cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Geography and economic growth in Vietnam
Creators: name: Ngo, Thu Hien Laura
name: Santos, Paulo
name: Ngo, Thu Hien Laura
name: Santos, Paulo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: International Development

description: Using panel data from Vietnam, this paper estimates the determinants of consumption growth for the period 2002-04, using a microgrowth model. While controlling for individual heterogeneity, particular attention is devoted to the question of whether geography, broadly defined to include natural and man-made characteristics at the level of the commune, can be responsible for lower growth rates and, consequently, poverty persistence. We find very limited support for this hypothesis. Neither public nor private investment at commune levels seem to have, per se, a significant effect on growth. However, local poverty rate does have an important, nonlinear, relation with growth rate of consumption at individual level, suggesting the importance of local externalities in this process. The policy implications of this finding are discussed.
Compressed 'CMB-lite' Likelihoods Using Automatic Differentiation
Creators: name: Balkenhol, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The compression of multi-frequency cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum measurements into a series of foreground-marginalised CMB-only band powers allows for the construction of faster and more easily interpretable 'lite' likelihoods. However, obtaining the compressed data vector is computationally expensive and yields a covariance matrix with sampling noise. In this work, we present an implementation of the CMB-lite framework relying on automatic differentiation. The technique presented reduces the computational cost of the lite likelihood construction to one minimisation and one Hessian evaluation, which run on a personal computer in about a minute. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of this procedure by applying it to the differentiable SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE likelihood from the candl library. We find good agreement between the marginalised posteriors of cosmological parameters yielded by the resulting lite likelihood and the reference multi-frequency version for all cosmological models tested; the best-fit values shift by $<0.1\,σ$, where $σ$ is the width of the multi-frequency posterior, and the inferred parameter error bars match to within $<10\%$. We publicly release the SPT-3G 2018 TT/TE/EE lite likelihood and a python notebook showing its construction at https://github.com/Lbalkenhol/candl .
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Monetary and fiscal policies under a flexible exchange rate and perfect foresight
Creators: name: Camilleri, Arthur P.
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Foreign exchange Mathematical models
subject: Monetary policy Mathematical models
subject: Fiscal policy Mathematical models

description: This thesis extends the existing literature on the effects of monetary and fiscal policies under a flexible exchange rate regime and perfect foresight. The analysis is conducted .in the context of sluggish adjustment in prices and secular inflation and, in addition, emphasizes the dynamic process of financial wealth accumulation . In doing so , the thesis integrates two alternative approaches in the modelling of systems with an inflationary steady state : first, models which focus on the dynamics of relative prices while limiting the treatment of wealth and portfolio considerations and, second, models which focus on the latter aspects and the process of asset accumulation while ignoring the role of relative prices. A relatively new simulation approach is used in dealing \Vith models containing a ' high- order ' dynamic structure . Through this approach, together with the use of conventional analytical methods, the analysis is carried through a series of models of increasing complexity. The alternative models impose different long-run constraints on the economy , wit h important implications for dynamic stability . A major issue concerns the implications of alternative assumptions regarding the degree of asset substitutability and tradeability for the economy's response to policy shocks . In the various models studied, the short- run and long-run effects of policy actions, as \Veil as the transitional process of adjustment, are examined fully . Particular attention is given to the behaviour of the nominal and real exchange rates .
Additional file 10: of iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic and physiological analysis of the response to N deficiency and the compensation effect in rice
Creators: name: Qiangqiang Xiong
name: Zhong, Lei
name: Tianhua Shen
name: Chaohao Cao
name: Haohua He
name: Xiaorong Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S1. DEP proteinâ protein interaction analysis between NDT and NST at the tillering stage. (DOCX 1128 kb)
Additional file 11: of iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic and physiological analysis of the response to N deficiency and the compensation effect in rice
Creators: name: Qiangqiang Xiong
name: Zhong, Lei
name: Tianhua Shen
name: Chaohao Cao
name: Haohua He
name: Xiaorong Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S2. DEP proteinâ protein interaction analysis between NCP and NSP at the young panicle differentiation stage. (DOCX 265 kb)
High-SNR snapshot multiplex spectrometer with sub-Hadamard-S matrix coding
Creators: name: Zhao, Zhuang
name: Bai, Lianfa
name: Han, Jing
name: Yue, Jiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a robust high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) snapshot multiplex spectrometer with sub-Hadamard-S matrix coding. We demonstrated for the first time that the sub-Hadamard-S matrix coding could provide comparable SNR improvement with Hadamard-S matrix in Hadamard transform spectrometer (HTS). Normally, HTS should change the coding mask to obtain a reasonable spectrum result, causing unexpected time-consuming. An extra imaging path to collect the light intensity of the aperture is added in this paper. Both light intensity of the aperture and overlapped spectra are captured within one shot, turning Hadamard-S matrix coding into sub-Hadamard-S matrix coding. Simulations and experiments show that the proposed method could obtain comparable SNR improvement with the traditional HTS, maintaining snapshot.
Additional file 5: of Addressing challenges in tuberculosis adherence via performance-based payments for integrated case management: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Georgia
Creators: name: Ivdity Chikovani
name: Diaconu, Karin
name: Duric, Predrag
name: Sulaberidze, Lela
name: Uchaneishvili, Maia
name: Mohammed, Nuredin
name: Zoidze, Akaki
name: Witter, Sophie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Steering committee and data management team. (DOCX 14 kb)
On the mass, width and coupling constants of the f0(980)
Creators: name: Escribano, R.
name: Gallegos, A.
name: M., J. L. Lucio
name: Moreno, G.
name: Pestieau, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the pole approach we determine the mass and width of the $f_0(980)$; in particular, we analyze the possibility that two nearby poles are associated to it. We restrict our analysis to a neighborhood of the resonance, using $ππ$ data for the phase shift and inelasticity, and the invariant mass spectrum of the $J/ψ\toϕππ, ϕK\bar K$ decays. The formalism we use is based on unitarity and a generalized version of the Breit-Wigner parameterization. We find that a single pole describes the $f_0(980)$, the precise position depending upon the $ππ$ data used. As a byproduct, values for the $g_{f_0ππ}$ and $g_{f_0K\bar K}$ coupling constants are obtained.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures. A new analysis including the latest pi-pi phase shift data is performed. To be published in Eur. Phys. J. C
Microctonus longitarsi Loan
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus longitarsi

