cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Brazil's Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth by Farm Size
Creators: name: Helfand, Steven
name: Magalhaes, Marcelo
name: Rada, Nicholas
name: Helfand, Steven
name: Magalhaes, Marcelo
name: Rada, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: productivity
subject: agriculture
subject: Brazil
subject: technical change
subject: efficiency change
subject: farm size
subject: total factor productivity (TFP)

description: The role of farm size has recently come to the forefront of agricultural development debates. Agricultural development policy often focuses on small farms given evidence of their role in poverty reduction and of higher yields. Yet policy has also focused on large farms due to their share of output, efficiency gains from vertical and horizontal integration, and potential employment generation. Brazil offers an interesting case study because of its wide spectrum of farm sizes and the country’s dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial “agribusiness” enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture, and “family farms,” led by the Ministry of Agrarian Development. Our purpose is to examine the role that farm size may have in Brazil’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world’s fastest rates over the last twenty years. The data are drawn from the agricultural censuses of 1985, 1995/96, and 2006, aggregated at the municipality level into five farm-size classes. The findings of this study point to heavy technical efficiency losses across all size classes, creating a substantial drag on national agricultural TFP growth. Moreover, because farms in the middle of the size distribution achieved the slowest technical change and TFP growth – bookended by faster growth in the smallest and largest farm-size classes – we identify an unexpected and unexplored source of inefficiency, namely medium-sized farms.
Steady State of an Inhibitory Neural Network
Creators: name: Krapivsky, P. L.
name: Redner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of a neural network where each neuron evolves according to the combined effects of deterministic integrate-and-fire dynamics and purely inhibitory coupling with K randomly-chosen "neighbors". The inhibition reduces the voltage of a given neuron by an amount Delta when one of its neighbors fires. The interplay between the integration and inhibition leads to a steady state which is determined by solving the rate equations for the neuronal voltage distribution. We also study the evolution of a single neuron and find that the mean lifetime between firing events equals 1+K*Delta and that the probability that a neuron has not yet fired decays exponentially with time.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, 2-column format, to be submitted to PRE
MOESM8 of A first genome assembly of the barley fungal pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres
Creators: name: Ellwood, Simon
name: Zhaohui Liu
name: Syme, Rob
name: Zhibing Lai
name: Hane, James
name: Keiper, Felicity
name: Moffat, Caroline
name: Oliver, Richard
name: Friesen, Timothy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Authorsâ original file for figure 2
Transverse spin dynamics of light: the generalized spin-momentum locking for structured guided modes
Creators: name: Shi, Peng
name: Du, Luping
name: Li, Congcong
name: Zayats, Anatoly V.
name: Yuan, Xiaocong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum spin-Hall effect, a manifestation of topological properties that govern the behavior of surface states, was studied intensively in condensed matter physics resulting in the discovery of topological insulators. The quantum spin-Hall effect of light was introduced for surface plane-waves which intrinsically carry transverse optical spin, leading to many intriguing phenomena and applications in unidirectional waveguiding, metrology and quantum technologies. In addition to spin, optical waves can exhibit complex topological properties of vectorial electromagnetic fields, associated with orbital angular momentum or nonuniform intensity variations. Here, by considering both spin and angular momentum, we demonstrate a generalized spin-momentum relationship that governs vectorial properties of guided electromagnetic waves, extending optical quantum spin-Hall effect to a two-dimensional vector field of structured guided wave. The effect results in the appearance of the out-of-plane transverse optical spins, which vary progressively from the 'up' state to the 'down' state around the energy flow, and their variation is uniquely locked to the energy propagation direction. The related spin-momentum locking in a chiral spin swirl is demonstrated with four kinds of surface structured waves and proven both theoretically and experimentally. The results provide understanding of the spin dynamics in electromagnetic guided waves and show great importance in spin optics, topological photonics and optical spin-based devices and techniques.
