cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Comparison of alternative approaches for difference, noninferiority, and equivalence testing of normal percentiles
Creators: name: Shieh, Gwowen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2. SAS/IML program for computing required sample size for percentile test of difference.
The Market for R&D Failures
Creators: name: Shalem, Roy
name: Trajtenberg, Manuel
name: Shalem, Roy
name: Trajtenberg, Manuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: R&D
subject: Patent Races
subject: Cooperation
subject: Licensing
subject: Contract Theory

description: The informational structure of R&D is characterized by the fact that rms are exposed to more information related to R&D successes of their competitors than to one that reveals their failures. This paper theoretically explores the feasibility of trading knowledge of R&D failures. The implications of constructing a market for R&D failures are substantive, in that they may decrease the effective cost of R&D, shorten the average time to discovery and increase the number of active R&D projects. We present the conditions required for a mutually bene cial trading of R&D failures information between competitors, as well as design trading mechanisms and policy implications that would account for obstacles such as moral hazard, verication, over-investment and private gains.
Pheroliodidae Paschoal 1987
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Pheroliodidae

description: Family Pheroliodidae   Lopholiodes diamantei Fernández & Cleva, 1999
 Larva: Fernández & Cleva 1999 (Ds, FB, FEx)
 Protonymph: Fernández & Cleva 1999 (Ds, FB, FEx)
 Deutonymph: Fernández & Cleva 1999 (Ds, FB, FEx)
 Tritonymph: Fernández & Cleva 1999 (Ds, FB)
 Malgacheliodes guillaumeti Fernández & Cleva, 2010
 Larva: Fernández & Cleva 2010 (Ds, FB, LSF, FEx)
 Protonymph: Fernández & Cleva 2010 (Ds, FB, LSF, FEx)
 Deutonymph: Fernández & Cleva 2010 (Ds, FB, LSF, FEx)
 Tritonymph: Fernández & Cleva 2010 (Ds, FB LSF, FEx)
 Pheroliodes inca Fernández et al., 1991
 Protonymph: Fernández et al. 1991 (Ds, FB, LSF)
 Deutonymph: Fernández et al. 1991 (Ds, FB, LSF)
 Tritonymph: Fernández et al. 1991 (Ds, FB, LSF)
 Pheroliodes mirabilis (Hammer, 1958)
 Tritonymph: Fernández 1987 (Ds, LSF)
 Pheroliodes roblensis Covarrubias, 1968
 Larva: Covarrubias 1968 (Ds, FB, FGn, FLg, LSF)
 Protonymph: Covarrubias 1968 (Ds, LSF)
 Deutonymph: Covarrubias 1968 (Ds, LSF)
 Tritonymph: Covarrubias 1968 (Ds, FB, FLg, LSF)
 Pheroliodes wehnckei (Willmann, 1930)
 Larva: Grandjean 1964a (Ds, FB, FLg, LSF)
 Protonymph: Grandjean 1964a (Ds, FB, LSF)
 Deutonymph: Grandjean 1964a (Ds, FB, FLg, LSF)
 Tritonymph: Grandjean 1964a (Ds, FB, FLg, LSF)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
Fermion Mass Hierarchies from Modular Symmetry
Creators: name: King, Simon J. D.
name: King, Stephen F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how quark and lepton mass hierarchies can be reproduced in the framework of modular symmetry. The mechanism is analogous to the Froggatt-Nielsen (FN) mechanism, but without requiring any Abelian symmetry to be introduced, nor any Standard Model (SM) singlet flavon to break it. The modular weights of fermion fields play the role of FN charges, and SM singlet fields with non-zero modular weight called weightons play the role of flavons. We illustrate the mechanism by analysing $A_4$ (modular level 3) models of quark and lepton (including neutrino) masses and mixing, with a single modulus field. We discuss two examples in some detail, both numerically and analytically, showing how both fermion mass and mixing hierarchies emerge from different aspects of the modular symmetry.
description: 30 pages, matches version published in JHEP
Imperfect Information, Self-Selection and the Market for Higher Education
Creators: name: Regev, Tali
name: Regev, Tali
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper introduces and explores signalling in the market for education based on heterogeneity in the returns to education rather than heterogeneity in costs. Workers of heterogeneous abilities face the same costs, yet a larger proportion of able individuals self-select to attend college since they are more likely to get higher returns. With imperfect information, the skill premium is an outcome which depends on the equilibrium quality of college attendees and non attendees. Incorporating a production function of college education, I discuss the properties of the college market equilibrium. A skill-biased technical change directly decreases self-selection into college, but the general equilibrium effect may overturn the direct decline, since increased enrollment and rising tuition costs increase self-selection. Higher initial human capital has an external effect on subsequent investment in school: All agents increase their education, and the higher equilibrium tuition costs increase self-selection and the college premium. This model can help explain the steady trends in increasing tuition costs, college enrollment, and the college wage gap through its relationship to the quality of college graduates. It suggests that the signaling role of education might be an important yet largely neglected ingredient in these recent changes.