description: M. longitarsi Loan
Figures 72–76
 Microctonus longitarsi Loan, 1969, p 411.
Distribution: North America.
Specimens examined: Twenty-eight from 17 collection events; questionable female identifications: four from four collection events.
Flight period: Approximately 75% from June and July.
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
Projection methods for solving split equilibrium problems
Creators: name: Van Hieu, Dang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65K10, 65K15, 90C33

description: The paper considers a split inverse problem involving component equilibrium problems in Hilbert spaces. This problem therefore is called the split equilibrium problem (SEP). It is known that almost solution methods for solving problem (SEP) are designed from two fundamental methods as the proximal point method and the extended extragradient method (or the two-step proximal-like method). Unlike previous results, in this paper we introduce a new algorithm, which is only based on the projection method, for finding solution approximations of problem (SEP), and then establish that the resulting algorithm is weakly convergent under mild conditions. Several of numerical results are reported to illustrate the convergence of the proposed algorithm and also to compare with others.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures (Accepted for publication on January 24, 2019)
Gauge invariant perturbations in teleparallel Horndeski gravity
Creators: name: Ahmedov, Bobomurat
name: Caruana, Maria
name: Said, Jackson Levi
name: Dialektopoulos, Konstantinos F.
name: Nosirov, Abdurakhmon
name: Oikonomopoulou, Zinovia
name: Yunusov, Odil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present in the form of a catalogue of the cosmological perturbations within the Bahamonde- Dialektopoulos-Levi Said (BDLS) theory, which serves as the teleparallel counterpart of Horndeski gravity. To understand structure formation in cosmological models, it is essential to study both the background and perturbative aspects of their cosmology. While extensive analysis of both Horndeski gravity and its teleparallel analog exists in the literature, a quantitative understanding requires a detailed examination of their cosmological perturbations. We review here all the different gauges for the scalar, vector and tensor perturbations of a cosmological background up to second order and we hope this will help people who work with observations, to incorporate it in existing codes.
description: 29 pages
Surface Tensions between Active Fluids and Solid Interfaces: bare vs dressed
Creators: name: Zakine, Ruben
name: Zhao, Yongfeng
name: Knežević, Miloš
name: Daerr, Adrian
name: Kafri, Yariv
name: Tailleur, Julien
name: van Wijland, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the surface tension exerted at the interface between an active fluid and a solid boundary in terms of tangential forces. Focusing on active systems known to possess an equation of state for the pressure, we show that interfacial forces are of a more complex nature. Using a number of macroscopic setups, we show that the surface tension is a combination of an equation-of-state abiding part and of setup-dependent contributions. The latter arise from generic setup-dependent steady currents which "dress" the measurement of the "bare" surface tension. The former shares interesting properties with its equilibrium counterpart, and can be used to generalize the Young-Laplace law to active systems. We finally show how a suitably designed probe can directly access this bare surface tensions, which can also be computed using a generalized Virial formula.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
American Perspectives Survey: November 2019
Creators: name: Survey Center On American Life
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Religious activities growing up (5); religion you were raised in (1); statements about religion (4); marital status of your parents growing up (1); parents' religious background (1); belief in God (1); romantic partner's religion (1); religious setting of wedding (2); religious activities with your children (6); close friends or family of different demographic groups (5); sharing religious beliefs with loved ones (1); how often you attend religious services (1); identifying with religion (2).
Risk, ambiguity and the adoption of new technologies: experimental evidence from a developing economy
Creators: name: Ross, Nicholas
name: Santos, Paulo
name: Capon, Timothy
name: Ross, Nicholas
name: Santos, Paulo
name: Capon, Timothy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: International Development
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Risk and Uncertainty

