cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Revealing the Mechanism of Electrochemical Lithiation of Carbon Nanotube Fibers
Creators: name: Boaretto, Nicola
name: Rana, Moumita
name: Marcilla, Rebeca
name: Vilatela, Juan José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fabrics of continuous fibers of carbon nanotubes (CNTFs) are attractive materials for multifunctional energy storage devices, either as current collector, or as active material. Despite a similar chemical composition, lithiation/delithiation in CNTFs is substantially different from traditional graphite electrodes. In CNTFs this process is dominated by surface processes, insertion in the bundles interstices, electrochemical doping and often-overlooked partial degradation of the sp2 lattice upon cycling. Through extensive electrochemical analysis, together with in situ Raman spectroscopy measurements, we analyzed the complex lithiation behavior of highly crystalline fibers of CNTs. CNTF can store lithium reversibly with high specific capacity and rate capability, thanks to a large capacitive contribution. Upon lithiation, they undergo electrochemical doping, with longitudinal conductivity increasing by as much as 100 %, concomitant with large downshifts in Raman spectra. However, CNTF are also affected by high first-cycle irreversible capacity, voltage hysteresis and amorphization upon cycling. Electrochemical analysis confirms that SEI formation is responsible for the first-cycle irreversible capacity. Voltage hysteresis is attributed primarily to the trapping of lithium ions in the interstices between stacked nanotubes. Another dominant feature is pre-existing defects, which promote capacitive storage but lead to progressive amorphization of the CNTFs. Indeed, it is evidenced that undesired amorphization is hindered in ultra-pure CNTF without pre-existing defects.
description: 27 pages, 9 figures
INTEGRATING BIOMASS TO PRODUCE HEAT AND POWER AT ETHANOL PLANTS
Creators: name: De Kam, Matthew J.
name: Morey, R. Vance
name: Tiffany, Douglas G.
name: De Kam, Matthew J.
name: Morey, R. Vance
name: Tiffany, Douglas G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Biomass
subject: Renewable
subject: Sustainable
subject: Model
subject: Gasification
subject: Combustion
subject: Emissions
subject: Ethanol production
subject: Combined heat and power

description: Several technology options are available that can help improve the sustainability of ethanol production from corn. Dry‐grind ethanol process coproducts and other nearby biomass resources can be used to produce process heat and electricity at ethanol plants. These biomass fuels can reduce process energy costs, provide a consistent source of renewable electricity for the local utility, and increase the renewable energy balance for fuel ethanol production. An Aspen Plus model of the dry‐grind ethanol process is used as a basis for the integration of biomass‐fueled combined heat and power systems. Several combinations of combustion and gasification systems, power production cycles, biomass fuel combinations, and air emission control technologies are evaluated. Suitable configurations for incorporating biomass to produce heat and power at typical 190 million‐L (50 million‐gal) per year dry‐grind ethanol facilities are analyzed.
description: Published in: Applied Engineering in Agriculture, Vol. 25(2): 227‐244
Tracemax: A Novel Single Packet IP Traceback Strategy for Data-Flow Analysis
Creators: name: Hillmann, Peter
name: Tietze, Frank
name: Rodosek, Gabi Dreo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The identification of the exact path that packets are routed on in the network is quite a challenge. This paper presents a novel, efficient traceback strategy named Tracemax in context of a defense system against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. A single packet can be directly traced over many more hops than the current existing techniques allow. In combination with a defense system it differentiates between multiple connections. It aims to letting non-malicious connections pass while bad ones get thwarted. The novel concept allows detailed analyses of the traffic and the transmission path through the network. The strategy can effectively reduce the effect of common bandwidth and resource consumption attacks, foster early warning and prevention as well as higher the availability of the network services for the wanted customers.
description: Keywords: Computer network management, IP networks, IP packet, Traceback, Packet trace, Denial of Service
Additional file 7 of A tissue level atlas of the healthy human virome
Creators: name: Kumata, Ryuichi
name: Ito, Jumpei
name: Takahashi, Kenta
name: Tadaki Suzuki
name: Sato, Kei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 7: Figure S2 Comparison of our analytical pipeline with the other pipelines.
