cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Practicalities of Emissions Trading
Creators: name: Gans, Joshua
name: Quiggin, John
name: Gans, Joshua
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Climate change
subject: emissions trading
subject: uncertainty
subject: carbon pricing

description: In the past year, climate change has moved from political controversy to political consensus; at least, in relation for price-based policies the need to limit emissions. Uncertainties remain but with both major parties proposing to develop an emissions trading regime, it is timely to highlight some important practical issues that will face them on that path. In writing this, we take the case for action as given. There is a scientific consensus that global warming is taking place and that it is, in large part, due to the actions of humans on the planet. The policy prescription is to limit net emissions although the precise technologies that will likely carry the load have yet to be developed. Consequently, in the short-term, behavioural responses are required and to engage in that appropriately a price must be set. Economists disagree as to the way in which a carbon price might be generated. One set of economists (including the Pigou Club led by Greg Mankiw) support a carbon tax. This would fix the price for emissions, leaving the quantity to be determined by the market. Concern has been expressed that reliance on national carbon taxes may forgo opportunities for international cooperation. Other economists favour emissions trading, which involves the quantity being set by governments and the price by markets. The issue with emissions trading is that it is largely unknown how it will operate on national and international scales covering a broad range of activity. As with the design of market mechanisms, some caution needs to be applied. It is that need and the trade-offs inherent in it that we address here.
title: The Turning Black Tide: Energy Prices and the Canadian Dollar
Creators: name: Issa, Ramzi
name: Lafrance, Robert
name: Murray, John
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: The authors revisit the relationship between energy prices and the Canadian dollar in the Amano and van Norden (1995) equation, which shows a negative relationship such that higher real energy prices lead to a depreciation of the Canadian dollar. Based on structural break tests, the authors find a break point in the sign of this relationship, which changes from negative to positive in the early 1990s. The break in the effect between energy prices and the Canadian dollar is consistent with major changes in energy-related cross-border trade and in Canada's energy policies.
description: Les auteurs réexaminent la relation entre les prix réels de l'énergie et le dollar canadien établie par Amano et van Norden (1995), à savoir qu'une hausse de ces prix entraîne une dépréciation du dollar. À l'issue de tests de rupture structurelle, ils constatent que la relation entre les deux variables a changé de signe : initialement négative, elle est devenue positive au début des années 1990. Ce changement cadre avec l'évolution du commerce frontalier des produits énergétiques et l'assouplissement de la réglementation dans le secteur au fil du temps.
Equity between overlapping generations
Creators: name: Quiggin, John
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: climate change

description: This note is a demonstration that, in the presence of overlapping generations and under standard conditions for a social welfare ordering (Pareto optimality, transitivity, independence), the only ordering consistent with utilitarianism for all people currently alive at any given point in time is one based on weighting all people equally, regardless of their date of birth. In particular, this implies that, under reasonable conditions, the appropriate choice for the pure rate of social time preference is equal to zero.
The cluster of galaxies Abell 376
Creators: name: Proust, D.
name: Capelato, H. V.
name: Hickel, G.
name: Sodre, L.
name: Neto, G. B. Lima
name: Cuevas, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a dynamical analysis of the galaxy cluster Abell 376 based on a set of 73 velocities, most of them measured at Pic du Midi and Haute-Provence observatories and completed with data from the literature. Data on individual galaxies are presented and the accuracy of the determined velocities is discussed as well as some properties of the cluster. We obtained an improved mean redshift value z=0.0478^{+0.005}_{-0.006} and velocity dispersion sigma=852^{+120}_{-76}km/s. Our analysis indicates that inside a radius of 900h_{70}^{-1}kpc (15 arcmin) the cluster is well relaxed without any remarkable feature and the X-ray emission traces fairly well the galaxy distribution. A possible substructure is seen at 20 arcmin from the centre towards the Southwest direction, but is not confirmed by the velocity field. This SW clump is, however, kinematically bound to the main structure of Abell 376. A dense condensation of galaxies is detected at 46 arcmin (projected distance 2.6h_{70}^{-1}Mpc) from the centre towards the Northwest and analysis of the apparent luminosity distribution of its galaxies suggests that this clump is part of the large scale structure of Abell 376. X-ray spectroscopic analysis of ASCA data resulted in a temperature kT = 4.3+/-0.4 keV and metal abundance Z = 0.32+/-0.08 Z_solar. The velocity dispersion corresponding to this temperature using the T_X-sigma scaling relation is in agreement with the measured galaxies velocities.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Uncertainty and climate change policy
Creators: name: Quiggin, John
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: climate change
subject: uncertainty

