cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recession Propagation in Small Regional Economies: Spatial Spillovers and Endogenous Clustering
Creators: name: Shibaev, Sergei S.
name: Shibaev, Sergei S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Bayesian statistics
subject: business cycles
subject: endogenous clustering
subject: regime-switching
subject: regional economic analysis
subject: spatial econometrics
subject: time series econometrics

description: This paper develops a statistical model for measuring spatial interactions when estimating macroeconomic regimes and regime shifts. The model is applied to study the contagion and propagation of recessions in small regional economies in the United States from 1990 to 2015. The empirical analysis identifies two geographical concentrations (or clusters) where small regional economies were affected by recessions in similar ways. These clusters are interpreted as groups of regions that are potentially at-risk to collective economic distress, which is useful for national and regional policy makers. The first identified cluster is characterized by regional economies with important roles in the financial sector, while the second cluster is characterized by the oil and gas extraction sector. The empirical findings uncover an important propagation dynamic that would be overlooked if one were to apply the model without the spatial extension developed in this paper. Specifically, the evidence shows significant spatial spillovers between small regional economies, meaning that shocks to regions are expected to be higher, when shocks to neighboring regions are high on average. The magnitude of this effect is amplified for the period spanning and following the Great Recession.
Bell Inequalities for Position Measurements
Creators: name: Larsson, Jan-Åke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell inequalities for position measurements are derived using the bits of the binary expansion of position-measurement results. Violations of these inequalities are obtained from the output state of the Non-degenerate Optical Parametric Amplifier.
description: revtex4, 2 figures
A comparative analysis of financial globalization: Financial market opening, social safety net, and democratic consolidation in South Korea, Russia, Thailand, and Brazil
Creators: name: Kim, Sunghan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research identified and explored the relationship between financial globalization and democratization in the cases of South Korea, Thailand, Brazil and Russia. Faced with huge capital mobility and financial crisis in 1997 and 1998, the state has lost some of its autonomy for deciding economic policies, and became vulnerable to volatility in international capital flows. How the financial globalization environment impacted the democratization process in the four cases is the focal point of this study. This research yields the finding that those governments---which pay attention to social safety net policies---have also improved political rights and civil liberties as well as democratic consolidation. The case of Russia shows that the political rights and civil liberties deteriorated while the government social expenditure also diminished. This study shows that various factors must converge to achieve a consolidated democracy. Efficient social safety net policies are a necessary (but not solely sufficient) condition to reach the goal, especially when countries are stressed by a situation as urgent as the 1997--1998 financial crisis. Whatever the economic situation, the polities of the countries in this study swing between political right and left; however, the pendulum seems to orient itself toward social democracy in the short run for those developing countries with democracies in transition. Those countries in transitional states of financial globalization and democratic consolidation are subject to multiple pressures from domestic and global forces. They will have to carefully balance growth and equity to internalize the attitude, behavior, and psychology of liberal democracy in order to complete these transitions at minimum cost to their societies.
Friction of Physisorbed Nanotubes: Rolling or Sliding?
Creators: name: Mandelli, Davide
name: Guerra, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure and motion of carbon and h-BN nanotubes (NTs) deposited on graphene is inquired theoretically by simulations based on state-of-the-art interatomic force fields. Results show that any typical cylinder-over-surface approximation is essentially inaccurate. NTs tend to flatten at the interface with the substrate and upon driving they can either roll or slide depending on their size and on their relative orientation with the substrate. In the epitaxially aligned orientation we find that rolling is always the main mechanism of motion, producing a kinetic friction linearly growing with the number of walls, in turn causing an unprecedented supra-linear scaling with the contact area. A 30 degrees misalignment raises superlubric effects, making sliding favorable against rolling. The resulting rolling-to-sliding transition in misaligned NTs is explained in terms of the faceting appearing in large multi-wall tubes, which is responsible for the increased rotational stiffness. Modifying the geometrical conditions provides an additional means of drastically tailoring the frictional properties in this unique tribological system.
