cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spectroscopic study of solar twins and analogues
Creators: name: Datson, Juliet
name: Flynn, Chris
name: Portinari, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Many large stellar surveys have been and are still being carried out, providing huge amounts of data, for which stellar physical parameters will be derived. Solar twins and analogues provide a means to test the calibration of these stellar catalogues because the Sun is the best-studied star and provides precise fundamental parameters. Solar twins should be centred on the solar values. Aims. This spectroscopic study of solar analogues selected from the Geneva-Copenhagen Survey (GCS) at a resolution of 48,000 provides effective temperatures and metallicities for these stars. We test whether our spectroscopic parameters, as well as the previous photometric calibrations, are properly centred on the Sun. In addition, we search for more solar twins in our sample. Methods. The methods used in this work are based on literature methods for solar twin searches and on methods we developed in previous work to distinguish the metallicity-temperature degeneracies in the differential comparison of spectra of solar analogues versus a reference solar reflection spectrum. Results. We derive spectroscopic parameters for 148 solar analogues (about 70 are new entries to the literature) and verify with a-posteriori differential tests that our values are well-centred on the solar values. We use our dataset to assess the two alternative calibrations of the GCS parameters; our methods favour the latest revision. We show that the choice of spectral line list or the choice of asteroid or time of observation does not affect the results. We also identify seven solar twins in our sample, three of which are published here for the first time. Conclusions. Our methods provide an independent means to differentially test the calibration of stellar catalogues around the values of a well-known benchmark star, which makes our work interesting for calibration tests of upcoming Galactic surveys.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures. Published version
How important are product attributes for U.S. lamb imports?
Creators: name: Ufer, Danielle
name: Countryman, Amanda M.
name: Muhammad, Andrew
name: Ufer, Danielle
name: Countryman, Amanda M.
name: Muhammad, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: imports
subject: lamb
subject: product differentiation
subject: separability
subject: Rotterdam model

description: The U.S. lamb industry has changed in the last decade, impacting the structure of imports, which have become necessary to meet domestic demand. Product differentiation plays an important role in determining lamb imports. This research examines the importance of source (country or origin) and product attributes such as boneless versus bone-in cuts and chilled versus frozen products in determining U.S. demand for imported lamb. Overall, boneless and bone-in products show evidence of separability, which is an indication that preferences are independent based on these characteristics. For other product attributes, preferences were not independent, implying their aggregation in trade analyses may be justified. For agribusiness importers and wholesalers, our results and a better understanding of the importance of product origin, quality and form are useful to inform pricing and product substitution strategies.
Constructing pseudo-Anosov maps with given dilatations
Creators: name: Baik, Hyungryul
name: Rafiqi, Ahmad
name: Wu, Chenxi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37E30, 57M50

description: In this paper, we give sufficient conditions for a Perron number, given as the leading eigenvalue of an aperiodic matrix, to be a pseudo-Anosov dilatation of a compact surface. We give an explicit construction of the surface and the map when the sufficient condition is met.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
Experience from the NeIC NICEST2 project - snapshot
Creators: Antti-Ilari Partanen
Øyvind Seland
Maiken Pedersen
Risto Makkonen
Hamish Struthers
Kimmo Ervasti
Yanchun He
Prashanth Dwarakanath
Jean Iaquinta
Tommi Bergman
Anne Fouilloux
Oskar Landgren
Elina Miinalainen
Tyge Løvseth
Alok Kumar Gupta
Publisher: name: Simula Research Laboratory
Year: 2023

description: Overview of the NICEST2 project and reflection on the successes, failures and possible improvements for follow-up projects.
Unconditional Room Temperature Quantum Memory
Creators: name: Hosseini, M.
name: Campbell, G.
name: Sparkes, B. M.
name: Lam, P. K.
name: Buchler, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Just as classical information systems require buffers and memory, the same is true for quantum information systems. The potential that optical quantum information processing holds for revolutionising computation and communication is therefore driving significant research into developing optical quantum memory. A practical optical quantum memory must be able to store and recall quantum states on demand with high efficiency and low noise. Ideally, the platform for the memory would also be simple and inexpensive. Here, we present a complete tomographic reconstruction of quantum states that have been stored in the ground states of rubidium in a vapour cell operating at around 80$^o$C. Without conditional measurements, we show recall fidelity up to 98% for coherent pulses containing around one photon. In order to unambiguously verify that our memory beats the quantum no-cloning limit we employ state independent verification using conditional variance and signal transfer coefficients.
Anatolian farmers in Europe: migrations and cultural transformation in Early Neolithic period
Creators: name: Siddiq, Abu B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Sociology

