cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Postnational Democracy: A Cultural Paradigm Shift in the Global Legal Order?
Creators: name: Cafaro, Susanna
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2021

description: Many global issues – from climate change to financial crises, from migration waves to management of pandemics, to name a few – have at their root a series of structural imbalances in our economic and cultural models. To move beyond the management of the emergency, the roots of the problems need to be addressed. A double paradigm shift is required: a paradigm shift in cultural models and awareness and a second one concerning global rules and institutions. As for the first one, there is a need to move from a state-centric cultural and educational model to the awareness of our belonging to mankind and our shared interest in the well-being of Planet Earth. The legal and implications of such a new narrative would push humanity to manage their common heritage as global citizens through new democratic supranational and transnational models.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 1 (2021): Sovereignty, International Law, Democracy and Global Constitutionalism
BUDGET PLANNER: USER-ORIENTED WHOLE-FARM BUDGETING SOFTWARE
Creators: name: Hoag, Dana L.
name: Hoag, Dana L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Budget Planner is a whole-farm or enterprise budgeting software program that is simple to use for farmers, extension agents, and other budgeters who are sometimes inexperienced, but that also provides the detail necessary to be accurate. Program defaults eliminate repetitive questions that change little from budget to budget. Defaults can be temporarily overridden, or they can be permanently changed with a detailed modify program. The program leads a user through a sequence similar to that a producer might utilize. Input forms were created to enlarge the user clientele and eventually increase computer use by farmers and extension agents.
Galaxy transmutations: The double ringed galaxy ESO 474-G26
Creators: name: Reshetnikov, V.
name: Bournaud, F.
name: Combes, F.
name: Faundez-Abans, M.
name: de Oliveira-Abans, M.
name: van Driel, W.
name: Schneider, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface photometry and a 21cm HI line spectrum of the giant double-ringed galaxy ESO 474-G26 are presented. The morphology of this system is unique among the 30,000 galaxies with >B15. Two almost orthogonal optical rings with diameters of 60 and 40 kpc surround the central body (assuming H0=70 km/s/Mpc). The outer one is an equatorial ring, while the inner ring lies in a nearly polar plane. The rings have blue optical colors typical of late-type spirals. Both appear to be rotating around the central galaxy, so that this system can be considered as a kinematically confirmed polar ring galaxy. Its observational characteristics are typical of galaxy merger remnants. Although the central object has a surface brightness distribution typical of elliptical galaxies, it has a higher surface brightness for its effective radius than ordinary ellipticals. Possible origins of this galaxy are discussed and numerical simulations are presented that illustrate the formation of the two rings in the merging process of two spiral galaxies, in which the observed appearance of ESO 474-G26 appears to be a transient stage.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
From Constitutional Pluralism to Global Law: Reading Neil Walker’s Postmodern Constitutionalism
Creators: name: Touminen, Tomi
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2021

description: Neil Walker, one of the foremost constitutional theorists of our time, is perhaps best known for his work on constitutional pluralism and global constitutionalism. Having first pioneered the study of constitutional pluralism in the context of the European Union, and developed epistemic constitutional pluralism, Walker has since extrapolated these ideas onto the global plane. What are the key arguments Walker has made regarding constitutional pluralism and global constitutionalism, and how are we to understand this body of work? This article attempts to answer this question by way of reading Walker’s work in light of philosophy, sociology and critical theory. Parallels are drawn especially with the ideas of functional differentiation and governmentality, but also other ideas prevalent in postmodern scholarship. This article concludes by highlighting the similarities between Walker’s constitutional pluralism and Michel Foucault’s governmentality, and by proposing to combine these two in the study of European constitutionalism.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 1 (2021): Sovereignty, International Law, Democracy and Global Constitutionalism
Walled Borders, Territoriality and Sovereignty: A Typology
Creators: name: Canale, Damiano
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2021

description: Legal scholarship has so far paid little attention to the concept of border, which is one of the reasons for the lack of clarity regarding the characteristics of public borders at the present time. This paper aims to contribute to fill this gap by looking at an apparently eccentric phenomenon regarding the contemporary transformation of state borders: the so-called border walls. At a first sight, border walls seem to reiterate the traditional functions of state borders. But their rising up as physical uncrossable barriers signifies a strong change in their function and institutional nature. In the light of this, a question arises: Does the proliferation of border walls simply indicate a revival of the territorial sovereignty of the states, or is it a phenomenon with quite different characteristics? To answer this question the paper proceeds by first considering the distinctive features of modern public borders from a historical and theoretical point of view, and then distinguishing different types of border walls on the basis of their functional characteristics. This will help clarify whether border walls are an eccentric phenomenon compared to traditional state borders, and whether the analysis of their features leads us to reframe the traditional concept of state border.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 1 (2021): Sovereignty, International Law, Democracy and Global Constitutionalism
The post-common-envelope binary central star of the planetary nebula PN G283.7-05.1: A possible post-red-giant-branch planetary nebula central star
Creators: name: Jones, David
name: Boffin, Henri M. J.
