cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Implications of Growth in China for the U.S. and Other Countries
Creators: name: Zhuang, Renan
name: Koo, Won W.
name: Zhuang, Renan
name: Koo, Won W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: International Development

description: We investigate the effects of China's economic growth on various sectors in the United States and other countries and regions, using a multi-region Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model. The results indicate that all countries and regions, except South Korea and South Asian countries, would benefit from China's rapid economic growth. The welfare gain varies significantly across the countries and regions. Hong Kong and Taiwan would benefit the most from mainland China's economic growth in terms of per capita welfare gains. U.S. bilateral trade balance with China would improve in the sectors of grain and other primary agricultural products, but it would deteriorate in the sectors of textiles and high-tech manufacturing products.
A recursion relation for gravity amplitudes
Creators: name: Bedford, James
name: Brandhuber, Andreas
name: Spence, Bill
name: Travaglini, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Britto, Cachazo and Feng have recently derived a recursion relation for tree-level scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills. This relation has a bilinear structure inherited from factorisation on multi-particle poles of the scattering amplitudes - a rather generic feature of field theory. Motivated by this, we propose a new recursion relation for scattering amplitudes of gravitons at tree level. Using this recursion relation, we derive a new general formula for the MHV tree-level scattering amplitude for n gravitons. Finally, we comment on the existence of recursion relations in general field theories.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures. v2: references added, typos corrected. Published version to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Watching Historical Films Through AI: Reflections on Image Retrieval from Heritage Collections
Creators: name: Tadeo Fuica, Beatriz
name: Buisson, Olivier
name: Mussou, Claude
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Computer tools allow us to watch films differently and offer film scholars the opportunity to ask diverse research questions and imagine innovative methods. This article focuses, more precisely, on how film historians could benefit from Artificial Intelligence (AI), a tool which has not been used much in the field. The objective is to share a first round of experiments using Snoop, an AI developed by a collaboration between the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) and the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA), on a corpus of historical films that, because they have been aired on television, are available for research from the INA collections. Following an exploratory approach, Snoop allowed us to retrieve shared motifs in a corpus of historical films. In addition to discussing challenges and findings, this article aims to evaluate the overall experience and open new lines of inquiry. From a historiographical point of view, we aim to assess whether, and if so, how, AI systems are useful tools for the implementation of different methods that both answer new research questions and revisit old ones.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Tariff Intervention in Trade of US and EU Cherry Products: A Guide to Information
Creators: name: Nagai, Tomokazu
name: Woods, Mollie
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Nagai, Tomokazu
name: Woods, Mollie
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The importance of the effects of non-tariff barriers on international agricultural trade has become widely recognized and discussed as WTO negotiation has promoted the reduction of tariff rates around the world. Administrative barriers include the high cost of obtaining accurate information on commodity classification codes and tariff schedules of partner countries. Such information includes commodity classification rules and tariff rates. Cherries are produced worldwide, but in much smaller quantities than apples or oranges, or other more popular fruits. Much trade in tart cherries is still between small producers and buyers who often lack the resources to perform an exhaustive search of customs information, or who rely primarily on brokers. This report outlines the process for collecting customs identification numbers and trade data for tart cherries in the US and EU. In doing so, it highlights many of the difficulties inherent in collecting accurate and timely information for use in trade.
Optimal State Transfer and Entanglement Generation in Power-law Interacting Systems
Creators: name: Tran, Minh C.
name: Deshpande, Abhinav
name: Guo, Andrew Y.
name: Lucas, Andrew
name: Gorshkov, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an optimal protocol for encoding an unknown qubit state into a multiqubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-like state and, consequently, transferring quantum information in large systems exhibiting power-law ($1/r^α$) interactions. For all power-law exponents $α$ between $d$ and $2d+1$, where $d$ is the dimension of the system, the protocol yields a polynomial speedup for $α>2d$ and a superpolynomial speedup for $α\leq 2d$, compared to the state of the art. For all $α>d$, the protocol saturates the Lieb-Robinson bounds (up to subpolynomial corrections), thereby establishing the optimality of the protocol and the tightness of the bounds in this regime. The protocol has a wide range of applications, including in quantum sensing, quantum computing, and preparation of topologically ordered states. In addition, the protocol provides a lower bound on the gate count in digital simulations of power-law interacting systems.
description: Updated Table I, Additional discussion on a lower bound for the gate count in digital quantum simulation
Specification of Micro Risk Models for Farm Management and Policy Research
Creators: name: Robison, Lindon J.