description: The paper consists of a summary of the main sources of uncertainty about climate change, and a discussion of the major implications for economic analysis and the formulation of climate policy. Uncertainty typically implies that the optimal policy is more risk-averse than otherwise, and therefore enhances the case for action to mitigate climate change.
Radiative decays of charged leptons as constraints of leptonic unitarity
Creators: name: Di Zhang,
name: Xing, Zhi-Zhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Theory and Cosmology - Non Standard Interactions and Cosmology

description: Parallel Flash Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: Based on works done in collaboration with Zhi-zhong Xing and Shun Zhou
description: {"references": ["EPJC 80 (2020) 12, 1134, e-Print: 2009.09717", "e-Print: 2102.04954"]}
The impact of climate change on agriculture
Creators: name: Quiggin, John
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change
subject: agriculture

description: It is now virtually certain that Australia and the world will experience significant climate change over the next century, as a result of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. This note is a brief discussion of the projected effects of climate change on agriculture, under ‘business as usual’ conditions in which global concentrations of CO2 grow steadily and under the assumption that a global mitigation effort successfully stabilises global concentrations of CO2 and slows the climate change. Both global effects and effects on Australian agriculture are considered, with a particular focus on irrigated agriculture in the Murray–Darling Basin.
Grandfathering and greenhouse: the role of compensation and adjustment assistance in the introduction of a carbon emissions trading scheme for Australia
Creators: name: Menezes, Flavio
name: Quiggin, John
name: Wagner, Liam
name: Menezes, Flavio
name: Quiggin, John
name: Wagner, Liam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: grandfathering
subject: emissions trading
subject: compensation
subject: adjustment assistance

description: The terms "grandfather clause" and "grandfathering" describe elements of a policy programme in which existing participants in an activity are protected from the impact of regulations, restrictions or charges applied to new entrants. In this paper, the role of grandfathering in the design of a carbon emissions trading scheme in Australia is assessed. It is argued that adjustment assistance policies such as those adopted in conjunction with previous microeconomic reform programmes are preferable to policies based on the free issue of emission permits. The suggestion that owners of capital assets should be compensated for changes in government policy that reduce the expected flow of income from those assets represents a radical, and undesirable, policy innovation.
Agriculture and global climate stabilization: a public good analysis
Creators: name: Quiggin, John
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change
subject: public goods
subject: agriculture
subject: environmental Kuznets curve
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The stabilization of global climate presents one of the most complex problems in public good provision the world has faced. Continuation of ‘business as usual’ policies, leading to warming of more than 2 degrees over the next year, will produce significant damage to agricultural systems and catastrophic damage to the natural ecosystems that ultimately support agriculture. The best solution to the public goods problem is a ‘contract and converge’ agreement in which the ultimate outcome is a common global entitlement to CO2 emissions per person.
New insights in the lattice dynamics of monolayers, bilayers, and trilayers of WSe2 and unambiguous determination of few-layer-flakes' thickness
Creators: name: De Luca, Marta
name: Cartoixà, Xavier
name: Martín-Sánchez, Javier
name: López-Suárez, Miquel
name: Trotta, Rinaldo
name: Rurali, Riccardo
name: Zardo, Ilaria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the most common few-layers transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), WSe2 is the most challenging material from the lattice dynamics point of view. Indeed, for a long time the main two phonon modes (A1g and E12g) have been wrongly assigned. In the last few years, these two modes have been properly interpreted, and their quasi-degeneracy in the monolayer has been used for its identification. In this work, we show that this approach has a limited validity and we propose an alternative, more general approach, based on multi-phonon bands. Moreover, we show and interpret all the peaks (about 40) appearing in the Raman spectra of monolayers, bilayers, and trilayers of WSe2 by combining experimental wavelength- and polarization-dependent Raman studies with density-functional theory calculations providing the phonon dispersions, the polarization-resolved first-order Raman spectra, and the one- and two-phonon density of states. This complete study not only offers a method to distinguish between monolayers, bilayers, and trilayers with no need of optical images and atomic force microscopy, but it also sheds light on the interpretation of single and multi-phonon bands appearing in the inelastic light scattering experiments of layered WSe2; some of these bands were never observed before, and some were observed and uncertainly assigned. We promote the full understanding of the lattice dynamics of this material that is crucial for the realization of optoelectronics devices and of novel phononic metamaterials, such as TMDs superlattices.
Possible indication of NSI from NOnA & T2K
Creators: name: Palazzo, Antonio
name: Sabya Sachi Chatterjee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Theory and Cosmology - Non Standard Interactions and Cosmology

