cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Approaches to modeling schizophrenia in the rat
Creators: name: Howland, John George
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Schizophrenia is a complicated and variable disorder that is notoriously difficult to study. Converging lines of evidence support the hypothesis that schizophrenia is characterized by a diverse array of distributed changes in limbic and cortical areas of the brain involving abnormalities in dopamine and glutamate transmission. Furthermore, genetic and behavioral studies indicate that abnormalities in normal development contribute to the etiology of the disorder. The present dissertation used two general strategies in an attempt to model some of the basic characteristics of the disorder. In Chapter Two, experiments were conducted that demonstrate short periods of higher frequency stimulation applied to the ventral, but not dorsal, hippocampus in adult rats reversibly reduce prepulse inhibition, a pre-attentive processing mechanism that is disrupted in schizophrenic patients. In Chapters Three and Four, the behavioral effects of reversible pharmacological manipulation of glutamate receptors early in development on prepulse inhibition and locomotor activity were assessed both before and after puberty. Additional experiments tested the putative role of dopaminergic abnormalities following these manipulations. Results from Chapter Three demonstrate that administration of a convulsive dose of the glutamate receptor agonist kainic acid to neonatal rats on postnatal day seven results in the delayed emergence of PPI deficits in early adulthood. Levels of locomotor activity were not reliably altered in a novel environment or following amphetamine administration. The experiments conducted in Chapter Four were designed to assess alterations in prepulse inhibition and locomotor activity following administration of the NR2B-subunit selective NMDA antagonist Ro25-6981. Unexpectedly, Ro25-6981 administration resulted in behavioral convulsions when administered during the first postnatal week; however, no consistent behavioral abnormalities were revealed in rats treated with the drug. Although the present results are somewhat mixed, the experiments were successful at providing novel insights into the symptoms and etiology of schizophrenia. In general, they support the assertion that short periods of altered activity in the limbic system, and hippocampus in particular, at different points during development may underlie the expression of some of the most basic symptoms of schizophrenia. These data also suggest that the nature and anatomical location of these alterations critically determines their long-term functional effects.
2812: Robert McKenzie Bell and Harry Smith
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Whilst serving in the war, Bob (Robert) McKenzie Bell made friends with Harry Smith from Idle. Harry Smith served in the West Riding Regiment. After the war Bob came to idle for work and lodged with the Smiths. Harry's wife was a friend of the contributor's Aunt Lucy. Bob and Lucy got married. Some years later the contributor's father came to Idle for work and met and married Lucy's niece.
J/psi D*D* vertex from QCD sum rules
Creators: name: Bracco, M. E.
name: Chiapparini, M.
name: Nielsen, M.
name: Navarra, F. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculated the strong form factor and coupling constant for the $J/ψD^* D^*$ vertex in a QCD sum rule calculation. We performed a double Borel sum rule for the three point correlation function of vertex considering both $J/ψ$ and $D^*$ mesons off--shell. The form factors obtained are very different, but they give the same coupling constant.
description: 7 pages and 4 figures, replaced version accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
Deployment Opportunities for DPS-QKD in the Co-Existence Regime of Lit GPON / NG-PON2 Access Networks
Creators: name: Vokić, Nemanja
name: Milovančev, Dinka
name: Schrenk, Bernhard
name: Hentschel, Michael
name: Hübel, Hannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We demonstrate cost-effective QKD integration for GPON and NG-PON2. Operation at 5.1e-7 secure bits/pulse and a QBER of 3.28% is accomplished for a 13.5-km reach, 2:16-split PON, with 0.52% co-existence penalty for 19 classical channels.
