cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?
Creators: name: De Melo, Jaime
name: Vijil, Mariana
name: De Melo, Jaime
name: Vijil, Mariana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Environmental Goods
subject: Environmental Services
subject: Doha Round
subject: Tariff Reductions

description: Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels but not at the multilateral level, where countries have been unable to agree on an approach to reduce barriers to trade. For EGs, tariffs and NTBs are highest for low-income countries and low for high-income countries. First-order estimates of the import response to a 50% reduction in tariffs for low-income countries suggest an increase in imports of around 4%. For ESs, estimates draw on the comparison of an Environment Services Liberalization index calculated across modes and services sub-sectors. The limitations of this ordinal index coupled with the inadequacy of the UN CPC list where services are defined in an exclusionary manner so that they cannot appear on two lists, casts greater uncertainty as to the informational content of the commitment measures presented here which, at best, indicate bindings on market access and national treatment rather than actual policies. It would appear nonetheless that at least as great, and probably greater commitments took place in the environmental sectors (as defined by the CPC) both multilaterally and regionally than for ‘other’ services with the same pattern across income groups: greater commitments observed for HIC than for MICs and LICs although it is widely recognized that GATS commitments by HICs largely amounted to consolidated members’ unilateral services policies. North-South Regional Trade Agreements resulted mostly in commitments by the Southern partners indicating greater prospects for reducing barriers to trade in a regional than in a multilateral context.
Environment and Growth
Creators: name: Horii, Ryo
name: Ikefuji, Masako
name: Horii, Ryo
name: Ikefuji, Masako
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Environmental Kuznets Curve
subject: Limits to Growth
subject: Poverty-Environment Trap
subject: Sustainability
subject: Natural Disasters

description: This paper examines the implications of the mutual causality between environmental quality and economic growth. While economic growth deteriorates the environment through increasing amounts of pollution, the deteriorated environment in turn limits the possibility of further economic growth. In a less developed country, this link, which we call “limits to growth,” emerges as the “poverty-environment trap,” which explains the persistent international inequality both in terms of income and environment. This link also threatens the sustainability of the world’s economic growth, particularly when the emission of greenhouse gases raises the risk of natural disasters. Stronger environmental policies are required to overcome this link. While there is a trade-off between the environment and growth in the short run, we show that an appropriate policy can improve both in the long run.
Energy from Waste: Generation Potential and Mitigation Opportunity
Creators: name: Bosello, Francesco
name: Campagnolo, Lorenza
name: Eboli, Fabio
name: Parrado, Ramiro
name: Bosello, Francesco
name: Campagnolo, Lorenza
name: Eboli, Fabio
name: Parrado, Ramiro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Climate Change
subject: Mitigation
subject: Energy From Waste

description: The present research proposes a macroeconomic assessment of the role of waste incineration with energy recovery (WtE) and controlled landfill biogas to electricity generation and their potential contribution to a CO2 emission reduction policy, within a recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model. From the modelling viewpoint, introducing these energy sectors in such a framework required both the extension of the GTAP7 database and the improvement of the ICES production nested function. We focus our analysis on Italy as a signatory of the GHG reduction commitment of 20% by 2020 wrt 1990 levels proposed by the European Community; the rest of the world is represented by 21 geo-political countries/regions. It is shown that albeit in the near future WtE and landfill biogas will continue to represent a limited share of energy inputs in electricity sector (in Italy, around 2% for WtE and 0.6% for biogas in 2020) they could play a role in a mitigation policy context. The GDP cost of the EU emission reduction target for the Italian economy can indeed be reduced by 1% when the two energy generating options are available. In absolute terms, this translates into an annuitized value of 87-122 million €.
A Novel Photonic Material for Designing Arbitrarily Shaped Waveguides in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Miyazaki, Hiroshi
name: Hase, Masashi
name: Miyazaki, Hideki T.
name: Kurokawa, Yoichi
name: Shinya, Norio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate numerically optical properties of novel two-dimensional photonic materials where parallel dielectric rods are randomly placed with the restriction that the distance between rods is larger than a certain value. A large complete photonic gap (PG) is found when rods have sufficient density and dielectric contrast. Our result shows that neither long-range nor short-range order is an essential prerequisite to the formation of PGs. A universal principle is proposed for designing arbitrarily shaped waveguides, where waveguides are fenced with side walls of periodic rods and surrounded by the novel photonic materials. We observe highly efficient transmission of light for various waveguides. Due to structural uniformity, the novel photonic materials are best suited for filling up the outer region of waveguides of arbitrary shape and dimension comparable with the wavelength.
description: 4 figures
Bayesian optimization of a free-electron laser
Creators: name: Duris, Joseph
name: Kennedy, Dylan
name: Hanuka, Adi
name: Shtalenkova, Jane
name: Edelen, Auralee
name: Egger, Adam
name: Cope, Tyler
name: Ratner, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Linac Coherent Light Source changes configurations multiple times per day, necessitating fast tuning strategies to reduce setup time for successive experiments. To this end, we employ a Bayesian approach to transport optics tuning to optimize groups of quadrupole magnets. We use a Gaussian process to provide a probabilistic model of the machine response with respect to control parameters from a modest number of samples. Subsequent samples are selected during optimization using a statistical test combining the model prediction and uncertainty. The model parameters are fit from archived scans, and correlations between devices are added from a simple beam transport model. The result is a sample-efficient optimization routine, which we show significantly outperforms existing optimizers.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
title: 01_1569
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Divine Design: Revitalizing Church Website Usability
Creators: name: Hill, Renetta
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description:
<span style="color: #242424; font-family: 'Aptos Narrow', Calibri, 'sans-serif', 'Mongolian Baiti', 'Microsoft Yi Baiti', 'Javanese Text', 'Yu Gothic'; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">This thesis evaluates and proposes a redesign of the Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church (GSMBC) website to enhance user experience. Usability testing and strategic design methodologies were used to identify limitations in navigation, content clarity, and visual appeal in the current website, impacting both congregants and non-congregants. An initial analysis of the website informed a comprehensive user experience (UX) test to gather feedback on key aspects of the site, focusing on usability, functionality, and emotional response. This test asked a group of users about the website’s navigability, understanding of the content, and overall interaction with the website. Special attention was paid to ensuring a diverse participant pool to capture varied experiences, although direct recruitment of individuals with visual impairments was beyond the study's scope. Data on vision impairment, education level, and income were collected to contextualize the findings and foster inclusivity. User-centric design principles derived from Maslow’s Hierarchy of User Experience and insights from “Design is Storytelling” were used to create a pleasurable, functional, and reliable prototype of a redesigned website. The redesign emphasizes responsiveness, recognizing that there are over 5.4 billion website visitors each year (ITU, 2023). The website prototype therefore optimizes user satisfaction and engagement and demonstrates how thoughtful digital design can enhance community outreach and involvement in religious organizations.
Why Wind Is Not Coal: On the Economics of Electricity
Creators: name: Hirth, Lion
name: Ueckerdt, Falko
name: Edenhofer, Ottmar
name: Hirth, Lion
name: Ueckerdt, Falko
name: Edenhofer, Ottmar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Power Generation
subject: Electricity Sector
subject: Integrated Assessment Modeling
subject: Variable Renewables
subject: Integration Costs
subject: Welfare Economics
subject: Power Economics
subject: Levelized Electricity Cost
subject: Grid Parity

description: The economics of electricity is shaped by its physics. A well know example is the non-storability of electricity that causes its price to fluctuate widely. More generally, physical constraints cause electricity to be a heterogeneous good along three dimensions - time, space, and lead-time. Consequently, different generation technologies, such as coal and wind power, produce different economic goods that have a different marginal economic value. Welfare maximization or competitiveness analyses that ignore heterogeneity deliver biased estimates. This paper provides an analytical welfare-economic framework that accounts for heterogeneity for unbiased assessments of power generators. The framework offers a rigorous interpretation of commonly used cost indicators such as ‘levelized electricity costs’ and ‘grid parity’. Heterogeneity is relevant for all generators, but especially for variable renewables such as wind and solar power. We propose a definition of ‘variability’, derive the opportunity costs of variability, and link that concept to the ‘integration cost’ literature. A literature review shows that variability can reduce the value of wind power by 20-50%. Thus it is crucial that economic analysis accounts for the physics of electricity.
The Statistics of Extended Debris Disks Measured with Gaia and Planck
Creators: name: Nibauer, Jacob
name: Baxter, Eric
name: Jain, Bhuvnesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal emission from debris disks around stars has been measured using targeted and resolved observations. We present an alternative, likelihood-based approach in which temperature maps from the Planck CMB survey at 857 and 545 GHz are analyzed in conjunction with stellar positions from Gaia to estimate the fraction of stars hosting disks and the thermal emission from the disks. The debris disks are not resolved (or even necessarily detected individually) but their statistical properties and the correlations with stellar properties are measured for several thousand stars. We compare our findings with higher sensitivity surveys of smaller samples of stars. For dimmer stars, in particular K and M-dwarfs, we find about 10 percent of stars within 80 pc have emission consistent with debris disks. We also report on 80 candidate disks, the majority of which are not previously identified. We have previously constrained the properties of Exo-Oort clouds using Planck data -- with future CMB surveys both components can be measured for different stellar types, providing a new avenue to study the outer parts of planetary systems.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures
Determining farm effects attributable to the introduction and use of a dairy management information system in The Netherlands
Creators: name: Tomaszewski, M.A.
name: Asseldonk, M.A.P.M. Van
name: Dijkhuizen, A.A.
name: Huirne, R.B.M.
name: Tomaszewski, M.A.
name: Asseldonk, M.A.P.M. Van
name: Dijkhuizen, A.A.
name: Huirne, R.B.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Management infmmation system
subject: Panel data analysis
subject: Dairy herds

description: Yearly production and reproduction data on dairy farms in The Netherlands were obtained to determine whether management information systems significantly improved herd performance variables (management information systems (MIS) effects). The analysis included 357 adopters of a management information system and 357 herds were used as controls. The data comprised years 1987 through 1996, and included for the adopters both the 'before' and 'after' period. Panel data analysis enabled to estimate MIS effects both within and between farms, allowing for a separation of farm-specific effects and common (trend) effects. Adoption and use of a management information system resulted in a significant annual increase in rolling herd average milk (carrier) and protein production of 62 and 2.36 kg per cow, respectively. Calving interval was shortened by 5 days. The pay-back period was approximately 5 years of the system (including the hardware), and therefore, MIS appears to be economically profitable. © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
MOESM3 of Prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with systemic sclerosis
Creators: name: Ewert, Ralf
name: Ittermann, Till
name: Habedank, Dirk
name: Held, Matthias
name: Lange, Tobias
name: Halank, Michael
name: Winkler, Jörg
name: Gläser, Sven
name: Olschewski, Horst
name: Gabor Kovacs
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S3 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and prognostic parameters in SSc
Book Reviews
Creators: name: Otsuka, Keijiro
name: Smale, Melinda
name: Wood, Stanley
name: Barrett, Christopher B.
name: Wright, Brian D.
name: Otsuka, Keijiro
name: Smale, Melinda
name: Wood, Stanley
name: Barrett, Christopher B.
name: Wright, Brian D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Books Reviewed include: Agricultural Landownership in Transitional Economies by Gene Wunderlich; Maize Technology Development And Transfer: A GIS Application For Research Planning In Kenya by Rashid Hassan; Famine In Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention by Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu and Patrick Webb; Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment by Sheldon Krimsky and Roger Wrubel
Kink instability: evolution and energy dissipation in Relativistic Force-Free Non-Rotating Jets
Creators: name: Bromberg, Omer
name: Singh, Chandra B.
name: Davelaar, Jordy
name: Philippov, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of kink instability in a force-free, non-rotating plasma column of high magnetization. The main dissipation mechanism is identified as reconnection of magnetic field-lines with various intersection angles, driven by the compression of the growing kink lobes. We measure dissipation rates ${\rm d} U_{Bϕ}/{{\rm d}t} \approx -0.1 U_{Bϕ}/τ$, where $τ$ is the linear growth time of the kink instability. This value is consistent with the expansion velocity of the kink mode, which drives the reconnection. The relaxed state is close to a force-free Taylor state. We constraint the energy of that state using considerations from linear stability analysis. Our results are important for understanding magnetic field dissipation in various extreme astrophysical objects, most notably in relativistic jets. We outline the evolution of the kink instability in such jets and derive constrains on the conditions that allow for the kink instability to grow in these systems.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures
MOESM2 of Prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with systemic sclerosis
Creators: name: Ewert, Ralf
name: Ittermann, Till
name: Habedank, Dirk
name: Held, Matthias
name: Lange, Tobias
name: Halank, Michael
name: Winkler, Jörg
name: Gläser, Sven
name: Olschewski, Horst
name: Gabor Kovacs
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2: Table S2 Demographic parameters in patients with and without ILD
Quantum features of entropy production in driven-dissipative transitions
Creators: name: Goes, Bruno O.
name: Fiore, Carlos E.
name: Landi, Gabriel T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physics of driven-dissipative transitions is currently a topic of great interest, particularly in quantum optical systems. These transitions occur in systems kept out of equilibrium and are therefore characterized by a finite entropy production rate. However, very little is known about how the entropy production behaves around criticality and all of it is restricted to classical systems. Using quantum phase-space methods, we put forth a framework that allows for the complete characterization of the entropy production in driven-dissipative transitions. Our framework is tailored specifically to describe photon loss dissipation, which is effectively a zero temperature process for which the standard theory of entropy production breaks down. As an application, we study the open Dicke and Kerr models, which present continuous and discontinuous transitions, respectively.We find that the entropy production naturally splits into two contributions. One matches the behavior observed in classical systems. The other diverges at the critical point.
Phase structure of self-gravitating systems
Creators: name: Laliena, Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equilibrium properties of classical self-gravitating systems in the grand canonical ensemble are studied by using the correspondence with an euclidean field theory with infrared and ultraviolet cutoffs. It is shown that the system developes a first order phase transition between a low and a high density regime. In addition, due to the long range of the gravitational potential, the system is close to criticality within each phase, with the exponents of mean field theory. The coexistence of a sharp first order transition and critical behavior can explain both the presence of voids in large regions of the universe as well as the self-similar density correlations in terms of self-gravity alone.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure. Some comments and references added. Version which appear in the journal
Additional file 5 of Transcriptome profiling of developing leaf and shoot apices to reveal the molecular mechanism and co-expression genes responsible for the wheat heading date
Creators: name: Yang, Yuxin
name: Zhang, Xueying
name: Wu, Lifen
name: Zhang, Lichao
name: Liu, Guoxiang
name: Xia, Chuan
name: Liu, Xu
name: Kong, Xiuying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. GO enrichment analysis of DEGs between WHd-L2.0 vs MHd.L2.0.
The Impact of Location and Proximity on Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Renewable and Alternative Electricity: The Case of West Virginia
Creators: name: Nkansah, Kofi
name: Collins, Alan
name: Nkansah, Kofi
name: Collins, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Willingness to Pay
subject: Choice Experiment
subject: Renewable energy

description: In 2015, West Virginia will implement a Renewable and Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act. Meeting these standards with either natural gas or wind power will generate different welfare impacts across society. In particular, this study examined how energy source and generation proximity influence consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for electricity. Using choice modelling, residents within two counties with distinct location characteristics (existing coal power plant or wind farm) were asked to choose between a renewable source (wind farm) and an alternative energy source (natural gas power plant). We also seek to determine how residents’ proximity to a hypothetical electricity generation facility (wind farm or natural gas generation source) influences their WTP for renewable and alternative electricity. Results showed that the sampled population in both counties were willing to pay a much higher positive premium to site a natural gas-fired power plant at a distances far from their residence compared to siting wind turbines at a similar distance. Compensation was required to site a natural gas-fired power plant at a moderate distance from an individuals’ residence.
Enhancing Employee Engagement In Higher Education Through Effective Internal Communication Practices: A Toolkit For Success
Creators: name: Hammond, Justin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2024

description:
<span style="color: #242424; font-family: 'Aptos Narrow', Calibri, 'sans-serif', 'Mongolian Baiti', 'Microsoft Yi Baiti', 'Javanese Text', 'Yu Gothic'; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: #ffffff;">Despite extensive research on employee engagement, a gap exists in understanding its dynamics within higher education. This thesis aims to investigate the role of effective internal communication practices in enhancing employee engagement, specifically within higher education institutions. This paper focuses on the context of higher education, utilizing data from NC State University and the UNC System. This research identifies key areas of improvement in employee engagement by analyzing employee engagement survey results and internal communication surveys supplemented by focus group discussions. The findings reveal significant areas for enhancement, particularly in fostering a sense of organizational cohesion and communication effectiveness. Notably, only a minority of employees perceived a strong sense of unity within the institution, indicating a need for targeted interventions. Additionally, the analysis underscores the importance of tailored communication strategies, highlighting preferences for diverse communication channels and content customization. Based on these insights, this thesis proposes the development of a toolkit for communicators within higher education institutions. This toolkit aims to provide practical guidance and resources for enhancing internal communication practices to promote employee engagement. By addressing the specific challenges identified within the higher education context, this toolkit offers a comprehensive framework for improving organizational 3 communication and fostering a culture of engagement within higher education institutions. The toolkit was reviewed and improved through focus groups consisting of higher education internal communicators and human resource professionals. This research contributes to the growing literature on employee engagement by offering a nuanced understanding of its dynamics in higher education. By emphasizing the role of internal communication practices, this study provides actionable recommendations for higher education institutions seeking to enhance employee engagement.
ОСНОВЫ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ СИСТЕМЫ ЭПИДЕМИОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО МОНИТОРИНГА ТУБЕРКУЛЕЗА
Creators: name: Борисов Сергей Евгеньевич
name: Белиловский Евгений Михайлович
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы здравоохранения и медицинской статистики
Year: 2021
Subjects: туберкулез
мониторинг туберкулеза
система эпидемиологического мониторинга

description: Введение. Обеспечение эффективного эпидемиологического надзора за туберкулезом является необходимой и одной из первостепенных задач для любой национальной программы борьбы с туберкулезом. В то же время, многолетний опыт создания и эксплуатации систем эпидемиологического мониторинга туберкулеза показал, что успех их реализации напрямую зависит от обоснованности используемой структуры собираемых данных, от того как был организован процесс внедрения и практического использования, и, наконец, функциональных возможностей обработки и анализа информации. Цель исследования – определить принципы построения системы эпидемиологического мониторинга туберкулеза, которые необходимы для его эффективного использования, как инструмента, обеспечивающего успешное планирование, реализацию и оценку результатов противотуберкулезных мероприятий на региональном и национальном уровнях. Материалы и методы. Проведен анализ результатов реализации системы эпидемиологического мониторинга туберкулеза, реализуемой на уровне субъекта Российской Федерации, и опыта ее внедрения и развития в различных субъектах Российской Федерации и в г. Москве в 1996-2020 гг. Результаты. Проведен анализ опыта внедрения и эксплуатации систем эпидемиологического мониторинга туберкулеза в субъектах Российской Федерации в конце 90-х и начале XXI века. Даны основные информационные блоки и их составляющие элементы, которые должна включать система мониторинга туберкулеза, такие как диспансерное слежение, контроль эффективности курсов химиотерапии, анализ смертности, оценка эффективности работы стационара/санатория фтизиатрического профиля, мониторинг очагов туберкулезной инфекции, профилактика туберкулеза у больных ВИЧ-инфекцией, лабораторный регистр и рентгеновская картотека профилактических обследований населения. Выделены основные принципы построения систем эпидемиологического мониторинга туберкулеза, которые обеспечивают ее необходимую эффективность и устойчивость, подчеркнута важность обеспечения соответствующих аналитических возможностей регистров на всех уровнях ее эксплуатации, что является решающим для их успешной реализации на практике. Заключение. Реализованные с учетом разработанных принципов системы эпидемиологического мониторинга туберкулеза обеспечивают анализ эпидемиологической ситуации в территории, результаты которого можно успешно использовать для принятия управленческих решений, программно-целевого планирования и оценки эффективности проводимых мероприятий.
Atomization modes for levitating emulsified droplets undergoing phase change
Creators: name: Rao, D Chaitanya Kumar
name: Basu, Saptarshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We delineate and examine the distinct breakup modes of evaporating water-in-oil emulsion droplets under acoustic levitation. The emulsion droplets consist of decane/dodecane/tetradecane as oil, while the water concentration is varied from 10% to 30% (v/v). The droplets were heated under different laser irradiation intensities and were observed to exhibit three broad breakup mechanisms, viz., breakup through bubble growth, sheet breakup, and catastrophic breakup. The occurrence of these modes of the breakup is found to be primarily dependent on the volatility differential among the components. Early nucleation in water/decane emulsions results in the growth of vapor bubble, which is characterized by intricate patterns of wave propagation on the droplet surface. The formation of these patterns suggests that the short time scale and length scale of wave patterns is the manifestation of Faraday instability, triggered on the droplet surface by the acoustic field induced resonance. A sheet-like breakup, on the contrary, occurs predominantly in emulsions comprising of components with relatively high volatility difference (water/dodecane emulsions) due to the breakup of an indiscernible small sized bubble. Intense catastrophic breakup occurs for emulsions with significantly vast volatility difference (water/tetradecane emulsions) where the droplet undergoes prompt fragmentation into fine secondary droplets.
description: 36 pages, 19 figures
Optics of Nanostructured Fractal Silver Colloids
Creators: name: Karpov, S. V.
name: Bas'ko, A. L.
name: Popov, A. K.
name: Slabko, V. V.
name: George, Thomas F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the theory of the optical properties of fractal clusters, which is an operator-based modification of the coupled-dipole method, an alternate solution is proposed for the problem of adequately describing the evolution of optical spectra of any polydisperse silver colloid with particles falling within the range of most characteristic sizes (5 - 30 nm). This is the range over which the results of the application of the well-known methods of classical electrodynamics, including the Mie theory, disagree with experimental data. The effect of variation of the parameters of such media on optical spectra is studied by a numerical simulation, which accounts for particle electrodynamic dipole-dipole interactions. Indeed, such interactions are shown to be a key factor in determining the broadening of the sol absorption spectra during the course of fractal aggregation. A quantitative explanation is given for the reasons for the appearance of individual specific features in the contours of the spectral absorption of different types of silver colloids.
description: 37 pages, 18 figures, LaTeX2e with packages natbib, graphics
The Cerium volume collapse: Results from the LDA+DMFT approach
Creators: name: Held, K.
name: McMahan, A. K.
name: Scalettar, R. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The merger of density-functional theory in the local density approximation (LDA) and many-body dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) allows for an ab initio calculation of Ce including the inherent 4f electronic correlations. We solve the DMFT equations by the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) technique and calculate the Ce energy, spectrum, and double occupancy as a function of volume. At low temperatures, the correlation energy exhibits an anomalous region of negative curvature which drives the system towards a thermodynamic instability, i.e., the $γ$-to-$α$ volume collapse, consistent with experiment. The connection of the energetic with the spectral evolution shows that the physical origin of the energy anomaly and, thus, the volume collapse is the appearance of a quasiparticle resonance in the 4f-spectrum which is accompanied by a rapid growth in the double occupancy.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
How Much Is It Worth to Protect Sensitive Products with Tariff-Rate Quotas?―A Korean Case
Creators: name: Lim, Song-Soo
name: Babula, Ronald A.
name: Lim, Song-Soo
name: Babula, Ronald A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: tariff-rate quota
subject: sensitive product
subject: tariff equivalent
subject: quota equivalent
subject: soybeans

description: The tariff-rate quota (TRQ) system is a hybrid import regime that conveys both tariff- and quota-like characteristics. Established by the tariffication process during the Uruguay Round, TRQs harmonize the needs for improved market access and protection from import surges. This paper aims to identify economic and policy consequences from TRQ implementation and to test whether the trade-off between formula tariff cuts and quota expansion is adequate and thus is beneficial to the protection of declared sensitive products. Using Korea’s case of soybean imports, this paper illuminates the importance of quota administration in terms of mark-ups, economic rents and the state-trading enterprises (STEs). Application of a one-product partial equilibrium model to Korea’s soybean market suggests that it would be better for Korea to designate soybeans as a category of sensitive products. The derived quota equivalents under the option of sensitive products turn out to be smaller than otherwise. Examination of quota equivalents for formula tariff cuts indicates different proportionality or trade-offs among options. Finally, it concludes with potential areas to improve the TRQ administration under the WTO modalities.
General Formula for the Thermoelectric Transport Phenomena based on the Fermi Liquid Theory: Thermopower, Nernst Coefficient, and Thermal Conductivity
Creators: name: Kontani, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On the basis of the linear response transport theory, the general expressions for the thermoelectric transport coefficients, such as thermoelectric power (S), Nernst coefficient (ν), and thermal conductivity (κ), are derived by using the Fermi liquid theory. The obtained expression is exact as for the most singular term in terms of 1/γ_k^* (γ_k^* being the quasiparticle damping rate). We utilize the Ward identities for the heat current which is derived by the local energy conservation law. Based on the derived expressions, we can calculate various thermoelectric transport coefficients within the framework of the Baym-Kadanoff type conserving approximation. Thus, the present expressions are very useful for studying the strongly correlated electrons such as high-Tc superconductors, organic metals, and heavy Fermion systems, where the current vertex corrections are expected to play important roles. By using the derived expression, we calculate the thermal conductivity κin a free-dispersion model up to the second-order with respect to U. We find that it is slightly enhanced due to the vertex correction for the heat current, although the vertex correction for electron current makes the conductivity (σ) of this system diverge, reflecting the absence of the Umklapp process.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in PRB
ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОГО И ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОГО РЕГИСТРОВ ЛИЦ, БОЛЬНЫХ ТУБЕРКУЛЁЗОМ
Creators: name: Стерликов Сергей Александрович
name: Белиловский Евгений Михайлович
name: Дергачев Александр Валерьевич
name: Тестов Вадим Витальевич
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы здравоохранения и медицинской статистики
Year: 2021
Subjects: мониторинг туберкулёза
системы мониторинга туберкулёза
Федеральный регистр лиц
больных туберкулёзом

description: Цель. рассмотреть особенности формирования Федерального регистра лиц, больных туберкулёзом (ФРБТ) и территориальных систем мониторинга туберкулёза, разделение зон ответственности этих регистров, их взаимодействие и специфику решаемых ими целей и задач. Материалы и методы. проанализированы сведения из 17 источники информации: нормативных документов, результатов внедрения территориальных систем мониторинга туберкулёза. Результаты. ФРБТ внедрен в рамках развития одной из 13 подсистем Единой государственной информационной системы в сфере здравоохранения как единая база данных с WEB-интерфейсом. В статье приведены функции ФРБТ, описаны особенности, связанные с наличием федерального и регионального сегментов Регистра, возможности, появившиеся в результате реализации ФРБТ на национальном уровне. Проанализирована целесообразность территориальных систем мониторинга туберкулёза, возможность их связи с ФРБТ, структура и функционал территориальных систем мониторинга туберкулёза. Заключение. Национальная система мониторинга туберкулёза в Российской Федерации функционирует в виде трёх дезинтегрированных систем: ФРБТ, специализированные системы мониторинга туберкулёза, функционирующие на территориальном (субъектовом) уровне в головном учреждении субъекта Российской Федерации и на базе отдельных специализированных медицинских организаций, и региональный сегмент Единой государственной информационной системы в сфере здравоохранения. Целесообразно рассмотреть вопрос интеграции информационной структуры территориальных систем мониторинга туберкулёза в соответствующий сегмент ФРБТ в виде специализированного модуля. Двухуровневая система мониторинга, включающая федеральный сегмент ФРБТ и региональный сегмент ФРБТ с расширенной информационной структурой, адаптируемой к реалиям конкретного субъекта Российской Федерации и/или специализированной медицинской организации, будет оптимально обеспечивать всеобъемлющий мониторинг мероприятий по борьбе с туберкулёзом.
MeV-GeV $γ$-ray telescopes probing axino LSP/gravitino NLSP as dark matter in the $μν$SSM
Creators: name: Gomez-Vargas, German A.
name: Lopez-Fogliani, Daniel E.
name: Munoz, Carlos
name: Perez, Andres D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axino and gravitino are promising candidates to solve the dark matter (DM) problem in the framework of supersymmetry. In this work, we assume that the axino is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), and therefore contributes to DM. In the case of R-parity violating models, the axino can decay into a neutrino-photon pair with a lifetime much longer than the age of the Universe, yielding a potentially detectable signal. Interestingly, a gravitino next-to-LSP (NLSP) can live enough as to contribute to the relic density. We study both scenarios, only axino LSP as DM, and axino LSP with gravitino NLSP as DM. We carry out the analysis in the context of the $μν$SSM, which solves the $μ$ problem and reproduces neutrino data, only adding couplings involving right-handed neutrinos. In particular, we perform a complete analysis of the relevant parameter space of the model considering constraints from neutrino physics, cosmological observations, and $γ$-ray detection. We find that the axino or the gravitino can produce a signal detectable by future MeV-GeV $γ$-ray telescopes. In addition, in a parameter region where we get a well-tempered mixture of both particles, a double-line signal arises as a smoking gun.
description: Version published in JCAP, discussions expanded, references added, 27 pages, 6 figures
СИСТЕМА СТАТИСТИЧЕСКОГО НАБЛЮДЕНИЯ ВО ФТИЗИАТРИИ В РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ
Creators: name: Белиловский Евгений Михайлович
name: Нечаева Ольга Брониславовна
name: Стерликов Сергей Александрович
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы здравоохранения и медицинской статистики
Year: 2021
Subjects: мониторинг туберкулёза
система мониторинга туберкулёза
статистическое наблюдение
медицинская статистика
статистика здравоохранения России

description: Цель исследования – рассмотреть структуру системы статистического наблюдения во фтизиатрии в Российской Федерации, информация о которой необходима при проведении анализа данных с оценкой их полноты и достоверности. Материалы и методы. С использованием информационно-аналитического метода проанализировано 22 документа, регламентирующих современную систему мониторинга. Построены логические связи, установлен поток движения информации между событиями, документами первичной медицинской документации и отчётными формами. Результаты. Построена структурно-функциональная схема современной системы мониторинга туберкулёза с использованием официально регламентированных форм учётно-отчётной документации мониторинга туберкулёза различного уровня и ведомственной принадлежности. Заключение. Действующая в Российской Федерации система статистического наблюдения построена на гармоничном взаимодействии специально разработанных формализованных документов и позволяет оценивать как развитие эпидемиологической ситуации по туберкулезу, так и эффективность мероприятий, проводимых по всем основным направлениям противотуберкулезной работы. В условиях реформирования системы статистического наблюдения с использованием электронных средств сбора, передачи и обработки информации следует сохранять преемственность её функционирования с существующей системой наблюдения.
ОБРАБОТКА И АНАЛИЗ ДАННЫХ МОНИТОРИНГА ТУБЕРКУЛЁЗА
Creators: name: Стерликов Сергей Александрович
name: Галкин Владимир Борисович
Publisher: name: Современные проблемы здравоохранения и медицинской статистики
Year: 2021
Subjects: мониторинг туберкулёза
анализ эпидемической ситуации
системный анализ во фтизиатрии

description: Цель исследования систематизировать основные подходы к обработке и анализу данных системы мониторинга туберкулёза с целью обеспечения возможности правильного формирования и интерпретации основных его показателей. Материалы и методы. Использовали информационно-аналитический метод. Изучено 24 источника информации. Систематизированы собственные наблюдения, сделанные в ходе мониторинговых выездов в 33 субъекта Российской Федерации. Составлен структурированный обзор основных показателей, используемых во фтизиатрии. На основании прикладного системного анализа предложена методика интерпретации показателей; даны рекомендации по использованию статистических методов обработки информации. Результаты. С использованием информационно-аналитического метода основано использование методов вероятностной статистики при расчёте динамики показателей, приведены обобщённые определения показателей: экстенсивных, интенсивных, соотношения. Составлены обобщённые методики расчёта основных показателей, используемых во фтизиатрии: показателей заболеваемости, смертности, распространённости, частоты рецидивов, множественной лекарственной устойчивости микобактерий туберкулёза, показателей ресурсного обеспечения противотуберкулёзной работы, показателей результативности мероприятий по выявлению случаев туберкулёза, этиологической диагностики возбудителя и лечению больных туберкулёзом (как с использованием когортных методов, так и традиционные для России показатели). Сгруппированы и систематизированы методы анализа показателей. Описаны способы интерпретации показателей при проведении системного анализа состояния противотуберкулёзной помощи населению. Заключение. Адекватные показатели мониторинга туберкулёза формируются в результате реализации сложного комплекса операционных процедур, и требуют строго стандартизованного учёта результатов обследования и лечения. Полученные показатели требуют комплексного их анализа с обязательным учётом структуры и функционирования системы оказания противотуберкулёзной помощи. В связи с этим, завершающим этапом мониторинга во фтизиатрии должен являться прикладной системный анализ, обеспечивающий адекватное восприятие величины и динамики комплекса показателей, и приводящий к принятию адекватных складывающейся ситуации управленческих решений.
MOESM1 of Prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with systemic sclerosis
Creators: name: Ewert, Ralf
name: Ittermann, Till
name: Habedank, Dirk
name: Held, Matthias
name: Lange, Tobias
name: Halank, Michael
name: Winkler, Jörg
name: Gläser, Sven
name: Olschewski, Horst
name: Gabor Kovacs
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1 Demographic data in patients with and without right heart catheterization