On the invariance under area preserving diffeomorphisms of noncommutative Yang-Mills theory in two dimensions
Creators: name: Bassetto, A.
name: De Pol, G.
name: Torrielli, A.
name: Vian, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an investigation on the invariance properties of noncommutative Yang-Mills theory in two dimensions under area preserving diffeomorphisms. Stimulated by recent remarks by Ambjorn, Dubin and Makeenko who found a breaking of such an invariance, we confirm both on a fairly general ground and by means of perturbative analytical and numerical calculations that indeed invariance under area preserving diffeomorphisms is lost. However a remnant survives, namely invariance under linear unimodular tranformations.
description: LaTeX JHEP style, 16 pages, 2 figures
Impact of the measured parameters of exoplanets on the inferred internal structure
Creators: name: Otegi, J. F.
name: Dorn, C.
name: Helled, R.
name: Bouchy, F.
name: Haldemann, J.
name: Alibert, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exoplanet characterization is one of the main foci of current exoplanetary science. For super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, we mostly rely on mass and radius measurements, which allow to derive the body's mean density and give a rough estimate of the planet's bulk composition. However, the determination of planetary interiors is a very challenging task. In addition to the uncertainty in the observed fundamental parameters, theoretical models are limited due to the degeneracy in determining the planetary composition. We aim to study several aspects that affect internal characterization of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes: observational uncertainties, location on the M-R diagram, impact of additional constraints as bulk abundances or irradiation, and model assumptions. We use a full probabilistic Bayesian inference analysis that accounts for observational and model uncertainties. We employ a Nested Sampling scheme to efficiently produce the posterior probability distributions for all the planetary structural parameter of interest. We include a structural model based on self-consistent thermodynamics of core, mantle, high-pressure ice, liquid water, and H-He envelope. Regarding the effect of mass and radius uncertainties on the determination of the internal structure, we find three different regimes: below the Earth-like composition line and above the pure-water composition line smaller observational uncertainties lead to better determination of the core and atmosphere mass respectively, and between them structure characterization only weakly depends on the observational uncertainties. We show that small variations in the temperature or entropy profiles lead to radius variations that are comparable to the observational uncertainty, suggesting that uncertainties linked to model assumptions can become more relevant to determine the internal structure than observational uncertainties.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Independent variable
Creators: name: Sameera Senanayake
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110312 Nephrology and Urology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80702 Health Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: This document has the independent variables used in developing and validating a risk index to predict kidney graft survival using machine learning methods; Kidney Transplant Risk Index
Domain wall dynamics in an optical Kerr cavity
Creators: name: Sanchez-Morcillo, Victor J.
name: Espinosa, Victor
name: Perez-Arjona, Isabel
name: Silva, Fernando
name: de Valcarcel, German J.
name: Roldan, Eugenio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An anisotropic (dichroic) optical cavity containing a self-focusing Kerr medium is shown to display a bifurcation between static --Ising-- and moving --Bloch-- domain walls, the so-called nonequilibrium Ising-Bloch transition (NIB). Bloch walls can show regular or irregular temporal behaviour, in particular, bursting and spiking. These phenomena are interpreted in terms of the spatio-temporal dynamics of the extended patterns connected by the wall, which display complex dynamical behaviour as well. Domain wall interaction, including the formation of bound states is also addressed.
description: 15 pages Tex file with 11 postscript figures. Resubmitted to Phys. Rev. E
Supplementary information from System analysis with life cycle assessment for NiMH battery recycling
Creators: name: Korkmaz, Kivanc
name: Junestedt, Christian
name: Elginoz, Nilay
name: Almemark, Mats
name: Svärd, Michael
name: Rasmuson, Åke
name: Forsberg, Kerstin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400499
subject: Chemical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Contains additional information regarding mass balances, inventory data sources and the cost assessment.
