cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Levels and trends in the sex ratio at birth in seven provinces of Nepal between 1980 and 2016 with probabilistic projections to 2050: a Bayesian modeling approach
Creators: name: Chao, Fengqing
name: KC, Samir
name: Ombao, Hernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62P25 (Primary) 91D20, 62F15, 62M10 (Secondary)

description: The sex ratio at birth (SRB; ratio of male to female births) in Nepal has been reported without imbalance on the national level. However, the national SRB could mask the disparity within the country. Given the demographic and cultural heterogeneities in Nepal, it is crucial to model Nepal SRB on the subnational level. Prior studies on subnational SRB in Nepal are mostly based on reporting observed values from surveys and census, and no study has provided probabilistic projections. We aim to estimate and project SRB for the seven provinces of Nepal from 1980 to 2050 using a Bayesian modeling approach. We compiled an extensive database on provincial SRB of Nepal, consisting 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys and 2011 Census. We adopted a Bayesian hierarchical time series model to estimate and project the provincial SRB, with a focus on modelling the potential SRB imbalance. In 2016, the highest SRB is estimated in Province 5 at 1.102 with a 95% credible interval (1.044, 1.127) and the lowest SRB is in Province 2 at 1.053 (1.035, 1.109). The SRB imbalance probabilities in all provinces are generally low and vary from 16% in Province 2 to 81% in Province 5. SRB imbalances are estimated to have begun at the earliest in 2001 in Province 5 with a 95% credible interval (1992, 2022) and the latest in 2017 (1998, 2040) in Province 2. We project SRB in all provinces to begin converging back to the national baseline in the mid-2030s. Our findings imply that the majority of provinces in Nepal have low risks of SRB imbalance for the period 1980-2016. However, we identify a few provinces with higher probabilities of having SRB inflation. The projected SRB is an important illustration of potential future prenatal sex discrimination and shows the need to monitor SRB in provinces with higher possibilities of SRB imbalance.
Wellesz, Egon: The Akathistos Hymnos, introduced and transcribed
Creators: name: Engberding, Hieronymus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 42 (1958): Oriens christianus, Band 42
Anisotropy of electronic correlations: On the applicability of local theories to layered materials
Creators: name: Klebel, Benjamin
name: Schäfer, Thomas
name: Toschi, Alessandro
name: Tomczak, Jan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Besides the chemical constituents, it is the lattice geometry that controls the most important material properties. In many interesting compounds, the arrangement of elements leads to pronounced anisotropies, which reflect into a varying degree of quasi two-dimensionality of their low-energy excitations. Here, we start by classifying important families of correlated materials according to a simple measure for the tetragonal anisotropy of their ab initio electronic (band) structure. Second, we investigate the impact of a progressively large anisotropy in driving the non-locality of many-body effects. To this end, we tune the Hubbard model from isotropic cubic in three dimensions to the two-dimensional limit and analyze it using the dynamical vertex approximation. For sufficiently isotropic hoppings, we find the self-energy to be well separable into a static non-local and a dynamical local contribution. While the latter could potentially be obtained from dynamical mean-field approaches, we find the former to be non-negligible in all cases. Further, by increasing the model-anisotropy, we quantify the degree of quasi two-dimensionality which causes this "space-time separation" to break down. Our systematic analysis improves the general understanding of electronic correlations in anisotropic materials, heterostructures and ultra-thin films, and provides useful guidance for future realistic studies.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Beyond the Tradeoff: Dynamic Selectivity in Ionic Transport and Current Selectivity
Creators: name: Poggioli, Anthony R.
name: Siria, Alessandro
name: Bocquet, Lyderic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditionally, ion-selectivity in nanopores and nanoporous membranes is understood to be a consequence of Debye overlap, in which the Debye screening length is comparable to the nanopore radius somewhere along the length of the nanopore(s). This criterion sets a significant limitation on the size of ion-selective nanopores, as the Debye length is on the order of 1 - 10 nm for typical ionic concentrations. However, the analytical results we present here demonstrate that surface conductance generates a dynamical selectivity in ion transport, and this selectivity is controlled by so-called Dukhin, rather than Debye, overlap. The Dukhin length, defined as the ratio of surface to bulk conductance, reaches values of hundreds of nanometers for typical surface charge densities and ionic concentrations, suggesting the possibility of designing large-nanopore (10 - 100 nm), high-conductance membranes exhibiting significant ion-selectivity. Such membranes would have potentially dramatic implications for the efficiency of osmotic energy conversion and separation techniques. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this mechanism of dynamic selectivity leads ultimately to the rectification of ionic current, rationalizing previous studies showing that Debye overlap is not a necessary condition for the occurrence of rectifying behavior in nanopores.
