cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Law and Economics of Habitat Conservation: Lessons from an Analysis of Easement Acquisitions
Creators: name: Boyd, James
name: Caballero, Kathryn
name: Simpson, R. David
name: Boyd, James
name: Caballero, Kathryn
name: Simpson, R. David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: habitat conservation
subject: conservation easements
subject: land use policy

description: There is a growing interest in incentive-based policies to motivate conservation by landowners. These policies include full- and partial-interest land purchases, tax-based incentives, and tradable or bankable development rights. Using legal and economic analysis, the paper explores potential pitfalls associated with the use of such policies. Incentive-based policies promise to improve the cost effectiveness of habitat preservation, but only if long-run implementation issues are meaningfully addressed. While we compare conservation policies, particular attention is devoted to the use of conservation easements and in particular a set of easement contracts and transactions in the state of Florida. The easement analysis highlights the importance of conservation policies' interactions with property markets, land management practices, and bureaucratic incentives. Specific challenges include difficulties associated with the long-term enforcement and monitoring of land use restrictions, the lack of market prices as indicators of value for appraisal, and the way in which incentives target specific properties for protection.
Apparent phonon side band modes in pi-conjugated systems: polymers, oligomers and crystals
Creators: name: Ehrenfreund, E.
name: Wu, C. C.
name: Vardeny, Z. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emission spectra of many pi-conjugated polymers and oligomers contain side-band replicas with apparent frequencies that do not match the Raman active mode frequencies. Using a time dependent model we show that in such many mode systems, the increased damping of the time dependent transition dipole moment correlation function results in an effective elimination of the vibrational modes from the emission spectrum; subsequently causing the appearance of a regularly spaced progression at a new apparent frequency. We use this damping dependent vibrational reshaping to quantitatively account for the vibronic structure in the emission spectra of pi-conjugated systems in the form of films, dilute solutions and single crystals. In particular, we show that by using the experimentally measured Raman spectrum we can account in detail for the apparent progression frequencies and their relative intensities in the emission spectrum.
description: Presented in "Optical Probes 2005", Bangalore, India
Unique positive solutions to $q$-discrete equations associated with orthogonal polynomials
Creators: name: Latimer, Tomas Lasic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Boelen et al. (2010) deduced a $q$-discrete Painlevé equation satisfied by the recurrence coefficients of orthogonal polynomials and conjectured that the equation had a unique positive solution. We prove their conjecture and discuss related work in the area, highlighting a potentially unifying methodology.
description: Final version will be published in Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 13 pages, 0 figures
Integrierte Modellierung und Optimierung von Bewässerungssystemen im Feld- und Einzugsgebietsmaßstab bei limitierten Wasserressourcen
Creators: name: Schütze, Niels
Publisher: name: Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Koblenz
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Water resources research

description: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung / BfG – Jahrgang: 60.2016,1 - ISSN 1439-1783
Integrierte Modellierung von Wasserdargebot und Wasserbedarf am Beispiel der Bewässerungslandwirtschaft in Sachsen
Creators: name: Wagner, Michael
Publisher: name: Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Koblenz
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Water resources research

description: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung / BfG – Jahrgang: 60.2016,1 - ISSN 1439-1783
Superballistic electron flow through a point contact in a Ga[Al]As heterostructure
Creators: name: Ginzburg, Lev V.
name: Gold, Carolin
name: Röösli, Marc P.
name: Reichl, Christian
name: Berl, Matthias
name: Wegscheider, Werner
name: Ihn, Thomas
name: Ensslin, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure electronic transport through point contacts in the high-mobility electron gas in a Ga[Al]As heterostructure at different temperatures and bulk electron densities. The conductance through all point contacts increases with increasing temperature in a temperature window around $T \sim 10 K$ for all investigated electron densities and point contact widths. For high electron densities this conductance exceeds the fundamental ballistic limit (Sharvin limit). These observations are in agreement with a viscous electron transport model and previous experiments in graphene.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Measuring the Contribution to the Economy of Investments in Renewable Energy: Estimates of Future Consumer Gains
Creators: name: MacAuley, Molly K.
name: Shih, Jhih-Shyang
name: Aronow, Emily
name: Austin, David H.
name: Bath, Tom
name: Darmstadter, Joel
name: MacAuley, Molly K.
name: Shih, Jhih-Shyang
name: Aronow, Emily
name: Austin, David H.
name: Bath, Tom
name: Darmstadter, Joel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: energy economics
subject: technical change