A comparative analysis of financial globalization: Financial market opening, social safety net, and democratic consolidation in South Korea, Russia, Thailand, and Brazil
Creators: name: Kim, Sunghan
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This research identified and explored the relationship between financial globalization and democratization in the cases of South Korea, Thailand, Brazil and Russia. Faced with huge capital mobility and financial crisis in 1997 and 1998, the state has lost some of its autonomy for deciding economic policies, and became vulnerable to volatility in international capital flows. How the financial globalization environment impacted the democratization process in the four cases is the focal point of this study. This research yields the finding that those governments---which pay attention to social safety net policies---have also improved political rights and civil liberties as well as democratic consolidation. The case of Russia shows that the political rights and civil liberties deteriorated while the government social expenditure also diminished. This study shows that various factors must converge to achieve a consolidated democracy. Efficient social safety net policies are a necessary (but not solely sufficient) condition to reach the goal, especially when countries are stressed by a situation as urgent as the 1997--1998 financial crisis. Whatever the economic situation, the polities of the countries in this study swing between political right and left; however, the pendulum seems to orient itself toward social democracy in the short run for those developing countries with democracies in transition. Those countries in transitional states of financial globalization and democratic consolidation are subject to multiple pressures from domestic and global forces. They will have to carefully balance growth and equity to internalize the attitude, behavior, and psychology of liberal democracy in order to complete these transitions at minimum cost to their societies.
Individual differences in learning and remembering music: Auditory versus visual presentation
Creators: name: Korenman, Lisa Michele
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Educators often seek the most efficient method for teaching new material without giving much thought to the student's personal learning style preferences. This is also true in beginning music classes, where learning-preference-specific instruction may be more beneficial. The present experiments examined the effect of presentation modality (visual or auditory) and learning style preference on people's ability to learn and remember unfamiliar melodies and sentences. In addition, within this context, we were interested the effect of expertise on learning efficiency and memory for meaningful and less meaningful melodies and sentences. Thus, Experiment 1 investigated musicians' and non-musicians' learning efficiency for meaningful and less meaningful musical as well as verbal materials when presented visually or auditorily. Experiment 2 extended the exploration of the effect of the same variables from learning to the domain of memory. Findings reveal that learning style preferences do, in fact, affect people's learning efficiency and memory for both music and sentences. Visual learners learn visually presented items faster than auditorily presented ones and remember them better, the reverse being true for auditory learners. In addition, as expected, meaningful melodies and sentences are learned faster than less meaningful ones. Moreover, experts (musicians) learned meaningful melodies faster than less meaningful melodies as well as remember them better, but non-experts (non-musicians) showed no differences with regard to meaningfulness of the melodies.
Race and Gender Affinities in Voting: Experimental Evidence
Creators: name: Penney, Jeffrey
name: Tolley, Erin
name: Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth
name: Penney, Jeffrey
name: Tolley, Erin
name: Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: gender
subject: prejudice
subject: race
subject: voting

description: We analyze the results of a large-scale experiment wherein subjects participate in a hypothetical primary election and must choose between two fictional candidates who vary by sex and race. We find evidence of affnities along these dimensions in voting behaviour. A number of phenomena regarding these affnities and their interactions are detailed and explored. We find that they compete with each other on the basis of race and gender. Neuroeconomic metrics suggest that people who vote for own race candidates tend to rely more on heuristics than those who do not.
Holcopasites minimus BCP (LACM
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Holcopasites minimus (Linsley, 1943) *
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ Tucson, Arizona, USA; August 11, 1924]
As with other species in this genus, Holcopasites minimus is a brood parasite on bees in the subfamily Panurginae (Michener 2007). This species represents a new record for the BCP. We examined one female collected in La Giganta Ranges at Vic. Est. Microondas “Ligui”, 48 km S Loreto in September 1977 captured in the same sampling event as the H. insoletus records (LACM). See fig. 128.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
PENDAMPINGAN OPEN JURNAL SYSTEM (OJS) PERGURUAN TINGGI DI LINGKUNGAN LEMBAGA LAYANAN PENDIDIKAN TINGGI WILAYAH II di Universitas Baturaja
Creators: name: Sumartono, Eko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: OJS 3
OJS 2
Setting OJS

description: Perubahan proses penerbitan karya ilmiah secara online ini juga mendorong penerbitan dan Perbaikan OJS jurnal online oleh program studi di lingkungan Se-Universitas di Lingkungan Layanan Pendidikan Tinggi Wilayah II (LLDIKTI 2). Secara kuantitas, telah lebih dari 15 jurnal online yang sudah Sebagian besar melakukan perbaikan peningkatan di dalam OJS di lingkungan LLDIKTI 2 baik OJS 2 dan OJS 3 yang diadakan di Universitas Baturaja.
 Peningkatan kuantitas ini terutama didorong karena setiap dosen wajib mempublikasikan artikel ilmiah sebagai syarat sertifikasi dosen dan Jenjang Akademik dan serta mahasiswa sebagai syarat kelulusan. Keharusan ini difasilitasi untuk mendorong penerbitan jurnal online di setiap program studi di Universitas dengan pertimbangan tingginya daftar antrian penerbitan di sejumlah jurnal di Wilayah LLDIKTI 2. Hal ini tentu saja dianggap telah cukup membantu dosen dan mahasiswa untuk memenuhi tuntutan publikasi ilmiah.