POTENTIAL PITFALLS IN RENEWABLE RESOURCE DECISION MAKING THAT UTILIZES CONVEX COMBINATIONS OF DISCRETE ALTERNATIVES
Creators: name: Hof, John G.
name: Marose, Robin K.
name: King, David A.
name: Hof, John G.
name: Marose, Robin K.
name: King, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Decision makers in renewable resource planning are often unable to specify their objective function a priori, and are presented with a discrete set of alternatives reflecting a range of options that are actually much more continuous. It is common for the decision maker to be interested in some other alternative than those originally developed. An iterative process thus often takes place between decision maker an analyst as they search for a satisfactory alternative. This paper analyzes the economic tenability of simply interpolating (taking convex combinations of) initial alternatives to generate new alternatives in this process. It is shown that convex combinations of outputs will be producible (feasible) with the interpolated input levels, under very common conditions. In fact, the cost estimate resulting from interpolating the cost of two (or more) alternatives will generally be an overestimate. The magnitude of this overestimate is investigated in a test case. It is concluded that this cost overestimate can be rather large, and is not systematically predictable. Only when the output sets in the original alternatives are very similar are the interpolated cost estimates fairly accurate.
CABARET scheme from Modelling of the arteriovenous malformation embolization optimal scenario
Creators: name: Cherevko, Alexandr A.
name: Gologush, Tatiana S.
name: Petrenko, Irina A.
name: Ostapenko, Vladimir V.
name: Panarin, Vyacheslav A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10599 Mathematical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Description and pseudo-code of the numerical CABARET method modified for scalar conservation law with a nonconvex flux
APPLICATION OF THE ECONOMIC THRESHOLD FOR INTERSEASONAL PEST CONTROL
Creators: name: Hall, Darwin C.
name: Moffitt, L. Joe
name: Hall, Darwin C.
name: Moffitt, L. Joe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Farm Management

description: We show how an interseasonal pest control problem can be simplified to enable an intraseasonal model to be empirically applied, extending the range of application of the intraseasonal model. Three alternative economic thresholds are compared. The optimal solution requires repeated computations by the farmer to compute the profit maximizing dose, with a corresponding threshold, for each pest infestation. Two alternative decision rules require a single computation by the farmer for the threshold and dosage rate. An empirical illustration shows that, relative to the optimal solution which is computationally burdensome to the farmer, little net revenue is lost by using one of the thresholds based upon a simpler decision rule.
GHZ extraction yield for multipartite stabilizer states
Creators: name: Bravyi, Sergey
name: Fattal, David
name: Gottesman, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Let $|Ψ>$ be an arbitrary stabilizer state distributed between three remote parties, such that each party holds several qubits. Let $S$ be a stabilizer group of $|Ψ>$. We show that $|Ψ>$ can be converted by local unitaries into a collection of singlets, GHZ states, and local one-qubit states. The numbers of singlets and GHZs are determined by dimensions of certain subgroups of $S$. For an arbitrary number of parties $m$ we find a formula for the maximal number of $m$-partite GHZ states that can be extracted from $|Ψ>$ by local unitaries. A connection with earlier introduced measures of multipartite correlations is made. An example of an undecomposable four-party stabilizer state with more than one qubit per party is given. These results are derived from a general theoretical framework that allows one to study interconversion of multipartite stabilizer states by local Clifford group operators. As a simple application, we study three-party entanglement in two-dimensional lattice models that can be exactly solved by the stabilizer formalism.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Isolation, design, and biological properties of fish-derived cationic antimicrobial peptides
Creators: name: Patrzykat, Aleksander
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Cationic antimicrobial peptides are components of the host innate immune response against infections in almost all species. Although innate defenses in fish are particularly important due to a frequently late onset and short duration of the secondary immune response in these animals, few fish peptides have been studied to date. This research identifies a novel Hl-histone derived cationic peptide (HSDF-1) from coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), and describes the design, as well as the antibacterial, membrane, and intracellular activities of several other fish-based synthetic peptides of potential importance in aquaculture. HSDF-1, a 26 residue species identical to the N-terminal segment of trout HI histone, was isolated from the serum and mucus of disease-challenged coho salmon. The purified fractions inhibited the growth of antibiotic-supersusceptible S.typhimurium, as well as A. salmonicida and V. anguillarum. Synthetic HSDF-1 and its derivative HSDF-2 were inactive in antimicrobial assays, but they potentiated the antimicrobial activities of the flounder peptide pleurocidin, lysozyme, and crude lysozyme-containing extracts from coho salmon. Although the peptides inserted specifically into anionic lipid monolayers, synergy with pleurocidin did not appear to occur at the cytoplasmic membrane level. The effects of pleurocidin and several of its derivatives on bacterial membranes and intracellular functions were further studied to gain insight into the mode of action of these fish-derived peptides. All peptides tested at their minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) inhibited macromolecular synthesis in bacteria, causing a decrease in the incorporation of [3H]thymidine, [3H]uridine, or [3H]histidine into DNA, RNA, and proteins, respectively. However, many of the peptides applied at their MICs showed limited or negligible ability to damage bacterial cytoplasmic membranes, as observed using a fluorescent dye (diSC35) assay. The inhibition of macromolecular synthesis may thus be a result of the peptides entering bacterial cells and acting intracellularly in a direct fashion, as suggested by the fact that when two peptides were tested, they were able to translocate into liposomes without lysing them. A combined approach of isolating antimicrobial peptides from nature and designing them from existing templates, should eventually provide the medical and veterinary clinicians with a useful arsenal of weapons in the face of developing resistance to conventional antibiotics.