Supplementary figures from Astrocytes induce desynchronization and reduce predictability in neuron-astrocyte networks cultured on microelectrode arrays
Creators: name: Genocchi, Barbara
name: Ahtiainen, Annika
name: Niemi, Annika
name: Barros, Michael Taynnan
name: Tanskanen, Jarno M.A.
name: Lenk, Kerstin
name: Hyttinen, Jari
name: Subramaniyam, Narayan Puthanmadam
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400399
subject: Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified

description: CDFof entropy/complexity measures and results from Random Forest predictor
A Normal Form for the Onset of Collapse: the Prototypical Example of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
Creators: name: Chapman, S. J.
name: Kavousanakis, M. E.
name: Kevrekidis, I. G.
name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of nonlinear waves that collapse in finite time is a theme of universal interest, e.g. within optical, atomic, plasma physics, and nonlinear dynamics. Here we revisit the quintessential example of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation and systematically derive a normal form for the emergence of blowup solutions from stationary ones. While this is an extensively studied problem, such a normal form, based on the methodology of asymptotics beyond all algebraic orders, unifies both the dimension-dependent and power-law-dependent bifurcations previously studied; it yields excellent agreement with numerics in both leading and higher-order effects; it is applicable to both infinite and finite domains; and it is valid in all (subcritical, critical and supercritical) regimes.
Ground state correlations in a trapped quasi one-dimensional Bose Gas
Creators: name: Walser, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the basic concepts of a non-equilibrium kinetic theory of a trapped bosonic gas. By extending the successful mean-field concept of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the effects of non-local, two particle quantum correlations, one obtains a renormalized binary interaction and allows for the dynamic establishment of non-classical many-particle quantum correlations. These concepts are illustrated by self-consistent numerical calculations of the first and second order ground state quantum correlations of a harmonically trapped, quasi one-dimensional bosonic gas. We do find a strong suppression of the density fluctuations or, in other words, an enhanced number squeezing with decreasing particle density.
description: 19 pages LaTeX, 19 color figures, to be published in the special issue on "Degenerate Quantum Gases" in Opt. Com. (2004)
Attention-based Fully Gated CNN-BGRU for Russian Handwritten Text
Creators: name: Abdallah, Abdelrahman
name: Hamada, Mohamed
name: Nurseitov, Daniyar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This research approaches the task of handwritten text with attention encoder-decoder networks that are trained on Kazakh and Russian language. We developed a novel deep neural network model based on Fully Gated CNN, supported by Multiple bidirectional GRU and Attention mechanisms to manipulate sophisticated features that achieve 0.045 Character Error Rate (CER), 0.192 Word Error Rate (WER) and 0.253 Sequence Error Rate (SER) for the first test dataset and 0.064 CER, 0.24 WER and 0.361 SER for the second test dataset. Also, we propose fully gated layers by taking the advantage of multiple the output feature from Tahn and input feature, this proposed work achieves better results and We experimented with our model on the Handwritten Kazakh & Russian Database (HKR). Our research is the first work on the HKR dataset and demonstrates state-of-the-art results to most of the other existing models.
A numerical framework for elastic surface matching, comparison, and interpolation
Creators: name: Bauer, Martin
name: Charon, Nicolas
name: Harms, Philipp
name: Hsieh, Hsi-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 68U05, 49Q10, 58D10

description: Surface comparison and matching is a challenging problem in computer vision. While reparametrization-invariant Sobolev metrics provide meaningful elastic distances and point correspondences via the geodesic boundary value problem, solving this problem numerically tends to be difficult. Square root normal fields (SRNF) considerably simplify the computation of certain elastic distances between parametrized surfaces. Yet they leave open the issue of finding optimal reparametrizations, which induce elastic distances between unparametrized surfaces. This issue has concentrated much effort in recent years and led to the development of several numerical frameworks. In this paper, we take an alternative approach which bypasses the direct estimation of reparametrizations: we relax the geodesic boundary constraint using an auxiliary parametrization-blind varifold fidelity metric. This reformulation has several notable benefits. By avoiding altogether the need for reparametrizations, it provides the flexibility to deal with simplicial meshes of arbitrary topologies and sampling patterns. Moreover, the problem lends itself to a coarse-to-fine multi-resolution implementation, which makes the algorithm scalable to large meshes. Furthermore, this approach extends readily to higher-order feature maps such as square root curvature fields and is also able to include surface textures in the matching problem. We demonstrate these advantages on several examples, synthetic and real.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, 3 algorithms. Forthcoming in the International Journal of Computer Vision
Signals in Single-Event Pion Interferometry for Granular Sources of Quark-Gluon Plasma Droplets
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei-Ning
name: Li, Shu-Xia
name: Wong, Cheuk-Yin
name: Efaaf, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations of quark-gluon plasma droplet sources in single-event measurements. We find that the distribution of the fluctuation between correlation functions of the single- and mixed-events provide useful signals to detect the granular structure of the source.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, in LaTex
Additional file 1 of Improving clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction among patients with coronary artery disease: an example of enhancing regional integration between a cardiac centre and a referring hospital
Creators: name: Veghel, Dennis Van
name: Soliman-Hamad, Mohamed
name: Schulz, Daniela N.