Political Support and Tax Compliance: A Social Interaction Approach
Creators: name: Fershtman, Chaim
name: Lipatov, Vilen
name: Fershtman, Chaim
name: Lipatov, Vilen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: tax evasion
subject: political opinion
subject: social interaction

description: People may express their political opinion by adopting different measures of civil disobedience. Tax compliance is an example of an economic decision that may be affected by anti-goverment sentiment. We consider a model in which political opinion as well as tax compliance decisions are both formed as part of a social interaction process in which individuals interact, exchange ideas and observe behavior. Tax compliance is affected by the level of government support and political opinion may be affected by government's auditing policy. The government's role is to set a social spending program which is viewed differently by rich and poor individuals. The paper focuses on the interdependence between tax compliance, government's social policies and political support, embedding this interdependence in a dynamic social interaction process.
Dynamics and Stellar Content of the Giant Southern Stream in M31. I. Keck Spectroscopy of Red Giant Stars
Creators: name: Guhathakurta, Puragra
name: Rich, R. Michael
name: Reitzel, David B.
name: Cooper, Michael C.
name: Gilbert, Karoline M.
name: Majewski, Steven R.
name: Ostheimer, James C.
name: Geha, Marla C.
name: Johnston, Kathryn V.
name: Patterson, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a large spectroscopic survey of M31 red giants using the Keck telescope/DEIMOS. Photometric pre-screening, based on the 100A-wide DDO51 band centered on the Mgb/MgH feature, was used to select spectroscopic targets. Red giant candidates were targeted in a small field on M31's giant southern tidal stream at a projected distance of 31kpc from the galaxy center. We isolate a clean sample of 68 giants by removing contaminants (foreground Galactic dwarfs and background galaxies) using spectroscopic, imaging, and photometric methods. About 65% of the M31 stars are found to be members of the stream, while the rest appear to be members of the general halo population. The mean (heliocentric) radial velocity of the stream in our field is -458 km/s, or -158 km/s relative to M31's systemic velocity, in good agreement with recent measurements at other stream locations. The intrinsic velocity dispersion of the stream is constrained to be 15_{-15}^{+8} km/s (90% confidence limits). The companion paper by Font et al. (2004, astro-ph/0406146) discusses possible orbits, implications of the coldness of the stream, and progenitor satellite properties. The kinematics (and perhaps [Fe/H] distribution) of our halo sample indicate that it is different from other M31 halo samples; this may be an indication of substructure in the halo. The stream seems to have a higher mean [Fe/H] than the halo, -0.51 vs -0.74 dex, and a smaller [Fe/H] spread. The stream's high metallicity implies that its progenitor must have been a luminous dwarf galaxy. The CaII triplet strengths of the M31 giants are generally consistent with photometric estimates of their metallicity (derived by fitting RGB fiducials in the color-magnitude diagram). There is indirect evidence of intermediate-age stars in the stream.
description: 45 pages, 12 figures, 1 table; submitted to the Astronomical Journal; full PS version of paper at http://www.ucolick.org/~raja/Guhathakurta.ps
Liquidity Constraints of the Middle Class
Creators: name: Campbell, Jeffrey R.
name: Hercowitz, Zvi
name: Campbell, Jeffrey R.
name: Hercowitz, Zvi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: The consumption of households with liquid nancial assets responds much more to transitory income shocks than the permanent-income hypothesis predicts. That is, middle class households with assets act as if they face liquidity constraints. This paper addresses this puzzling observation with a model of impatient households that face a large recurring expenditure. In spite of impatience, they save as this expenditure draws near. We call such saving made in preparation for a foreseeable event at a given future date \term saving". Term saving reverses the role of assets in the presence of liquidity constraints. Typically, assets grow following past lucky events; thus assets imply an abundance of liquidity. Here, assets indicate an impending need for funds and a short- age of liquidity. The borrowing constraint will bind at the time of the expenditure, and assets will then be zero. This separates planning up to that time from the rest of the household's lifetime and thereby shortens its eective horizon. Intertemporal substitution over a limited period generates a strong consumption response to tempo- rary income changes. As the expenditure approaches, the eective horizon shortens further and the household accumulates assets. Hence, households with more assets have larger consumption responses. We compare a calibrated version of the model with observations from the 2001 U.S. tax rebate and with evidence on excess smoothness and persistence of aggregate consumption.
