cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Structural Change and Forecasting Long-Run Energy Prices
Creators: name: Bernard, Jean-Thomas
name: Khalaf, Lynda
name: Kichian, Maral
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2004

description: The authors test the statistical significance of Pindyck's (1999) suggested class of econometric equations that model the behaviour of long-run real energy prices. The models postulate mean-reverting prices with continuous and random changes in their level and trend, and are estimated using Kalman filtering. In such contexts, test statistics are typically non-standard and depend on nuisance parameters. The authors use simulation-based procedures to address this issue; namely, a standard Monte Carlo test and a maximized Monte Carlo test. They find statistically significant instabilities for coal and natural gas prices, but not for crude oil prices. Out-of-sample forecasts are calculated to differentiate between significant models.
description: Les auteurs testent la signification statistique de la famille d'équations économétriques que Pindyck (1999) met en avant pour modéliser le comportement des prix réels de l'énergie en longue période. Ces modèles, qu'il estime au moyen du filtre de Kalman, postulent la stationnarité des prix par rapport à la moyenne ainsi que des variations continues et aléatoires de leur niveau et de la pente de leur tendance. Dans ces conditions, les statistiques de test ne sont généralement pas standard et dépendent de paramètres de nuisance. Afin de contourner la difficulté, les auteurs recourent à des procédures de test reposant sur la simulation, en l'occurrence les versions standard et maximisée du test de Monte-Carlo. Ils constatent des instabilités statistiquement significatives dans le cas des cours du charbon et du gaz naturel, mais non dans celui du pétrole brut. Ils font des prévisions en dehors de la période d'estimation dans le but de départager les modèles significatifs.
Scene Classification in Indoor Environments for Robots using Context Based Word Embeddings
Creators: name: Chen, Bao Xin
name: Sahdev, Raghavender
name: Wu, Dekun
name: Zhao, Xing
name: Papagelis, Manos
name: Tsotsos, John K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Scene Classification has been addressed with numerous techniques in computer vision literature. However, with the increasing number of scene classes in datasets in the field, it has become difficult to achieve high accuracy in the context of robotics. In this paper, we implement an approach which combines traditional deep learning techniques with natural language processing methods to generate a word embedding based Scene Classification algorithm. We use the key idea that context (objects in the scene) of an image should be representative of the scene label meaning a group of objects could assist to predict the scene class. Objects present in the scene are represented by vectors and the images are re-classified based on the objects present in the scene to refine the initial classification by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). In our approach we address indoor Scene Classification task using a model trained with a reduced pre-processed version of the Places365 dataset and an empirical analysis is done on a real-world dataset that we built by capturing image sequences using a GoPro camera. We also report results obtained on a subset of the Places365 dataset using our approach and additionally show a deployment of our approach on a robot operating in a real-world environment.
title: 01_0814
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: Bank Capital, Agency Costs, and Monetary Policy
Creators: name: Meh, Cesaire
name: Moran, Kevin
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2004

description: Evidence suggests that banks, like firms, face financial frictions when raising funds. The authors develop a quantitative, monetary business cycle model in which agency problems affect both the relationship between banks and firms and the relationship between banks and their depositors. As a result, bank capital and entrepreneurial net worth jointly determine aggregate investment, and are important determinants of the propagation of shocks.

The authors find that the effects of monetary policy and technology shocks are dampened but more persistent in their model than in an economy where the information friction that banks face is reduced or eliminated. After documenting that the bank capital-asset ratio is countercyclical in the data, the authors show that their model, in which movements in this ratio are market-determined, can replicate the countercyclical ratio.
description: D'après les indications disponibles, les banques, comme les entreprises, seraient confrontées à des frictions financières lorsqu'elles mobilisent des fonds. Les auteurs ont donc mis au point un modèle monétaire quantitatif du cycle économique dans lequel il existe une asymétrie d'information aussi bien entre les banques et les entreprises qu'entre les banques et les déposants. Il s'ensuit que les capitaux propres des banques et la valeur nette des entreprises déterminent conjointement le niveau global de l'investissement et jouent un rôle important dans la propagation des chocs.