name: Cost, Bernard
name: Simmers, Timothy A.
name: Dekker, Lukas R. C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire patient satisfaction
The Impact of Trade Openness on Technical Efficiency in U.S. Agriculture
Creators: name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Shaik, Saleem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
International Relations/Trade

description: This study addresses the impact of trade openness on technical efficiency in the U.S. agricultural sector. The results indicate that trade protectionism illustrated with a decrease in the share of agricultural imports in agricultural GDP led to an increase in technical efficiency. A change in the share of agricultural exports in agricultural GDP had no impact on technical efficiency. These results are partially consistent with the premise of the new trade theory, but also seem to be driven by the intricacies of the agricultural sector and agricultural policy in the United States and internationally.
The Green Revolution in a macroeconomic perspective : the Philippine case
Creators: name: Bautista, Romeo M.
name: Bautista, Romeo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Green Revolution -- Philippines
subject: Social accounting -- Mathematical models
subject: Farm income -- Philippines
subject: Rice production -- Philippines

description: This paper analyzes the income and equity effects of the dramatic growth in rice yield in the Philippines during the "green revolution" period 1965-1980 using a modified Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) framework. Proportionately larger income benefits are found to accrue to the large-farm than the small-farm households, indicating a negative equity effect under the historical policy regime and economic structure. The results of counterfactual simulation involving a more active promotion of small-farm production point to a complementarity, rather than a tradeoff, between the twin objectives of growth and equity.
description: "May 1995" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 21-23).
Aggregate eco-efficiency indices for New Zealand – a Principal Components Analysis
Creators: name: Jollands, Nigel
name: Lermit, Jonathan
name: Patterson, Murray
name: Jollands, Nigel
name: Lermit, Jonathan
name: Patterson, Murray
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Policy development
subject: policy evaluation
subject: Aggregate indices

description: Eco-efficiency has emerged as a management response to waste issues associated with current production processes. Despite the popularity of the term in both business and government circles, limited attention has been paid to measuring and reporting eco-efficiency to government policy makers. Aggregate measures of eco-efficiency are needed, to complement existing measures and to help highlight important patterns in eco-efficiency data. This paper aims to develop aggregate measures of eco-efficiency for use by policy makers. Specifically, this paper provides a unique analysis by applying principal components analysis (PCA) to eco-efficiency indicators in New Zealand. This study reveals that New Zealand's overall eco-efficiency improved for two out of the five aggregate measures over the period 1994/95 to 1997/98. The worsening of the other aggregate measures reflects, among other things, the relatively poor performance of the primary production and related processing sectors. These results show PCA is an effective approach for aggregating eco-efficiency indicators and assisting decision makers by reducing redundancy in an eco-efficiency indicators matrix.
Role-based control of shared application views
Creators: name: Berry, Lior
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Collaboration often relies on all group members having a shared view of a single-user application. A common situation is a single active presenter sharing a live view of her workstation screen with a passive audience, using simple hardware-based video signal projection onto a large screen or simple bitmap-based sharing protocols. This offers simplicity and some advantages over more sophisticated software-based replication solutions, but everyone has the exact same view of the application. This conflicts with the presenter's need to keep some information and interaction details private. It also fails to recognize the needs of the passive audience, who may struggle to follow the presentation because of the amount of interaction details, display clutter or insufficient familiarity with the application. Views that cater to the different roles of the presenter and the audience can be provided by custom solutions, but these tend to be bound to a particular application. This thesis describes a general technique and implementation details of a prototype system that allows standardized role-specific views of existing single-user applications and permits additional customization that is application-specific with no change to the application source code. Role-based policies control manipulation and display of shared windows and image buffers produced by the application, providing semi-automated privacy protection, relaxed verbosity and added visual cues to meet both presenter and audience needs. The system's prototype was evaluated in a formal user study, in a task training scenario using a shared view. The study showed that adding visual cues improves accuracy, while privacy filters do not result in performance penalties but can even assist viewers.