description: Humans first started farming and domesticating animals around 9000 B.C. in the Levant and the Central Anatolia. The managing process of different plant and animal species was spreading from the Central Anatolia to Southern and Western Anatolia during 8th millennium BC, and in 7th millennium BC into Southeast Europe by Anatolian farmers. Furthermore, this process appeared in Central Europe in the middle of 6th millennium BC and eventually in north-western Europe in the middle of 4th millennium BC by Anatolian Neolithic farmers. Archaeological evidences as well as ancient DNA studies testify this migrations and cultural exchange of Anatolian farmers which enforced the neolithization in Europe and inevitably changed Europe‟s face forever. This research is aimed to give a chronological glimpse of that migration and the cultural transformation process from the Central Anatolia to Europe between 9th millennium and 4th millennium BC.
Supplementary material for Pfizer Oncology’s Gynecological Cancer Pipeline – September 2024
Creators: name: Becker, Mauricio
name: Garas, Sam
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Congress materials may include information for investigational products or for which the product is not approved and/or inconsistent with the product uses described in the Prescribing Information. Regulatory approval of investigational products or uses is dependent on the completion of the study programs and review by regulatory authorities. Pfizer does not suggest or recommend the use of Pfizer Products in any manner other than as described in the Prescribing Information. The clinical trial information is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov. This information is current as of August 1, 2024.
Development of the Liquid Green Propellants at the Lukasiewicz-Institute of Aviation
Creators: name:  PAWEL STEZYCKI
name:   PIOTR WOLANSKI
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the Aerospace Europe Conference - EUCASS - CEAS - 2023
Year: 2023
Subjects: HYDROGEM
FUEL
HTP
PROPELLANTS

description: In Europe, but also in many other countries initiative to replace toxic and corrosive rocket propellants based on hydrazine fuels and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizers with green propellants wasundertaken. One of possible substitution of toxic and corrosive propellants arepropellants based on highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide In the Institute of Aviation in Warsaw a new and very effective technology of purifying industrial grade hydrogen peroxide was developed. Highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide up to 98%, or called as HIP (High Test Peroxide) canbe very effectively used both as monopropellant or as an oxidizer for hybrid or bipropellant rocket engines. Complex research onall aspects leading to development of different ways of decomposition of the HIP, such as selection of the most effective catalysts as well as ways of development of thermal decomposition system were carried out. This led to development of small monopropellants green rocket engines based on HIP at the Institute of Aviation. Additionally research to develop effective bipropellant rocket engines for application in satellites propulsion platforms as well as in the last stages of small satellites launchers is discussed. Biggest effort is however focused on development of hypergolic propellants which will provide not only similar performance to recently used toxic propellants but also will be self-ignitable, soit could be used to design very reliable propulsion system. Finally development of efficient hybrid rocket engine based on HIP and its application as a main propulsion system of the probing rocket \"Bursztyn\", which was successfully launched last year, will be presented too.
MPEC 2023-F205 : 2023 FC7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FC7

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Adhesion measurements of natural and artificial fibers
Creators: name: Meyer, Marco
name: Joel, Anna-Christin
name: Baiko, Dariya
name: Geiger, Matthias
name: Baráková, Jana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cribellate
nano
LIPSS
biomimetic
microfluidic wet-spinning
spider silk
calamistrum

