cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nível tecnológico e fatores de decisão para adoção de tecnologia na produção de caju no Ceará
Creators: name: Lima, Sergiany Da Silva
name: Khan, Ahmad Saeed
name: Lima, Patricia Veronica Pinheiro Sales
name: Leite, Lucas Antonio De Sousa
name: Mattos, Adriano Lincoln Albuquerque
name: Lima, Sergiany Da Silva
name: Khan, Ahmad Saeed
name: Lima, Patricia Veronica Pinheiro Sales
name: Leite, Lucas Antonio De Sousa
name: Mattos, Adriano Lincoln Albuquerque
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Crop cashew
subject: Technological level
subject: Adoption technology

description: This paper analyses the technological adoption process in culture of cashew from Ceará. To reach this objective a survey was made from producers located in Ceará. As for measuring the technological level of producers were analyzed variables related to the practices of the system of culture of cashew. Moreover, we estimated the coefficients of the variables that influence the likelihood of technology adoption by regression function Cumulative Distribution Logistics Standard (Logit). It was observed that the farms occupied by the in nature cashew has the best technology level, using the recommended 46.7%, while those occupied with cashew for nuts and juice use only 36.4 and 30.1%, respectively. The access to credit, the price of nuts and the peduncle were the main factors decision of technological adoption process in culture of cashew from Ceará.
The gapless 2SC phase
Creators: name: Huang, Mei
name: Shovkovy, Igor A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results on the gapless 2SC phase are reviewed. These include: the thermal stability under the constraint of the local charge neutrality condition, the properties at zero and nonzero temperatures, and the color screening properties.
description: To appear in the proceedings of 6th Conference on Strong and Electroweak Matter 2004 (SEWM04), Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 Jun 2004. Typos corrected
The possible tetraquark states $cc \bar c \bar c$ observed by the LHCb experiment
Creators: name: Chao, Kuang-Ta
name: Zhu, Shi-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a brief comment on the possible tetraquark states $cc \bar c \bar c$ observed by the LHCb experiment.
description: Contribution to Science Bulletin as a NEWS & VIEWS Paper
Using focus groups to design a choice modelling questionnaire for estimating natural resource management benefits in NSW
Creators: name: Mazur, Kasia
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Mazur, Kasia
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Focus groups
subject: choice modelling
subject: questionnaire design
subject: natural resource management.

description: In this study, focus group discussions were used to design a choice modelling (CM) questionnaire to estimate community wide values for the environmental and social benefits provided by natural resource management changes in the Namoi, Lachlan and Hawkesbury-Nepean catchments. This report describes the logistics of the focus groups and outlines the main conclusions drawn from the discussions. The research team conducted eight focus groups in the main urban areas of the regions where the CM survey will be conducted (Tamworth, Cowra, Goulburn and Sydney). How the CM questionnaire was developed with focus group participant input is also discussed in the report. The focus group meetings resulted in a draft questionnaire to be refined in consultation with scientists, managers and policy makers.
Designing choice experiments to incorporate tests for geographic scale and scope differences
Creators: name: Rolfe, John
name: Windle, Jill
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
name: Rolfe, John
name: Windle, Jill
name: Bennett, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: choice modelling
subject: scale
subject: scope
subject: coral reef

description: Designing a choice modelling (CM) experiment to place a value on increasing protection of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) raises complex issues. The size and diversity of the GBR, and the number of different pressures impacting on it, mean protection and improvement scenarios can be drafted in several different ways. This report discusses some of the considerations in selecting, describing and combining choice attributes. It also looks at how to incorporate tests for geographic scale (size) and scope (complexity) differences into the design of the CM survey instrument. The potential to include information about management options designed to achieve increased protection, and the associated risk and uncertainty, is also discussed.
Taking Stock: Seventeen Years after the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement
Creators: name: Lee, Lisa Yu-Ting
name: Ancev, Tihomir
name: Lee, Lisa Yu-Ting
name: Ancev, Tihomir
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: water reform
subject: water policy
subject: cost efficiency
subject: Murray-Darling Basin