Eremobelbidae Balogh 1961
Creators: name: Norton, Roy A.
name: Ermilov, Sergey G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Eremobelbidae

description: Family Eremobelbidae   Eremobelba geographica Berlese, 1908
 Larva: Bulanova-Zachvatkina & Shereef 1970 (DT, Cul); Shereef 1971b (DT, Cul, Fd); Shereef 1972 (DT, Cul, Fd)
 Protonymph: Bulanova-Zachvatkina & Shereef 1970 (DT, Cul); Shereef 1971b (DT, Cul, Fd); Shereef 1972 (DT, Cul, Fd)
 Deutonymph: Bulanova-Zachvatkina & Shereef 1970 (DT, Cul); Shereef 1971b (DT, Cul, Fd); Shereef 1972 (DT, Cul, Fd)
 Tritonymph: Bulanova-Zachvatkina & Shereef 1970 (DT, Cul); Shereef 1971b (DT, Cul, Fd); Shereef 1972 (DT, Cul, Fd); Weigmann 2006 (FB)
 Eremobelba gracilior Berlese, 1908
 Larva: Hartenstein 1962b (Ds, FB, FEx)
 Protonymph: Hartenstein 1962b (Ds, FB, FLg)
 Deutonymph: Hartenstein 1962b (Ds, FB, FLg)
 Tritonymph: Hartenstein 1962b (Ds, FB)
 N.B. As Eremobelba nervosa Hartenstein
 Eremobelba foliata Hammer, 1958
 Larva: Hammer 1961 (FEx)
 Protonymph: Hammer 1961 (Ds, FB)
description: Published as part of Norton, Roy A. & Ermilov, Sergey G., 2014, Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), pp. 1-132 in Zootaxa 3833 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5122134
CII* Absorption in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: (II) A New Window on the Star Formation History of the Universe
Creators: name: Wolfe, Arthur M.
name: Gawiser, Eric
name: Prochaska, Jason X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from the SFR per unit physical area, determined for DLAs using the C II* method, we obtain the SFR per unit comoving volume at $z$ $\approx$ 3, and find that it agrees with that for the Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs). Though the mass of produced stars indicated by the SFRs is consistent with the current densities of known stellar populations, the mass of metals produced by $z$=2.5 is 30 times larger than detected in absorption in DLAs. The most likely solutions to this ``missing metals'' problem is that star formation occurs in compact bulge regions. We search for evidence of feedback and find no correlations between the SFR per unit area and N(H I), but possible correlations between SFR per unit area and low-ion velocity width and SFR per unit area and metal abundance. We show that (a) the correlation between cooling rate and dust-to-gas ratio is positive evidence for grain photoelectric heating, (b) the CMB does not significantly populate the C II excited fine-structure states, and (c) the ratio of CII* to resonance-line optical depths is a sensitive probe of the multi-phase structure of the DLA gas. We address recent arguments that DLAs are comprised only of WNM gas, and show them to be inconclusive. Despite the rough agreement between SFR per unit comoving volume for DLAs and LBGs, current evidence indicates these are distinct populations.
Effects of Trade on Female Labor Force Participation
Creators: name: Saure, Philip
name: Zoabi, Hosny
name: Saure, Philip
name: Zoabi, Hosny
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Trade
subject: Female Labor Force Participation
subject: Fertility
subject: Technological Change

description: This paper uncovers a counter-intuitive effect of international trade on female labor shares: whenever trade expands, sectors intensive in female labor, female labor shares drop and vice versa. According to our key assumption a rising capital labor ratio closes the gender wage gap. The paper’s mechanism operates as follows. Expansions of sectors intensive in female labor come along with contractions of sectors intensive in male labor. These contractions imply that male labor reallocates to sectors intensive in female labor. The capital labor ratio in the latter sectors drops, which widens the gender wage gap and causes a decrease in aggregate female labor shares. Based on instrumented U.S.-Mexican trade flows, we provide empirical evidence in support of our theory.
Aharonov-Bohm phase as quantum gate in two-electron charge qubits
Creators: name: Weichselbaum, A.
name: Ulloa, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the singlet-triplet splitting on a planar array of quantum dots coupled capacitively to a set of external voltage gates. The system is modelled using an extended Hubbard Hamiltonian keeping two excess electrons on the array. The voltage dependence of the low-energy singlet and triplet states is analyzed using the Feshbach formalism. The formation of a well decoupled two-level system in the ground state is shown to rely on the fact of having two particles in the system. Coherent operation of the array is studied with respect to single quantum bit operations. One quantum gate is implemented via voltage controls, while for the necessary second quantum gate, a uniform external magnetic field is introduced. The Aharonov-Bohm phases on the closed loop tunnel connections in the array are used to effectively suppress the tunneling, despite a constant tunneling amplitude in the structure. This allows one to completely stall the qubit in any arbitrary quantum superposition, providing full control of this interesting quantum system.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures (submitted to PRB)
Similarity Isometries of Point Packings
Creators: name: Arias, Jeanine Concepcion H.