Relating Spin Foams and Canonical Quantum Gravity: (n-1)+1 formulation of nD spin foams
Creators: name: Maran, Suresh K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we lay foundations for a formal relationship of spin foam models of gravity and BF theory to their continuum canonical formulations. First the derivation of the spin foam model of the BF theory from the discrete BF theory action in n dimensions is reviewed briefly. By foliating the underlying n dimensional simplicial manifold using n-1 dimensional simplicial hypersurfaces, the spin foam model is reformulated. Then it is shown that spin network functionals arise naturally on the foliations. The graphs of these spin network functionals are dual to the triangulations of the foliating hypersurfaces. Quantum Transition amplitudes are defined. I calculate the transition amplitudes related to 2D BF theory explicitly and show that these amplitudes are triangulation independent. The application to the spin foam models of gravity is discussed briefly.
description: 31 pages. 11 figures. Final report of the research
Palindromic Length of Words with Many Periodic Palindromes
Creators: name: Rukavicka, Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 68R15

description: The palindromic length $\text{PL}(v)$ of a finite word $v$ is the minimal number of palindromes whose concatenation is equal to $v$. In 2013, Frid, Puzynina, and Zamboni conjectured that: If $w$ is an infinite word and $k$ is an integer such that $\text{PL}(u)\leq k$ for every factor $u$ of $w$ then $w$ is ultimately periodic. Suppose that $w$ is an infinite word and $k$ is an integer such $\text{PL}(u)\leq k$ for every factor $u$ of $w$. Let $Ω(w,k)$ be the set of all factors $u$ of $w$ that have more than $\sqrt[k]{k^{-1}\vert u\vert}$ palindromic prefixes. We show that $Ω(w,k)$ is an infinite set and we show that for each positive integer $j$ there are palindromes $a,b$ and a word $u\in Ω(w,k)$ such that $(ab)^j$ is a factor of $u$ and $b$ is nonempty. Note that $(ab)^j$ is a periodic word and $(ab)^ia$ is a palindrome for each $i\leq j$. These results justify the following question: What is the palindromic length of a concatenation of a suffix of $b$ and a periodic word $(ab)^j$ with "many" periodic palindromes? It is known that $\lvert\text{PL}(uv)-\text{PL}(u)\rvert\leq \text{PL}(v)$, where $u$ and $v$ are nonempty words. The main result of our article shows that if $a,b$ are palindromes, $b$ is nonempty, $u$ is a nonempty suffix of $b$, $\vert ab\vert$ is the minimal period of $aba$, and $j$ is a positive integer with $j\geq3\text{PL}(u)$ then $\text{PL}(u(ab)^j)-\text{PL}(u)\geq 0$.
Dark Energy and Cosmic Speed-Up from Consistent Modified Gravity
Creators: name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some modified gravity models which describe the gravitational dark energy and the possibility of cosmic speed-up. The new consistent version of such theory which contains inverse and HD curvature terms as well as new type of coupling with matter is proposed. The accelerating cosmologies are discussed there. The structure of finite-time (sudden) singularities is investigated.
description: 9pages, JHEP Proceedings of Winter Conf on Math.Methods in Physics, Rio, August 2004
DIFFERENTIAL PRICING OF AGRICULTURAL OPERATING LOANS BY COMMERCIAL BANKS
Creators: name: Schmiesing, Brian H.
name: Edelman, Mark A.
name: Swinson, Cindy
name: Kolmer, Diane
name: Schmiesing, Brian H.
name: Edelman, Mark A.
name: Swinson, Cindy
name: Kolmer, Diane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Differential and variable interest rate pricing strategies are used for agricultural operating loans by the majority of South Dakota commercial banks. However, the prevalence does vary by legal organization. Significant differences were found among differential interest rate pricing structures of independent banks, branch banks, and multibank holding company affiliates.