CAP versus Rural Policy Challenges, Paradigm change
Creators: name: Halmai, Peter
name: Vasary, Viktoria
name: Halmai, Peter
name: Vasary, Viktoria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: common agricultural policy
subject: new rural paradigm
subject: European added value

description: Rural development in the European Union has to face several challenges. Negative effects of old and new challenges (if these challenges are not faced effectively) might enhance and accelerate those processes that are taking place slowly for the present but that are definitely irreversible. On the basis of sector-specific approach problems related to agriculture should be focused on. It has to be, however, highlighted that there is an ongoing paradigm change: there is a shift from the agricultural policy aiming at food self sufficiency and income parity towards a sustainable rural policy with spatial focus. The shift itself is considered a continuous challenge, too. The following questions as objectives of the paper arise: - Are there policy instruments that could accelerate the paradigm change, enhance the spread of ―new rural economies‖? - What is the relation between the priorities of the rural development in the European Union and the spatial (or territorial) approach? - Is there a way to create such an agricultural policy which itself is able to face more effectively the new rural challenges? - At which level should be found the solutions to problems including finding the necessary financial resources – national or Community level? In what way could be reallocated the necessary resources of an integrated rural policy? The paper intends to analyze and systematize the challenges facing the rural economy/rural development both from the point of view of sectoral and territorial approach. It is aimed at analyzing and assessing adequate policy instruments and justified financial tools which could strengthen the integrated rural policy. The authors apply the theory of new rural paradigm, new rural economy, the concept of multifunctional agriculture, European added value and common rural policy.
2827: George Hood
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: George Hood lived in Low Moor, Bradford. He was mustard gassed and his wife had to put cream on his back every night.
Proceedings Combined 27th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 17th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics
Creators: name: Dardha, Ornela
name: Rot, Jurriaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This volume contains the proceedings of EXPRESS/SOS 2020: the Combined 27th International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and the 17th Workshop on Structural Operational Semantics, which was held online, as an affiliated workshop of CONCUR 2020, the 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory. The EXPRESS/SOS workshop series aims at bringing together researchers interested in the formal semantics of systems and programming concepts, and in the expressiveness of computational models.
Titan's Atomic and Molecular Nitrogen Tori
Creators: name: Smith, H. T.
name: Johnson, R. E.
name: Shematovich, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shematovich et al. (2003) recently showed plasma induced sputtering in Titan's atmosphere is a source of neutral nitrogen in Saturn's magnetosphere comparable to the photo-dissociation source. These sources form a toroidal nitrogen cloud roughly centered at Titan's orbital radius but gravitationally bound to Saturn. Once ionized, these particles contribute to Saturn's plasma. When Titan is inside Saturn's magnetopause, newly formed ions can diffuse inward becoming inner magnetospheric energetic nitrogen where they can sputter and be implanted into icy satellite surfaces. Our 3-D simulation produces the first consistent Titan generated N and N2 neutral clouds; solar UV radiation and magnetospheric plasma subject these particles to dissociation and ionization. The cloud morphologies and associated nitrogen plasma source rates are predicted in anticipation of Cassini data. Since the amount of molecular nitrogen ejected from Titan by photo-dissociation is small, molecular nitrogen ions detection by Cassini will be an indicator of atmospheric sputtering.
description: Accepted for Publication in Geophysical Research Letters
YIRIK SOLIQ TO'LOVCHILARNI SOLIQQA TORTISH MA'MURIYATCHILIGINI TAKOMILLASHTIRISH
Creators: name: Axmedov, Ashrafjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Yirik soliq to‘lovchilar mamlakat iqtisodiy barqarorligini ta’minlashda muhim rol o‘ynaydi. Ushbu tezisda yirik soliq to‘lovchilarni soliqqa tortish ma’muriyatchiligining dolzarb muammolari va ularni takomillashtirish yo‘llari tahlil qilinadi. Tadqiqot natijalariga ko‘ra, soliq qonunchiligining murakkabligi, soliq nazoratining yetarli darajada samarali olib borilmasligi hamda shaffoflikning ta’minlanishi kabi muammolar mavjudligi aniqlangan. Ushbu masalalarni hal qilish uchun soliq ma’muriyatchiligini raqamlashtirish, soliq monitoringi tizimlarini kuchaytirish va soliq yukini optimal darajada taqsimlash muhimligi ta’kidlanadi. Tadqiqot natijalari yirik soliq to‘lovchilarni soliqqa tortish jarayonining samaradorligini oshirishga xizmat qiladi.