name: King, Robert P.
name: Robison, Lindon J.
name: King, Robert P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1978
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This paper illustrates a new methodology for finding preferred action choice(s) under uncertainty for well-defined classes of decision-makers The methodology does not replace the expected utility maximizing rule, which has been used to identify preferred action choices; rather it extends the rule's accuracy as a positivistic tool and its reliability as a normative guide. The methodology used in this paper does, however, alter the kinds of information needed about decision- makers. Hence, it is related to a practical question facing the Western Regional Research Committee (W-149). This committee is considering estimating utility functions for a large number of decision-makers differentiated by geographic area, commodity produced, farm size, wealth, and other variables and they want to know the value of such a project. Because there was no consensus among the committee, a subcommittee was appointed to explore the question in more detail. This paper can be considered part of that exploration. The remainder of this paper has four parts. In the first, we compare our current interest in utility functions with an earlier interest in production functions and note some similarities. The second part describes how stochastic dominance with respect to a function can be used to identify preferred action choices under uncertainty. The third part illustrates the criterion with a numerical example. And the fourth part concludes with our recommendation for future work on specifying micro risk models.
title: A Concrete Pavement Without Transverse Joints
title: [July 1968]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hughes, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In 1949, a 5.737-mile section of portland cement concrete pavement was constructed without the inclusion of transverse joints. The project, designated as Fl 239(4), is a section of US 31W located in Simpson County extending from the Tennessee line (Sta 9+11) to the south city limits of Franklin (Sta 311+40). The pavement is 22 feet wide, 8 inches thick, and is underlain by 1-1/2 inches of compacted No. 10 crushed limestone for insulation and leveling. Air-entraining cement was used and the concrete was placed with approximately 4-1/2 percent entrained air. One-half inch deformed tie bars were used in the longitudinal joint at the center of the slab. Butt-type transverse joints were placed at the ends of pours. The pavement contained no wire mesh reinforcement and was cured by application of liquid membrane-forming compound containing a fugitive dye. The project was completed on June 30, 1949. This final report presents a summary of previous reports and includes results of a recently conducted condition survey.
Many-Body Effects and Quantum Fluctuations for Discrete Time Crystals in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Creators: name: Wang, Jia
name: Hannaford, Peter
name: Dalton, Bryan J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fully comprehensive multi-mode quantum treatment based on the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA) to study many-body effects and quantum fluctuations on the formation of a discrete time crystal (DTC) in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) bouncing resonantly on an atom mirror, driven at period T. Our theoretical approach avoids the restrictions both of mean-field theory, where all bosons are assumed to remain in a single mode, and of time-dependent Bogoliubov theory, which assumes boson depletion from the condensate mode is small. For realistic initial conditions corresponding to a harmonic trap condensate mode function, our TWA calculations performed for period-doubling agree broadly with recent mean-field calculations for times out to at least 2000 T, except at interaction strengths very close to the threshold value for DTC formation where the position probability density differs significantly from that determined from mean-field theory. For typical attractive interaction strengths above the threshold value for DTC formation and for the chosen trap and driving parameters, the TWA calculations indicate a quantum depletion due to quantum many-body fluctuations of less than about two atoms out of 600 atoms at times corresponding to 2000 T, in agreement with time-dependent Bogoliubov theory calculations. On the other hand, for interaction strengths very close to the threshold value for DTC formation, the TWA calculations predict a large quantum depletion - as high as about 260 atoms out of 600. We also show that the mean energy of the DTC does not increase significantly for times out to at least 2000 mirror oscillations, so TWA theory predicts that thermalisation is absent. Finally, we find that the dynamical behaviour is similar for attractive or repulsive boson-boson interactions, and that a stable DTC based on repulsive interactions can be created.
description: 77 pages, 15 figures. Version 2. Minor revisions. Accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics
Limitations in activities of daily living in old age in Germany and the EU – Results from the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) 2
Creators: name: Koch-Institut, Robert
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Activities of daily living
subject: General population
subject: Age
subject: European comparison
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The health status of older people in Germany can be compared with the health of older people in other European Union (EU) Member States using data on the distribution of limitations in activities of daily living. This concept covers basic limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) such as eating, as well as limitations in instrumental activities of daily living (iADL) such as shopping and managing finances. The second wave of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS 2) collected data on five ADLs and seven iADLs for people aged 65 or above. An ADL or iADL limitation was defined if a participant reported at least a lot of difficulty in at least one ADL or iADL, respectively. On average, 8.4% of the EU population reported an ADL limitation, with 25.2% reporting an iADL limitation. However, prevalences vary widely between EU Member States and are lower in Germany than the EU average (ADL limitation 6.3%, iADL limitation 14.0%). In general, women, people aged 75 or above, and lower education groups have a higher prevalence of ADL and iADL limitations.