name: Hibbert, Jacob
name: Steinmetz, Thomas
name: Wesson, Roger
name: Hillwig, Todd C.
name: Sowicka, Paulina
name: Corradi, Romano L. M.
name: García-Rojas, Jorge
name: Rodríguez-Gil, Pablo
name: Munday, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery and characterisation of the post-common-envelope central star system in the planetary nebula PN G283.7$-$05.1. Deep images taken as part of the POPIPlaN survey indicate that the nebula may possess a bipolar morphology similar to other post-common-envelope planetary nebulae. Simultaneous light and radial velocity curve modelling reveals the newly discovered binary system to comprise a highly-irradiated, M-type main-sequence star in a 5.9 hour orbit with a hot pre-white-dwarf. The nebular progenitor is found to have a particularly low mass of around 0.4 M$_\odot$, making PN G283.7$-$05.1 one of only a handful of candidate planetary nebulae to be the product of a common-envelope event while still on the red giant branch. Beyond its low mass, the model temperature, surface gravity and luminosity are all found to be consistent with the observed stellar and nebular spectra through comparison with model atmospheres and photoionisation modelling. However, the high temperature (T$_\mathrm{eff}\sim$95kK) and high luminosity of the central star of the nebula are not consistent with post-RGB evolutionary tracks.
description: 9 pages, 6 tables, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
ATTITUDES TOWARD GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN AGRICULTURE: RESULTS OF A NATIONAL SURVEY
Creators: name: Duffy, Patricia A.
name: Molnar, Joseph J.
name: Duffy, Patricia A.
name: Molnar, Joseph J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Political Economy

description: This study reports results from a nationwide survey of public attitudes toward agriculture. The study focuses on attitudes toward government involvement in agriculture across regions of the county and residential categories.
Political Sovereignty and Its Enemies
Creators: name: Morrone, Andrea
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2021

description: The aim of the essay is to discuss the concept and the value of political sovereignty and those to describe its enemies. According tothe theorists of the modern state, two concurring aspects identify political sovereignty: a process of institutionalization of politicalpower; a popular decision to recognize political sovereign. A similar concept of political sovereignty is challenged by otherforms ofpower, which the Author defines the “economical sovereignty” and the “sovereignty of the bios.” After analyzing the characteristicsof these different forms of individual power, the Author reveals the common fate of economical sovereignty and the sovereignty ofthe bios. A community of individuals founded on the economical sovereignty and sovereignty of the bios erases political sovereigntyand supports the dominion oftéchne(techno-science)over politics (Technocracy).
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 1 (2021): Sovereignty, International Law, Democracy and Global Constitutionalism
Brownian thermal transistors and refrigerators in mesoscopic systems
Creators: name: Lu, Jincheng
name: Wang, Rongqian
name: Wang, Chen
name: Jiang, Jian-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluctuations are significant in mesoscopic systems and of particular importance in understanding quantum transport. Here, we show that fluctuations can be considered as a resource for the operations of open quantum systems as functional devices. We derive the statistics of the thermal transistor amplification factor and the cooling-by-heating refrigerator efficiency under the Gaussian fluctuation framework. Statistical properties of the stochastic thermal transistor and the cooling-by-heating efficiency are revealed in the linear-response regime. We clarify the unique role of inelastic processes on thermal transport in mesoscopic systems. We further show that elastic and inelastic processes lead to different bounds based on the linear transport coefficients by establishing a generic theoretical framework for mesoscopic heat transport, which treats electron and bosonic collective excitations in an equal-footing manner. The underlying physics are illustrated concretely using a double-quantum-dot three-terminal system, though the theory applies to more general systems.
description: 13 pages,7 figures
Foreword
Creators: name: Artosi, Alberto
name: Bongiovanni, Giorgio
name: Gozzi, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2021

description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 1 (2021): Sovereignty, International Law, Democracy and Global Constitutionalism
CONSUMER EXPENDITURES AT DIRECT PRODUCE MARKETS
Creators: name: Schatzer, Raymond Joe
name: Tilley, Daniel S.