The invariants of the local Clifford group
Creators: name: Nest, Maarten Van den
name: Dehaene, Jeroen
name: De Moor, Bart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the algebra of complex polynomials which remain invariant under the action of the local Clifford group under conjugation. Within this algebra, we consider the linear spaces of homogeneous polynomials degree by degree and construct bases for these vector spaces for each degree, thereby obtaining a generating set of polynomial invariants. Our approach is based on the description of Clifford operators in terms of linear operations over GF(2). Such a study of polynomial invariants of the local Clifford group is mainly of importance in quantum coding theory, in particular in the classification of binary quantum codes. Some applications in entanglement theory and quantum computing are briefly discussed as well.
description: 10 pages
ON ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND RISK EXPOSURE IN THE NILE BASIN OF ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: Di Falco, Salvatore
name: Veronesi, Marcella
name: Di Falco, Salvatore
name: Veronesi, Marcella
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: adaptation
subject: climate change
subject: endogenous switching
subject: Ethiopia
subject: risk exposure
subject: stochastic production function
subject: skewness

description: This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation on farm households’ downside risk exposure (e.g., risk of crop failure) in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. The analysis relies on a moment-based specification of the stochastic production function. We estimate a simultaneous equations model with endogenous switching to account for the heterogeneity in the decision to adapt or not, and for unobservable characteristics of farmers and their farm. We find that (i) climate change adaptation reduces downside risk exposure, i.e., farm households that implemented climate change adaptation strategies get benefits in terms of a decrease in the risk of crop failure; (ii) farm households that did not adapt would benefit the most in terms of reduction in downside risk exposure from adaptation; and (iii) there are significant differences in downside risk exposure between farm households that did and those that did not adapt to climate change. The analysis also shows that the quasi-option value, that is the value of waiting to gather more information, plays a significant role in farm households’ decision to adapt to climate change. Farmers that are better informed may value less the option to wait to adapt, and so are more likely to adapt than other farmers.
Challenging Small-scale Farming, A Non-parametric Analysis of the (Inverse) Relationship Between Farm Productivity and Farm Size in Burundi
Creators: name: Verschelde, Marijn
name: D'Haese, Marijke F.C.
name: Vandamme, Ellen
name: Rayp, Glenn
name: Verschelde, Marijn
name: D'Haese, Marijke F.C.
name: Vandamme, Ellen
name: Rayp, Glenn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: inverse relationship
subject: farm size
subject: nonparametric
subject: Burundi

description: We use a nonparametric estimation of the production function to investigate the relation- ship between farm productivity and farming scale in poor smallholder agricultural systems in the north of Burundi. Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a predominant small scale subsistence farming sector. A Kernel regression is used on data of mixed cropping systems to study the determinants of production including different factors that have been identified in literature as missing variables in the testing of the inverse relationship such as soil quality, location and household heterogeneity. Household data on farm activities and crop production was gathered among 640 households in 2007 in two Northern provinces of Burundi. Four production models were specified each with different control variables. For the relatively small farms, we find clear evidence of an inverse relationship. The relatively large farms show a different pattern. Returns to scale are found to be farm scale dependent. Parametric Cobb-Douglass models tend to over-simplify the debate on returns to scale because of not accounting for the different effects of large farms. Other factors that significantly positively affect production include the soil quality and production orientation towards banana or cash crop production. Production seems to be negatively affected by field fragmentation.
3033: Cathedral Bells
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: This is a collection of items pertaining to Bradford Cathedral and her bells. There are photos of the peal of 10 bells which were bought in memory of the men who fell in the Great War. There is also the diary of the Tower Captain. There are also service sheets from the many services for unveiling of memorials in Bradford and environs including that of the memorial window at the cathedral.
Great circle links and virtually fibered knots
Creators: name: Walsh, Genevieve S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M10

description: We show that all two-bridge knot and link complements are virtually fibered. We also show that spherical Montesinos knot and link complements are virtually fibered. This is accomplished by showing that such knot complements are finitely covered by great circle link complements.
description: Minor changes. To appear in Topology. 12 pages, 7 figures
Fractional Coulomb blockade for quasiparticle tunneling between edge channels
Creators: name: Röösli, Marc P.