description: In relation to the project "BioCombs4Nanofibers" our methods to measure adhesion and antiadhesion of nanofibers to different objects is described. This includes a description of the natural cribellate threads used, how we harvest these threads and how forces and deflection of the threads are measured. Additionally the report includes a short description of the artifical fibers used in our project as well as first results onto their mechanical properties. Data from a shared publication as well as preliminary data of artificial nanofibers towards structured surfaces are presented. According literature hints can be found at the end of the document. This document has by accident been uploaded twice: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4049765
Towards a Bullet-proof test for indirect signals of dark matter
Creators: name: Graham, Peter W.
name: Rajendran, Surjeet
name: Van Tilburg, Ken
name: Wiser, Timothy D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Merging galaxy clusters such as the Bullet Cluster provide a powerful testing ground for indirect detection of dark matter. The spatial distribution of the dark matter is both directly measurable through gravitational lensing and substantially different from the distribution of potential astrophysical backgrounds. We propose to use this spatial information to identify the origin of indirect detection signals, and we show that even statistical excesses of a few sigma can be robustly tested for consistency--or inconsistency--with a dark matter source. For example, our methods, combined with already-existing observations of the Coma Cluster, would allow the 3.55 keV line to be tested for compatibility with a dark matter origin. We also discuss the optimal spatial reweighting of photons for indirect detection searches. The current discovery rate of merging galaxy clusters and associated lensing maps strongly motivates deep exposures in these dark matter targets for both current and upcoming indirect detection experiments in the X-ray and gamma-ray bands.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures. v2: improved figure quality, typos corrected, references added; matches published version
Inkarnation - Fülle der Schöpfung
Creators: name: Štrukelj, Anton
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 32 Nr. 1 (2003): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 32, Heft 1
Inequalities for the quantum privacy
Creators: name: Trindade, M. A. S
name: Pinto, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the asymptotic behavior related to the quantum privacy for multipartite systems. In this context, an inequality for quantum privacy was obtained by exploiting of quantum entropy properties. Subsequently, we derive a lower limit for the quantum privacy through the entanglement fidelity. In particular, we show that there is an interval where an increase in entanglement fidelity implies a decrease in quantum privacy.
description: 9 pages and 4 figures
Deconfinement transition in two-flavour lattice QCD with dynamical overlap fermions
Creators: name: Kochetkov, O. A.
name: Bornyakov, V. G.
name: Buividovich, P. V.
name: Cundy, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the deconfinement transition in two-flavour lattice QCD with dynamical overlap fermions. Our simulations have been carried out on a $16^3 \times 6$ lattice at a pion mass around 500 MeV with a special HMC algorithm without any approximation such as fixed topology. We consider several temperatures from 220 MeV which is close to the deconfinement to 280 MeV which is above it. The dependence of the Polyakov loop, the chiral condensate, the Dirac spectra and the connected part of chiral susceptibility on the inverse gauge coupling has been studied. Our data indicates that the transition point lies between $β= 7.6$ and $β= 8.1$, but a more precise determination is not possible with our present statistics.
description: refs. added
Relationship quality and supplier performance in food supply chains
Creators: name: Lees, Nic
name: Nuthall, Peter
name: Wilson, Mark M.J.
name: Lees, Nic
name: Nuthall, Peter
name: Wilson, Mark M.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: relationship quality
subject: supplier performance
subject: resource-based view
subject: food supply chains

description: The importance of procurement relationships in food supply chains is increasing in importance due to issues of food safety, food security, changing consumer preferences, ethical concerns and greater awareness of the environmental impact of food production. Despite the considerable research on buyer-seller relationships in the marketing and management literature, only a small proportion of this has focused on procurement relationships between producers and buyers in food supply chains. Hence, this paper specifically focuses on examining the impact of relationship quality on supplier performance in the context of food supply chains. The theoretical framework is derived from the tenets of the resource-based view and the relational view of firms. Using this framework, the definition, measurement and structural dimensions of relationship quality is established in the context of food producers and buyers. This construct is then tested in relationship to supplier performance. Utilizing data from a mail survey of 954 red meat producers in New Zealand, the model of supplier-buyer relationship quality and its effects on supplier performance is tested using structural equation modelling. The results demonstrate that relationship quality is an essential factor in procurement relationships with suppliers in food supply chains and shows that, as hypothesized, higher quality relationships lead to positive performance outcomes. The results support the theoretical framework indicating that relationship quality, conceptualized and defined in this context, is indeed a valuable relational resource due to its impact on supplier performance. Managerially, this resource can be manipulated to improve supplier performance, and hence potentially provide firms with competitive advantage that has high replication barriers.
Observation of top-quark pair production in association with a photon and measurement of the $t\bar{t}γ$ production cross section in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV using the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search is performed for top-quark pairs ($t\bar{t}$) produced together with a photon ($γ$) with transverse energy greater than 20 GeV using a sample of $t\bar{t}$ candidate events in final states with jets, missing transverse momentum, and one isolated electron or muon. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.59 $fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In total 140 and 222 $t\bar{t}γ$ candidate events are observed in the electron and muon channels, to be compared to the expectation of $79\pm 26$ and $120\pm 39$ non-$t\bar{t}γ$ background events respectively. The production of $t\bar{t}γ$ events is observed with a significance of 5.3 standard deviations away from the null hypothesis. The $t\bar{t}γ$ production cross section times the branching ratio (BR) of the single-lepton decay channel is measured in a fiducial kinematic region within the ATLAS acceptance. The measured value is $σ_{t\bar{t}γ}^{fid} = 63 \pm 8 (stat.) ^{+17}_{-13} (syst.) \pm 1 (lumi.)$ per lepton flavor, in good agreement with the leading-order theoretical calculation normalized to the next-to-leading-order theoretical prediction of $48\pm 10$ fb.
description: 16 pages plus author list + cover pages (29 pages total), 7 figures, 4 tables, submitted to PRD, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/TOPQ-2012-07/
Collection of calamistrum images
Creators: name: Joel, Anna-Christin
name: Meyer, Marco
name: Weißbach, Margret
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cribellate
calamistrum
nano structures
Kukulcania hibernalis
Deinopis subrufa
Eresus walckenaeri
Uloborus plumipes