name: Moesel, Douglas
name: Schatzer, Raymond Joe
name: Tilley, Daniel S.
name: Moesel, Douglas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Interviews of customers at direct produce markets were conducted to determine why expenditure patterns vary. Frequency of shopping at outlets, income, uses of produce, household composition, and distance to the outlet are important determinants of expenditures at direct product outlets.
title: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 1 (2021): Sovereignty, International Law, Democracy and Global Constitutionalism
title: Sovereignty, International Law, Democracy and Global Constitutionalism
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries In Law, Philosophy And Globalization
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2021

description: Rights’ Global History. The Making and Unmaking of the History of the Rights of Man according to a Non-Eurocentric Perspective...187-213 The Relevance of the Notion of Time for Constitutionalism Beyond the State: Towards Communal Constitutionalism?...153-186 What is a Democratic Revolution?...124-152 Postnational Democracy: A Cultural Paradigm Shift in the Global Legal Order?...86-123 From Constitutional Pluralism to Global Law: Reading Neil Walker’s Postmodern Constitutionalism...58-85 Walled Borders, Territoriality and Sovereignty: A Typology...37-57 Political Sovereignty and Its Enemies...1-36 Foreword...I- IV
PRICE AND VALUE EFFECTS OF PECAN CROP FORECASTS, 1971-1987
Creators: name: Shafer, Carl E.
name: Shafer, Carl E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Price equations incorporating USDA October crop forecasts and June pecan stocks provided reasonable formulations for pecan price explanation and forecasting. USDA crop forecasts exceeded final reported production in 12 of the 18 seasons from 1970 to 1987, probably resulting in slightly lower prices and crop values. Large crop forecast errors in both direction and level in 1986 and 1987 confounded the price determination process. Nevertheless, producer prices may have been lower absent the October crop forecasts, which somewhat reduce buyers' uncertainty regarding supply. Early crop estimates provided a better explanation of price behavior than postseason revised production data.
INSURING THE STEWARDSHIP OF BT CORN: 'A CARROT' VERSUS 'A STICK'
Creators: name: Mitchell, Paul D.
name: Hurley, Terrance M.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
name: Hellmich, Richard L.
name: Mitchell, Paul D.
name: Hurley, Terrance M.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
name: Hellmich, Richard L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Subsidies and fines are compared to voluntary and mandatory refuge insurance (insurance for pest damage on Bt corn refuge) as mechanisms for securing grower compliance with EPA refuge mandates. A conceptual model partially ranks mechanisms. Tradeoffs between mechanisms using grower welfare, payments to growers, and monitoring frequency are quantified empirically. Grower welfare is lowest with mandatory insurance because growers pay all costs, and is highest with direct refuge subsidies because public funds or companies subsidize all costs. Assuming typical premium loads and ignoring distribution considerations, we develop monitoring budgets for fines and subsidies, above which voluntary or mandatory insurance is better.
Cosmological Evolution of Interacting Dark Energy Models with Mass Varying Neutrinos
Creators: name: Bi, Xiao-Jun
name: Feng, Bo
name: Li, Hong
name: Zhang, Xinmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the cosmological implications of dark energy models with a coupled system of a dynamical scalar field (the quintessence) and the neutrinos. By detailed numerical calculations we study the various possibilities on the evolution and the fates of the universe in this class of models. Our results show that due to the interaction with quintessence, neutrinos could be dominant over the quintessence in the future universe, however would eventually decay away.
description: One typographical error corrected, references updated and presentation improved
MEAT TRACEABILITY: ARE U.S. CONSUMERS WILLING TO PAY FOR IT?
Creators: name: Dickinson, David L.
name: Bailey, DeeVon
name: Dickinson, David L.
name: Bailey, DeeVon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: This article reports the results form a series of laboratory auction markets in which consumers bid on meat characteristics. The characteristics examined include meat traceability (i.e., the ability to tract the retail meat back to the farm or animal of hormones, or knowing the animal was humanely treated), and extra assurances (e.g., extra meat safety assurances). This laboratory study provides non-hypothetical bid data on consumer preferences for a sample of consumers in Logan, Utah, for traceability, transparency, and assurances (TTA) in red meat at a time when the United States currently lags other countries in development of TTA meat systems. Results suggest these consumers would be willing to pay for such TTA meat characteristics, and the magnitude of the consumer bids reveals that a profitable market for development of TTA systems in the United States might exist.