description: The slow adoption of innovations in less developed countries has long been a puzzle, given the high expected returns. This paper investigates the role of ambiguity-aversion as a fundamental behavioral determinant of technology adoption, motivated by the fact that, almost by definition, farmers have less certain information about the outcomes of new technologies compared with traditional technologies. Using primary data from field experiments used to measure behavioral parameters such as risk and ambiguity aversion, we find that farmers' aversion to ambiguity (but not risk aversion) limits the adoption of new technologies, even when expected profits are quite high. Interventions that reduce uncertainty (in place of interventions that reduce risk) seem a promising way of speeding up the adoption of innovations.
Advanced configuration of gravitational-wave interferometer on the base of "sensitive mode" in "white-light cavity"
Creators: name: Karapetyan, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel conception of "sensitive mode" (SM) is proposed to apply in gravitational-wave advanced interferometer configuration. The SM is resonant oscillation of electromagnetic field in "white-light cavity", where the resonance line is broadened without decreasing cavity quality. The frequency of the SM is greatly susceptible to the change of cavity length, and the SM is established in a cavity with time constant smaller than a conventional mode. Due to these advantages the sensitivity and bandwidth of AIC can be increased.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Classifying (Weak) Coideal Subalgebras of Weak Hopf C*-Algebras
Creators: name: Vainerman, Leonid
name: Vallin, Jean-Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16T05, 18D10, 46L05

description: We develop a general approach to the problem of classification of weak coideal C*-subalgebras of weak Hopf C*-algebras. As an example, we consider weak Hopf C*-algebras and their weak coideal C*-subalgebras associated with Tambara Yamagami categories.
Lower Bounds on the Quantum Capacity and Highest Error Exponent of General Memoryless Channels
Creators: name: Hamada, Mitsuru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tradeoffs between the information rate and fidelity of quantum error-correcting codes are discussed. Quantum channels to be considered are those subject to independent errors and modeled as tensor products of copies of a general completely positive linear map, where the dimension of the underlying Hilbert space is a prime number. On such a quantum channel, the highest fidelity of a quantum error-correcting code of length $n$ and rate R is proven to be lower bounded by 1 - \exp [-n E(R) + o(n)] for some function E(R). The E(R) is positive below some threshold R', which implies R' is a lower bound on the quantum capacity. The result of this work applies to general discrete memoryless channels, including channel models derived from a physical law of time evolution, or from master equations.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures. Ver.2: Comparisons with the previously known bounds and examples were added. Except for very noisy channels, this work's bound is, in general, better than those previously known. Ver.3: Introduction shortened. Minor changes
Absolute determination of D_s branching ratios and f_{D_s} extraction at a neutrino factory
Creators: name: De Lellis, G.
name: Migliozzi, P.
name: Zucchelli, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for a direct measurement of the exclusive D_s branching ratios and of the decay constant f_{D_s} with a systematical error better than 5% is presented. The approach is based on the peculiar vertex topology of the anti-neutrino induced diffractive charm events. The statistical accuracy achievable with a neutrino factory is estimated.
Real-Time Highly Accurate Dense Depth on a Power Budget using an FPGA-CPU Hybrid SoC
Creators: name: Rahnama, Oscar
name: Cavallari, Tommaso
name: Golodetz, Stuart
name: Tonioni, Alessio
name: Joy, Thomas
name: Di Stefano, Luigi
name: Walker, Simon
name: Torr, Philip H. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Obtaining highly accurate depth from stereo images in real time has many applications across computer vision and robotics, but in some contexts, upper bounds on power consumption constrain the feasible hardware to embedded platforms such as FPGAs. Whilst various stereo algorithms have been deployed on these platforms, usually cut down to better match the embedded architecture, certain key parts of the more advanced algorithms, e.g. those that rely on unpredictable access to memory or are highly iterative in nature, are difficult to deploy efficiently on FPGAs, and thus the depth quality that can be achieved is limited. In this paper, we leverage a FPGA-CPU chip to propose a novel, sophisticated, stereo approach that combines the best features of SGM and ELAS-based methods to compute highly accurate dense depth in real time. Our approach achieves an 8.7% error rate on the challenging KITTI 2015 dataset at over 50 FPS, with a power consumption of only 5W.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, journal
Microctonus melanopus Ruthe
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus melanopus