Hot Mix Sand Surfacing
Creators: name: Havens, James H.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1968
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Everyone has some compassion toward drivers who become victims of pavement slipperiness. The development of slipperiness on a road surface follows one of the laws of nature. Why not, then, employ other laws provided by nature to better advantage? For example, craftsmen use grinders, abrasives, buffers, etc. to achieve glossy surface finishes. Traffic does the same to our pavements. We might employ craftsmens' routine in reverse -- that is, roughen the surface. Better still, the principles that are apparent in a grinding wheel or whetstone may be used as a model for our pavement surface: a material of hard, abrasive granules glued together. If the glue is too hard, the abrasive particles themselves become dull and polished, the pores clog, and the wheel will not cut. A wheel or hone designed to do a specific job must be able to let go of a dulled particle and expose a new, sharper particle from underneath. In other words, the wheel must undergo a controlled type of wear -- or else be dressed and re-roughened periodically. This is the analogy of a hot-mixed sand-asphalt pavement surface.
Stringency and Distribution in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme - The 2005 Evidence
Creators: name: Kettner, Claudia
name: Koppl, Angela
name: Schleicher, Stefan P.
name: Thenius, Gregor
name: Kettner, Claudia
name: Koppl, Angela
name: Schleicher, Stefan P.
name: Thenius, Gregor
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: With the release of the verified emissions for installations covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme for the first trading year 2005 we are able to compare actual emissions and allowances for each installation. Based on data available for 24 Member States as of January 2007, this paper uses a thorough data analysis for about 9,900 installations to investigate evidence on three issues: first, the stringency of the total allocation cap and allocation differences both among the Member States and a selection of emission intensive sectors; second, the distribution of the size of installations; and third, the spread of allocation discrepancies and possible allocation biases regarding the size of installations.
Comparative Analysis of Colour Film Style by Computational Means
Creators: name: Stutz, Olivia Kristina
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: This paper uses two different colour versions of the early film The Life and Passion of Christ (La Vie et la Passion de Jésus Christ, 1907) by Ferdinand Zeccato demonstrate how computer-based techniques for analysing digitized film materials, using a combination of close and distant readings, can facilitate the ‘text’-critical, comparative analysis of colour film styles as practised in the fields of both film studies and film archives, a process that ultimately benefits their different research and knowledge interests. The case study illustrates the use of the annotation and visualization software VIAN, as well as the VIAN WebApp, by focusing mainly on its automatic colour analysis tools and its computationally produced colour film visualizations, which function as epistemic images. VIAN thereby becomes the scientific framework that provides the examiner with an objective, evidence-generating system for comparing colour films. The strategy of using contemporary digital humanities tools in these fields thus makes the invisible visible and the impossible possible.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Magnetic Excitations of Stripes Near a Quantum Critical Point
Creators: name: Yao, D. X.
name: Carlson, E. W.
name: Campbell, D. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the dynamical spin structure factor of spin waves for weakly coupled stripes. At low energy, the spin wave cone intensity is strongly peaked on the inner branches. As energy is increased, there is a saddlepoint followed by a square-shaped continuum rotated 45 degree from the low energy peaks. This is reminiscent of recent high energy neutron scattering data on the cuprates. The similarity at high energy between this semiclassical treatment and quantum fluctuations in spin ladders may be attributed to the proximity of a quantum critical point with a small critical exponent $η$.
