cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Conflict of Legitimate Concerns or Pandering to Vested Interests? Conflicting Attitudes Towards the Regulation of Trade in Genetically Modified Goods - The EU and the US
Creators: name: Perdikis, Nicholas
name: Perdikis, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: conflicts
subject: EU
subject: GMOs
subject: trade
subject: U.S.

description: The success of multilateral negotiations in reducing explicit trade barriers has focused the attention of policy makers and other interest groups on the impact domestic policies and attitudes may have on trade flows. In the area of genetically modified goods the principal area of dispute between the U.S. and the EU involves fundamental differences in the perception of these goods and consumer attitudes towards them. The current dispute settlement mechanisms do not provide a way of dealing with this type of issue. Existing bodies were designed to deal with "producer vested" interests and so cannot deal with "legitimate" consumer concerns. The paper concludes that a new body should be established to deal with these within the ambit of the WTO.
Reform of Agricultural Export Credit Programs
Creators: name: Rude, James
name: Rude, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: export credit
subject: export subsidy
subject: price discrimination
subject: WTO

description: This paper examines whether government-sponsored export credit arrangements have the same effect on trade as direct export subsidies. The export credit programs for several major agricultural exporters are described. These programs are compared to OECD disciplines for export credit arrangements, and the consequences of extending these guidelines to agriculture are analysed. None of the programs discussed would be consistent with the OECD guidelines. Since export credit arrangements have many of the same characteristics as targeted export subsidies, the same analytical framework can be used to analyse these programs. However, it is necessary to determine implicit subsidy values for the program.
D4.2 Data Cube API – Release I
Creators: name: Mantovani, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: RELIANCE
Research Objects
ROhub
RO-Crate
Data cubes
EOSC
Earth Science

description: RELIANCE, short for Research Lifecycle Management for Earth Science Communities and Copernicus users in EOSC, aims to realize the vision of FAIR research in EOSC by adopting a holistic research management approach based on three key and complementary technologies: i) Research objects (RO) as the overarching mechanism to manage scientific research activities; ii) data cubes as the mechanisms enabling an efficient and scalable Earth Observation data discovery and access; iii) text mining and semantic enrichment services allowing to extract machine-readable metadata from RO resources, enabling researchers to discover scientific information at scale and to structure their own research. This document describes the Data Cube API released to describe and exploit the FAIR Data Cubes made available within the RELIANCE project. The Data Cube Metadata Model adopted for describing FAIR Data Cubes and the list of Data Cube resources are detailed in the [D4.1] and [D4.4], respectively. A second release of this deliverable is planned at month M18 to track the evolution of Data Cube API: feedback collected within RELIANCE project will be gathered with the Open Geospatial Consortium standardization body to contribute to the definition of specifications for the Data Cube API within the Testbed 17 Innovative Initiative.
description: This is the draft version of the deliverable not yet approved by the European Commission.
Diagrammatic Analysis of the Unitary Group for Double Barrier Ballistic Cavities: Equivalence with Circuit Theory
Creators: name: Barbosa, Anderson L. R.
name: Macedo, Antonio M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a set of coupled non-linear algebraic equations for the asymptotics of the Poisson kernel distribution describing the statistical properties of a two-terminal double-barrier chaotic billiard (or ballistic quantum dot). The equations are calculated from a diagrammatic technique for performing averages over the unitary group, proposed by Brouwer and Beenakker [J. Math. Phys. 37, 4904 (1996)]. We give strong analytical evidences that these equations are equivalent to a much simpler polynomial equation calculated from a recent extension of Nazarov's circuit theory [A. M. S. Macedo, Phys. Rev. B 66, 033306 (2002)]. These results offer interesting perspectives for further developments in the field via the direct conversion of one approach into the other.