description: M. melanopus Ruthe
Figures 77–80
 Microctonus melanopus Ruthe, 1856, p 293.
 Perilitus melanopus Haeselbarth, 2008, p 1079.
Distribution: Northwestern U.S. and southwestern Canada; native to Europe.
Specimens examined (North America only): Thirty-one from six collection events; questionable female identifications: 16 from six collection events.
Flight period: April through July.
 Remarks: Microctonus melanopus is of European origin and is expanding its range in North America (Fox et al. 2004).
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
Scalar f0(980) and sigma(500) meson exchange in phi decays into pi0pi0gamma
Creators: name: Bramon, A.
name: Escribano, R.
name: M., J. L. Lucio
name: Napsuciale, M.
name: Pancheri, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complementarity between Chiral Perturbation Theory and the Linear Sigma Model is exploited to study $π^0π^0$ production in $ϕ$ radiative decays, where the effects of the $f_0(980)$ scalar resonance, and those of its more controversial $σ(500)$ partner, should become manifest via the $ϕ\to K^+ K^- (γ)\toπ^0π^0γ$ decay chain. The recently reported data on $ϕ\toπ^0π^0γ$ coming from the VEPP-2M $e^+ e^-$ collider in Novosibirsk and the DA$Φ$NE $ϕ$-factory in Frascati can be reasonably described in our approach, which we propose as a promising first step towards more detailed analyses. The $f_0(980)$ contribution, which appears as a moderately narrow peak at the high part of the dipion mass spectrum, can be interpreted as the isoscalar member of the scalar nonet with a large $f_0 K\bar{K}$ coupling and an $f_0ππ$ coupling suppressed by almost ideal $σ$-$f_0$ mixing. Indeed, the mixing angle in the flavour basis is found to be $ϕ_{S}\approx -6^\circ$, if the $f_0$-propagator is approximated by a simple Breit-Wigner, or $ϕ_{S}\approx -9^\circ$, if an improved two-channel analysis is performed. The $σ(500)$ resonance, which is then strongly coupled to pion pairs, yields a tiny contribution because, in our approach, its coupling to kaon pairs is proportional to $m^2_σ-m^2_K$ and thus quite small.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures; new treatment of the f0 propagator added and Comments on previous work corrected
Public sector overseas borrowing policy in the seventies
Creators: name: De Salis, Anne M
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Loans, Foreign Australia
subject: Debts, External Australia
subject: Public utilities FinanceAustralia
subject: International finance
subject: Australia Economic conditions

description: Up until the seventies, the Commonwealth's post-war overseas borrowing policy was generally considered to be a technical matter best left to the Government's economic experts. Public capital inflow remained relatively unimportant during this period as private capital inflow alone more or less offset Australia's current account deficit and provided the required additional resources for development. In such an environment, the primary objective of official overseas borrowing policy was to provide a relatively continuous but very modest addition to Australia's resources.
SPATIAL INTEGRATION OF MEXICO AND UNITED STATES IN GRAIN MARKET: THE CASE OF MAIZE, WHEAT AND SORGHUM
Creators: name: Jaramillo, Jose Luis
name: Yunez-Naude, Antonio
name: Serrano-Cote, Valeria
name: Jaramillo, Jose Luis
name: Yunez-Naude, Antonio
name: Serrano-Cote, Valeria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: markets
subject: price convergence
subject: structural change
subject: grains