description: 30 pages; 13 figures; 44 equations; 1 table; 41 references for main text and 45 references for Supplementary Materials
Agricultural Productivity Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): An analysis of Climatic Effects, Convergence, and Catch-up
Creators: name: Lachaud, Michee
name: Bravo-Ureta, Boris
name: Ludena, Carlos
name: Lachaud, Michee
name: Bravo-Ureta, Boris
name: Ludena, Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Agriculture
subject: Total Factor Productivity
subject: Climate Effects
subject: Convergence
subject: Forecasting
subject: Latin America
subject: Caribbean

description: This study estimates a Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries. Climatic variability is introduced in SPF models by including average annual maximum temperature, precipitation and its monthly intra-year standard deviations, and the number of rainy days. Climatic conditions have a negative impact on production becoming stronger at the end of the 2000s compared to earlier periods. An Error Correction Model is applied to investigate catch-up and convergence across LAC countries. Argentina defines the frontier in LAC and CATFP convergence is found across all South American countries, Costa Rica, Mexico, Barbados and The Bahamas. Using IPCC 2014 scenarios, the study shows climatic variability induces significant reductions in productivity over the 2013-2040 period. Estimated productivity losses due to climatic variability range from USD 12.7 to 89.1 billion in the LAC region depending on the scenario and the discount rate.
Twilight for the energy conditions?
Creators: name: Barcelo, Carlos
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tension, if not outright inconsistency, between quantum physics and general relativity is one of the great problems facing physics at the turn of the millennium. Most often, the problems arising in merging Einstein gravity and quantum physics are viewed as Planck scale issues (10^{19} GeV, 10^{-34} m, 10^{-45} s), and so safely beyond the reach of experiment. However, over the last few years it has become increasingly obvious that the difficulties are more widespread: There are already serious problems of deep and fundamental principle at the semi-classical level, and worse, certain classical systems (inspired by quantum physics, but in no sense quantum themselves) exhibit seriously pathological behaviour. One manifestation of these pathologies is in the so-called ``energy conditions'' of general relativity. Patching things up in the gravity sector opens gaping holes elsewhere; and some ``fixes'' are more radical than the problems they are supposed to cure.
description: Honourable mention in the 2002 Gravity Research Foundation essay contest. 12 pages. Plain LaTeX 2e
Additional file 2: Table S1. of Feature tracking CMR reveals abnormal strain in preclinical arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/ cardiomyopathy: a multisoftware feasibility and clinical implementation study
Creators: name: Mimount Bourfiss
name: Vigneault, Davis
name: Mounes Aliyari Ghasebeh
name: Murray, Brittney
name: James, Cynthia
name: Tichnell, Crystal
name: Hoesein, Firdaus Mohamed
name: Zimmerman, Stefan
name: Kamel, Ihab
name: Calkins, Hugh
name: Harikrishna Tandri
name: Velthuis, Birgitta
name: Bluemke, David
name: Anneline Te Riele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: RV average strain values stratified by diagnostic group, without exclusions based on tracking quality. (DOCX 47Â kb)
Transport coefficients and nonextensive statistics
Creators: name: Bezerra, J. R.
name: Silva, R.
name: Lima, J. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the basic transport phenomena in gases and plasmas obeying the $q$-nonextensive velocity distribution (power-law). Analytical expressions for the thermal conductivity ($K_q$) and viscosity ($η_q$) are derived by solving the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation-time approximation. The available experimental results to the ratio {$K_q$}/$η_q$ constrains the $q$-parameter on the interval $0.74 \leq q \leq 1$. In the extensive limiting case, the standard transport coefficients based on the local Gaussian distribution are recovered, and due to a surprising cancellation, the electric conductivity of a neutral plasma is not modified.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, REVTEX, submitted to PRE
Food vs. Nutrition security planning in Egypt: the social, economic and political concepts
Creators: name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: El-Asfahani, Aida
name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: El-Asfahani, Aida
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Political Economy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Food vs. Nutrition security planning in Egypt: the social
subject: economic
subject: political concepts
subject: Food

description: Journal of contemporary Egypt, number 411 - 412, Year 79, Jannuary - April, 1988, published by the Egyptian Society of political economy, statistics and legislation Cairo Egypt
Descent for non-archimedean analytic spaces
Creators: name: Conrad, Brian
name: Temkin, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study two types of descent in the category of Berkovich analytic spaces: flat descent and descent with respect to an extension of the ground field. Quite surprisingly, the deepest results in this direction seem to be of the second type, including the descent of properties of being a good analytic space and being a morphism without boundary.
description: 38 pages, final version, to appear in the Tunisian Journal of Mathematics
Eusarcus elinae Kury 2008
Creators: name: Hara, Marcos Ryotaro
name: Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Opiliones
Gonyleptidae
Eusarcus
Eusarcus elinae

description: Eusarcus elinae Kury
 Eusarcus elinae Kury 2008: 249, figs. 9–17 (ma holotype & 1 fe paratype; “ Caverna Pedra Furada, Sistema Lapa Doce; Iraquara; Bahia; Pedroso, D.R. & Bichuette, M.E. leg.; 31.iii.2005; MNRJ 17776 ”; examined).