description: 4+ pages, 5 figures, published version
Responses of macroinvertebrate community composition to changes in stream abiotic factors after streamside clear-cut logging in the central interior of British Columbia
Creators: name: Fuchs, Shirley A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Effects of a clear-cut timber harvest of the riparian zone were studied on 18 stream systems in watersheds influenced by a continental climate regime in the central interior of British Columbia. Streams selected in the Stuart-Takla and Willow-Bowron watersheds were sampled between mid-September and late October 1995. Study streams were classified according to stages of clear-cut harvest in the riparian zone: streams within unharvested reaches, streams without canopy cover (timber harvest less than 5 years old) or streams with a deciduous canopy cover (timber harvest more than 20 years old). Measurements were taken of topographic and habitat attributes, of watersheds and productivity and the benthic macroinvertebrate community. 'Uncut' stream channels had higher gradients and narrower widths than were found in 'old cut' streams suggesting that stream channel dimensions of streams in logged areas may have changed over time. More specifically, 'recent cut' streams had the lowest canopy cover and the highest chlorophyll α biomass. However, in 'old cut' streams with dense canopy cover, chlorophyll α biomass was similar to levels in 'uncut' streams. In addition, although density of benthic macroinvertebrates did not appear to have changed over time, total biomass increased soon after timber harvest. After more than 20 years, biomass measurements of macroinvertebrates were similar to levels found in unharvested streams. Density and biomass of the scraper functional guild, in particular, were lowest in 'recent cut' streams. These streams also had the highest densities of predators and invertebrate parasites and the highest biomass of collector functional guilds and leeches. Higher biomass of the two collector guilds in 'recent cut' streams may have been linked to an increase in the quality of their food source, i.e., FPOM, although this was not measured in this study. Higher biomass of scrapers and collectors found soon after the timber harvest may have attracted resident fish into these streams, and so increased fish parasite biomass. After more than 20 years following timber harvest, biotic and abiotic factors may have returned to levels found prior to timber harvests. Future work is required to determine the factors that influence changes in benthic community composition and instream habitat in stream ecosystems following timber harvest in this region.
Forestry and the Carbon Market Response to Stabilize Climate
Creators: name: Tavoni, Massimo
name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Sohngen, Brent
name: Tavoni, Massimo
name: Bosetti, Valentina
name: Sohngen, Brent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This paper investigates the potential contribution of forestry management in meeting a CO2 stabilization policy of 550 ppmv by 2100. In order to assess the optimal response of the carbon market to forest sequestration we couple two global models. An energy-economy-climate model for the study of climate policies is linked with a detailed forestry model through an iterative procedure to provide the optimal abatement strategy. Results show that forestry is a determinant abatement option and could lead to significantly lower policy costs if included. Linking forestry management to the carbon market has the potential to delay the policy burden, and is expected to reduce the price of carbon of 40% by 2050. Biological sequestration will mostly come from avoided deforestation in tropical forests rich countries. The inclusion of this mitigation option is demonstrated to crowd out some of the traditional abatement in the energy sector and to lessen induced technological change in clean technologies.
An Analytic Hierarchy Process for The Evaluation of Transport Policies to Reduce Climate Change Impacts
Creators: name: Berrittella, Maria
name: Certa, Antonella
name: Enea, Mario
name: Zito, Pietro
name: Berrittella, Maria
name: Certa, Antonella
name: Enea, Mario
name: Zito, Pietro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Transport is the sector with the fastest growth of greenhouse gases emissions, both in developed and in developing countries, leading to adverse climate change impacts. As the experts disagree on the occurrence of these impacts, by applying the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), we have faced the question on how to form transport policies when the experts have different opinions and beliefs. The opinions of experts have been investigated by a means of a survey questionnaire. The results show that tax schemes aiming at promoting environmental-friendly transport mode are the best policy. This incentives public and environmental-friendly transport modes, such as car sharing and car pooling.