Podocinum orientale Evans & Hyatt 1958
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum orientale

description: 24. Podocinum orientale Evans & Hyatt, 1958
 Podocinum orientale Evans & Hyatt, 1958: 922.
 Podocinum orientale.— Ishikawa, 1976: 249; Ho et al., 2009: 91; Yan et al., 2012: 46.
 Type depository. British Museum (Natural History), London, England.
 Type locality and habitat. Malaysia, Sungai Buloh, Petaling, Selangor, February 1955, in forest litter and topsoil.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Nonperturbative Effect in c=1 Noncritical String Theory and Penner Model
Creators: name: Matsuo, Yoshinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the effect of instantons in the Penner model. It is known that the free energies of the Penner model and the c=1 noncritical string at self-dual radius agree in a suitable double scaling limit. On the other hand, the instanton in the matrix model describes a nonperturbative effect in the noncritical string theory. We study the correspondence between the instantons in the Penner model and the nonperturbative effect in c=1 noncritical string at self-dual radius.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures; v2: study of multi-instanton effects is added
HEDGING CARCASS BEEF TO REDUCE THE SHORT-TERM PRICE RISK OF MEAT PACKERS
Creators: name: Bailey, DeeVon
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Bailey, DeeVon
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Hedging in the live cattle futures market has largely been viewed as a method of reducing producer's price over a rather lengthy production period (three to six months). Meat packers and processors also face price risk. However, packers' and processors' price risk lies on the upside (i.e., risk is due to price increases) and is also relatively short-term (usually a few days). The possibility of reducing packers' and processors' price risk through long-hedging on the live cattle contract for a short period of time (one week) was investigated. The results suggest some potential benefits to meat packers form following a routine hedging strategy.
Entropy of a Turbulent Bose-Einstein Condensate
Creators: name: Madeira, Lucas
name: García-Orozco, Arnol D.
name: Santos, F. E. A. dos
name: Bagnato, Vanderlei S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum turbulence deals with the phenomenon of turbulence in quantum fluids, such as superfluid helium and trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Although much progress has been made in understanding quantum turbulence, several fundamental questions remain to be answered. In this work, we investigated the entropy of a trapped BEC in several regimes, including equilibrium, small excitations, the onset of turbulence, and a turbulent state. We considered the time evolution when the system is perturbed and let to evolve after the external excitation is turned off. We derived an expression for the entropy consistent with the accessible experimental data, that is, using the assumption that the momentum distribution is well-known. We related the excitation amplitude to different stages of the perturbed system, and we found distinct features of the entropy in each of them. In particular, we observed a sudden increase in the entropy following the establishment of a particle cascade. We argue that entropy and related quantities can be used to investigate and characterize quantum turbulence.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
DETERMINING OPTIMAL FERTILIZATION RATES UNDER VARIABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS
Creators: name: Talpaz, Hovav
name: Taylor, C. Robert
name: Talpaz, Hovav
name: Taylor, C. Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This paper presents a theoretical framework for incorporating the following sources of risk into the determination of optimal fertilization rates: (a) the influence of weather and other stochastic factors on the marginal product of fertilizer, and (b) uncertainty about the coefficients of the response function. The decision criterion considered is the maximization of profit subject to a risk constraint on the probability of not recovering the cost of the fertilizer. The theoretical framework is applied to the fertilization of dryland grain sorghum in the Texas Blacklands. Results indicate that the risk averse producer should substantially lower his fertilization rate if soil moisture at fertilization time is low.
ALLOCATION PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC LANDS IN THE WEST
Creators: name: Wyckoff, J.B.
name: Wyckoff, J.B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Increasing interest in the federally owned lands by individuals and groups representing a broad cross section of society has intensified public land management problems. Pressures for preservation, conservation, and additional non-market uses have resulted in management conflicts. Economic intelligence could contribute to improved decision making by federal agencies charged with public land management. However, inadequate past research attention related to economic problems of public lands presently precludes an optimum input from economists. Articulation of problem areas and economic issues is necessary for developing meaningful research priorities. This article identifies some elements of the problem and suggests some potentially rewarding areas for economic research.