description: SEM images of the calamistra of four different cribellate spider species are presented. Additionally, an image of the spider as well as a short description of the spiders biology, capture thread production or calamistrum morphology is added (if such information are already available in literature). According literature hints are presented at the end of the document. This document has been uploaded twice by accident: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5153370
Heavy Majorana Neutrinos from $Wγ$ Fusion at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Alva, Daniel
name: Han, Tao
name: Ruiz, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vector boson fusion processes become increasingly more important at higher collider energies and for probing larger mass scales due to collinear logarithmic enhancements of the cross section. In this context, we revisit the production of a hypothetic heavy Majorana neutrino $(N)$ at hadron colliders. Particular attention is paid to the fusion process $Wγ\rightarrow N\ell^{\pm}$. We systematically categorize the contributions from an initial state photon in the elastic, inelastic, and deeply inelastic channels. Comparing with the leading channel via the Drell-Yan production $q \bar{q}'\rightarrow W^{*}\rightarrow N\ell^{\pm}$ at NNLO in QCD, we find that the $Wγ$ fusion process becomes relatively more important at higher scales, surpassing the DY mechanism at $m_{N} \sim 1 \text{TeV} \ (770 \text{GeV})$ at the 14 TeV LHC (100 TeV VLHC). We investigate the inclusive heavy Majorana neutrino signal, including QCD corrections, and quantify the Standard Model backgrounds at future hadron colliders. We conclude that, with the currently allowed mixing $| V_{μN}| ^2<6\times 10^{-3}$, a $5σ$ discovery can be made via the same-sign dimuon channel for $m_N = 530 (1070)$ GeV at the 14 TeV LHC (100 TeV VLHC) after 1 ab$^{-1}$. Reversely, for $m_N = 500$ GeV and the same integrated luminosity, a mixing $| V_{μN}|^2$ of the order $1.1\times10^{-3} (2.5\times10^{-4})$ may be probed.
description: 46 pages, three appendices, 17 figures, 12 tables. Updated to match published version. Enjoy
Algebraic Bethe ansatz for the sl(2) Gaudin model with boundary
Creators: name: António, N. Cirilo
name: Manojlović, N.
name: Ragoucy, E.
name: Salom, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following Sklyanin's proposal in the periodic case, we derive the generating function of the Gaudin Hamiltonians with boundary terms. Our derivation is based on the quasi-classical expansion of the linear combination of the transfer matrix of the XXX Heisenberg spin chain and the central element, the so-called Sklyanin determinant. The corresponding Gaudin Hamiltonians with boundary terms are obtained as the residues of the generating function. By defining the appropriate Bethe vectors which yield strikingly simple off shell action of the generating function, we fully implement the algebraic Bethe ansatz, obtaining the spectrum of the generating function and the corresponding Bethe equations.
description: 31 pages; presentation improved. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1405.7398
Changes in air and water quality during the Covid-19 Lockdown in the Venice Lagoon - snapshot
Creators: Federica Foglini
Anne Fouilloux
Giorgio Castellan
Jean Iaquinta
Malek Belgacem
Simone Mantovani
Publisher: name: Simula Research Laboratory
Year: 2023

description: In this study, we focusing on understanding changes in air and water quality during the Covid-19 lockdown in the Venice Lagoon. We are re-using existing Research Objects, and in particular Jupyter Notebooks that were created in previous studies.
Supplementary material for Pfizer Oncology’s Head and Neck Cancer Pipeline – September 2024
Creators: name: Becker, Mauricio
name: Garas, Sam
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Congress materials may include information for investigational products or for which the product is not approved and/or inconsistent with the product uses described in the Prescribing Information. Regulatory approval of investigational products or uses is dependent on the completion of the study programs and review by regulatory authorities. Pfizer does not suggest or recommend the use of Pfizer Products in any manner other than as described in the Prescribing Information. The clinical trial information is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov. This information is current as of August 1, 2024.
Derivation and Verification of a Flexible Hexapod Model for Multi-Body Space Observatories
Creators: name:  ALISON PONCHE
name:   ANDRES MARCOS
name:   THOMAS OTT
name:   RAMIN GESHNIZJANI
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the Aerospace Europe Conference - EUCASS - CEAS - 2023
Year: 2023
Subjects: MODELLING
FLEXIBLE MODES
POINTING MECHANISM
MULTI-BODY MULTI-ACTUATOR SPACECRAFT