description: In this paper we develop a cost index-based measure of the expected consumer welfare gains from innovation in electricity generation technologies. To illustrate our approach, we estimate how much better off consumers would be from 2000 to 2020 as renewable energy technologies continue to be improved and gradually adopted, compared with a counterfactual scenario that allows for continual improvement of conventional technology. We proceed from the position that the role and prospects of renewable energy are best assessed within a market setting that considers competing energy technologies and sources. We evaluate five renewable energy technologies used to generate electricity: solar photovoltaics, solar thermal, geothermal, wind, and biomass. For each, we assume an accelerated adoption rate due to technological advances, and we evaluate the benefits against a baseline technology, combined-cycle gas turbine, which experts cite as the conventional technology most likely to be installed as incremental capacity over the next decade. We evaluate benefits against both the conventional combined-cycle gas turbine prevalent at this time and a more advanced combined-cycle gas turbine expected to be employed during the coming decade. We estimate the model for two geographic regions of the nation for which renewable energy is, or can be expected to be, a somewhat sizable portion of the electricity market-California and the north central United States. In present-value terms we find that median consumer welfare gains over 20 years vary markedly among the renewable technologies, ranging from large negative values (welfare losses) to large positive values (welfare gains). The effect of uncertainty can lead to estimates that are 20% to 40% larger or smaller than median predicted values. Our results suggest that portfolios that give equal weight to the use of each generation technology are likely to lead to consumer losses in our regions, regardless of the role of the externalities that we consider. However, when the portfolio is more heavily weighted toward certain renewables, consumer gains can be positive.
Untersuchung möglicher Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf den Wasserhaushalt in Sachsen : Lösungsansätze, Analyse Ist-Zustand, Daten- und Parametermodell, Modelltest
Creators: name: Schwarze, Robert
Publisher: name: Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Koblenz
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Water resources research

description: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung / BfG – Jahrgang: 60.2016,1 - ISSN 1439-1783
Strategie zur Kalibrierung großräumiger Wasserhaushaltsmodelle sowie Ergebnisse für Ist-Zustand und Klimaszenarien in Sachsen
Creators: name: Hauffe, Corina
Publisher: name: Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Koblenz
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Water resources research

description: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung / BfG – Jahrgang: 60.2016,1 - ISSN 1439-1783
Practical logic : curriculum structures in an adult education program
Creators: name: St. Clair, William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This case study examines influences on the selection and delivery of knowledge in the employment preparation provision of a trade union in British Columbia. Bernstein's theories of curricular code and Bourdieu's perspectives on social and cultural capital are used to analyse data collected by interviews, observation, and documentary analysis. The emergent themes are organisational structure, pedagogic practice, diversity and difference, and the good employee ideal, with each of these demonstrating the tension between the philosophical orientation of the organisation, as a representative of the labour movement, and the demands of the funding and policy structures within which it operates. Analysis illustrates the way curriculum is shaped by forces external to the immediate educational setting, the most pervasive being the requirement to function as an effective means of transferring cultural and social capital to unemployed people. The possibility of using employment preparation as a mechanism to achieve progressive ends is severely limited by the need to acknowledge the priorities of funders, administrators, learners, and the neo-liberal backdrop against which the programs operate. The study implies approaches to curriculum emphasising decisions taken by instructors and learners mask wider structural influences on knowledge formation, and more research on the sociology of knowledge in adult education is called for.
FUSE Measurements of Far Ultraviolet Extinction. II. Magellanic Cloud Sight Lines
Creators: name: Cartledge, Stefan I. B.
name: Clayton, Geoffrey C.
name: Gordon, Karl D.
name: Rachford, Brian L.
name: Draine, B. T.
name: Martin, P. G.
name: Mathis, John S.
name: Misselt, K. A.
name: Sofia, Ulysses J.
name: Whittet, D. C. B.
name: Wolff, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extinction analysis of 9 paths through the LMC and SMC based on FUSE observations. To date, just two LMC sight lines have probed dust grain composition and size distributions in the Clouds using spectra including wavelengths as short as 950 A. We supplement these with results from 4 regions distinguished by their IR through UV extinction curves and grouped as LMCAvg, LMC2, SMC bar and SMC wing. Despite the distinct characters of Milky Way and Magellanic Cloud extinction, our results are generally analogous to those found for Galactic curves in that the FUSE portions of each extinction curve are described reasonably well by FM curves fitted only to longer wavelength data and lack any dramatic new extinction features, and any deviations from the CCM formalism continue into FUV wavelengths. An MEM analysis of these curves suggests that LMCAvg and SMC wing sight lines require more silicon and/or carbon in dust than current abundance measurements would allow, while the requirements for LMC2 and SMC bar sight lines do not fully tax the available reservoirs. An intermediate product of this analysis is the measurement of new H_2 abundances in the Magellanic Clouds. Collectively considering Cloud sight lines that possess significant H_2 column densities, E(B-V)/N(HI) ratios are reduced by significant factors relative to the Galactic mean, whereas the corresponding E(B-V)/N(H_2) values more closely resemble their Galactic counterpart. These trends reflect the fact that among these sight lines f(H_2)-values are lower than those common in the Milky Way for paths with similar degrees of reddening.
description: 40 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Study of Light Compaction-Equipment for Maintenance Patching
Creators: name: Florence, Robert L.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1962
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Patching pot-holes and resurfacing small areas of pavement entail certain compaction-equipment difficulties for the maintenance crews. Areas in need of repair are often small but may be widely scattered. Large steel-wheeled rollers are difficult to transport from one location to another and tend to bridge across small, deep pot-holes. The bridging effect can be reduced by use of small rollers or pneumatictired rollers, which conform better to the area to be patched. The efficiency of a patching crew depends greatly upon its mobility. The compaction equipment, therefore, should be portable, should conform to the area to be repaired, and should produce adequate density.  At the request of the Maintenance Division, we observed the construction of a test section and evaluated the densities achieved by several small self-propelled rollers. A section of roadway located on the University of Kentucky's Spindletop Farm was selected for the test project. This location provided a low traffic volume, and a uniform base condition. The road was closed by a gate, and it was possible to keep traffic off the test section until all samples had been obtained.
Quantum information with Gaussian states
Creators: name: Wang, X. -B.
name: Hiroshima, T.
name: Tomita, A.
name: Hayashi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum optical Gaussian states are a type of important robust quantum states which are manipulatable by the existing technologies. So far, most of the important quantum information experiments are done with such states, including bright Gaussian light and weak Gaussian light. Extending the existing results of quantum information with discrete quantum states to the case of continuous variable quantum states is an interesting theoretical job. The quantum Gaussian states play a central role in such a case. We review the properties and applications of Gaussian states in quantum information with emphasis on the fundamental concepts, the calculation techniques and the effects of imperfections of the real-life experimental setups. Topics here include the elementary properties of Gaussian states and relevant quantum information device, entanglement-based quantum tasks such as quantum teleportation, quantum cryptography with weak and strong Gaussian states and the quantum channel capacity, mathematical theory of quantum entanglement and state estimation for Gaussian states.
description: 170 pages. Minors of the published version are corrected and listed in the Acknowledgement part of this version
Read This Paper Later: Procrastination with Time-Consistent Preferences
Creators: name: Fischer, Carolyn
name: Fischer, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: procrastination
subject: natural resource economics