name: Hug, Michael
name: Nicolí, Giorgio
name: Märki, Peter
name: Reichl, Christian
name: Rosenow, Bernd
name: Wegscheider, Werner
name: Ensslin, Klaus
name: Ihn, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magneto-conductance of a $1.4~\mathrm{μm}$-wide quantum dot in the fractional quantum Hall regime. For a filling factor $\approx 2/3$ and $\gtrsim 1/3$ in the quantum dot the observed Coulomb resonances show a periodic modulation in magnetic field. This indicates a non-trivial reconstruction of the 2/3 fractional quantum Hall state in the quantum dot. We present a model for the charge stability diagram of the system assuming two compressible regions separated by an incompressible stripe of filling factor $2/3$ and $1/3$, respectively. From the dependence of the magnetic field period on total magnetic field we construct the zero-field charge density distribution in the quantum dot. The tunneling between the two compressible regions exhibits fractional Coulomb blockade. For both filling factor regions, we extract a fractional charge $e^*/e = 0.32 \pm 0.03$ by comparing to measurements at filling factor 2. With their close relation to quantum Hall Fabry-Pérot interferometers, our investigations on quantum dots in the fractional quantum Hall regime extend and complement interference experiments investigating the nature of anyonic fractional quantum Hall quasiparticles.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Joint Production of Safer, Cleaner and Animal Friendlier Beef: Do Consumers Join it Too? - Insights from Focus Groups
Creators: name: Viegas, Ines
name: Santos, Jose Manuel Lima
name: Fontes, Magda Aguiar
name: Viegas, Ines
name: Santos, Jose Manuel Lima
name: Fontes, Magda Aguiar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Consumers’ motivations and behaviour towards food safety, animal welfare and the environment in beef production and beef products were discussed in several focus groups, within a broader research program aiming at determining Portuguese consumers’ willingness to pay for safer, cleaner and animal friendlier beef. Regarding the supply context, food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection are, to some extent, jointly produced within beef production systems. From the demand perspective there are also reasons to believe consumers aren’t able to separately value each one of these outputs of beef production. Due to considerable difficulties in production costs allocation as well as willingness to pay valuation, there are therefore reasons to jointly value them in a multi-dimensional package. Six focus groups were used to elicit how respondents perceive and talk about these topics and to provide insights into their motivations towards beef. Results show that respondents often refer intrinsic attributes as determinants of beef quality. The main quality cues at the moment of purchase include appearance, expiration date and price. Beef safety is generally taken for granted. However, concerns include hormones, antibiotics and slaughter hygiene. Environmental concerns are mainly linked with pollution and recycling. Animal welfare concerns include transportation, slaughtering and rearing conditions. There are mixed reactions when it comes to willingness to pay premiums for any of the three given attributes. Participants refer preferences for products with bundles of these attributes, thus reinforcing the need to jointly value such complex and jointly produced attributes.
New version of the gedanken experiments to test the weak cosmic censorship in charged dilaton-Lifshitz black holes
Creators: name: Jiang, Jie
name: Zhang, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, based on the new version of the gedanken experiments proposed by Sorce and Wald, we examine the weak cosmic censorship in the perturbation process of accreting matter fields for the charged dilaton-Lifshitz black holes. In the investigation, we assume that the black hole is perturbed by some extra matter source satisfied the null energy condition and ultimately settle down to a static charged dilaton-Lifshitz black hole in the asymptotic future. Then, after applying the Noether charge method, we derive the first-order and second-order perturbation inequalities of the perturbation matter fields. As a result, we find that the nearly extremal charged dilaton-Lifshitz black hole cannot be destroyed under the second-order approximation of perturbation. This result implies that the weak cosmic censorship conjecture might be a general feature of the Einstein gravity, and it is independent of the asymptotic behaviors of the black holes.
description: 7 pages, 1 figures, and this paper has been accepted by EPJC
On the CSFT approach to localized closed string tachyons
Creators: name: Bergman, Oren
name: Razamat, Shlomo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the potential for localized closed string tachyons in bosonic string theory on the orbifold C/Z_4 using level-truncated closed string field theory. The critical points of the potential exhibit features which agree with their conjectured identification as lower-order orbifolds. However this case also raises some questions regarding the quantitative predictions associated with these conjectures.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures, v2: The relation between the flat space and orbifold gravitational constants has been corrected. This resolves the puzzle of multiple predictions, but worsens the agreement between the depth of the potential and the change in the deficit angle
2791: From horse breaker to asylum assistant to soldier
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: John Herbert Moss was a horse breaker and went to Canada. He returned when WW1 broke out and worked as an assistant in an asylum probably in Middlesbrough. He joined the Duke of Wellington Regiment in 1915. He was awarded the DCM for attacking and capturing an enemy machine gun. See the citation in the London Gazette. John survived the war and was appointed Warrant Officer in 1919.