description: There has now been almost two decades of natural resource management by signatory states under the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement Despite significant public expense, the success of initiatives to improve the Basin’s environmental remains ambiguous. This confusion is partly due to poorly distinguished investment outcomes, a blurring of the transparency of public spending and a lack of accountability of decision makers. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that significant environmental improvements could have been achieved at a much lower cost if decisive action been taken early. The research report outlines the myriad of Murray-Darling Basin related policies and its funding. It also notes the achievements and impediments to program success.
Using single-cell entropy to describe the dynamics of reprogramming and differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells
Creators: name: Ye, Yusong
name: Yang, Zhuoqin
name: Lei, Jinzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide a great model to study the process of reprogramming and differentiation of stem cells. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables us to investigate the reprogramming process at single-cell level. Here, we introduce single-cell entropy (scEntropy) as a macroscopic variable to quantify the cellular transcriptome from scRNA-seq data during reprogramming and differentiation of iPSCs. scEntropy measures the relative order parameter of genomic transcriptions at single cell level during the cell fate change process, which shows increasing during differentiation, and decreasing upon reprogramming. Moreover, based on the scEntropy dynamics, we construct a phenomenological stochastic differential equation model and the corresponding Fokker-Plank equation for cell state transitions during iPSC differentiation, which provide insights to infer cell fates changes and stem cell differentiation. This study is the first to introduce the novel concept of scEntropy to the biological process of iPSC, and suggests that the scEntropy can provide a suitable quantify to describe cell fate transition in differentiation and reprogramming of stem cells.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Phase behavior of a nematic liquid crystal in contact with a chemically and geometrically structured substrate
Creators: name: Harnau, L.
name: Kondrat, S.
name: Poniewierski, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nematic liquid crystal in contact with a grating surface possessing an alternating stripe pattern of locally homeotropic and planar anchoring is studied within the Frank--Oseen model. The combination of both chemical and geometrical surface pattern leads to rich phase diagrams, involving a homeotropic, a planar, and a tilted nematic texture. The effect of the groove depth and the anchoring strengths on the location and the order of phase transitions between different nematic textures is studied. A zenithally bistable nematic device is investigated by confining a nematic liquid crystal between the patterned grating surface and a flat substrate with strong homeotropic anchoring.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Economic growth and pollution in the long run: the case of carbon dioxide
Creators: name: Burke, Paul J.
name: Burke, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Economic growth
subject: pollution
subject: carbon dioxide
subject: environmental Kuznets curve Research

description: The concept underpinning the Environmental Kuznets Curve is that economic growth results in reduced pollution in the long run. In this report, an extension of Andreoni and Levinson’s (2001) theoretical model is presented. It demonstrates that an Environmental Kuznets Curve relationship can occur because high incomes allow more adoption of low-emission technologies at higher income levels. Evidence on the determinants of carbon dioxide emissions changes for OECD countries over the period 1961-2004 is presented. It highlights the importance of technology adoption in explaining whether countries have achieved emissions reductions at the same time as experiencing long-run economic growth. However, it is shown that technology adoption is affected by policy decisions and other factors in addition to income level. Hence the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis is more appropriately framed as a conditional relationship.
Engineering a woman: Marketing opportunities and challenges
Creators: name: Mahajan, Prashant
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Purpose and Motivation: Engineering plays a key role in supporting the growth and development of a country’seconomy as well as in improving the quality of life for citizens. Most of developed countries witnessed economicgrowth with the contribution of women in engineering field. In developing countries like India women remainedunder-utilized resource. Women in engineering are probably the single best investment that can be made in thedeveloping world. There is clearly room for improvement – not only in recruiting women into engineering, but alsoin retaining and promoting those women who wish and do enter the profession. This study was designed toinvestigate a perception and determination of undergraduate women towards accessing Engineering Education. Thestudy has highlighted women’s perceptions and experiences on accessing engineering education through institute’sMarketing Mix strategies which enables women to take up strategic positions to enjoy success in engineeringeducation and career. Findings of this study revealed that women students in engineering are better satisfied and actof referring services/program to others is higher than men students in terms of numbers for a particular set ofmarketing mix applied to gender.
Research Methodology: A quantitative research survey through a structured questionnaire for the students who arestudying or have recently completed their engineering education from reputed engineering institutes affiliated to theNorth Maharashtra University, Jalgaon was conducted.
Findings: The study discloses women’s approach to engineering education in terms of marketing mix; program,price, place, promotion, people, physical evidence and process. Women tended to rate most the marketing criteria as having a higher level of importance than men. Women needed more communal support while making decisionmaking of selection of engineering education.
Research Limitations: The survey is delimited to the engineering education belonging to North MaharashtraUniversity, Jalgaon and Khandesh region, a rural part of India.
Practical Implications: Findings of the study will be useful for the institutes and direct and indirect service providersof engineering education in developing a communication program and should be utilized and integrated into allaspects of the marketing program to attract women in engineering.
Markenführung in der Fleischwirtschaft – zum Markentransferpotenzial der Marke Wiesenhof
Creators: name: Luth, Maren
name: Spiller, Achim
name: Luth, Maren
name: Spiller, Achim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: brand transfer
subject: meat sector
subject: consumer behaviour
subject: conjoint analysis