description: A model of time-consistent procrastination is developed to assess the extent to which the observed behavior is compatible with rational behavior. When a finite work requirement must be completed by a deadline, the remaining time for leisure is an exhaustible resource. With a positive rate of time preference, the optimal allocation of this resource results in more hours spent working (and fewer in leisure) the closer the deadline. Key qualitative findings of psychological studies of academic procrastination are consistent with the standard natural resource management principles implied by the model, when suitably adapted to task aversiveness, uncertainty, and multiple deadlines. However, quantitatively, the fully rational model requires an extremely high rate of time preference or elasticity of intertemporal substitution to generate serious procrastination; furthermore, it cannot explain undesired procrastination. A companion paper, "Read This Paper Even Later: Procrastination with Time Inconsistent Preferences" analyzes the extent to which alternative time discounting preferences can better explain such impatience and address the issue of self-control failures.
Upper limit on the photon fraction in highest-energy cosmic rays from AGASA data
Creators: name: Risse, M.
name: Homola, P.
name: Engel, R.
name: Gora, D.
name: Heck, D.
name: Pekala, J.
name: Wilczynska, B.
name: Wilczynski, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method to derive an upper limit on photon primaries from small data sets of air showers is developed which accounts for shower properties varying with the primary energy and arrival direction. Applying this method to the highest-energy showers recorded by the AGASA experiment, an upper limit on the photon fraction of 51% (67%) at a confidence level of 90% (95%) for primary energies above 1.25 * 10^20 eV is set. This new limit on the photon fraction above the GZK cutoff energy constrains the Z-burst model of the origin of highest-energy cosmic rays.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Analysis extended to account for primary energy resolution; conclusions unchanged. Accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett
The MAGPI Survey -- science goals, design, observing strategy, early results and theoretical framework
Creators: name: Foster, C.
name: Mendel, J. T.
name: Lagos, C. D. P.
name: Wisnioski, E.
name: Yuan, T.
name: D'Eugenio, F.
name: Barone, T. M.
name: Harborne, K. E.
name: Vaughan, S. P.
name: Schulze, F.
name: Remus, R. -S.
name: Gupta, A.
name: Collacchioni, F.
name: Khim, D. J.
name: Taylor, P.
name: Bassett, R.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: McDermid, R. M.
name: Poci, A.
name: Battisti, A. J.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Bellstedt, S.
name: Colless, M.
name: Davies, L. J. M.
name: Derkenne, C.
name: Driver, S.
name: Ferré-Mateu, A.
name: Fisher, D. B.
name: Gjergo, E.
name: Johnston, E. J.
name: Khalid, A.
name: Kobayashi, C.
name: Oh, S.
name: Peng, Y.
name: Robotham, A. S. G.
name: Sharda, P.
name: Sweet, S. M.
name: Taylor, E. N.
name: Tran, K. -V. H.
name: Trayford, J. W.
name: van de Sande, J.
name: Yi, S. K.
name: Zanisi, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an overview of the Middle Ages Galaxy Properties with Integral Field Spectroscopy (MAGPI) survey, a Large Program on ESO/VLT. MAGPI is designed to study the physical drivers of galaxy transformation at a lookback time of 3-4 Gyr, during which the dynamical, morphological, and chemical properties of galaxies are predicted to evolve significantly. The survey uses new medium-deep adaptive optics aided MUSE observations of fields selected from the GAMA survey, providing a wealth of publicly available ancillary multi-wavelength data. With these data, MAGPI will map the kinematic and chemical properties of stars and ionised gas for a sample of 60 massive (> 7 x 10^10 M_Sun) central galaxies at 0.25 < z <0.35 in a representative range of environments (isolated, groups and clusters). The spatial resolution delivered by MUSE with Ground Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO, 0.6-0.8 arcsec FWHM) will facilitate a direct comparison with Integral Field Spectroscopy surveys of the nearby Universe, such as SAMI and MaNGA, and at higher redshifts using adaptive optics, e.g. SINS. In addition to the primary (central) galaxy sample, MAGPI will deliver resolved and unresolved spectra for as many as 150 satellite galaxies at 0.25 < z <0.35, as well as hundreds of emission-line sources at z < 6. This paper outlines the science goals, survey design, and observing strategy of MAGPI. We also present a first look at the MAGPI data, and the theoretical framework to which MAGPI data will be compared using the current generation of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations including EAGLE, Magneticum, HORIZON-AGN, and Illustris-TNG. Our results show that cosmological hydrodynamical simulations make discrepant predictions in the spatially resolved properties of galaxies at z ~ 0.3. MAGPI observations will place new constraints and allow for tangible improvements in galaxy formation theory.
description: 31 pages, 13 figures, PASA accepted
Boundary supersymmetry of 1+1 d fermionic SPT phases
Creators: name: Prakash, Abhishodh
name: Wang, Juven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that the boundaries of all non-trivial 1+1 dimensional intrinsically fermionic symmetry-protected-topological phases, protected by finite on-site symmetries (unitary or anti-unitary), are supersymmetric quantum mechanical systems. This supersymmetry does not require any fine-tuning of the underlying Hamiltonian, arises entirely as a consequence of the boundary 't Hooft anomaly that classifies the phase and is related to a `Bose-Fermi' degeneracy different in nature from other well known degeneracies such as Kramers doublets.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Minor changes, close to published version
Nybyoceras Troedsson 1926
Creators: name: Kröger, Björn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Cephalopoda
Actinoceratida
Armenoceratidae
Nybyoceras

