cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
United States high technology export control policy: An assessment of relative costs and implications for national security
Creators: name: McDaniel, Douglas Erin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Controls on the export of high technology and scientific information exchanges and data flows to the Soviet Bloc have engendered a lively debate within the U.S. and spawned periodic acrimony within the Atlantic Alliance. This study asks: To what degree and how have export controls affected significant U.S. economic and national security interests?; This study examines, tests, and evaluates the effectiveness of U.S. high technology export controls in achieving their objectives, the significance of these controls for U.S. commercial interests, and for Alliance technological cooperation, and the impact of U.S. and West European differences for the political cohesion of the Alliance. Assessment and evaluation of policy efficacy and of its relative costs, measured in terms of possible damage to U.S. economic and national security interests, will suggest the desirability of this policy. Measurement and evaluation of relative damage to U.S. interests is attempted through short studies of possible spillover affecting key areas of U.S. foreign, defense, and economic policy. Test criteria include: Strategic evaluation--U.S. asset denial policy, effectiveness of denying technology to the Soviet Bloc, and implications for scientific communication and U.S. and NATO interests, Economic evaluation--Damage to U.S. overseas business and export performance. This study concludes that U.S. policy has been successful in denying and delaying Soviet access to, and development of, dual-use technology with only relatively minor costs to overall U.S. high technology industries and export performance.
Additional file 1 of Challenges in the cultural adaptation of the German Myeloma Patient Outcome Scale (MyPOS): an outcome measure to support routine symptom assessment in myeloma care
Creators: name: Gerlach, Christina
name: Taylor, Katherine
name: Ferner, Marion
name: Munder, Markus
name: Weber, Martin
name: Ramsenthaler, Christina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Myeloma Patient Outcome Scale (MyPOS) English Version.
Fibonomial cumulative connection constants
Creators: name: Kwasniewski, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 11B37, 11B39

description: In this note we present examples of cumulative connection constants included new fibonomial ones. All examples posses combinatorial interpretation.
description: affiliated to The Internet Gian-Carlo Polish Seminar: http://ii.uwb.edu.pl/akk/sem/sem_rota.htm
Mimastra cyanura
Creators: name: Nadein, Konstantin S.
name: Ahmed, Zubair
name: Sergeev, Maxim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Mimastra
Mimastra cyanura

description: Mimastra cyanura (HOPE, 1831)
 New record:
N. Pakistan, Khyber-Pakhtunhwa Province, Mansehra District, Paras environs, Naran Village, 27.VII.2009, 2 exx.
Previously known in Pakistan from Punjab Province (Kulu) (Maulik, 1936) and Khyber- Pakhtunhwa Province: Hazara District (Abbottabad, Balakot) (Chaudry et al. 1966).
description: Published as part of Nadein, Konstantin S., Ahmed, Zubair & Sergeev, Maxim, 2012, Distributional notes on Chrysomelidae from Pakistan and Afghanistan (Coleoptera), pp. 225-233 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 on page 230, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.1.225-233, http://zenodo.org/record/4779481
Additional file 7 of Linking belowground microbial network changes to different tolerance level towards Verticillium wilt of olive
Creators: name: Fernández-González, Antonio J.
name: Cardoni, Martina
name: Cabanás, Carmen Gómez-Lama
name: Valverde-Corredor, Antonio
name: Villadas, Pablo J.
name: Fernández-López, Manuel
name: Mercado-Blanco, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S4. Genera showing significant differences between non-inoculated 'Frantoio' (green) and 'Picual' (blue) plants. The root rhizosphere structural (panel a) and functional (panel b) bacterial communities are shown.
Fail-Safe Execution of Deep Learning based Systems through Uncertainty Monitoring
Creators: name: Weiss, Michael
name: Tonella, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Modern software systems rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNN) when processing complex, unstructured inputs, such as images, videos, natural language texts or audio signals. Provided the intractably large size of such input spaces, the intrinsic limitations of learning algorithms, and the ambiguity about the expected predictions for some of the inputs, not only there is no guarantee that DNN's predictions are always correct, but rather developers must safely assume a low, though not negligible, error probability. A fail-safe Deep Learning based System (DLS) is one equipped to handle DNN faults by means of a supervisor, capable of recognizing predictions that should not be trusted and that should activate a healing procedure bringing the DLS to a safe state. In this paper, we propose an approach to use DNN uncertainty estimators to implement such a supervisor. We first discuss the advantages and disadvantages of existing approaches to measure uncertainty for DNNs and propose novel metrics for the empirical assessment of the supervisor that rely on such approaches. We then describe our publicly available tool UNCERTAINTY-WIZARD, which allows transparent estimation of uncertainty for regular tf.keras DNNs. Lastly, we discuss a large-scale study conducted on four different subjects to empirically validate the approach, reporting the lessons-learned as guidance for software engineers who intend to monitor uncertainty for fail-safe execution of DLS.