Les auteurs relèvent que les effets de la politique monétaire et des chocs technologiques sont moins importants mais plus persistants dans leur modèle que dans une économie où les frictions informationnelles touchant les banques sont limitées, voire exclues. Après avoir établi, données à l'appui, que le ratio de couverture des actifs des banques par les capitaux propres évolue en sens inverse du cycle, les auteurs montrent que leur modèle, où ce ratio est déterminé par le marché, parvient à en reproduire le comportement anticyclique.
title: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f.002
Creators: name: Rouzeau, Benoît
name: Rouzeau, Benoît
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cistercien
subject: cartulaire

description: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains. Numérisation en mode image
description: Relation: https://cisterciensetressources.lamop.fr/
description: Bibliographic citation: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f.002, in Projet Cisterciens et Ressources [Ressource en ligne], https://cisterciensetressources.lamop.fr
description: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f. 002
title: The Demand for Money in a Stochastic Environment
Creators: name: Atta-Mensah, Joseph
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2004

description: The author re-examines the demand-for-money theory in an intertemporal optimization model. The demand for real money balances is derived to be a function of real income and the rates of return of all financial assets traded in the economy. Unlike the traditional money-demand relation, however, where the elasticities are assumed to be constant, the coefficients of the explanatory variables are not constant and depend on the degree of an agent's risk aversion, the volatilities of the price level and income, and the correlation of asset returns. The author shows that the response of households to increased volatilities in the financial markets, economic activity, and prices cannot be predicted, because a rise in general uncertainties has an ambiguous impact on the demand for money. This suggests that increased uncertainty is not very helpful for the planning decisions of households, because the optimal level of money holdings in the period of uncertainty cannot be ascertained.
description: L'auteur réexamine la théorie de la demande de monnaie à l'aide d'un modèle d'optimisation intertemporelle. La demande d'encaisses réelles est définie comme une fonction du revenu réel et des taux de rendement de l'ensemble des actifs financiers échangés au sein de l'économie. Toutefois, contrairement à ce qui est postulé dans la fonction traditionnelle de demande de monnaie, où les élasticités sont supposées fixes, les coefficients des variables explicatives ne sont pas constants et dépendent du degré d'aversion de l'agent pour le risque, de la volatilité du niveau des prix et du revenu et de la corrélation des rendements des actifs. L'auteur montre que la réaction des ménages à une hausse de la volatilité des marchés financiers, de l'activité économique et des prix est imprévisible, car l'accentuation de l'incertitude générale a une incidence ambiguë sur la demande de monnaie. Il semble donc qu'une incertitude accrue est loin de faciliter la planification des ménages étant donné que le niveau optimal des encaisses ne peut alors être établi.
Role of Neutron Transfer in Sub-Barrier Fusion
Creators: name: Sahoo, Rudra N.
name: Kaushik, Malika
name: Sood, Arshiya
name: Kumar, Pawan
name: Thakur, Swati
name: Sharma, Arzoo
name: Singh, Pushpendra P.
name: Shaikh, Md. Moin
name: Biswas, Rohan
name: Yadav, Abhishek
name: Sharma, Manoj K.
name: Gehlot, J.
name: Nath, S.
name: Madhvan, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fusion excitation function of $^{35}$Cl + $^{130}$Te system is measured in the energy range around the Coulomb barrier and analyzed in the framework of the coupled-channels approach. The role of projectile deformation, nuclear structure, and the couplings of inelastic excitations and positive Q$-$value neutron transfer channels in sub-barrier fusion are investigated through the comparison of reduced fusion excitation functions of $^{35,37}$Cl +$^{130}$Te systems. The reduced fusion excitation function of $^{35}$Cl + $^{130}$Te system shows substantial enhancement over $^{37}$Cl + $^{130}$Te system in sub-barrier energy region which is attributed to the presence of positive Q-value neutron transfer channels in $^{35}$Cl + $^{130}$Te system. Findings of this work strongly suggest the importance of +2$n$ - transfer coupling in sub-barrier fusion apart from the simple inclusion of inelastic excitations of interacting partners, and are in stark contrast with the results presented by Kohley \textit{et al.}, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 202701 (2011)].
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Personize: Clinical outcomes at whole-population scale [Part 2. RCH Foundation application supporting documentation]
Creators: name: Wake, Melissa
name: Nkyekyer, Joanna
name: Clifford, Susan
name: Naselow, Aaron
name: Stringer, Michael
Publisher: name: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Year: 2019
Subjects: Health Sciences
Biological Sciences
Social Science