description: Based on agricultural trade liberalization that the Mexican governments began to implement in early 1990s and increasing agricultural trade flows in North America, in this paper we show empirically that trade liberalization between Mexico and United States (U.S.) under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has implied structural change in prices received by Mexican producers of maize, sorghum and wheat, and that this has been accompanied by price convergence with U.S. prices of these crops. Using data on Mexico and U.S. prices from 1981 to 2010, the study provides evidence that trade liberalization has led to greater integration of Mexico-U.S. agricultural markets, specifically of the three major food-crops produced in Mexico, evidenced by the existence of a long-term relationship between the price series analyzed, greater flows of trade, and an increase in the speed of adjustment of domestic prices in response to changes in international prices.
Constraints on the Pre-Big Bang scenario from a cosmological interpretation of the NANOGrav data
Creators: name: Conzinu, P.
name: Fanizza, G.
name: Gasperini, M.
name: Pavone, E.
name: Tedesco, L.
name: Veneziano, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a recently proposed fit of the 15-year data set obtained from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) in terms of a relic stochastic background of primordial gravitons, produced in the context of the string cosmology pre-big bang scenario. We show that such interpretation cannot be reconciled with a phenomenologically viable minimal version of such scenario, while it can be allowed if one considers an equally viable but generalised, non-minimal version of pre-big bang evolution. Maintaining the $S$-duality symmetry throughout the high-curvature string phase is possible although somewhat disfavoured. The implications of this non-minimal scenario for the power spectrum of curvature perturbations are also briefly discussed.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures. Published in JCAP 02 (2025) 039
Comment on "Electron impact excitation and ionization cross section of tungsten ions, W$^{44+}$" by El-Maaref et al. [J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 2019, 224:147]
Creators: name: Aggarwal, K M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper, El-Maaref et al. [J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 2019, 224:147] have reported atomic data for Zn-like W~XLV. Their results are mainly for energy levels, radiative rates, collision strengths ($Ω$) for electron impact excitation, and cross sections for ionization, but for only for a few levels/transitions, and in a very limited range of energy. For the calculations of $Ω$ they have adopted the DARC code. In this comment, through our independent calculations, we demonstrate that their results for $Ω$ are highly underestimated by over two orders of magnitude, and hence are totally unreliable.
description: 4pp including 1 Table and 2 Figures will soon appear in JQSRT (2019)
Distances and classification of amino acids for different protein secondary structures
Creators: name: Liu, Xin
name: Zhang, Li-mei
name: Guan, Shan
name: Zheng, Wei-Mou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Window profiles of amino acids in protein sequences are taken as a description of the amino acid environment. The relative entropy or Kullback-Leibler distance derived from profiles is used as a measure of dissimilarity for comparison of amino acids and secondary structure conformations. Distance matrices of amino acid pairs at different conformations are obtained, which display a non-negligible dependence of amino acid similarity on conformations. Based on the conformation specific distances clustering analysis for amino acids is conducted.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
Sealed Computation: Abstract Requirements for Mechanisms to Support Trustworthy Cloud Computing
Creators: name: Abdullah, Lamya
name: Freiling, Felix
name: Quintero, Juan
name: Benenson, Zinaida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In cloud computing, data processing is delegated to a remote party for efficiency and flexibility reasons. A practical user requirement usually is that the confidentiality and integrity of data processing needs to be protected. In the common scenarios of cloud computing today, this can only be achieved by assuming that the remote party does not in any form act maliciously. In this paper, we propose an approach that avoids having to trust a single entity. Our approach is based on two concepts: (1) the technical abstraction of sealed computation, i.e., a technical mechanism to confine the processing of data within a tamper-proof hardware container, and (2) the additional role of an auditing party that itself cannot add functionality to the system but is able to check whether the system (including the mechanism for sealed computation) works as expected. We discuss the abstract technical and procedural requirements of these concepts and explain how they can be applied in practice.