Radiation-induced oscillatory-magnetoresistance in a tilted magnetic field in $GaAs/Al_{x}Ga_{1-x}As$ devices
Creators: name: Mani, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the microwave-photoexcited magnetoresistance oscillations in a tilted magnetic field in the high mobility two-dimensional electron system. In analogy to the 2D Shubnikov-de Haas effect, the characteristic field, $B_{f}$, and the period of the radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillations appears dependent upon the component of the applied magnetic field that is perpendicular to the plane of the 2DES. In addition, we find that a parallel component, $B_{//}$, in the range of $0.6 < B_{//} < 1.2$ Tesla, at a tilt angle of $θ= 80^{0}$, leaves the oscillatory pattern essentially unchanged.
description: 5 pages, 3 color figures, final version
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY AND PROCESSED FOOD TRADE: A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Gopinath, Munisamy
name: Carver, Jason
name: Gopinath, Munisamy
name: Carver, Jason
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: Processed food products account for a growing share of global agricultural trade. Growth in total factor productivity and intersectoral linkages between agricultural and processed foodsectors are hypothesized as factors explaining this phenomenon. Estimating the neoclassical trade model using an internationally comparable database, we find evidence of (a) Hechsher-Ohlin (factor endowments) and Ricardian-type (technology) effects in agricultural and processed food trade, and (b) transfer of comparative advantage from the primary agricultural sector to the processed food sector. Thus, public policies protecting primary agriculture can adversely affect processed food sectors, while those supporting R&D efforts can bring about dynamic and comparative advantage.
Test of analyticity and unitarity for the pion form-factor data around the $ρ$ resonance
Creators: name: Ananthanarayan, B.
name: Caprini, Irinel
name: Das, Diganta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-statistics data on the $e^+e^-\to π^+π^-$ cross section and the pion vector form factor have been obtained recently by several collaborations. Unfortunately, there are some tensions between different datasets, especially the most precise ones, which have not been resolved so far. Additional independent constraints on the data are therefore of interest. We consider a parametrization-free method of analytic extrapolation proposed recently, which is based on a mixed phase and modulus extremal problem and combines rigorous upper and lower bounds with numerical simulations to account for the statistical distributions of the input and output values. Spacelike data on the form factor and measurements of the modulus in the region $(0.65-0.71)$ GeV are used as input. In previous works, the formalism was applied for extrapolating the form factor to low energies. In the present work, we use it as a stringent and model-independent test of consistency with analyticity and unitarity for the high-statistics data around the $ρ$ resonance. The study reveals some inconsistencies, in particular below the $ρ$ peak the BABAR data are slightly higher than the band of extrapolated values, while above the $ρ$ peak all the data are situated at the lower edge of the band. The implications of the results on the two-pion vacuuum polarization contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon are briefly discussed.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
A FORMAÇÃO DO ESTADO MODERNO E O ESTADO DE DIREITO
Creators: name: GuedesJus Editora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: O texto discute a formação do estado moderno a partir das perspectivas de Giorgio Agamben e sua teoria sobre biopolítica e o estado de exceção. A análise critica a ideia do contrato social e propõe que a base do estado moderno é a "vida nua", sobre a qual o soberano exerce poder. O estado de exceção é visto como um instrumento de controle biopolítico, onde a exceção se torna a regra, expondo a precariedade dos direitos e garantias fundamentais. O autor também estabelece conexões entre regimes democráticos e totalitários, enfatizando a manipulação e controle da vida humana por meio de mecanismos de poder. A proposta de uma "representação política substancial" emerge como alternativa para enfrentar essas estruturas de exclusão.
DOES BRANDED FOOD PRODUCT ADVERTISING HELP OR HURT FARMERS?
Creators: name: Zhang, Mingxia
name: Sexton, Richard J.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Zhang, Mingxia
name: Sexton, Richard J.
name: Alston, Julian M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This study investigates market conditions when food processor/handler brand advertising, whether undertaken by an investor-owned firm or by a cooperative, will benefit or harm farmers. Addressing this question provides insight into the policy issue of whether and when promotion funds intended to benefit farmers should be used in support of brand advertising. Analysis of a two-stage oligopoly-oligopsony model shows that advertising by an investor-owned firm is most likely to be harmful to farmers when it takes place in a relatively unconcentrated industry and when advertising is relatively more effective at creating brand market power than at increasing total demand.