description: This supporting documentation was included in the funding application submitted to the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation for the Personize project. Personize is a high-throughput digital platform that will let GenV measure and evaluate diverse outcomes cheaply and at very large scale. This will ramp up Campus capability for health services research, trials, registries, precision health and discovery.
Additional file 2 of Exploring the challenges and features of implementing performance-based payment plan in hospitals: a protocol for a systematic review
Creators: name: Asieh Mousaloo
name: Amir-Behghadami, Mehrdad
name: Janati, Ali
name: Gholizadeh, Masoumeh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2 Proposed search strategy (PubMed).
Power System Decarbonization: Impacts of Energy Storage Duration and Interannual Renewables Variability
Creators: name: Jafari, Mehdi
name: Korpas, Magnus
name: Botterud, Audun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Decarbonization of the electricity sector is one of the major measures in slowing down the pace of climate change. In this paper, we analyze the impacts of energy storage systems (ESS) and interannual uncertainty of variable renewable energy (VRE) on power system decarbonization in 2050. We perform capacity expansion optimization based on technology cost projections and CO2 emission restrictions using 11 years of VRE and load data in Italy's power system, with a particular focus on the role of ESS and its duration. We also explore capacity expansion optimization based on multiple-year vs. single-year data to quantify the impact of VRE interannual variability. Our results indicate high renewables penetration even in the absence of decarbonization policies. In the transition to zero carbon system, CCS plays a minor role due to its carbon capture efficiency. ESS investments contribute to lower system costs by replacing more expensive flexibility resources. However, longer ESS durations have lower marginal value per added kWh ESS. Interannual variability of VRE substantially changes the system's configuration and energy cost. Decision-making based on single-year data substantially increases the systems' operational costs in other years. In contrast, optimizing over multiple years provides a more robust and cost effective generation expansion strategy.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures
title: The Economic Theory of Retail Pricing: A Survey
Creators: name: Secrieru, Oana
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2004

description: The types of contracts that arise in a typical vertical manufacturer–retailer relationship are more sophisticated than usually assumed in standard macroeconomic models. In addition to setting per-unit prices, manufacturers and retailers revert to non-linear pricing and non-price instruments. These instruments or contracts are referred to as vertical restraints and can take the form of franchise fees, resale-price maintenance, exclusive dealing, exclusive territories, and slotting allowances. The use and the effects of one type of instrument versus another depend crucially on specific market assumptions upstream and downstream and on the division of bargaining power between manufacturers and retailers. The author surveys the industrial organization literature on retail pricing and shows that vertical restraint instruments have important effects on producer and consumer prices, market structure, efficiency, and welfare. Some potentially important macroeconomic implications of vertical restraints are suggested.

description: La relation verticale entre fabricants et détaillants donne lieu à des types de contrats plus complexes que ceux qui sont généralement postulés dans les modèles macroéconomiques courants. Fabricants et détaillants ne font pas que fixer des prix unitaires, ils recourent aussi à une tarification non linéaire et à des modalités non tarifaires. Ces modalités contractuelles constituent ce qu'on appelle des contraintes verticales et peuvent inclure le paiement de redevances de franchisage, l'imposition de prix de revente plafond ou plancher, la signature d'accords de vente exclusive et d'exclusivité territoriale ou le versement de frais de référencement. Le choix d'un type de contrainte de préférence à un autre et ses répercussions dépendent avant tout des hypothèses formulées concernant la structure du marché, en amont comme en aval, et du rapport de forces entre fabricants et détaillants. L'auteure brosse un tableau de ce que la littérature relative à l'organisation industrielle nous apprend sur l'établissement des prix de détail. Elle montre que les contraintes verticales ont un effet notable sur les prix à la production et à la consommation, de même que sur la structure du marché, l'efficience et le bien-être. Elle relève aussi d'autres implications susceptibles de revêtir de l'importance sur le plan macroéconomique.
Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande
Creators: name: Jost Migenda (They/Them)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Low Energy Neutrinos

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: For the Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration Based on arXiv:2002.01649 & 2101.05269
description: {"references": ["arXiv:2002.01649", "arXiv:2101.05269"]}
Modified gravity with $\ln R$ terms and cosmic acceleration
Creators: name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modified gravity with $\ln R$ or $R^{-n} (\ln R)^m$ terms which grow at small curvature is discussed. It is shown that such a model which has well-defined newtonian limit may eliminate the need for dark energy and may provide the current cosmic acceleration. It is demonstrated that $R^2$ terms are important not only for early time inflation but also to avoid the instabilities and the linear growth of the gravitational force. It is very interesting that the condition of no linear growth for gravitational force coincides with the one for scalar mass in the equivalent scalar-tensor theory to be very large. Thus, modified gravity with $R^2$ term seems to be viable classical theory.
description: LaTeX file, 16 pages, discussion and references are added
Quantum Hall Effect in a Two-Dimensional Electron System Bent by 90 Degrees
Creators: name: Grayson, M.
name: Schuh, D.
name: Bichler, M.
name: Abstreiter, G.
name: Hoeppel, L.
name: Smet, J.
name: von Klitzing, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a new MBE growth technique, we fabricate a two-dimensional electron system which is bent around an atomically sharp 90 degree corner. In the quantum Hall regime under tilted magnetic fields, we can measure equilibration between both co- and counter-propagating edge channels of arbitrary filling factor ratio. We present here 4-point magnetotransport characterization of the corner junction with filling factor combinations which can all be explained using the standard Landauer-Buttiker edge channel picture. The success of this description confirms the realization of a new type of quantum Hall edge geometry.
description: 4 pages, figures included Typographical errors corrected, reference added
Bioramix (Leipopleura) banbarensis Li & Egorov 2016
Creators: name: Bai, Xing-Long
name: Ren, Guo-Dong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Bioramix
Bioramix banbarensis