description: Genus Nybyoceras Troedsson, 1926
Type species
Actinoceras (Nybyoceras) bekkeri Troedsson, 1926 from Niibi, Estonia, Pirgu Regional Stage, late Katian; by original designation.
Diagnosis
Slender straight shell, eccentric siphuncle; adnation areas broad ventrally on posterior side of segments; dorsally on adoral side; septal necks very short and adnate to adoral surface of septa, endosiphuncular canal system reticulate to curved, branching radial canals. (Compiled from Teichert 1964.)
description: Published as part of Kröger, Björn, 2025, The Lyckholm acme of cephalopods - Review of the late Katian (Vormsi-Pirgu regional stages) Ordovician cephalopods of Estonia, pp. 1-169 in European Journal of Taxonomy 978 on page 15, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.978.2801, http://zenodo.org/record/14988376
Observational Constraints on Braneworld Geometry
Creators: name: Palma, Gonzalo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low energy regime of 5D braneworld models with a bulk scalar field is studied. The setup is rather general and includes the Randall-Sundrum and dilatonic braneworlds models as particular cases. We discuss the cosmological evolution of the system and conclude that, in a two brane system, the negative tension brane is generally expected to evolve towards a null warp-factor state. This implies, for late time cosmology, that both branes end up interacting weakly. We also analyze the observational constraints imposed by solar-system and binary-pulsar tests on the braneworld configuration. This is done by considering the small deviations produced by the branes on the 4D gravitational interaction between bodies in the same brane. Using these constraints we show that the geometry around the braneworld is strongly warped, and that both branes must be far apart.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, version published in PRD
Additional file 5 of Short versus longer duration antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in companion animals: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Emdin, Fiona
name: Ong, Sean W. X.
name: McGall, Clare
name: Leung, Valerie
name: Schwartz, Kevin L.
name: Langford, Bradley J.
name: Brown, Kevin A.
name: Massarella, Susan
name: Daneman, Nick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
India's Firewood Crisis Re-examined
Creators: name: Van 'T Veld, Klaas
name: Narain, Urvashi
name: Gupta, Shreekant
name: Chopra, Neetu
name: Singh, Supriya
name: Van 'T Veld, Klaas
name: Narain, Urvashi
name: Gupta, Shreekant
name: Chopra, Neetu
name: Singh, Supriya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: firewood crisis
subject: time allocation
subject: fuel switching
subject: JFM
subject: India