Weakly magnetized, Hall dominated plasma Couette flow
Creators: name: Flanagan, K.
name: Milhone, J.
name: Egedal, J.
name: Endrizzi, D.
name: Olson, J.
name: Peterson, E. E.
name: Sassella, R.
name: Forest, C. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel plasma equilibrium in the high-$β$, Hall regime that produces centrally-peaked, high Mach number Couette flow is described. Flow is driven using a weak, uniform magnetic field and large, cross field currents. Large magnetic field amplification (factor 20) due to the Hall effect is observed when electrons are flowing radially inward, and near perfect field expulsion is observed when the flow is reversed. A dynamic equilibrium is reached between the amplified (removed) field and extended density gradients.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters on 6/16/2020. Re-submitted with edits based on reviewer comments on 8/6/2020
Non-governmental organizations in international politics : an analysis of functions and strategies
Creators: name: Velpel, Mary Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the existing literature on the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in international politics. It synthesizes the current knowledge of the activities of these organizations, highlighting the functions they perform in the international system. Drawing on several case studies, and a survey of the Yearbook of International Organizations, this thesis identifies the four main functions of international NGOs: the research and monitoring of state, international organization and corporate behaviour; the mobilization of public support to change popular social attitudes and values; capacity-building for local, grassroots groups; and advocacy to pressure states, international organizations and corporations to uphold international norms. This thesis also analyses the strategies that NGOs employ to perform these four functions, and the conditions which either limit or facilitate their effectiveness.
PROMESSAS CONSTITUCIONAIS:CRÍTICA AO DIREITO IMPORTADO
Creators: name: GuedesJus Editora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description:  

O texto aborda a complexa realidade socioeconômica do Brasil, destacando as contradições entre a abundante produção de alimentos e a extrema pobreza que afeta grande parte da população. A crítica central reside na ineficácia das promessas constitucionais, como o direito à alimentação, que permanecem distantes da realidade prática. O autor discute como o Estado, ao invés de ser um agente de transformação social, tem sido cooptado por interesses corporativos, resultando na exclusão de milhões de brasileiros. Essa exclusão, ancorada na lógica biopolítica de controle e exclusão, revela-se no cotidiano de violência e negação de direitos, onde o estado de exceção se normaliza e a vida humana é vista como descartável.
VALUE OF INCREASING KERNEL UNIFORMITY
Creators: name: Yoon, Byung-Sam
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Lyford, Conrad P.
name: Yoon, Byung-Sam
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Lyford, Conrad P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Kernel uniformity is an important quality attribute that can now be measured at low cost. This study analyzes the profitability of sorting to increase wheat kernel uniformity. Nonlinear programming is used to sort grain loads to maximize flour yield by increasing uniformity of kernel size and kernel hardness. Results of this analysis suggest increases in flour yield due to higher kernel uniformity are not enough to outweigh the costs of sorting.
Additional file 1 of Japanese version of the 42-item psychological well-being scale (PWBS-42): a validation study
Creators: name: Natsu Sasaki
name: Watanabe, Kazuhiro
name: Imamura, Kotaro
name: Nishi, Daisuke
name: Karasawa, Mayumi
name: Kan, Chiemi
name: Ryff, Carol Diane
name: Kawakami, Norito
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
A DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF A PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM ON PRICE DYNAMICS AND PRICE VOLATILITY
Creators: name: Kim, Kwansoo
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
name: Kim, Kwansoo
name: Chavas, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This study presents an econometric analysis of the effects of a government price support program on price dynamics and price volatility. Price support programs, a common feature of agricultural policy, provide a lower-bound censoring of the distribution of market prices. An econometric model of market prices is developed using a dynamic Tobit specification under time-varying volatility. The model is applied to the U.S. non-fat dry milk market. It is used to investigate the impact of market liberalization on price dynamics and price volatility in the presence of private and public stocks. The econometric results show how the price support program and stocks (both private and public) affect expected price volatility.
