cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Strategic Implications of Retail Pricing in the U.S. Fluid Milk Market
Creators: name: Dhar, Tirtha Pratim
name: Cox, Thomas L.
name: Dhar, Tirtha Pratim
name: Cox, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: We explore brand level strategic interactions between skim/low fat and whole milk brands by estimating detailed price elasticity matrix using quadratic almost ideal demand system for eight major U.S. cities. Results of our analysis suggest that the market and demand behavior of skim/low fat and whole milk brands are different. Demand for skim/low fat milk is more elastic than in the case of whole milk. Highly inelastic demand for large number of Private label whole milk brands suggests 'loss leader' pricing strategy by the retailers. Such pricing strategy does not seem to be the norm in skim/low fat milk market.
National and International Agricultural Research and Poverty: Findings in the case of wheat in China
Creators: name: Chan-Kang, Connie
name: Fan, Shenggen
name: Qian, Keming
name: Chan-Kang, Connie
name: Fan, Shenggen
name: Qian, Keming
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: The objective of this paper is to assess the economic and poverty impact of wheat research in China and the contribution of CIMMYT. Our results show that wheat research conducted by China and CIMMYT contributed significantly to increases in wheat production in China. These research benefits amounted respectively to 1.1 billion and 6.1 billion US dollars (measured in 2000 constant price) in 1982 and 1998. These represent 11.9 to 22.7 percent of the total value of wheat production. The impact of CIMMYT breeding research through direct sowing or use as breeding material is not very significant in China. However, these results may mask important variations across provinces within China. Offspring of CIMMYT varieties are mostly planted in Southwestern and Southern China, and are also found in Northeastern and Northwestern China. More importantly, increases in wheat production from wheat varietal improvement research helped to reduce rural poverty in China. Our estimates show that the number of rural poor in China declined by 2.7 million in 1982 and by 1.7 million in 1998 as a result of wheat breeding research. These reductions represent 1.4 percent and 4 percent of the total number of rural poor in China in 1982 and 1998 respectively.
Dynamical symmetries for superintegrable quantum systems
Creators: name: Calzada, J. A.
name: Negro, J.
name: del Olmo, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamical symmetries of a class of two-dimensional superintegrable systems on a 2-sphere, obtained by a procedure based on the Marsden-Weinstein reduction, by considering its shape-invariant intertwining operators. These are obtained by generalizing the techniques of factorization of one-dimensional systems. We firstly obtain a pair of noncommuting Lie algebras $su(2)$ that originate the algebra $so(4)$. By considering three spherical coordinate systems we get the algebra $u(3)$ that can be enlarged by `reflexions' to $so(6)$. The bounded eigenstates of the Hamiltonian hierarchies are associated to the irreducible unitary representations of these dynamical algebras.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
RATES OF RETURN TO PRIVATE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION: EVIDENCE FROM TWO FARM MANAGEMENT CENTERS IN EL SALVADOR
Creators: name: Solis, Daniel
name: Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.
name: Solis, Daniel
name: Bravo-Ureta, Boris E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This paper evaluates the economic and the financial viability of implementing private farm management centers (FMC) in El Salvador. In doing so, an ex ante cost-benefit analysis is performed. The results of this analysis suggest that a combination of better farm prices (paid and received), reallocation of resources, and crop diversification that would be promoted by a FMC can lead to an increase in farm level profits that is sufficient to cover the operation of the center and to still generate net gains in household income.
Branching ratio and CP violation of $B_{s}\to πK$ decays in the perturbative QCD approach
Creators: name: Yu, Xian-Qiao
name: Li, Ying
name: Lü, Cai-Dian
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: In the framework of perturbative QCD approach, we calculate the branching ratio and CP asymmetry for $B_{s}^0(\bar{B}_{s}) \to π^{\pm} K^\mp$ and $B_{s}(\bar{B}_{s})\to π^{0}\bar{K}^{0}(K^{0})$ decays. Besides the usual factorizable diagrams, both non-factorizable and annihilation type contributions are taken into account. We find that (a) the branching ratio of $B_{s}^0(\bar{B}_{s}) \to π^{\pm} K^\mp$ is about $(6-10) \times 10^{-6}$; $Br(B_{s}(\bar{B}_{s})\to π^{0}\bar{K}^{0}(K^{0}))$ about $ (1-3) \times 10^{-7}$; and (b) there are large CP asymmetries in the two processes, which can be tested in the near future LHC-b experiments at CERN and BTeV experiments at Fermilab.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Emergence of Long-Range Correlations in Random Networks
Creators: name: Mizutaka, Shogo
name: Hasegawa, Takehisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform an analytical analysis of the long-range degree correlation of the giant component in an uncorrelated random network by employing generating functions. By introducing a characteristic length, we find that a pair of nodes in the giant component is negatively degree-correlated within the characteristic length and uncorrelated otherwise. At the critical point, where the giant component becomes fractal, the characteristic length diverges and the negative long-range degree correlation emerges. We further propose a correlation function for degrees of the $l$-distant node pairs, which behaves as an exponentially decreasing function of distance in the off-critical region. The correlation function obeys a power-law with an exponential cutoff near the critical point. The Erdős-Rényi random graph is employed to confirm this critical behavior.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Pericardial fat and its influence on cardiac diastolic function
Creators: name: Wit-Verheggen, Vera H. W. De
name: Altintas, Sibel
name: Spee, Romy J. M.