 Namun secara kualitas, baik dari aspek teknis hardware dan software, maupun pengelolaan jurnal dan kualitas isi naskah yang diterbitkan secara umum masih belum memenuhi standar-standar yang ada. Permasalahan utama yang terjadi di Indonesia dan hal ini juga terjadi dalam pengelolaan jurnal online di Universitas wilayah LLDIKTI 2 yaitu belum memperhatikan kriteria-kriteria sesuai panduan pedoman pengelolaan jurnal dan akreditasi terbitan berkala ilmiah yang diterbitkan Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi (DIKTI). Pendampingan yang dilakukan pada saat di Universitas Muhammadiyah Kotabumi diharapkan sebuah jurnal penting untuk meningkatkan kualitas pengelolaan dan kualitas naskah yang diterbitkan masing-masing jurnal. Tidak hanya untuk kepentingan akreditasi institusi namun juga secara tidak langsung akan berdampak pada peningkatan kualitas penulisan ilmiah dosen dan mahasiswa. Karena semakin baik standar yang dicapai oleh suatu jurnal online maka hanya artikel berkualitas baik pula yang dapat diterbitkan di jurnal tersebut. Laporan ini kami tulis dengan tujuan untuk : memaparkan kemajuan yang telah dicapai dalam Pengelolaan Open Jurnal System dari media cetak menjadi media online dan berstandar sesuai dengan aturan penerbitan Jurnal Ilmiah.
description: Universitas Baturaja, Baturaja Palembang
Individual differences in learning and remembering music: Auditory versus visual presentation
Creators: name: Korenman, Lisa Michele
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Educators often seek the most efficient method for teaching new material without giving much thought to the student's personal learning style preferences. This is also true in beginning music classes, where learning-preference-specific instruction may be more beneficial. The present experiments examined the effect of presentation modality (visual or auditory) and learning style preference on people's ability to learn and remember unfamiliar melodies and sentences. In addition, within this context, we were interested the effect of expertise on learning efficiency and memory for meaningful and less meaningful melodies and sentences. Thus, Experiment 1 investigated musicians' and non-musicians' learning efficiency for meaningful and less meaningful musical as well as verbal materials when presented visually or auditorily. Experiment 2 extended the exploration of the effect of the same variables from learning to the domain of memory. Findings reveal that learning style preferences do, in fact, affect people's learning efficiency and memory for both music and sentences. Visual learners learn visually presented items faster than auditorily presented ones and remember them better, the reverse being true for auditory learners. In addition, as expected, meaningful melodies and sentences are learned faster than less meaningful ones. Moreover, experts (musicians) learned meaningful melodies faster than less meaningful melodies as well as remember them better, but non-experts (non-musicians) showed no differences with regard to meaningfulness of the melodies.
Panscopus Schonherr 1842
Creators: name: Spanton, Timothy G.
name: Anderson, Robert S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Erirhinidae
Panscopus

description: Subgenus Panscopus Schönherr, 1842
 Panscopus Schönherr 1842: 266. Gender masculine. Type species: Barynotus erinaceus Say, 1832, by original designation. Gemminger and Harold 1871: 2307; Horn 1876: 42; LeConte and Horn 1883: 444; Pierce 1913: 390 (as subgenus); Blatchley and Leng 1916: 103; Leng 1920: 312; Buchanan 1927, 1936; Schenkling and Marshall 1931: 39; Blackwelder 1939: 66; Kissinger 1964: 36; Hatch 1971: 288; O’ Brien and Wibmer 1982: 63; Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal 1999: 186; Anderson 2002: 782; Bright and Bouchard 2008: 248; Ciegler 2010: 199; Bousquet et al. 2013: 345.
 Diagnosis. A pair of setae on the ventral surface of the prementum, inserted at the anterior onethird to mid-length, and sinuous elytral humeral angles in dorsal view resulting from the convergence of intervals 7 and 9 a short distance distad of the anterior margin of the elytron distinguish representatives of this subgenus from those of all other taxa of Panscopus (sensu lato).