description: Bioramix (Leipopleura) banbarensis Li & Egorov, 2016 (Figs 62–63, 223–224, 335) Bioramix (Leipopleura) banbarensis Li & Egorov in Li et al., 2016a: 35. Type material. Holotype: ♂ (MCWNU), 2010-VII-25, Banbar County, Xizang, 3730m, Ai-Min Shi & Yong-Sheng Pan leg., Museum of China West Normal University // HOLOTYPE (Figs 223, 335). Paratypes: 55♂♂, 49♀♀ (MCWNU), 2♂♂ (MHBU), 2010-VII-25, Banbar County, Xizang, 3730m, Ai-Min Shi & Yong-Sheng Pan leg., Museum of China West Normal University // PARATYPE. Other material. CHINA: Xizang: 1♂, 2♀♀ (MHBU), Xian’e Village, Banbar Town, Banbar County, 30°47.336′ N, 94°53.392′ E, 4090 m, 31.VII.2019, Guo-Dong Ren, Xing-Long Bai, Ya-Lin Li, Ming-Min Ma & He Shi leg.; 2♂♂, 2♀♀ (MHBU), Bali Village, Zhongyi Township, Luolong County, 30°48.019′ N, 95°20.686′ E, 4138 m, 31.VII.2019, Guo-Dong Ren, Xing-Long Bai, Ya-Lin Li, Ming-Min Ma & He Shi leg. Distribution. China: Xizang (Li et al., 2016a).
description: Published as part of Bai, Xing-Long & Ren, Guo-Dong, 2020, Revision of the genus Bioramix Bates, 1879 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Platyscelidini) from China, pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 4815 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4815.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3944316
description: {"references": ["Li, Y. C., Egorov, L. V. & Shi, A. M. (2016 a) Three new species of the subgenus Leipopleura Seidlitz from Tibet, China (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Bioramix Bates). ZooKeys, 609, 29 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 609.8250"]}
The First Supernova Explosions in the Universe
Creators: name: Bromm, Volker
name: Yoshida, Naoki
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the supernova explosions that end the lives of massive Population III stars in low-mass minihalos (M~10^6 M_sun) at redshifts z~20. Employing the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method, we carry out numerical simulations in a cosmological set-up of pair-instability supernovae with explosion energies of E_SN=10^51 and 10^53 ergs. We find that the more energetic explosion leads to the complete disruption of the gas in the minihalo, whereas the lower explosion energy leaves much of the halo intact. The higher energy supernova expels > 90% of the stellar metals into a region ~1 kpc across over a timescale of 3-5 Myr. Due to this burst-like initial star formation episode, a large fraction of the universe could have been endowed with a metallicity floor, Z_min>10^-4 Z_sun, already at z>15.
description: Published in ApJ Letters
title: Estimating Policy-Neutral Interest Rates for Canada Using a Dynamic Stochastic General-Equilibrium Framework
Creators: name: Lam, Jean-Paul
name: Tkacz, Greg
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2004