Measurement of Spin-Orbit Alignment in an Extrasolar Planetary System
Creators: name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Noyes, Robert W.
name: Holman, Matthew J.
name: Charbonneau, David
name: Ohta, Yasuhiro
name: Taruya, Atsushi
name: Suto, Yasushi
name: Narita, Norio
name: Turner, Edwin L.
name: Johnson, John A.
name: Marcy, Geoffrey W.
name: Butler, R. Paul
name: Vogt, Steven S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the stellar, planetary, and orbital properties of the transiting planetary system HD 209458, through a joint analysis of high-precision radial velocities, photometry, and timing of the secondary eclipse. Of primary interest is the strong detection of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, the alteration of photospheric line profiles that occurs because the planet occults part of the rotating surface of the star. We develop a new technique for modeling this effect, and use it to determine the inclination of the planetary orbit relative to the apparent stellar equator [lambda = (-4.4 +/- 1.4) degrees], and the line-of-sight rotation speed of the star [v*sin(I) = (4.70 +/- 0.16) km/s]. The uncertainty in these quantities has been reduced by an order of magnitude relative to the pioneering measurements by Queloz and collaborators. The small but nonzero misalignment is probably a relic of the planet formation epoch, because the expected timescale for tidal coplanarization is larger than the age of the star. Our determination of v*sin(I) is a rare case in which rotational line broadening has been isolated from other broadening mechanisms.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures. To match the version accepted by ApJ. Errors have been corrected in Table 1. (In previous versions, some confidence limits were mistakenly 80% rather than 90% limits.)
DIREITOS HUMANOS E ESTADO DE EXCEÇÃO
Creators: name: GuedesJus Editora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: O texto analisa o conceito de "estado de exceção", com base na obra de Giorgio Agamben, destacando como ele se tornou um paradigma central da política contemporânea. Utilizando as ideias de "vida nua" e "biopolítica", o autor argumenta que o estado moderno, embora fundado em direitos humanos, simultaneamente permite a suspensão desses direitos em nome da soberania. O "campo", nesse contexto, é apresentado como uma estrutura física e simbólica onde as regras jurídicas são suspensas, e o ser humano é reduzido à sua existência biológica, passível de controle e exclusão. O texto também conecta essas ideias às crises contemporâneas, como o fascismo e o nazismo, sugerindo que o estado de exceção foi naturalizado e incorporado às práticas de poder atuais, influenciando a política global e a gestão da vida humana.
Additional file 1 of Dysbiosis, gut barrier dysfunction and inflammation in dementia: a pilot study
Creators: name: Stadlbauer, Vanessa
name: Engertsberger, Lara
name: Komarova, Irina
name: Feldbacher, Nicole
name: Leber, Bettina
name: Pichler, Gerald
name: Fink, Nicole
name: Scarpatetti, Monika
name: Schippinger, Walter
name: Schmidt, Reinhold
name: Horvath, Angela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Alpha diversity in stool microbiome between dementia patients and controls A: Alpha diversity (Faith PD) in dementia patients and controls B: Alpha diversity (Faith PD) in controls and different stages of cognitive dysfunction C: Alpha diversity (Simpson) between dementia patients a D: Alpha diversity (Simpson) in controls and different stages of cognitive dysfunction. Table S1. Drug intake in dementia patients and controls. Table S2. Features selected by LEfSe to discriminate between PPI users and non-users. Table S3. Features selected by LEfSe to discriminate between statin users and non-users. Table S4. Features selected by LEfSe to discriminate between antihypertensive users and non-users. Table S5. Features selected by LEfSe to discriminate between NSAID users and non-users. Table S6. Features selected by LEfSe to discriminate between thyroid hormone users and non-users. Table S7. Features selected by LEfSe to discriminate between malnourished and non-malnourished participants. Table S8. Redundancy analysis with explanatory variables of microbiome composition changes.
On first detection of solar neutrinos from CNO cycle with Borexino
Creators: name: Bezrukov, L. B.
name: Karpikov, I. S.
name: Kurlovich, A. S.
name: Mezhokh, A. K.
name: Silaeva, S. V.
name: Sinev, V. V.
name: Zavarzina, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Borexino collaboration reported about first measurement of solar CNO-$ν$ interaction rate in Borexino detector. This result is consistent with Hydridic Earth model prediction about the contribution of $^{40}$K geo-antineutrino interactions in single Borexino events. The potassium abundance in the Earth in the range $1 ÷1.5$\% of the Earth mass could give the observed enhancement of counting rate above expected CNO-$ν$ counting rate. The Earth intrinsic heat flux must be in the range $200 ÷300$ TW for this potassium abundance. This value of the heat flux can explain the ocean heating observed by the project ARGO. We consider that Hydridic Earth model actually corresponds better to CNO-$ν$ Borexino results than Silicate Earth model.