description: 7 pages, to appear in Physical Review B
Extreme Value Theory Based Rate Selection for Ultra-Reliable Communications
Creators: name: Mehrnia, Niloofar
name: Coleri, Sinem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) requires the packet error rate to be on the order of $10^{-9}$-$10^{-5}$. Determining the appropriate transmission rate to satisfy this ultra-reliability constraint requires deriving the statistics of the channel in the ultra-reliable region and then incorporating these statistics into the rate selection. In this paper, we propose a framework for determining the rate selection for ultra-reliable communications based on the extreme value theory (EVT). We first model the wireless channel at URLLC by estimating the parameters of the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) best fitting to the tail distribution of the received powers, i.e., the power values below a certain threshold. Then, we determine the maximum transmission rate by incorporating the Pareto distribution into the rate selection function. Finally, we validate the selected rate by computing the resulting error probability. Based on the data collected within the engine compartment of Fiat Linea, we demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed methodology in determining the maximum transmission rate compared to the traditional extrapolation-based approaches.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures including 7 subfigures
Berg, Christian (Hrsg.) / von Hammerstein, Franz (Hrsg.), Leibhaftige Ökumene
Creators: name: Rott, Ludwig
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 13 Nr. 2 (1964): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 13, Heft 2
The TRIPS Disagreement: Should GATT Traditions Have Been Abandoned? Technical Annex
Creators: name: Gaisford, James D.
name: Richardson, R. Stephen
name: Gaisford, James D.
name: Richardson, R. Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This document is the technical annex to the full paper "The TRIPS Disagreement: Should GATT Traditions Have Been Abandoned?" which is available separately.
The Disk and Extraplanar Regions of NGC 55
Creators: name: Davidge, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stellar content of the nearby SB(s)m galaxy NGC 55 is investigated using images covering the visible and near-infrared wavelength regions. A well-defined plume, which stellar evolution models suggest contains stars with masses near the RSG - AGB transition, is detected in CMDs of the disk, and it is concluded that star formation in the thin disk of NGC 55 has ocurred at a significant rate for at least the past 0.1 - 0.2 Gyr. The disk also contains a large population of old (log(t_yr) ~ 10) stars, and it is argued that a stable disk has been in place in NGC 55 for a significant fraction of the age of the Universe. At projected distances in excess of 2 kpc off of the disk plane the brightest AGB stars have ages 10(+3)(-2) Gyr. Thus, despite indications that dust and gas are present in the envelope surrounding the NGC 55 disk, the AGB content suggests that recently formed stars do not occur in large numbers in the extraplanar region. The mean metallicity of extraplanar RGB stars is in excellent agreement with that measured in the extraplanar HII regions EHR 1 and 2, suggesting that the age-metallicity relation in this part of NGC 55 has been flat for at least a few Gyr. Finally, the RGB-tip occurs near i' = 23.1 in the extraplanar region, and a distance modulus of 26.5 is computed from this feature.
description: 27 pages of text, 20 postscript figures. Accepted for publication in the ApJ
Incorporation of Confidence Interval into Rate Selection Based on the Extreme Value Theory for Ultra-Reliable Communications
Creators: name: Mehrnia, Niloofar
name: Coleri, Sinem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Proper determination of the transmission rate in ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) needs to incorporate a confidence interval (CI) for the estimated parameters due to the large amount of data required for their accurate estimation. In this paper, we propose a framework based on the extreme value theory (EVT) for determining the transmission rate along with its corresponding CI for an ultra-reliable communication system. This framework consists of characterizing the statistics of extreme events by fitting the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) to the channel tail, deriving the GPD parameters and their associated CIs, and obtaining the transmission rate within a confidence interval. Based on the data collected within the engine compartment of Fiat Linea, we demonstrate the accuracy of the estimated rate obtained through the EVT-based framework considering the confidence interval for the GPD parameters. Additionally, we show that proper estimation of the transmission rate based on the proposed framework requires a lower number of samples compared to the traditional extrapolation-based approaches.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures including 14 subfigures
The TRIPS Disagreement: Should GATT Traditions Have Been Abandoned?
Creators: name: Gaisford, James D.
name: Richardson, R. Stephen
name: Gaisford, James D.
name: Richardson, R. Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: copyrights
subject: innovation
subject: intellectual property
subject: patents
subject: trade-related intellectual property rights

description: The world standards for patents and copyrights established by the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) have been controversial from their inception. This article establishes parallels between cooperative increases in the duration of intellectual property protection and cooperative reductions in tariff protection. Whereas a country's tariffs lead to unintended harm to other countries, its intellectual property protection generates unintended benefits. The long-established GATT principle of trade liberalization has traditionally achieved mutual gains for countries of all types through symmetric tariff rate cuts that result in different final rates. By contrast, the TRIPS agreement created the likelihood of losses for developing countries by requiring asymmetric increases in patents and copyrights to establish common worldwide standards. The technical annex to this paper formalizes the analysis with a simple model of North-South patent protection. Sample calculations suggest a decline in the net benefits from innovation in developing countries in the order of 40 percent.