name: Mihl, Casper
name: Kuijk, Sander M. J. Van
name: Wildberger, Joachim E.
name: Schrauwen-Hinderling, Vera B.
name: Kietselaer, Bas L. J. H.
name: Weijer, Tineke Van De
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures.
Welfare Impacts of Property Rights in the Seed Industry
Creators: name: Lence, Sergio H.
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: McCunn, Alan
name: Smith, Stephen C.
name: Niebur, Bill
name: Lence, Sergio H.
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: McCunn, Alan
name: Smith, Stephen C.
name: Niebur, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The paper examines the welfare impact of different intellectual property right (IPR) regimes in private sector seed research. The model takes into account the period after expiration of IPR protection, and requires a simultaneous equilibrium in the markets for R&D, seeds, and final product (grain). Simulation results show that with the exception of R&D productivity, the optimal level of IPR protection is remarkably insensitive to parameters of the model. There is a range of IPR appropriability levels where the interests of consumers and producers (taken together) are complementary to the interests of R&D firms, and another range of appropriability levels where the welfare of producers and consumers can be increased only at the expense of the welfare R&D firms. These results may explain some of the acrimony in the debate about plant gene patenting and genetic use-restriction technologies (GURTs). Results suggest that the optimum IPR appropriability level is greater than that which exists in the North American seed corn market, but lower than would exist if GURTs were to become widely used. The optimal appropriability level is much higher than that which is achieved in situations where crops are open pollinated or where IPR protection is limited, and this may help explain and justify the relevance of public research in these situations.
Solutions of the Renormalisation Group Equation in Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Creators: name: Deo, B. B.
name: Maharana, L.
name: Mishra, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Renormalisation Group Equation(RGE) for color and top couplings sector of MSSM has been solved. The mass of the top comes out to be 180.363$\pm$ 10.876 GeV and $β_{top}$=$\fracπ{2}$. It is conjectured that the masses of the other 11 fermions and the CKM phase angle $ϕ$ can be theoretically estimated. The results confirm the fact that the quarks and leptons have been created having equal mass $\sim$ 115 GeV at the MSSM GUT scale $\sim ~2.2\times 10^{16}$ GeV.
Unterschiede im Verständnis der ökumenischen Situation und Aufgabe in Evanston
Creators: name: Küppers, Werner
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 4 Nr. 3 (1955): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 4, Heft 3
Dimensional Mutation and Spacelike Singularities
Creators: name: Silverstein, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I argue that string theory compactified on a Riemann surface crosses over at small volume to a higher dimensional background of supercritical string theory. Several concrete measures of the count of degrees of freedom of the theory yield the consistent result that at finite volume, the effective dimensionality is increased by an amount of order $2h/V$ for a surface of genus $h$ and volume $V$ in string units. This arises in part from an exponentially growing density of states of winding modes supported by the fundamental group, and passes an interesting test of modular invariance. Further evidence for a plethora of examples with the spacelike singularity replaced by a higher dimensional phase arises from the fact that the sigma model on a Riemann surface can be naturally completed by many gauged linear sigma models, whose RG flows approximate time evolution in the full string backgrounds arising from this in the limit of large dimensionality. In recent examples of spacelike singularity resolution by tachyon condensation, the singularity is ultimately replaced by a phase with all modes becoming heavy and decoupling. In the present case, the opposite behavior ensues: more light degrees of freedom arise in the small radius regime. I comment on the emerging zoology of cosmological singularities that results.