 Included Species. Panscopus alternatus, P. erinaceus, and P. impressus.
description: Published as part of Spanton, Timothy G. & Anderson, Robert S., 2016, A Taxonomic Revision of Weevils of the Genus Panscopus Schönherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Tropiphorini), pp. 1-86 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 15) (mo 15) 70 on page 14, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-70.mo4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4908700
Designing a Basic Income Guarantee for Canada
Creators: name: Boadway, Robin
name: Cuff, Katherine
name: Koebel, Kourtney
name: Boadway, Robin
name: Cuff, Katherine
name: Koebel, Kourtney
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: basic income guarantee
subject: inequality
subject: fiscal federalism

description: We propose mechanism for implementing a two-stage harmonized Basic Income Guarantee with federal and provincial components. In Stage One, the federal government replaces its refundable and nonrefundable tax credits with an income-tested basic income delivered through the income tax system. The reform is revenue-neutral. In Stage Two, each province decides whether to implement a provincial basic income guarantee that is harmonized with the federal one but allows province-specific basic income levels. The provincial basic income replaces provincial refundable and nonrefundable tax credits as well as welfare and disability transfers, and is also revenue-neutral. All social services and contributory social insurance programs remain intact. An illustrative calculation using Statistical Canada’s SPSD/M model shows the financial feasibility of a national BIG of $20,000 per adult adjusted for family size with a benefit reduction rate of 30%.
Anapole mediated giant photothermal nonlinearity in nanostructured silicon
Creators: name: Zhang, Tianyue
name: Che, Ying
name: Chen, Kai
name: Xu, Jian
name: Xu, Yi
name: Wen, Te
name: Lu, Guowei
name: Liu, Xiaowei
name: Wang, Bin
name: Xu, Xiaoxuan
name: Duh, Yi-Shiou
name: Tang, Yu-Lung
name: Han, Jing
name: Cao, Yaoyu
name: Guan, Bai-Ou
name: Chu, Shi-Wei
name: Li, Xiangping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Featured with a plethora of electric and magnetic Mie resonances, high index dielectric nanostructures offer a versatile platform to concentrate light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. By integrating unique features of far-field scattering control and near-field concentration from radiationless anapole states, here, we demonstrate a giant photothermal nonlinearity in single subwavelength-sized silicon nanodisks. The nanoscale energy concentration and consequent near-field enhancements mediated by the anapole mode yield a reversible nonlinear scattering with a large modulation depth and a broad dynamic range, unveiling a record-high nonlinear index change up to 0.5 at mild incident light intensities on the order of MW/cm2. The observed photothermal nonlinearity showcases three orders of magnitude enhancement compared with that of unstructured bulk silicon, as well as nearly one order of magnitude higher than that through the radiative electric dipolar mode. Such nonlinear scattering can empower distinctive point spread functions in confocal reflectance imaging, offering the potential for far-field localization of nanostructured Si with an accuracy approaching 40 nm. Our findings shed new light on active silicon photonics based on optical anapoles.
Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function
Creators: name: Chabrier, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent determinations of the present day and initial mass functions in various components of the Galaxy, disk, spheroid, young and globular clusters. As a general feature, the IMF is well described by a power-law form for $m\ga 1 \msol$ and a lognormal form below. The extension of the disk IMF into the brown dwarf (BD) regime is in good agreement with observations and yields a disk BD number-density comparable to the stellar one $\sim 0.1 \pc3$. The IMF of young clusters is found to be consistent with the disk field IMF, providing the same correction for unresolved binaries. The spheroid IMF relies on much less robust grounds. Within all the uncertainties, it is found to be similar to the one derived for globular clusters, and is well represented also by a lognormal form with a characteristic mass slightly larger than for the disk. The IMF characteristic of early star formation remains undetermined, but different observational constraints suggest that it does not extend below $\sim 1 \msol$. These IMFs allow a reasonably robust determination of the Galactic present-day and initial stellar and brown dwarf contents. They also have important galactic implications in yielding more accurate mass-to-light ratio determinations. The M/L ratios obtained with the disk and the spheroid IMF yield values 1.8 and 1.4 smaller than a Salpeter IMF, respectively. This general IMF determination is examined in the context of star formation theory. (shortened)
description: Published version: PASP, 2003, 115, 763. A few changes. References to recent work added
Altmetrics and the REF: how altmetrics can be used in your REF 2021 preparation
Creators: name: Altmetric Engineering
Publisher: name: Altmetric
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80705 Informetrics
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: In this article we will look back at REF 2014 and provide a view on how altmetrics could have assisted in REF 2014 submission preparations and how they can support the preparations for REF 2021. We will also look in more detail at how the Altmetric Explorer can be used to find relevant input for your submission.