name: Loquias, Manuel Joseph C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C07, 52C05, 11H06, 82D25

description: A linear isometry $R$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$ is called a similarity isometry of a lattice $Γ\subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ if there exists a positive real number $β$ such that $βRΓ$ is a sublattice of (finite index in) $Γ$. The set $βRΓ$ is referred to as a similar sublattice of $Γ$. A (crystallographic) point packing generated by a lattice $Γ$ is a union of $Γ$ with finitely many shifted copies of $Γ$. In this study, the notion of similarity isometries is extended to point packings. We provide a characterization for the similarity isometries of point packings and identify the corresponding similar subpackings. Planar examples will be discussed, namely, the $1 \times 2$ rectangular lattice and the hexagonal packing (or honeycomb lattice). Finally, we also consider similarity isometries of point packings about points different from the origin by studying similarity isometries of shifted point packings. In particular, similarity isometries of a certain shifted hexagonal packing will be computed and compared with that of the hexagonal packing.
description: 16 pages; 7 figures; Theorem 3.1, Corollary 3.5 and Proposition 3.6 in original version were incorrect
A Real Model of the Israeli Economy
Creators: name: Friedman, Amit
name: Hercowitz, Zvi
name: Friedman, Amit
name: Hercowitz, Zvi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Development

description: This paper presents a real open-economy model of the Israeli economy. The model is designed to perform quarterly macroeconomic forecasts and fiscal policy experiments. This is illustrated by the analyses of pre-announced tax cuts and lowering the public debt target – policies which were adopted during the fiscal consolidation process in Israel during the 2000s. The model is neoclassical in nature, but with some non-standard features such as a liquidity effect on nondurable consumption and on durable goods purchases. It includes dynamic optimization of households and firms, and a government which determines expenditures given exogenous tax rates and a public debt target. The model is estimated using the sample of the last decade. The quantitative results include the following: (i) Announcements of future income tax cuts have a simultaneous expansionary effect via consumer demand, but, at the time of implementation, the necessary cuts in government expenditure have a contractionary effect. (ii) The fiscal multiplier is relatively low, 0.4, a result that stems from the openness of the economy and the substitution between GDP and imports. (iii) The economy is sensitive to external world trade shocks that affect not only exports but also private consumption through the wealth and liquidity effects.
Photoproduction of isolated photons, single hadrons and jets at NLO
Creators: name: Heinrich, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photoproduction of large-p_T charged hadrons and of prompt photons is discussed, for the inclusive case and with an associated jet, using predictions from the NLO partonic Monte Carlo program EPHOX. Comparisons to recent HERA data are also shown.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, Invited talk at the Ringberg Workshop "New Trends in HERA Physics 2003", Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, September 28 - October 3, 2003
Quasimodular forms as solutions of Modular differential equations
Creators: name: Grabner, Peter J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F11 34A05

description: We study quasimodular forms of depth $\leq4$ and determine under which conditions they occur as solutions of modular differential equations. Furthermore, we study which modular differential equations have quasimodular solutions. We use these results to investigate extremal quasimodular forms as introduced by M. Kaneko and M. Koike further. Especially, we prove a conjecture stated by these authors concerning the divisors of the denominators occurring in their Fourier expansion.
Socioeconomic analysis of fish seed multiplication farm (FSMF) owners in selected areas of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Quddas, M. A.
name: Alauddin, M.
name: Rahman, M. S.
name: Quddas, M. A.
name: Alauddin, M.
name: Rahman, M. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Fish seed farming
subject: Farmer's background
subject: Sources of fund
subject: Farming problems

description: A survey on fish seed farms was conducted to know the socioeconomic background of farm owners, characteristics of farms, sources of funds, returns and constraints of fish seed farming. Fish seed farm owners having hatchery facilities were financially stronger, well-educated and well-trained than only nursery pond owners. But only nursery pond owners were more experienced in fish seed business than hatchery owners. Most of the owners (>80%) were satisfied for the limnological conditions of their ponds and existing communication facilities; most of them also had integrated farming facilities. In general, hatchery and nursery owners received highest prices of spawn and fry and fingerlings at the start of the season and the prices gradually drop off upto the end of the season. Problem of marketing of spawn and fry and fingerlings was one of the major problems as claimed by the owners. These problems could be solved by ensuring proper marketing facilities, providing soft loan to poor owners, ensuring proper training for the farm employees and improving law and order situations of the country. However, fish seed farm owners expressed that fish seed business was a profitable one.