Assisting decision-making in Queensland barley production through chance constrained programming
Creators: name: Gali, Jyothi
name: Brown, Colin G.
name: Gali, Jyothi
name: Brown, Colin G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: A chance constrained programming model is developed to assist Queensland barley growers make varietal and agronomic decisions in the face of changing product demands and volatile production conditions. Unsuitable or overlooked in many risk programming applications, the chance constrained programming approach nonetheless aptly captures the single‐stage decision problem faced by barley growers of whether to plant lower‐yielding but potentially higher‐priced malting varieties, given a particular expectation of meeting malting grade standards. Different expectations greatly affect the optimal mix of malting and feed barley activities. The analysis highlights the suitability of chance constrained programming to this specific class of farm decision problem.
Synthesis and crystal structure of bis(thiomorpholinyldithiocarbamato) Zn(II): structural, optical, and photocatalytic studies of ZnS nanoparticles from the complex
Creators: name: Ajibade, Peter A.
name: Nolwazi Solomane
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Bis(thiomorpholinyldithiocarbamato) Zn(II) complex was synthesized and characterized by single crystal X-ray crystallography and spectroscopic techniques. The molecular structure of the compound revealed a dimeric Zn(II) complex in which each Zn(II) ion is bound to one chelating and two bridging thiomorpholine ligands. The compound was thermolyzed at 130 °C in octadecylamine (ODA), hexadecylamine (HDA), and oleylamine (OLA) to prepare ZnS nanoparticles. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) of the ZnS nanoparticles indicates mixtures of hexagonal and cubic crystalline phases depending on thermolysis temperature. HRTEM micrographs showed well-defined nanoparticles with particle size of 3.3–4.8 nm for ODA-ZnS, 2.5–4.2 nm for OLA-ZnS, while HDA-ZnS shows slightly bigger nanoparticles with particle size of 3.3–5.4 nm. Estimated optical band gaps are 3.58 eV for ODA-ZnS, 3.69 eV for HDA-ZnS and 3.72 eV for OLA-ZnS which indicate blue shift of the absorption band edges with respect to bulk ZnS (3.56 eV). The as-prepared ZnS nanoparticles were used as photocatalysts for the degradation of methylene blue dye. The degradation efficiency of the as-prepared ZnS nanoparticles are 58% for ODA-ZnS, 53% for OLA-ZnS, and 43% for HDA-ZnS. ODA-ZnS nanoparticles were used for the recycling test and showed good photostability and recyclability with 57% recovery percentage.
Prospects for nuclear spin hyperpolarisation of molecular samples using nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond
Creators: name: Tetienne, J. -P.
name: Hall, L. T.
name: Healey, A. J.
name: White, G. A. L.
name: Sani, M. -A.
name: Separovic, F.
name: Hollenberg, L. C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After initial proof-of-principle demonstrations, optically pumped nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres in diamond have been proposed as a non-invasive platform to achieve hyperpolarisation of nuclear spins in molecular samples over macroscopic volumes and enhance the sensitivity in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments. In this work, we model the process of polarisation of external samples by NV centres and theoretically evaluate their performance in a range of scenarios. We find that average nuclear spin polarisations exceeding 10% can in principle be generated over macroscopic sample volumes ($\gtrsimμ$L) with a careful engineering of the system's geometry to maximise the diamond-sample contact area. The fabrication requirements and other practical challenges are discussed. We then explore the possibility of exploiting local polarisation enhancements in nano/micro-NMR experiments based on NV centres. For micro-NMR, we find that modest signal enhancements over thermal polarisation (by 1-2 orders of magnitude) can in essence be achieved with existing technology, with larger enhancements achievable via micro-structuring of the sample/substrate interface. However, there is generally no benefit for nano-NMR where the detection of statistical polarisation provides the largest signal-to-noise ratio. This work will guide future experimental efforts to integrate NV-based hyperpolarisation to NMR systems.