description: Backup recording of the talk @ ICST 2021
Directed flow at RHIC from Lee-Yang zeroes
Creators: name: Borghini, N.
name: Ollitrault, J. -Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Directed flow in ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions is analyzed using the reaction plane from elliptic flow, which reduces the bias from nonflow effects. We combine this method with the determination of elliptic flow from Lee-Yang zeroes. The resulting method is more consistent and somewhat easier to implement than the previously used method based on three-particle cumulants, and is also less biased by nonflow correlations. Error terms from residual nonflow correlations are carefully estimated, as well as statistical errors. We discuss the application of the method at RHIC and LHC.
description: 10 pages. Final version, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A
Coda: The Multimodal Reader: Or, How my obsession with NRK's "Skam" made me think again about readers, reading and digital media
Creators: Fuller, Danielle
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2019

Using a mix of autoethnographic stories and ‘critical side-ways thinking,’ this Coda reexamines the key terms of the special section on ‘reading, readers and digital media.’ The author’s fan practices as a follower of NRK’s transmedia television show Skam inform both 
observations about and re-conceptualisations of the literacies and reading practices that
transmedia texts require of their audiences. The Coda maps out some common ground for
the fields of reading studies and media studies (and, to a lesser extent, fan studies), and it
raises some questions about the methods and methodologies that researchers might
engage as we investigate multimodal media practices in a mobile, networked multimedia
environment.
United States high technology export control policy: An assessment of relative costs and implications for national security
Creators: name: McDaniel, Douglas Erin
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Controls on the export of high technology and scientific information exchanges and data flows to the Soviet Bloc have engendered a lively debate within the U.S. and spawned periodic acrimony within the Atlantic Alliance. This study asks: To what degree and how have export controls affected significant U.S. economic and national security interests?; This study examines, tests, and evaluates the effectiveness of U.S. high technology export controls in achieving their objectives, the significance of these controls for U.S. commercial interests, and for Alliance technological cooperation, and the impact of U.S. and West European differences for the political cohesion of the Alliance. Assessment and evaluation of policy efficacy and of its relative costs, measured in terms of possible damage to U.S. economic and national security interests, will suggest the desirability of this policy. Measurement and evaluation of relative damage to U.S. interests is attempted through short studies of possible spillover affecting key areas of U.S. foreign, defense, and economic policy. Test criteria include: Strategic evaluation--U.S. asset denial policy, effectiveness of denying technology to the Soviet Bloc, and implications for scientific communication and U.S. and NATO interests, Economic evaluation--Damage to U.S. overseas business and export performance. This study concludes that U.S. policy has been successful in denying and delaying Soviet access to, and development of, dual-use technology with only relatively minor costs to overall U.S. high technology industries and export performance.
Analysis of Grover's quantum search algorithm as a dynamical system
Creators: name: Biham, O.
name: Shapira, D.
name: Shimoni, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Grover's quantum search algorithm is analyzed for the case in which the initial state is an arbitrary pure quantum state $|ϕ>$ of $n$ qubits. It is shown that the optimal time to perform the measurement is independent of $| ϕ>$, namely, it is identical to the optimal time in the original algorithm in which $| ϕ> = | 0>$, with the same number of marked states, $r$. The probability of success $P_{\rm s}$ is obtained, in terms of the amplitudes of the state $| ϕ>$, and is shown to be independent of $r$. A class of states, which includes fixed points and cycles of the Grover iteration operator is identified. The relevance of these results in the context of using the success probability as an entanglement measure is discussed. In particular, the Groverian entanglement measure, previously limited to a single marked state, is generalized to the case of several marked states.
How To Count Citations If You Must
Creators: name: Perry, Motty
name: Reny, Philip J.
name: Perry, Motty
name: Reny, Philip J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: citation indices
subject: axiomatic
subject: scale invariance
subject: Euclidean length

description: Citation indices are regularly used to inform critical decisions about promotion, tenure, and the allocation of billions of research dollars. Nevertheless, most indices (e.g., the h-index) are motivated by intuition and rules of thumb, resulting in undesirable conclusions. In contrast, five natural properties lead us to a unique new index, the Euclidean index, that avoids several shortcomings of the h-index and its successors. The Euclidean index is simply the Euclidean length of an individual’s citation list. Two empirical tests suggest that the Euclidean index outperforms the h-index in practice.