A STUDY ON THE EVOLUTION OF EXCHANGE RATE MECHANISM AND ITS REGIME
Creators: name: Narayanan, Hariharan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150201 Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified

description: The rate at which one currency is exchanged for another currency is termed as Exchange rate. There are two major types of exchange rates known as Fixed exchange rate and Fluctuating exchange rate. Gold plays a vital role in exchange rate. The exchange rate regime starts from Gold Standard and goes through various phases. Bretton Woods System plays a vital role in the exchange rate regime. This paper concentrates on the evolution of exchange mechanism and its classification until 2010.
Synthesis and characterization of novel benzimidazole embedded 1,3,5-trisubstituted pyrazolines as antimicrobial agents
Creators: name: Padhy, Gopal Krishna
name: Panda, Jagadeesh
name: Behera, Ajaya Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Efficient syntheses of some new substituted pyrazoline derivatives linked to substituted benzimidazole scaffold were performed by multistep reaction sequences. All the synthesized compounds were characterized using elemental analysis and spectral studies (IR, 1D/2D NMR techniques and mass spectrometry). The synthesized compounds were screened for their antimicrobial activity against selected Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and fungi strain. The compounds with halo substituted phenyl group at C5 of the 1-phenyl pyrazoline ring (15, 16 and 17) showed significant antibacterial activity. Among the screened compounds, 17 showed most potent inhibitory activity (MIC = 64 μg mL-1) against a bacterial strain. The tested compounds werefound to be almost inactive against the fungal strain C. albicans, apart from pyrazoline-1-carbothiomide 21, which was moderately active.
description: 9 Pages,2 figures, 1 table
Remote Sensing for Tropical Forest Canopy Height Estimation in Lopé National Park, Gabon
Creators: name: Pourshamsi, Maryam
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Forest height is one of the most important forest biophysical parameters influencing light competition, stand productivity and carbon sequestration. This thesis considered investigating the existing and new methods for estimating forest height. The specific focus of the research project concerned the improved estimation of forest height (h) over tropical forest from both single- and multi-source remotely sensed datasets. The potential applications of single-baseline (B) PolInSAR, fusion of multi-baseline PolInSAR and LiDAR, and a combined use of polarimetric SAR and LiDAR were assessed. The single-baseline PolInSAR demonstrated the limitation of the model for estimation of forest height over a heterogeneous forest because of the lack of appropriate values of the vertical wavenumber. For the smallest baseline (B = 20m), height is overestimated (~ 5m) for short stand (h < 10m); and for the largest baseline (B = 120m), height is underestimated (~ 30m) for tall stand (20 < h < 60m). As conventional PolInSAR, small baselines are suitable for estimation of larger stand heights, whereas large baselines are for shorter stands. Therefore, for an improved result over a heterogeneous forest with different height ranges (0-60m), a multi-baseline merging approach was introduced based on a fusion of PolInSAR with LiDAR. The results demonstrated improvement (r2 = 0.81, RMSE = 7.1m) in comparison to PolInSAR alone (r2 = 0.67, RMSE = 9.2m). Whilst this fusion indicated improvement, the model performance is limited by the availability of the PolInSAR data. Therefore, a second data fusion approach was introduced using polarimetric SAR and LiDAR. The obtained results are significant (r2 = 0.70, RMSE = 10m) as the technique relies on polarimetric measurements and not interferometric. Overall, the research results demonstrate the capabilities of SAR and LiDAR data fusions in estimation of tropical forest height, adding value to both scientific understanding and management of forest ecosystems.
Podocinum pacificum Berlese 1895
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum pacificum

description: 25. Podocinum pacificum Berlese, 1895
 Podocinum pacificum Berlese, 1895: 319.
 Podocinum pacificum.— Berlese, 1913a: 83; Evans & Hyatt, 1958: 923; Athias-Henriot, 1959: 28; De Leon, 1964: 43; Ishikawa, 1970: 113; Bregetova, 1977: 255; Błaszak & Alberti, 1985: 169; Lindquist & Wu, 1987: 779; Hal- liday, 1990: 278; Karg, 1993: 247; Liang, 1993: 54; Bhattacharyya, 1994: 56; Ho et al., 2009: 92; Yan et al., 2011: 55; 2012: 46; Santos et al., 2017: 448.
 Type depository. Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Florence, Italy.
 Type locality and habitat. Italy, Florence and Naples, unspecified collection date, under stones and in ant [Hymenoptera] nests.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
SUPPLY RESPONSE TO RISK: THE CASE OF U.S. PINTO BEANS
Creators: name: Ryan, Timothy J.
name: Ryan, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1977
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: A standard model of behavior under uncertainty is used to suggest price risk variables for use in a positive supply study. The suggested variables are intuitively appealing and empirically tested on Pinto bean data. Linearity is assumed and O.L.S. used. The empirical results show that the risk variables greatly improve the statistical fit of the supply equation, are quantitatively important and that a substantial bias occurs if they are neglected. Policy initiatives to reduce Pinto bean price fluctuations need to consider the risk reducing effects on the supply response.