Additional file 6 of Development and validation of a robust immune-related prognostic signature in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Wu, Pancheng
name: Zheng, Yi
name: Wang, Yanyu
name: Wang, Yadong
name: Liang, Naixin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6: Table S6. The specific risk score formula using in this study.
Cylinder-Specific Model-Based Control of Combustion Phasing for Multiple-Cylinder Diesel Engines Operating with High Dilution and Boost Levels
Creators: name: Sui, Wenbo
name: Hall, Carrie M.
name: Kapadia, Gina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Accurate control of combustion phasing is indispensable for diesel engines due to the strong impact of combustion timing on efficiency. In this work, a non-linear combustion phasing model is developed and integrated with a cylinder-specific model of intake gas. The combustion phasing model uses a knock integral model, a burn duration model and a Wiebe function to predict CA50 (the crank angle at which 50% of the mass of fuel has burned). Meanwhile, the intake gas property model predicts the EGR fraction and the in-cylinder pressure and temperature at intake valve closing (IVC) for different cylinders. As such, cylinder-to-cylinder variation of the pressure and temperature at intake valves closing is also considered in this model. This combined model is simplified for controller design and validated. Based on these models, two combustion phasing control strategies are explored. The first is an adaptive controller that is designed for closed-loop control and the second is a feedforward model-based control strategy for open-loop control. These two control approaches were tested in simulations for all six cylinders and the results demonstrate that the CA50 can reach steady state conditions within 10 cycles. In addition, the steady state errors are less than +/-0.1 crank angle degree (CAD) with the adaptive control approach, and less than +/-1.3 CAD with feedforward model-based control. The impact of errors on the control algorithms is also discussed in the paper.
description: nternational Journal of Engine Research, 2018
Blocking Active-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations in the Early Universe with a Majoron Field
Creators: name: Bento, Luis
name: Berezhiani, Zurab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new mechanism to block the active-sterile neutrino oscillations in the Early Universe. We show that a typical consequence of theories where the lepton number is spontaneously broken is the existence of a coherent cosmological Majoron field with a strength proportional to the lepton and baryon numbers of the Universe. This field interacts with leptons and changes the potentials relevant for neutrino oscillations. If the scale of lepton number symmetry breaking is of the order of 1 GeV then a Majoron field and lepton number asymmetry of the order of the baryon asymmetry are strong enough to block the active-sterile neutrino oscillations with the atmospheric neutrino mass gap which otherwise would bring the sterile neutrino into equilibrium at the big bang nucleosynthesis epoch.
description: 15 pages, revtex; v3 to match PRD paper
Scattering of heavy charged particles on hydrogen atoms
Creators: name: Lazauskas, R.
name: Carbonell, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low energy scattering of heavy positively charged particles on hydrogen atoms (H) are investigated by solving the Faddeev equations in configuration space. A resonant value of the pH scattering length, $a=750\pm 5$ a.u., in the pp antisymmetric state was found. This large value indicates the existence of a first excited state with a binding energy B=1.14$\times10^{-9}$ a.u. below the H ground state. Several resonances for non zero angular momenta states are predicted.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, contribution to International Workshop "Dynamics and structure of critically stable quantum few-body systems" held at Les Houches, France, October 8-13, 2001. To appear in Few-Body Physics
Estimation of Tariff Equivalent for NTM on Brazilian beef exports to the European Union
Creators: name: Sbarai, Nathalia
name: Miranda, Silvia Helena Galvao De
name: Sbarai, Nathalia
name: Miranda, Silvia Helena Galvao De
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Tariff-equivalent
subject: non-tariff measure
subject: heterogeneity
subject: beef
subject: trade