The structure and outcomes of urban labor markets in Africa
Creators: name: Temesgen, Tilahun
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study is threefold as represented by its three separate parts. In the first part, it highlights major characteristics of labor markets and institutions in Africa. In the second, it investigates effects of these labor market institutions in the process of wage determination; and in the third, it investigates the separate influences of these institutions on gender wage gaps, where it also measures part of the gaps that may be due to discriminating treatments in the labor market against women. The analysis mainly focuses on the two most populous African countries: Ethiopia and Nigeria. Part I shows that African labor markets are characterized by a dominant public sector, high and increasing levels of informality and unemployment; minor to significant restrictions on forming independent unions, as well as gender disparity in labor force participation rates, education and wages. It also suggests that despite the prevalence of such common labor market characteristics, there are also significant differences within Africa, and that in the manufacturing sector, there is a substantial degree of occupational job segregation where women are over-represented in low paying occupations. In part II, the study finds that generally labor market institutions have significant wage effects, and the effects vary across countries and groups of firms within a country. For example, it shows that union firms pay an average premium of 33 percent over nonunion wages in Ethiopia, and about 62 percent in Nigeria; while there are no such significant union wage effects in the public sector sub-samples in both countries. The study further shows that in both countries, foreign firms pay better than domestic firms, and public firms on average pay less than private firms. Part III shows that women on average get about 73 percent of men's wages in Ethiopia and about 58 percent in Nigeria; and again institutions have significant influences on gender wage gaps. Using the Oaxaca-Blinder and Cotton-Neumark procedures, the study finds that the 'unexplained' component and discrimination due to women's disadvantage are also more pronounced in Nigeria where there is more restrictive attitude towards women's economic role.
Cash-Flow Business Taxation Revisited: Bankruptcy, Risk Aversion and Asymmetric Information
Creators: name: Boadway, Robin
name: Sato, Motohiro
name: Tremblay, Jean-FranÃgois
name: Boadway, Robin
name: Sato, Motohiro
name: Tremblay, Jean-FranÃgois
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: cash-flow tax
subject: risk-averse firms
subject: asymmetric information

description: It is well-known that cash-flow business taxes with full loss-offset, and their present-value equivalents, are neutral with respect to firms’ investment decisions when firms are riskneutral and there are no distortions. We study the effects of cash-flow business taxation when there is bankruptcy risk, when firms are risk-averse, and when financial intermediaries face asymmetric information problems in financing heterogeneous firms. Cash-flow taxes remain neutral under bankruptcy risk alone, but can distort the entry and investment decisions of firms under both risk-aversion and asymmetric information. We characterize the nature of such distortions and show that cash-flow taxes can increase social welfare in this context. An ACE tax is equivalent to a cash-flow tax but is easier to implement under asymmetric information.
Drivers of social equity in renewable energy at the municipal level: the case of local Japanese energy policy and preferences
Creators: name: Fraser, Timothy
name: Chapman, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy

description: Recent research has allowed us to quantify the costs and benefits of adopting renewable energy in specific municipalities, but how do these outcomes vary among communities at the national scale? This study uses survey responses from 47 Japanese municipalities to model these impacts and identifies key technological, social, and demographic factors that shape which communities benefit more from the renewable energy transition. On average, introducing renewable energy improves social equity, any financial burden on electricity prices is born most by wealthier residents, not the poor, and towns are predisposed to benefit from renewables no matter the amount introduced. To improve these impacts, towns can increase the amount of solar they host, or they can adjust the amount of CO2 emissions, PM emissions, tax revenue, jobs gained, or unpopular renewable power plants in their town. However, preferences and demographics matter as well. Age, education, and local preferences in favor of employment and community development all significantly relate to equity potential outcomes. Policymakers should consider adjusting their local energy priorities using these levers if they hope to engineer a renewable energy transition that is both positive and popular for their constituents.
An inclusive measurement of the photon energy spectrum in b->s gamma decays
Creators: name: Koppenburg, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a fully inclusive measurement of the flavour changing neutral current decay b->s gamma in the energy range 1.8 GeV < E* < 2.8 GeV, covering 95% of the total spectrum. Using 140 fb^-1 we obtain BF(b->s gamma)= 3.55 +/- 0.32 +0.30-0.31 +0.11-0.07, where the errors are statistical, systematic and from theory corrections. We also measure the first and second moments of the photon energy spectrum above 1.8 GeV and obtain = 2.292 +/- 0.026 +/- 0.034 GeV and -^2 = 0.0305 +/- 0.0074 +/- 0.0063 GeV^2, where the errors are statistical and systematic.