Enhanced electrocatalytic oxygen evolution activity in geometrically designed SrRuO3 thin films
Creators: name: Biswas, Abhijit
name: Shanker, G. Shiva
name: Das, Tisita
name: Mandal, Rajesh
name: Chakraborty, Sudip
name: Ogale, Satishchandra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For generation of sustainable, clean and highly efficient energy, the electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction represents an attractive platform, thus inviting immense research activities in recent years. However, designing the catalyst with enhanced electrocatalytic activity remains one of the major challenges. Here, we examined the oxygen evolution reaction activities of geometrically designed (with and without step-textured morphology) thin films of an electrocatalytically active correlated metallic SrRuO3 perovskite grown on c- and r-plane sapphire substrates. On c-plane sapphire, as compared to the uniform surface, the step-textured films endowed with active Ru-sites show remarkable decrease in the overpotential (25 mV). Interestingly, the behavior is opposite for the r-plane case, highlighting the significance of the active sites, in addition with the polar surface termination of selective crystal facets. Density functional theory calculation confirms the favorable energy reaction pathway for the active site dependent enhancement in OER. Our strategy might pave the way towards designing the surfaces of various oxide thin films for high performance energy conversion based devices.
description: 18 pages. 5 figures, Published in Applied Surface Science
The experiences of family members of brain injured individuals in the early phase after the injury : an exploratory multiple case study
Creators: name: Kleemann, Ulrike Hela
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Traumatic brain injury affects thousands of individuals and their families each year. The importance of the involvement of family members in rehabilitation in order to maximize the injured person's functioning has long been recognized. However, the importance of support and counselling for the family members has only become more apparent in the past 10 to 15 years. Initial research on brain injury and the family was concerned with identifying the burden on the family and factors related to their stress. Researchers also have attempted to develop questionnaires to assess families' needs. Recent research is beginning to look at the adjustment and adaptation process to brain injury by family members. Most research on the effects of brain injury on the family has been quantitative in nature and some limits exist due to small sample sizes, insufficient assessment, and lack of evidence of reliability and validity of questionnaires. Two significant gaps remain: the lack of information on family members' experiences, reactions, and needs in the initial phase after the injury (the first few weeks), and the lack of qualitative research in this area that would allow families to express and describe their own experiences. This study explores the experiences of family members of individuals with severe traumatic brain injuries during the patients' stay in acute care from their personal perspective.
First results from the Canada-France High-z Quasar Survey: Constraints on the z=6 quasar luminosity function and the quasar contribution to reionization
Creators: name: Willott, Chris J.
name: Delfosse, Xavier
name: Forveille, Thierry
name: Delorme, Philippe
name: Gwyn, Stephen D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present preliminary results of a new quasar survey being undertaken with multi-colour optical imaging from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The current data consists of 3.83 sq. deg. of imaging in the i' and z' filters to a 10 sigma limit of z'<23.35. Near-infrared photometry of 24 candidate 5.7-3.2 at 95% confidence. We find that the comoving space-density of quasars brighter than M_1450=-23.5 declines by a factor >25 from z=2 to z=6, mirroring the decline observed for high-luminosity quasars. We consider the contribution of the quasar population to the ionizing photon density at z=6 and the implications for reionization. We show that the current constraints on the quasar population give an ionizing photon density <<30% that of the star-forming galaxy population. We conclude that active galactic nuclei make a negligible contribution to the reionization of hydrogen at z~6.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, ApJ, in press
Trade Agreements in the Americas: Regionalism Converging to Globalization
Creators: name: Hester, Annette
name: Beaulieu, Eugene
name: Hester, Annette
name: Beaulieu, Eugene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Latin America
subject: multinationalism
subject: preferential trade agreements
subject: regionalism

description: This paper summarizes the evolution of regional trade agreements in the Americas and examines whether they are contributing to globalization or detracting from it. In theory, regional trade agreements may create incentives that deter countries from entering into multilateral negotiations. The paper draws on the political economy literature and takes a "dynamic time-path effect" perspective. The evolution of six regional trade agreements in Latin America are analyzed in detail: LAIA, Mercosur, NAFTA, Andean Community, Caricom, and CACM. This study concludes that regional trade agreements in the Americas have not discouraged the participatory countries' pursuit of multilateral negotiations. Moreover, regional agreements are contributing to a new power balance in the global scene.