description: The meat sector is the largest branch in the German food economy. It is characterized by a dominance of cost leadership. Against the background of an increasingly ruinous predatory pricing policy, we analyze the potential of brands introduced into new markets by brand extension. Therefore, consumption-psychological (strength of the parent brand, perceived quality of the parent brand, perceived transfer-fit) as well as economic (conjoint analysis) approaches are applied. The results reveal a group of 25 % of consumers who show a price inelastic buying behaviour and who can be seen as a suitable target group for manufacturer’s brands. The example of the poultry brand Wiesenhof shows that brand extensions are an appropriate tool to introduce brands into the financially weak red meat sector.
One-loop Graviton Corrections to Conformal Scalars on a de Sitter Background
Creators: name: Glavan, D.
name: Miao, S. P.
name: Prokopec, T.
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We exploit a recent computation of one graviton loop corrections to the self-mass [1] to quantum-correct the field equation for a massless, conformally coupled scalar on a de Sitter background. With the obvious choice for the finite part of the $R^2 ϕ^2$ counterterm, we find that neither plane wave mode functions nor the response to a point source acquires large infrared logarithms. However, we do find a decaying logarithmic correction to the mode function and a short distance logarithmic running of the potential in addition to the power-law effect inherited from flat space.
description: 25 pages, 2 figures; published version
Mustilia Walker 1865
Creators: name: Wang, Xing
name: Wang, Min
name: Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
name: Hirowatari, Toshiya
name: Wu, Shipher
name: Huang, Guo-Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Bombycidae
Mustilia

description: XXI. Mustilia Walker, 1865 (FIGURES 38–41)
Mustilia Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 32: 580. Type species: Mustilia falcipennis Walker, 1865, by monotypy.
Diagnosis. Characterized by the following features: wings brown-ochre; forewing in male with complex patterns, apex strongly produced and hook-shaped; antemedial line arched; medial and postmedial lines wavy; oblique line present between postmedial line and apex; discal cell with a black spot; hindwing with slightly wavy medial and postmedial lines and discal cell with a spot; uncus broad and bifid; valva constricted at 2/3 length, apex narrow and blunt. Female similar to male but larger, paler with weaker pattern, and antenna filiform.
Distribution. Oriental Region.
Remarks. The genus currently consists of seven species, of which six are recorded from China (Map 21). When the larva is disturbed, the head and anterior part of thorax are retracted, an irregular-edged later flap is expanded and inflatable organ expanded to resemble an eye (Plate 10D–10G). Identification is sometimes difficult, but the shape of the uncus is diagnostic, so genital dissection is strongly recommended to confirm identification.
Map 21. Distribution of Mustilia spp. mainly in China.
description: Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on pages 96-98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238716
Economies of Scale in der Produktion versus Diseconomies im Transport: Zum Strukturwandel im Molkereisektor
Creators: name: Boysen, Ole
name: Schroeder, Carsten
name: Boysen, Ole
name: Schroeder, Carsten
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Production Economics
subject: capacitated facility location problem
subject: market structure
subject: transportation