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: partial support by the research Grant No. 2017W4HA7S "NAT-NET: Neutrino and Astroparticle Theory Network" under the program PRIN 2017 funded by the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR), and by the research project TAsP funded by the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
description: {"references": ["arXiv:2008.04161", "PRL 126 051802 (2021)"]}
The Day of the Inductance. Problem of the 7-th Experimental Physics Olympiad, Skopje, 7 December 2019
Creators: name: Mishonov, Todor M.
name: Popeski-Dimovsk, Riste
name: Velkoska, Leonora
name: Dimitrova, Iglika M.
name: Gourev, Vassil N.
name: Petkov, Aleksander P.
name: Petkov, Emil G.
name: Varonov, Albert M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the problem of the 7-th international Experimental Physics Olympiad "The Day of the Inductance". A large inductance made by a general impedance converter is measured by the Maxwell-Wien bridge. The youngest students (S category) have the problem to measure the parameters of the elements in the experimental set-up. The students at middle age (category M) should balance a Wheatstone bridge with resistors only. The inductance measurement is supposed to be accomplished by the students from the upper age (L category) only. From the university students (XL category) we expect error estimation and professionally made measurement protocol. As a homework problem (Sommerfeld price) the general formula for the impedance of the general impedance converter, where the general equation for operational amplifiers is included, has to be derived. Problems for further work are also given in the text. The described set-up can be considered as a prototype for companies producing laboratory equipment.
description: Final editorial corrections in all files
Constraints on neutrino electromagnetic properties from COHERENT elastic neutrino- nucleus scattering
Creators: name: Yiyu Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Theory and Cosmology - Non Standard Interactions and Cosmology

description: Parallel Flash Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021
description: Based on a work in collaboration with M. Cadeddu, N. Cargioli, F. Dordei, C. Giunti, E. Picciau, Y. F. Li, Y. Y. Zhang
description: {"references": ["M. Cadeddu et al. Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 1, 015030", "M. Cadeddu et al. Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 3, 033004", "O. Tomalak et al. JHEP 02 (2021) 097", "B. Dutta et al. JHEP 09 (2020) 106", "C. Giunti, Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 3, 035039", "O.G. Miranda et al. JHEP 05 (2020) 130", "M. Cadeddu et al. JHEP 01 (2021) 116", "M. Cadeddu et al. Phys.Rev.Lett.120.072501", "M. Cadeddu et al. arXiv: 2102.06153", "D. K. Papoulias, Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 113004", "P. Coloma et al. JHEP 08 (2020) 08, 030"]}
Aerodynamics and motor control of ultrasonic vocalizations for social communication in mice and rats.
Creators: name: Håkansson, Jonas
name: Jiang, Weili
name: Xue, Qian
name: Zheng, Xudong
name: Ding, Ming
name: Agarwal, Anurag
name: Elemans, Coen PH
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research Article
Bioacoustics
Vocal production
Acoustic communication
Speech
Rodents