description: 10 pages, 2 table. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2004.02533
EFFICIENCY OF SMALL LANDHOLDERS IN EASTERN PARAGUAY
Creators: name: Fletschner, Diana K.
name: Zepeda, Lydia
name: Fletschner, Diana K.
name: Zepeda, Lydia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The relative efficiency levels of 283 rural households from three regions in eastern Paraguay are measured using a nonparametric approach. Technical, allocative, and scale efficiency measures are calculated both at national and regional levels, and factors that may affect the efficiency levels are analyzed econometrically. The three regions selected for this study represent distinct production systems and socio-economic conditions: production of traditional crops or extensive livestock operations; a dynamic region with massive in-migration where capitalized farms produce soybeans and wheat; and an older region, integrated with urban areas, where depleted and highly fragmented land has forced households to rely on nonagricultural sources of income. Nonparametric results show high levels of technical efficiency across all three regions, but low levels of allocative and scale efficiency. Because policies to increase scale efficiency are politically unpalatable, the factors affecting allocative efficiency are explored. Significant factors include employment opportunities, land titling, and access to credit, markets, and extension services.
Fermi liquid behavior in the 2D Hubbard model at low temperatures
Creators: name: Benfatto, G.
name: Giuliani, A.
name: Mastropietro, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that the weak coupling 2D Hubbard model away from half filling is a Landau Fermi liquid up to exponentially small temperatures. In particular we show that the wave function renormalization is an order 1 constant and essentially temperature independent in the considered range of temperatures and that the interacting Fermi surface is a regular convex curve. This result is obtained by deriving a convergent expansion (which is not a power series) for the two point Schwinger function by Renormalization Group methods and proving at each order suitable power counting improvements due to the convexity of the interacting Fermi surface. Convergence follows from determinant bounds for the fermionic expectations.
description: 66 pages, 10 figures
Comparing Hedging Effectiveness: An Application of the Encompassing Principle
Creators: name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Manfredo, Mark R.
name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Manfredo, Mark R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: cross-hedging
subject: encompassing
subject: hedging effectiveness

description: An empirical methodology is developed for statistically testing the hedging effectiveness among competing futures contracts. The presented methodology is based on the encompassing principle, widely used in the forecasting literature, and applied here to minimum variance hedging regressions. Intuitively, the test is based on an alternative futures contract's ability to reduce residual basis risk by offering either diversification or a smaller absolute level of basis risk than a preferred futures contract. The methodology is easily extended to cases involving multiple hedging instruments and general hedge ratio models. Empirical applications suggest that the encompassing methodology can provide information beyond traditional approaches of comparing hedging effectiveness.
ARQUÉTIPOS DE DIREITO
Creators: name: GuedesJus Editora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: O artigo examina as características do Estado moderno e sua atuação na conformação das relações sociais e políticas, destacando a coerção e a intervenção na vida dos cidadãos. Explora a tensão entre os preceitos legais e a realidade socioeconômica, criticando a aplicação de normas que, muitas vezes, ignoram a lógica e a viabilidade prática. O texto analisa a prisão civil dos avós por dívida alimentícia, argumentando contra essa prática à luz da vulnerabilidade dos idosos e da necessidade de proteger seus direitos. A discussão se amplia para considerar a legitimidade moral do poder coercitivo dos governos, questionando se as atuais categorias de pensamento político são suficientes para abordar as contradições entre a teoria e a prática da organização estatal contemporânea.
BACK TO THE FUTURE: A WILLINGNESS TO PLAY REEXAMINED
Creators: name: Martin, William E.
name: Martin, William E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: As the Central Arizona project is being completed and contracts are being negotiated, economic analysis continues to show that neither agriculture nor municipalities would benefit from the project if repayment actually is required according to previously suggested schedules. Earlier analyses were either ignored or condemned as farmers were willing to play a water development game in the face of uncertain future repayment requirements. The game of playing for subsidized water continues even as the buyers now face real costs rather than just some future possibility of incurring costs. Recent analysis is being used to help negotiate favorable delivery and repayment contracts. Experience has shown that once the physical development is in place, costs are negotiable.