Can Orbital Clustering of KBOs in the Ecliptic be due to the Solar Toroidal Field Generated Spacetime Dragging?
Creators: name: Mirza, Babur M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) exhibit an orbital clustering of the outer planets lying at perihelion distances larger than Neptune and semimajor axes greater than 150 AU from the Sun. This implies a hitherto unknown dynamical mechanism to counter randomizing of the orbital elements caused by the giant solar system planets. Using the toroidal field induced frame-dragging we deduce here the observed range of the Kuiper belt region, the semi-major axis of Sedna like objects in the Kuiper belt, as well as the orbital clustering of the KBOs in the ecliptic, without assuming dynamical effects induced by trans-Neptunian-objects (TNOs). We also calculate the orbital precession rates for the inner planets and show their correspondence, within the range of observational accuracy, with recent planetary ephemerides.
Perceptions of community college football and basketball coaches on the impact of Proposition 48 on their intercollegiate programs and student-athletes
Creators: name: Pina-Tallmon, Jo Ann
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of current community college head football and basketball coaches on the impact of Proposition 48 (formerly Bylaw 5-1-(j), now Bylaw 14.3) on certain features of their male student-athletes' educational planning and intercollegiate programs, as well as to ascertain its perceived differential impact on black versus white student-athletes. This study used the strategy of descriptive research. Two self-report type instruments, the Personal Data Sheet (PDS) and the Proposition 48 Perception Inventory (PPI), were used. These were sent to 329 community college head football and basketball coaches nationally; 221 usable responses provided the data used to address study hypotheses and research questions. Two hypotheses were tested and four research questions addressed. Despite the failure to confirm Hypothesis one--that head coaches perceived that Proposition 48 has had moderate to strong affect on the preponderance of features of their intercollegiate student-athletes' educational planning and athletic programs--study results substantiated that Proposition 48 has had a notable impact on community college student-athletes across the nation. When differences in mean responses assessing Proposition 48's impact on black versus white student-athletes were compared using t-tests, a differential pattern of impact on blacks emerged, ranging from the.01 to.001 level of significance. These results support Hypothesis Two--that head coaches perceived that Proposition 48 has had a differential impact on black versus white student-athletes. Coaches reported a moderate to very strong perceived need for increased support services, yet less than half the community colleges sampled have initiated the needed support services. Cross-tabulations and chi-square analysis conducted on selected items indicated (a) that the discrepancies between the perceived need for services and the provision of those services were significant at the.001 level of significance, and (b) that community colleges with greater amounts of athletic grants-in-aid experience a greater negative impact of Proposition 48, particularly on blacks. It was concluded that Proposition 48 has had a notable impact on community college student-athletes' educational planning and intercollegiate athletic programs, and a significantly differential impact on black community college student-athletes as compared to white.
Precision electroweak tests with $\bar ν_e e$ scattering
Creators: name: Rosner, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the cross section for $\bar ν_e e^-$ elastic scattering with unprecedented precision have recently been proposed. The impact of these experiments for detecting possible deviations from the standard electroweak theory is analyzed and compared with that of several other measurements.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. To be published in Phys. Rev. D, Brief Reports. Misprints corrected
Consumption Trends and Patterns for Vegetables, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Dry Beans and Peas
Creators: name: Gronbech, Gertrude
name: Gronbech, Gertrude
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1961
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report Summary: Vegetable consumption per capita is about 15 percent greater today than 50 years ago. Consumption increased moderately from the mid-1920's to a peak in World War II. Since that time, use of processed vegetables has continued to increase, but the increase has been offset by a decline in use of commercial fresh vegetables. The continuing decrease in use of home-produced vegetables resulted, in recent years, in some decline in the overall total. Per capita consumption of potatoes, sweetpotatoes, and dry beans and peas is much less than 50 years ago. But increased use of processed items has halted the decline in consumption of potatoes, and it has slowed the downward trend in use of sweetpotatoes.