description: BACKGROUND: Rodent ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are crucial to their social communication and a widely used translational tool for linking gene mutations to behavior. To maximize the causal interpretation of experimental treatments, we need to understand how neural control affects USV production. However, both the aerodynamics of USV production and its neural control remain poorly understood. RESULTS: Here, we test three intralaryngeal whistle mechanisms-the wall and alar edge impingement, and shallow cavity tone-by combining in vitro larynx physiology and individual-based 3D airway reconstructions with fluid dynamics simulations. Our results show that in the mouse and rat larynx, USVs are produced by a glottal jet impinging on the thyroid inner wall. Furthermore, we implemented an empirically based motor control model that predicts motor gesture trajectories of USV call types. CONCLUSIONS: Our results identify wall impingement as the aerodynamic mechanism of USV production in rats and mice. Furthermore, our empirically based motor control model shows that both neural and anatomical components contribute to USV production, which suggests that changes in strain specific USVs or USV changes in disease models can result from both altered motor programs and laryngeal geometry. Our work provides a quantitative neuromechanical framework to evaluate the contributions of brain and body in shaping USVs and a first step in linking descending motor control to USV production.
Climate change, uncertainty and adaptation: the case of irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia
Creators: name: Quiggin, John
name: Adamson, David
name: Chambers, Sarah
name: Schrobback, Peggy
name: Quiggin, John
name: Adamson, David
name: Chambers, Sarah
name: Schrobback, Peggy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Irrigation
subject: Uncertainty
subject: Climate Change

description: Climate change is likely to have substantial effects on irrigated agriculture. Extreme climate events such as droughts are likely to become more common. These patterns are evident in median projections of climate change for the Murray–Darling Basin in Australia. Understanding climate change effects on returns from irrigation involves explicit representation of spatial changes in natural stocks (i.e. water supply) and their temporal variability (i.e. frequency of drought states of nature) and the active management responses to capital stocks represented by mitigation and alternative adaptation strategies by state of nature . A change in the frequency of drought will induce a change in the allocation of land and water between productive activities. In this paper, a simulation model of state-contingent production is used to analyze the effects of climate change adaptation and mitigation. In the absence of mitigation, climate change will have severe adverse effects on irrigated agriculture in the Basin. However, a combination of climate mitigation and adaptation through changes in land and water use will allow the maintenance of agricultural water use and environmental flows.
title: Assessing and Valuing the Non-Linear Structure of Hedge Fund Returns
Creators: name: Diez de los Rios, Antonio
name: Garcia, René
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: Several studies have put forward the non-linear structure and option-like features of returns associated with hedge fund strategies. The authors provide a statistical methodology to test for such non-linear features with the returns on any benchmark portfolio. They estimate the portfolio of options that best approximates the returns of a given hedge fund, account for this search in the statistical testing of the contingent claim features, and test whether the identified non-linear features have a positive value. The authors find that not all categories of funds exhibit significant non-linearities, and that only a few strategies as a group provide significant value to investors. Individual funds may still provide value in an otherwise poorly performing category.
description: Plusieurs études ont montré que les rendements produits par les stratégies suivies dans la gestion des fonds de couverture ont une structure non linéaire et un profil semblable à celui des rendements associés à l'exercice d'options. Les auteurs proposent ici une méthode statistique destinée à vérifier la présence de non-linéarités par rapport aux rendements de n'importe quel portefeuille de référence. Ils estiment un portefeuille d'options représentant le mieux les rendements d'un fonds de couverture, tiennent compte des résultats de cette recherche dans la vérification statistique de la présence de structures non linéaires, puis déterminent si les nonlinéarités décelées ont une valeur positive. Les auteurs constatent que les différentes catégories de fonds ne présentent pas toutes des non-linéarités significatives et qu'une poignée de stratégies seulement, appliquées ensemble, assurent aux investisseurs des gains appréciables. Certains fonds pris individuellement peuvent toutefois générer des profits intéressants, même s'ils font partie d'une catégorie dont les rendements sont faibles.
Granular fluid thermostatted by a bath of elastic hard spheres
Creators: name: Santos, Andres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The homogeneous steady state of a fluid of inelastic hard spheres immersed in a bath of elastic hard spheres kept at equilibrium is analyzed by means of the first Sonine approximation to the (spatially homogeneous) Enskog--Boltzmann equation. The temperature of the granular fluid relative to the bath temperature and the kurtosis of the granular distribution function are obtained as functions of the coefficient of restitution, the mass ratio, and a dimensionless parameter $β$ measuring the cooling rate relative to the friction constant. Comparison with recent results obtained from an iterative numerical solution of the Enskog--Boltzmann equation [Biben et al., Physica A 310, 308 (202)] shows an excellent agreement. Several limiting cases are also considered. In particular, when the granular particles are much heavier than the bath particles (but have a comparable size and number density), it is shown that the bath acts as a white noise external driving. In the general case, the Sonine approximation predicts the lack of a steady state if the control parameter $β$ is larger than a certain critical value $β_c$ that depends on the coefficient of restitution and the mass ratio. However, this phenomenon appears outside the expected domain of applicability of the approximation.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures; minor changes; to be published in Phys. Rev. E
Roary: core genome alignment of the whole collection
Creators: name: GlobalPneumoSeq Sanger
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110899 Medical Microbiology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110801 Medical Bacteriology