 Material examined: BRAZIL. Bahia: Iraquara (Caverna Pedra Furada, Sistema Lapa Doce), Pedroso, D.R. & Bichuette, M.E. leg., 31.iii.2005, ma holotype & 1 fe paratype (MNRJ 17776).
 Diagnosis: E. elinae resembles E. aduncus, E. berlae, E. cavernicola, E. fulvus, E. signatus, E. sooretamae, E. mirabilis and E. sergipanus because of the conical prolateral median apophysis on the male trochanter IV, and can be distinguished by: The presence of PAM; ocularium with a pair of large tubercles; scutal area III with one median hump close to groove IV; posterior margin of prolateral apical apophysis of coxa IV without conspicuous projections; femur IV 1.5 times longer than dorsal scutum.
 Type locality: Brazil, Bahia, Iraquara, Lapa Doce.
 Geographical distribution: Known only from type locality.
 Note: As Kury (2008) suggested, this species is placed close to the species which formerly were in Metagraphinotus.
description: Published as part of Hara, Marcos Ryotaro & Pinto-Da-Rocha, Ricardo, 2010, Systematic review and cladistic analysis of the genus Eusarcus Perty 1833 (Arachnida, Opiliones, Gonyleptidae) 2698, pp. 1-136 in Zootaxa 2698 on page 56
YM on the dielectric brane: a D0-brane tale
Creators: name: Martucci, Luca
name: Silva, Pedro J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we present a derivation, from the D0-brane picture, of the background monopole field and in general of the full dynamics of the Yang-Mills theory on the dielectric D2-brane of Myers. To do this we study the large N limit of the fuzzy sphere relevant to the dielectric solution. In contrast to the usual interpretation, where the commutative D2-brane picture arises directly from the large N limit of the D0-brane picture, we find that a residual non-commutativity must be preserved, in order to make the connection by means of the Seiberg-Witten map.
description: 15 pages
NQontrol: An open-source platform for digital control-loops in quantum-optical experiments
Creators: name: Darsow-Fromm, Christian
name: Dekant, Luis
name: Grebien, Stephan
name: Schröder, Maik
name: Schnabel, Roman
name: Steinlechner, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments in quantum optics often require a large number of control loops, e.g. for length-stabilization of optical cavities and control of phase gates. These control loops are generally implemented using one of three approaches: commercial (digital) controllers, self-built analog circuitry, or custom solutions based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and microcontrollers. Each of these approaches has individual drawbacks, such as high cost, lack of scalability and flexibility, or high maintenance effort. Here we present NQontrol, a solution based on the ADwin digital control platform that delivers eight simultaneous locking loops running with 200 kHz sampling frequency, and offers five second-order filtering sections per channel for optimal control performance. A comprehensive software package written in Python, together with a web-based graphical user interface (GUI), makes the system as easy to use as commercial products, while giving the full flexibility of open-source platforms.
description: The following article has been submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments. After it is published, it will be found at https://aip.scitation.org/journal/rsi
MAKTABGACHA TA'LIM TIZIMIDA INKLYUZIV TA'LIM DOLZARB MUAMMO SIFATIDA
Creators: name: Yusupova, X.I.
name: Tursunova, N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada maktabgacha ta’lim tashkilotlarida inklyuziv ta’limni tashkil etishning ahamiyati, inklyuziv ta’lim tushunchasining mohiyati, uning bolalar ijtimoiy moslashuvi, individual rivojlanishi hamda jamiyatda bag‘rikenglikni shakllantirishdagi roli o‘rganilgan. Shuningdek, O‘zbekistonda inklyuziv ta’limni joriy etish tajribasi va istiqboldagi vazifalar, oila a'zolari va xodimlar o'rtasidagi munosabatlarning muhimligi bayon etilgan.