title: The foundation for a definition: an analytic analysis of the framework of practice in which art is made
Creators: name: Rowe, Matthew
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: The thesis provides an analysis of what any definition of 'art' that hopes to be extensionally adequate must include within its scope. The presumption throughout is that extension of art at any one time is that which is to be explained so that its intension should be discovered from its extension. The analysis proceeds through analysing how agents make artworks and what sorts of entities artworks are, in order to provide a framework within which any proffered definition, or objection to a definitional project, must operate. Thus, the point is not to critically examine the range of definitions already on offer but to set out those features of artistic practice that require inclusion within any definitional project. This project begins through demonstrating the inadequacy of empirical theories, through thought experiments using the method of indiscemibles drawn from the writings of Arthur Danto. This, in a modified form, is used throughout the thesis. There then follows an attempt to discover the most extreme cases with which a definition will need to contend through an investigation into the minimal limits of how artworks can be made and what things can be artworks. The result is that artworks have to be made so that they are identifiable as a distinct entity within a determinate category of art. A new form of'post-empirical minimalism' that will provide classificatory limit for post-empirical definitions in terms of artistic and other relational properties is identified and defended. The thesis closes with a proposal for simple ontology of art, consistent with the framework of making set out in the preceding chapters and which can be applied to many different definitional projects and which places the ontology of even the most avant-garde parts of artistic practice within the same basic categories of artwork ascanonical artworks.
The z=2.51 Extremely Red Submillimeter Galaxy SMMJ04431+0210
Creators: name: Frayer, D. T.
name: Armus, L.
name: Scoville, N. Z.
name: Blain, A. W.
name: Reddy, N. A.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Smail, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the redshift measurement for the submillimeter selected galaxy SMMJ04431+0210 (N4) using the Near Infrared Spectrograph on the Keck-II telescope. The data show H-alpha, [NII]6583,6548, and [OIII]5007 lines at a redshift of z=2.51. The high nuclear [NII]/H-alpha line ratio is consistent with a LINER or Type-II AGN. The H-alpha emission is spatially resolved, suggesting the presence of significant star-forming activity outside the nucleus. From imaging with the Near Infrared Camera on the Keck-I telescope, we find an extremely red near-infrared color of J-K=3.2 for N4. Follow-up redshifted CO(3-2) observations with the Owens Valley Millimeter Array constrain the mass of molecular gas to be less than 4x10^{10} Msun, after correcting for lensing. The CO to sub-mm flux limit, the spectroscopic line ratios, and the spectral energy distribution for N4 are all within the range of properties found in other high-redshift sub-mm sources and local ultraluminous infrared galaxies. After the correction for lensing, N4 is the weakest intrinsic sub-mm selected source with a known redshift and represents the first redshift for the <2mJy 850um sources which are responsible for the bulk of the emission from the sub-mm population as a whole. We argue that N4 contains either an AGN or LINER nucleus surrounded by an extended region of active star-formation.
description: 13 pages including 6 figures, Accepted AJ
Impact of different progarmmes of TMSS on livelihood pattern of the self-employed women
Creators: name: Siddique, M. A. J.
name: Islam, A. H. M. S.
name: Ali, R. Nessa
name: Siddique, M. A. J.
name: Islam, A. H. M. S.
name: Ali, R. Nessa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: Impact
subject: Livelihoods patterns
subject: Self-employed women
subject: TMSS

description: The study presents the issues of self-employed women of Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha (TMSS) in Shajahanpur Upazila of Bogra district considering their participation in different programmes for improvement of livelihood. The impact of the study was assessed in terms of economic and social gains accrued by the women's and their families' activities. The random sampling technique was used for selection of sample size. Data were collected from the selected respondents of four villages. Sixty members from ten societies consisted of 292 members were selected randomly. The economic status index, social status index and decision-making index were used towards improvement of livelihood. There occurred substantial change in the occupations of the respondents after participation in the TMSS. The housing status, health and sanitary conditions, water facilities and acceptance of family planning measures were increased. It was clearly evident that participation in micro credit programme has substantially improved self-employed women's economic and social condition. It referred the positive change in women empowerment in the study areas. The effects on empowerment of rural women's participation in rural credit programmes and their status were examined which were found to be satisfactory. This small effort is an addition to the knowledge about the essential contribution of the self employed women in different programmes to their role and status in the society which helps to improve livelihood.