description: Roary: core genome alignment of the whole collection (n=13,454)
Cosmological model with macroscopic spin fluid
Creators: name: Szydlowski, Marek
name: Krawiec, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model with some exotic perfect fluid with spin known as the Weyssenhoff fluid. The possibility that the dark energy may be described in part by the Weyssenhoff fluid is discussed. The observational constraint coming from supernovae type Ia observations is established. This result indicates that, whereas the cosmological constant is still needed to explain current observations, the model with spin fluid is admissible. For high redshifts $z > 1$ the differences between the model with spin fluid and the cold dark matter model with a cosmological constant become detectable observationally for the flat case with $Ω_{\text{m},0}=0.3$. From the maximum likelihood method we obtain the value of $Ω_{\text{s},0} = 0.004 \pm 0.016$. This gives us the limit $Ω_{\text{s},0} > -0.012$ at the $1σ$ level. While the model with ``brane effects'' is preferred by the supernovae Ia data, the model with spin fluid is statistically admissible. For comparison, the limit on the spin fluid coming from cosmic microwave background anisotropies is also obtained. The uncertainties in the location of a first peak give the interval $-1.4 \times 10^{-10} < Ω_{\text{s},0} < -10^{-10}$. From big bang nucleosynthesis we obtain the strongest limit $Ω_{\text{s},0} \gtrsim -10^{-20}$. The interconnection between the model considered and brane models is also pointed out.
description: RevTeX4, 15 pages, 10 figures; some minor changes
On the Size of Rotating Black Holes
Creators: name: Feng, Xing-Hui
name: Lu, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently a sequence of inequalities relating the black hole horizon, photon sphere, shadow were proposed for spherically symmetric and static black holes, providing the upper bound for given mass. In this paper, we extend the discussion to include rotating black holes. When viewed from the north pole direction, the shadow remains a round disk, but the image is skewed when viewed from the equatorial plane. After properly implementing the ``size'' parameters for the rotating black holes, we verify that the sequence of inequalities remain valid for a variety of solutions, including Kerr, Kerr-Newman, Kerr-Sen and Kerr-Cveti\v c-Youm black holes. The upshot is that rotation makes both the actual and apparent sizes of a black hole smaller.
description: Latex, 33 pages
title: Carnet de notes au sujet des langues indo-européennes
title: Carnet de notes au sujet des langues indo-européennes
Creators: name: Le Braz, Anatole (1859-1926)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021