Green to Gold: barriers to and driving forces for biogas investments in Ukrainian agribusiness sector
Creators: name: Romets, Dmytro
name: Decker, Thomas
name: Menrad, Klaus
name: Romets, Dmytro
name: Decker, Thomas
name: Menrad, Klaus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Renewable energy investments
subject: organisations´ decision-making
subject: biogas technologies

description: Since 2009 Ukrainian Government has been planning to increase the share of renewable energies (RE) in the country´s energy mix and to promote the natural gas substitution by the use of biomass and biogas production. Notwithstanding their many environmental, economic and social advantages, after several years of policy making none of them have been implemented on large scale. The aim of this paper is to create insight into the underlying factors of this troublesome trajectory of biogas technologies in Ukrainian agribusiness sector and to shed new light on biogas investment decisions by large agricultural companies. We investigate the investment decisions of large-scale farms, with the objective to identify the main determinants of their choices. Our findings reveal that large-scale farms show related investment thresholds. Their investment decision regarding biogas is mainly driven by the projects´ capital costs and payback period. But the other important issue is the potential of energy cost reduction through natural gas substitution and a perceived need of waste recycling. Nevertheless, there are systemic problems that hamper investments in biogas in Ukraine, such as lack of capital, geopolitical uncertainty and investor´s perceived risk. The analysis provides several lessons to take into account when developing policies for the acceleration of the biogas production in the agricultural sector of Ukraine.
MOESM9 of A first genome assembly of the barley fungal pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres
Creators: name: Ellwood, Simon
name: Zhaohui Liu
name: Syme, Rob
name: Zhibing Lai
name: Hane, James
name: Keiper, Felicity
name: Moffat, Caroline
name: Oliver, Richard
name: Friesen, Timothy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Authorsâ original file for figure 3
Two Time Correlation For A Noise Driven Double-Well Oscillator In The Suzuki Regime
Creators: name: Bose, Suvadeep
name: Samui, Saumyadip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the two time correlation for the noise driven dynamics of the double-well oscillator in the Suzuki regime. It is seen that for very small noise strength the correaltion function shows a lack of translational invariance for very long times characterised by the Suzuki scaling variable. We see that in this strongly out-of-equilibrium situation, the conventional mode-coupling approximation is not a convenient tool.
description: 8 pages, no figure
Conservation Laws in Doubly Special Relativity
Creators: name: Judes, Simon
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by various theoretical arguments that the Planck energy (Ep - 10^19 GeV) - should herald departures from Lorentz invariance, and the possibility of testing these expectations in the not too distant future, two so-called "Doubly Special Relativity" theories have been suggested -- the first by Amelino-Camelia (DSR1) and the second by Smolin and Magueijo (DSR2). These theories contain two fundamental scales -- the speed of light and an energy usually taken to be Ep. The symmetry group is still the Lorentz group, but in both cases acting nonlinearly on the energy-momentum sector. Accordingly, since energy and momentum are no longer additive quantities, finding their values for composite systems (and hence finding the correct conservation laws) is a nontrivial matter. Ultimately it is these possible deviations from simple linearly realized relativistic kinematics that provide the most promising observational signal for empirically testing these models. Various investigations have narrowed the conservation laws down to two possibilities per DSR theory. We derive unique exact results for the energy-momentum of composite systems in both DSR1 and DSR2, and indicate the general strategy for arbitrary nonlinear realizations of the Lorentz group.
description: V2: Extensive revisions: merged with gr-qc/0205093, new author added, references added, discussion amplified. 4 pages, revtex4; V3: Revised in response to referee comments; no physics changes; version to appear in Physical Review D
Max-min Fairness of K-user Cooperative Rate-Splitting in MISO Broadcast Channel with User Relaying
Creators: name: Mao, Yijie
name: Clerckx, Bruno
name: Zhang, Jian
name: Li, Victor O. K.
name: Arafah, Mohammed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cooperative Rate-Splitting (CRS) strategy, relying on linearly precoded rate-splitting at the transmitter and opportunistic transmission of the common message by the relaying user, has recently been shown to outperform typical Non-cooperative Rate-Splitting (NRS), Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (C-NOMA) and Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) in a two-user Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) Broadcast Channel (BC) with user relaying. In this work, the existing two-user CRS transmission strategy is generalized to the K-user case. We study the problem of jointly optimizing the precoders, message split, time slot allocation, and relaying user scheduling with the objective of maximizing the minimum rate among users. An efficient self-organizing relaying protocol is first proposed followed by a Successive Convex Approximation (SCA)-based algorithm to jointly optimize time slot, precoders and message split. Numerical results show that the worst-case achievable rate achieved by CRS is significantly increased over that of NRS and SDMA in a wide range of network loads and user deployments. Importantly, the proposed SCA-based algorithm dramatically reduces the computational complexity without any rate loss compared with the conventional algorithm in the literature of CRS. Therefore, we conclude that the proposed K-user CRS is more powerful than the existing transmission schemes.