description: 15 pages, harvmac big. v2: 18 pages, harvmac big; added computation of density of states and modular invariance check, enhanced discussion of multiplicity of solutions all sharing the feature of increased density of states, added references
Parametric amplifier for Bell measurement in continuous-variable quantum state teleportation
Creators: name: Chen, Xin
name: Ou, Z. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A parametric amplifier is in essence a linear four-port device, which couples and linearly mixes two inputs before amplifying and sending them to two output ports. Here, we show that for quadrature-phase amplitudes, a parametric amplifier can replace beam splitters to play the role of mixer. We apply this idea to a continuous-variable quantum state teleportation scheme in which a parametric amplifier replaces a beam splitter in Bell measurement. We show that this scheme is loss-tolerant in the Bell measurement process and thus demonstrate the advantage of PA over BS in the applications in quantum measurement.
The Pacific halibut fishery : success and failure under regulation, 1930-1960: the Canadian experience
Creators: name: Desharnais, Craig
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: At the 1996 World Fisheries Congress, Donald A. McCaughran declared seventyfive years of regulatory success for the International Pacific Halibut Commission. The Commission's mandate was to reverse the precipitous decline in halibut stocks that had become apparent in the 1910's, and save this fishery from economic extinction. The biologists and fishermen who sat on the Commission assumed that the appropriate biological target was the one that yielded the maximum sustainable harvest. Using a bioeconomic model of the fishery and regression analysis, I argue the Commission's use of global quotas to achieve its biological goal of maximum sustained yield was most certainly an economic failure. I also argue its policies were very likely a biological failure, as well. While arguably accomplishing its biological goal of the maximum sustainable yield in 1960, dynamic bioeconomic theory indicates their policies probably destabilized the biological fishery. The paper will first sketch the historical background of the industry. Then the regulatory history will be discussed. Then the economic literature will be reviewed as it applies to the Pacific halibut industry. Finally, the historical data will be examined and the proposition that the regulatory management of the halibut fishery was a success will be tested. The period 1928 to 1960 is covered as it provides both reliable data and a continuous period of regulation, at the end of which the biological goal of maximum sustainable yields was apparently achieved. In conclusion, I find that statistically the fishermen were insensitive to the direct effects of the quota and the total quantity of fish available, and instead responded to the quota's indirect effects on the fishermen's costs, which induced the inflow of greater fishing capital than otherwise would have occurred.
FINANCING NATURAL DISASTER RISK USING CHARITY CONTRIBUTIONS AND EX ANTE INDEX INSURANCE
Creators: name: Goes, Anne
name: Skees, Jerry R.
name: Goes, Anne
name: Skees, Jerry R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The scale of loss from natural disasters in low-income countries often exceeds the resources of internal and external sources of relief funding. Catastrophe bonds offer the opportunity to transfer the risk of low-probability, high-loss events to the capital market where there is greater capacity to absorb disaster losses. This paper details some problems inherent in traditional sources of disaster relief and proposes an alternative mechanism for catastrophe risk transfer that unites financial innovations and donor communities.
Projection representable relations on Menger $(2,n)$-semigroups
Creators: name: Dudek, Wiesław A.
name: Trokhimenko, Valentin S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20N15; 08N05

description: In this paper relations of non-empty intersection, inclusion end equality of domains of functions for $(2,n)$-semigroups of partial $n$-place functions are investigated.
description: 24 pages
CS Cha B: A disc-obscured M-type star mimicking a polarised planetary companion
Creators: name: Haffert, S. Y.
name: van Holstein, R. G.
name: Ginski, C.
name: Brinchmann, J.
name: Snellen, I. A. G.
name: Milli, J.
name: Stolker, T.
name: Keller, C. U.