description: Source: Fonds Anatole Le Braz. Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (CRBC). Bibliothèque Yves-Le Gallo.
description: Provenance: Ce document provient du fonds Anatole Le Braz conservé au Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique. Les documents ont été déposés en 1986 par l’un des petits-enfants d’Anatole Le Braz et par Yann-Ber Piriou en 1999.
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Variation of orbital symmetry of the localized 3d^1 electron of the V^{4+} ion upon the metal-insulator transition in VO_2
Creators: name: Korotin, M. A.
name: Skorikov, N. A.
name: Anisimov, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of the vanadium dioxide VO_2 in the tetragonal R and two monocinic M_1 and M_2 structural modifications was calculated in frames of the local-density functional (LDA) approach and the LSDA + U formalism of correction for correlation effects. Based on the results of calculation, we argue in favor of the Mott-Hubbard mechanism of the metal-insulator transition. It is shown that the transition is accompanied by the change of the orbital in which the 3d^1 electron of the V^{4+} ion is localized. The symmetry of the filled orbital is determined by the local oxygen environment of the vanadium atoms in each structural phase. Depending on the dispersion of the band that corresponds to the orbital occupied, the investigated compound can be either a metal or an insulator.
Vacuum replicas in two-dimensional QCD
Creators: name: Bicudo, P. J. A.
name: Nefediev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional QCD is studied from the point of view of existence of multiple chirally noninvariant solutions to the mass-gap equation. The ground-state solution is reproduced and an infinite set of replica solutions is discovered for this equation using the WKB quantisation procedure.
description: LaTeX2e, 9 pages, 1 Postscript figure, uses epsfig.sty, to appear in Phys.Lett.B
Type-Based Resource Analysis on Haskell
Creators: name: Siglmüller, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose an amortized analysis that approximates the resource usage of a Haskell expression. Using the plugin API of GHC, we convert the Haskell code into a simplified representation called GHC Core. We then apply a type-based system which derives linear upper bounds on the resource usage. This setup allows us to analyze actual Haskell code, whereas previous implementations of similar analyses do not support any commonly used lazy functional programming languages.
description: In Proceedings DICE-FOPARA 2019, arXiv:1908.04478
title: Are Canadian Banks Efficient? A Canada–U.S. Comparison
Creators: name: Allen, Jason
name: Engert, Walter
name: Liu, Ying
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: The authors compare the efficiency of Canada's largest banks with U.S. commercial banks over the past 20 years. Efficiency is measured in three ways. First, the authors study key performance ratios, and find that Canadian banks are as productive as U.S. banks. Second, they investigate whether there are economies of scale in the production functions of Canadian banks and broadly comparable U.S. bank-holding companies (BHCs). They find larger economies of scale for Canadian banks than for the U.S. BHCs, which suggests that Canadian banks are less efficient in terms of scale, and have more to gain in terms of efficiency benefits from becoming larger. Third, the authors measure cost-inefficiency in Canadian banks and in U.S. BHCs relative to the domestic efficient frontier in each country (the domestic best-practice institution). They find that Canadian banks are closer to the domestic efficient frontier than are the U.S. BHCs. Canadian banks have also moved closer to the domestic efficient frontier than have the U.S. BHCs over time. Finally, the authors examine the dispersion in cost-inefficiency found in Canadian banks and attribute some of the dispersion to differences in information and communication technology investment. Comparisons are made with the U.S. BHC experience.
description: Les auteurs comparent l'évolution respective de l'efficience des principales banques canadiennes et de banques commerciales américaines au cours des 20 dernières années. Trois méthodes d'évaluation sont retenues. Les auteurs examinent avec la première les grands ratios de rendement et constatent que les banques canadiennes sont aussi productives que les américaines. Avec la seconde, ils évaluent l'ampleur des économies d'échelle au sein des fonctions de production des établissements canadiens et des sociétés de portefeuille bancaires américaines à peu près comparables. L'analyse révèle l'existence d'économies d'échelle plus importantes au Canada qu'aux États-Unis, ce qui donne à penser que les banques canadiennes sont de taille moins efficiente que les sociétés américaines et qu'elles ont le plus à gagner d'une expansion. Avec la troisième méthode, les auteurs mesurent l'efficience coût des banques canadiennes et des sociétés de l'échantillon américain par rapport à l'institution qui se situe à la frontière efficiente dans le pays concerné (celle qui a les meilleures pratiques). Il ressort que les banques canadiennes sont non seulement plus près de cette frontière que ne le sont les sociétés aux États-Unis, mais aussi qu'elles s'en sont davantage rapprochées que ces dernières. Pour finir, s'intéressant à la dispersion des écarts d'efficience coût au Canada, les auteurs imputent une partie de celle-ci aux écarts d'investissement existant dans le domaine des technologies de l'information et de la communication. Ils comparent également avec la situation américaine.
title: The Macroeconomic Effects of Non-Zero Trend Inflation
Creators: name: Amano, Robert
name: Ambler, Steve
name: Rebei, Nooman
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: The authors study the macroeconomic effects of non-zero trend inflation in a simple dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with sticky prices. They show that trend inflation leads to a substantial reduction in the stochastic means of output, consumption, and employment. It also leads to an increase in the variability and persistence of most aggregates. Price dispersion across firms unambiguously increases the welfare costs of inflation. The effects hold qualitatively no matter how sticky prices are modelled, but they are quantitatively much stronger under Calvo pricing.
description: Les auteurs étudient l'incidence macroéconomique d'un taux d'inflation tendanciel non nul à l'aide d'un modèle d'équilibre général stochastique et dynamique simple où les prix sont rigides. Ils montrent que la présence d'une inflation tendancielle réduit de beaucoup le niveau des moyennes stochastiques de la production, de la consommation et de l'emploi. Ils montrent aussi qu'elle accentue la variabilité de la plupart des agrégats et la persistance de leurs fluctuations. La dispersion des prix entre entreprises amplifie incontestablement l'effet négatif de l'inflation sur le bien-être. Ces résultats se vérifient sur le plan qualitatif, peu importe la manière dont l'hypothèse de rigidité des prix est modélisée, mais les effets sont plus accusés en termes quantitatifs dans un modèle de détermination des prix à la Calvo.
title: Survey of Price-Setting Behaviour of Canadian Companies
Creators: name: Amirault, David
name: Kwan, Carolyn
name: Wilkinson, Gordon
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2006