description: In this article, we simulate structural change within the German dairy sector employing a sector-wide optimization model. As a result, we obtain cost minimizing structures of the dairy sector for various scenarios differentiated by time horizon and level of transportation cost. We demonstrate that the model is capable of explaining the current trend which is characterized by a decrease in the number of dairies while average capacity is increasing. However, this development is less pronounced if transportation cost rises relative to other costs.
High-dimensional Bayesian Optimization of Personalized Cardiac Model Parameters via an Embedded Generative Model
Creators: name: Dhamala, Jwala
name: Ghimire, Sandesh
name: Sapp, John L.
name: Horácek, B. Milan
name: Wang, Linwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The estimation of patient-specific tissue properties in the form of model parameters is important for personalized physiological models. However, these tissue properties are spatially varying across the underlying anatomical model, presenting a significance challenge of high-dimensional (HD) optimization at the presence of limited measurement data. A common solution to reduce the dimension of the parameter space is to explicitly partition the anatomical mesh, either into a fixed small number of segments or a multi-scale hierarchy. This anatomy-based reduction of parameter space presents a fundamental bottleneck to parameter estimation, resulting in solutions that are either too low in resolution to reflect tissue heterogeneity, or too high in dimension to be reliably estimated within feasible computation. In this paper, we present a novel concept that embeds a generative variational auto-encoder (VAE) into the objective function of Bayesian optimization, providing an implicit low-dimensional (LD) search space that represents the generative code of the HD spatially-varying tissue properties. In addition, the VAE-encoded knowledge about the generative code is further used to guide the exploration of the search space. The presented method is applied to estimating tissue excitability in a cardiac electrophysiological model. Synthetic and real-data experiments demonstrate its ability to improve the accuracy of parameter estimation with more than 10x gain in efficiency.
description: MICCAI 2018
Eco-evolutionary dynamics with environmental feedback: cooperation in a changing world
Creators: name: Wang, Xin
name: Fu, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eco-evolutionary game dynamics which characterizes the mutual interactions and the coupled evolutions of strategies and environments has been of growing interests in very recent years. Since such feedback loops widely exist in a range of coevolutionary systems, such as microbial systems, social-ecological system and psychological-economic system, recent modeling frameworks that unveil the oscillating dynamics of social dilemmas have great potential for practical applications. In this perspective article, we overview the latest progress of evolutionary game theory in this direction. We describe both mathematical methods and interdisciplinary applications across different fields. The ideas worthy of further consideration are discussed in prospects, with the central role of promoting cooperations in a changing world.
The Image of homosexuality in recent novels for young adults
Creators: name: Brautigam, Christel Katharina Ireme
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study examines the image of homosexuality in novels published for young adults between 1998 and 2003, the extent to which authors have left behind two dimensional-one issue characters in novels dealing with homosexuality, and whether societal stereotypes of homosexuality are still perpetuated in young adult fiction. Twenty-six books that met the sampling criteria were selected and analysed using a content analysis approach. The findings show that the image of homosexuality in young adult fiction is more positive in this sample than in earlier books on this topic. The majority of books centre around the issue of homosexuality, but the characters are better developed and more well rounded, with issues other than their sexuality to cope with. Stereotypes regarding homosexuality are mostly refuted with the exception of some, such as retribution for being homosexual or the concept that homosexuality is a phase.
Optimale Vertragsdifferenzierung in der Agrarumweltpolitik
Creators: name: Glebe, Thilo W.
name: Glebe, Thilo W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: agri-environmental policy
subject: efficiency
subject: adverse selection
subject: mechanism design
subject: self-selection

description: This article deals with the optimal differentiation of agri-environmental contracts based on a self-selection mechanism. The paper demonstrates that both economic efficiency and effectiveness of public expenditures can be increased, if a menu of combinations of farming practices and payments are offered. However, there is a trade-off between efficiency and effectiveness, since the optimal programme minimising government expenses does not simultaneously minimise farmers’ opportunity costs. A numerical example of differentiated agri-environmental contracts, aiming for the reduction of nitrogen fertiliser in wheat production, illustrates that efficiency and effectiveness gains can be substantial. Furthermore, it is shown that economic rents for agricultural producers do not necessarily shrink as a result of contract differentiation, if the latter aims for the minimisation of public expenditures.
Effects of Fermi surface and superconducting gap structure in the field-rotational experiments: A possible explanation of the cusp-like singularity in YNi$_2$B$_2$C
Creators: name: Udagawa, Masafumi
name: Yanase, Youichi
name: Ogata, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the field-orientational dependence of zero-energy density of states (FODOS) for a series of systems with different Fermi surface and superconducting gap structures. Instead of phenomenological Doppler-shift method, we use an approximate analytical solution of Eilenberger equation together with self-consistent determination of order parameter and a variational treatment of vortex lattice. First, we compare zero-energy density of states (ZEDOS) when a magnetic field is applied in the nodal direction ($ν_{node}(0)$) and in the antinodal direction ($ν_{anti}(0)$), by taking account of the field-angle dependence of order parameter. As a result, we found that there exists a crossover magnetic field $H^*$ so that $ν_{anti}(0) > ν_{node}(0)$ for $H < H^*$, while $ν_{node}(0) > ν_{anti}(0)$ for $H > H^*$, consistent with our previous analyses. Next, we showed that $H^*$ and the shape of FODOS are determined by contribution from the small part of Fermi surface where Fermi velocity is parallel to field-rotational plane. In particular, we found that $H^*$ is lowered and FODOS has broader minima, when a superconducting gap has point nodes, in contrast to the result of the Doppler-shift method. We also studied the effects of in-plane anisotropy of Fermi surface. We found that in-plane anisotropy of quasi-two dimensional Fermi surface sometimes becomes larger than the effects of Doppler-shift and can destroy the Doppler-shift predominant region. In particular, this tendency is strong in a multi-band system where superconducting coherence lengths are isotropic. Finally, we addressed the problem of cusp-like singularity in YNi$_2$B$_2$C and present a possible explanation of this phenomenon.
description: 13pages, 23figures
„Bauernland in Bauernhand“: Gutachten im Auftrag des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten
Creators: name: Tietz, Andreas
name: Tölle, Antje G. I.
name: Tietz, Andreas
name: Tölle, Antje G. I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Bodenrecht
subject: Agrarstruktur
subject: Bodenmarkt
subject: Landwirtschaftsfläche
subject: Bayern
subject: Land rights
subject: agricultural structure
subject: land market
subject: agricultural land
subject: Bavaria