Perceptions of community college football and basketball coaches on the impact of Proposition 48 on their intercollegiate programs and student-athletes
Creators: name: Pina-Tallmon, Jo Ann
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of current community college head football and basketball coaches on the impact of Proposition 48 (formerly Bylaw 5-1-(j), now Bylaw 14.3) on certain features of their male student-athletes' educational planning and intercollegiate programs, as well as to ascertain its perceived differential impact on black versus white student-athletes. This study used the strategy of descriptive research. Two self-report type instruments, the Personal Data Sheet (PDS) and the Proposition 48 Perception Inventory (PPI), were used. These were sent to 329 community college head football and basketball coaches nationally; 221 usable responses provided the data used to address study hypotheses and research questions. Two hypotheses were tested and four research questions addressed. Despite the failure to confirm Hypothesis one--that head coaches perceived that Proposition 48 has had moderate to strong affect on the preponderance of features of their intercollegiate student-athletes' educational planning and athletic programs--study results substantiated that Proposition 48 has had a notable impact on community college student-athletes across the nation. When differences in mean responses assessing Proposition 48's impact on black versus white student-athletes were compared using t-tests, a differential pattern of impact on blacks emerged, ranging from the.01 to.001 level of significance. These results support Hypothesis Two--that head coaches perceived that Proposition 48 has had a differential impact on black versus white student-athletes. Coaches reported a moderate to very strong perceived need for increased support services, yet less than half the community colleges sampled have initiated the needed support services. Cross-tabulations and chi-square analysis conducted on selected items indicated (a) that the discrepancies between the perceived need for services and the provision of those services were significant at the.001 level of significance, and (b) that community colleges with greater amounts of athletic grants-in-aid experience a greater negative impact of Proposition 48, particularly on blacks. It was concluded that Proposition 48 has had a notable impact on community college student-athletes' educational planning and intercollegiate athletic programs, and a significantly differential impact on black community college student-athletes as compared to white.
Social and Child Care Provision in Kinship Networks: an Agent-Based Model
Creators: name: Gostoli, Umberto
name: Silverman, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.6.0; J.3

description: Providing for the needs of the vulnerable is a critical component of social and health policy-making. In particular, caring for children and for vulnerable older people is vital to the wellbeing of millions of families throughout the world. In most developed countries, this care is provided through both formal and informal means, and is therefore governed by complex policies that interact in non-obvious ways with other areas of policy-making. In this paper we present an agent-based model of social and child care provision in the UK, in which agents can provide informal care or pay for private care for their relatives. Agents make care decisions based on numerous factors including their health status, employment, financial situation, and social and physical distance to those in need. Simulation results show that the model can produce plausible patterns of care need and availability, and therefore can provide an important aid to this complex area of policy-making. We conclude that the model's use of kinship networks for distributing care and the explicit modelling of interactions between social care and child care will enable policy-makers to develop more informed policy interventions in these critical areas.
description: 24 pages, 20 figures
The Great Tele-diplomat and the game of "spin patrol": Reagan, the media and the hijacking of TWA Flight 847
Creators: name: Hadar, Leon Teva
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study focuses on the relationship between foreign policy making and television news making during the 1985 hijacking crisis of TWA Flight 847. More specifically, it analyzes the relationship and its outcome as a competition and bargaining process involving the production of news and policy frames by the President, his advisors, the television news networks, as well as by other players such as the Shi'ite hijackers, the Amal leadership and the Israeli government. The study traces the rise of the International Terrorism Frame (ITF), a policy and news frame produced by an intellectual elite, the Neoconservatives, that dominated Reagan's foreign policy agenda. The ITF, which responded to the needs of the members of the American foreign policy Iron Triangle, as well as to the interests of other players, such as Israel was digested by the three television news networks. The ITF focused on international terrorism as the major preoccupation of the Reagan foreign policy agenda and created expectations about tough American response. As a result, the crisis invited wide media coverage which magnified the gap between the expectations created by the ITF and the reality of an administration negotiating with the terrorists, contrary to the ITF's tenets. The study suggests that the crisis was dominated by the Administration's efforts to prevent the destruction of the ITF through a sophisticated manipulation of the media, which in turn, exerted pressure on Israel to release a group of Shi'ite prisoners it was holding in release for the freedom of the hijacked American passengers. Hence, contrary to arguments made by Administration officials and media critics about the media's role in constraining presidential options during the crisis, this study concludes by suggesting that President Reagan was able to impose his foreign policy frames on the media during the crisis, reflecting the ability of every president to control and dominate policy and media frames during international crises.