Negotiating demands : the politics of skid row policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco and Vancouver
Creators: name: Huey, Laura
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis analyzes the influence of local political and moral economies on police practices within marginalized communities. Field research of policing in the skid row districts of Edinburgh, San Francisco and Vancouver provides comparative data on policing demands, strategies, styles and practices in three distinct civic contexts. While there is a combination of exclusionary, coercive-inclusionary and inclusionary policing in all three jurisdictions, there is a different emphasis in each jurisdiction deriving from structural features of their respective civic political regimes. Operating within a regime of ordoliberalism, the police in Edinburgh primarily function as knowledge workers who network with a range of other community agencies to accomplish order and provide inclusionary services on skid row. In contrast, the police in San Francisco operate within a neo-liberal regime that mandates a coercive approach to skid row problems with exclusionary consequences for inhabitants. Vancouver blends both forms of liberalism in a more conflicted political environment, resulting in a 'middle-way' regime of peacekeeping that utilizes an unique mix of inclusionary and exclusionary programs and practises on skid row. In all three cities the police are shown to be 'demand negotiators', addressing conflicting sets of demands that reflect the structural conditions in which they operate. How police meet demands - through incident and context-specific uses of law enforcement, peacekeeping, social work and knowledge work - is shown to be a consequence of the political and moral economies in which they operate. In offering a new conceptualization of police as demand negotiators, the thesis not only advances knowledge of police organization and decision making-processes, but also refines our understanding of how processes of inclusion and exclusion occur in different liberal regimes.
The role of expected protein levels in determining the impact of protein premiums and discounts: a note
Creators: name: Petersen, Elizabeth H.
name: Fraser, Rob W.
name: Petersen, Elizabeth H.
name: Fraser, Rob W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Fraser (1997) considered the impact of protein premiums and discounts on a grower’s income stream and willingness‐to‐pay for a forward contract where the protein premium and discount system is centred on a grower’s existing expected protein level. This article extends these results to consider the impact of a protein premium and discount system which is not centred on a grower’s existing expected protein level. The article suggests that the grower’s existing expected protein level plays a crucial role in determining the impact of the system.
Beauty physics with B(s) and Lambda(b)
Creators: name: Oldeman, R. G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the B(s) and Lambda(b) hadrons differ only in the spectator quarks from the well-studied B(d) and B(u) mesons, they provide a unique window on the physics of the b-quark. With no experiments presently running at the Z pole, hadron colliders now provide the best opportunity to study the B(s) and the Lambda(b). The collider experiments at the Tevatron, CDF and D0, have collected large numbers of B(s) and Lambda(b). Some of their latest preliminary measurements are presented here, including masses, lifetimes, and charmless decays. Progress is made toward measuring the lifetime difference Delta Gamma(s) between the B(s) mass eigenstates and the oscillation frequency Delta m(s).
description: 11 pages, 5 figures. Proceedings of the XXIV Physics in Collision Conference, June 27-29 2004, Boston. Updated a reference
Compact Differential Phase-Shift Quantum Receiver Assisted by a SOI / BiCMOS Micro-Ring Resonator
Creators: name: Vokić, Nemanja
name: Milovančev, Dinka
name: Boxleitner, Winfried
name: Hübel, Hannes
name: Schrenk, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a phase-selective and colorless quantum receiver assisted by a silicon-on-insulator microring, enabling a low 1.3% QBER at 5.3kb/s secure-key rate. No penalty incurs compared to a delay interferometer. BiCMOS 3D-integration is proven feasible.
Water markets as a vehicle for water reform: the case of New South Wales
Creators: name: Crase, Lin
name: O'Reilly, Leo
name: Dollery, Brian
name: Crase, Lin
name: O'Reilly, Leo
name: Dollery, Brian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Water reform in NSW is being undertaken using an adaptive approach in recognition of the uncertainty and imperfect knowledge embodied in the riverine environment. However, the reform process also relies, in part, on the ability of markets for tradable water entitlements to develop and thereby assist in allocating scarce water resources to their highest value use. This article explores impediments to the formation of efficient markets in permanent tradable water entitlements in NSW. The article concludes that more attention should be paid to market failures and related problems which manifest themselves in thin markets for permanent water entitlements.
title: 01_1991
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Brane inflation and the fine-tuning problem
Creators: name: Chafik, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Brane inflation can provide a promissing framework for solving the fine-tuning problem in standard inflationary models. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the mechanism by which this can be achieved. By considering the supersymmetric two-stage inflation model it is shown that the initial fine-tuning of the coupling parameter can be considerably relaxed. SubPlanckian values of the inflaton during inflation can also be obtained.
description: 04 pages (Revtex)
The QCD analytic running coupling and chiral symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Nesterenko, A. V.