description: This expert report commissioned by the Free State of Bavaria is based on a catalogue of questions from the Bavarian Parliament on developments and options for action on the agricultural land market in Bavaria. These are answered from an agricultural economic and jurisprudential perspective. An analysis of transaction data from the Bavarian land transaction authorities from 2019 to 2021 shows that only about one third of the sold agricul-tural land larger than 1 ha was purchased by agricultural buyers. Non-agricultural buyer groups, especially mu-nicipalities and companies, pay significantly higher purchase prices on average than farmers. As the evaluation of ownership data from a sample of Bavarian municipalities shows, 95 % of agricultural land is owned by natural persons, half of whom are farmers and non-farmers, respectively. Only about 0.4 % of agricultural land is sold per year, whereas an estimated 3.2 % is transferred or inherited in generational change. From a jurisprudential point of view, the administrative implementation of the Real Property Transactions Act is surveyed by means of a questionnaire to the approval authorities, and a comparison of legal regulations with those of other federal states and Austria is made. The recommendations of the report focus on an improvement of administrative implementation and improved knowledge management in the approval authorities. Possibilities for strengthening the right of first refusal under settlement law are suggested. In addition, options are presented for consistently controlling purchase prices with respect to price abuse by including all non-agricultural buyer groups.
description: DOI:10.3220/REP1666266687000
Engineering a Woman Marketing opportunities and challenges
Creators: name: Mahajan, Prashant
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 150503 Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: There are severe constraints on women’sentry into higher levels of educationand their work in senior professionaland managerial jobs. For women inengineering education, support is crucialfrom the precollege level onward. In particular,female engineers’ parents tend toraise their daughters with fewer genderstereotypes and place greater weight oneducation and learning.
First order rigidity transition and multiple stability regimes for random networks with internal stresses
Creators: name: Head, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By applying effective medium-style calculations to random spring networks, we demonstrate that internal stresses fundamentally alter the nature of the rigidity transition in disordered materials, changing it from continuous to first-order and increasing the mean coordination number z at which rigidity first occurs. Furthermore, we predict the existence of a novel stability regime at low z when the distribution of stresses is asymmetric. Means of verifying these predictions are suggested.
description: 9 pages in JPhysA-spec, 2 figs
Explicit Calculations on Small Non-Equilibrium Driven Lattice Gas Models
Creators: name: Triampo, Wannapong
name: Tang, I Ming
name: Wong-Ekkabut, Jirasak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the non-equilibrium nature of a lattice gas system consisting of a regular lattice of charged particles driven by an external electric field. For a big system, an exact solution cannot be obtained using a master equation approach since the many-particle system has too many degrees of freedom to allow for exact solutions. We have instead chosen to study small systems as a first step. The small systems will be composed of between two and four particles having two or three possible values of some parameters. Applying periodic boundary conditions and a hard-core or an exclusion-volume constraint and imposing conservation of particle numbers via Kawasaki-type dynamics (particle-hole exchange), we are able to calculate the exact solutions of the steady-state relative probability density function, ri, associated with each configuration of the small system.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures
Precision Timing of PSR J0437-4715 with the IAR Observatory and Implications for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Source Sensitivity
Creators: name: Lam, M. T.
name: Hazboun, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While observations of many high-precision radio pulsars of order $\lesssim1~μ$s across the sky are needed for the detection and characterization of a stochastic background of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs), sensitivity to single sources of GWs requires even higher timing precision. The Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy (IAR; Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía) has begun observations of the brightest-known millisecond pulsar, J0437$-$4715. Even though the two antennas are smaller than other single-dish telescopes previously used for pulsar timing array (PTA) science, the IAR's capability to monitor this pulsar daily coupled with the pulsar's brightness allows for high-precision pulse arrival-time measurements. While upgrades of the facility are currently underway, we show that modest improvements beyond current plans will provide IAR with unparalleled sensitivity to this pulsar. The most stringent upper limits on single GW sources come from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav). Observations of PSR J0437$-$4715 will provide a significant sensitivity increase in NANOGrav's "blind spot" in the sky where fewer pulsars are currently being observed. With state-of-the-art instrumentation installed, we estimate the array's sensitivity will improve by a factor of $\approx$2-4 over 10 years for 20% of the sky with the inclusion of this pulsar as compared to a static version of the PTA used in NANOGrav's most recent limits. More modest instrumentation result in factors of $\approx$1.4-3. We identify four other candidate pulsars as suitable for inclusion in PTA efforts. International PTA efforts will also benefit from inclusion of these data given the potential achievable sensitivity.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables, published in ApJ
Potentieller Beitrag der Landwirtschaft zur Verminderung der Treibhausgasemissionen in Deutschland
Creators: name: Wegener, Jens Karl
name: Lucke, Wolfgang
name: Heinzemann, Jorg
name: Wegener, Jens Karl
name: Lucke, Wolfgang
name: Heinzemann, Jorg
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: biogas
subject: EU-emission trading
subject: Kyoto protocol
subject: agriculture
subject: Germany