Corrections to Wigner-Eckart Relations by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Heissenberg, Carlo
name: Strocchi, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The matrix elements of operators transforming as irreducible representations of an unbroken symmetry group $G$ are governed by the well-known Wigner-Eckart relations. In the case of infinitely-extended systems, with $G$ spontaneously broken, we prove that the corrections to such relations are provided by symmetry breaking Ward identities, and simply reduce to a tadpole term involving Goldstone bosons. The analysis extends to the case in which an explicit symmetry breaking term is present in the Hamiltonian, with the tadpole term now involving pseudo Goldstone bosons. An explicit example is discussed, illustrating the two cases.
description: 12 pages, accepted for publication in Symmetry (MDPI), special issue "Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking: Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena"
Diophantine properties of real numbers generated by finite automata
Creators: name: Adamczewski, Boris
name: Cassaigne, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11J82, 11B85, 68R15

description: We study some diophantine properties of automatic real numbers and we present a method to derive irrationality measures for such numbers. As a consequence, we prove that the $b$-adic expansion of a Liouville number cannot be generated by a finite automaton, a conjecture due to Shallit.
Probing Cosmic Acceleration Beyond the Equation of State: Distinguishing between Dark Energy and Modified Gravity Models
Creators: name: Ishak, Mustapha
name: Upadhye, Amol
name: Spergel, David N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If general relativity is the correct theory of physics on large scales, then there is a differential equation that relates the Hubble expansion function, inferred from measurements of angular diameter distance and luminosity distance, to the growth rate of large scale structure. For a dark energy fluid without couplings or an unusual sound speed, deviations from this consistency relationship could be the signature of modified gravity on cosmological scales. We propose a procedure based on this consistency relation in order to distinguish between some dark energy models and modified gravity models. The procedure uses different combinations of cosmological observations and is able to find inconsistencies when present. As an example, we apply the procedure to a universe described by a recently proposed 5-dimensional modified gravity model. We show that this leads to an inconsistency within the dark energy parameter space detectable by future experiments.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures; expanded paper; matches PRD accepted version; corrected growth rate formula; main results and conclusion unchanged
Trade Agreements in the Americas: Regionalism Converging to Globalization: Technical Annex
Creators: name: Hester, Annette
name: Beaulieu, Eugene
name: Hester, Annette
name: Beaulieu, Eugene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This document is the technical annex to the full paper "Trade Agreements in the Americas: Regionalism Converging to Globalization", which is available separately.
Polyakov loop at low and high temperatures
Creators: name: Megias, E.
name: Arriola, E. Ruiz
name: Salcedo, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe how the coupling of the gluonic Polyakov loop to quarks solves different inconsistencies in the standard treatment of chiral quark models at finite temperature at the one quark loop level. Large gauge invariance is incorporated and an effective theory of quarks and Polyakov loops as basic degrees of freedom is generated. From this analysis we find a strong suppression of finite temperature effects in hadronic observables below the deconfinement phase transition triggered by approximate triality conservation in a phase where chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken (Polyakov cooling). We also propose a simple phenomenological model to describe the available lattice data for the renormalized Polyakov loop in the deconfinement phase. Our analysis shows that non perturbative contributions driven by dimension-2 gluon condensates dominate the behaviour of the Polyakov loop in the regime T_c < T < 6T_c.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. Talk given at the 29th Johns Hopkins Workshop in Theoretical Physics, Budapest 1-3 August 2005. To appear online in JHEP Proceedings of Science
Is It Time to Re-think the WTO? A Return to the Basics
Creators: name: Kerr, William A.
name: Kerr, William A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: civil society
subject: trade sanctions
subject: TRIPS
subject: WTO

description: The GATT was an organization that was seldom at the centre of political controversy, nor was it the object of virulent protest. The WTO, which succeeded it, however, has not enjoyed the GATT's anonymity. The controversies surrounding the WTO detract from its effectiveness and debase its credibility. In large measure, the contentious issues that the WTO has been attempting to deal with since its inception do not have at their heart trade in goods and services. The framers of the WTO took bold steps to create a new institution during the Uruguay Round--much of which has turned out to be a significant improvement on the GATT. This does not mean, however, that everything that was put in place has proved to be an improvement, or even workable. It may be time to consider returning the WTO to its basic function--providing a set of rules for the conduct of trade in goods and services.