On the problem of mass-dependence of the two-point function of the real scalar free massive field on the light cone
Creators: name: Ullrich, P.
name: Werner, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the generally assumed inconsistency in light cone quantum field theory that the restriction of a massive, real, scalar, free field to the nullplane $Σ=\{x^0+x^3=0\}$ is independent of mass \cite{LKS}, but the restriction of the two-point function depends on it (see, e.g., \cite{NakYam77, Yam97}). We resolve this inconsistency by showing that the two-point function has no canonical restriction to $Σ$ in the sense of distribution theory. Only the so-called tame restriction of the two-point function exists which we have introduced in \cite{Ull04sub}. Furthermore, we show that this tame restriction is indeed independent of mass. Hence the inconsistency appears only by the erroneous assumption that the two-point function would have a (canonical) restriction to $Σ$.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Supplementary tables and figures from The moon’s influence on the activity of tropical forest mammals
Creators: name: Bischof, Richard
name: Vallejo Vargas, Andrea Fernanda Fernanda
name: Semper-Pascual, Asunción
name: Schowanek, Simon
name: Beaudrot, L.
name: Turek, Daniel
name: Jansen, Patrick A.
name: Rovero, Francesco
name: Johnson, Steig
name: Lima, Marcela
name: Santos, Fernanda
name: Uzabaho, Eustrate
name: Espinosa, Santiago
name: Ahumada, Jorge A.
name: Bitariho, Robert
name: Salvador, Julia
name: Mugerwa, Badru
name: Sainge, Moses N.
name: Sheil, Douglas
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Tables S1-S6, Figures S1-S4
Additional file 4 of A tissue level atlas of the healthy human virome
Creators: name: Kumata, Ryuichi
name: Ito, Jumpei
name: Takahashi, Kenta
name: Tadaki Suzuki
name: Sato, Kei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4: Figure S1 Read coverage on EBV, HHV-6 and HHV-7 genomes.
Benefit Transfer: Choice Experiment Results
Creators: name: Kerr, Geoffrey N.
name: Sharp, Basil M.H.
name: Kerr, Geoffrey N.
name: Sharp, Basil M.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Choice model
subject: Choice experiment
subject: Benefit transfer
subject: Mitigation

description: Benefit transfer entails using estimates of non-market values derived at one site as approximations to benefits at other sites. The method finds favour because it can be applied quickly and cheaply, however the validity of benefit transfer is frequently questioned. Published studies generally indicate that errors from the approach can be extremely large and could result in significant resource misallocations. Assessing the validity of benefit transfer is complicated by differences in the nature of study and policy sites, the changes being valued, valuation methods, time of study, availability of substitutes and complements, and demographic, social and cultural differences. A choice experiment was used to evaluate the transferability of benefit estimates for identical goods between two different populations. The study design allowed most of the confounding factors to be controlled, so provides a strong test of benefit transfer validity. Several different tests were applied to evaluate benefit transfer validity, with conflicting results. The paper investigates the merits of the alternative tests and concludes that utility functions were different for the two populations.
Yang-Mills and some related algebras
Creators: name: Connes, Alain
name: Dubois-Violette, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58B34; 81R60; 16E65; 08C99

description: After a short introduction on the theory of homogeneous algebras we describe the application of this theory to the analysis of the cubic Yang-Mills algebra, the quadratic self-duality algebras, their "super" versions as well as to some generalization.
description: 15 pages. Contribution to the Proceedings of Rigorous Quantum Field Theory in the honour of Jacques Bros
Some characteristics of multiple job holding by New Zealand farm men and women
Creators: name: Taylor, Nick
name: McClintock, Wayne
name: Taylor, Nick
name: McClintock, Wayne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: farming
subject: employment
subject: pluriactivity
subject: social change

description: Previous research indicates a high level of multiple job holding amongst New Zealand farm men and women. Interviews of sixty farm men and women holding multiple jobs in the Ashburton District in 2003 were part of a larger research programme. Respondents identified a wide range of work undertaken in addition to farm work. They are tending to hold these jobs longer term, showing multiple job holding amongst is established as a feature of farm households. Reasons for holding multiple jobs are complex, with a range of social and economic benefits identified. Although there are effects on work-life balance.