description: In 2002, the German agricultural sector contributed 8.7 % of the total national green house gas emissions. The main sources were animal digestion, manure management and agricultural soils. From the technical point of view, the manure management has the biggest potential of green house gas reduction by using biogas technology. Thereby methane emission from manure, which otherwise had been emitted into the atmosphere, can be recaptured and used to substitute fossil fuels. Regarding the whole output of manure from cattle and swine in Germany, the emission reduction is 56 Mio. t CO2-equivalent. This amount is equivalent to 4.5% of the emissions in 1990/95 for the Kyoto protocol. Regarding the biomass potential which is technically feasible at the moment, the reduction potential growth to 276 Mio. t CO2-equivalent or 22% of emissions. This is 27.5 times more than the reduction commitment of the German industry for EU-emissions trading in the period from 2005-2012.
Spinor-Helicity Formalism for Massless Fields in AdS$_4$ III: Contact Four-Point Amplitudes
Creators: name: Nagaraj, Balakrishnan
name: Ponomarev, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study contact four-point amplitudes in the spinor-helicity formalism in anti-de Sitter space. We find that these amplitudes can be brought to an especially simple form, which we call canonical. Next, we classify consistent contact amplitudes by requiring correct transformation properties with respect to the AdS isometry algebra. Finally, we establish a connection between the canonical form of AdS amplitudes and scalar multi-trace conformal primaries in flat space.
description: 22 pages
Measurement of the differential surface and volume excitation probability of medium energy electrons in solids
Creators: name: Werner, Wolfgang S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A procedure is developed to rigorously decompose experimental loss spectra of medium-energy electrons reflected from solid surfaces into contributions due to surface and volume electronic excitations. This can be achieved by analysis of two spectra acquired under different experimental conditions, e.g. measured at two different energies and/or geometrical configurations. The input parameters of this procedure comprise the elastic scattering cross section and the inelastic mean free path for volume scattering. The (normalized) differential inelastic mean free path as well as the differential surface excitation probability are retrieved by this procedure. Reflection electron energy loss spectroscopy (REELS) data for Si, Cu and Au are subjected to this procedure and the retrieved differential surface and volume excitation probabilities are compared with data from the literature. The results verify the commonly accepted model for medium energy electron transport in solids with unprecedented detail.
Robustness of multi-qubit entanglement in the independent decoherence model
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Somshubhro
name: Lidar, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the robustness of the GHZ (or ``cat'') class of multi-partite states under decoherence. The noise model is described by a general completely positive map for qubits independently coupled to the environment. In particular, the robustness of N-party entanglement is studied in the large N limit when (a) the number of spatially separated subsystems is fixed but the size of each subsystem becomes large (b) the size of the subsystems is fixed while their number becomes arbitrarily large. We obtain conditions for entanglement in these two cases. Among our other results, we show that the parity of an entangled state (i.e., whether it contains an even or odd number of qubits) can lead to qualitatively different robustness of entanglement under certain conditions.
description: 7 pages, no figures, revised version: title slightly changed and other minor revisions. To appear in Phys. Rev. A
Essays on subtle gender inequities
Creators: name: Chan, Yee Wah Lisa
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380102
subject: Behavioural economics