XBootes: An X-Ray Survey of the NDWFS Bootes Field - Paper I Overview and Initial Results
Creators: name: Murray, Stephen S.
name: Kenter, Almus
name: Forman, William R.
name: Jones, Christine
name: Green, Paul J.
name: Kochanek, Christopher S.
name: Vikhlinin, Alexey
name: Fabricant, Daniel
name: Fazio, Giovani
name: Brand, Kate
name: Brown, Michael J. I.
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Jannuzi, Buell T.
name: Najita, Joan
name: McNamara, Brian
name: Shields, Joseph
name: Rieke, Marcia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtained a 5 ksec deep Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-I map of the 9.3 square degree Bootes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. Here we describe the data acquisition and analysis strategies leading to a catalog of 4642 (3293) point sources with 2 or more (4 or more) counts, corresponding to a limiting flux of roughly 4(8)x10^{-15} erg cm^{-2}s^{-1} in the 0.5-7 keV band. These Chandra XBootes data are unique in that they consitute the widest contiguous X-ray field yet observed to such a faint flux limit. Because of the extraordinarily low background of the ACIS, we expect only 14% (0.7%) of the sources to be spurious. We also detected 43 extended sources in this survey. The distribution of the point sources among the 126 pointings (ACIS-I has a 16 x 16 arcminute field of view) is consistent with Poisson fluctuations about the mean of 36.8 sources per pointing. While a smoothed image of the point source distribution is clumpy, there is no statistically significant evidence of large scale filamentary structure. We do find however, that for theta>1 arcminute, the angular correlation function of these sources is consistent with previous measurements, following a power law in angle with slope -0.7. In a 1.4 deg^{2} sample of the survey, approximately 87% of the sources with 4 or more counts have an optical counterpart to R ~26 mag. As part of a larger program of optical spectroscopy of the NDWFS Bootes area, spectra have been obtained for \~900 of the X-ray sources, most of which are QSOs or AGN.
description: 18 Pages, 10 figures (AASTex Preprint format)
The nature and boundary of the floating phase in a dissipative Josephson junction array
Creators: name: Tewari, Sumanta
name: Toner, John
name: Chakravarty, Sudip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nature of correlations within, and the transition into, the floating phase of dissipative Josephson junction arrays. Order parameter correlations in this phase are long-ranged in time, but only short-ranged in space. A perturbative RG analysis shows that, in {\it arbitrary} spatial dimension, the transition is controlled by a continuous locus of critical fixed points determined entirely by the \textit{local} topology of the lattice. This may be the most natural example of a line of critical points existing in arbitrary dimensions.
description: Parts rewritten, typos corrected
scb-mt-en-th-2020: A Large English-Thai Parallel Corpus
Creators: name: Lowphansirikul, Lalita
name: Polpanumas, Charin
name: Rutherford, Attapol T.
name: Nutanong, Sarana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The primary objective of our work is to build a large-scale English-Thai dataset for machine translation. We construct an English-Thai machine translation dataset with over 1 million segment pairs, curated from various sources, namely news, Wikipedia articles, SMS messages, task-based dialogs, web-crawled data and government documents. Methodology for gathering data, building parallel texts and removing noisy sentence pairs are presented in a reproducible manner. We train machine translation models based on this dataset. Our models' performance are comparable to that of Google Translation API (as of May 2020) for Thai-English and outperform Google when the Open Parallel Corpus (OPUS) is included in the training data for both Thai-English and English-Thai translation. The dataset, pre-trained models, and source code to reproduce our work are available for public use.
description: 35 pages, 4 figures
Time Series Forecasting of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines Using Deep Learning: Does COVID-19 Epidemic Matter?
Creators: name: Aribe, Sales G.
name: Gerardo, Bobby D.
name: Medina, Ruji P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With a 676% growth rate in HIV incidence between 2010 and 2021, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Philippines is the one that is spreading the quickest in the western Pacific. Although the full effects of COVID-19 on HIV services and development are still unknown, it is predicted that such disruptions could lead to a significant increase in HIV casualties. Therefore, the nation needs some modeling and forecasting techniques to foresee the spread pattern and enhance the governments prevention, treatment, testing, and care program. In this study, the researcher uses Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network to forecast time series during the period when the COVID-19 pandemic strikes the nation, using statistics taken from the HIV/AIDS and ART Registry of the Philippines. After training, validation, and testing of data, the study finds that the predicted cumulative cases in the nation by 2030 will reach 145,273. Additionally, there is very little difference between observed and anticipated HIV epidemic levels, as evidenced by reduced RMSE, MAE, and MAPE values as well as a greater coefficient of determination. Further research revealed that the Philippines seems far from achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3 of Project 2030 due to an increase in the nations rate of new HIV infections. Despite the detrimental effects of COVID-19 spread on HIV/AIDS efforts nationwide, the Philippine government, under the Marcos administration, must continue to adhere to the United Nations 90-90-90 targets by enhancing its ART program and ensuring that all vital health services are readily accessible and available.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, Published with International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations and Virasoro Algebra
Creators: name: Ozer, H. T.