name: Girard, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Direct imaging provides a steady flow of newly discovered giant planets and brown dwarf companions. These multi-object systems can provide information about the formation of low-mass companions in wide orbits and/or help us to speculate about possible migration scenarios. Accurate classification of companions is crucial for testing formation pathways. Aims. In this work we further characterise the recently discovered candidate for a planetary-mass companion CS Cha b and determine if it is still accreting. Methods. MUSE is a four-laser-adaptive-optics-assisted medium-resolution integral-field spectrograph in the optical part of the spectrum. We observed the CS Cha system to obtain the first spectrum of CS Cha b. The companion is characterised by modelling both the spectrum from 6300 $\unicode{x212B}$ to 9300 $\unicode{x212B}$ and the photometry using archival data from the visible to the near-infrared (NIR). Results. We find evidence of accretion and outflow signatures in H$\mathrmα$ and OI emission. The atmospheric models with the highest likelihood indicate an effective temperature of $3450\pm50$ K with a $\log{g}$ of $3.6\pm0.5$ dex. Based on evolutionary models, we find that the majority of the object is obscured. We determine the mass of the faint companion with several methods to be between 0.07 $M_{\odot}$ and 0.71 $M_{\odot}$ with an accretion rate of $\dot{M} = 4 \times 10^{-11 \pm 0.4}$ Myr$^{-1}$. Conclusions. Our results show that CS Cha B is most likely a mid-M-type star that is obscured by a highly inclined disc, which has led to its previous classification using broadband NIR photometry as a planetary-mass companion. This shows that it is important and necessary to observe over a broad spectral range to constrain the nature of faint companions
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication by A&A
Multi-nucleon transfer in the interaction of 977 MeV and 1143 MeV $^{204}$Hg with $^{208}$Pb
Creators: name: Desai, V. V.
name: Pica, A.
name: Loveland, W.
name: Barrett, J. S.
name: Chemistry, Department of
name: University, Oregon State
name: Corvallis
name: USA, Oregon 97331
name: McCutchan, E. A.
name: Center, National Nuclear Data
name: Laboratory, Brookhaven National
name: Upton
name: 11973, New York
name: USA
name: Zhu, S.
name: Carpenter, M. P.
name: Greene, J. P.
name: Lauritsen, T.
name: Division, Physics
name: Laboratory, Argonne National
name: Argonne
name: USA, Illinois 60439
name: Janssens, R. V. F.
name: Physics, Department of
name: Astronomy
name: Hill, University of North Carolina at Chapel
name: Hill, Chapel
name: USA, North Carolina 27599
name: Laboratory, Triangle Universities Nuclear
name: University, Duke
name: Durham
name: USA, North Carolina 27708
name: Amro, B. M. S.
name: Physics, Dept. of
name: Lowell, University of Massachusetts
name: USA, Lowell MA 01854
name: Walters, W. B.
name: Chemistry, Dept. of
name: Maryland, University of
name: Park, College
name: MD
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A previous study of symmetric collisions of massive nuclei has shown that current models of multi-nucleon transfer (MNT) reactions do not adequately describe the transfer product yields. To gain further insight into this problem, we have measured the yields of MNT products in the interaction of 977 (E/A = 4.79 MeV) and 1143 MeV (E/A = 5.60 MeV) $^{204}$Hg with $^{208}$Pb. We find that the yield of multi-nucleon transfer products are similar in these two reactions and are substantially lower than those observed in the reaction of 1257 MeV (E/A = 6.16 MeV) $^{204}$Hg + $^{198}$Pt. We compare our measurements with the predictions of the GRAZING-F, di-nuclear systems (DNS) and improved quantum molecular dynamics (ImQMD) models. For the observed isotopes of the elements Au, Hg, Tl, Pb and Bi, the measured values of the MNT cross sections are orders of magnitude larger than the predicted values. Furthermore, the various models predict the formation of nuclides near the N=126 shell, which are not observed.
description: 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.00257
Equation of state for isospin asymmetric nuclear matter using Lane potential
Creators: name: Basu, D. N.
name: Chowdhury, P. Roy
name: Samanta, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A mean field calculation for obtaining the equation of state (EOS) for symmetric nuclear matter from a density dependent M3Y interaction supplemented by a zero-range potential is described. The energy per nucleon is minimized to obtain the ground state of symmetric nuclear matter. The saturation energy per nucleon used for nuclear matter calculations is determined from the co-efficient of the volume term of Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula which is evaluated by fitting the recent experimental and estimated atomic mass excesses from Audi-Wapstra-Thibault atomic mass table by minimizing the mean square deviation. The constants of density dependence of the effective interaction are obtained by reproducing the saturation energy per nucleon and the saturation density of spin and isospin symmetric cold infinite nuclear matter. The EOS of symmetric nuclear matter, thus obtained, provide reasonably good estimate of nuclear incompressibility. Once the consants of density dependence are determined, EOS for asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated by adding to the isoscalar part, the isovector component of the M3Y interaction that do not contribute to the EOS of symmetric nuclear matter. These EOS are then used to calculate the pressure, the energy density and the velocity of sound in symmetric as well as isospin asymmetric nuclear matter.
description: 22 pages including 4 figures
Long period variables in the globular cluster 47 Tuc: radial velocity variations
Creators: name: Lebzelter, T.
name: Wood, P. R.
name: Hinkle, K. H.