description: In many mainstream macroeconomic models, sticky prices play an important role in explaining the effects of monetary policy on the economy. Various theories have been set forth to explain why prices are sticky. This study takes a firm-level survey approach, in a spirit similar to Blinder et al. (1998), to shed some light on the question of why prices are sticky. In particular, the Bank of Canada's regional offices surveyed 170 Canadian firms for their views on price dynamics. The authors find that the most important motivators of price changes are price changes by competitors, changes in domestic input costs, and changes in demand. Surprisingly, but consistent with the results reported in Bils and Klenow (2002), the survey evidence suggests that more than 50 per cent of firms change their prices more than four times a year. Moreover, the survey indicates that prices change more frequently than they did ten years ago, because of more intense competition and advances in information technology.
description: Nombreux sont les modèles macroéconomiques dans lesquels la rigidité des prix sert de clef à l'interprétation des effets de la politique monétaire sur l'économie. Différentes théories ont été mises en avant pour expliquer cette rigidité. Les auteurs abordent la question à la manière de Blinder et coll. (1998), par la voie d'une enquête. Plus précisément, ils se fondent sur l'enquête que les bureaux régionaux de la Banque du Canada ont menée auprès de 170 entreprises canadiennes en vue de recueillir leurs points de vue sur la dynamique des prix. Les auteurs constatent que les modifications de prix sont principalement motivées par celles qu'effectuent les concurrents, par les variations du coût des intrants intérieurs et par les variations de la demande. Fait étonnant, mais qui est conforme aux résultats de Bils et Klenow (2002), plus de la moitié des entreprises rajusteraient leurs prix au moins quatre fois par an d'après les données de l'enquête. En outre, l'intensification de la concurrence et les progrès des technologies de l'information auraient amené les firmes à réviser leurs prix plus souvent qu'elles ne le faisaient il y a dix ans.
Additional file 1 of Individual quality of life and the environment – towards a concept of livable areas for persons with disabilities in Poland
Creators: name: Grabowska, Izabela
name: Radosław Antczak
name: Zwierzchowski, Jan
name: Panek, Tomasz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Annex 1
Impacts of Microbial Inoculants as Integrated Pest Management Tools in Apple Production
Creators: name: Chavez, Holcer
name: Nadolnyak, Denis
name: Klopper, Joseph W.
name: Chavez, Holcer
name: Nadolnyak, Denis
name: Klopper, Joseph W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: apple production
subject: microbial inoculants
subject: pest management
subject: productivity analysis
subject: stochastic frontier