Muon anomaly and a lower bound on higgs mass due to a light stabilized radion in the Randall-Sundrum model
Creators: name: Das, Prasanta Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Randall-Sundrum model with a light stabilized radion (required to fix the size of the extra dimension) in the light of muon anomalous magnetic moment $a_μ[= \frac{(g - 2)}{2}]$. Using the recent data (obtained from the E821 experiment of the BNL collaboration) which differs by $2.6 σ$ from the Standard Model result, we obtain constraints on radion mass $\mphi$ and radion vev $\vphi$. In the presence of a radion the beta functions $β(ł)$ and $β(g_t)$ of higgs quartic coupling ($ł$) and top-Yukawa coupling ($g_t$) gets modified. We find these modified beta functions. Using these beta functions together with the anomaly constrained $\mphi$ and $\vphi$, we obtain lower bound on higgs mass $m_h$. We compare our result with the present LEP2 bound on $m_h$.
description: Version to be appeared in IJMPA
Econometric Analysis of some Trade Issues for Meat
Creators: name: Cao, Kay
name: Johnson, Robin
name: Cao, Kay
name: Johnson, Robin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper is based on an econometric model of the New Zealand meat export trade for the period 1990-2003. The model is known as a gravity model because it describes trade flows as being balanced between the respective pull of domestic and importing country size and incomes. The meat trade is characterised by strict hygiene regulations, quota markets and tariff charges in different markets. In addition, meat is not a homogeneous commodity but is characterised by breed, cut and presentation, and differentiated market destinations. An econometric model not only identifies general trends in demand and supply which might already be fairly obvious to the trade preactitioner but it also puts confidence intervals on the economic relationships being observed. We estimate income elasticities of demand, price elasticities, distance factors, tariff rate quota restrictions, and the impact of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations. Results are available for `all meat’, `beef and veal’ and `lamb’ exports to 9 countries.
The Secondary Ionization Wave and Characteristic Map of Surface Discharge Plasma in a Wide Time Scale
Creators: name: Zhu, Yifei
name: Wu, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variation of voltage profiles with different time scales leads to the redistribution of deposited energy as well as electro-hydrodynamic forces, while the mechanism and scaling law is still unknown. On the basis of theoretical and numerical analysis, we show that a secondary surface ionization wave forms during the voltage rising slope when electron density decreases to a critical level while the voltage is still rising. A characteristic map of energy and electro-hydrodynamics force in time scales between 1~ns and 0.1~s at atmospheric pressure is proposed, opening the door towards the target--directed design of surface discharges.
Detecting common secondary structure elements in RNA sequences
Creators: name: Shah, Sohrab P
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: As evidence for the important and diverse roles of RNA molecules in our cellular machinery continues to grow, there is an increasing interest in developing computational methods to analyse RNA sequences. Sets of evolutionarily related RNA sequences contain signals at both the sequence and secondary structure levels that can be exploited to detect motifs common to all or a portion of those sequences. Motifs conserved in evolution are believed to be functionally important and therefore detection of such motifs could yield novel functional RNA sequences. We developed an algorithm called DISCO to detect conserved motifs in a set of unaligned RNA sequences. Our algorithm uses a powerful probabilistic formalism called covariance models (CM) to model motifs. We introduce a novel approach to initialise a CM using pairwise and multiple sequence alignment. The CM is then iteratively refined using expectation maximisation. Our initialisation method can operate on sequence signals alone using only a portion of the input sequences to initialise a CM to recover the remaining motif instances. We tested our algorithm on 26 data sets derived from Rfam seed alignments of microRNA (miRNA) precursors and conserved elements in the untranslated regions of mRNAs (UTR elements). By three measures of specificity and positive predictive value, our algorithm performed well on the miRNA data sets and showed a bi-modal distribution for the UTR element data sets where the motif was completely missed, or very accurately predicted. In a comparison test with a competing algorithm, DISCO outperformed RNAProfile in measures of sensitivity and positive predictive value, although the running time of RNAProfile was considerably faster. The accuracy of our algorithm was unaffected by average percent pairwise sequence identity, overall length or number of sequences in the input data, indicating that DISCO could be run with similar accuracy on diverse data sets. The running time of DISCO is 0(W³ + L²W² + L³) where W is the width of the motif and L is the length of the longest sequence in the input data. This is an improvement on SLASH, the only other RNA motif finding algorithm in the literature that uses CMs.