description: In this paper, we estimate the tariff equivalent of NTMs considering the beef trade between Brazil and the EU. The literature review points out a considerable number of requirements that affect beef trade. The tariff equivalents are estimated for the period of 2000 to 2009, for frozen and fresh beef, bone and boneless. Two models are estimated, assuming homogeneity and heterogeneity of goods, and following, respectively, the methodology proposed by Deardorff and Stern (1997) and Yue, Beghin and Jensen (2005). In general, we observe high values for the tariff equivalents, i.e., the European domestic prices and the world prices actually differ, which could indicate that the European beef market has been protected by NTMs.
description: This paper is part of the first author´s dissertation (Master degree).
Microctonus muesebecki Loan
Creators: name: Pucci, Thomas M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Microctonus
Microctonus muesebecki

description: M. muesebecki Loan
Figures 85–88
 Microctonus muesebecki Loan, 1967, p 234.
 Microctonus barri Loan, 1969, p 413. n. syn.
Distribution: Southern Canada, eastern and central U.S., and Mexico.
Specimens examined: Four hundred and three from 155 collection events; questionable female identifications: 53 from 37 collection events.
Flight period: Approximately 80% (of collection events) from May through August.
 Remarks: The intraspecific variation for this species is rather high. Indeed, several specimens have been identified as M. mellinus, M. eleodis, and M. carabivorus by a number of taxonomists.
 The type material of M. barri have pronounced carinae in the depression of the ventral mesosoma in contrast to most specimens of M. muesebecki which have an absence or less pronounced carinae in the depression. Similarly, measurements of M. barri are in the range of M. muesebecki but are larger than average.
description: Published as part of Pucci, Thomas M., 2013, Contributions to the classification of North American Microctonus (Braconidae, Euphorinae), pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 3725 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3725.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5268043
Additional file 4: of Addressing challenges in tuberculosis adherence via performance-based payments for integrated case management: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Georgia
Creators: name: Ivdity Chikovani
name: Diaconu, Karin
name: Duric, Predrag
name: Sulaberidze, Lela
name: Uchaneishvili, Maia
name: Mohammed, Nuredin
name: Zoidze, Akaki
name: Witter, Sophie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Project timeline, data collection matrix and tools. (DOCX 33 kb)
Class, capital and spatial differentiation in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Fahey, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Social classes Papua New Guinea
subject: Papua New Guinea Social conditions

description: The broad theme of this thesis is the analysis of increasing social and spatial differentiation in Papua New Guinea. More specifically, the thesis investigates how people of different regions respond to new forms of capital. and examines the importance of class and gender relations. The analysis of regional diversity considers an alternative methodology for inter- regional and intra-regional comparisons of socio-economic well-being. The analysis is conducted at two spatial scales: the inter-regional comparison of Coastal Madang. Goroka Valley and the Middle Sepik; and the intra- regional comparison of the peri-urban villages, Karkar Island and Bagabag Island within Coastal Madang. Statistical data and secondary sources are used to investigate the inter-regional dirnension whereas fieldwork informs the local level analysis . Different and complex combinations of class relations exist in the three regions. The emergence of regional class formations is determined primarily by the history of layers of capital invested in the region and the influence of the state in that process. Social relations from the pre-capitalist social formation appear to be more persistent and influential in some regions than in others. The ecological base sets the pre-conditions for but does not determine the course of socioeconomic development in each region. Although class relations are an important form of social inequality, gender inequalities are also profound. No consistent relationship was found between class and gender. In some cases gender relations actively determined the nature of emerging productive relations while in others they passively adjusted. Detailed case studies illustrate people's involvement in new forms of productive activity thereby altering the sexual division of labour. Nevertheless. patriarchy persists everywhere.
Photon production by a quark gluon plasma
Creators: name: Gelis, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk, I review the status of the calculation of the photon production rate in a hot quark-gluon plasma. Particular emphasis is given to the discussion of the various length scales of the problem.
description: Based on talks given at Quark Matter 2001, January 2001, Stony Brook, USA and at 36th Rencontres de Moriond, March 2001, Les Arcs, France (4 pages LaTeX document, 3 postscript figures)
Economic Impacts of Huanglongbing Disease in São Paulo State
Creators: name: Miranda, Silvia Helena Galvao De
name: Adami, Andreia Cristina De Oliveira
name: Bassanezi, Renato B.
name: Miranda, Silvia Helena Galvao De
name: Adami, Andreia Cristina De Oliveira
name: Bassanezi, Renato B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Citrus
subject: Benefit-Cost Analysis
subject: phytosanitary program
subject: Brazil