Dynamics and Stellar Content of the Giant Southern Stream in M31. II. Interpretation
Creators: name: Font, Andreea S.
name: Johnston, Kathryn V.
name: Guhathakurta, Puragra
name: Majewski, Steven R.
name: Rich, R. Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the nature of the progenitor of the giant stellar stream in M31 using as constraints new radial velocity measurements of stream red giant stars (presented in the companion paper by Guhathakurta et al. 2005, astro-ph/0406145) along with other M31 data sets available in the literature. We find that the observations are best fit by orbits that are highly eccentric and close to edge-on, with apo- to peri-center ratios of order 25 - 30, and with apocenters at or only slightly beyond the southern edge of the current data. Among these orbits, we are able to find a few that plausibly connect the stream with the northern spur or with the low-surface-brightness feature of similar high metallicity as the stream (originally reported by Ferguson et al. 2002) to the east of M31's center. In the latter case, if the connection is real, then the eastern debris should lie well in front of M31 near the apocenter of the orbit. Both the width of the debris and velocity dispersion measurements imply a rough lower limit on the mass of the progenitor of 10^8 M_sun. We use this limit and our orbits to discuss which of M31's satellites could be plausibly associated with the stream. In addition, we predict that the width of the stream should increase beyond the southern edge of the current data around the apocenter of the orbit and that the line-of-sight velocity dispersion should exhibit significant variations along the stream.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; submitted to the Astronomical Journal; includes revisions suggested by the referee
The King-Crane Commission: A Study in Arab-American Relations
Creators: name: Johnson Jabr, Barbara Ann
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In January of 1919 the Amir Faisal arrived in Paris at the head of the Hejaz Delegation to the Peace Conference. His mission there was to press claims for a Near East settlement that guaranteed the unity and independence of the Arab lands. A champion in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, of which his father, King Hussein of the Hejaz, has been a prime instigator, Faisal hoped to convince the Western statesmen of what he staunchly believed to be undeniably the justice and right of his case.
Credit program of ASA: Impact on poverty reduction in some selected areas of Mymensingh district
Creators: name: Rahman, M. W.
name: Parvin, L.
name: Rahman, M. W.
name: Parvin, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Association for social advancement (ASA)
subject: Credit and Poverty reduction

description: The present study assesses the impact of ASA credit program on poverty alleviation in Mymensingh district. Data were collected purposively from a total of 60 stakeholders for six categories of enterprises each comprising 10 samples. The categories were petty business, tailoring, dairy raising, poultry rearing, daily hawkery and rickshaw pulling activities. Most of the credit beneficiaries (52 per cent) were young (20-30 years old) and maximum (52 per cent) of them were primary level educated. Respondents were involved in diverse income generating activities. Average ownership of the land was very low amounting only 14.16 decimal. The family size was 5.26 and the dependency ratio was 3.42. The average annual income of the household was Tk.32,931 and it was increased by 86 per cent after involving with ASA group member. The overall per day per person income was TK.17 (US $ 0.26) before and increased y 23 per cent after involving with ASA credit program. Expenditure on family consumption, clothing education and treatment were significantly increased after involving with ASA and the household as ets value also increased by 28 per cent. The savings of credit beneficiaries after involving with ASA was an average TK.10,320 and before they were in deficit condition. The findings clearly indicate that the respondent households here improved their income and livelihood after involving ASA credit program.
Economic analysis of layer production under supervision of Aftab Bahumukhi Farm Limited and private management in selected areas of Kishoreganj district
Creators: name: Alamgir, M. S.
name: Haque, M. S.
name: Alamgir, M. S.
name: Haque, M. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Cost and Returns
subject: Economic Returns
subject: Production function analysis

description: The present study was undertaken to identify and compare the socio-economic characteristics of layer farm owners and to estimate and compare the costs and returns of layer production under supervision and private management Aftab Bahumukhi Farm Limited (ABFL). Samples were selected by using stratified random sampling technique to fit the objectives of the study. In total 50 layer farms were studied, in which 25 farms were under ABFL supervision and 25 farms were under private management. Costs and returns were calculated separately to find out the profitability of layer production. Total cost of layer farm per 1.5 years were Tk. 32,81,098 and 7,09,712 under ABFL supervision and private management farm, respectively which shared the major part of the total costs. Cash expenses of layer farm per 1.5 years stood Tk. 29,37,367 and 6,38,011for ABFL supervised farm and, private management farm respectively. This accounted for 89.53 and 89.90 percent of their respective total costs. Total non-cash expenses of layer farm per 1.5 years .amounted to Tk. 3,43,731 •and 71,701 under ABFL supervision and private management farm respectively. Gross returns of layer farm per 1.5 years stood Tk. 62,66,456 and 10,08,381 for farms under ABFL supervision and private management, respectively. Return over full cost of layer farm per 1.5 years were Tk. 29,85,358 and 2,98,669. Cobb-Douglas production function analysis was done to determine the effects of some selected variables namely, feed and human labour on layer production. Findings suggested that the selected variables had significant impact on layer production under both the types of farms. The study also identified some problems and constraints associated with poultry production. Finally, on the basis of findings of the study, some recommendations were made for the development of poultry farming in Bangladesh.