CP violation in $K^{\pm}\toπ^0π^0π^{\pm}$ decay
Creators: name: Fäldt, Göran
name: Shabalin, Evgeny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CP violation leads to a difference between the parameters $g^+$ and $g^-$ describing the energy distributions of the charged pions produced in the $K^+ \toπ^0 π^0 π^+$ and $K^- \to π^0π^0 π^-$ decays. We study the difference $(g^+ - g^-)$ as a function of the relative contributions from the QCD-penguin and the electroweak-penguin diagrams. We find that the combination of these contributions in $(g^+ - g^-)$ is very similar to the corresponding one defining the parameter $ε'$ in the $K_L \to 2π$ decays. This observation allows a determination of the value of $(g^+ - g^-)$, using data on $ε'$.
Ecosystem Services on New Zealand Arable Farms
Creators: name: Cullen, Ross
name: Takatsuka, Yuki
name: Wilson, Matthew
name: Wratten, Steve D.
name: Cullen, Ross
name: Takatsuka, Yuki
name: Wilson, Matthew
name: Wratten, Steve D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Ecosystem management
subject: Arable farming
subject: Engineered ecosystem

description: Researchers have estimated the total economic value of global ecosystem goods and services showing that a significant portion of humanity's economic well being is unaccounted for in conventional GNP accounting (Constanza et al., 1997). To demonstrate this point, authors have conventionally used highly aggregated landscape units for analysis (e.g., biomes), and average, not marginal values, of each ecosystem good or service are estimated for each unit using value transfer methodologies (Wilson et al., 2004). For example, Patterson and Cole (1999a, b) replicated the Constanza et al., (1997) approach by estimating economic values for Waikato and New Zealand ecosystem goods and services associated with standard land cover classes including horticulture, agriculture and cropping. As a result, Patterson and Cole (1999b) argue that only five ecosystem services associated with cropping have non-zero value. One of the reasons for this low number of non-zero values assorted with arable lands is that the original economic studies used by Patterson and Cole, are heavily weighted towards natural and undisturbed ecosystems rather than disturbed systems like agricultural or urban landscapes. To address this issue, more recently researchers have noted that many landscapes are actively modified by humans who seek to realise economic gain and this topic is thus an important one because in the 21st century, many of our homes, workplaces and recreational spaces are embedded within, or adjacent to, landscape mosaics that are to a greater or lesser degree affected by the conscious efforts of people to harness goods and services provided by ecological systems (Palmer et al., 2004). An engineered or designed ecosystem is one that has been extensively modified by humans to explicitly provide a set of ecosystem goods and services including more fresh water, trees, and food products and fewer floods and pollutants. These modified landscapes provide a range of ecosystem goods and services, particularly food production as farmers seek to maximize commercial gain from land use. The current paper examines issues in valuation of ecosystem goods and services derived from land used for arable farming in New Zealand and proposes ways to provide more detailed estimates of the flow and value of the flow of ecosystem services provided.
Convex Analysis and Duality
Creators: name: Bouchitte, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Convexity is an important notion in non linear optimization theory as well as in infinite dimensional functional analysis. As will be seen below, very simple and powerful tools will be derived from elementary duality arguments (which are byproducts of the Moreau-Fenchel transform and Hahn Banach Theorem). We will emphasize on applications to a large range of variational problems. Some arguments of measure theory will be skipped.