description: Despite laws against discrimination and efforts by organizations, many nuanced forms of gender inequities in the workplace continue to persist. The three chapters in this dissertation focus on subtle sources of gender inequities in the workplace that often operate against women. Using a mix of experimental and observational methodologies, the three chapters respectively provide novel insights on gender discrimination in hiring, representation of women in management positions, and the gendered impacts of school holidays on parents’ labor supply.
Dataset related to the article "Prenylcysteine Oxidase 1 Is a Key Regulator of Adipogenesis"
Creators: name: Banfi Cristina
name: Mallia Alice
name: Ghilardi Stefania
name: Brioschi Maura
name: Gianazza Erica
name: Eligini Sonia
name: Sahlén Pelin
name: Baetta Roberta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This record contains raw data related to the article “Prenylcysteine Oxidase 1 Is a Key Regulator of Adipogenesis"

Abstract: The process of adipogenesis involves the differentiation of preadipocytes into mature
adipocytes. Excessive adipogenesis promotes obesity, a condition that increasingly threatens global
health and contributes to the rapid rise of obesity-related diseases. We have recently shown that
prenylcysteine oxidase 1 (PCYOX1) is a regulator of atherosclerosis-disease mechanisms, which
acts through mechanisms not exclusively related to its pro-oxidant activity. To address the role
of PCYOX1 in the adipogenic process, we extended our previous observations confirming that
Pcyox1􀀀/􀀀/Apoe􀀀/􀀀 mice fed a high-fat diet for 8 or 12 weeks showed significantly lower body
weight, when compared to Pcyox1+/+/Apoe􀀀/􀀀 mice, due to an evident reduction in visceral adipose
content. We herein assessed the role of PCYOX1 in adipogenesis. Here, we found that PCYOX1 is
expressed in adipose tissue, and, independently from its pro-oxidant enzymatic activity, is critical for
adipogenesis. Pcyox1 gene silencing completely prevented the differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes,
by acting as an upstream regulator of several key players, such as FABP4, PPAR , C/EBP. Proteomic
analysis, performed by quantitative label-free mass spectrometry, further strengthened the role of
PCYOX1 in adipogenesis by expanding the list of its downstream targets. Finally, the absence of
Pcyox1 reduces the inflammatory markers in adipose tissue. These findings render PCYOX1 a novel
adipogenic factor with possible pathophysiological or therapeutic potential.
description: This work was supported by the Italian Ministry of Health, Italy, Ricerca Corrente 2021, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS
Robust and Complex Approach of Pathological Speech Signal Analysis
Creators: name: Mekyska, Jiri
name: Janousova, Eva
name: Gomez-Vilda, Pedro
name: Smekal, Zdenek
name: Rektorova, Irena
name: Eliasova, Ilona
name: Kostalova, Milena
name: Mrackova, Martina
name: Alonso-Hernandez, Jesus B.
name: Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos
name: López-de-Ipiña, Karmele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a study of the approaches in the state-of-the-art in the field of pathological speech signal analysis with a special focus on parametrization techniques. It provides a description of 92 speech features where some of them are already widely used in this field of science and some of them have not been tried yet (they come from different areas of speech signal processing like speech recognition or coding). As an original contribution, this work introduces 36 completely new pathological voice measures based on modulation spectra, inferior colliculus coefficients, bicepstrum, sample and approximate entropy and empirical mode decomposition. The significance of these features was tested on 3 (English, Spanish and Czech) pathological voice databases with respect to classification accuracy, sensitivity and specificity.
description: 41 pages, published in Neurocomputing, Volume 167, 2015, Pages 94-111, ISSN 0925-2312
Mustilia castanea Moore 1879
Creators: name: Wang, Xing
name: Wang, Min
name: Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
name: Hirowatari, Toshiya
name: Wu, Shipher
name: Huang, Guo-Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Bombycidae
Mustilia
Mustilia castanea