Regularized Lovelock gravity
Creators: name: Casalino, Alessandro
name: Colleaux, Aimeric
name: Rinaldi, Massimiliano
name: Vicentini, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A four-dimensional regularization of Lovelock-Lanczos gravity up to an arbitrary curvature order is considered. We show that Lovelock-Lanczos terms can provide a non-trivial contribution to the Einstein field equations in four dimensions, for spherically symmetric and Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker spacetimes, as well as at first order in perturbation theory around (anti) de Sitter vacua. We will discuss the cosmological and black hole solutions arising from these theories, focusing on the presence of attractors and their stability. Although curvature singularities persist for any finite number of Lovelock terms, it is shown that they disappear in the non-perturbative limit of a theory with a unique vacuum.
description: Clarifications about the validity of the D->4 limiting procedure added. References added
Why Sex? and Why Only in Pairs?
Creators: name: Perry, Motty
name: Reny, Philip J.
name: Robson, Arthur J.
name: Perry, Motty
name: Reny, Philip J.
name: Robson, Arthur J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: Understanding the purpose of sex remains one of the most important unresolved problems in evolutionary biology. The di¢ culty is not that there are too few theories of sex, the di¢ culty is that there are too many and none stand out. To distinguish between theories we suggest the following question: Why are there no triparental species in which an o§spring is composed of the genetic material of three individuals? A successful theory should confer an advantage to biparental sex over asexual reproduction without conferring an even greater advantage to triparental sex. We pose our question in the context of two leading theories of sex, the (deterministic) mutational hypothesis that sex reduces the rate at which harmful mutations accumulate, and the red queen hypothesis that sex reduces the impact of parasitic attack by increasing genotypic variability. We show that the mutational hypothesis fails to provide an answer to the question because it implies that triparental sex dominates biparental sex, so the latter should never be observed. In contrast, we show that the red queen hypothesis is able to explain biparental sex without conferring an even greater advantage to triparental sex.
Evidence Games: Truth and Commitment
Creators: name: Hart, Sergiu
name: Kremer, Ilan
name: Perry, Motty
name: Hart, Sergiu
name: Kremer, Ilan
name: Perry, Motty
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: An evidence game is a strategic disclosure game in which an informed agent who has some pieces of verifiable evidence decides which ones to disclose to an uninformed principal who chooses a reward. The agent, regardless of his information, prefers the reward to be as high as possible. We compare the setup where the principal chooses the reward after the evidence is disclosed to the mechanism-design setup where he can commit in advance to a reward policy. The main result is that under natural conditions on the truth structure of the evidence, the two setups yield the same equilibrium outcome.
Rational Expectations and Farsighted Stability
Creators: name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Vohra, Rajiv
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Vohra, Rajiv
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: stable sets
subject: farsightedness
subject: consistency
subject: maximality
subject: rational expectations
subject: simple games
subject: pillage games

description: In the study of farsighted coalitional behavior, a central role is played by the von Neumann-Morgenstern (1944) stable set and its modification that incorporates farsightedness. Such a modification was first proposed by Harsanyi (1974) and has recently been re-formulated by Ray and Vohra (2015). The farsighted stable set is based on a notion of indirect dominance in which an outcome can be dominated by a chain of coalitional ‘moves’ in which each coalition that is involved in the sequence eventually stands to gain. However, it does not require that each coalition make a maximal move, i.e., one that is not Pareto dominated (for the members of the coalition in question) by another. Nor does it restrict coalitions to hold common expectations regarding the continuation path from every state. Consequently, when there are multiple continuation paths the farsighted stable set can yield unreasonable predictions. We resolve this difficulty by requiring all coalitions to have common rational expectations about the transition from one outcome to another. This leads to two related concepts: the rational expectations farsighted stable set (REFS) and the strong rational expectations farsighted stable set (SREFS). We apply these concepts to simple games and to pillage games to illustrate the consequences of imposing rational expectations for farsighted stability.
Lectures on Two-Dimensional Noncommutative Gauge Theory 2: Quantization
Creators: name: Paniak, L. D.
name: Szabo, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These notes comprise the second part of two articles devoted to the construction of exact solutions of noncommutative gauge theory in two spacetime dimensions. Here we shall deal with the quantum field theory. Topics covered include an investigation of the symmetries of quantum gauge theory on the noncommutative torus within the path integral formalism, the derivation of the exact expression for the vacuum amplitude, and the classification of instanton contributions. A section dealing with a new, exact combinatorial solution of gauge theory on a two-dimensional fuzzy torus is also included.
description: 33 pages, 3 figures, uses svmult.cls; Based on invited lectures given by the second author at the ``International Workshop on Quantum Field Theory and Noncommutative Geometry'', November 26-30 2002, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; To be published in the proceedings by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Physics
eBooks in Health Sciences -The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (the 11th Annual Health Sciences Lively Lunch): Developments 2010-2011
Creators: name: Kubilius, Ramune K.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Charleston Conference
subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Scholarly publishing

description: Handout prepared for and presented in synopsis during a brief (traditional) annual update of interesting and noteworthy trends in the health publishing and health information sectors that occurred or were noticed since the 2011 Health Sciences Lively Lunch at the Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition. (11th Lively Lunch took place on Thursday, November 9, 2011 in Charleston, SC).
description: presentation_location: Charleston (S.C.)