description: Households in rural India are highly dependent on firewood as their main source of energy, partly because non-biofuels tend to be expensive. The prevailing view is therefore that, when faced with shortages of firewood in the village commons, such households, and especially the women in them, have to spend more and more time searching for firewood and eventually settle for poorer-quality biomass such as twigs, branches and dry leaves. Using data from a random sample of rural households in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, we come to very different conclusions, however. We find that households in villages with degraded forests do not spend longer hours searching for firewood, but instead switch to either using firewood from private trees or to using agricultural waste for fuel. In the long run, moreover, households respond to the firewood shortage by altering the mix of private trees on their land in favor of firewood, as opposed to fruit, trees. We find also that, Joint Forest Management, a government program initiated in the 1990s, is having a positive impact on the firewood economy.
On the Decoupling of Heavy Modes in Kaluza-Klein Theories
Creators: name: Randjbar-Daemi, S.
name: Salvio, A.
name: Shaposhnikov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we examine the 4-dimensional effective theory for the light Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes. Our main interest is in the interaction terms. We point out that the contribution of the heavy KK modes is generally needed in order to reproduce the correct predictions for the observable quantities involving the light modes. As an example we study in some detail a 6-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory coupled to a charged scalar and fermions. In this case the contribution of the heavy KK modes are geometrically interpreted as the deformation of the internal space.
description: 38 pages, 1 figure
DAOISM AND ECOLOGY: AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES MILLER* * reprinted with permission from the journal CEAT, Creative Arts in Education and Therapy: Eastern and Western Perspectives, (2019), 5(2), 113–116 http://caet.inspirees.com/caetojsjournals/index.php/ caet/article/view/192
Creators: name: Levine, Stephen K.
Publisher: name: Ecopoiesis: eco-human theory and practice
Year: 2020
Subjects: China
Daoism
ecology
Qi
bodily cultivation
tong (interpenetration)
aesthetic transformation

description: The interview focuses on James Miller’s thinking about the relation between Daoism and ecology. Miller believes that, to develop a foundation for ecological sustainability, we need to break down the separation between human beings and the world we live in. This can be done by Daoist techniques of bodily cultivation, based on the concept of the body as porous and interpenetrating with the environment. Practices such as these will lay the groundwork for an aesthetic foundation of ecology.
Banking on "Green Money": Are Environmental Financial Responsibility Rules Fulfilling Their Promise?
Creators: name: Boyd, James
name: Boyd, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: financial responsibility
subject: environmental liability
subject: waste disposal

description: Financial responsibility rules are an increasingly common form of environmental regulation. Currently, the operators of landfills, underground petroleum storage tanks, offshore rigs, and oil tankers must demonstrate the existence of adequate levels of capital as a precondition to the legal operation of their businesses. Environmental financial responsibility ensures that firms possess the resources to compensate society for pollution costs created in the course of business operations. In addition to providing a source of funds for victim compensation and pollution remediation, financial responsibility is thought to motivate better decision-making, particularly regarding the management of long-term risks. This article describes both the promise of financial responsibility as a complement to conventional environmental regulation and a set of weaknesses associated with its current implementation under U.S. environmental statutes.
INTERVIEW WITH BEVERLEY A’COURT
Creators: name: Kopytin Alexander
Publisher: name: Ecopoiesis: eco-human theory and practice
Year: 2020
Subjects: art therapy
nature
environment
body
holistic

description: An artist, art therapist and a member of Findhorn Foundation Community, Scotland, Beverley A’Court, gave an interview to Ecopoiesis Journal about her holistic, Earth-based approach to making art and practicing art therapy. She talks about the connection between art, therapy and ecology, the role of the body as ‘an environmental phenomenon’ and her use of nature and natural materials and objects in the art making process and in therapy.
Efficacy of multimodal pain management in patients undergoing hip replacement in a Vietnamese hospital
Creators: name: TT. Nguyen
name: TT. Vo
name: TH. Bui
Publisher: name: Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Multimodal pain management,hip replacement,VAS,surgery