name: Papavassiliou, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dependence on the pion mass of the QCD effective charge by employing the dispersion relations for the Adler D function. This new massive analytic running coupling is compared to the effective coupling saturated by the dynamically generated gluon mass. A qualitative picture of the possible impact of the former coupling on the chiral symmetry breaking is presented.
description: Talk given at 11th International QCD Conference (QCD 04), 5 - 10 July 2004, Montpellier, France; 4 pages, 4 figures
Ex ante versus ex post equilibria in classical Bayesian games with a nonlocal resource
Creators: name: Koniorczyk, Mátyás
name: Bodor, András
name: Pintér, Miklós
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the difference between ex ante and ex post equilibria in classical games played with the assistance of a nonlocal (quantum or no-signaling) resource. In physics, the playing of these games is known as performing bipartite Bell-type experiments. By analyzing the Clauser-Horn-Shimony-Holt game, we find a constructive procedure to find two-person Bayesian games with a nonlocal (i.e. no-signaling, and, in many cases, quantum) advantage. Most games of this kind known from the literature can be constructed along this principle, and share the property that their relevant ex ante equilibria are ex post equilibria as well. We introduce a new type of game, based on the Bell-theorem by Vértesi and Bene, which does not have the latter property: the ex ante and ex post equilibria differ.
description: 6 pages, 6 tables
2579: Leach and Wood families
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Joseph Leach was a member of the Merchant Navy before and during WW1. He wrote a book called 'Aye, Aye Sir' under the name of Clinker Knocker which records his life story. One passage in the book refers to his youngest brother Private Frank Leach of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Their father was with Frank in France when Frank was wounded and gassed at Le Treport. Frank died on 07.07.1917 and is in the care of CWGC at Mont Huon Military Cemetery. The inscription on his headstone reads, 'He answered duty's call'. An older brother Ralph served in the Navy and survived the war. The Leach brothers are the Great Uncles of the contributor. Private Edward Wood served with the East Yorkshire Regiment. He died aged 24 on 15/09/1915. He is buried at CWGC's Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery in Belgium. The inscription on his headstone reads 'Ever remembered by his loving wife and children Daisy and Violet'. Edward Wood is the grandfather of the contributor's wife.
An evalution of a dissemination intervention to enhance registered nurses’ use of clinical practice guidelines related to tobacco reduction
Creators: name: Hyndman, Kathryn Jean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have been developed to support knowledge transfer in health care settings. Rigorous evaluations assessing the effectiveness of methods to disseminate and implement CPGs into nursing practice are scarce. A quasiexperimental, pretest, post-test design was conducted to examine the effect of a dissemination intervention on nurse adherence to CPGs on tobacco reduction and selfefficacy in treating tobacco use and dependence. A sample of 138 hospital-based registered nurses who provided routine pregnancy and postpartum care was recruited from two hospitals in one urban Regional Health Authority in mid-western Canada. Following randomisation of hospitals, the dissemination intervention consisting of academic detailing visits supplemented with a self-study package of print materials, a video, and a Smoking Cessation Interventions Record form, was administered to nurses in one hospital. Data were collected from self-administered, baseline and follow-up questionnaires and nurse documentation of their use of the CPGs during the 10-week intervention period. At three weeks post intervention, quantitative results indicated the dissemination intervention positively and significantly enhanced nurse adherence to the CPGs and boosted self-efficacy beliefs in treating tobacco use and dependence. Although nurses' perceptions of autonomy modified the effect of the dissemination intervention on change in beliefs in treating tobacco use and dependence, the intervention group demonstrated significantly improved self-efficacy scores in comparison to the control group. Multiple regression analyses revealed three significant predictors of nurse adherence to CPGs: receiving the intervention (p<0.001); baseline perceptions about using CPGs (p=0.05); and resource adequacy (p=0.04) and three significant predictors of self-efficacy: receiving the intervention (p<0.001); working fulltime (p=0.01); and own value of research (p=0.05). This study demonstrated the efficacy of a multifaceted intervention on enhancing nurses' use of the CPGs in a hospital-based maternal child practice setting. Receiving the intervention was clearly the strongest predictor of self-efficacy beliefs in treating tobacco use and dependence and nurse adherence to the CPGs on tobacco reduction. The findings broaden our understanding of how to support hospital-based nurses in using the CPGs on tobacco reduction and provide direction for improving future dissemination strategies.