description: accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Agriculture in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Tariffs, Tariff-Rate Quotas, and Non-Tariff Measures
Creators: name: Beckman, Jayson
name: Arita, Shawn
name: Mitchell, Lorraine
name: Burfisher, Mary
name: Beckman, Jayson
name: Arita, Shawn
name: Mitchell, Lorraine
name: Burfisher, Mary
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Agricultural trade
subject: trade Agreement
subject: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
subject: T-TIP
subject: computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
subject: non-tariff measures (NTMs)
subject: gravity model
subject: United States
subject: European Union
subject: tariff rate quotas (TRQs)

description: The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) between the United States and the European Union (EU) aims to address several important barriers facing agricultural trade, including tariffs, tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), and non-tariff measures (NTMs). Estimated ad valorem tariff equivalents of tariffs/TRQs and NTMs currently in place are as high as 120 percent, significantly limiting trade between the two regions. This study uses model simulations to assess the effects of T-TIP on agriculture under three broad scenarios: complete removal of tariffs and TRQs; elimination of select NTMs along with tariffs and TRQs; and a lowering of the willingness of consumers to purchase imported goods previously limited by NTMs. Results of all scenarios suggest an increase in U.S.-EU agricultural trade from T-TIP, benefiting both regions. While the United States realizes a relative increase in agricultural exports, the EU benefits from lower import prices and larger macroeconomic gains than the United States. The estimated annual increase in U.S.-EU agricultural trade ranges from $6.3 billion to $11.6 billion when compared with the 2011 base year.
Reformulating competition? Gasoline content regulation and wholesale gasoline prices
Creators: name: Brown, Jennifer
name: Hastings, Justine
name: Mansur, Erin T.
name: Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
name: Brown, Jennifer
name: Hastings, Justine
name: Mansur, Erin T.
name: Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: environmental economics
subject: fuel requirements
subject: gasoline
subject: oligopoly
subject: prices
subject: regulations

description: Revised from an earlier version from January 2006. Published in JEEM v. 55:1, January 2008.
A methodology for generating disaggregate truck data for Texas' statewide analysis model
Creators: name: Mani, Akshay
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Trucking--Texas
subject: Information storage and retrieval systems--Freight and freightage

description: The following research describes a novel approach for generating disaggregate county-level truck data for Texas from publicly available freight data sources. County-level truck flows are required as inputs to the Statewide Analysis Model (SAM), a multi-modal freight planning model developed by the Texas Department of Transportation, to analyze the freight system performance and make critical infrastructure improvement decisions. TxDOT currently relies on the commercial Reebie Associates’ TRANSEARCH database for inputs to the SAM, since it is the only available freight data source providing comprehensive county-level truck flow data for Texas. However, the sources, methodology, and assumptions used in compiling the database are proprietary, which have raised questions regarding the reliability of the data. Since statewide primary freight data collection is an expensive and time-consuming process, there is a need for methods to extract disaggregated data from secondary freight data sources. The current research addresses this need by developing a model to generate county-level truck flows for Texas from the publicly available Commodity Flow Survey. The methodology is applied to compute inter-county, county-to-state and state-to-county truck flows for Texas for nine major commodity categories. Though the generated truck data suffer from certain limitations associated with the CFS, the approach provides a cost-effective means of estimating county-level truck flows in Texas, of which the limitations, assumptions and measures of reliability are well documented
Supplementary document for Hemispherical harmonic illumination and reflectance angular spectrum - 6729724.pdf
Creators: name: Zheng, Yi
name: Lin, Lin
name: Ding, Changpeng
name: Hou, Yonghui
name: Li, Xiaofei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hemispherical harmonic illumination and reflectance angular spectrum
Gauge-invariant ideals of C*-algebras of Boolean dynamical systems
Creators: name: Carlsen, Toke Meier
name: Kang, Eun Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L05, 46L55

description: We enlarge the class of $C^*$-algebras of Boolean dynamical systems in order to include all weakly left-resolving normal labelled space $C^*$-algebras in it. We prove a gauge-invariant uniqueness theorem and classify all gauge-invariant ideals of these $C^*$-algebras of generalized Boolean dynamical systems and describe the corresponding quotients as $C^*$-algebras of relative generalized Boolean dynamical systems.