description: 4, 42, Mahidol University Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Implications of $\textit{SU}(2)_L$ gauge invariance for constraints on Lorentz violation
Creators: name: Crivellin, Andreas
name: Kirk, Fiona
name: Schreck, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lorentz invariance is one of the basic ingredients of quantum field theories and violations of it are stringently constrained experimentally. Therefore, the possibility of Lorentz violation (LV) is usually realized at very high energy scales, resulting in a strong suppression of it (by the new scale) in experiments. The Standard-Model Extension (SME) parameterizes LV in a model-independent way, respecting $SU(2)_L$ gauge invariance. This means, e.g., that the neutrino and charged-lepton sectors are linked to each other. Hence, on the one hand, any modification of neutrino properties simultaneously gives rise to effects for charged leptons, which is why the tight limits on flavour-off-diagonal LV for neutrinos imply new bounds on modifications of charged leptons. On the other hand, LV for left-handed charged leptons implies LV for neutrinos. Since LV modifications of the charged-lepton sector are, in general, even more constraining than effects in the flavour-diagonal neutrino sector, we obtain novel tight bounds on LV in the latter. Subsequently, we apply the same approach to an analysis of time-of-flight data for neutrinos (detected by IceCube) and photons from gamma ray bursts where discrepancies have been observed. Our finding is that an explanation of the arrival time difference between neutrino and photon events by dim-5 operators in the neutrino sector would lead to unacceptably large LV effects in the charged-lepton sector.
description: Version accepted for publication in JHEP, 9 pages, 1 figure, 4 tables
INTERVIEW WITH TEAGAN WHITE
Creators: name: Dvornikova Alexandra
Publisher: name: Ecopoiesis: eco-human theory and practice
Year: 2020
Subjects: art
environment
nature

description: Teagan White, an artist from Oregon, working as a volunteer in various environmental projects, gave an interview to the Ecopoiesis Journal, talking about their art and its relationship with nature and environmental issues. They shares her experience of co-creation with nature, her perception of death as a part of a holistic cycle of life and transformations of different life forms, and the role of art and creative self-expression for changing people’s attitude to nature.
Dynamical Radion Superfield in Five-dimensional Action
Creators: name: Abe, Hiroyuki
name: Sakamura, Yutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We clarify the radion superfield dependence of 5D N=1 superspace action. The radion is treated as a dynamical field and appears in the action with the correct mode function. Our derivation is systematic and based on the superconformal formulation of 5D supergravity. We can read off the couplings of the dynamical radion superfield to the matter superfields from our result. The correct radion mass can be obtained by calculating the radion potential from our superspace action.
description: 5 pages, talks given by Y.Sakamura at PASCOS'05 (Geongju, Korea, May 30-June 4, 2005) and at SUSY'05 (Durham, U.K., July 18-23, 2005)
ANALYZING REPRODUCTIVE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ON DAIRY FARMS
Creators: name: Wolf, Christopher A.
name: Wolf, Christopher A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Milk sales are the largest source of revenue on dairy farms. Reproduction is necessary to generate a new lactation. However, a pregnancy also dictates when the previous lactation must end so that the cow can retain sufficient condition into her new lactation. Pregnancy rate and estrus detection rate determine reproductive success. From an economics point of view, we talk about calving interval or days open so that a dollar value can be easily associated with the reproductive management program.
Reionization History from Coupled CMB/21cm Line Data
Creators: name: Salvaterra, R.
name: Ciardi, B.
name: Ferrara, A.
name: Baccigalupi, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study CMB secondary anisotropies produced by inhomogeneous reionization by means of cosmological simulations coupled with the radiative transfer code CRASH. The reionization history is consistent with the WMAP Thomson optical depth determination. We find that the signal arising from this process dominates over the primary CMB component for l > 4000 and reaches a maximum amplitude of l(l+1)C_l/2π~ 1.6 x 10^{-13} on arcmin scale, i.e. l as large as several thousands. We then cross-correlate secondary CMB anisotropy maps with neutral hydrogen 21cm line emission fluctuations obtained from the same simulations. The two signals are highly anti-correlated on angular scales corresponding to the typical size of HII regions (including overlapping) at the 21cm map redshift. We show how the CMB/21cm cross-correlation can be used to: (a) study the nature of the reionization sources, (b) reconstruct the cosmic reionization history, (c) infer the mean cosmic ionization level at any redshift. We discuss the feasibility of the proposed experiment with forthcoming facilities.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS in press
Some random times and martingales associated with $BES_{0}(δ)$ processes $(0
Creators: name: Nikeghbali, Ashkan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C38, 15A15; 05A15, 15A18

