out-of-pocket expenditure at the point of use . The results of the analysis show that while community based health insurance schemes reach otherwise excluded people, the poorest of the poor in the communities are not covered. Regarding the impact on the access to health care, members have a higher probability of using hospitalization services compared to non-members and pay substantially less when they need care. Given the results from this study, community financing schemes have the potential to improve the risk management capacity of rural households.
Discovery of a transient X-ray source Suzaku J1305-4930 in NGC 4945
Creators: name: Ide, Shuntaro
name: Hayashida, Kiyoshi
name: Noda, Hirofumi
name: Kurubi, Hiroyuki
name: Yoneyama, Tomokage
name: Matsumoto, Hironori
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 report the serendipitous discovery of a transient X-ray source, Suzaku J1305$-$4930, $\sim$3 kpc southwest of the nucleus of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 4945. Among the seven Suzaku observations of NGC 4945 from 2005 to 2011, Suzaku J1305$-$4930 was detected four times in July and August in 2010. The X-ray spectra are better approximated with a multi-color disk model than a power-law model. At the first detection on 2010 July 4--5, its X-ray luminosity was $(8.9^{+0.2}_{-0.4}) \times 10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$ and the temperature at the inner-disk radius ($kT_{\rm in}$) was $1.12\pm0.04$ keV. At the last detection with Suzaku on 2010 August 4--5, the luminosity decreased to $(2.2^{+0.3}_{-0.8}) \times10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$ and $kT_{\rm in}$ was $0.62\pm0.07$ keV. The source was not detected on 2011 January 29, about six months after the first detection, with a luminosity upper limit of $2.4\times10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$. We also find an absorption feature which is similar to that reported in Cyg X-1. Assuming the standard disk, we suggest that Suzaku J1305$-$4930 consists of a black hole with a mass of $\sim$10 $M_{\odot}$. The relation between the disk luminosity and $kT_{\rm in}$ is not reproduced with the standard model of a constant inner radius but is better approximated with a slim-disk model.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
A solidarity bias? Assessing the effects of individual transnationalism on redistributive solidarity in the EU
Creators: name: Visconti, Francesco
name: Kyriazi, Anna
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: European integration has led to the proliferation of cross-border mobilities across the member states of the European Union (EU). How do cross-border virtual and physical interactions impact different types of redistributive solidarity? In this article, we test the association between transnationalism and support for foreigners’ access to the domestic welfare state and to general redistributive solidarity to reduce inequality. We draw on original public opinion survey data collected by the ‘Reconciling Economic and Social Europe: The Role of Values, Ideas and Politics’ (REScEU) research project in ten EU countries. We argue that European forms of transnationalism increase mobility-related solidarity because through cross-border social exchange individuals develop feelings of care and responsibility towards ethnic ‘others’. We find that transnationalism has a positive effect on the acceptance of both ‘EU citizens’ and ‘all foreigners’ into the domestic welfare system. By contrast, transnationalism is associated with a decrease in individuals’ preferences for economic redistribution to reduce income inequality in one’s country.
High quality manual butt fusion joints using low cost pipe alignment technology
Creators: name: Castle, Thomas
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Butt fusion techniques have been used for polyethylene pipe jointing in the UK since the 1970‟s. Today in the UK butt fusion operations are conducted using fully automatic butt fusion machines minimising potential human error. In Developing Countries such as Nepal and Timor Leste (formerly known as East Timor) manual butt fusion techniques have been developed and are used as a cost effective alternative to mechanical and electro fusion jointing. Despite their use in Developing Countries, no extensive testing has been undertaken to determine the strength of these manual butt fusion joints.....
Fine for Adam & Eve but not Adam & Steve? Homonegativity bias, parasocial contact, and public support for surrogacy
Creators: name: Turnbull-Dugarte, Stuart J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The use of gestational surrogacy as a means of family construction is on the rise, and several legislatures and governments across the globe are currently considering repealing prohibitions on the process. Little is known about the public's attitudes towards this means of conception used by both opposite-sex and same-sex couples. In this paper, I present original experimental evidence from Britain to demonstrate the prevalent role of homonegativity in shaping preferences for surrogacy. Empirically, I leverage a pre-registered experiment to model the independent and combined effects of homonegativity and parasocial (celebrity) contact on support for commercial gestational surrogacy. On average, citizens are largely supportive of the practice. Experimental manipulations, however, provide robust causal evidence that homonegative discrimination exhibits a sizeable negative effect on support for the policy, while exposure to celebrity reliance on surrogacy provides mixed effects. Isolating the underlying causal mechanisms via which treatment assignment shapes outcomes, quantitative text analysis of open-ended survey responses establishes that assignment to different treatment conditions actively influences survey respondents’ explicit reasoning for their revealed preferences, providing additional purchase to causal interpretations of the experimental exposure
Krull-Schmidt decompositions for thick subcategories
Creators: name: Chebolu, Sunil K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P42, 18E30, 16W30

description: Following Krause \cite{Kr}, we prove Krull-Schmidt type decomposition theorems for thick subcategories of various triangulated categories including the derived categories of rings, Noetherian stable homotopy categories, stable module categories over Hopf algebras, and the stable homotopy category of spectra. In all these categories, it is shown that the thick ideals of small objects decompose uniquely into indecomposable thick ideals. We also discuss some consequences of these decomposition results. In particular, it is shown that all these decompositions respect K-theory.
description: Added more references, fixed some typos, to appear in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 22 pages, 1 figure
Effects of a EU Investment Subsidization Scheme on the Hungarian Agri-Food Sector
Creators: name: Karpati, Laszlo
name: Csapo, Zsolt
name: Kozar, Laszlo
name: Karpati, Laszlo
name: Csapo, Zsolt
name: Kozar, Laszlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: EU subsidisation
subject: agriculture
subject: investment
subject: effectiveness
subject: Hungary
subject: food sector

description: The change of the political Hungarian regime in 1990 affected deeply the economy of the country. This change made effects in each national branch, thus in the agriculture, as well. A lot of new companies dealing with agricultural production and trading has also been established in these years. Since the early '90s a lot of EU support programmes were available targeting these enterprises and providing them to strengthen their competitiveness. One of these programmes was the PHARE IPP Project for the subsidisation of the agricultural investments (between 1996-1998). The University of Debrecen was involved in the implementation, monitoring and assessment process of this project. Based on the results and suggestions of the university, new supporting elements have been built into the subsidisation programme of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the recent years, further enhancing the position of Hungarian farms before joining to the EU.
Consumers' Motivations in Purchasing "New Wines" in Greece with Emphasis on Wine Produced by Organic Grapes: A Means-end Chains Approach
Creators: name: Fotopoulos, Christos
name: Krystallis, Athanasios
name: Ness, Mitchell
name: Fotopoulos, Christos
name: Krystallis, Athanasios
name: Ness, Mitchell
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Organic consumer
subject: purchasing motives
subject: Means-end Chains
subject: benefits
subject: personal values

description: The present study attempts to offer more insights into the Greek wine market with emphasis on wines produced from organically grown grapes by relating wine choice to consumers' personal value structure. With the use of a qualitative sample and applying the Means-end Chains methodology and the corresponding "laddering" interviewing technique, it attempts first to reveal the way basic motives are linked to wine shopping behaviour of consumers and the way wine purchase-relevant knowledge is stored and organised in their memory in relation to their personal values. Then, by discriminating between organic food buyers and non-buyers, the study identifies motivational and cognitive discriminating differences between the two consumer types, which can offer a solid explanation as to their distinctive purchasing behaviour in respect of the organic products.