name: Salihoglu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using AKNS scheme and soliton connection taking values in a Virasoro algebra we obtain new coupled Nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
description: 6 pages, no figures, LaTex file. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 1 December 2005
Mixed boundary value problem for $p$-harmonic functions in an infinite cylinder
Creators: name: Björn, Jana
name: Mwasa, Abubakar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a mixed boundary value problem for the $p$-Laplace equation $Δ_p u=0$ in an open infinite circular half-cylinder with prescribed Dirichlet boundary data on a part of the boundary and zero Neumann boundary data on the rest. Existence of weak solutions to the mixed problem is proved both for Sobolev and for continuous data on the Dirichlet part of the boundary. We also obtain a boundary regularity result for the point at infinity in terms of a variational capacity adapted to the cylinder.
Plant Species Protection Contracts: Modelling Contract Choice for Specialised Dairy Farms and Mixed Dairy Pig Fattening Farms in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Peerlings, Jack H.M.
name: Polman, Nico B.P.
name: Peerlings, Jack H.M.
name: Polman, Nico B.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: agri-environmental contracts
subject: contract choice

description: Proposals of the European Commission stress the future importance of agri-environmental payments within the rural development policy of the European Union. The aim of this paper is to present and discuss a model for choice for plant species protection contracts in the Netherlands. The model includes transaction costs, time and the possibility of lock-in situations related to contract choice. The approach discussed is flexible because it makes it possible to introduce all kinds of technical and institutional restrictions (differences in contract design).
Maximally extended, explicit and regular coverings of the Schwarzschild - de Sitter vacua in arbitrary dimension
Creators: name: Lake, Kayll
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Maximally extended, explicit and regular coverings of the Schwarzschild - de Sitter family of vacua are given, first in spacetime (generalizing a result due to Israel) and then for all dimensions $D$ (assuming a $D-2$ sphere). It is shown that these coordinates offer important advantages over the well known Kruskal - Szekeres procedure.
description: 12 pages revtex4 5 figures in color. Higher resolution version at http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~lake/regularcoordinates.pdf
Flachsmeier, Horst R., Geschichte der evangelischen Weltmission
Creators: name: Buttler, Paul-Gerhardt
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 13 Nr. 2 (1964): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 13, Heft 2
Resolving Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and CP Degeneracy by Two Identical Detectors with Different Baselines
Creators: name: Ishitsuka, Masaki
name: Kajita, Takaaki
name: Minakata, Hisakazu
name: Nunokawa, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the possibility of simultaneous determination of neutrino mass hierarchy and the CP violating phase by using two identical detectors placed at different baseline distances. We focus on a possible experimental setup using neutrino beam from J-PARC facility in Japan with beam power of 4MW and megaton (Mton)-class water Cherenkov detectors, one placed in Kamioka and the other at somewhere in Korea. We demonstrate, under reasonable assumptions of systematic uncertainties, that the two-detector complex with each fiducial volume of 0.27 Mton has potential of resolving neutrino mass hierarchy up to sin^2 2theta_{13} > 0.03 (0.055) at 2σ(3σ) CL for any values of delta and at the same time has the sensitivity to CP violation by 4 + 4 years running of nu_e and nu_e-bar appearance measurement. The significantly enhanced sensitivity is due to clean detection of modulation of neutrino energy spectrum, which is enabled by cancellation of systematic uncertainties between two identical detectors which receive the neutrino beam with the same energy spectrum in the absence of oscillations.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, version published in PRD
Listening to the voices of adolescence : descriptions of significant adults and their qualities which aided in the transition into adolescence
Creators: name: Lang-Gould, Susie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Adolescence has been described as a tumultuous transition where problems heighten and self-esteem plummets. One positive relationship in an adolescent's life can decrease the chances of severe problems and, in some cases, enhance this transition. A qualitative study explored the nature and qualities of significant relationships with adults during the transition into adolescence. This author applied Gilligan and Arvay's "Listening and Reading Guide" to uncover stories and themes surrounding six relationships with adults. The adolescents were selected through the use of an advertisement displayed in various community centers in Vancouver and by word of mouth. Unstructured interviews with open-ended questions were used to discover adolescents' perspective on relational experiences with adults and qualities of significant adults. All adolescents spoke about the meaningful and positive effect these adults had in their lives. They clearly defined eight important qualities in adults that made a difference: Open Communication, Messages about Feeling Special, Sense of Belonging, Involvement in Important Activities, Connection, Role Model, Challenges and Family Foundation. Listening to the voices of these adolescents provided valuable information for teachers, counsellors and parents concerned with enhancing this transition and establishing more effective support.