Self-consistent radiative effect on relativistic electromagnetic particle acceleration
Creators: name: Noguchi, K.
name: Liang, E.
name: Nishimura, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the radiation damping effect on the relativistic acceleration of electron-positron plasmas with two-and-half-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. Particles are accelerated by Poynting flux via the diamagnetic relativistic pulse accelerator (DRPA), and decelerated by the self-consistently solved radiation damping force. With $Ω_{ce}/ω_{pe}\geq 10$, the Lorentz factor of the highest energy particles reaches gamma>100, and the acceleration still continues. The emitted radiation is peaked within few degrees from the direction of Poynting flux and strongly linearly polarized, which may be detectable in gamma-ray burst(GRB) observations. We also show that the DRPA is insensitive to the initial supporting currents.
description: 6pages, 4figures. Accepted for publication in Il nuovo cimento C
High-temperature dependence of anomalous Ettingshausen effect in SmCo$_5$-type permanent magnets
Creators: name: Miura, Asuka
name: Masuda, Keisuke
name: Hirai, Takamasa
name: Iguchi, Ryo
name: Seki, Takeshi
name: Miura, Yoshio
name: Tsuchiura, Hiroki
name: Takanashi, Koki
name: Uchida, Ken-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous Ettingshausen effect (AEE) in SmCo$_5$-type permanent magnets has been investigated in the high-temperature range from room temperature to around 600 K. The anomalous Ettingshausen coefficient of the SmCo$_5$ and (SmGd)Co$_5$ magnets monotonically increases with increasing the temperature and shows the similar temperature dependence, while the coefficient of SmCo$_5$ is slightly larger than that of (SmGd)Co$_5$ at high temperatures. The dimensionless figure of merit for AEE in SmCo$_5$ at high temperatures is much greater than the previous record obtained for the anomalous Nernst effect. The observed high-temperature behavior of AEE is discussed based on the first-principles calculations of transverse transport coefficients.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Generalized inverse-Gaussian frailty models with application to TARGET neuroblastoma data
Creators: name: Piancastelli, Luiza Sette Câmara
name: Barreto-Souza, Wagner
name: Mayrink, Vinícius Diniz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A new class of survival frailty models based on the Generalized Inverse-Gaussian (GIG) distributions is proposed. We show that the GIG frailty models are flexible and mathematically convenient like the popular gamma frailty model. Furthermore, our proposed class is robust and does not present some computational issues experienced by the gamma model. By assuming a piecewise-exponential baseline hazard function, which gives a semiparametric flavour for our frailty class, we propose an EM-algorithm for estimating the model parameters and provide an explicit expression for the information matrix. Simulated results are addressed to check the finite sample behavior of the EM-estimators and also to study the performance of the GIG models under misspecification. We apply our methodology to a TARGET (Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments) data about survival time of patients with neuroblastoma cancer and show some advantages of the GIG frailties over existing models in the literature.
One-Dimensional S=1 Spin-Orbital Model with Uniaxial Single-Ion Anisotropy
Creators: name: Miyashita, Satoshi
name: Kawakami, Norio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate ground-state properties of a one-dimensional S=1 spin-orbital model with or without uniaxial single-ion anisotropy. By means of the density matrix renormalization group method, we compute the ground-state energy, the magnetization curves and the correlation functions. We discuss how the ground-state properties depend on the two exchange couplings for orbital and spin sectors. The phase diagram obtained is compared with that for the S=1/2 model. We also address the effect of uniaxial single-ion anisotropy.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Predicting Outcome after total hip and knee replacement Study (POSt) – a prospective observational pilot study
Creators: name: Jeya Palan
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Osteoarthritis causes joint pain over 8.5 million people in the UK and was the primary reason (>95%) for performing over 150,000 hip and knee replacements annually in the NHS. Up to 20% of patients continue to be dissatisfied following surgery. The reasons for this are multi-factorial and remain unclear. The Predicting Outcome Study after total hip and knee replacement (POSt) was designed to predict which patients are likely to have a poor outcome after surgery by assessing psychological factors, patient expectations and using accelerometers to provide an objective measurement of physical activity. The POSt Pilot study was conducted to help determine the general feasibility of the study, evaluate the study protocol, identify any problems with study conduct, assess the use of questionnaires and accelerometers and finally to determine the level of missing data and propose a method for mitigating and managing this in the data analysis plan. The first 100 patients recruited to POSt were included in the pilot with 95 patients having data available for analysis at 6 months postoperatively. The pilot study had a recruitment rate of 30%, consent rate of over 70% and retention rates of 99%. An error with the use of one of the questionnaires (TSK-11) was identified and a plan of action explored to manage this error. Missing data in terms of body mass index (BMI), Oxford hip and knee scores was examined and an analysis plan for managing this issue proposed. Finally, the use of accelerometers in the study was assessed and found to be a valuable method of providing objective measurements of physical activity. In summary, the results of the pilot study showed that the study protocol was appropriate, the study was feasible, the use of the questionnaires and accelerometers acceptable by patients and a missing data analysis plan was developed.