description: In order to provide the high-accuracy pointing objectives required by recent and future space telescope scientific missions, complex mechanisms such as hexapods are being proposed to move the primary telescope mirrors in six degrees of freedom. Such hexapod mechanisms are expected to have stiffness and damping properties that will interact with the spacecraft flexible modes resulting in potential loss of performance. Thus, it is critical to obtain appropriate design and analysis mathematical models of the complete flexible multi-body system. In this article, a direct method that avoids iterative computations is proposed to derive a stiffness model for such a multi-body / multi-actuator telescope mirror spacecraft. An industrial, high-fidelity multi-body dynamic simulator is used to assess the derived model, and the results show its validity.
Generic promotion of Norwegian seafood exports
Creators: name: Williams, Gary W.
name: Capps Jr., Oral
name: Williams, Gary W.
name: Capps Jr., Oral
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Norway
subject: seafood exports
subject: generic advertising and promotion
subject: econometric simulation model
subject: benefit-cost analysis

description: The Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) works cooperatively with its seafood industry to develop foreign demand for Norwegian seafood through generic promotion and advertising. The generic promotion activities are financed through fees levied on all Norwegian seafood exports. Using an econometric simulation approach, the study addresses two key questions regarding the NSC generic seafood export promotion programs over time: (1) What have been the effects of those programs on the Norwegian seafood export volume, price, and revenue in the aggregate? (2) Have Norwegian seafood producers, exporters, and other stakeholders benefitted from the export-levy-funded generic export promotion programs? Examining potential scenarios for a likely range of the price responsiveness of the Norwegian seafood export supply, the study finds that NSC promotion added about 12% to the aggregate export value of Norwegian seafood between 2003 and 2017 resulting from an addition to the export price and volume of 10% and 4%, respectively. About 17% of stakeholder profits over that period was due to the promotion programs resulting in an industry profit benefit to cost ratio of about 12 to 13 to one.
Farmer awareness, perceptions and adoption of unmanned aerial vehicles: evidence from Missouri
Creators: name: Skevas, Theodoros
name: Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas
name: Skevas, Theodoros
name: Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: agricultural innovation
subject: technology awareness
subject: technology adoption
subject: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

description: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an important role in the future of farming. Because UAVs can provide precise, real-time information on biotic and abiotic stressors in agricultural production while they can also carry out autonomous operations to counter them, they can enhance farm profitability while reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture. Yet little is known about the current adoption of UAVs in agriculture or about the profile of the adopters. In this study we report actual and expected adoption of UAVs for a rich cross section of crop farmers and examine the factors that shape such adoption. In our empirical analysis we describe the inherent farmer heterogeneity – as shaped by differential awareness of UAV applications, perceptions of technical complexities, expectations of economic and environmental benefits and various socioeconomic factors – and analyze which of all these factors shape individual farmer adoption of UAVs. We also estimate and describe a small number of farmer segments that might adequately describe general population tendencies in the adoption of UAVs.
Hedonic valuation of country of origin in the Chinese dairy market
Creators: name: Zhang, Yan
name: Jin, Shaosheng
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Jin, Shaosheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: country-of-origin
subject: B2C platform
subject: implicit value
subject: hedonic price analysis
subject: dairy product