Quantum computation with abelian anyons on the honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Pachos, Jiannis K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-dimensional spin system that exhibits abelian anyonic excitations. Manipulations of these excitations enable the construction of a quantum computational model. While the one-qubit gates are performed dynamically the model offers the advantage of having a two-qubit gate that is of topological nature. The transport and braiding of anyons on the lattice can be performed adiabatically enjoying the robust characteristics of geometrical evolutions. The same control procedures can be used when dealing with non-abelian anyons. A possible implementation of the manipulations with optical lattices is developed.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, REVTEX, improved presentation and implementation
Contracting for Environmental Property Rights: The Case of Vittel
Creators: name: Depres, Christophe
name: Grolleau, Gilles
name: Mzoughi, Naoufel
name: Depres, Christophe
name: Grolleau, Gilles
name: Mzoughi, Naoufel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: case study
subject: contracting
subject: environmental property rights
subject: environmental-related transactions
subject: private arrangement
subject: Vittel

description: Based on an authentic case of contracting for environmental property rights, our paper shows several implications of applying the Coase's propositions. The case study adds empirical content to basic transaction costs concepts by analyzing the design and implementation of a contractual arrangement between a pollutee a bottler of mineral water Vittel and several polluting farmers. We analyze the bargaining between land and water rights owners and the bottler Vittel to determine how transaction cost issues (valuation disputes, bi-lateral monopoly conditions, and third-party effects) were overcome and how they succeeded in contracting for environmental property rights. We provide several comparisons of the Vittel case with other similar cases, leading to generalizations and testable propositions for environmental rights negotiations.
Charge disproportionation and nano phase separation in $R$SrNiO$_4$
Creators: name: Guo, H.
name: Li, Z. W.
name: Chang, C. F.
name: Hu, Z.
name: Kuo, C. -Y.
name: Perring, T. G.
name: Schmidt, W.
name: Piovano, A.
name: Schmalzl, K.
name: Walker, H. C.
name: Lin, H. J.
name: Chen, C. T.
name: Blanco-Canosa, S.
name: Schlappa, J.
name: Schüßler-Langeheine, C.
name: Hansmann, P.
name: Khomskii, D. I.
name: Tjeng, L. H.
name: Komarek, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have successfully grown centimeter-sized layered $R$SrNiO$_4$ single crystals under high oxygen pressures of 120 bar by the floating zone technique. This enabled us to perform neutron scattering experiments where we observe close to quarter-integer magnetic peaks below $\sim$77 K that are accompanied by steep upwards dispersing spin excitations. Within the high-frequency Ni-O bond stretching phonon dispersion, a softening at the propagation vector for a checkerboard modulation can be observed. Together with our spin wave simulations these observations reveal that this Ni$^{3+}$ system exhibits charge disproportionation with charges segregating into a checkerboard pattern within a nano phase separation scenario rather than showing a Jahn-Teller effect.
Network Embedding with Completely-imbalanced Labels
Creators: name: Wang, Zheng
name: Ye, Xiaojun
name: Wang, Chaokun
name: Cui, Jian
name: Yu, Philip S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Network embedding, aiming to project a network into a low-dimensional space, is increasingly becoming a focus of network research. Semi-supervised network embedding takes advantage of labeled data, and has shown promising performance. However, existing semi-supervised methods would get unappealing results in the completely-imbalanced label setting where some classes have no labeled nodes at all. To alleviate this, we propose two novel semi-supervised network embedding methods. The first one is a shallow method named RSDNE. Specifically, to benefit from the completely-imbalanced labels, RSDNE guarantees both intra-class similarity and inter-class dissimilarity in an approximate way. The other method is RECT which is a new class of graph neural networks. Different from RSDNE, to benefit from the completely-imbalanced labels, RECT explores the class-semantic knowledge. This enables RECT to handle networks with node features and multi-label setting. Experimental results on several real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed methods.