"Boring, Frustrating, Impossible": Tracing the Negative Affects of Reading from Interviews to Story Circles
Creators: Fuller, Danielle; Rehberg Sedo, DeNel
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2019

How can you trace the negative affects of reading experiences? Reading studies research
often relies on heroic, transformational and celebratory narratives about reading elicited
from research participants but also co-produced by the researchers because of the methods
employed. In this essay we begin to build a counter-narrative about reading and reading
studies research by investigating readers’ negative emotions through an experiment with a
different method. After revisiting our earlier work with interviews and focus groups, we
explore how and why we designed a participatory approach that employs aspects of the
Story Circles method (Kurtz 2014). We contend that using a creative method that
foregrounds the co-construction of narrative and interpretation and that explicitly
encourages narrative as a type of performance enables both researchers and participants to
explore a fuller range of emotions about reading experiences. This method also helps us to
actively re-negotiate the positions of researcher and research subject.
Ўзбекистон шароитида цементбетон қопламали йўл тўшамалари қуришнинг ўзига хос жиҳатлари
Creators: name: Adilkhodjaev, Anvar
name: Abduvokhid Yunusov
name: Tursoat Amirov
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Мақолада монолит цементбетон қопламали йўл тўшамаларини лойиҳалаш ва қуришнинг долзарб масалаларига бағишланган тавсиялар келтирилган. Ушбу тавсиялар ўтказилган экспперементал тадқиқотлар ва мавжуд стандартлар талабларига асосланиб ишлаб чиқилган.
Radymna persica
Creators: name: Nadein, Konstantin S.
name: Ahmed, Zubair
name: Sergeev, Maxim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Radymna
Radymna persica

description: Radymna persica (FALDERMANN, 1837)
 New record:
E. Afghanistan, Nangarhar Province, 10 km SE Jalalabad, Samarkhel Village, Kabul River valley, 13.05.2010, 2 exx.
A common and abundant species recorded in Afghanistan from many provinces (Medvedev 1985). Widely distributed in West Asia (Löbl & Smetana 2010).
 Tribe Alticini
description: Published as part of Nadein, Konstantin S., Ahmed, Zubair & Sergeev, Maxim, 2012, Distributional notes on Chrysomelidae from Pakistan and Afghanistan (Coleoptera), pp. 225-233 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 on page 231, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.1.225-233, http://zenodo.org/record/4779481
Perils of Quantitative Easing
Creators: name: McMahon, Michael
name: Peiris, Udara
name: Polemarchakis, Herakles
name: McMahon, Michael
name: Peiris, Udara
name: Polemarchakis, Herakles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Quantitative easing
subject: credit easing
subject: inflation

description: Quantitative easing compromises the control of the central bank over the stochastic path of inflation.
Learning to Self-Inject: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach to Overcoming Injection Anxiety
Creators: name: Mohr, David C
name: Cox, Darcy
Publisher: name: University of California, San Francisco, Behavioral Medicine Research Center
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Anxiety
subject: Self-injection
subject: Anxiety
subject: Injections
subject: Anxiety
subject: Injections

description: presentation_location: San Francisco, California, United States
Additional file 6 of Linking belowground microbial network changes to different tolerance level towards Verticillium wilt of olive
Creators: name: Fernández-González, Antonio J.
name: Cardoni, Martina
name: Cabanás, Carmen Gómez-Lama
name: Valverde-Corredor, Antonio
name: Villadas, Pablo J.
name: Fernández-López, Manuel
name: Mercado-Blanco, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S3. Genera showing significant changes in bacterial structural (DNA) community of ‘Frantoio’ (panel a) and ‘Picual’ (panel b) endosphere after inoculation with Verticillium dahliae. No/green: non-inoculated; Yes/red: Verticillium dahliae-inoculated.