Scope out multiband gravitational-wave observations of GW190521-like binary black holes with space gravitational wave antenna B-DECIGO
Creators: name: Nakano, Hiroyuki
name: Fujita, Ryuichi
name: Isoyama, Soichiro
name: Sago, Norichika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gravitational wave event, GW190521 is the most massive binary black hole merger observed by ground-based gravitational wave observatories LIGO/Virgo to date. While the observed gravitational-wave signal is mainly in the merger and ringdown phases, the inspiral gravitational-wave signal of GW190521-like binary will be more visible by space-based detectors in the low-frequency band. In addition, the ringdown gravitational-wave signal will be more loud with the next generation (3G) of ground-based detectors in the high-frequency band, displaying a great potential of the multiband gravitational wave observations. In this paper, we explore the scientific potential of multiband observations of GW190521-like binaries with milli-Hz gravitational wave observatory: LISA, deci-Hz observatory: B-DECIGO, and (next generation of) hecto-Hz observatories: aLIGO and ET. In the case of quasicircular evolution, the triple-band observation by LISA, B-DECIGO and ET will provide parameter estimation errors of the masses and spin amplitudes of component black holes at the level of order 1% -- 10%. This would allow consistency tests of general relativity in the strong-field at an unparalleled precision, particularly with the "B-DECIGO + ET" observation. In the case of eccentric evolution, the multiband signal-to-noise ratio by "B-DECIGO + ET" observation would be larger than 100 for a five year observation prior to coalescence, even with high final eccentricities.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures.v2:accepted version.v3:corrects typos in Table.4 (Multiband) and Eq.(A9).References updated
Dispersive evaluation of the Lamb shift in muonic deuterium from chiral effective field theory
Creators: name: Acharya, Bijaya
name: Lensky, Vadim
name: Bacca, Sonia
name: Gorchtein, Mikhail
name: Vanderhaeghen, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We merge the dispersive relation approach and the ab initio method to compute nuclear structure corrections to the Lamb shift in muonic deuterium. We calculate the deuteron response functions and corresponding uncertainties up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in chiral effective field theory and compare our results to selected electromagnetic data to test the validity of the theory. We then feed response functions calculated over a wide range of kinematics to the dispersion-theory formalism and show that an improved accuracy is obtained compared to that with the use of available experimental data in the dispersive analysis. This opens up the possibility of applying this hybrid method to other light muonic atoms and supplementing experimental data with ab initio theory for kinematics where data are scarce or difficult to measure with the goal of reducing uncertainties in estimates of nuclear structure effects in atomic spectroscopy.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures; published version
Word list for oral/nasal airflow measurements
Creators: name: Tutugoro, Michel
name: Lionnet, Florian
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: pri

description: 165 4-channel WAV files (with interlaced audio, nasal, and oral airflow), 2 WAV files (parallel recording of the word list without the oro-nasal mask), 2 PDF with metadata (one in French, one in English), one CSV file with the elicited word list. The 165 wav files corresponding to the nasal/oral airflow recordings contain four channels (each with a 12 kHz sample rate, i.e. 48 kHz total): a WAV channel corresponding to the microphone recording, an LX channel (laryngograph, void in these recordings), a P1 channel (nasal airflow) and a P2 channel (oral airflow). These channels must be extracted before the files can be used.
Revealing defect-induced spin disorder in nanocrystalline Ni
Creators: name: Bersweiler, Mathias
name: Sinaga, Evelyn Pratami
name: Peral, Inma
name: Adachi, Nozomu
name: Bender, Philipp
name: Steinke, Nina-Juliane
name: Gilbert, Elliot Paul
name: Todaka, Yoshikazu
name: Michels, Andreas
name: Oba, Yojiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine magnetometry and magnetic small-angle neutron scattering to study the influence of the microstructure on the macroscopic magnetic properties of a nanocrystalline Ni bulk sample, which was prepared by straining via high-pressure torsion. As seen by magnetometry, the mechanical deformation leads to a significant increase of the coercivity compared to nondeformed polycrystalline Ni. The neutron data reveal a significant spin-misalignment scattering caused by the high density of crystal defects inside the sample, which were created by the severe plastic deformation during the sample preparation. The corresponding magnetic correlation length, which characterizes the spatial magnetization fluctuations in real space, indicates an average defect size of 11 nm, which is smaller than the average crystallite size of 60 nm. In the remanent state, the strain fields around the defects cause spin disorder in the surrounding ferromagnetic bulk, with a penetration depth of around 22 nm. The range and amplitude of the disorder is systematically suppressed by an increasing external magnetic field. Our findings are supported and illustrated by micromagnetic simulations, which, for the particular case of nonmagnetic defects (holes) embedded in a ferromagnetic Ni phase, further highlight the role of localized spin perturbations for the magnetic microstructure of defect-rich magnets such as high-pressure torsion materials.
description: This is the version of the article accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials including all changes made as a result of the peer review process, and which may also include the addition to the article by APS of a header, an article ID, a cover sheet and/or an Accepted Manuscript watermark, but excluding any other editing, typesetting or other changes made by APS and/or its licensors
Reproducible Low Contact Resistance in Rubrene Single-Crystal Field-Effect Transistors with Nickel Source and Drain Electrodes
Creators: name: Hulea, Iulian N.
name: Russo, Saverio
name: Molinari, Anna
name: Morpurgo, Alberto F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the contact resistance of rubrene single-crystal field-effect transistors (FETs) with Nickel electrodes by performing scaling experiments on devices with channel length ranging from 200 nm up to 300 $μ$m. We find that the contact resistance can be as low as 100 $Ω$cm with narrowly spread fluctuations. For comparison, we have also performed scaling experiments on similar Gold-contacted devices, and found that the reproducibility of FETs with Nickel electrodes is largely superior. These results indicate that Nickel is a very promising electrode material for the reproducible fabrication of low resistance contacts in organic FETs.