description: In an era when the primary policy instrument is the level of the short-term interest rate, a comparison of that rate with some equilibrium rate can be a useful guide for policy and a convenient method to measure the stance of monetary policy. The real interest rate gap—the difference between the real equilibrium rate and the rate set by the central bank—can thus serve as a leading indicator of future inflationary or deflationary pressures in the economy. The authors estimate equilibrium interest rates for Canada using a sticky-price dynamic stochastic generalequilibrium model. They follow closely the methodology of Neiss and Nelson (2003) and derive measures of the interest rate gap for Canada. Their results indicate that the interest rate gap can be a useful guide for policy and is a good indicator of future output and inflation. The authors also find that their measures of the interest rate gap perform as well as the yield spread, a typical measure of policy stance that is assumed to contain significant information about future economic activity.
description: En comparant le taux d'intérêt à court terme — qui est l'outil privilégié d'intervention de la banque centrale — à une estimation de sa valeur d'équilibre, il est possible d'obtenir des indications utiles pour la conduite de la politique monétaire de même qu'une mesure commode de son orientation. L'écart de taux d'intérêt réels, soit la différence entre le taux d'équilibre réel et le taux établi par la banque centrale, peut ainsi jouer le rôle d'indicateur avancé des pressions inflationnistes ou déflationnistes à venir. À l'aide d'un modèle dynamique d'équilibre général stochastique à prix rigides, les auteurs estiment le niveau d'équilibre du taux d'intérêt canadien. Ils suivent rigoureusement la méthodologie de Neiss et Nelson (2003) pour mesurer l'écart de taux observé au Canada. D'après leurs résultats, cet écart peut apporter aux autorités monétaires un précieux complément d'information et est un bon indicateur de l'évolution future de la production et de l'inflation. Les auteurs constatent également que leurs mesures de l'écart de taux réels se comportent aussi bien que l'écart de rendement, un indicateur courant de l'orientation de la politique monétaire qui est présumé bien renseigner sur le niveau futur de l'activité économique.
Cosmic Microwave Background and Supernova Constraints on Quintessence: Concordance Regions and Target Models
Creators: name: Caldwell, Robert R.
name: Doran, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a detailed comparison of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy with the predictions of quintessence cosmological models of dark energy. We consider a wide range of quintessence models, including: a constant equation-of-state; a simply-parametrized, time-evolving equation-of-state; a class of models of early quintessence; scalar fields with an inverse-power law potential. We also provide a joint fit to the CBI and ACBAR CMB data, and the type 1a supernovae. Using these select constraints we identify viable, target models for further analysis.
description: 6 pages, 9 color figures, latex
Additional file 1 of Behaviours and attitudes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a cross-national Facebook survey
Creators: name: Perrotta, Daniela
name: Grow, André
name: Rampazzo, Francesco
name: Cimentada, Jorge
name: Fava, Emanuele Del
name: Gil-Clavel, Sofia
name: Zagheni, Emilio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Supplementary materials, including separate sections on Facebook advertising campaigns, response rates, post-stratification approach, respondent selection, and threat perception of influenza. (PDF 3.2 MB)
Municipal Solid Waste Compost Improves Crop Productivity in Saline-Sodic Soil: A Multivariate Analysis of Soil Chemical Properties and Yield Response
Creators: name: Murtaza, Behzad
name: Zaman, Gohar
name: Imran, Muhammad
name: Shah, Ghulam Mustafa
name: Amjad, Muhammad
name: Ahmad, Naveed
name: Naeem, Muhammad Asif
name: Zakir, Ali
name: Farooq, Amjad
name: Ahmad, Sajjad
name: Murtaza, Ghulam
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A pot experiment was conducted in sandy clay loam saline-sodic soil to assess the effects of farm yard manure (FYM), municipal solid waste (MSW) composts and gypsum application on nitrate leaching, soil chemical properties and crop productivity under rice-wheat cropping system. It also aims at establishing the correlation between soil phsico-chemical properties and yield response using principle component analysis and Pearson correlation analysis. The MSW was decomposed aerobically, an-aerobically and co-composted. Maximum nitrate leaching was observed during rice (75.9 mg L−1) and wheat (37.2 mg L−1) with an-aerobically decomposed MSW as compared with control treatment. Results revealed a decrease in soil pH (−6.95% and −8.77%), electrical conductivity (EC) (−48.13% and −51.04%), calcium carbonate (CaCO3) (−40.30% and −48.96%), and sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) (−40.27% and −45.98%) with an-aerobically decomposed MSW compost during rice and wheat, respectively. In this treatment, organic matter (OM) (93.55% and 121.51%) and cation exchange capacity (CEC) (19.31% and 31.79%) were the highest as compared with control treatment during rice and wheat, respectively. Rice and wheat growth were significantly (p≤ 0.05) increased by an-aerobically decomposed MSW followed by co-compost, aerobically decomposed MSW, FYM, gypsum and control. Furthermore, Pearson correlation coefficients predicted significant positive correlation of yield with soil OM, and CEC while inverse relationship was observed with EC, pH, CaCO3, and nitrogen use efficiency. Soil amelioration with organic and gypsum amendments was further confirmed with principal component analysis. This study has proved an-aerobically decomposed MSW as an effective solution for MSW disposal, thereby improving soil chemical properties and crop productivity from sandy clay loam saline-sodic soil.