description: The implicit value to Chinese consumers of the country-of-origin (COO) characteristic of dairy products is of great importance to estimate. This study adopted the hedonic price model to evaluate the shadow price of the COO attribute of both UHT fluid milk and infant formula collected from the five leading e-commerce platforms (Alibaba’s Tmall Supermarket, Jingdong, Suning Purchase, COFCO I buy nets, and Yihaodian) in China. The target countries were Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Spain from the EU, and Australia and New Zealand from Oceania. The results show that the implicit values of the COO of UHT fluid milk and infant formula are reversed. Having a COO of Spain and Germany decreased the price of UHT fluid milk compared with China, while Germany, New Zealand, France, the Netherlands, and Spain all earned a price premium on infant formula. The B2C platforms Yihaodian, Jingdong, Alibaba’s Tmall Supermarket and Suning Purchase all earned a price premium above COFCO I buy nets. These findings have important implications for dairy industry of EU countries, Australia, New Zealand, and China in terms of the promotion of domestic dairy products. Moreover, this study contributes to the existing body of literature by innovating in employing sales data from e-commerce scanners to study the implicit value of food attributes.
Nonequilibrium inhomogeneous steady state distribution in disordered, mean-field rotator systems
Creators: name: Campa, Alessandro
name: Gupta, Shamik
name: Ruffo, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel method to compute the phase space distribution in the nonequilibrium stationary state of a wide class of mean-field systems involving rotators subject to quenched disordered external drive and dissipation. The method involves a series expansion of the stationary distribution in inverse of the damping coefficient; the expansion coefficients satisfy recursion relations whose solution requires computing a sparse matrix, making numerical evaluation simple and efficient. We illustrate our method for the paradigmatic Kuramoto model of spontaneous collective synchronization and for its two mode generalization, in presence of noise and inertia, and demonstrate an excellent agreement between simulations and theory for the phase space distribution.
description: Contribution to the JStatMech Special Issue dedicated to the Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence Workshop "Advances in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics";v2: small changes, close to the published version
CIRCULATION FANS AND BROILER WELFARE IN COMMERCIAL BROILER HOUSES
Creators: name: McMillian, Zoie Nicole
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Animal sciences
subject: Agriculture
subject: Broilers
subject: Circulation fans
subject: Footpad dermatitis
subject: Welfare

description: Footpad dermatitis (FPD) is a welfare concern in broiler houses today that is often caused by inadequate management of living conditions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of high-capacity circulation fans on house litter moisture, temperature, relative humidity, noise volume, and broiler body weight, FPD prevalence and severity, hock burn prevalence, feather cleanliness, and behavior from 2 organic commercial flocks. For both flocks, two houses had 16 high-capacity circulation fans (Houses 1 and 2) and two did not (Houses 3 and 4). Welfare assessments took place when the birds were 3 and 6 weeks of age. With both flocks combined, a greater prevalence of FPD (P=0.001) and hock burn (P=0.0002) was observed for birds in the houses without fans than in the houses with fans at week 6. Flock 1 birds in the houses without fans had greater FPD lesion areas (P=0.0001) and FPD severity scores (P=0.0004) than birds in houses with fans. In Flock 2, there were more small birds in the houses without fans at week 6 (P≤0.03). The results of this study indicate that high-capacity circulation fans in commercial broiler houses could positively impact FPD and hock burn prevalence, FPD severity, and flock uniformity.
Humane Normalität in der Anerkennung von Grenzen
Creators: name: Zaborowski, Holger
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 31 Nr. 6 (2002): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 31, Heft 6
Supplementary material for Pfizer Oncology’s Lung Cancer Pipeline – September 2024
Creators: name: Becker, Mauricio
name: Garas, Sam
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Congress materials may include information for investigational products or for which the product is not approved and/or inconsistent with the product uses described in the Prescribing Information. Regulatory approval of investigational products or uses is dependent on the completion of the study programs and review by regulatory authorities. Pfizer does not suggest or recommend the use of Pfizer Products in any manner other than as described in the Prescribing Information. The clinical trial information is available at www.clinicaltrials.gov. This information is current as of August 1, 2024.
Why Georgians Consider the European Union More Favorably Than Armenians
Creators: name: Weber, Alexander
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: The nations of the South Caucasus are an active battlefield for Russian and European influence. To understand ‘Why Georgians view the European Union More Favorably than Armenians’ it is crucial to understand that rapidly shifting opinion polls, war, economic security threats, military alliances, and religion all actively affect Georgian and Armenian political leanings. In the Georgian case, I focus on the country’s necessary historical relationship with Russia and its evolution in recent years, including a survey of Georgian society and its democratic potential. In the Armenian case, I examine Armenia’s political culture, detailing infighting and future aspirations. Then, I discuss the importance of national security in Armenia and the role that the EU and Russia play. Finally, I consider conflict points between the European Union and Russia; western expansion eastern, differing morals, and energy economics. Policymakers need to understand the regions they impact with their decision-making for the sake of peace and local stability.
A Perturbative Approach to Continuous-Time Quantum Error Correction
Creators: name: Ippoliti, Matteo
name: Mazza, Leonardo
name: Rizzi, Matteo
name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel discussion of the continuous-time quantum error correction introduced by Paz and Zurek in 1998 [Paz and Zurek, Proc. R. Soc. A 454, 355 (1998)]. We study the general Lindbladian which describes the effects of both noise and error correction in the weak-noise (or strong-correction) regime through a perturbative expansion. We use this tool to derive quantitative aspects of the continuous-time dynamics both in general and through two illustrative examples: the 3-qubit and the 5-qubit stabilizer codes, which can be independently solved by analytical and numerical methods and then used as benchmarks for the perturbative approach. The perturbatively accessible time frame features a short initial transient in which error correction is ineffective, followed by a slow decay of the information content consistent with the known facts about discrete-time error correction in the limit of fast operations. This behavior is explained in the two case studies through a geometric description of the continuous transformation of the state space induced by the combined action of noise and error correction.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
America's Sweethearts? A Feminist Discourse Analysis of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team
Creators: name: Nowosatka, Lauren Riley
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Gender studies
subject: Kinesiology
subject: Women's studies
subject: Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: Emphasized femininity
subject: Empowerment
subject: Intersectionality
subject: Professional cheerleading