Using Electronegativity and Hardness to Test Density Functional Universality
Creators: name: Moltved, Klaus A.
name: Kepp, Kasper P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Density functional theory (DFT) is used in thousands of papers each year, yet lack of universality reduces DFT's predictive capacity, and functionals may produce energy-density imbalances. The absolute electronegativity (χ) and hardness (η) directly reflect the energy-density relationship via the chemical potential dE/dN and we thus hypothesized that they probe universality. We studied χand ηfor atoms Z = 1-36 using 50 diverse functionals covering all major classes. Very few functionals describe both χand ηwell. ηbenefits from error cancelation whereas χis marred by error propagation from IP and EA; thus almost all standard GGA and hybrid functionals display a plateau in the MAE at 0.2-0.3 eV for η. In contrast, variable performance for χindicates problems in describing the chemical potential by DFT. The accuracy and precision of a functional is far from linearly related, yet for a universal functional we expect linearity. Popular functionals such as B3LYP, PBE, and revPBE, perform poorly for both properties. Density sensitivity calculations indicate large density-derived errors as occupation of degenerate p- and d-orbitals causes "non-universality" and large dependency on exact exchange. Thus, we argue that performance for χfor the same systems is a hallmark of universality by probing dE/dN. With this metric, B98, B97-1, PW6B95D3, APFD are the most "universal" tested functionals. B98 and B97-1 are accurate for very diverse metal-ligand bonds, supporting that a balanced description of dE/dN and dE2/dN2, via χand η, is probably a first simple probe of universality.
X17: A new force, or evidence for a hard $γ+γ$ process?
Creators: name: Koch, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is investigated whether the "X17 puzzle" might be explained by a nuclear decay chain and a conversion of the two resulting highly energetic $γ$s into an electron-positron pair. It is found that the corresponding kinematics fits perfectly to the experimental result. Also the conversion rates of this process are reasonable. However, the assumed nuclear chain reaction is not favored in the established nuclear models and no explanation for the isospin structure of the signal can be given. Thus, it has to be concluded that the process studied in this paper does not give a completely satisfying explanation of the "X17 puzzle".
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Stationary electromagnetic fields in the exterior of a slowly rotating relativistic star: a description beyond the low-frequency approximation
Creators: name: Kojima, Yasufumi
name: Matsunaga, Norihito
name: Okita, Taishi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the electromagnetic fields in the vacuum exterior of a rotating relativistic star endowed with a magnetic dipole moment, and with the stellar surface behaving as a perfect conductor. While the stellar rotation is treated in the slow-approximation of general relativity, we do not restrict our attention to slowly rotating electromagnetic fields, and take our analysis beyond the low-frequency approximation considered so far. When the dipole moment is misaligned with the rotational axis, our approach does not yield analytic solutions as in Rezzolla et al. (2001a, b), but determines the properties of the electromagnetic fields approximately and semi-analytically, by computing the coefficients of simple expressions for the fields through the numerical solution of two partial differential equations. Because our approach provides a solution which is in principle valid throughout space, we can evaluate the accuracy and/or invalidity of previously known analytic expressions at different distances from the stellar surface. Overall, the solutions found in this way represent an efficient way of bridging in a single semi-analytic formalism the strongly relativistic (Rezzolla et al. 2001a, b) and the asymptotic regimes (Deutsch 1955) for which analytic solutions have been found.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS in press
Metallic ferroelectric-ferromagnetic multiferroics in strained EuTiO$_{3-x}$H$_x$
Creators: name: Sheng, Xu
name: Gu, Yanni
name: Shen, Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polar metals are defined by the coexistence of metallicity and polar crystal structure. They have potential applications in non-linear optics, ferroelectric devices, and quantum devices. Meanwhile, ferroelectric-ferromagnetic (FE-FM) multiferroics display simultaneous ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism, leading to new technologies in information storage. It remains an open question whether metallicity, ferroelectricity, and ferromagnetism can coexist in a single domain of a material. EuTiO$_3$ is actively studied for potential applications in magnetic sensors, memories, magneto-optical devices, and energy conversion devices. It stabilizes at a multi-critical equilibrium and exhibits a rich range of intriguing properties. Here, using the results from hybrid density functional theory calculations, we report metallic FE-FM multiferroics in strain-engineered epitaxial EuTiO$_3$ with H doping. The emergence of the magnetism in polar metals provides a new degree of freedom to control these materials in applications. The underlying mechanism for the coexistence of metallicity, ferroelectricity, and ferromagnetism is discussed. The ferromagnetism in metallic EuTiO$_{3-x}$H$_x$ is explained by the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya- Yosida (RKKY) interaction, which agrees with experiments. The coexistence of metallicity and ferroelectricity is allowed because the electrons at the Fermi level are weakly coupled to the ferroelectric distortion. Our results suggest that the combined effect of strain and doping is responsible for achieving EuTiO$_3$-based metallic FE-FM multiferroics and may provide a new way for obtaining metallic FE-FM multiferroics in other materials.