name: Joyce, R. R.
name: Fekel, F. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present near infrared velocity curves for 12 long period variables (LPVs) in the globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC 104). New light curves are also presented for these variables. Results are compared with the period-luminosity sequences occupied by the LPVs in the LMC. Sequence C variables (fundamental mode pulsators) have larger velocity amplitudes than sequence B variables (first overtone pulsators). We show that, at similar luminosities, higher mass loss rates are associated with larger pulsation amplitudes. One variable (V18) does not fit the normal period luminosity sequences and it has an unusually large amount of circumstellar dust, suggesting that it has recently undergone a thermal pulse on the AGB. Finally, we report the discovery of three new long period variable stars in the cluster core, all previously found to have a large infrared excess.
description: accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 1 of Effect of body mass on future long-term care use
Creators: name: Nizalova, Olena
name: Gousia, Katerina
name: Forder, Julien
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Appendices.
On the Limb Darkening, Spectral Energy Distribution, and Temperature Structure of Procyon
Creators: name: Aufdenberg, J. P.
name: Ludwig, H. -G.
name: Kervella, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have fit synthetic visibilities from 3-D (CO5BOLD + PHOENIX) and 1-D (PHOENIX, ATLAS 12) model stellar atmospheres of Procyon (F5 IV) to high-precision interferometric data from the VLTI Interferometer (K-band) and from the Mark III interferometer (500 nm and 800 nm). These data sets provide a test of theoretical wavelength dependent limb-darkening predictions. The work of Allende Prieto et al. has shown that the temperature structure from a spatially and temporally averaged 3-D hydrodynamical model produces significantly less limb darkening at 500 nm relative to the temperature structure of a 1-D MARCS model atmosphere with a standard mixing-length approximation for convection. Our direct fits to the interferometric data confirm this prediction. A 1-D ATLAS 12 model with ``approximate overshooting'' provides the required temperature gradient. We show, however, that 1-D models cannot reproduce the ultraviolet spectrophotometry below 160 nm with effective temperatures in the range constrained by the measured bolometric flux and angular diameter. We find that a good match to the full spectral energy distribution can be obtained with a composite model consisting of a weighted average of twelve 1-D model atmospheres based on the surface intensity distribution of a 3-D granulation simulation. We emphasize that 1-D models with overshooting may realistically represent the mean temperature structure of F-type stars like Procyon, but the same models will predict redder colors than observed because they lack the multicomponent temperature distribution expected for the surfaces of these stars.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
The North Dakota Input-Output Model: A Tool for Analyzing Economic Linkages
Creators: name: Coon, Randal C.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Hertsgaard, Thor A.
name: Leholm, Arlen G.
name: Coon, Randal C.
name: Leistritz, F. Larry
name: Hertsgaard, Thor A.
name: Leholm, Arlen G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: North Dakota's input-output model has become an integral part of many economic research activities involving state issues. Since its development to analyze the economic impacts associated with irrigation development in the 1960s, the model has been updated and used to analyze the effects of a wide variety of projects in North Dakota, Because the model is used and referenced frequently by economic researchers, the nontechnical audience often requests additional information to explain the input-output model and the theory behind it. The purpose of this report is to explain the principles of input-output analysis, to describe the structure of the North Dakota model, and to explain how to interpret the results that might be found in a feasibility or economic contribution study. This report was designed to be a companion document that can be used in conjunction with any report or presentation involving the North Dakota input-output model.
Angular Diameter Amplitudes of Bright Cepheids
Creators: name: Moskalik, P.
name: Gorynya, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Expected mean angular diameters and amplitudes of angular diameter variations are estimated for all monoperiodic Classical Cepheids brighter than = 8.0mag. The catalog is intended to help selecting best Cepheid targets for interferometric observations.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, presented at conference "Stellar Pulsation and Evolution", Monte Porzio Catone, 19-25 June 2005
CONSISTENCY OF QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS IN HARD RED SPRING WHEATS; SUMMARY
Creators: name: Dahl, Bruce L.
name: Wilson, William W.
name: Dahl, Bruce L.
name: Wilson, William W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Quality
subject: Consistency
subject: Quality Variability
subject: Wheat Export Quality
subject: Farm Production Quality
subject: Wheat Variety Quality
subject: Canada
subject: United States

description: Greater sophistication of buyers in the wheat market has increased demands for higher quality wheats and focused attention on the consistency of the quality of wheat purchased. In this study, the variability of wheat quality characteristics was examined at different stages of the marketing chain. Variability was measured by variety and at farm and export levels. Comparisons were made with Canada where similar data were available. Different measures of variability were utilized where data were available. Inter-year variability, intra-year variability, and within-lot variability of wheat quality characteristics were measured at different points in the wheat marketing chain in the United States and Canada. Variability of many characteristics was similar between Canada and the United States for changes in annual average levels between years and for within year variability. In both Canada and the United States, higher grades exhibited lower variability than lower grades. In addition, the within-year variability of protein and dockage declined from farm level to export levels for the United States. The variability of average levels for grade and protein segregations between sampling periods in Canada was similar at both the farm production and export levels.