description: RevTex4, 6 pages, Submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett. Replaced: added table of systematic errors. New results take into account radiative J/Psi decays
TATA KELOLA DAN PUBLISHING MANAGEMENT OPEN JOURNAL SYSTEM
Creators: name: Sumartono, Eko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Open Journal System (OJS) adalah sistem manajemen jurnal dan penerbitan online yang telah dikembangkan oleh Public Knowledge Project melalui upaya yang didanai pemerintah federal untuk memperluas dan meningkatkan akses pada penelitian. Proyek ini merupakanhasil kerjasama antara Faculty of Education di University of British Columbia, The Simon Fraser University Library, The School of Education at Stanford University, dan The Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University. OJS adalah perangkat lunak open source yang tersedia bebas untuk jurnal di seluruh dunia, sebuah pilihan yang layak untuk pengelolaan jurnal, dengan akses terbuka dapat meningkatkan pembaca sebuah jurnal dan juga kontribusinya terhadap kepentingan publik dalam skala global. OJS merupakan GNU Public License yang berarti seluruh salinan dokumennya bebas digunakan dengan tetap mempertahankan lisensi yang sama. Selain untuk penerbitan jurnal secara online, OJS juga menyediakan fitur untuk Ready to Publish (Jurnal yang siap dipublikasikan).
GePEToS : A Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation package for Positron Emission Tomography
Creators: name: Jan, S.
name: Collot, J.
name: Gallin-Martel, M. -L.
name: Martin, P.
name: Mayet, F.
name: Tournefier, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GePEToS is a simulation framework developed over the last few years for assessing the instrumental performance of future PET scanners. It is based on Geant4, written in Object-Oriented C++ and runs on Linux platforms. The validity of GePEToS has been tested on the well-known Siemens ECAT EXACT HR+ camera. The results of two application examples are presented : the design optimization of a liquid Xe micro-PET camera dedicated to small animal imaging as well as the evaluation of the effect of a strong axial magnetic field on the image resolution of a Concorde P4 micro-PET camera.
description: 5 pages, 12 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
The Politics of Free Trade Agreements
Creators: name: Grossman, Gene M.
name: Helpman, Elhanan
name: Grossman, Gene M.
name: Helpman, Elhanan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Free trade agreement
subject: regional integration
subject: political economy
subject: trade policy

description: Suppose that an opportunity arises for two countries to negotiate a free trade agreement (FTA). Will an FTA between these countries be politically viable? And if so, what form will it take? We address these questions using a political-economy framework that emphasizes the interaction between industry tpecial interest groups and an incumbent government. We describe the economic conditions necessary for an FTA to be an equilibrium outcome, both for the case when the agreement must cover all bilateral trade and when a few, politically sensitive sectors can be excluded from the agreement.
Tight and loose shapes in flat entangled dense polymers
Creators: name: Hanke, Andreas
name: Metzler, Ralf
name: Dommersnes, Paul G.
name: Kantor, Yacov
name: Kardar, Mehran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of topological constraints (entanglements) on two dimensional polymer loops in the dense phase, and at the collapse transition (Theta point). Previous studies have shown that in the dilute phase the entangled region becomes tight, and is thus localised on a small portion of the polymer. We find that the entropic force favouring tightness is considerably weaker in dense polymers. While the simple figure-eight structure, created by a single crossing in the polymer loop, localises weakly, the trefoil knot and all other prime knots are loosely spread out over the entire chain. In both the dense and Theta conditions, the uncontracted knot configuration is the most likely shape within a scaling analysis. By contrast, a strongly localised figure-eight is the most likely shape for dilute prime knots. Our findings are compared to recent simulations.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Ichnea dimidiatipennis Spinola 1844
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Ichnea
Ichnea dimidiatipennis

description: Ichnea dimidiatipennis Spinola, 1844
(Figs. 75, 141, 159; Map 4)
 Ichnea dimidiatipennis Spinola, 1844: 162. Lectotype ♀. By subsequent designation (Ekis 1975: 49). Type locality: Colombia. The following description of this rarely collected species is based on one specimen from OXUM.
 Diagnosis. The bicolored facies of the elytra (Fig. 75) are diagnostic for this species.
 Description. Size: Length 9.0 mm; width 4.1 mm. Form (Fig. 141): Narrowly triangular. Integumental color (Fig. 75): Black, except posterior half of elytral disc yellow. Head: HW/ PW 1.0; frons indented; EW/VW 1.9; antenna as in Fig. 159, funicle compressed. Thorax: PL/ PW 1.2; elytra strongly flared to posterior two-thirds, EL/PL 5.4; EL/EW 2.3; anterior margin of protibia with 12 spines.