Competition in the food marketing chain
Creators: name: Griffith, Garry R.
name: Griffith, Garry R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Competition in the Australian food marketing chain is of continuing concern, but little evidence is available to guide policy debate. In a search for broad guidelines, the theoretical and empirical evidence is reviewed and the recent report of the Joint Select Committee on the Retailing Sector is examined. Then publicly available data on several food groups are used to test for evidence of persistent market power. The purchasing behaviour of the grains and oilseeds processing sector is found to warrant more detailed attention. A possible research agenda and a call for greater attention to data requirements complete the article.
Design and imaging performance of achromatic diffractive/refractive X-ray and Gamma-ray Fresnel lenses
Creators: name: Skinner, Gerald K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Achromatic combinations of a diffractive Phase Fresnel Lens and a refractive correcting element have been proposed for X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy and for microlithography, but considerations of absorption often dictate that the refractive component be given a stepped profile, resulting in a double Fresnel lens. The imaging performance of corrected Fresnel lenses, with and without `stepping' is investigated and the trade-off between resolution and useful bandwidth in different circumstances is discussed. Provided the focal ratio is large, correction lenses made of low atomic number materials can be used with X-rays in the range approximately 10--100 keV without stepping. The use of stepping extends the possibility of correction to higher aperture systems, to energies as low as a few kilo electron volts and to gamma-rays of $\sim$ mega electron volt energy.
description: To be published in 'Applied Optics'
Meta-GGA Performance in Solids at Almost GGA Cost
Creators: name: Mejia-Rodriguez, Daniel
name: Trickey, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent modification, r$^2$SCAN, of the SCAN (strongly constrained and appropriately normed) meta-GGA exchange-correlation functional mostly eliminates numerical instabilities and attendant integration grid sensitivities exhibited by SCAN. Here we show that the successful deorbitalization of SCAN to SCAN-L (SCAN with density Laplacian dependence) carries over directly to yield r$^2$SCAN-L. A major benefit is that the high iteration counts that hindered use of SCAN-L are eliminated in r$^2$SCAN-L. It therefore is a computationally much faster meta-GGA than its orbital-dependent antecedent. Validation data for molecular heats of formation, bond lengths, and vibration frequencies (G3/99X, T96-R, T82-F test sets respectively) and on lattice constants, and cohesive energies (for 55 solids) and bulk moduli (for 40 solids) are provided. In addition, we show that the over-magnetization of bcc Fe from SCAN persists in r$^2$SCAN but does not appear in r$^2$SCAN-L, just as with SCAN-L.
description: 4 pages. For associated Supplemental Material file see http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/ofdft/research/publications.shtml
An explicit solution of the (quantum) elliptic Calogero-Sutherland model
Creators: name: Langmann, Edwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q58, 81Q05

description: We present explicit formulas for the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the elliptic Calogero-Sutherland (eCS) model as formal power series to all orders in the nome of the elliptic functions, for arbitrary values of the (positive) coupling constant and particle number. Our solution gives explicit formulas for an elliptic deformation of the Jack polynomials.
description: 16 pages, Contribution to SPT 2004 in Cala Gonone (Sardinia, Italy) v2 and v3: minor corrections
The impact of the Asian Crisis on Australia's primary exports: why it wasn't so bad
Creators: name: Duncan, Ronald C.
name: Yang, Yongzheng
name: Duncan, Ronald C.
name: Yang, Yongzheng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This article explores the modest impact of the Asian Crisis on Australia’s primary commodity exports. Simulations using a global general equilibrium model show: (i) as capital flees Asia, investment in Australia increases and the trade deficit grows; (ii) while terms of trade deteriorate in the short run, they improve in the medium run as import demand increases in the crisis countries; (iii) exports of primary commodities expand as the crisis countries try to export more; (iv) more income‐elastic primary commodities fare less well than the income‐inelastic foodstuffs as incomes decline in the crisis countries; (v) Australia’s relatively low dependence on manufactured exports was a buffer as manufactured exports came under heavy pressure from exports from the crisis countries.
2782: Private Percival Myers
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Private Percival Myers served with 1st Battalion West Yorks Regiment. He died on 21st March 1918 and is commemorated by CWGC on the Arras Memorial. He was talked about a lot at home. Because Percival's body was never found he has no gravestone. None of the rest of his family had a gravestone when they died as a tribute to Percival.