description: The main objective of this paper is to estimate the potential impacts of the increasing dissemination of the Huanglongbing (HLB) disease in citrus orchards in São Paulo State, Brazil, which is the largest world producer of orange juice and to discuss the importance of phytosanitary programs in order to control the disease’s spreading in the territory. The methodology applied to evaluate the impacts and to discuss the importance of phytossanitary programs is the Cost-Benefit Analysis approach. A model has been used to project the orchard size and production along 20 years as well as to estimate the costs of production and disease control for the same period. Some assumptions have been made about the disease spread, prices and other variables for two basic scenarios: one considering the presence of an official phytosanitary program to eradicate and control the HLB, jointly implemented by Fundecitrus, which is a private institution; and the second one without the official program. The revenues for each scenario have been estimated and accumulated for 20 years, likewise the costs. The losses caused by the HLB considered to evaluate the avoided losses in the scenarios comprised basically those related to production reduction (yield) and reduction of the orchards’ size. Cost-benefit ratios have been calculated for both scenarios. Regarding the CBA results for economic impacts, we found that for each Real invested by government and by Fundecitrus in the phytosanitary program, there is an avoided loss that amounts to R$ 57.3, which consists on a very high benefit-cost ratio for this kind of investment. When the additional costs imposed to farmers to manage the HLB is computed in the CBA analysis, the ratio falls to 4.6, however it is still higher than one, indicating that this phytosanitary “investment” is recommendable. Despite criticisms on this approach and the assumptions made, it provides elements to decision making, for both public and private actors and it allows having some approximation of impacts. Estimating those impacts is relevant to prove policy makers that phytosanitary policy has a high net benefit for society. It is worth-mentioning that other economic and social losses might be incorporated in the analysis.
Additional file 1 of Detection and characterization of rice orange leaf phytoplasma infection in rice and Recilia dorsalis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaofeng
name: Ji, Zhenxi
name: Huang, Zhejun
name: Zhao, Yibing
name: Wang, Huanqin
name: Jiang, Zhoumian
name: Li, Zhanpeng
name: Chen, Hongyan
name: Chen, Wenle
name: Wei, Taiyun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The alignment of Imp amino acid sequences from different phytoplasmas. The alignment of Imp amino acid sequences from ROLP (WP_071345699.1), maize bushy stunt phytoplasma (WP_069028105.1), aster yellows phytoplasma (WP_130427454.1), rapeseed phyllody phytoplasma (QKX95641.1), chrysanthemum yellows phytoplasma (WP_034172217.1), 'Chrysanthemum coronarium' phytoplasma (WP_011160959.1), 'Elaeagnus angustifolia' witches’ broom phytoplasma (MBT1576836.1), porcelain vine witches’ broom phytoplasma (WP_219475381.1), mulberry dwarf phytoplasma (WP_227807050.1), and hydrangea phyllody phytoplasma (WP_212775527.1) was performed using DNAMAN. The amino acid sequences of polypeptide for IMP2 antibody generation were indicated by red box. Figure S2. Electron micrographs showing multiplication of ROLPs in rice phloem to produce offspring. a ROLPs of various sizes associated with Imp-specific antibody. b–d Budding strategy used by ROLPs to produce offspring. Cellular protrusions of ROLPs (b) are gradually enlarged to initiate the formation of a bud (c). Offspring are then produced by fission at their junctions (d). CP, cellular protrusion. Scale bars, 100 nm.
Stericta angustalis Caradja 1925
Creators: name: Rong, Hua
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Stericta
Stericta angustalis

description: Stericta angustalis Caradja, 1925
 Stericta angustalis Caradja, 1925: 314. TL: China (Guangdong).
 Diagnosis. This species is similar to S. digitata sp. nov. in the forewing with the basal 1/4 black, the median area having a white rectangular patch, and the distal area grayish green. It can be distinguished from the latter species by the forewing with a small black triangular patch at basal 1/3 on the dorsum, which is absent in S. digitata sp. nov.
Material examined. None.
Distribution. China (Guangdong).
description: Published as part of Rong, Hua & Li, Houhun, 2017, Taxonomic study of the genus Stericta Lederer (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Epipaschiinae) from China, pp. 463-475 in Zoological Systematics 42 (4) on page 472, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201721, http://zenodo.org/record/5366609
An analysis of the extended mean Gini coefficient as an alternative measure of risk in investment decision making under uncertainty
Creators: name: Okunev, John Uwe
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Gini coefficient
subject: Investments Mathematical models
subject: Risk assessment

description: The methods traditionally used for comparing uncertain prospects in investment decision making under uncertainty are the mean variance and the stochastic dominance approaches. Yitzhaki (1982) has recently presented an alternative model based upon the extended mean Gini coefficient (EMG) to compare uncertain prospects. The EMG model possesses the attractive features of each of the mean variance and stochastic dominance models without their apparent disadvantages. The EMG model has simplicity of a two parameter model and EMG efficiency implies second order stochastic dominance. Theoretically the EMG model is consistent with the behaviour of investors under conditions of uncertainty for a wider class of probability distributions, and thus appears to be more adequate than variance as a measure of risk. This study empirically compares the EMG model with that of the mean variance model with respect to, the generation of efficient frontiers, capital asset pricing, portfolio performance and farm planning under uncertainty. The major finding of the study is that the extended mean Gini coefficient is a viable alternative to variance as a measure of risk.