description: 28 pages. Version 2 is a slightly revised version of version 1, and is the version that was published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. In version 2 (and the published version), there were some small mistakes on page 24 and in the proof of Lemma 7.2.(2) on page 25. They have been corrected in version 3 (see also https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2020.124754)
MOESM6 of A first genome assembly of the barley fungal pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres
Creators: name: Ellwood, Simon
name: Zhaohui Liu
name: Syme, Rob
name: Zhibing Lai
name: Hane, James
name: Keiper, Felicity
name: Moffat, Caroline
name: Oliver, Richard
name: Friesen, Timothy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 6: AFLP di-nucleotide selective primer extensions and their codes. (DOCX 11 KB)
Open strings in the plane wave background II: Superalgebras and Spectra
Creators: name: Skenderis, Kostas
name: Taylor, Marika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In hep-th/0211011 we started a systematic investigation of open strings in the plane wave background. In this paper we continue the analysis by discussing the superalgebras of conserved charges, the spectra of open strings, and the spectra of DBI fluctuations around D-brane embeddings. We also derive the gluing conditions for corresponding boundary states and analyze their symmetries. All results are consistent with each other, and confirm the existence of additional supersymmetries as previously discussed. We further show that for every symmetry current one can construct a (countably) infinite number of related currents that contain more worldsheet derivatives, and discuss non-local symmetries.
description: 48 pages
A Generalized Worst-Case Complexity Analysis for Non-Monotone Line Searches
Creators: name: Grapiglia, Geovani N.
name: Sachs, Ekkehard W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the worst-case complexity of a non-monotone line search framework that covers a wide variety of known techniques published in the literature. In this framework, the non-monotonicity is controlled by a sequence of nonnegative parameters. We obtain complexity bounds to achieve approximate first-order optimality even when this sequence is not summable.
Non-perturbative dynamics of the operator size distribution in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
Creators: name: Lucas, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove non-perturbative bounds on the time evolution of the probability distribution of operator size in the $q$-local Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with $N$ fermions, for any even integer $q>2$ and any positive even integer $N>2q$. If the couplings in the Hamiltonian are independent and identically distributed Rademacher random variables, the infinite temperature many-body Lyapunov exponent is almost surely finite as $N\rightarrow\infty$. In the limit $q \rightarrow \infty$, $N\rightarrow \infty$, $q^{6+δ}/N \rightarrow 0$, the shape of the size distribution of a growing fermion, obtained by leading order perturbation calculations in $1/N$ and $1/q$, is similar to a distribution that locally saturates our constraints. Our proof is not based on Feynman diagram resummation; instead, we note that the operator size distribution obeys a continuous time quantum walk with bounded transition rates, to which we apply concentration bounds from classical probability theory.
description: 23 pages. v2: published version
MOESM7 of A first genome assembly of the barley fungal pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres
Creators: name: Ellwood, Simon
name: Zhaohui Liu
name: Syme, Rob
name: Zhibing Lai
name: Hane, James
name: Keiper, Felicity
name: Moffat, Caroline
name: Oliver, Richard
name: Friesen, Timothy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Authorsâ original file for figure 1
Quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors: dimensional crossover and some puzzles
Creators: name: Biermann, S.
name: Georges, A.
name: Giamarchi, T.
name: Lichtenstein, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some properties of quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors, such as the Bechgaard salts, with an emphasis on aspects related to the crossovers between a Mott insulating state to a metallic state, and crossovers between different metallic behaviors. We discuss why a theoretical description of these issues is a particularly challenging problem, and describe a recent non-perturbative approach designed to deal with systems of coupled chains. This method, dubbed "chain-DMFT", is a generalization of dynamical mean field theory that treats both, one-dimensional and higher dimensional physics, in a unified manner. We present numerical results for a system of coupled Hubbard chains. Chain-DMFT indeed captures the metal-insulator transition and the dimensional crossover from a high temperature Luttinger liquid to a low temperature Fermi liquid phase, and allows to access the properties of these phases. Based on these results perspectives for a theoretical understanding of the physics of the Bechgaard salts are discussed.
Situated Transfers: Coordinating water-sensitive in-situ upgrading with inhabitant-led housing development in Indonesian urban kampung
Creators: name: JOSEY, BRENDAN CLYDE
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330102
subject: Architectural design
classificationCode: 330314
subject: Sustainable design
classificationCode: 330411
subject: Urban design

description: This study examines intersections between inhabitant-led incremental housing development and water-sensitive in-situ upgrading in six urban kampung (informal settlements) participating in the Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) program in Makassar, Indonesia. It examines how ‘top-down’ water-sensitive revitalisation interventions are best coordinated with ‘bottom-up’ inhabitant-led housing development processes. The research reveals ways in which inhabitant-led kampung development (including incremental dwelling accretions, dwelling adaptations, and ad-hoc infrastructure construction) interacts with the design and planned implementation of the RISE infrastructure and provides an evidence base to strengthen decision making for in-situ revitalisation interventions, and to support strategic thinking for future inhabitant-led adaptation in Indonesian kampung.