description: In this paper, we study Bessel processes of dimension $δ\equiv2(1-μ)$, with $0
description: Typos corrected. Close to the published version
Impact of geometry on the magnetic flux trapping of superconducting accelerating cavities
Creators: name: Longuevergne, David
name: Miyazaki, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling trapped magnetic flux in superconducting radiofrequency (RF) cavities is of crucial importance in modern accelerator projects. In order to study flux trapping efficiency and sensitiv- ity of surface resistance, dedicated experiments have been carried out on different types of low-\b{eta} superconducting accelerating cavities. Even under almost full trapping conditions, we found that the measured magnetic sensitivities of these cavity geometries were significantly lower than the theoretical values predicted by commonly-used models based on local material properties. This must be resolved by taking account of geometrical effects of flux trapping and flux oscillation under RF surface current in such cavity shape. In this paper, we propose a new approach to convolute the influence of geometries. We point out a puzzling contradiction between sample measurements and recent cavity experiments, which leads to two different hypotheses to simulate oscillating flux trapped in the cavity surface. A critical reconsideration of flux oscillation by the RF Lorentz force, compared with temperature mapping studies in elliptical cavities, favoured the results of previous sample measurements, which suggested preferential flux trapping of normal component to the cavity inner surface. Based on this observation, we builded a new model to our experimental results and the discrepancy between old theory and data were resolved.
1998 BUSINESS ANALYSIS SUMMARY FOR GENERAL CROPS FARMS
Creators: name: Nott, Sherrill B.
name: Nott, Sherrill B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This report is a summary of the financial and production records kept by general crops farmers, who were enrolled in the Telfarm/MicroTel record program through Michigan State University Extension. Farm records were included if a Finan summary was completed on 1998 data including beginning and ending balance sheets, plus income and expenses. The summary was included if cash discrepancy was less than 10 % of gross cash inflow, and if the debt discrepancy was less than $1,000. Averages are reported in the tables below. Variability exists in the data. The unweighted mean of net farm income for the 16 farms was $(22,565); the standard deviation of the mean was $45,035 and the median was $(18,361). The unweighted mean of acres cropped, both owned plus rented, for the 15 farms that reported acreage was 860 acres; the standard deviation of the mean was 775 acres and the median was 589 acres. This report has three purposes: 1) to provide statistical information about the financial results on general crops farms during 1998; 2)to provide production costs for comparative analysis and forward planning; and 3) to provide information on the trends in resource use, income and costs during the last few years. For general crop farm averages for 1995, see Staff Paper No. 96-86, Michigan Farm Database, New Directions for 1995; it contains averages of 11 general crops farms calculated with Finansum. Staff Paper No. 97-32, Business Analysis Summary for General Crops Farms, contains averages of 7 general crops farms for 1996. Staff Paper No. 98-18, 1997 Business Analysis Summary for General Crop Farms contains averages for 14 farms. These staff papers are available from us. Finansum allows rapid analysis of group averages with some degree of choice over how the results are presented. We prefer to show the average of the high or low 25 percent by rate of return on farm assets, but only if the 25 percent means 6 or more farms. In order to get at least 6 farms, we increased the percentage to 38 for the general crops farms. A farm was accepted in the average regardless of whether the farm was a proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation. Finansum will produce a variety of report options; a subset is included in this publication.
Das Wasserhaushaltsportal Sachsen : ein Webportal zur Recherche und Visualisierung vorab berechneter Ergebnisse und zur interaktiven Berechnung des Wasserhaushalts
Creators: name: Müller, Ruben
Publisher: name: Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Koblenz
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Water resources research