Additional file 8 of A heat-sensitive Osh protein controls PI4P polarity
Creators: name: Omnus, Deike J.
name: Cadou, Angela
name: Thomas, Ffion B.
name: Bader, Jakob M.
name: Soh, Nathaniel
name: Chung, Gary H. C.
name: Vaughan, Andrew N.
name: Stefan, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S3. ER-localized Scs2 interacts with the PIK patch subunit Efr3 at the PM and the PI4P phosphatase Sac1 in the ER. (a) Cartoon displaying the principle of BiFC using the split GFP assay. The N-terminal half of GFP (GFPN) and the C-terminal half of GFP (GFPC) only form a fluorescent GFP when brought into spatial proximity if their fusion partners, protein A and protein B, interact with each other. (b) Protein-protein interactions between Efr3, Scs2, Sac1, and Ypp1 as detected by the split GFP BiFC assay. In each case, GFPN is fused to the protein on listed on the left and GFPC is fused to the protein on listed on the right. In the Efr3-Sac1 pairing, for example, cells express Efr3-GFPN and Sac1-GFPC. The pseudo-colored images (intensity maps) indicate the scale of specific interactions (blue, moderate; red, strong). Scale bars, 3 μm
The King-Crane Commission: A Study in Arab-American Relations
Creators: name: Johnson Jabr, Barbara Ann
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In January of 1919 the Amir Faisal arrived in Paris at the head of the Hejaz Delegation to the Peace Conference. His mission there was to press claims for a Near East settlement that guaranteed the unity and independence of the Arab lands. A champion in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, of which his father, King Hussein of the Hejaz, has been a prime instigator, Faisal hoped to convince the Western statesmen of what he staunchly believed to be undeniably the justice and right of his case.
Main Mall Tree Inventory
Creators: name: Ho, Jane
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: For my capstone project, I conducted a tree inventory of the red oaks (Quercus rubra) on Main Mall. In total, I inventoried the red oaks from Agronomy Road to Agricultural Road (Figure 1). I am also working for UBC SEEDS who is interested in acquiring data from multiple tree inventories on campus. An updated campus tree inventory can help managers better understand the condition of UBC’s urban forest assets and ultimately, help with the development of an urban forest management plan. The Main Mall was a high priority area to be inventoried since it is frequently used and an iconic part of the core campus environment. The parameters I had collected were GPS coordinates, DBH, crown height, tree height, tree tag ID, crown width, percentage of green groundcover, and probability of failure. These parameters were decided based on UBC’s Tree Inventory Handbook. This handbook was another SEEDS project developed by other undergraduates who conducted a tree inventory at UBC’s Stadium Neighbourhood. To collect GPS Coordinates, I used the Avenza Maps application on an android device. Crown and tree height were accurately measured using the Nikon Laser Rangefinder. The D-tape was used for finding DBH at approximately 1.3m from the base of the tree. Recorded figures for each tree’s crown width are an average taken from the crown measured from north to south and east to west orientation. Crown width was measured with a tape measure initially. Once I gained the concept for sensible figures for width and found out my pacing measurements, pacing was done to find crown width. Percentage of green groundcover and probability of failure was based off of visual assessments. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Meron-Like Topological Spin Defects in Monolayer CrCl3
Creators: name: Lu, Xiaobo
name: Fei, Ruixiang
name: Zhu, Linghan
name: Yang, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Noncollinear spin textures in low-dimensional magnetic systems have been studied for decades because of their extraordinary properties and promising applications derived from the chirality and topological nature. However, material realizations of topological spin states are still limited. Employing first-principles and Monte Carlo simulations, we propose that monolayer chromium trichloride (CrCl3) can be a promising candidate for observing the vortex/antivortex type of topological defects, so-called merons. The numbers of vortices and antivortices are found to be the same, maintaining an overall integer topological unit. By perturbing with external magnetic fields, we show the robustness of these meron pairs and reveal a rich phase space to tune the hybridization between the ferromagnetic order and meron-like defects. The signatures of topological excitations under external magnetic field also provide crucial information for experimental justifications. Our study predicts that two-dimensional magnets with weak spin-orbit coupling can be a promising family for realizing meron-like spin textures.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, and 1 table
Theory of One Tape Linear Time Turing Machines
Creators: name: Tadaki, Kohtaro
name: Yamakami, Tomoyuki
name: Lin, Jack C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.1.1; F.1.2; F.4.3

description: A theory of one-tape (one-head) linear-time Turing machines is essentially different from its polynomial-time counterpart since these machines are closely related to finite state automata. This paper discusses structural-complexity issues of one-tape Turing machines of various types (deterministic, nondeterministic, reversible, alternating, probabilistic, counting, and quantum Turing machines) that halt in linear time, where the running time of a machine is defined as the length of any longest computation path. We explore structural properties of one-tape linear-time Turing machines and clarify how the machines' resources affect their computational patterns and power.