Implementation of an all-electron GW approximation based on the PAW method without plasmon pole approximation: application to Si, SiC, AlAs, InAs, NaH and KH
Creators: name: Lebègue, S.
name: Arnaud, B.
name: Alouani, M.
name: Bloechl, P. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new implementation of the GW approximation (GWA) based on the all-electron Projector-Augmented-Wave method (PAW) is presented, where the screened Coulomb interaction is computed within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) instead of the plasmon-pole model. Two different ways of computing the self-energy are reported. The method is used successfully to determine the quasiparticle energies of six semiconducting or insulating materials: Si, SiC, AlAs, InAs, NaH and KH. To illustrate the novelty of the method the real and imaginary part of the frequency-dependent self-energy together with the spectral function of silicon are computed. Finally, the GWA results are compared with other calculations, highlighting that all-electron GWA results can differ markedly from those based on pseudopotential approaches.
description: 11pages,3figures, submitted to PRB
Measurements of the Branching Fractions of Charged B Decays to K+-pi-+pi+- Final States
Creators: name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of searches for B-meson decays to K+ pi- pi+ with the BaBar detector. With a data sample of 61.6 million BBbar pairs, we measure the branching fractions and 90% confidence-level upper limits averaged over charge-conjugate states (the first error is statistical and the second is systematic): B+ --> K*0 pi+ = (15.5 +/- 1.8 +1.5 -4.0) x 10^-6, B+ --> f0 K+, f_0 --> pi+ pi- = (9.2 +/- 1.2 +2.1 -2.6) x 10^-6, B+ --> D0bar pi+, D0bar --> K+ pi- = (184.6 +/- 3.2 +/- 9.7) x 10^-6. B+ --> rho K+ < 6.2 x 10^-6 and B+ --> K+ pi- pi+ non-resonant < 17 x 10^-6.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables Submitted to Physical Review D
Non-equilibrium strong-coupling theory for a driven-dissipative ultracold Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover region
Creators: name: Kawamura, Taira
name: Hanai, Ryo
name: Kagamihara, Daichi
name: Inotani, Daisuke
name: Ohashi, Yoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate strong-coupling properties of an ultracold Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover regime in the non-equilibrium steady state, being coupled with two fermion baths. By developing a non-equilibrium strong-coupling theory based on the combined $T$-matrix approximation with the Keldysh Green's function technique, we show that the chemical potential bias applied by the two baths gives rise to the anomalous enhancement of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) type pairing fluctuations (although the system has no spin imbalance), resulting in the re-entrant behavior of the non-equilibrium superfluid phase transition in the BCS-unitary regime. These pairing fluctuations are also found to anomalously enhance the pseudogap phenomenon. Since various non-equilibrium phenomena have recently been measured in ultracold Fermi gases, our non-equilibrium strong-coupling theory would be useful to catch up this experimental development in this research field.
description: 21pages,15figures
title: Self-Enforcing Labour Contracts and the Dynamics Puzzle
Creators: name: Calmès, Christian
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: To properly account for the dynamics of key macroeconomic variables, researchers incorporate various internal-propagation mechanisms in their models. In general, these mechanisms implicitly rely on the assumption of a perfect equality between the real wage and the marginal product of labour. The author proposes a theoretical validation of a micro-founded internal-propagation mechanism: he builds a model that features a limited-commitment economy, and derives endogenous self-enforcing labour contracts that produce a different linkage between the real wage and the marginal product of labour. The risk-sharing between the entrepreneur and the worker, both faced with enforcement problems, provides an admissible explanation of the prolonged comovements observed between consumption and labour. Since these co-movements are at the core of the persistence of the impulse response of output to exogenous technology shocks, this persistence can, in turn, be rationalized with the endogenous real rigidity emerging from the economy. The author shows that, in this framework, the persistence ultimately depends on the initial bargaining power and the magnitude of the risk-sharing.
description: Afin de bien rendre compte de la dynamique des variables macroéconomiques clés, les chercheurs intègrent divers mécanismes de propagation interne à leurs modèles. En règle générale, ces mécanismes reposent de façon implicite sur l'hypothèse d'égalité parfaite entre le salaire réel et la productivité marginale du travail. L'auteur propose un cadre théorique pour la validation d'un mécanisme de propagation interne reposant sur des fondements microéconomiques. Il élabore un modèle représentant une économie à engagement partiel dans laquelle des contrats de travail auto-exécutoires endogènes ont pour effet de découpler le salaire réel et la productivité marginale du travail. Le partage du risque entre l'entrepreneur et le travailleur, tous deux confrontés à des problèmes d'engagement, permettrait d'expliquer les covariations prolongées observées entre la consommation et le travail. Comme ces covariations sont à la source de la persistance de la réaction de la production aux chocs technologiques exogènes, cette persistance pourrait à son tour être générée par les rigidités réelles endogènes propres à l'économie. L'auteur démontre que, dans ce cadre, la persistance dépend en définitive du pouvoir initial de négociation et du degré de partage du risque.
Shocks, livestock assets and climate change adaptation in Kenya
Creators: name: Ngigi, Marther W.
name: Birner, Regina
name: Ngigi, Marther W.
name: Birner, Regina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Shocks
subject: Livestock
subject: Adaptation
subject: Climate change
subject: Kenya