The unboundedness of Hausdorff operators on Quasi-Banach spaces
Creators: name: Guo, Weichao
name: Ruan, Jianmiao
name: Zhao, Guoping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B35, 47G10

description: In this note, we show that the Hausdorff operator $H_Φ$ is unbounded on a large family of Quasi-Banach spaces, unless $H_Φ$ is a zero operator.
Double Mode Cepheids with Amplitude Modulation
Creators: name: Moskalik, P.
name: Kolaczkowski, Z.
name: Mizerski, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent search for multiperiodicity in LMC Cepheids (Moskalik, Kolaczkowski & Mizerski 2004) has led to discovery of periodic modulation of amplitudes and phases in many of the first/second overtone (FO/SO) double mode pulsators. We discuss observational characteristics and possible mechanisms responsible for this behaviour.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, presented at conference "Stellar Pulsation and Evolution", Monte Porzio Catone, 19-24 June 2005
EXPORT ENHANCEMENT STRATEGIES FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL FIRMS
Creators: name: Saxowsky, David M.
name: Krause, Joyce Hall
name: Gustafson, Cole R.
name: Saxowsky, David M.
name: Krause, Joyce Hall
name: Gustafson, Cole R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: export
subject: rural
subject: agriculture
subject: export assistance
subject: Northern Plains
subject: government

description: Literature reports that small and medium firms face greater difficulty in obtaining the necessary export market information and in obtaining financing than do larger firms. Accordingly, the United States has many export promotion and enhancement services, but there is little documentation on the impacts of these services on small and medium rural and agricultural firms. The objectives of this project were to 1) analyze the export assistance needs of small and medium rural and agricultural firms operating in the Northern Plains region at different stages of the export or internationalization process, 2) identify available export assistance and promotion services offered at the federal and state levels to meet the needs of these firms, and 3) identify factors that may increase the effectiveness of export assistance programs. The primary assistance these firms wanted from the government was help in documenting their exports. The primary reasons firms did not seek government assistance were a lack of knowledge of the service and the service is not useful. The most often used non-government information sources were trade or industry associations and banks. Accordingly, policy makers should emphasize programs that complement efforts of private organizations and that target the needs and interests of the firms.
Additional file 1 of Home mechanical ventilation: quality of life patterns after six months of treatment
Creators: name: Valko, Luca
name: Baglyas, Szabolcs
name: V. Anna Gyarmathy
name: Janos Gal
name: Andras Lorx
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. HRQL subscale changes according to diagnostic groups. Contains exact numerical HRQL subscale changes according to diagnostic groups with significant values noted.
Align then Summarize: Automatic Alignment Methods for Summarization Corpus Creation
Creators: name: Tardy, Paul
name: Janiszek, David
name: Estève, Yannick
name: Nguyen, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Summarizing texts is not a straightforward task. Before even considering text summarization, one should determine what kind of summary is expected. How much should the information be compressed? Is it relevant to reformulate or should the summary stick to the original phrasing? State-of-the-art on automatic text summarization mostly revolves around news articles. We suggest that considering a wider variety of tasks would lead to an improvement in the field, in terms of generalization and robustness. We explore meeting summarization: generating reports from automatic transcriptions. Our work consists in segmenting and aligning transcriptions with respect to reports, to get a suitable dataset for neural summarization. Using a bootstrapping approach, we provide pre-alignments that are corrected by human annotators, making a validation set against which we evaluate automatic models. This consistently reduces annotators' efforts by providing iteratively better pre-alignment and maximizes the corpus size by using annotations from our automatic alignment models. Evaluation is conducted on \publicmeetings, a novel corpus of aligned public meetings. We report automatic alignment and summarization performances on this corpus and show that automatic alignment is relevant for data annotation since it leads to large improvement of almost +4 on all ROUGE scores on the summarization task.
Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund Nr. 9/2021
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Fakultätsordnung der Fakultät Kunst- und Sportwissenschaften
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Technischen Universität Dortmund;2021, 9
Additional file 1 of Assessment of Cellular Uptake Efficiency According to Multiple Inhibitors of Fe3O4-Au Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Possibility to Control Specific Endocytosis in Colorectal Cancer Cells
Creators: name: Park, Bo Gi
name: Kim, Yu Jin
name: Min, Ji Hyun
name: Taek-Chin Cheong
name: Nam, Sang Hwan
name: Nam-Hyuk Cho
name: Kim, Young Keun
name: Lee, Kyu Back
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Additional file1. Supplementary information: Supplementary information accompanies this paper at https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-020-03395-w. 1. Anti-MUC1-VHH 5-24 10 K ver.; 2. Characterization of core-shell Fe3O4-Au NPs and nanobody- Fe3O4-Au NPs; 3. Confocal microscopy imaging; 4. Cell viability test (WST-1 assay)
The Fano regime of one-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometers
Creators: name: Moldoveanu, Valeriu
name: Ţolea, Mugurel
name: Gudmundsson, Vidar
name: Manolescu, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Landauer-Büttiker formalism to study the mesoscopic Fano effect in Aharonov-Bohm rings with an embedded two-dimensional noninteracting dot. The magnetic field dependence of the dot levels leads to a global shift of the Fano lines which becomes important for small ring/dot area ratios. As the magnetic field is varied the Fano dips move periodically from one side of the peak to the other, as reported by Kobayashi {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 88}, 256806 (2002)]. We show that this effect appears due to a specific magnetic control of the difference between the phase of the single nonresonant path via the free arm of the ring and the global phase of all trajectories involving resonant tunnelings through the dot.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. B
Irrigation and Its Effect on the Community
Creators: name: Carkner, Richard W.
name: Schaffner, LeRoy W.
name: Carkner, Richard W.
name: Schaffner, LeRoy W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Irrigation by private development has been increasing in North Dakota and will continue in the future. The question many ask is what effect does this type of development have on the surrounding business community? Capital for the purchase of the irrigation system and the increased income and expenditures of an irrigation-type agriculture are spent largely in the local community. This study was undertaken to determine the effect on the business community in southwest central North Dakota of irrigation development. The work was done cooperatively by the Agricultural Economics Departments of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, North Dakota State University. It is hoped this report will serve as a useful guide in estimating the effects on a community resulting from irrigation development.
A VIKOR and TOPSIS focused reanalysis of the MADM methods based on logarithmic normalization
Creators: name: Zolfani, Sarfaraz
name: Yazdani, Morteza
name: Pamucar, Dragan
name: Zaraté, Pascale
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Decision and policy-makers in multi-criteria decision-making analysis take into account some strategies in order to analyze outcomes and to finally make an effective and more precise decision. Among those strategies, the modification of the normalization process in the multiple-criteria decision-making algorithm is still a question due to the confrontation of many normalization tools. Normalization is the basic action in defining and solving a MADM problem and a MADM model. Normalization is the first, also necessary, step in solving, i.e. the application of a MADM method. It is a fact that the selection of normalization methods has a direct effect on the results. One of the latest normalization methods introduced is the Logarithmic Normalization (LN) method. This new method has a distinguished advantage, reflecting in that a sum of the normalized values of criteria always equals 1. This normalization method had never been applied in any MADM methods before. This research study is focused on the analysis of the classical MADM methods based on logarithmic normalization. VIKOR and TOPSIS, as the two famous MADM methods, were selected for this reanalysis research study. Two numerical examples were checked in both methods, based on both the classical and the novel ways based on the LN. The results indicate that there are differences between the two approaches. Eventually, a sensitivity analysis is also designed to illustrate the reliability of the final results.
Benz, Ernst, Bischofsamt und apostolische Sukzession im deutschen Protestantismus
Creators: name: Schlink, Edmund
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (1955): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 4, Heft 2
Information Based Estimators for the Non-Stationary Transition Probability Matrix: An Application to the Danish Pork Industry
Creators: name: Karantininis, Kostas
name: Karantininis, Kostas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: cross entropy estimator
subject: Markov chain
subject: pork industry
subject: Denmark

description: A generalised cross entropy instrumental variables estimator is used to recover the non-stationary transition probability matrix for the Danish pork industry. A technique is also developed to recover missing data points due to category re-specifications. The impact of a set of exogenous variables (prices of pork meat, inputs, and pork substitutes), are evaluated in the form of elasticities. An overall assessment of entry exit and growth of farms is performed.