description: A preliminary version of this work was accepted in AAAI 2018. This version has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2020. Project page: https://zhengwang100.github.io/project/zero_shot_graph_embedding.html
Ballistic magnon transport and phonon scattering in the antiferromagnet Nd$_2$CuO$_4$
Creators: name: Li, S. Y.
name: Taillefer, Louis
name: Wang, C. H.
name: Chen, X. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal conductivity of the antiferromagnet Nd$_2$CuO$_4$ was measured down to 50 mK. Using the spin-flop transition to switch on and off the acoustic Nd magnons, we can reliably separate the magnon and phonon contributions to heat transport. We find that magnons travel ballistically below 0.5 K, with a thermal conductivity growing as $T^3$, from which we extract their velocity. We show that the rate of scattering of acoustic magnons by phonons grows as $T^3$, and the scattering of phonons by magnons peaks at twice the average Nd magnon frequency.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, one figure modified
Surface doping of rubrene single crystals by molecular electron donors and acceptors
Creators: name: Gatsios, Christos
name: Opitz, Andreas
name: Lungwitz, Dominique
name: Mansour, Ahmed E.
name: Schultz, Thorsten
name: Shin, Dongguen
name: Hammer, Sebastian
name: Pflaum, Jens
name: Zhang, Yadong
name: Barlow, Stephen
name: Marder, Seth R.
name: Koch, Norbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface molecular doping of organic semiconductors can play an important role in the development of organic electronic or optoelectronic devices. Single-crystal rubrene remains a leading molecular candidate for applications in electronics due to its high hole mobility. In parallel, intensive research into the fabrication of flexible organic electronics requires the careful design of functional interfaces to enable optimal device characteristics. To this end, the present work seeks to understand the effect of surface molecular doping on the electronic band structure of rubrene single crystals. Our angle-resolved photoemission measurements reveal that the Fermi level moves in the band gap of rubrene depending on the direction of surface electron-transfer reactions with the molecular dopants, yet the valence band dispersion remains essentially unperturbed. This indicates that surface electron-transfer doping of a molecular single crystal can effectively modify the near-surface charge density, while retaining good charge-carrier mobility.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures
Assessment of Farmer Preferences for Cattle Traits in Cattle Production Systems of Kenya
Creators: name: Ouma, Emily Awuor
name: Abdulai, Awudu
name: Drucker, Adam G.
name: Ouma, Emily Awuor
name: Abdulai, Awudu
name: Drucker, Adam G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: cattle production system
subject: trait preferences
subject: choice experiment
subject: Kenya

description: The urgent need to improve livestock productivity in sub-Saharan Africa in order to keep pace with expected increases in demand for meat and milk is very topical. Breed improvement provides key entry points for increasing productivity in cattle populations. However, there are tendencies for breed improvement programs to focus on single, market driven traits such as milk or meat production in isolation of environmental constraints and broader livestock system functions which cattle assume in developing countries. This potentially leads to genotypes that are not well adapted to the environment and not capable of performing the multiple roles that cattle assume in cattle production systems of developing countries. In developing countries, many important functions of livestock are embedded in non-tradable traits that are neither captured in economic analysis nor considered in livestock improvement programs. This study evaluates preferences of cattle keepers in pastoral and crop- livestock systems of selected sites in Kenya for various cattle traits, focusing attention on trypanotolerance and employing choice modelling techniques. These systems are characterized by low input management, harsh environmental conditions and prevalence of various cattle diseases. Trypanosomosis is a serious disease constraint in these systems. The results indicate that farmer preferences for cattle traits are influenced by various factors including cultural practices, production system characteristics and environmental conditions, especially in relation to disease prevalence and availability of cattle feeds.
Irreversibility and gravitational radiation: A proof of Bondi's conjecture
Creators: name: Herrera, L.
name: Di Prisco, A.
name: Ospino, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the evolution of an axially and reflection symmetric fluid distribution, satisfying the Tolman condition for thermal equilibrium, is not accompanied by the emission of gravitational radiation. This result, which was conjectured by Bondi many years ago, expresses the irreversibility associated to the emission of gravitational waves. The observational consequences emerging from this result are commented. The resulting models are not only non--dissipative and vorticity free, but also shear--free and geodesic, furthermore all their complexity factors vanish.
description: 9 pages Revtex-4. Published in PRD