Website for Cesare Zavattini’s Works: Digitizing and Dynamizing a Personal Audiovisual Archive
Creators: name: Dusi, Nicola Maria
name: Capalbi, Antonella
name: Mareggini, Maria Doina
name: Salvador, Mauro
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Digitization has been changing the methods of production, distribution and use of written and audiovisual products, according to a process of “platformization” (Van Dijck, Poell, de Waal 2018). Following the “network society” model (Castells 1996), platforms, as creative ecosystems (Montanari 2018) and medial ecosystems (Pescatore, Innocenti 2011), have introduced a new mindset that connects producers and consumers within a digital environment, breaking down space-time barriers, controlling data and simplifying the supply chain (Nasta and Pirolo, 2017). So even the audiovisual field has undergone a transition to companies with a service provider role, following a user-based model that feeds different forms of participation and spreadability through intermediality and storytelling (Abercrombie and Longhurst, 1998; Jenkins, Ford, Green 2013).The project of digitization of written material of the Zavattini Archive (Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia) starts from a productive theoretical (and methodological) intersection between platform design and game design. As we will see, the paradigm shift that platform design has brought resembles certain characteristics of the “play” experience. The concepts of collaboration and intermediation lead to a rethinking of users as pivotal and at the centre, not only regarding their user experience (as in certain types of digital games) but also in the production of various types of content (as in platforms), leading to asynchronous collective experiences, whether they are related to gaming or to participating in platforms.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Spot, Bilateral and Futures Trading in Electricity Markets. Implications for Stability
Creators: name: Termini, Valeria
name: Cavallo, Laura
name: Termini, Valeria
name: Cavallo, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The design of wholesale electricity markets in the transition towards liberalization presents significant differences from country to country. Some spot markets have imposed the concentration of transactions to ensure market liquidity. Other markets are based on bilateral trading. The debate about the optimal trading mechanism mainly concentrates on how to deal with the trade off between the liquidity of the market and the stability of the system. The solution chosen by some market is a mandatory pool with a regulated market for electricity derivatives, that allows to hedge price volatility and to mitigate market power. This paper investigates whether, in the presence of a futures market, spot and bilateral trading can operate together and what are possible outcomes in terms of liquidity of the spot market and stability of the system. The paper extends existing literature on the role of futures market on the behavior of spot market prices, developing a multi-period model in which electricity consumers can choose whether to trade on the spot market or negotiate bilateral contracts. Results suggest that a spot market with futures contracts and a market for bilateral contracts are not necessarily alternative ways to manage stability problems, but may co-exist with positive and synergic outcomes on price behaviors and market power.
Generalized Fractal Kinetics in Complex Systems (Application to Biophysics and Biothechnology)
Creators: name: Brouers, F.
name: Sotolongo-Costa, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a universal function for the kinetics of complex systems. This kinetic function unifies and generalizes previous theoretical attempts to describe what has been called "fractal kinetic".The concentration evolutionary equation is formally similar to the relaxation function obtained in the stochastic theory of relaxation, with two exponents a and n. The first one is due to memory effects and short-range correlations and the second one finds its origin in the long-range correlations and geometrical frustrations which give rise to ageing behavior. These effects can be formally handled by introducing adequate probability distributions for the rate coefficient. We show that the distribution of rate coefficients is the consequence of local variations of the free energy (energy landscape) appearing in the exponent of the Arrhenius formula. We discuss briefly the relation of the (n,a) kinetic formalism with the Tsallis theory of nonextensive systems.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physica A
Indeterminable Frames: Exploring Digital Humanities Approaches and Applications for the Moving Image
Creators: name: Villon, Patricia Ledesma
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: This project continues ongoing conversations about recontextualizing and expanding our understanding of how we engage with film using avant-garde and experimental works originating as celluloid media as case studies. Digitization of celluloid media provides greater points of access to works on analog formats yet should not be considered a means to an end as there is more to explore within this relationship. Using the computational tools FFmpeg, Image Macroanalysis in JavaScript, and ImagePlot for ImageJ, we can approach a different visual understanding of cinema that allows us to challenge the traditional concept of time and its relation to film. Can we encounter new meanings from moving image works when we view the frames concurrently? How do digital humanities applications contribute to an alternative method of engagement with moving images? Are the resulting revisualizations an alternative form of film analysis, and thus, a form of cinematic consciousness? Key frameworks for analysis include critical approaches to digitality, the history of the moving image, re-investigating the terms in which commentary is drawn and undertaken, data as capta, and revisualizations as a continuation of aura within a domain of tradition.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, N. 20 (2021)
Pemigatinib: A Review in Advanced Cholangiocarcinoma
Creators: name: Frampton, James E.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine

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Declarations
Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Authorship and Conflict of interest James E. Frampton is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to the review and are responsible for the article content.
Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.

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Abstract
Pemigatinib (Pemazyre®), a selective, potent, reversible, oral inhibitor of fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) 1–3, has received conditional (in the EU) or accelerated (in the USA) approval for the treatment of adults with previously treated, unresectable locally-advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) with an FGFR2 gene fusion or rearrangement. Over the course of a single-arm, phase 2 study (FIGHT-202), just over a third of patients with pretreated, advanced CCA [almost exclusively intrahepatic CCA (iCCA)] harbouring an FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement who received pemigatinib once daily (2 weeks on, 1 week off) had an objective response; nearly half had stable disease. Median progression-free survival and overall survival at the time of the final analysis were 7.0 months and 17.5 months, respectively. Pemigatinib was generally well tolerated and had a manageable safety profile. The most common treatment-related adverse event, hyperphosphataemia, was exclusively grade 1–2 in severity and, similarly, observed ocular and nail toxicities were rarely grade ≥3 in severity. Pending confirmation of its clinical benefits in an ongoing cisplatin plus gemcitabine-controlled, phase 3 study (FIGHT-302), pemigatinib provides a valuable targeted therapy for pretreated patients with advanced (i)CCA harbouring a FGFR2 fusion or rearrangement.
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Model-independent Veltman Condition, Naturalness and the Little Hierarchy Problem
Creators: name: Abu-Ajamieh, Fayez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We adopt a bottom-up Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to derive a model-independent Veltman condition to cancel the quadratic divergences in the Higgs mass. We show using the equivalence theorem that all deviations in the Higgs couplings to the W and Z from the SM predictions should vanish. We argue based on tree-level unitarity, that any new physics that naturally cancels the quadratic divergences should be ~19 TeV. We show that the level of fine-tuning required is O(0.1- 1%) unless the UV sector has a symmetry that forces the satisfaction of the model-independent Veltman condition, in which case all fine-tuning is eliminated. We also conjecture that if no new physics that couples to the Higgs is found up to ~ 19 TeV, or if the Higgs couplings to the SM particles conform to the SM predictions, then either the Higgs does not couple to any UV sector or is fine-tuned.
SOFT WHITE AND SOFT RED WHEAT PRODUCTION AND MARKETING IN MICHIGAN: IMPORTANCE SUPPLY, DEMAND, PRICE BEHAVIOR, AND FUTURES MARKET RELATIONSHIPS
Creators: name: Carman, Garth A.
name: Carman, Garth A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Many different classes of wheat are grown in Michigan's agriculture sector but only two types of wheat are grown to any significant degree. Easily the most dominant type of wheat grown is soft white wheat which is a sub-class of white wheat. The other class of wheat grown in Michigan is soft red wheat. Since these two wheat crops comprise consistently over 90% of the wheat acreage in Michigan this analysis will only be concerned with them. The purpose of this study is to examine the trade-offs in producing and marketing soft white and soft red wheat in Michigan for the purpose of identifying optimal strategies for the participants. The uses of both types of wheat will be examined as well as the impact of new technology on the substitutability of soft red for soft white wheat.
Rotationally induced Penning ionization of ultracold photoassociated helium dimers
Creators: name: Léonard, J.
name: Mosk, A. P.
name: Walhout, M.
name: Leduc, M.
name: van Rijnbach, M.
name: Nehari, D.