Frame Covariance in Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Finn, Kieran
name: Karamitsos, Sotirios
name: Pilaftsis, Apostolos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a quantum effective action for scalar-tensor theories of gravity which is both spacetime diffeomorphism invariant and field reparameterisation (frame) invariant beyond the classical approximation. We achieve this by extending the Vilkovisky-DeWitt formalism, treating both the scalar fields and the components of the gravitational tensor field as coordinates describing a manifold. By using tensors covariant under diffeomorphisms of this manifold, we show that scalar-tensor theories can be written in a form that is manifestly frame invariant at both classical and quantum levels. In~the same context, we show that in order to maintain manifest frame invariance, we must modify the Feynman rules of theories with a non-trivial field space. We show that one such theory is General Relativity by demonstrating explicitly that it has a non-zero field-space Riemann tensor. Thus, when constructing theories of quantum gravity, we must deal not only with curved spacetime, but also with a curved field space. Finally, we address the cosmological frame problem by tracing its origin to the existence of a new model function that appears in the path integral measure. Once this function is fixed, we find that frame transformations have no effect on the quantisation of the theory. The uniqueness of our improved quantum effective action is discussed.
description: 50 pages V2: typos corrected, additional references added V3: Arguments clarified in response to referee report. V4: title changed, further clarifications on the uniqueness of the VDW effective action added, to appear in PRD
Structure and Evolution of Galaxy Clusters: Internal Dynamics of ABCG 209 at z~0.21
Creators: name: Mercurio, A.
name: Girardi, M.
name: Boschin, W.
name: Merluzzi, P.
name: Busarello, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the internal dynamics of the rich galaxy cluster ABGC 209 on the basis of new spectroscopic and photometric data. The distribution in redshift shows that ABCG 209 is a well isolated peak of 112 detected member galaxies at z=0.209, characterised by a high value of the line-of-sight velocity dispersion, sigma_v=1250-1400 Km/s, on the whole observed area (1 Mpc/h from the cluster center), that leads to a virial mass of M=1.6-2.2x10^15 M_sun within the virial radius, assuming the dynamical equilibrium. The presence of a velocity gradient in the velocity field, the elongation in the spatial distribution of the colour-selected likely cluster members, the elongation of the X-ray contour levels in the Chandra image, and the elongation of cD galaxy show that ABCG 209 is characterised by a preferential NW-SE direction. We also find a significant deviation of the velocity distribution from a Gaussian, and relevant evidence of substructure and dynamical segregation. All these facts show that ABCG 209 is a strongly evolving cluster, possibly in an advanced phase of merging.
description: 26 pages, 14 figures. A&A in press
The third Milgram-Priddy class lifts
Creators: name: Szymik, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the third cohomology of the finite general linear group $GL_6(\mathbb{F}_2)$ with trivial mod 2 coefficients is non-zero. The necessarily unique non-trivial element restricts to the third Milgram-Priddy class.
description: 7 pages
MOESM4 of A first genome assembly of the barley fungal pathogen Pyrenophora teres f. teres
Creators: name: Ellwood, Simon
name: Zhaohui Liu
name: Syme, Rob
name: Zhibing Lai
name: Hane, James
name: Keiper, Felicity
name: Moffat, Caroline
name: Oliver, Richard
name: Friesen, Timothy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Solexa read coverage of BACs 1H13 and 8F17. (DOCX 205 KB)
ChainerRL: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Library
Creators: name: Fujita, Yasuhiro
name: Nagarajan, Prabhat
name: Kataoka, Toshiki
name: Ishikawa, Takahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce ChainerRL, an open-source deep reinforcement learning (DRL) library built using Python and the Chainer deep learning framework. ChainerRL implements a comprehensive set of DRL algorithms and techniques drawn from state-of-the-art research in the field. To foster reproducible research, and for instructional purposes, ChainerRL provides scripts that closely replicate the original papers' experimental settings and reproduce published benchmark results for several algorithms. Lastly, ChainerRL offers a visualization tool that enables the qualitative inspection of trained agents. The ChainerRL source code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/chainer/chainerrl.