description: The study assesses the impact of shocks on livestock and the role of adaptation to climate change in protecting assets from weather shocks. Data collection relied on a mixed-method approach, including household surveys and participatory rural appraisals (PRAs) in each site. The study uses panel data collected in 2009 and 2012 and a total of 362 balanced panels are used in the study. The study uses fixed effect models in analysis. The findings show that shocks have a negative effect on livestock. Small and large animals are affected differently by different shocks. Large livestock are mostly affected by droughts while market shocks affect small animals. The study also finds that land ownership and income positively affect livestock assets. With regard to adaptation to climate change, farmers who are adapting to changing climate are resilient to weather shocks. Membership in community-based organizations help households in accumulating livestock assets, and this suggests the importance of local institutions in risk management. The study also discusses policy implications.
title: Educational Spillovers: Does One Size Fit All?
Creators: name: Baumann, Robert
name: Solomon, Raphael Solomon
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2005

description: In a search model of production, where agents accumulate heterogeneous amounts of human capital, an individual worker's wage depends on average human capital in the searching population. Following this model, the authors use a large American panel data set to estimate a Mincerian wage equation augmented with terms for average human capital. They find that there is a positive and significant spillover effect, but that the effect differs by gender and population group (whites, blacks, and Hispanics), as well as educational status. The differing spillover effects can only partially be explained by occupational choice.
description: Dans un modèle de recherche d'emploi formalisant explicitement la production, où les agents accumulent des quantités hétérogènes de capital humain, le salaire individuel est fonction du capital humain moyen au sein de la population en recherche d'emploi. En utilisant ce modèle et un vaste ensemble de données de panel en provenance des États-Unis, les auteurs estiment une équation de salaire à la Mincer enrichie de termes représentant le capital humain moyen. Ils constatent l'existence d'un effet de débordement positif et significatif, dont l'ampleur varie selon le sexe, le groupe (Blancs, Noirs et personnes d'origine hispanique) et le niveau de scolarité atteint. Les variations de cet effet ne sont attribuables que partiellement au métier choisi.
Personize: Clinical outcomes at whole-population scale [Part 1. RCH Foundation application form]
Creators: name: MELISSA WAKE
name: Nkyekyer, Joanna
name: Clifford, Susan
name: Naselow, Aaron
name: Stringer, Michael
Publisher: name: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Year: 2019
Subjects: Health Sciences
Biological Sciences
Social Science

description: This funding application was submitted to the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation for the Personize project. Personize is a high-throughput digital platform that will let GenV measure and evaluate diverse outcomes cheaply and at very large scale. This will ramp up Campus capability for health services research, trials, registries, precision health and discovery.
Urban Demand for Smallholder Crops; the Case of Fruits and Vegetables in Nairobi, Kenya
Creators: name: Bundi, Mary K.
name: Nzuma, Jonathan M.
name: Mbatia, O.L.E.
name: Bundi, Mary K.
name: Nzuma, Jonathan M.
name: Mbatia, O.L.E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis

description: Fruits and vegetables are an important source of nutrients for a large number of Kenyans, as well as major earners of foreign exchange, and are commonly grown crop among smallholder farmers, who often sell them for cash. Little is known, however, about the structure of domestic demand for fruits and vegetables in this rapidly urbanizing nation and in Sub-Saharan Africa in general. We apply the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) with seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) to data collected through a household expenditure survey conducted between June and July of 2009. Inelastic estimates of own-price elasticities for cabbage and tomato, and for all fruits, with the exception of onion and avocado, indicate that these are necessities. The own-price elasticities for the vegetables were negative and in the range of (-0.693) and (-0.792). The own-price elasticities for the fruits range between (-0.577) and (-1.104). Estimated cross-price elasticities also illustrate both substitutability and complementarity in demand. Expenditure elasticities above unity for kale, onion, mango and avocado suggest they are luxuries. The high expenditure elasticity of demand for some fruits and vegetables means that potential growth in demand could be large. We recommend that public investments address production and marketing systems with the aim of increasing the availability of fruits and vegetables to Nairobi households, also stimulating domestic demand for these crops among smallholder farmers.
Performance of a micro-TPC for a time-resolved neutron PSD
Creators: name: Miuchi, Kentaro
name: Kubo, Hidetoshi
name: Nagayoshi, Tsutomu
name: Orito, Reiko
name: Takada, Atsushi
name: Takeda, Atsushi
name: Tanimori, Toru
name: Ueno, Masaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the performance of a micro-TPC with a micro pixel chamber($μ$-PIC) readout for a time-resolved neutron position-sensitive detector(PSD). Three-dimensional tracks and the Bragg curves of protons with energies of around 1 MeV were clearly detected by the micro-TPC. More than 95% of gamma-rays of 511 keV were found to be discriminated by simple analysis. Simulation studies showed that the total track length of proton and triton emitted from the $\rm {}^{3}He$(n,p(573 keV))$\rm {}^{3}H(191 keV)$ reaction is about 1.2 cm, and that both particles have large energy losses ($\rm > 200 keV/cm$) in 1 atm Ar+$\rm C_{2}H_{6}(10%)$+${}^{3}$He($< 1%$). These values suit the current performance of the micro-TPC, and we conclude that a time-resolved neutron PSD with spatial resolution of sub-millimeters shall be developed as an application of the micro-TPC.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, to appear in NIM A
Core-Collapse Supernova Neutrinos in JUNO
Creators: name: Huiling Li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Low Energy Neutrinos