Multi-scale structural complexity of natural patterns
Creators: name: Bagrov, Andrey A.
name: Iakovlev, Ilia A.
name: Iliasov, Askar A.
name: Katsnelson, Mikhail I.
name: Mazurenko, Vladimir V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complexity of patterns is a key information for human brain to differ objects of about the same size and shape. Like other innate human senses, the complexity perception cannot be easily quantified. We propose a transparent and universal machine method for estimating structural (effective) complexity of two- and three-dimensional patterns that can be straightforwardly generalized onto other classes of objects. It is based on multi-step renormalization of the pattern of interest and computing the overlap between neighboring renormalized layers. This way, we can define a single number characterizing the structural complexity of an object. We apply this definition to quantify complexity of various magnetic patterns and demonstrate that not only does it reflect the intuitive feeling of what is "complex" and what is "simple", but also can be used to accurately detect different phase transitions and gain information about dynamics of non-equilibrium systems. When employed for that, the proposed scheme is much simpler and numerically cheaper than the standard methods based on computing correlation functions or using machine learning techniques.
description: v2: major revision, author added; 11 pages, 13 figures, 4 new sections. Complexity of time dependent spin systems and the relations between the proposed complexity definition and quantum calculus are explored. To appear in PNAS
The Great Tele-diplomat and the game of "spin patrol": Reagan, the media and the hijacking of TWA Flight 847
Creators: name: Hadar, Leon Teva
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This study focuses on the relationship between foreign policy making and television news making during the 1985 hijacking crisis of TWA Flight 847. More specifically, it analyzes the relationship and its outcome as a competition and bargaining process involving the production of news and policy frames by the President, his advisors, the television news networks, as well as by other players such as the Shi'ite hijackers, the Amal leadership and the Israeli government. The study traces the rise of the International Terrorism Frame (ITF), a policy and news frame produced by an intellectual elite, the Neoconservatives, that dominated Reagan's foreign policy agenda. The ITF, which responded to the needs of the members of the American foreign policy Iron Triangle, as well as to the interests of other players, such as Israel was digested by the three television news networks. The ITF focused on international terrorism as the major preoccupation of the Reagan foreign policy agenda and created expectations about tough American response. As a result, the crisis invited wide media coverage which magnified the gap between the expectations created by the ITF and the reality of an administration negotiating with the terrorists, contrary to the ITF's tenets. The study suggests that the crisis was dominated by the Administration's efforts to prevent the destruction of the ITF through a sophisticated manipulation of the media, which in turn, exerted pressure on Israel to release a group of Shi'ite prisoners it was holding in release for the freedom of the hijacked American passengers. Hence, contrary to arguments made by Administration officials and media critics about the media's role in constraining presidential options during the crisis, this study concludes by suggesting that President Reagan was able to impose his foreign policy frames on the media during the crisis, reflecting the ability of every president to control and dominate policy and media frames during international crises.
Processed Food Trade Concordance
Creators: name: Epps, Walter B.
name: Harris, J. Michael
name: Epps, Walter B.
name: Harris, J. Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Processed foods
subject: trade concordance
subject: Harmonized System
subject: Standard Industrial Classification System

description: This handbook pairs processed food industries with their corresponding products. These pairings merge the domestic Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC) for classifying industries and the international Harmonized System for classifying imported and exported products. The result is a concise reference for use in analytical or statistical work that requires identification of the individual products that compose industries' aggregate processed food imports and exports.
Minimal dynamical systems on the product of the Cantor set and the circle
Creators: name: Lin, Huaxin
name: Matui, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a crossed product algebra arising from a minimal dynamical system on the product of the Cantor set and the circle has real rank zero if and only if that system is rigid. In the case that cocycles take values in the rotation group, it is also shown that rigidity implies tracial rank zero, and in particular, the crossed product algebra is isomorphic to a unital simple AT-algebra of real rank zero. Under the same assumption, we show that two systems are approximately $K$-conjugate if and only if there exists a sequence of isomorphisms between two associated crossed products which approximately maps $C(X\times \T)$ onto $C(X\times \T)$.
description: 44 pages