 Distribution. Known only from an unspecified location in Colombia (Map 4).
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2010, Classification, Natural History, and Evolution of the Epiphloeinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Part VIII. The Genera Acanthocollum Opitz, Stegnoclava Opitz, and Ichnea Laporte, pp. 1-65 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 9) (mo 9) 64 on page 36, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-64.mo4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4908605
Paranomada velutina Linsley 1939
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Paranomada velutina Linsley, 1939
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Douglas, Arizona, USA; August 10, 1936]
Paranomada velutina occurs across northwestern Mexico and the southwestern USA. This species is a brood parasite on Exomalopsis (Rozen 1977). We reviewed one female cited by Linsley (1943) collected in the Cape Mountains in October 1941 (CASC). Additionally, we examined one female collected in the Gulf Coast in La Paz in 1954 (CASC) and one from the Cape Region collected in October 1983 (LACM). See fig. 129.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Efficient large deviation estimation based on importance sampling
Creators: name: Guyader, Arnaud
name: Touchette, Hugo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a complete framework for determining the asymptotic (or logarithmic) efficiency of estimators of large deviation probabilities and rate functions based on importance sampling. The framework relies on the idea that importance sampling in that context is fully characterized by the joint large deviations of two random variables: the observable defining the large deviation probability of interest and the likelihood factor (or Radon-Nikodym derivative) connecting the original process and the modified process used in importance sampling. We recover with this framework known results about the asymptotic efficiency of the exponential tilting and obtain new necessary and sufficient conditions for a general change of process to be asymptotically efficient. This allows us to construct new examples of efficient estimators for sample means of random variables that do not have the exponential tilting form. Other examples involving Markov chains and diffusions are presented to illustrate our results.
description: v1: 34 pages, 8 figures; v2: Typos corrected; v3: More mathematical version containing technical modifications in Assumption 2, Assumption 3, and Eq. (53) needed in some of the proofs
The structure and outcomes of urban labor markets in Africa
Creators: name: Temesgen, Tilahun
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The purpose of this study is threefold as represented by its three separate parts. In the first part, it highlights major characteristics of labor markets and institutions in Africa. In the second, it investigates effects of these labor market institutions in the process of wage determination; and in the third, it investigates the separate influences of these institutions on gender wage gaps, where it also measures part of the gaps that may be due to discriminating treatments in the labor market against women. The analysis mainly focuses on the two most populous African countries: Ethiopia and Nigeria. Part I shows that African labor markets are characterized by a dominant public sector, high and increasing levels of informality and unemployment; minor to significant restrictions on forming independent unions, as well as gender disparity in labor force participation rates, education and wages. It also suggests that despite the prevalence of such common labor market characteristics, there are also significant differences within Africa, and that in the manufacturing sector, there is a substantial degree of occupational job segregation where women are over-represented in low paying occupations. In part II, the study finds that generally labor market institutions have significant wage effects, and the effects vary across countries and groups of firms within a country. For example, it shows that union firms pay an average premium of 33 percent over nonunion wages in Ethiopia, and about 62 percent in Nigeria; while there are no such significant union wage effects in the public sector sub-samples in both countries. The study further shows that in both countries, foreign firms pay better than domestic firms, and public firms on average pay less than private firms. Part III shows that women on average get about 73 percent of men's wages in Ethiopia and about 58 percent in Nigeria; and again institutions have significant influences on gender wage gaps. Using the Oaxaca-Blinder and Cotton-Neumark procedures, the study finds that the 'unexplained' component and discrimination due to women's disadvantage are also more pronounced in Nigeria where there is more restrictive attitude towards women's economic role.
Kritikan tentang COVID-19
Creators: name: Defnissa Zumara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80702 Health Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150601 Impacts of Tourism

description: Penyakit Virus COVID-19 tidak hanya berdampak terhadap kesehatan saja, namun dapat berdampak terhadap perdagangan hingga pariwisata, khusnya di Indonesia
Triopasites penniger
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Triopasites penniger (Cockerell, 1894)
[Holotype: ANSP; ♀ Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA; July 29, 1893]
Triopasites penniger is distributed in the xeric regions of northern Mexico and the southern USA. Bees in this genus are brood parasites of Anthophorula (Anthophorula) Rozen 1977. We reviewed 15 specimens: eight males collected in June 1983 from Magdalena Plains, BCS (SDNHM), two males collected in the Cape Mountains in October 1941, one male collected in Chaparral (BC) in July 1973 (CASC), and four specimens collected in the Sarcocaulescent Shrubland (BCS) in September 1977 (LACM). Additionally, the BBPT collected this species in June 2020, March 2021, and May 2022 in the Chaparral and Coastal Sage Matorral of BC. Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 129.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
A non-destructive analytic tool for nanostructured materials : Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy
Creators: name: Singha, A.