description: Parallel Flash Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: On behalf of JUNO
On complex explicit formulae connected with the Möbius function of an elliptic curve
Creators: name: Łydka, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11M36, Secondary 11G40

description: We study analytic properties function $m(z, E)$, which is defined on the upper half-plane as an integral from the shifted $L$-function of an elliptic curve. We show that $m(z, E)$ analytically continues to a meromorphic function on the whole complex plane and satisfies certain functional equation. Moreover, we give explicit formula for $m(z, E)$ in the strip $|\Im{z}|<2π$.
description: 8 pages
Off-farm Income and Fertilizer Investments by Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
Creators: name: Mathenge, Mary K.
name: Smale, Melinda
name: Mathenge, Mary K.
name: Smale, Melinda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Farm Management

description: Nonfarm earnings from diverse sources account for a substantial and growing share of household income among smallholder farmers in many areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, but information about the effects of these earnings on farm investments is relatively sparse. This study focuses on fertilizer investments given the importance of soil fertility in raising crop productivity, the central role of fertilizer in most recommendations for managing soils, and the high cash cost of fertilizers. We use panel data from a sample of roughly 1200 smallholder farmers in Kenya to estimate input demand for fertilizer, testing the effects of off-farm income, as well as nonfarm income, income from labor on other farms, and all off-farm income combined. We compare effects among three types of crops: a major food staple (maize), and emerging cash crop (vegetables), and traditional export crops (coffee/tea). Demand functions are estimated with double hurdle regression, a Control Function approach to handle potential endogeneity of off-farm income, and Correlated Random Effects to treat time-invariant heterogeneity. We find that, holding prices, other crops grown, locational and relevant household characteristics constant, off-farm earnings have a negative impact on fertilizer use on both staple and emerging cash crops in Kenya, and a weak, positive effect on traditional cash crops. Nonfarm income explains most of this pattern, although the effects of labor on other farms are evident in the case of vegetables, which are relatively labor-intensive throughout the growing season. Results have implications for public investments in rural development as smallholders commercialize in Kenya.
Smallholder Choice of Compliance Arrangements: The Case GlobalGAP adoption by French Bean Farmers in Kirinyaga, Mbooni and Buuri/Laikipia Districts
Creators: name: Nthambi, Mary
name: Mburu, John I.
name: Nyikal, Rose
name: Nthambi, Mary
name: Mburu, John I.
name: Nyikal, Rose
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Multinomial logit
subject: GlobalGAP
subject: Smallholder

description: Holticultural crops such as fruits and vegetables are commonly grown in Sub-Saharan Africa by smallholder farmers as a way to increase export earnings and create jobs in order to reduce poverty levels.These opportunities presented by horticultural crops to smallholder farmers have been retarded by increased public and private food safety standards. GlobalGAP is one such standard, which posseses a threat to smallholder farmer’s welfare by undermining their ability to compete in the market. This paper assesses smallholder choice of compliance arrangements with GlobalGAP standards adoption among smallholder french bean farmers in Kirinyaga, Mbooni and Buuri/Laikipia districts. Three Multinomial logit models were run to obtain information on the estimated coefficients and marginal effects of independent variables and dependent variables and their p values. Findings were that extension services, input and credit subsidies and group formation should be encouraged to reduce costs of compliance among smallholder farmers.Policy to ensure reduced transaction and production costs such as government provision of conducive investment environment for NGO’s and exporters that support French bean farmers should be availed