Podocinum pintungense Ho, Ma & Wang 2009
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum pintungense

description: 26. Podocinum pintungense Ho, Ma & Wang, 2009
 Podocinum pintungense Ho, Ma & Wang, 2009: 83.
 Podocinum pintungense.— Yan et al., 2011: 55; 2012: 45.
 Type depository. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan.
 Type locality and habitat. Taiwan, Nanren Shan Mountain, Manzhou, Pingtung, 19 January 2002, in leaf litter.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Modulation of anisotropic magnetoresistance by anomalous Hall signal and its application to real-time domain wall velocity measurement
Creators: name: Bhatt, Ramesh Chandra
name: Cheng, Yo-Yu
name: Ye, Lin-Xiu
name: Hai, Ngo Trong
name: Wu, Jong-Ching
name: Wu, Te-ho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here a way to modulate the anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) by anomalous Hall signal and thus measure the domain wall (DW) motion velocity at near-coercivity. We study the magnetization relaxation at the constant field in the longitudinal (Rxx) Hall geometry. We observed asymmetric Rxx peaks that appear at the DW pinning fields. This unusual magnetoresistance behavior is explained by considering the AMR modulation by the anomalous Hall voltage. In the proposed method, using the magnetization relaxation, the real-time DW velocity measurement is much easier in comparison to the other microscopy methods. Moreover, the additional signal from anomalous Hall voltage makes this technique simpler and sensitive for DW velocity measurements, which can be useful for various spintronic sensing applications.
Conditional nonlinear asset pricing kernels and the size and book-to-market effects
Creators: name: Burke, Stephen Dean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: We develop and test asset pricing model formulations that are simultaneously conditional and nonlinear. Formulations based upon five popular asset pricing models are tested against the widely studied Fama and French (1993) twenty-five size and book-to-market sorted portfolios. Test results indicate that the conditional nonlinear specification of the Fama and French (1993) three state variable model (FF3) is the only specification not rejected by the data and thus capable of pricing the "size" and "book-to-market" effects simultaneously. The pricing performance of the FF3 conditional nonlinear pricing kernel is corifirmed by robustness tests on out-of-sample data as well as tests with alternative instrumental and conditioning variables. While Bansal and Viswanathan (1993) and Chapman (1997) find unconditional nonlinear pricing kernels sufficient to capture the size effect alone, our results indicate that similar unconditional nonlinear pricing kernels considered here do not price the size and book-to-market effects simultaneously. However, nested model tests indicate that, in isolation, both conditioning information and nonlinearity significantly improve the pricing kernel performance for all five asset pricing models. The success of the conditional nonlinear FF3 model also suggests that the combination of conditioning and nonlinearity is critical to pricing kernel design. Implications for both academic researchers and practitioners are considered.
Long life stau in the minimal supersymmetric standard model
Creators: name: Jittoh, Toshifumi
name: Sato, Joe
name: Shimomura, Takashi
name: Yamanaka, Masato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stau lifetime in a scenario with the LSP taken to be a neutralino and the NLSP being a stau, based on the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. The mass difference between the LSP and NLSP, $δm$, must satisfy $δm/m_{\tildeχ} \sim$ a few % or less for coannihilation to occur, where $m_{\tildeχ}$ is the neutralino mass. We calculate the stau lifetime from the decay modes $\tildeτ\to \tildeχτ$, $\tildeχν_τπ$, and $\tildeχν_τμ(e)ν_{μ(e)}$ and discuss its dependence on various parameters. We find that the lifetime is in the range $10^{-22}$--$10^{16}$ sec for $10^{-2} \le δm \le 10$ GeV. We also discuss the connection with lepton flavor violation if there is mixing between sleptons.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
The DIANOGA simulations of galaxy clusters: characterizing star formation in proto-clusters
Creators: name: Bassini, L.
name: Rasia, E.
name: Borgani, S.
name: Granato, G. L.
name: Ragone-Figueroa, C.
name: Biffi, V.
name: Ragagnin, A.
name: Dolag, K.
name: Lin, W.
name: Murante, G.
name: Napolitano, N. R.
name: Taffoni, G.
name: Tornatore, L.
name: Wang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the star formation rate (SFR) in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy (proto-)clusters in the redshift range $0
description: 20 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov calculations for nuclei with tetrahedral deformation
Creators: name: Olbratowski, P.
name: Dobaczewski, J.
name: Powałowski, P.
name: Sadziak, M.
name: Zberecki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov solutions corresponding to the tetrahedral deformation are found in six tetrahedrally doubly-magic nuclei. Values of the beta32 deformation, depths of the tetrahedral minima, and their energies relative to the co-existing quadrupole minima are determined for several versions of the Skyrme force. Reduction of the tetrahedral deformation energies by pairing correlations is quantitatively analysed. In light nuclei, shallow tetrahedral minima are found to be the lowest in energy, while in heavy nuclei, the minima are deeper but appear at a few MeV of excitation.
description: 6 LaTeX pages, 2 PostScript figures, presented at the XII Nuclear Physics Workshop, 21-25 September, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland
Photoisomerization-coupled electron transfer
Creators: name: Sowa, Jakub K.
name: Weiss, Emily A.
name: Seideman, Tamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photochromic molecular structures constitute a unique platform for constructing molecular switches, sensors and memory devices. One of their most promising applications is as light-switchable electron acceptor or donor units. Here, we investigate a previously unexplored process that we postulate may occur in such systems: an ultrafast electron transfer triggered by a simultaneous photoisomerization of the donor or the acceptor moiety. We propose a theoretical model for this phenomenon and, with the aid of DFT calculations, apply it to the case of a dihydropyrene-type photochromic molecular donor. By considering the wavepacket dynamics and the photoisomerization yield, we show that the two processes involved, electron transfer and photoisomerization, are in general inseparable and need to be treated in a unified manner. We finish by discussing how the efficiency of photoisomerization-coupled electron transfer can be controlled experimentally.
description: Accepted in The Journal of Chemical Physics, special issue 65 Years of Electron Transfer
Remark on charge conjugation in the non relativistic limit
Creators: name: Cabo, A.
name: Cervantes, D. B.
name: Rojas, H. Perez
name: Socolovsky, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non relativistic limit of the charge conjugation operation $\cal C$ in the context of the Dirac equation coupled to an electromagnetic field. The limit is well defined and, as in the relativistic case, $\cal C$, $\cal P$ (parity) and $\cal T$ (time reversal) are the generators of a matrix group isomorphic to a semidirect sum of the dihedral group of eight elements and $\Z_2$. The existence of the limit is supported by an argument based in quantum field theory. Also, and most important, the limit exists in the context of galilean relativity. Finally, if one complexifies the Lorentz group and therefore the galilean spacetime $x_μ$, then the explicit form of the matrix for $\cal C$ allows to interpret it, in this context, as the complex conjugation of the spatial coordinates: $\vec{x} \to \vec{x}^*$. This result is natural in a fiber bundle description.
description: 8 pages
Podocinum pugnorum De Leon 1964
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum pugnorum

description: 28. Podocinum pugnorum De Leon, 1964
 Podocinum pugnorum De Leon, 1964: 41.
 Podocinum pugnorum.— Ho et al., 2009: 91; Yan et al., 2012: 45.
 Type depository. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Type locality and habitat. USA, Parrish, Manatee, Florida, 19 October 1960, in litter under citrus tree.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 152, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Dealing with T and CPT violations in mixing as well as direct and indirect CP violations for neutral mesons decaying to two vectors
Creators: name: Karan, Anirban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A large number of observables can be constructed from differential decay rate based on the polarization of final state while considering decay of a neutral meson $(P^0 \text{ or } \bar P^0)$ to two vector particles. But all of these observables are not independent to each other since there are only a few independent theoretical parameters controlling the whole dynamics and therefore various relations among observables emerge. In this paper, we have studied the behaviour of observables for neutral meson decaying to two vectors in presence of T and CPT violations in mixing accompanied by both direct and indirect CP violations. We have expressed all of the fourteen unknown theoretical parameters for this scenario in terms observables only and constructed the complete set of thirty four relations among observables whose violation would signify the existence of some new Physics involving direct violation of CPT. In addition, using this formalism we have studied three special cases too: a) SM scenario, b) SM plus direct CP violation c) SM plus T and CPT violation in mixing.
description: 28 pages