name: Dhar, P.
name: Roy, Anushree
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern materials science requires efficient processing and characterization techniques for low dimensional systems. Raman spectroscopy is an important non-destructive tool, which provides enormous information on these materials. This understanding is not only interesting in its own right from a physicist's point of view, but can also be of considerable importance in optoelectronics and device applications of these materials in nanotechnology. The commercial Raman spectrometers are quite expensive. In this article, we have presented a relatively less expensive set-up with home-built collection optics attachment. The details of the instrumentation have been described. Studies on four classes of nanostructures - Ge nanoparticles, porous silicon (nanowire), carbon nanotubes and 2D InGaAs quantum layers, demonstrate that this unit can be of use in teaching and research on nanomaterials.
description: 32 pages, 13 figures
title: Role of selected aspects of inflammation in age-dependent seizure susceptibility and neuronal injury in rats
Creators: name: Rizzi, Massimo
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: Besides systemic infection, proinflammatory signals in the CNS are also recruited by epileptic activity. Chronic stimulation of proinflammatory signals by seizures, or a persistent proinflammatory situation in brain may contribute to the establishment of a pathological substrate (i.e. neurodegeneration, neuronal hyperexcitability, blood-brain barrier damage, etc) playing a role in epileptogenesis and in the acute manifestation or reinforcement of seizures. Interestingly, in humans and in experimental models of epilepsy, seizure susceptibility and associated neuronal damage are age-dependent. Therefore, we wondered whether a hypothetical age-dependent relationship between proinflammatory molecules and seizure-susceptibility and related neurodegeneration there might exist and to what extent. A first group of experiments investigated the hypothesis that activation of glia and subsequent production of proinflammatory molecules such as interleukin-1(3  (IL-1(3) and tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a), as well as the naturally occurring anti-inflammatory molecule interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1Ra), are age-dependently involved in seizure-induced neuronal damage. A second group of experiments investigated whether a pre-existing LPS-induced inflammatory state in the CNS may enhance the predisposition of rat pups to develop seizures. We concluded that the induction of proinflammatory cytokines, per se, cannot be regarded as a general mechanism which underlies the appearance of neurodegeneration. In addition, there were no clear indications emerging from our data concerning the role of proinflammatory cytokines in modulating seizure-susceptibility in rat pups. Nonetheless, we showed that prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) production and the activation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis play a relevant role in the modulation of seizure-susceptibility in rat pups. Interestingly, our experiments seem to support the hypothesis that production of proinflammatory molecules such as IL-1 (3 and TNF-a in rat pups might be down-regulated upon elevation of parenchymal PGE2 levels.
Creation operators for 2-branes and duality in BF and Chern-Simons theories in D=5
Creators: name: Marino, E. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly construct the creation operators for the quantum field configurations associated to quantum membranes (2-branes) in BF and generalized Chern-Simons theories in a spacetime of dimension D=5. The creation operators for quantum excitations carrying topological charge are also obtained in the same theories. For the case of D=5 generalized Chern-Simons theory, we show that this operator actually creates an open string with a topological charge at its tip. It is shown that a duality structure exists in general, relating the membrane and topological excitation operators and the corresponding dual algebra is derived. Composite topologically charged membranes are shown to possess generalized statistics that may, in particular, be fermionic. This is the first step for the bosonization procedure in these theories. Potential applications in the full quantization of 2-branes is also briefly discussed.
description: 20 pages
TEKNIK PENYUNTINGAN SUBSTANSI ARTIKEL
Creators: name: Sumartono, Eko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Substansi Artikel; Publikasi, Ristekbrin

description: Sehubungan dengan hal-hal baru yang telah diumumkan oleh DRPM RistekBrin, dan untuk memacu semangat Bapak/Ibu dalam pembuatan proposal Panelitian dan/atau Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat serta sesuai dengan terbitnya Buku Panduan Penelitian dan Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat Edisi XIII dan Surat Edaran Penerimaan Proposal Tahun Pendanaan 2021. Maka materi ini di presentasikan pada Workshop Teknik Penyusunan Proposal agar Lolos didanai RistekBrin, serta Teknik Publikasi ke Jurnal Internasional Bereputasi, Jurnal Nasional Terakreditasi SINTA 1/2 dan segala sesuatu yang berkenaan dengan Hak Kekayaan Intelektual di Universitas Dehasen Bengkulu