description: Journal of Machine Learning Research
Elastic-to-plastic crossover below the peak effect in the vortex solid of YBa2Cu3O7 single crystals
Creators: name: Valenzuela, Sergio O.
name: Maiorov, Boris
name: Osquiguil, Eduardo
name: Bekeris, Victoria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on transport and ac susceptibility studies below the peak effect in twinned YBa2Cu3O7 single crystals. We find that disorder generated at the peak effect can be partially inhibited by forcing vortices to move with an ac driving current. The vortex system can be additionally ordered below a well-defined temperature where elastic interactions between vortices overcome pinning-generated stress and a plastic to elastic crossover seems to occur. The combined effect of these two processes results in vortex structures with different mobilities that give place to history effects.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Published in PRB Rapid Comm., February 1, 2002
The Learning Sciences and the Core Content Framework for Initial Teacher Training
Creators: name: McMahon, Kendra
name: Lee, Alison
name: Etchells, Peter
name: Howarth, Lisa
name: Humphreys, Kate
name: McKay, Darren
name: Arblaster, Emma
name: Asprey, Emma
name: Kerry-Anne Barber
name: Salter, Lynn
Publisher: name: BathSPAdata
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This document aims to support teacher educators who are planning and implementing a curriculum in line with the Core Content Framework for Initial Teacher Education (CCF) in England but is also of wider relevance. It interprets statements (in the CCF) of what trainee teachers should learn by exploring research from the 'Learning Sciences', drawing particularly on cognitive psychology and neuroscience. The intention is to expand possibilities for understanding learning in relation to existing educational perspectives.
Utilising the internet of things concepts to improve the resource efficiency of food manufacturing
Creators: name: Jagtap, Sandeep
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: This thesis reports on the research undertaken to increase the sustainability of food manufacturing by reducing the solid Food waste generation, as well as Energy and Water (FEW) consumptions through applications based of Internet of Things (IoT) concepts. The primary objective of this research is to develop an IoT-based framework, which identifies and collects the key data regarding FEW within food manufacturing. The other objective is to design and implement a decision support tool using appropriate and existing hardware and software to aid the stakeholders with the choice of the most effective solution to reduce the FEW within food manufacturing processes. [Continues.]
Quantum geometrodynamical description of the Universe in different reference frames
Creators: name: Shestakova, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several years ago the so-called quantum geometrodynamics in extended phase space was proposed. The main role in this version of quantum geometrodynamics is given to a wave function that carries information about geometry of the Universe as well as about a reference frame in which this geometry is studied. We consider the evolution of a physical object (the Universe) in ``physical'' subspace of extended configurational space, the latter including gauge and ghost degrees of freedom. A measure of the ``physical'' subspace depends on a chosen reference frame, in particular, a small variation of a gauge-fixing function results in changing the measure. Thus, a transition to another gauge condition (another reference frame) leads to non-unitary transformation of a physical part of the wave function. From the viewpoint of the evolution of the Universe in the ``physical'' subspace a transition to another reference frame is an irreversible process that may be important when spacetime manifold has a nontrivial topology.
description: LaTeX, 6 pages, talk presented at the V International Conference on Gravitation and Astrophysics of Asian-Pacific countries, Moscow, October 2001
Rigorous derivation of a linear sixth-order thin-film equation as a reduced model for thin fluid -- thin structure interaction problems
Creators: name: Bukal, Mario
name: Muha, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35M30, 35Q30, 35Q74, 76D05, 76D08

description: We analyze a linear 3D/3D fluid-structure interaction problem between a thin layer of a viscous fluid and a thin elastic plate-like structure with the aim of deriving a simplified reduced model. Based on suitable energy dissipation inequalities quantified in terms of two small parameters, thickness of the fluid layer and thickness of the elastic structure, we identify the right relation between the system coefficients and small parameters which eventually provide a reduced model on the vanishing limit. The reduced model is a linear sixth-order thin-film equation describing the out-of-plane displacement of the structure, which is justified in terms of weak convergence results relating its solution to the solutions of the original fluid-structure interaction problem. Furthermore, approximate solutions to the fluid-structure interaction problem are reconstructed from the reduced model and quantitative error estimates are obtained, which provide even strong convergence results.
Supplementary document for Dual-exposure temporal laser speckle imaging for simultaneously accessing microvascular blood perfusion and angiography - 6848566.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Ruolan
name: Ma, Minghui
name: Wang, Chen
name: hong, jiachi
name: Zhang, Zhihong
name: Lu, Jinling
name: Li, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Document provide additional formula derivations and images.