Supplementary Material from Escape motility of multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes
Creators: name: Yang, Xinyi
name: Prakash, Manu
name: Brumley, Douglas
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310908
subject: Animal physiology - biophysics
classificationCode: 320802
subject: Human biophysics

description: Supplementary movies captions.docx
A modified weighted log-rank test for confirmatory trials with a high proportion of treatment switching
Creators: name: Jiménez, José L.
name: Niewczas, Julia
name: Bore, Alexander
name: Burman, Carl-Fredrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In confirmatory cancer clinical trials, overall survival (OS) is normally a primary endpoint in the intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis under regulatory standards. After the tumor progresses, it is common that patients allocated to the control group switch to the experimental treatment, or another drug in the same class. Such treatment switching may dilute the relative efficacy of the new drug compared to the control group, leading to lower statistical power. It would be possible to decrease the estimation bias by shortening the follow-up period but this may lead to a loss of information and power. Instead we propose a modified weighted log-rank test (mWLR) that aims at balancing these factors by down-weighting events occurring when many patients have switched treatment. As the weighting should be pre-specified and the impact of treatment switching is unknown, we predict the hazard ratio function and use it to compute the weights of the mWLR. The method may incorporate information from previous trials regarding the potential hazard ratio function over time. We are motivated by the RECORD-1 trial of everolimus against placebo in patients with metastatic renal-cell carcinoma where almost 80\% of the patients in the placebo group received everolimus after disease progression. Extensive simulations show that the new test gives considerably higher efficiency than the standard log-rank test in realistic scenarios.
Stochastic Chemical Reactions in Micro-domains
Creators: name: Holcman, D.
name: Schuss, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 35K57

description: Traditional chemical kinetics may be inappropriate to describe chemical reactions in micro-domains involving only a small number of substrate and reactant molecules. Starting with the stochastic dynamics of the molecules, we derive a master-diffusion equation for the joint probability density of a mobile reactant and the number of bound substrate in a confined domain. We use the equation to calculate the fluctuations in the number of bound substrate molecules as a function of initial reactant distribution. A second model is presented based on a Markov description of the binding and unbinding and on the mean first passage time of a molecule to a small portion of the boundary. These models can be used for the description of noise due to gating of ionic channels by random binding and unbinding of ligands in biological sensor cells, such as olfactory cilia, photo-receptors, hair cells in the cochlea.
description: 33 pages, Journal Chemical Physics
Efficiency = Equity and Other Musings on Economics and Sustainable Development
Creators: name: Sinner, Jim
name: Sinner, Jim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Conventional wisdom says that equity concerns are beyond the scope of economic analysis and that achieving equity objectives will often come at a cost in terms of efficiency. Examination of the underlying meaning of efficiency and how it is defined, however, reveals that this tension between efficiency and equity is more apparent than real. The paper also explores the application of other economic concepts to the field of sustainable development, including the use of discounting for present value, Gross Domestic Product as a measure of well-being, and rational utility maximisation vs. bounded rationality as models of human behaviour.
An examination of issues in the fisheries sector in a small island economy: The case of Tonga
Creators: name: Rohorua, Halahingano
name: Rohorua, Halahingano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Tonga
subject: small island economy
subject: fisheries sector
subject: export markets and financial returns

description: Tonga as a small island economy faces continuos trade deficits. The Government has identified the fisheries sector as having great potential. This paper explores current issues in the fisheries sector in Tonga. The emphasis in this paper will be on issues in fish exports from Tonga. It is perceived that barriers to trade have been a major contributing factor to the sector’s poor performance. The focus here is on the financial returns that fishermen receive and the influences that the sizes of operators and types of fish exported have on the return to the exporters/fishermen in Tonga.
Giant optical anisotropy in a single InAs quantum dot in a very dilute quantum-dot ensemble
Creators: name: Favero, I.
name: Cassabois, Guillaume
name: Jankovic, A.
name: Ferreira, R.
name: Darson, D.
name: Voisin, C.
name: Delalande, C.
name: Roussignol, Ph.
name: Badolato, A.
name: Petroff, P. M.
name: Gerard, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the experimental evidence of giant optical anisotropy in single InAs quantum dots. Polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy reveals a linear polarization ratio with huge fluctuations, from one quantum dot to another, in sign and in magnitude with absolute values up to 82%. Systematic measurements on hundreds of quantum dots coming from two different laboratories demonstrate that the giant optical anisotropy is an intrinsic feature of dilute quantum-dot arrays.
description: submitted to Applied Physics Letters