description: This article analyzes the impacts of microbial inoculant (MI) technology, which is a part of integrated pest management, on the U.S. apple production using farm-level data. To test the likely production impacts suggested by agronomic literature, we estimate a pesticide use function and stochastic production functions with damage control input specification. The results show that although adoption of the MI technology does not reduce the use of pesticides, the technology has a significant positive impact on yields and is associated with higher technical production efficiency rates.
Extending emission line Doppler tomography ; mapping modulated line flux
Creators: name: Steeghs, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emission line Doppler tomography is a powerful tool that resolves the accretion flow in binaries on micro-arcsecond scales using time-resolved spectroscopy. I present an extension to Doppler tomography that relaxes one of its fundamental axioms and permits the mapping of time-dependent emission sources. Significant variability on the orbital period is a common characteristic of the emission sources that are observed in the accretion flows of cataclysmic variables and X-ray binaries. Modulation Doppler tomography maps sources varying harmonically as a function of the orbital period through the simultaneous reconstruction of three Doppler tomograms. One image describes the average flux distribution like in standard tomography, while the two additional images describe the variable component in terms of its sine and cosine amplitudes. I describe the implementation of such an extension in the form of the maximum entropy based fitting code MODMAP. Test reconstructions of synthetic data illustrate that the technique is robust and well constrained. Artifact free reconstructions of complex emission distributions can be achieved under a wide range of signal to noise levels. An application of the technique is illustrated by mapping the orbital modulations of the asymmetric accretion disc emission in the dwarf nova IP Pegasi.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Diffusion in a generalized Rubinstein-Duke model of electrophoresis with kinematic disorder
Creators: name: Willmann, R. D.
name: Schütz, G. M.
name: Jain, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a generalized Rubinstein-Duke model we prove rigorously that kinematic disorder leaves the prediction of standard reptation theory for the scaling of the diffusion constant in the limit for long polymer chains $D \propto L^{-2}$ unaffected. Based on an analytical calculation as well as Monte Carlo simulations we predict kinematic disorder to affect the center of mass diffusion constant of an entangled polymer in the limit for long chains by the same factor as single particle diffusion in a random barrier model.
description: 29 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRE
Bridging the Information Gap with Cost-Effective Dissemination Strategies: The Case of Integrated Pest Management in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Harris, `Leah M.
name: Norton, George W.
name: Karim, A.N.M. Rezaul
name: Alwang, Jeffrey Roger
name: Taylor, Daniel B.
name: Harris, `Leah M.
name: Norton, George W.
name: Karim, A.N.M. Rezaul
name: Alwang, Jeffrey Roger
name: Taylor, Daniel B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: agricultural technologies
subject: cost-effectiveness
subject: dissemination
subject: extension
subject: IPM
subject: linear programming

description: Cost-effective extension strategies are needed to promote widespread adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries. Integrated pest management (IPM) practices, for example, can offer economic, health, and environmental benefits but remain largely underused. This study evaluates the current IPM dissemination program implemented by the Bangladesh Department of Agricultural Extension and uses a linear programming model to examine alternative strategies to improve IPM adoption. Results suggest that technology transfer programs may increase their impact by reallocating funding from intensive but costly interpersonal communication methods (i.e., farmer field schools) to less intensive methods (i.e., mass media and field days) that reach broader audiences.
The origin of the difference in the superconducting critical temperatures of the beta_H and beta_L phases of (BEDT-TTF)_2I_3
Creators: name: Powell, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Incommensurate lattice fluctuations are present in the beta_L phase (T_c = 1.5 K) of ET_2I_3 (where ET is BEDT-TTF - bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene) but are absent in the beta_H phase (T_c = 7 K). We propose that the disorder in the conformational degrees of freedom of the terminal ethylene groups of the ET molecules, which is required to stabilise the lattice fluctuations, increases the quasiparticle scattering rate and that this leads to the observed difference in the superconducting critical temperatures, T_c, of the two phases. We calculate the dependence of T_c on the interlayer residual resistivity. Our theory has no free parameters. Our predictions are shown to be consistent with experiment. We describe experiments to conclusively test our hypothesis.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 2 of Individual quality of life and the environment – towards a concept of livable areas for persons with disabilities in Poland
Creators: name: Grabowska, Izabela
name: Radosław Antczak
name: Zwierzchowski, Jan
name: Panek, Tomasz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Annex 2
New Physics in the Lepton sector from future Neutrino Experiments
Creators: name: Meloni, Davide
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neutrino Theory and Cosmology - Non Standard Interactions and Cosmology

description: Parallel Contributed Talk at the
 "XIX International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes"
 on line - 18-26 February, 2021