Group Decision Support for agriculture planning by a combination of Mathematical Model and Collaborative Tool
Creators: name: Zaraté, Pascale
name: Mme, Alemany
name: Alvarez, Ana Esteso
name: Sakka, Amir
name: Camilleri, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Decision making in the Agriculture domain can be a complex task. The land area allocated to each crop should be fixed every season according to several parameters: prices, demand, harvesting periods, seeds, ground, season etc... The decision to make becomes more difficult when a group of farmers must fix the price and all parameters all together. Generally, optimization models are useful for farmers to find no dominated solutions, but it remains difficult if the farmers have to agree on one solution. We combine two approaches in order to support a group of farmers engaged in this kind of decision making process. We firstly generate a set of no dominated solutions thanks to a centralized optimization model. Based on this set of solution we then used a Group Decision Support System called GRUS for choosing the best solution for the group of farmers. The combined approach allows us to determine the best solution for the group in a consensual way. This combination of approaches is very innovative for the Agriculture. This approach has been tested in laboratory in a previous work. In the current work the same experiment has been conducted with real business (farmers) in order to benefit from their expertise. The two experiments are compared.
Intellektuelle ejendomsrettigheder og okonomisk udvikling
Creators: name: Bach, Christian Friis
name: Bach, Christian Friis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: The TRIP agreement is, economically speaking, a dog's dinner. It ignores the diverging requirements countries have for the protection of intellectual property rights depending on their state of economic development. Furthermore, the agreement does not take into account the fact that incentives for research and development fluctuate between different firms and sectors. The agreement will, in the short run, lead to an increase in global inequality and may become a serious impediment to development in the world's poorest countries. TRIPs-aftalen er en gang okonomisk makvaerk, som ignorerer landenes forskellig behov for beskyttelse af intellektuelle ejendomsrettigheder afhaengigt af okonomisk udvikling, og som tilsvarende overser at incitamentet for forskning og udvikling varierer imellem forskellige virksomheder og sektorer. Aftalen vil pa kort sigt fore til oget global ulighed og kan blive en alvorlig hindring for udviklingen i verdens fattigste lande.
Additional file 1 of The best statistical model to estimate predictors of under-five mortality in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Fenta, Setegn Muche
name: Fenta, Haile Mekonnen
name: Girum Meseret Ayenew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Socio-demographic and economic characteristics of under-five mortality in Ethiopia.
On the homology of the space of knots
Creators: name: Budney, Ryan
name: Cohen, Frederick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58D10; 57T25; 57M25; 57Q45

description: Consider the space of `long knots' in R^n, K_{n,1}. This is the space of knots as studied by V. Vassiliev. Based on previous work of the authors, it follows that the rational homology of K_{3,1} is free Gerstenhaber-Poisson algebra. A partial description of a basis is given here. In addition, the mod-p homology of this space is a `free, restricted Gerstenhaber-Poisson algebra'. Recursive application of this theorem allows us to deduce that there is p-torsion of all orders in the integral homology of K_{3,1}. This leads to some natural questions about the homotopy type of the space of long knots in R^n for n>3, as well as consequences for the space of smooth embeddings of S^1 in S^3.
description: 36 pages, 6 figures. v3: small revisions before publication
97. Life on other worlds?
Creators: name: Perryman, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This week, I will review the philosophical debates that have raged since antiquity on whether ‘populated’ worlds exist beyond our own. While deviating from the topic of Gaia directly, it nonetheless provides an interesting historical background to the search for exoplanets, and life on other worlds, which are being assisted by Gaia.
Contract Production of Green Peas
Creators: name: Olesen, Henrik Ballebye
name: Olesen, Henrik Ballebye
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: contract theory
subject: coordination
subject: incentives
subject: risk sharing

description: This paper analyzes a contract between farmers and a large company in the Danish food industry, Danisco Foods. Production of green peas requires a very accurate coordination, which is obtained through centralized decision-making. The contract is based on a tournament system providing risk sharing between the farmers. General problems from the contract theory such as hold up, moral hazard, risk sharing and screening are analyzed. The paper illustrates the tradeoffs between these problems in design of contracts. By negotiating the contract through a pea-growers association, the farmers gain some bargaining power. Thus the farmers can ensure that Danisco Foods uses only one contract for all farmers. This paper analyzes the consequences of the farmers' strategy. Throughout the analysis several modifications of the contract is suggested in order to improve the incentives.