name: van der Straten, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied photoassociation of metastable \tripS helium atoms near the \tripS-\tripP asymptote by both ion detection in a magneto-optical trap and trap-loss measurements in a magnetic trap. A detailed comparison between the results of the two experiments gives insight into the mechanism of the Penning ionization process. We have identified four series of resonances corresponding to vibrational molecular levels belonging to different rotational states in two potentials. The corresponding spin states become quasi-purely quintet at small interatomic distance, and Penning ionization is inhibited by spin conservation rules. Only a weak rotational coupling is responsible for the contamination by singlet spin states leading to a detectable ion signal. However, for one of these series Bose statistics does not enable the rotational coupling and the series detected through trap-loss does not give rise to sufficient ionization for detection.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to EuroPhysics Letters
TERMS OF TRADE BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY -- THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN CHINA
Creators: name: Wu, Xiling
name: Wu, Xiling
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Industrial Organization
International Relations/Trade

description: The relationship between agriculture and industry is very important in any economic development. The whole process of development can be understood in the context of the relationship between agriculture and industry and its evolution. This is because first, agriculture and industry are usually the biggest and primary material production sectors in the economy, they provide physical goods for a society's survival and the foundation for any further development. Second, it becomes more and more clear that one sector cannot develop properly without the other. The purpose of this paper is to explore the agriculture industry relationship from the point of view of the intersectoral terms of trade, which is considered as the most important factor in agriculture industry relationship because the connection between the two sectors is mainly through product exchanges.
A REVIEW OF TECHNICAL EVIDENCE ON THE USE OF ANIMAL TRACTION IN SAHELIAN FARMING SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Bloom, Roger A.
name: Bloom, Roger A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The use of animal traction as a source of on-farm power has often been regarded as a logical and appropriate approach for improving Sahelian agriculture. Animal power, it is argued, enables the farmer to execute timelier agricultural operations and to overcome the seasonal labor constraints which inhibit agricultural production. Furthermore, by increasing total production and returns to farm labor animal traction makes possible the attainment of food self-sufficiency and an increased marketable surplus. There has been a relatively long history of attempts to introduce animal traction in the Sahel, but in spite of the proposed theoretical benefits resulting from its use, the many efforts of integrating animal traction into the traditional farming systems have met with limited success. Moreover, past experience has raised questions concerning its appropriateness given the Sahel's physical and socio-economic environment. Nevertheless, with the advent of the Sahelian drought in the late 1960's, national governments and donor agencies have increasingly promoted animals traction as a viable technological alternative for increasing and stabilizing agricultural production.
FORMULATING BUSINESS STRATEGY-MODEL BUILDING AND APPLICATION
Creators: name: Rokholt, Per Ove
name: Rokholt, Per Ove
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The purpose of this study was to develop a general model for strategy making in business organizations. The model was applied to a Norwegian farmer sales cooperative which market fruits and vegetables in order to test the model's feasability of developing a consistent approach to business strategy formulation.
PERFORMANCE DIMENSIONS FOR THE EVALUATION OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROGRAMS: AN APPLICATION FROM THEORY
Creators: name: Mirowsky, Jill
name: Mirowsky, Jill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: Public Economics

description: This paper utilizes a case study as a means to yield some insight into the performance of public participation programs and to gain some information for the improvement of future programs. To these ends, an evaluation of the Phase II public participation programs for the Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act of 1977 (RCA) in the State of Michigan was undertaken. This Act calls for the USDA to make an appraisal of all soil and water resources on non-federal land and develop a national soil and water conservation program. The Act specifically requires participation by the public in developing this national program. In accordance with this requirement, USDA launched one of the largest public participation efforts ever undertaken in the U.S. Additionally, the Act requires that the conservation program plan developed during this process be updated at five year periods. The scope of the RCA public participation effort and the requirement that the process be repeated in 1985 recommended using a component of this particular public participation program as the focus for an evaluative study. Evaluation involves making judgements about the results of aggregated human behaviors based upon a set of criteria, or performance norms. Unfortunately, there is little consensus in the participation literature as to the appropriate criteria by which to judge the performance of a participation program. This lack of agreement stems, at least partially, from the highly interdisciplinary nature of participation research. The participation literature is vast and has no commonly accepted theoretical framework.
High Precision Photometry of Extreme KBO 2003 EL61
Creators: name: Lacerda, Pedro
name: Jewitt, David
name: Peixinho, Nuno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high precision, time-resolved visible and near infrared photometry of the large (diameter ~ 2500 km) Kuiper belt object (136108) 2003 EL61. The new data confirm rapid rotation at period P = 3.9155+/-0.0001 hr with a peak-to-peak photometric range (Delta m_R) = 0.29+/-0.02 mag and further show subtle but reproducible color variations with rotation. Rotational deformation of 2003 EL61 alone would give rise to a symmetric lightcurve free of color variations. The observed photometric deviations from the best-fit equilibrium model show the existence of a large surface region with an albedo and color different from the mean surface of 2003 EL61. We explore constraints on the nature of this anomalous region set by the existing data.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal on 2008/01/25