description: The “often imitated, never equaled” Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (DCCs) are self-proclaimed as “the premier cheerleading squad in the world,” universally setting the stage (field) for professional cheerleading. In 2006, “America’s Sweethearts” launched a hit reality television (TV) show, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team (DCCs: MTT), where the squad director positions the organization as empowering women in the opening the series’ 13th season. Taking this seemingly contradictory statement—made during the #MeToo moment of 2018—as a department point, this thesis examines the constructions of femininity and empowerment on offer in season 13 of DCCs: MTT. A textual analysis adopted from Johnson et al.’s (2004) reading for dominance methodology, with a theoretical foundation in feminist discourse analysis and intersectionality, was used to examine season 13 of DCCs: MTT, answering the following questions: 1. What versions of femininity are on offer to viewers of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team? How do they intersect with race, sexuality, class, ability, etc.? 2. How is empowerment constructed through Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team? Findings suggest that performances of femininity are aligned with emphasized femininity and ambassadorship, offering a homogenous image to viewers that idealizes and reinforces hegemonic beauty standards, the thin-ideal, and the objectification of women, paired with displays of emotional expressions, “intelligence,” and poise that subjectively position the cheerleaders within the larger patriarchal, late-capitalist Dallas Cowboys and NFL structures. Supposedly empowering to the cheerleaders, the discursive practices, enforced performativities, and productional strategies displayed on season 13 of DCCs: MTT, frames the institution as faux-empowering, endorsing empowerment as the product of making “correct” individual choices. Consequently, cheerleaders and viewers who do not make these decisions are rendered disempowered and made to feel shameful, contradicting the spirited nature of the sport. This thesis seeks to fill the gap created by the lack of critical, sociological discussions of professional cheerleading as a spectacle of late-capitalist, uber sport, permeated through popular culture and which analyzes professional cheerleading through the site of reality TV.
Airway gym the app to treat sleep disordered breathing www.airwaygym.en
Creators: name: CARLOS O´CONNOR REINA
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We introduce our web page www.airwaygym.en where we demonstrate how the app airway gym works and we evaluate the patients where this app works better
Dynamically Induced Planck Scale and Inflation
Creators: name: Kannike, Kristjan
name: Hütsi, Gert
name: Pizza, Liberato
name: Racioppi, Antonio
name: Raidal, Martti
name: Salvio, Alberto
name: Strumia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theories where the Planck scale is dynamically generated from dimensionless interactions provide predictive inflationary potentials and super-Planckian field variations. We first study the minimal single-field realisation in the low-energy effective field theory limit, finding the predictions $n_s \approx 0.96$ for the spectral index and $r \approx 0.13$ for the tensor-to-scalar ratio, which can be reduced down to $\approx 0.04$ in presence of large couplings. Next we consider agravity as a dimensionless quantum gravity theory finding a multi-field inflation that converges towards an attractor trajectory that predicts $n_s\approx 0.96$ and $0.003
description: 29 pages, 5 figures. v3: final published version
First Order Thermal Analysis Methodology for Hybrid-Electric Propelled Aircraft in Early Design Stages
Creators: name:  JAAP VAN MUIJDEN
name:   JOS AALBERS
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the Aerospace Europe Conference - EUCASS - CEAS - 2023
Year: 2023
Subjects: THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
PREDESIGN
HEAT REJECTION
HYBRID-ELECTRIC PROPULSION