description: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung / BfG – Jahrgang: 60.2016,1 - ISSN 1439-1783
COMPARING THE PROFITABILITY OF CASSAVA-BASED PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN THREE WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES: COTE D'IVOIRE, GHANA AND NIGERIA
Creators: name: Camara, Youssouf
name: Staatz, John M.
name: Crawford, Eric W.
name: Camara, Youssouf
name: Staatz, John M.
name: Crawford, Eric W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) cassava-producing countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire have developed, in recent years, a renewed interest in cassava as an alternative food crop. This has led to a major expansion in cassava-based production systems in Nigeria and Ghana, whereas there has been a slower growth in Côte d'Ivoire (Nweke et al., 1998). This paper is based on the argument that the difference in various factors such as agricultural policies (i.e., trade and price policies, domestic production taxes or subsidies), location and technologies (production and processing) between Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire the difference in the level of growth in cassava-based production systems. The paper examines, using the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM), the magnitude of the impact of these factors on the private and social profitability of cassava production and post-production processing in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria. The topic has not been examined in previous studies. The paper relies primarily on data for Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria from the Collaborative Study of Cassava in Africa (COSCA) survey. The baseline results demonstrate the similarity in efficiencies of production in these West African countries. The simulation findings indicated that, in Côte d'Ivoire, farmers benefited from the depreciation of the equilibrium exchange rate while farmers in Ghana and Nigeria suffered losses. Simulation results also indicated that Ivorian and Ghanaian cassava/maize farmers could benefit from growing IITA's improved variety and adopting mechanized processing methods.
AGN Feedback and Cooling Flows: Problems with Simple Hydrodynamical Models
Creators: name: Vernaleo, John C.
name: Reynolds, Christopher S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years it has become increasingly clear that Active Galactic Nuclei, and radio-galaxies in particular, have an impact on large scale structure and galaxy formation. In principle, radio-galaxies are energetic enough to halt the cooling of the virialized intracluster medium (ICM) in the inner regions of galaxy clusters, solving the cooling flow problem and explaining the high-mass truncation of the galaxy luminosity function. We explore this process through a series of high resolution, three dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of jetted active galaxies that act in response to cooling-mediated accretion of an ICM atmosphere. We find that our models are incapable of producing a long term balance of heating and cooling; catastrophic cooling can be delayed by the jet action but inevitably takes hold. At the heart of the failure of these models is the formation of a low density channel through which the jet can freely flow, carrying its energy out of the cooling core. It is possible that this failure is due to an over-simplified treatment of the fast jet (which may underestimate the ``dentist drill'' effect). However, it seems likely that additional complexity (large-angle jet precession or ICM turbulence) or additional physics (magnetohydrodynamic effects and plasma transport processes) is required to produce a spatial distribution of jet heating that can prevent catastrophic cooling. This work also underscores the importance of including jet dynamics in any feedback model as opposed to the isotropically inflated bubble approach taken in some previous works.
description: 15 pages, Replaced with version accepted for publication in ApJ. PDF version with high-resolution figures and animations available at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~vernaleo/publications/AGNfeedback-simple-hydro.html Our modified version of the ZEUS-MP code is available at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~vernaleo/zeusmp.html
INTERVIEW WITH DIANA SUDYKA
Creators: name: Dvornikova Alexandra
Publisher: name: Ecopoiesis: eco-human theory and practice
Year: 2020
Subjects: art
folk-art tradition
nature

description: Diana Sudyka, a Chicago based illustrator, working as a volunteer in the Bird Lab at the Chicago Field Museum, gave an interview to the Ecopoiesis Journal in which she talks about her art and its relationship with nature, and various folk-art traditions, as well as her respect and connection to all forms of life, and how it is important to teach children to appreciate nature. She regards her connection to the natural world as critical for her mental well-being, and acknowledges that it provides almost all of the inspiration for her personal and commercial work. She is seeking to create something that has both elements of the spiritual and pagan, but also with elements of the specificness of science.
A RISK PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO DESIGNING CONTRACTS TO REDUCE NITRATE LEACHING
Creators: name: Chu, Mei-Chin
name: Swinton, Scott M.
name: Batie, Sandra S.
name: Chu, Mei-Chin
name: Swinton, Scott M.
name: Batie, Sandra S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: As contractual agriculture expands, contract design offers a non-regulatory opportunity to reduce non-point source pollution. A risk programming analysis of seed corn contract designs illustrates a tractable empirical principal-agent model, and shows that grower risk preferences affect contract acceptability and efficiency at reducing nitrate leaching.
Non-local matrix elements in $B_{(s)}\to \{K^{(*)},ϕ\}\ell^+\ell^-$
Creators: name: Gubernari, Nico
name: van Dyk, Danny
name: Virto, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the theoretical predictions and the parametrization of non-local matrix elements in rare $\bar{B}_{(s)}\to \lbrace \bar{K}^{(*)},ϕ\rbrace\ell^+\ell^-$ and $\bar{B}_{(s)}\to \lbrace \bar{K}^{*}, ϕ\rbrace γ$ decays. We improve upon the current state of these matrix elements in two ways. First, we recalculate the hadronic matrix elements needed at subleading power in the light-cone OPE using $B$-meson light-cone sum rules. Our analytical results supersede those in the literature. We discuss the origin of our improvements and provide numerical results for the processes under consideration. Second, we derive the first dispersive bound on the non-local matrix elements. It provides a parametric handle on the truncation error in extrapolations of the matrix elements to large timelike momentum transfer using the $z$ expansion. We illustrate the power of the dispersive bound at the hand of a simple phenomenological application. As a side result of our work, we also provide numerical results for the $B_s \to ϕ$ form factors from $B$-meson light-cone sum rules.
description: 40 pages, 3 figures, 2 ancillary files. v2: One typo corrected and Bs->phi LCSRs anc file corrected