description: 67. Mustilia castanea Moore, 1879 (FIGURES 38 F–38H)
Mustilia castanea Moore, 1879, in Hewitson & Moore, Lep. Atkinson: 82. TL: [Darjeeling, India] “Darjiling”. Holotype: male (ZMHU) [examined].
Diagnosis. Very similar to M. undulosa, but can be distinguished by the following characters: forewings darker; hindwing with a spot near tornus.
Specimens examined. [SICHUAN] 1 male and 1 female, road from Songpan to Jiuzhaigou, 2600 m, 33˚12’ N, 103˚44’ E, 13.VII.2010, Floriani & Saldaitis leg. (MWM); [YUNNAN] Deqin County (Mt. Meilixueshan): 1 male, 15.VIII.2002, Ming-Yi Tian leg. (SCAU).
Bionomics. The larval host is unknown.
Distribution. Mainland China (Sichuan, Yunnan), Bhutan, Nepal, India.
Remarks. The species usually co-occurs with M. falcipennis but commonly flies at higher altitudes. This species is here recorded from China for the first time.
description: Published as part of Wang, Xing, Wang, Min, Zolotuhin, Vadim V., Hirowatari, Toshiya, Wu, Shipher & Huang, Guo-Hua, 2015, The fauna of the family Bombycidae sensu lato (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea) from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hainan Islands, pp. 1-138 in Zootaxa 3989 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238716
Table S1 from The influence of environmental setting on the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms
Creators: name: Mitchell, Emily G.
name: Bobkov, Nikolai
name: Bykova, Natalia
name: Alavya Dhungana
name: Kolesnikov, Anton V.
name: Hogarth, Ian R. P.
name: Liu, Alexander G.
name: Mustill, Tom M. R.
name: Sozonov, Nikita
name: Rogov, Vladimir I.
name: Shuhai Xiao
name: Grazhdankin, Dmitriy V.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Evidence for cysts and for ability for cell to change shape, from selected fossil assemblages spanning late Paleoproterozoic through Tonian time. Age constraints from [1] or as cited in references.
Effects of decoupling on land use: an EU wide, regionally differentiated analysis
Creators: name: Britz, Wolfgang
name: Heckelei, Thomas
name: Perez Dominguez, Ignacio
name: Britz, Wolfgang
name: Heckelei, Thomas
name: Perez Dominguez, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: decoupling
subject: agricultural sector modelling
subject: Luxembourg Agreement
subject: land allocation

description: This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the impacts of the „Luxembourg Compromise” as compared to a continuation of Agenda 2000 to the year 2010. The employed new version of the CAPRI model allows us to represent the different member states’ implementations of the CAP reform and to reflect endogenous world market prices based upon a spatial global trade model. The specific contribution of the analysis is a detailed look at the impacts of national differences in the CAP implementation and regional production structures with respect to changes in land allocation. At EU level, cereal areas decrease by about 5% and oilseeds by about 3%. This is paralleled by increases in the set-aside acreage and extensive fodder production. However, significant differences at the regional level can be observed. They are caused mainly by differences in the shares of durum wheat and fodder maize.
Supplementary Materials for Schultz et al., 2025
Creators: name: Schultz, Dayna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Human Biomonitoring
Data Science
Exposure Toxicology

description: This dataset contains supplementary materials for the publication "Application of the Newcomb-Benford law in biological exposure studies: Data manipulation versus physiological pattern identification ". It includes additional figures, tables, and extended details that support the main findings of the study. These materials provide further insight into the data analysis, experimental design, and results discussed in the article.
Prospect for relic neutrino searches
Creators: name: Gelmini, Graciela B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unlike the relic photons, relic neutrinos have not so far been observed. The Cosmic Neutrino Background (C$ν$B) is the oldest relic from the Big Bang, produced a few seconds after the Bang itself. Due to their impact in cosmology, relic neutrinos may be revealed indireclty in the near future through cosmological observations. In this talk we concentrate on other proposals, made in the last 30 years, to try to detect the C$ν$B directly, either in laboratory searches (through tiny accelerations they produce on macroscopic targets) or through astrophysical observations (looking for absorption dips in the flux of Ultra-High Energy neutrinos, due to the annihilation of these neutrinos with relic neutrinos at the Z-resonance). We concentrate mainly on the first of these two possibilities.
description: Talk given at the Nobel Symposium on Neutrino Physics, Enkoping, Sweden, Augus 19-24, 2004; 16 pages