Modulated optical reflectance measurements on La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin films
Creators: name: Mechin, Laurence
name: Flament, Stephane
name: Perry, Andy
name: Almond, Darryl P.
name: Chakalov, Radoslav A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modulated optical reflectance (MOR) measurement technique was applied to colossal magnetoresistive materials, in particular, La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) thin films. The contactless measurement scheme is prospective for many applications spanning from materials characterization to new devices like reading heads for magnetically recorded media. A contrasted room temperature surface scan of a 100 microns wide 400 microns long bridge patterned into LSMO film provided preliminary information about the film homogeneity. Then the temperature was varied between 240 and 400 K, i.e. through the ferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition. A clear relation between the MOR signal measured as function of the temperature and the relative derivative of the resistivity up to the Curie temperature was observed. This relationship is fundamental for the MOR technique and its mechanism was explored in the particular case of LSMO. Analysis in the framework of the Drude model showed that, within certain conditions, the measured MOR signal changes are correlated to changes in the charge carrier concentration.
description: 29 pages, accepted for publication in J. Appl. Phys
DYNAMICALLY OPTIMAL AND APPROXIMATELY OPTIMAL BEEF CATTLE DIETS FORMULATED BY NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING
Creators: name: Hertzler, Greg
name: Hertzler, Greg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Cattle purchasing, feeding, and selling decisions are described by a free-time optimal control model. The nutrient constraints of the National Research Council and a recently published dry matter intake constraint augment the model and make it nonlinear in the feed ingredients, the daily gain, and the weight of the cattle. Optimal feeding programs are calculated by nonlinear programming under two scenarios: first, when the feedlot has excess capacity and, second, when animals must be sold to make room in the feedlot before more can be purchased. An approximately optimal feeding program is calculated by nonlinear programming and is all but identical to the dynamically optimal programs.
Flickering of the jet-ejecting symbiotic star MWC 560
Creators: name: Zamanov, R. K.
name: Boeva, S.
name: Stoyanov, K. A.
name: Latev, G.
name: Spassov, B.
name: Kurtenkov, A.
name: Nikolov, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse optical photometric data of short term variability (flickering) of the accreting white dwarf in the jet-ejecting symbiotic star MWC560. The observations are obtained in 17 nights during the period November 2011 - October 2019. The colour-magnitude diagram shows that the hot component of the system becomes redder as it gets brighter. For the flickering source we find that it has colour 0.14 < B-V < 0.40, temperature in the range 6300 < T_fl < 11000 K, and radius 1.2 < R_fl < 18 Rsun. We find a strong correlation (correlation coefficient 0.76, significance < 0.001) between B band magnitude and the average radius of the flickering source - as the brightness of the system increases the size of the flickering source also increases. The estimated temperature is similar to that of the bright spot of cataclysmic variables. In 2019 the flickering is missing, and the B-V colour of the hot component becomes bluer.
description: 9 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomical Notes. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1807.01555
Low-Energy Direct Capture in the 16O(alpha,gamma)20Ne Reaction
Creators: name: Mohr, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross section of the 16O(a,g)20Ne capture reaction is analyzed at low energies where the direct capture mechanism is dominant. For temperatures below T9 = 0.2 the resulting astrophysical reaction rate is about a factor of two higher than in a recent compilation whereas the energy dependence of the astrophysical S-factor and the branching ratios to the 20Ne bound states are very similar to previous calculations. The validity of the widely used detailed balance theorem for the inverse 20Ne(g,a)16O photodisintegration rate is confirmed for the special case of high-lying first excited states.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, Phys. Rev. C, accepted for publication
INVOLVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS IN GRADUATE AGRIBUSINESS PROGRAMS: AN UNCOMFORTABLE LINKAGE
Creators: name: Biere, Arlo W.
name: Biere, Arlo W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agribusiness
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Departments of agricultural economics face a changing environment. Some argue for the adoption of the Master of Agribusiness degree. I argue that agribusiness in not well differentiated from agricultural economics and that the forte of agricultural economics departments is teaching applied economics, not teaching management. Furthermore, in today's dynamic, open economy, a good understanding of economics is more valuable than ever before. Rather than leave our area of strength, we should look to improve our current degree programs given today's business needs.
Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section in ppbar Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV using Kinematic Characteristics of Lepton + Jets Events
Creators: name: D0 Collaboration
name: Abazov, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a measurement of the top quark pair ttbar production cross section in ppbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV using 230 pb**{-1} of data collected by the DO detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select events with one charged lepton (electron or muon), large missing transverse energy, and at least four jets, and extract the ttbar content of the sample based on the kinematic characteristics of the events. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, we measure sigma(ttbar) = 6.7 {+1.4-1.3} (stat) {+1.6- 1.1} (syst) +/-0.4 (lumi) pb, in good agreement with the standard model prediction.
description: submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett