cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inertial migration of neutrally-buoyant particles in superhydrophobic channels
Creators: name: Nizkaya, Tatiana V.
name: Asmolov, Evgeny S.
name: Harting, Jens
name: Vinogradova, Olga I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: At finite Reynolds numbers particles migrate across flow streamlines to their equilibrium positions in microchannels. Such a migration is attributed to an inertial lift force, and it is well-known that the equilibrium location of neutrally-buoyant particles is determined only by their size and the Reynolds number. Here we demonstrate that the decoration of a bottom wall of the channel by superhydrophobic grooves provides additional possibilities for manipulation of neutrally-buoyant particles. It is shown that the effective anisotropic hydrodynamic slip of such a bottom wall can be readily used to alter the equilibrium positions of particles and to generate their motion transverse to the pressure gradient. These results may guide the design of novel inertial microfluidic devices for efficient sorting of neutrally-buoyant microparticles by their size.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Quantum properties of transverse pattern formation in second-harmonic generation
Creators: name: Bache, M.
name: Scotto, P.
name: Zambrini, R.
name: Miguel, M. San
name: Saffman, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the spatial quantum noise properties of the one dimensional transverse pattern formation instability in intra-cavity second-harmonic generation. The Q representation of a quasi-probability distribution is implemented in terms of nonlinear stochastic Langevin equations. We study these equations through extensive numerical simulations and analytically in the linearized limit. Our study, made below and above the threshold of pattern formation, is guided by a microscopic scheme of photon interaction underlying pattern formation in second-harmonic generation. Close to the threshold for pattern formation, beams with opposite direction of the off-axis critical wave numbers are shown to be highly correlated. This is observed for the fundamental field, for the second harmonic field and also for the cross-correlation between the two fields. Nonlinear correlations involving the homogeneous transverse wave number, which are not identified in a linearized analysis, are also described. The intensity differences between opposite points of the far fields are shown to exhibit sub-Poissonian statistics, revealing the quantum nature of the correlations. We observe twin beam correlations in both the fundamental and second-harmonic fields, and also nonclassical correlations between them.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A
MOESM4 of Genome draft of the Arabidopsis relative Pachycladon cheesemanii reveals novel strategies to tolerate New Zealand’s high ultraviolet B radiation environment
Creators: name: Yanni Dong
name: Saurabh Gupta
name: Sievers, Rixta
name: Wargent, Jason
name: Wheeler, David
name: Putterill, Joanna
name: Macknight, Richard
name: Tsanko Gechev
name: Mueller-Roeber, Bernd
name: Dijkwel, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4. Characteristics of the 20 longest scaffolds of the P. cheesemanii genome assembly. 1) SNPs, 2) GC content (bin: 5 kb; axis: 0–50%), 3) repeats, 4) read coverage (bin: 5 kb), 5) predicted genes, 6) PASA alignments against the leaf transcriptome, 7) distribution of gaps (Ns).
MOESM4 of Reducing shoulder complaints in employees with high occupational shoulder exposures: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled study (The Shoulder-Café Study)
Creators: name: Trøstrup, Jeanette
name: Mikkelsen, Lone
name: Frost, Poul
name: Dalbøge, Annett
name: Høybye, Mette
name: Casper, Sven
name: Jørgensen, Lene
name: Klebe, Thomas
name: Svendsen, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Individual feedback on occupational shoulder exposures.
Development and Characterization of Encapsulated Spice Oleoresin Powders by Spray Drying
Creators: name: Devage, Malinda Prabhath Madhusankha Garusinghe
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 300602
subject: Food chemistry and food sensory science

description: Spices are essential ingredients that enhance the flavor of culinary dishes. However, the low water solubility and susceptibility to degradation limit their use in the food industry. This study focused on extracting flavors from five different spices into oleoresin and blending them to achieve a uniform flavor. Then, a fully water-soluble carbohydrate coating was developed to encapsulate and protect these flavors. The outcome is a spice oleoresin powder that retains over 90% of the flavors even after three months. This innovative approach facilitates the incorporation of spices into many food products, enhancing the convenience of incorporating spices among spice-loving consumers.
Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation in the Presence of Spontaneous Emission and Collective Dephasing
Creators: name: Khodjasteh, Kaveh L.
name: Lidar, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A universal and fault tolerant scheme for quantum computation is proposed which utilizes a class of error correcting codes that is based on the detection of spontaneous emission (of, e.g., photons, phonons, and ripplons). The scheme is compatible with a number of promising solid-state and quantum-optical proposals for quantum computer implementations, such as quantum dots in cavities, electrons on helium, and trapped ions.
description: 4 pages, no figures. This version to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Performance of school-aged children with cerebral palsy at GMFCS levels I and II on high-level, sports-focussed gross motor assessments
Creators: name: Clutterbuck, Georgina L.
name: Auld, Megan L.
name: Johnston, Leanne M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To investigate performance of children with cerebral palsy (CP) at GMFCS Levels I-II on sports-focussed gross motor assessments; and concurrent validity of mainstream and CP-specific high-level assessment batteries and field tests. Fifty-four children (6–12 years) with CP at GMFCS I-II completed the Test of Gross Motor Development-second edition, Gross Motor Function Measure-Challenge Module, Muscle Power Sprint Test (MPST), 10 × 5 m Sprint Test (10 × 5 mST), Vertical Jump, Broad Jump, and Seated Throw. Correlations between measures, age and mobility level, and group differences between age and mobility level were examined and content analysis performed. Children at GMFCS I demonstrated significantly higher gross motor assessment battery scores than children at GMFCS II (U = 73.5–109.0, p r = –0.516 to –0.816, p r = 0.499–0.774, p r = 0.341–0.500, p = 0.012 High-level gross motor assessments were achievable and appropriately challenging for children with CP at GMFCS I-II. Scores discriminated between performance and were associated with mobility level. Concurrent validity was established between gross motor assessment batteries, and locomotor field tests.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONFor children with cerebral palsy at GMFCS I–II, sports-focussed assessments should be used to assess high-level gross motor function.The Gross Motor Function Measure-Challenge and Test of Gross Motor Development demonstrate no ceiling for children with cerebral palsy at GMFCS I–II.Single-item running and jumping field tests provide targeted skill assessment and estimate sports skills for children with cerebral palsy. For children with cerebral palsy at GMFCS I–II, sports-focussed assessments should be used to assess high-level gross motor function. The Gross Motor Function Measure-Challenge and Test of Gross Motor Development demonstrate no ceiling for children with cerebral palsy at GMFCS I–II. Single-item running and jumping field tests provide targeted skill assessment and estimate sports skills for children with cerebral palsy.
Trechus chaklaensis Schmidt 2009
Creators: name: Schmidt, Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Trechus
Trechus chaklaensis

description: The Trechus chaklaensis group
 Diagnosis: Head with frontal furrows deep, +/- strongly curved at middle. Frons and supraorbital areas strongly convex. Temples smooth. Mandibles normal. Pronotum cordate, with hind angles well produced. Pronotal base +/- rectilinear in middle and with outer fifth more strongly curved anteriorly. Basal transverse depression of pronotum diffuse, limited towards disc; laterobasal foveae broadly developed. Pronotal median line distinct, deeper near base. Hind wings reduced to small stubs. Humerus broadly rounded. Each elytron with parascutellar seta, preapical seta and two discal setae on third interval, with anterior discal seta located on stria III at the end of the anterior elytral quarter, and with middle dorsal seta located on stria III somewhat behind elytral middle. Stria VIII slightly or moderately impressed from level of the fifth umbilicate pore backwards and more deeply impressed at levels of seventh and eighth pores. Recurrent elytral preapical sulcus deeply impressed and directed to the end of the fifth stria. Ventral surface smooth. Legs relatively short, with thick femora and thin tibia and tarsi; protibiae slightly dilated towards apices, hardly bowed, without a longitudinal groove on external surface. Two basal protarsi of male dilated, dentoid at the inner apical border. Aedeagal median lobe small, with basal bulb average and strongly bent downwards, and with basal velum well developed; in dorsal view more slender, in lateral view with terminal lamella straight and moderately short, not hooked at tip. Internal sac with a strongly sclerotized and sharply limited transverse fold (copulatory piece) in middle of third quarter of median lobe. Parameres rather stout, with left paramere slightly longer than right one, both with four setae at tip.
 Species included: Monotypic: T. chaklaensis sp. n. (South Central Tibet).
description: Published as part of Schmidt, Joachim, 2009, Taxonomic and biogeographical review of the genus Trechus Clairville, 1806, from the Tibetan Himalaya and the southern central Tibetan Plateau (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini) 2178, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 2178 (1) on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2178.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5312276
MOESM3 of Reducing shoulder complaints in employees with high occupational shoulder exposures: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled study (The Shoulder-Café Study)
Creators: name: Trøstrup, Jeanette
name: Mikkelsen, Lone
name: Frost, Poul
name: Dalbøge, Annett
name: Høybye, Mette
name: Casper, Sven
name: Jørgensen, Lene
name: Klebe, Thomas
name: Svendsen, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Pamphlet – How to reduce occupational shoulder exposures. (Images are our own).
Optimization and Manipulation of Contextual Mutual Spaces for Multi-User Virtual and Augmented Reality Interaction
Creators: name: Keshavarzi, Mohammad
name: Yang, Allen Y.
name: Ko, Woojin
name: Caldas, Luisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Spatial computing experiences are physically constrained by the geometry and semantics of the local user environment. This limitation is elevated in remote multi-user interaction scenarios, where finding a common virtual ground physically accessible for all participants becomes challenging. Locating a common accessible virtual ground is difficult for the users themselves, particularly if they are not aware of the spatial properties of other participants. In this paper, we introduce a framework to generate an optimal mutual virtual space for a multi-user interaction setting where remote users' room spaces can have different layout and sizes. The framework further recommends movement of surrounding furniture objects that expand the size of the mutual space with minimal physical effort. Finally, we demonstrate the performance of our solution on real-world datasets and also a real HoloLens application. Results show the proposed algorithm can effectively discover optimal shareable space for multi-user virtual interaction and hence facilitate remote spatial computing communication in various collaborative workflows.
description: Accepted at 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
Additional file 12 of Are dopamine agonists still the first-choice treatment for prolactinoma in the era of endoscopy? A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Cai, Xiangming
name: Zhu, Junhao
name: Yang, Jin
name: Tang, Chao
name: Cong, Zixiang
name: Ma, Chiyuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 12: Supplementary Table 4. Summary table of risk of bias for non-RCT.
1/N corrections to anomalies and the AdS/CFT correspondence for orientifolded N=2 orbifold and N=1 conifold models
Creators: name: Naculich, Stephen G.
name: Schnitzer, Howard J.
name: Wyllard, Niclas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that for a large class of d=4 N=2 conformal field theories the 1/N correction to the chiral anomaly of the U(1) R-current can be shown to arise from the D7-branes present in the dual orientifolded orbifold string theories, generalizing a result in the literature for the simplest case. We also study the U(1)_R anomaly for d=4 N=1 conformal field theories that arise from orientifolds of the conifold. We find agreement between the field- and string-theoretic calculations, confirming a prediction of the AdS/CFT correspondence at order 1/N for string theories on AdS_5 x T^{11}/Z_2.
description: 26 pages, LaTeX; v2: references added; v3: minor changes; v4: minor corrections
Illustrating the Benefits of Openness: A Large-Scale Spatial Economic Dispatch Model Using the Julia Language
Creators: name: Weibezahn, Jens
name: Kendziorski, Mario
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: 333 Boden- und Energiewirtschaft
subject: power systems modeling
subject: open source
subject: algebraic modeling language
subject: optimization
subject: benchmarking
subject: Julia
subject: JuMP

description: In this paper we introduce a five-fold approach to open science comprised of open data, open-source software (that is, programming and modeling tools, model code, and numerical solvers), as well as open-access dissemination. The advantages of open energy models are being discussed. A fully open-source bottom-up electricity sector model with high spatial resolution using the Julia programming environment is then being developed, describing source code and a data set for Germany. This large-scale model of the electricity market includes both generation dispatch from thermal and renewable sources in the spot market as well as the physical transmission network, minimizing total system costs in a linear approach. It calculates the economic dispatch on an hourly basis for a full year, taking into account demand, infeed from renewables, storage, and exchanges with neighboring countries. Following the open approach, the model code and used data set are fully publicly accessible and we use open-source solvers like ECOS and CLP. The model is then being benchmarked regarding runtime of building and solving against a representation in GAMS as a commercial algebraic modeling language and against Gurobi, CPLEX, and Mosek as commercial solvers. With this paper we demonstrate in a proof-of-concept the power and abilities, as well as the beauty of open-source modeling systems. This openness has the potential to increase the transparency of policy advice and to empower stakeholders with fewer financial possibilities.
MOESM2 of Reducing shoulder complaints in employees with high occupational shoulder exposures: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled study (The Shoulder-Café Study)
Creators: name: Trøstrup, Jeanette
name: Mikkelsen, Lone
name: Frost, Poul
name: Dalbøge, Annett
name: Høybye, Mette
name: Casper, Sven
name: Jørgensen, Lene
name: Klebe, Thomas
name: Svendsen, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 2. Pamphlet – Home-based shoulder exercise programme. (Images on page 1 were bought from Colorbox. Other photos are our own).
On the Evolving Relationship between Corn and Oil Prices
Creators: name: Elmarzougui, Eskandar
name: Larue, Bruno
name: Elmarzougui, Eskandar
name: Larue, Bruno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Oil
subject: corn
subject: structural changes
subject: cointegration
subject: ethanol
subject: protectionism

description: The relationship between corn and oil prices is not a stable one. We identified three breaks in the relationship between corn and oil prices. The first break coincides with the second oil crisis. The second break marks the end of the agricultural export subsidy war between the EU and the US in the mid 1980s while the third one occurred at the beginning of the ethanol boom at the very end of the 1990s. The relationship between corn and oil prices tends to be stronger when oil prices are highly volatile and when agricultural policies create less distortion. The ethanol boom strengthened the relation between corn and oil prices which are (were not) cointegrated in the fourth regime (first three) regime(s). Impulse response functions confirm that corn prices systematically respond to oil price shocks, but the converse is not observed.
Trechus stratiotes Schmidt 2009
Creators: name: Schmidt, Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Trechus
Trechus stratiotes

description: The Trechus stratiotes group
 Diagnosis: Head with frontal furrows deep, +/- strongly curved at middle, not flattened at level of hind suborbital pore. Frons and supraorbital areas strongly convex. Temples smooth. Mandibles normal. Pronotum cordate, with hind angles large; base straight or inner 3/5 slightly shifted posteriorly. Pronotal basal transverse depression diffuse limited towards disc; laterobasal foveae large and deeply developed. Pronotal median line distinct, deeper near base. Hind wings reduced to small stubs. Humerus broadly rounded. Each elytron with parascutellar seta, preapical seta and two discal setae on third interval, with anterior discal seta located on stria III at the end of the anterior elytral quarter, and with middle dorsal seta located on stria III somewhat behind elytral middle. Stria VIII deeply impressed from level of the fifth umbilicate pore backwards. Recurrent elytral preapical sulcus deeply impressed and directed to the end of the seventh stria. Ventral surface smooth. Legs short, with thick femora and thin tibia and tarsi; protibiae slightly dilated towards apices, hardly bowed, with a fine, sometimes indistinct groove on external surface. Two basal protarsi of male dilated, dentoid at the inner apical border. Aedeagal median lobe moderately stout, with basal bulb average and with basal velum completely reduced; terminal lamella short, not hooked at tip. Internal sac with a large copulatory piece. Parameres moderately stout, with left paramere slightly longer than right one, both with four relatively short setae at tip.
 Species included: Monotypic: T. stratiotes sp. n. (Far Western Nepal).
description: Published as part of Schmidt, Joachim, 2009, Taxonomic and biogeographical review of the genus Trechus Clairville, 1806, from the Tibetan Himalaya and the southern central Tibetan Plateau (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini) 2178, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 2178 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2178.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5312276
Product-Lexicographic Orderings and the Non-Existence of Countable Dense Subsets
Creators: name: Francesco D'Agostino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: An uncountable ordered set \(X=S\times\Sigma\) with the lexicographic order is constructed and shown to lack any countable dense subset. Uniqueness up to order isomorphism, invariance of its density character under forcing and CH, and combinatorial extensions yielding non-isomorphic variants are established. Topological applications, including non-metrizability and atypical connectedness properties, are also demonstrated.
Detection of Na, K and H$_2$O in the hazy atmosphere of WASP-6b
Creators: name: Carter, Aarynn L.
name: Nikolov, Nikolay
name: Sing, David K.
name: Alam, Munazza K.
name: Goyal, Jayesh M.
name: Mikal-Evans, Thomas
name: Wakeford, Hannah R.
name: Henry, Gregory W.
name: Morrell, Sam
name: López-Morales, Mercedes
name: Smalley, Barry
name: Lavvas, Panayotis
name: Barstow, Joanna K.
name: Muñoz, Antonio García
name: Wilson, Paul A.
name: Gibson, Neale P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new observations of the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-6b both from the ground with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) FOcal Reducer and Spectrograph (FORS2) from 0.45-0.83 $μ$m, and space with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from 0.6-1.0 $μ$m and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 from 1.12-1.65 $μ$m. Archival data from the HST Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and Spitzer is also reanalysed on a common Gaussian process framework, of which the STIS data show a good overall agreement with the overlapping FORS2 data. We also explore the effects of stellar heterogeneity on our observations and its resulting implications towards determining the atmospheric characteristics of WASP-6b. Independent of our assumptions for the level of stellar heterogeneity we detect Na I, K I and H$_2$O absorption features and constrain the elemental oxygen abundance to a value of [O/H] $\simeq -0.9\pm0.3$ relative to solar. In contrast, we find that the stellar heterogeneity correction can have significant effects on the retrieved distributions of the [Na/H] and [K/H] abundances, primarily through its degeneracy with the sloping optical opacity of scattering haze species within the atmosphere. Our results also show that despite this presence of haze, WASP-6b remains a favourable object for future atmospheric characterisation with upcoming missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope.
description: Accepted to MNRAS
Improved limit on quantum-spacetime modifications of Lorentz symmetry from observations of gamma-ray blazars
Creators: name: Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the quantum-gravity literature there has been interest in the possibility that quantum properties of spacetime might affect the energy/momentum dispersion relation. The most used test theory for data analysis is based on a modification of the laws of propagation proposed in astro-ph/9712103 [Nature 393,763], and the present best limit on the quantum-gravity scale was obtained in gr-qc/9810044 [Phys.Rev.Lett.83,2108]. I derive an improved limit using recent experimental information on absorption by the infrared diffuse extragalactic background of $γ$-rays emitted by blazars. Foreseeable more accurate determinations of the absorption levels could achieve Planck-scale sensitivity. As a corollary I also show that, contrary to the recent claim of astro-ph/0208507v3, the test theory here considered does not allow decays of photons into electron-positron pairs, and I expose the limitations of phenomenological proposals, such as the one reported in astro-ph/0212190, in which one attempts to infer limits on the kinematic theory here considered through the ad hoc introduction of a dynamical framework.
description: Published version [New J.Phys. 6 (2004) 188]. Title changed. Several changes made during the long editing period. Revised commentary on Crab-nebula synchrotron-radiation analysis reflects differences between astro-ph/0212190v1 and astro-ph/0309681 (astro-ph/0212190v1 made a strong claim which was softened in astro-ph/0309681). Added cautionary Comments also relevant for the analysis of the gamma-ray threshold, the cosmic-ray GZK threshold and photon stability
Optimizing University Managed Resources for South Dakota: A Simulation Approach
Creators: name: Holbeck, Michael
name: Chicoine, David L.
name: Holbeck, Michael
name: Chicoine, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: university managed resources
subject: simulation analysis
subject: funding stability
subject: horizontal equity
subject: public finance

description: A simulation analysis demonstrates the use of tuition as a policy tool to achieve financial independence among the six South Dakota public universities under University Managed Resources (UMR). The simulation analysis maintains an overall environment of funding stability and is guided by horizontal equity, a concept from the economics of public finance that all entities of the same or similar situation are treated similarly. Financial independence is defined as an annual budgeting process with no reallocation of financial resources among or between the six universities. For each of the three indicators of horizontal equity simulated, achieving financial independence also realized a convergence of base funding per state-support-tuition student full-time-equivalents (FTE) among the six universities.
Do tigers confess? : an interdisciplinary study of confessionary evidence in counter-terrorism measures of Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Visakesa, Chandrasekaram
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: KT2527.25.V57 2012 ANU
subject: Confession (Law) Case studies.Sri Lanka
subject: Trials (Terrorism) Sri Lanka
subject: Trials (Torture) Sri Lanka
subject: Tami{u1E3B}{u012B}{u1E3B}a Vi{u1E6D}utalaippulika{u1E37} (Association)
subject: Sri Lanka History Civil War, 1983-2009

description: For over three decades, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought a gruesome war for independent statehood against the majoritarian Sinhalese Government of Sri Lanka. While confronting the Tigers on the battleground, the government also pursued a legal war against the LTTE by enacting its counter-terrorism laws. These laws permitted indefinite detention and the use of confessions as sole evidence. Armed with these laws, the Sinhalese Government boasted the prosecution of thousands of Tamil Tigers on the basis of their confessions. The Tigers countered by protecting their secrets through the adoption of their suicide strategy - consuming cyanide capsules to prevent being captured alive. Examining the conflicting official narratives from both sides of the war, this research explores the confessions of Tamil Tigers within the broader discourses of terrorism and counter-terrorism. The thesis positions the counter-terrorism regime of Sri Lanka as a postcolonial instance of the 'state of exception' (as theorised by Giorgio Agamben) in order to grasp the broader causes and consequences of such extraordinary measures. In doing so, it takes the wider aspects of the conflict into account and explores its historical, political, military and cultural ramifications. The research questions I examine in this process are: What attributes of the Tigers' military subculture support or dispute the fact that Tigers have confessed en masse? Can the authenticity of these confessions be determined by linguistic and narrative analysis methods? How have the state's agents enforced the counter-terrorism measures among the suspect population, and how do such measures impact on individual suspects? What are the possibilities and limits of a fair hearing for Tigers from the judiciary in Sri Lanka? Recognising the polysemic aspects of the law, truth and justice, the thesis probes the narratives of the two key players in this conflict - the terrorist and the state - within an interdisciplinary context, encompassing multiple fields: jurisprudence, human rights, criminology, history, ethnic studies, terrorism studies and narrative analysis. In sum, the scope of this thesis goes beyond legalistic analysis and encompasses a range of themes: the hegemonic authority of the state, the martyrdom of the terrorist, the linguistic elements of evidence, the discipline and the punishment of the enemy, and the administration of justice.
Consumer versus citizen preferences in contingent valuation: evidence on the role of question framing
Creators: name: Ovaskainen, Ville
name: Kniivila, Matleena
name: Ovaskainen, Ville
name: Kniivila, Matleena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: altruism
subject: benefit–cost analysis
subject: conservation areas
subject: contingent valuation
subject: multiple preference orderings
subject: referendum
subject: spike model

description: Rather than individual consumer preferences, responses to referendum-style contingent valuation surveys on environmental goods may express citizen assessments that take into account benefits to others. We reconsider the consumer versus citizen hypothesis with a focus on the role of framing information. Survey data on conservation areas in Ilomantsi, Finland, are used. Different versions of the valuation question were used to encourage the respondents to take the consumer or the citizen role. The citizen version expectedly resulted in substantially fewer zero-WTP responses and protests and higher mean and median WTP, suggesting that the framing information has a major effect on the preferences expressed. The findings support the idea of multiple preferences. For a more confident interpretation of contingent valuation responses, future studies should recognise their intended use in survey design and gain information about respondents’ motives to determine the presence and type of altruistic motives.
Interacting Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases Out of Equilibrium
Creators: name: McGinley, Max
name: Cooper, Nigel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topological features of quantum many-body wave functions are known to have profound consequences for the physics of ground-states and their low-energy excitations. We describe how topology influences the dynamics of many-body systems when driven far from equilibrium. Our results are succinctly captured by a nonequilibrium topological classification that can be used to predict universal aspects of generic isolated quantum systems as they evolve unitarily in time. By analogy to the classifications used to describe systems in equilibrium, we consider two short-ranged entangled wave functions to be topologically equivalent if they can be interconverted via finite-time unitary evolution governed by a symmetry-respecting Hamiltonian. We demonstrate that this definition captures the salient features of these systems in a broad range of nonequilibrium scenarios. As well as providing conceptual insights into the constraints imposed by topology on many-body dynamics, we discuss the practical implications of our findings. In particular, we show that the characteristic zero-frequency spectroscopic peaks associated with topologically protected edge modes will be broadened by external noise only when the system is trivial in the nonequilibrium classification.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures
2T-Physics 2001
Creators: name: Bars, Itzhak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physics that is traditionally formulated in one--time-physics (1T-physics) can also be formulated in two-time-physics (2T-physics). The physical phenomena in 1T or 2T physics are not different, but the spacetime formalism used to describe them is. The 2T description involves two extra dimensions (one time and one space), is more symmetric, and makes manifest many hidden features of 1T-physics. One such hidden feature is that families of apparently different 1T-dynamical systems in d dimensions holographically describe the same 2T system in d+2 dimensions. In 2T-physics there are two timelike dimensions, but there is also a crucial gauge symmetry that thins out spacetime, thus making 2T-physics effectively equivalent to 1T-physics. The gauge symmetry is also responsible for ensuring causality and unitarity in a spacetime with two timelike dimensions. What is gained through 2T-physics is a unification of diverse 1T dynamics by making manifest hidden symmetries and relationships among them. Such symmetries and relationships is the evidence for the presence of the underlying higher dimensional spacetime structure. 2T-physics could be viewed as a device for gaining a better understanding of 1T-physics, but beyond this, 2T-physics offers new vistas in the search of the unified theory while raising deep questions about the meaning of spacetime. In these lectures, the recent developments in the powerful gauge field theory formulation of 2T-physics will be described after a brief review of the results obtained so far in the more intuitive worldline approach.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX
Additional file 7: of Correction to: The LsVe1L allele provides a molecular marker for resistance to Verticillium dahliae race 1 in lettuce
Creators: name: Inderbitzin, Patrik
name: Christopoulou, Marilena
name: Lavelle, Dean
name: Reyes-Chin-Wo, Sebastian
name: Michelmore, Richard
name: Subbarao, Krishna
name: Simko, Ivan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Nucleotide sequences of six LsVe alleles from cultivars La Brillante (L) and Salinas (S). (DOCX 17.8 kb)
Learning to grow: control of material self-assembly using evolutionary reinforcement learning
Creators: name: Whitelam, Stephen
name: Tamblyn, Isaac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We show that neural networks trained by evolutionary reinforcement learning can enact efficient molecular self-assembly protocols. Presented with molecular simulation trajectories, networks learn to change temperature and chemical potential in order to promote the assembly of desired structures or choose between competing polymorphs. In the first case, networks reproduce in a qualitative sense the results of previously-known protocols, but faster and with higher fidelity; in the second case they identify strategies previously unknown, from which we can extract physical insight. Networks that take as input the elapsed time of the simulation or microscopic information from the system are both effective, the latter more so. The evolutionary scheme we have used is simple to implement and can be applied to a broad range of examples of experimental self-assembly, whether or not one can monitor the experiment as it proceeds. Our results have been achieved with no human input beyond the specification of which order parameter to promote, pointing the way to the design of synthesis protocols by artificial intelligence.
Relativistic kinetic gases as direct sources of gravity
Creators: name: Hohmann, Manuel
name: Pfeifer, Christian
name: Voicu, Nicoleta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new model for the description of a gravitating multi particle system, viewed as a kinetic gas. The properties of the, colliding or non-colliding, particles are encoded into a so called one-particle distribution function, which is a density on the space of allowed particle positions and velocities, i.e. on the tangent bundle of the spacetime manifold. We argue that an appropriate theory of gravity, describing the gravitational field generated by a kinetic gas, must also be modeled on the tangent bundle. The most natural mathematical framework for this task is Finsler spacetime geometry. Following this line of argumentation, we construct a coupling between the kinetic gas and a recently proposed Finsler geometric extension of general relativity. Additionally, we explicitly show how the coordinate invariance of the action of the kinetic gas leads to a novel formulation of conservation of the energy-momentum distribution of the gas on the tangent bundle.
description: 13 pages, updated to journal version
Efficient Universal Leakage Elimination for Physical and Encoded Qubits
Creators: name: Wu, L. -A.
name: Byrd, M. S.
name: Lidar, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Decoherence-induced leakage errors can couple a physical or encoded qubit to other levels, thus potentially damaging the qubit. They can therefore be very detrimental in quantum computation and require special attention. Here we present a general method for removing such errors by using simple decoupling and recoupling pulse sequences. The proposed gates are experimentally accessible in a variety of promising quantum computing proposals.
description: 4 pages, including 1 figure
The relationship between the international marketing strategy adaptation and the export performance of chinese firms
Creators: name: Chan, Shun Charmaine
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: International marketing strategy Adaptation (IMSA) has been widely acknowledged by scholars as a crucial determinant of export performance (Cavusgil & Zou, 1994; Shoham, 1999; Theodosiou & Leonidou, 2003). Essentially, a firm's pursuit of IMSA is contingent on different factors in the internal and external environments. However, the complicated interplays of internal and external factors in the international marketing strategy cannot be understood by just one single conceptual explanation. Therefore, the evaluation of determinants on the adaptation of the export marketing strategy with consideration to different theoretical perspectives is necessary for a better cross-fertilization of different ideas. In this study, some cultural characteristics relating to Chinese firms are addressed in assessing the marketing strategy adaptation, such as firms mimicking behaviours and the impact of relational assets (networking capability) etc. Although developing relationship with key constituencies has been historically and strategically critical in Chinese business etiquette, this variable was found, however, insignificant in moderating the performance of IMSA of Chinese firms. This result suggests that the role of guanxi may be marginalized nowadays and Chinese firms may no longer rely heavily on relationship building as in the past. This thesis has adopted the Awareness-Motivation-Capabilities (AMC) model (Chen, et al., 2007) as an important backdrop to form a research framework to examine the determinants of IMSA and the corresponding impact on export performance. The research framework has integrated the theoretical perspectives from a resource-based view, competition theory, internationalization theory and institution theory to elaborate on the effect of awareness, motivation and capability on the international marketing strategy and export performance. In order to provide empirical evidence to support the proposed variables established in the research model, a set of hypotheses is established and tested through a survey of 253 Chinese exporting firms. The results of the empirical investigation suggest that awareness and motivation are the key driving forces of a firm's strategic response to not only the firm's internal characteristics and competition within industry, but also to the regulative forces of both domestic and host markets. Managers are, therefore, advised to obtain appropriate knowledge and always be sensitive to personal, firm, industry and institutional related environments in order to adjust the degree of marketing strategy adaptation as required.
Off-shell Suppression of Renormalons in Non-relativistic QCD Boundstates
Creators: name: Kiyo, Y.
name: Sumino, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an effect of the off-shellness of the quark and antiquark inside a heavy quarkonium system on IR renormalons contained in the perturbative computations of the quarkonium energy levels. We demonstrate that, when the off-shellness p_Q^2 -m_Q^2 \sim alpha_S^2 m_Q^2 is larger than m_Q Lambda_QCD, renormalons in the energy levels as calculated in perturbative QCD are suppressed by a factor Lambda_QCD/alpha_S^2 m_Q as compared to those in 2 m_pole + V_QCD(r). In this case the residual O(Lambda_QCD^4) renormalon has the same dimension as that of the leading gluon-condensate contribution.
description: Version to appear in Phys. Lett. B. 12 pages, 1 figure
Figures S1 - S3 from High-performance single-walled carbon nanotube transparent conducting film fabricated by using low feeding rate of ethanol solution
Creators: name: Ding, Er-Xiong
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Wei, Nan
name: Khan, Abu Taher
name: Kauppinen, Esko I.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018

description: Figure S1. (a) Optical absorption spectrum of SWCNT film. (b) Gaussian fitting result of diameter distribution (mean diameter ± standard deviation) of SWCNTs based on the absorption spectrum in (a). Feeding rate is 8 μl/min.;Figure S2. (a) RBM peaks, (b) G and D bands in Raman spectra of SWCNT film excited by 488 nm, 514 nm and 633 nm laser. IG/ID values were calculated to be 42, 52 and 95 for 488 nm, 514 nm and 633 nm laser, respectively. Feeding rate is 8 μl/min.;Figure S3. SEM micrograph of SWCNT bundles on SiO2/Si substrate at a feeding rate of 8 μl/min. The nanotube bundles are entangled.
MOESM11 of Reducing shoulder complaints in employees with high occupational shoulder exposures: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled study (The Shoulder-Café Study)
Creators: name: Trøstrup, Jeanette
name: Mikkelsen, Lone
name: Frost, Poul
name: Dalbøge, Annett
name: Høybye, Mette
name: Casper, Sven
name: Jørgensen, Lene
name: Klebe, Thomas
name: Svendsen, Susanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 11: Table S2. Schedule for study procedures. For each batch of companies, the two interventions (Shoulder-Café and Shoulder-Guidance) start and end simultaneously.
Sulfate Aerosol Hazes and SO2 Gas as Constraints on Rocky Exoplanets' Surface Liquid Water
Creators: name: Loftus, Kaitlyn
name: Wordsworth, Robin D.
name: Morley, Caroline V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite surface liquid water's importance to habitability, observationally diagnosing its presence or absence on exoplanets is still an open problem. Inspired within the Solar System by the differing sulfur cycles on Venus and Earth, we investigate thick sulfate (H2SO4-H2O) aerosol haze and high trace mixing ratios of SO2 gas as observable atmospheric features whose sustained existence is linked to the near absence of surface liquid water. We examine the fundamentals of the sulfur cycle on a rocky planet with an ocean and an atmosphere in which the dominant forms of sulfur are SO2 gas and H2SO4-H2O aerosols (as on Earth and Venus). We build a simple but robust model of the wet, oxidized sulfur cycle to determine the critical amounts of sulfur in the atmosphere-ocean system required for detectable levels of SO2 and a detectable haze layer. We demonstrate that for physically realistic ocean pH values (pH > 6) and conservative assumptions on volcanic outgassing, chemistry, and aerosol microphysics, surface liquid water reservoirs with greater than 1e-3 Earth oceans are incompatible with a sustained observable H2SO4-H2O haze layer and sustained observable levels of SO2. Thus, we propose the observational detection of a H2SO4-H2O haze layer and of SO2 gas as two new remote indicators that a planet does not host significant surface liquid water.
description: published in ApJ; associated code at https://github.com/kaitlyn-loftus/alien-sulfur-cycles