description: 26 pages, 10pt, letter size. A few corrections. This is a complete version of the paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the 30th SOFSEM Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.2932, pp.335-348, Springer-Verlag, January 24-30, 2004
Integrated Nonreciprocal Photonic Devices with Dynamic Modulation
Creators: name: Williamson, Ian A. D.
name: Minkov, Momchil
name: Dutt, Avik
name: Wang, Jiahui
name: Song, Alex Y.
name: Fan, Shanhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonreciprocal components, such as isolators and circulators, are crucial components for photonic systems. In this article we review theoretical and experimental progress towards developing nonreciprocal photonic devices based on dynamic modulation. In particular, we focus on approaches that operate at optical wavelengths and device architectures that have the potential for chip-scale integration. We first discuss the requirements for constructing an isolator or circulator using dynamic modulation. We review a number of different isolator and circulator architectures, including waveguide and resonant devices, and describe their underlying operating principles. We then compare these device architectures from a system-level performance perspective, considering how their figures of merit, such as footprint, bandwidth, isolation, and insertion loss scale with respect to device parameters.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables
Planar Minimally Rigid Graphs and Pseudo-Triangulations
Creators: name: Haas, Ruth
name: Orden, David
name: Rote, Guenter
name: Santos, Francisco
name: Servatius, Brigitte
name: Servatius, Herman
name: Souvaine, Diane
name: Streinu, Ileana
name: Whiteley, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C10; 05C62

description: Pointed pseudo-triangulations are planar minimally rigid graphs embedded in the plane with pointed vertices (adjacent to an angle larger than 180 degrees. In this paper we prove that the opposite statement is also true, namely that planar minimally rigid graphs always admit pointed embeddings, even under certain natural topological and combinatorial constraints. We provide two proofs, which both yield efficient embedding algorithms. One based on Henneberg inductive constructions from combinatorial rigidity theory, the other on a generalization of Tutte's barycentric embeddings to directed graphs.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures. A preliminary version appeared in the proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, San Diego, June 8-10, 2003
Additional file 4 of A heat-sensitive Osh protein controls PI4P polarity
Creators: name: Omnus, Deike J.
name: Cadou, Angela
name: Thomas, Ffion B.
name: Bader, Jakob M.
name: Soh, Nathaniel
name: Chung, Gary H. C.
name: Vaughan, Andrew N.
name: Stefan, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure S2. Stt4 PIK patches localize to ER-PM contact sites and contribute to heat stress-induced PI4P signaling. (a) The Stt4 PI4K generates PI4P at the PM. Wild type cells (upper panel) and temperature conditional stt4-4 cells (lower panel) expressing the PI4P reporter GFP-P4C grown at 26 °C and after heat shock at 42 °C. Arrows point to GFP-P4C localization at the PM of mother cells at 42 °C. Scale bars, 5 μm. (b) Schematic representation of the method used to measure PM GFP-P4C fluorescence intensities at 34 °C and after 42 °C heat shock (left). Briefly, line scans were applied through both daughter and mother cells using Fiji and the peak values corresponding to the GFP-P4C fluorescence intensity at the PM in the daughter (Fd) and mother cell (Fm) were recorded to calculate Fd/Fm ratios. Graph shows the Fd/Fm ratio of individual cells at 34 °C and after a 10 min heat shock at 42 °C. Total number of cells analyzed: wild type 34 °C n=97, wild type 10min 42 °C n=160, ypp1-7 34 °C n=118, ypp1-7 10min 42 °C n=123. Mean values and standard deviations from four independent experiments are shown (one-way ANOVA, ****p<0.0001). (c) Localization of GFP-Stt4 (green) and the ER marker DsRed-HDEL (magenta) in rtn1∆ rtn2∆ yop1∆ mutant cells (upper panel) or scs2∆ scs22∆ (lower panel) mutant cells. In rtn1∆ rtn2∆ yop1∆ mutant cells, Stt4 PIK patches (outlined in white) are associated with the cortical ER (magenta) and are absent from ER-free PM zones (dashed lines). In scs2∆ scs22∆ mutant cells, Stt4 PIK patches (marked by asterisks) are found in ER-free PM zones (dashed lines). The arrow points to a PIK patch associated with the cortical ER (merge) in scs2∆ scs22∆ mutant cells. Thus, Stt4 may also localize to Scs2/22-independent ER-PM contacts, consistent with distinct Stt4 complexes (I and II; see Figure 2a). Scale bar, 4 μm.