description: This paper describes the approach undertaken within the framework of the IMOTHEP project to arrive at a useful predictive methodology for thermal analysis and design within the early design stages of commercial aircraft. The drivetrains are assumed to be of hybrid-electric nature, suitable for a SJ\\.1Rtype aircraft. The elaboration focuses on the lay-out of the configuration, the specifics of the drivetrain, the integration of subsystems and their thermal simulation approach, and on the impact of parameter variations on the predicted outcomes. The presented methodology provides insight into the impact of assumptions during the design phase on thermal management consequences.
Heiligkeit des Lebens - Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben
Creators: name: Schlögel, Herbert
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 31 Nr. 6 (2002): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 31, Heft 6
Sind wir auf einer schiefen Bahn?
Creators: name: Vogel, Hans-Jochen
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 31 Nr. 6 (2002): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 31, Heft 6
Practical high-dimensional quantum key distribution with decoy states
Creators: name: Bunandar, Darius
name: Zhang, Zheshen
name: Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
name: Englund, Dirk R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-dimensional quantum key distribution (HD-QKD) allows two parties to generate multiple secure bits of information per detected photon. In this work, we show that decoy state protocols can be practically implemented for HD-QKD using only one or two decoy states. HD-QKD with two decoy states, under realistic experimental constraints, can generate multiple secure bits per coincidence at distances over 200 km and at rates similar to those achieved by a protocol with infinite decoy states. Furthermore, HD-QKD with only one decoy state is practical at short distances, where it is almost as secure as a protocol with two decoy states. HD-QKD with only one or two decoy states can therefore be implemented to optimize the rate of secure quantum communications.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Defects and Quantum Seiberg-Witten Geometry
Creators: name: Bullimore, Mathew
name: Kim, Hee-Cheol
name: Koroteev, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the Nekrasov partition function of the five dimensional U(N) gauge theory with maximal supersymmetry on R^4 x S^1 in the presence of codimension two defects. The codimension two defects can be described either as monodromy defects, or by coupling to a certain class of three dimensional quiver gauge theories on R^2 x S^1. We explain how these computations are connected with both classical and quantum integrable systems. We check, as an expansion in the instanton number, that the aforementioned partition functions are eigenfunctions of an elliptic integrable many-body system, which quantizes the Seiberg-Witten geometry of the five-dimensional gauge theory.
description: 89 pages, 8 figures, references added, typos corrected
"Zieh den Regelkreis nicht zu eng ...!"
Creators: name: Alkofer, Andreas-Pazifikus
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 31 Nr. 6 (2002): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 31, Heft 6
Application of a coupled-channel Complex Scaling Method with Feshbach projection to the $K^-pp$ system
Creators: name: Doté, Akinobu
name: Inoue, Takashi
name: Myo, Takayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kaonic nuclei (nuclear system with anti-kaons) have been an interesting subject in hadron and strange nuclear physics, because the strong attraction between anti-kaon and nucleon might bring exotic properties to that system. In this article, we investigate $K^-pp$ as a prototype of kaonic nuclei. Here, $K^-pp$ is a three-body resonant state in the $\bar{K}NN$-$πYN$ coupled channels. ($Y$=$Λ$, $Σ$) To treat resonant states in a coupled-channel system properly, we propose newly a coupled-channel complex scaling method combined with the Feshbach projection (ccCSM+Feshbach method). In this method, the Feshbach projection is realized with help of so-called the extended closure relation held in the complex scaling method, and a complicated coupled-channel problem is reduced to a simple single-channel problem which one can treat easily. First, we confirm that the ccCSM+Feshbach method completely reproduces results of a full coupled-channel calculation in case of two-body $\bar{K}N$-$πY$ system. We then proceed to study of three-body $\bar{K}NN$-$πYN$ system, and successfully find solutions of the $K^-pp$ resonance by imposing self-consistency for the complex $\bar{K}N$ energy. Obtained binding energy of $K^-pp$ is well converged around 27 MeV, with an energy-dependent $\bar{K}N$(-$πY$) potential based on the chiral SU(3) theory, independently of ansatz for the self-consistency. This binding energy is small as ones reported in earlier studies based on chiral models. The decay width of $K^-pp$ strongly depends on the ansatz. We calculate also the correlation density of $NN$ and $\bar{K}N$ pairs by using the obtained complex-scaled wave function of the $K^-pp$ resonance. Effect of the repulsive core of $NN$ potential and survival of $Λ^*$ resonance are confirmed.
description: 26 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys