cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Star Formation in Distant Red Galaxies: Spitzer observations in the Hubble Deep Field South
Creators: name: Webb, Tracy
name: van Dokkum, Pieter
name: Egami, Eiichi
name: Fazio, Giovanni
name: Franx, Marijn
name: Gawiser, Eric
name: Herrera, David
name: Huang, Jiasheng
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Lira, Paulina
name: Marchesini, Danilo
name: Maza, Jose
name: Quadri, Ryan
name: Rudnick, Gregory
name: van der Werf, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Spitzer 24micron imaging of 1.5 < z < 2.5 Distant Red Galaxies (DRGs) in the 10arcmin by 10arcmin Extended Hubble Deep Field South of the Multiwavelength Survey by Yale-Chile. We detect 65% of the DRGs with K_AB < 23.2 mag at S_24micron > 40uJy, and conclude that the bulk of the DRG population are dusty active galaxies. A mid-infrared (MIR) color analysis with IRAC data suggests that the MIR fluxes are not dominated by buried AGN, and we interpret the high detection rate as evidence for a high average star formation rate of = 130+/-30 M/yr. From this, we infer that DRGs are important contributors to the cosmic star formation rate density at z ~ 2, at a level of \~0.02 M/yr/Mpc^3 to our completeness limit of K_AB = 22.9 mag
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Characteristische Ouverture zum Schauspiel "Die Hussiten vor Naumburg" : 36. Werk
Creators: name: André, Johann Anton
Publisher: name: André
Year: 1818

description: Stimmen: Viol. I. & II., Viole, Vc. & Bass, 2 Fl., 2 Ob., 2 Clar., 2 Fag., 2 Hörner, Bass-Posaune, 2 Tromp., Pk., Triangel, Becken & gr. Trommel
description: Ausserdem handschriftl. 1 weiteres Bassexempl.
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Notenarchiv der Allgemeinen Musikgesellschaft (Stempel: Concert-Direction in Basel)
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire 2009 Übernahme Rekatalogis. AK UB durch Medea 2002-2005
Gravitational form factors of $N(1535)$ in QCD
Creators: name: Azizi, K.
name: Özdem, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the gravitational form factors of the excited $N(1535)$ state with the quantum numbers $I(J^P)=\frac{1}{2}(\frac{1}{2}^-)$ via light cone QCD sum rules (LCSR). To this end, we consider the quark part of the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) current and use the general form of the nucleon's interpolating field as well as the distribution amplitudes (DAs) of $N(1535)$. As both the nucleon and $N(1535)$ couple to the same current, the $N(1535) \rightarrow N$ gravitational transition form factors are entered to the calculations as the main input parameters. First we revisit the transitional gravitational form factors of $N(1535) \rightarrow N$, then extract the values of the form factors of the $N(1535)$ excited state. We observe that the gravitational form factors of $N(1535)$ in terms of $Q^2$ are well described by the multipole fit function. As a byproduct, we also calculate the pressure and energy density at the center of $N(1535)$ and estimate its mechanical radius.
description: 12 Pages, 2 Figures and 3 Tables
Dynamical Quantum Groups - The Super Story
Creators: name: Karaali, Gizem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37; 16W30

description: We review recent results in the study of quantum groups in the super setting. In particular, we provide an overview of results about solutions of the Yang-Baxter equations in the super setting and begin to develop the super analog of the theory of dynamical quantum groups.
Temporal and Spatial Evaluation of Soil Conservation Policies
Creators: name: Lakshminarayan, P.G.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
name: Lakshminarayan, P.G.
name: Babcock, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: conservation compliance
subject: conservation tillage
subject: CRP
subject: metamodels
subject: sediment damage
subject: soil erosion
subject: soil loss tolerance

description: This paper presents estimates of the benefits and costs of alternative soil conservation policies in a spatially and temporally consistent framework. The policies considered are implementation of soil conservation practices with an objective of reducing erosion to a site's tolerance level and a policy with an objective of a voluntary 50% reduction in conventional tillage. Costs and erosion benefits of these two policies are compared with that obtained from CRP. The changes in erosion and cost are estimated relative to 1992 levels. The analysis is conducted on every NRI point in a 12-state region in the north central United States. Erosion metamodels estimated using site-specific resource, production, topography, and weather data make such an endeavor tractable. The results indicate that having farmers adopt conservation plans on highly erodible fields is a sensible, cost effective policy. The public benefits of controlling erosion more than offset the small increased cost from adoption of conservation practices and conservation tillage. A significant amount of current CRP land is not susceptible to high erosion rates, which drives down the average benefit to cost ratio across the study region. A more targeted CRP would increase this ratio to the point where it could approach unity.
COOPERATIVE FORMATION AND FINANCIAL CONTRACTING IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
Creators: name: Hueth, Brent
name: Marcoul, Philippe
name: Ginder, Roger G.
name: Hueth, Brent
name: Marcoul, Philippe
name: Ginder, Roger G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: cooperative
subject: corporate financing
subject: moral hazard
subject: vertical integration

description: Cooperative formation in agriculture sometimes occurs in response to the exit of a private firm and typically requires substantial equity investment by participating farmers. What economic rationale can explain why farmers are willing to contribute capital to an activity that (apparently) fails to attract non-farm or "private" investment? We hypothesize that farm capital is high cost, relative to that provided by private entrepreneurs (or in other words, that there is a degree of asset fixity in farm capital) but that it engenders greater organizational commitment-which is particularly important when expected market returns are low-on the part of producers. This commitment arises from the indirect incentive properties associated with at-risk capital. We identify market environments where these incentives are necessary for firm survival and interpret the efficient financial contract in this context as a "cooperative."
Neutrino Magnetic Moment
Creators: name: Balantekin, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current experimental and observational limits on the neutrino magnetic moment are reviewed. Implications of the recent results from the solar and reactor neutrino experiments for the value of the neutrino magnetic moment are discussed. It is shown that spin-flavor precession in the Sun is suppressed.
description: To appear in the proceedings of Origin of Matter and the Evolution of Galaxies (OMEG05), Tokyo, Japan; 6 pages
Comparing the Marginal Excess Burden of Labor, Petrol, Cigarette, and Alcohol Taxes: An Application to the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Parry, Ian W.H.
name: Parry, Ian W.H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: welfare cost
subject: labor tax
subject: cigarette tax
subject: alcohol tax
subject: petrol tax
subject: externalities

description: This paper develops an analytical framework for comparing the marginal excess burden (MEB) of labor taxes and various commodity taxes, allowing for externalities and interactions between the taxes, and applies the analysis to the United Kingdom. Due to parameter uncertainty and model simplifications the results should be viewed with caution, nonetheless there are some useful insights. For example, even though taxes on petrol and cigarettes confer externality benefits, and these goods are relatively weak leisure substitutes, the MEB of these taxes may substantially exceed that of the labor income tax, except under "high" scenarios for externality benefits. In contrast the MEB for alcohol taxes may be smaller than that of the labor tax, though it is still positive even if the tax is below marginal external costs. Finally, the distinction between whether additional revenue is spent on public goods or transfers is less significant for commodity taxes than for labor taxes.
Heterobilayer moiré magnets: moiré skyrmions and the commensurate-incommensurate transition
Creators: name: Hejazi, Kasra
name: Luo, Zhu-Xi
name: Balents, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study untwisted heterobilayers of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic van der Waals materials, with in particular a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the ferromagnetic layer. A continuum low energy field theory is utilized to study such systems. We develop a phase diagram as a function of the strength of inter-layer exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, combining perturbative and strong coupling analyses with numerical simulations using Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equations. Various moiré-periodic commensurate phases are found, and the commensurate-incommensurate transition is discussed. Among the commensurate phases, we observe an interesting skyrmion lattice phase wherein each moiré unit cell hosts one skyrmion.
description: v3
Measuring the Value of Health Improvements from Great Lakes Cleanup
Creators: name: Burtraw, Dallas
name: Krupnick, Alan J.
name: Burtraw, Dallas
name: Krupnick, Alan J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Great Lakes
subject: health
subject: benefit-cost analysis

description: Exposure to pollutants in the Great Lakes Region can have significant effects on human health. Some forms of pollution affect humans directly, through the air we breathe and water we drink. Other forms of pollution affect humans indirectly, for example through consumption of contaminated fish. In this paper we describe methods to measure health benefits in monetary and nonmonetary terms in the context of reductions in pollutants as part of a program to improve the environment in the Great Lakes. The paper is meant to be an introduction to this topic for a general audience interested in the Great Lakes.
Inhomogeneous Equation of State of the Universe: Phantom Era, Future Singularity and Crossing the Phantom Barrier
Creators: name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dark energy universe equation of state (EOS) with inhomogeneous,Hubble parameter dependent term is considered. The motivation to introduce such a term comes from time-dependent viscosity considerations and modifications of general relativity. For several explicit examples of such EOS it is demonstrated how the type of future singularity changes, how the phantom epoch emerges and how crossing of phantom barrier occurs. Similar cosmological regimes are considered for the universe with two interacting fluids and for universe with implicit EOS. For instance, the crossing of phantom barrier is realized in easier way, thanks to the presence of inhomogeneous term. The thermodynamical dark energy model is presented where the universe entropy may be positive even at phantom era as a result of crossing of w=-1 barrier.
description: LaTeX, 13 pages, refs. added, version to appear in PRD
title: Utah Farmers Market Manager Handbook
Creators: name: Crist, Gwen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Welcome to the Utah Farmers Market Manager Handbook, designed by the Utah Farmers Market Network for market managers like you! We’re thrilled to support you in your job as a market manager by providing this Handbook of information and tools you’ll need to start a market from scratch or to grow your market, along with helpful links and resources, tips, and best practices for running a successful market.
Taking action to advance the study of race and ethnicity: the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)
Creators: name: Paskett, Electra D.
name: Masaki, Kamal
name: Aragaki, Aaron
name: Garcia, Lorena
name: Cené, Crystal Wiley
name: Breathett, Khadijah
name: Follis, Shawna
name: Pettinger, Mary
name: Stefanick, Marcia L.
name: Dilworth-Anderson, Peggye
name: Thomson, Cynthia A.
name: Kooperberg, Charles
name: Jimenez, Monik
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description:
“Race” and “ethnicity” are socially constructed terms, not based on biology - in contrast to biologic ancestry and genetic admixture - and are flexible, contested, and unstable concepts, often driven by power. Although individuals may self-identify with a given race and ethnic group, as multidimensional beings exposed to differential life influencing factors that contribute to disease risk, additional social determinants of health (SDOH) should be explored to understand the relationship of race or ethnicity to health. Potential health effects of structural racism, defined as “the structures, policies, practices, and norms resulting in differential access to goods, services, and opportunities of society by “race,” have been largely ignored in medical research. The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) was expected to enroll a racially and ethnically diverse cohort of older women at 40 U.S. clinical centers between 1993 and 1998; yet, key information on the racial and ethnic make-up of the WHI cohort of 161,808 women was limited until a 2020–2021 Task Force was charged by the WHI Steering Committee to better characterize the WHI cohort and develop recommendations for WHI investigators who want to include “race” and/or “ethnicity” in papers and presentations. As the lessons learned are of relevance to most cohorts, the essence of the WHI Race and Ethnicity Language and Data Interpretation Guide is presented in this paper. Recommendations from the WHI Race and Ethnicity Language and Data Interpretation Guide include: Studies should be designed to include all populations and researchers should actively, purposefully and with cultural-relevance, commit to recruiting a diverse sample; Researchers should collect robust data on race, ethnicity and SDOH variables that may intersect with participant identities, such as immigration status, country of origin, acculturation, current residence and neighborhood, religion; Authors should use appropriate terminology, based on a participant’s self-identified “race” and “ethnicity”, and provide clear rationale, including a conceptual framework, for including race and ethnicity in the analytic plan; Researchers should employ appropriate analytical methods, including mixed-methods, to study the relationship of these sociocultural variables to health; Authors should address how representative study participants are of the population to which results might apply, such as by age, race and ethnicity.
On a generalization of Chen's iterated integrals
Creators: name: Joyner, Sheldon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22Exx (Primary) 11M32 (Secondary)

description: Chen's iterated integrals may be generalized by interpolation of functions of the positive integer number of times which particular forms are iterated in integrals along specific paths, to certain complex values. These generalized iterated integrals satisfy both an additive and a (non-classical) multiplicative iterative property, in addition to a comultiplication formula. This theory is developed in the first part of the paper, after which various applications are discussed, including the expression of certain zeta functions as complex iterated integrals (from which an obstruction to the existence of a contour integration proof of the functional equation for the Dedekind zeta function emerges); an elegant reformulation of a result of Gel'fand and Shilov in the theory of distributions which gives a way of thinking about complex iterated derivatives; and a direct topological proof of the monodromy of polylogarithms.
description: v3 contains a corrected version of the proof of Theorem 12
Biotechnology and Planted Forests: Assessment of Potential and Possibilities
Creators: name: Sedjo, Roger A.
name: Sedjo, Roger A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: biotechnology
subject: plantation forests
subject: genetic modification
subject: genetic research
subject: economic benefits
subject: transgenic
subject: GMO

description: This paper addresses the potential impact of the introduction and development of biotechnology on planted forests. It includes a description of some recent innovations in forestry including the use of traditional breeding, and also more recent innovations involving biotechnology, including the development of clonal propagation and the use of modern molecular biology techniques. In addition to describing these innovations, the paper undertakes an assessment of their probable impact on future production of the forest industry, on the global timber supply, and on future markets for timber and wood products. The paper offers a description of recent innovations in tree breeding and biotechnology, including a discussion of innovations in agriculture that have promise for forestry. This is followed by a discussion of the current role of biotechnology in forestry and an assessment of the various types of biotechnological innovations that could be forthcoming in the next decade and beyond. Additionally, the paper examines the likely effects of biotechnology on the economics of forestry. An estimate is provided for the potential cost savings and/or value increases expected from the various innovations. Using these estimates, a quantitative assessment is made of global potential economic returns to the most immediate and major innovation, the herbicide tolerant trait. Additionally, estimates are made of the potential impact of cost savings realized from this type of biotechnology on future timber supplies in the global timber market.
The Economics of Fuel Economy Standards
Creators: name: Portney, Paul R.
name: Parry, Ian W.H.
name: Gruenspecht, Howard K.
name: Harrington, Winston
name: Portney, Paul R.
name: Parry, Ian W.H.
name: Gruenspecht, Howard K.
name: Harrington, Winston
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: fuel economy
subject: externalities
subject: oil dependency
subject: vehicle safety
subject: climate change

description: This paper discusses several rationales for the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program, including reduced oil dependence, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and the possibility that fuel saving benefits from higher standards might exceed added vehicle costs. We then summarize what can be said about the welfare effects of tightening standards, accounting for prior fuel taxes, and perverse effects on congestion and traffic accidents through the impact of improved fuel economy on the incentive to drive. Implications of CAFE on local air pollution, and the controversy over CAFE, vehicle weight, and road safety, are also discussed. Finally, we describe ways in which the existing CAFE program could be substantially improved and identify a variety of alternative, and much superior, policy approaches.
The Health Impacts of Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution from Solid Fuels in Developing Countries: Knowledge, Gaps, and Data Needs
Creators: name: Ezzati, Majid
name: Kammen, Daniel M.
name: Ezzati, Majid
name: Kammen, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: household energy
subject: developing countries
subject: exposure assessment
subject: exposure-response relationship
subject: indoor air pollution
subject: intervention
subject: public health

description: Globally, almost three billion people rely on biomass (wood, charcoal, crop residues, and dung) and coal as their primary source of domestic energy. Exposure to indoor air pollution from the combustion of solid fuels has been implicated, with varying degrees of evidence, as a causal agent of disease and mortality in developing countries. We review the current knowledge on the relationship between indoor air pollution and disease, and on the assessment of interventions for reducing exposure and disease. Our review takes an environmental health perspective and considers the details of both exposure and health effects that are needed for successful intervention strategies. We also identify knowledge gaps and detailed research questions that are essential for successful design and dissemination of preventive measures and policies. In addition to specific research recommendations, we conclude that given the central role of housing, household energy, and day-to-day household activities in determining exposure to indoor smoke, research and development of effective interventions can benefit tremendously from integration of methods and analysis tools from a range of disciplines-from quantitative environmental science and engineering, to toxicology and epidemiology, to the social sciences.
Simphonie à grand orchestre : Oeuvre 2
Creators: name: Blyma, Franz Xaver
Publisher: name: N. Simrock; H. Simrock
Year: 1805

description: par François Blyma : [D-Dur]
description: Stimmen: Viol. I & II, Vle., Bass & Vc., 2 Fl., 2 Ob., 2 Clar., 2 Fag., 2 Hörner, 2 Tromp., Pke.
New spin generalisation for long range interaction models
Creators: name: Crampe, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 70H06, 81R12, 81R50

description: We study new interactions between degrees of freedom for Calogero, Sutherland and confined Calogero spin models. These interactions are encoded by the generators of the Lie algebra so(N) or sp(N). We find the symmetry algebras of these new models: the half-loop algebra based on so(N) or sp(N) for the Calogero models and the Yangian of so(N) or sp(N) for the two types of other models. Surprisingly, these symmetry occur only for a specific value of the coupling constant.
description: 10 pages
Referendum Design and Contingent Valuation: The NOAA Panel's No-Vote Recommendation
Creators: name: Carson, Richard T.
name: Hanemann, W. Michael
name: Kopp, Raymond J.
name: Krosnick, Jon A.
name: Mitchell, Robert C.
name: Presser, Stanley
name: Ruud, Paul A.
name: Smith, V. Kerry
name: Conaway, Michael
name: Martin, Kerry
name: Carson, Richard T.
name: Hanemann, W. Michael
name: Kopp, Raymond J.
name: Krosnick, Jon A.
name: Mitchell, Robert C.
name: Presser, Stanley
name: Ruud, Paul A.
name: Smith, V. Kerry
name: Conaway, Michael
name: Martin, Kerry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: contingent valuation
subject: natural resource damages
subject: passive use
subject: Exxon Valdez
subject: reliability

description: In 1992 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) convened a panel of prominent social scientists to assess the reliability of natural resource damage estimates derived from contingent valuation (CV). The product of the Panel's deliberations was a report that laid out a set of recommended guidelines for CV survey design, administration, and data analysis. One of the Panel's recommendations was that CV surveys should employ a referendum approach. This method describes a choice mechanism that asks each respondent how they would vote if faced with a particular program and the prospect of paying for the program through some means, such as higher taxes. The Panel also recommended that CV referendum questions which commonly use only "for" or "against" answers should be expanded to explicitly offer an "I would-not-vote" response. The purpose of this paper is to consider the effects of such a "would-not-vote" option. In developing the test, we followed the important elements of the NOAA Panel guidelines for the design and administration of a CV survey and use what was acknowledged(by the Panel) as the most carefully developed CV questionnaire to that time, that is, the State of Alaska's study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Our findings suggest that when those selecting the "would-not-vote" response are treated as having voted "against" the offered program, offering the option does not alter: (a) the distribution of "for" and "against" responses, (b) the estimates of WTP derived from these choices, or (c) the construct validity of the results.
What Have We Learned from a Recent Survey of Teleworkers? Evaluating the 2002 SCAG Survey
Creators: name: Safirova, Elena
name: Walls, Margaret
name: Safirova, Elena
name: Walls, Margaret
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: telecommuting
subject: SCAG survey

description: In this paper, we analyze the 2002 Telework Survey conducted by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Being a relatively recent and large dataset, the survey captures the current state of telecommuting, covering the entire region with a population of 17 million residents, and is not biased by telecommuting policies of particular employees. The survey also distinguishes telecommuters from home-based business owners and therefore provides a more accurate account of the number of telecommuters. Our analysis focuses on the role of demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, ethnicity, household income, presence of children in the household and household size affect the workers' propensity to telecommute. We also look into the distribution of telecommuters across industries, occupations, and firms of various sizes and observe how professional experience and job tenure impact telecommuting probability. Finally, we analyze telecommuting frequency and how it effects the reduction of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and gather perceptions of employees who currently don't work at home. In general, the survey confirms the major factors contributing to telecommuting, such as higher educational level and more professional experience, as well as a longer tenure with the company and one's supervisor. At the same time, the analysis shows that telecommuters are more likely to be male and have smaller households than nontelecommuters. This is surprising given the findings from previous studies. The survey also shows that as many as one-third of telecommuters are working on-site and telecommuting on the same day and therefore eroding VMT reduction from telecommuting. Finally, the data on workers who currently don't telecommute reveal a disconnect between workers desire and ability to telecommute, since less-educated workers are more enthusiastic about working at home than more educated ones while the latter are more likely to be able to telecommute. This discussion paper is one in a series of four RFF papers on telecommuting published in December 2004. In discussion paper 04-42, Walls and Nelson analyze data from five pilot cities enrolled in the "ecommute" program. In 04-44, Walls and Safirova review the empirical literature on telecommuting with a focus on trip reduction impacts. Finally, in 04-45, Nelson presents an assessment of institutional and regulatory barriers to using telecommuting in a mobile source emissions trading program. The studies by RFF are part of a larger report on the ecommute program completed by the Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More information about the overall project can be found on the ecommute/GETF website: http://www.ecommute.net/program/.
The Enhanced I/M Program in Arizona: Costs, Effectiveness, and a Comparison with Pre-regulatory Estimates
Creators: name: Harrington, Winston
name: McConnell, Virginia D.
name: Ando, Amy Whritenour
name: Harrington, Winston
name: McConnell, Virginia D.
name: Ando, Amy Whritenour
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: I/M cost-effectiveness
subject: vehicle emissions
subject: mobile sources

description: Using data from 1995 and 1996, we estimate the cost of the Arizona Enhanced I/M Program and the emission reductions achieved. We begin by enumerating briefly the components of I/M costs and discuss their size and incidence. Then we describe the empirical information from Arizona and how we use it to construct cost estimates for both vehicle inspection and repair of failing vehicles. Inspection costs include the costs of operating the test stations and the costs motorists incur in time and money to get to the station and go through the testing process. We find that the inspection costs account for over two-thirds of the full costs of I/M, while costs associated with actual vehicle repair account for only one third. We conclude by comparing the empirical estimates of costs and program effectiveness in the Arizona program with the ex ante estimated Enhanced I/M program costs made by the EPA in the 1992 Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA). The ex ante EPA analysis appears to have underestimated the costs of achieving the ambitious reductions in emissions hoped for under I/M.
Quantum fluid effects and parametric instabilities in microcavities
Creators: name: Ciuti, Cristiano
name: Carusotto, Iacopo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a description of the non-equilibrium properties of a microcavity polariton fluid, injected by a nearly-resonant continuous wave pump laser. In the first part, we point out the interplay between the peculiar dispersion of the Bogolubov-like polariton excitations and the onset of polariton parametric instabilities. We show how collective excitation spectra having no counterpart in equilibrium systems can be observed by tuning the excitation angle and frequency. In the second part, we explain the impact of these collective excitations on the in-plane propagation of the polariton fluid. We show that the resonant Rayleigh scattering induced by artificial or natural defects is a very sensitive tool to show fascinating effects such as polariton superfluidity or polariton Cherenkov effect. We present a comprehensive set of predicted far-field and near-field images for the resonant Rayleigh scattering emission.
description: 25 figures, 16 pages long
Montano et Stéphanie : Ouverture [pour] Grand Orchestre
Creators: name: Berton, Henri-Montan
Publisher: name: Imbault
Year: 1798

description: Stimmen: Viol. I & II, Viola, Bass, Contrabass (nicht identisch), 2 Fl., 2 Ob., 2 Clar., 2 Fag., 2 Hörner in G, 2 Hörner in D, 2 Tromp., Pos., Pke.
Implementing the Clean Development Mechanism: Lessons from U.S. Private-Sector Participation in Activities Implemented Jointly
Creators: name: Lile, Ronald D.
name: Powell, Mark R.
name: Toman, Michael
name: Lile, Ronald D.
name: Powell, Mark R.
name: Toman, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: climate change
subject: joint implementation

description: The "Clean Development Mechanism" (CDM) contained in the December 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change provides, for the first time, the capacity for industrialized countries to claim credits for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions or offsets undertaken in cooperation with host developing countries. However, the Protocol provides no guidance on how these cooperative activities for GHG reduction and sustainable development would be undertaken in practice, including the particularly important issue of the relationship of the private sector vis-à-vis government institutions in designing, financing, and securing approval for jointly implemented GHG abatement projects. The pilot program for "Activities Implemented Jointly" under the Framework Convention provides an opportunity to better understand the practical constraints and opportunities for successful private sector participation in the CDM. This paper highlights some of the lessons for establishing a successful CDM by examining a small number of cases from the United States Initiative on Joint Implementation (USIJI). We first review the objectives, proposal review and evaluation criteria of this program, and provide some overall information on project proposals by project type and stage of development. We then develop case studies of two energy-related USIJI projects from the earlier phase of the program. These cases illustrate several potential problems that can arise in establishing CDM transactions. Further investigation of more recent cases sheds some light on the extent to which these problems change over time. To be successful, the CDM must be based on a solid institutional footing, with clear incentives for all parties involved. The cases we examine illustrate how transactions can become entangled in the same kinds of problems that bedevil other transactions in developing and transitional economies. In both early cases, "transaction costs" were substantial. The latter projects indicated that while the nature of transactions costs changed over time, they still remained somewhat substantial. Project proponents regarded gaining USIJI acceptance as one of the principal impediments to JI project development. The cases also illustrate the need for clear and widely understood goals and procedures for investor country approval. In addition, the analysis underscores how attitudes of different project proponents regarding the value of GHG credits can affect their perspective on the transaction. Finally, the study underscores that financing remains the ultimate hurdle to project implementation, and that the expectation of a clear financial return on investment is a prerequisite to a successful project.
Le  Rèveil des Grecs : Ouverture á Grand Orchestre
Creators: name: Brandl, Johann Evangelist
Publisher: name: Richault
Year: 2025

description: Stimmen: Viol. I & II, Vla., Vc., C. bass, 2 Fl., 2 Ob., 2 Clar., 2 Fag., 2 Hörner, 2 Tromp., Alt-, Ten.- & Bassposaune, Pke., gr. Trommel, Militärtrommel, Becken, Triangel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
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Voting for environmental policy under income and preference heterogeneity
Creators: name: Huhtala, Anni
name: Eerola, Essi
name: Huhtala, Anni
name: Eerola, Essi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: We examine the design of policies for promoting the consumption of green products under preference and income heterogeneity using organic food products as an example. Two instruments are considered: a price subsidy for the organic food products and a tax on the conventional products. Under income disparity, consumers with high income always prefer a socially optimal subsidy to a socially optimal tax, while low-income consumers prefer a tax on conventional products. When environmental policy is determined by the median voter, the policies implemented tend to be stricter than socially optimal policies if income differences are large.
Matter and dark matter asymmetry from a composite Higgs model
Creators: name: Ahmadvand, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a low scale leptogenesis scenario in the framework of composite Higgs models supplemented with singlet heavy neutrinos. One of the neutrinos can also be considered as a dark matter candidate whose stability is guaranteed by a discrete $\mathbb{Z}_2 $ symmetry of the model. In the spectrum of the strongly coupled system, bound states heavier than the pseudo Nambu-Goldstone Higgs boson can exist. Due to the decay of these states to heavy right-handed neutrinos, an asymmetry in the visible and dark sector is simultaneously generated. The resulting asymmetry is transferred to the standard model leptons which interact with visible right-handed neutrinos. We show that the sphaleron-induced baryon asymmetry can be provided at the TeV scale for resonant bound states. Depending on the coupling strength of dark neutrino interaction, a viable range of the dark matter mass is allowed in the model. Furthermore, taking into account the effective interactions of dark matter, we discuss low-energy processes and experiments.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures,v3: more discussions on the composite Higgs model and low-energy dark matter processes added
A Chandra View of Dark Matter in Early-Type Galaxies
Creators: name: Humphrey, Philip J.
name: Buote, David A.
name: Gastaldello, Fabio
name: Zappacosta, Luca
name: Bullock, James S.
name: Brighenti, Fabrizio
name: Mathews, William G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Chandra study of mass profiles in 7 elliptical galaxies, of which 3 have galaxy-scale and 4 group-scale halos demarcated at 1E13Msun. These represent the best available data for nearby objects with comparable X-ray luminosities. We measure ~flat mass-to-light (M/L) profiles within an optical half-light radius (Reff), rising by an order of magnitude at ~10Reff, which confirms the presence of dark matter (DM). The data indicate hydrostatic equilibrium, which is also supported by agreement with studies of stellar kinematics in elliptical galaxies. The data are well-fitted by a model comprising an NFW DM profile and a baryonic component following the optical light. The distribution of DM halo concentration parameters (c) versus Mvir agrees with LCDM predictions and our observations of bright groups. Concentrations are slightly higher than expected, which is most likely a selection effect. Omitting the stellar mass drastically increases c, possibly explaining large concentrations found by some past observers. The stellar M/LK agree with population synthesis models, assuming a Kroupa IMF. Allowing adiabatic compression (AC) of the DM halo by baryons made M/L more discrepant, casting some doubt on AC. Our best-fitting models imply total baryon fractions \~0.04--0.09, consistent with models of galaxy formation incorporating strong feedback. The groups exhibit positive temperature gradients, consistent with the "Universal" profiles found in other groups and clusters, whereas the galaxies have negative gradients, suggesting a change in the evolutionary history of the systems around Mvir=1E13 Msun.
description: 22 pages and 6 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Minor changes to match published version. Expanded galaxy/group discussion. Results unchanged
Vier Gesänge für grossen Männerchor componirt : Op. 39 : [Partitur]
Creators: name: Huber, Hans
Publisher: name: Rieter
Year: 1878

description: II. Gesangsmusik. 6. Für Männerchor a capp.
description: Nr. 1 Veni creator spiritus. "Aus tiefer Bergschlucht blitzt"
description: Nr. 3 Ich geh' nicht in den grünen Hain
description: Nr. 2 Dort unterm Lindenbaum
description: Nr. 4 Römischer Carneval. "Das drängt und jubelt"
description: [komponiert 1878]
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Communication-Efficient Gradient Descent-Accent Methods for Distributed Variational Inequalities: Unified Analysis and Local Updates
Creators: name: Zhang, Siqi
name: Choudhury, Sayantan
name: Stich, Sebastian
name: Loizou, Nicolas
Publisher: name: CISPA
Year: 2024

description: Distributed and federated learning algorithms and techniques associated primarily with minimization problems. However, with the increase of minimax optimization and variational inequality problems in machine learning, the necessity of designing efficient distributed/federated learning approaches for these problems is becoming more apparent. In this paper, we provide a unified convergence analysis of communication-efficient local training methods for distributed variational inequality problems (VIPs). Our approach is based on a general key assumption on the stochastic estimates that allows us to propose and analyze several novel local training algorithms under a single framework for solving a class of structured non-monotone VIPs. We present the first local gradient descent-accent algorithms with provable improved communication complexity for solving distributed variational inequalities on heterogeneous data. The general algorithmic framework recovers state-of-the-art algorithms and their sharp convergence guarantees when the setting is specialized to minimization or minimax optimization problems. Finally, we demonstrate the strong performance of the proposed algorithms compared to state-of-the-art methods when solving federated minimax optimization problems.
Design and modeling of a sonochemical reactor using geometry, mode shapes and resonance
Creators: name: Dostie, Kristen Amanda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: A sonochemical reactor design which addresses deficiencies in current reactor designs is proposed. This design uses a comparatively low power electrostatic transducer because electrostatics are efficient over a wide frequency range and are not limited by their size, shape or placement in a reactor. This allows the creation of a reactor that can match the optimal frequency of a sonochemical process, maximize its sound field using mode shapes and resonance and, with the addition of a tracking system, follow system resonances that change with cavitation. The cylindrical reactor cavity and co-axial cylindrical transducer used in the design focus sound energy at the centre of the reactor, protecting the transducer from cavitation and allowing for analytic modeling of the sound field. A model of the proposed reactor's homogenous sound field was created in mathCAD. The model consists of a transducer model whose stiffness and damping coefficients were derived from a new thermodynamic model and a reactor model given by the reactor's wave equation and boundary conditions. The pressure magnitude generated at the transducer scales the magnitude of the reactor sound field. This allows the transducer pressure to be expressed as a relationship between its input voltage and the reactor mode shapes. A prototype reactor was constructed in order to verify the model experimentally. Data predicted by the model and measured experimentally were collected over a frequency range of 4 to 38 kHz. Ratios of the transducer's calculated electrostatic pressure to the pressure at the centre of the reactor were determined for both data sets. The match between the curves of this pressure ratio versus frequency for the two data sets was very good. Differences in the widths of the curve's frequency peaks were attributed to a smaller than expected air gap in the prototype transducer. Accounting for this produced an excellent match between the curves. Changes to the reactor design that would allow the reactor to achieve cavitation were investigated with the model. Both decreasing the transducer gap space and replacing the air in the gap with a gas of low thermal conductivity and high dielectric strength significantly reduced the voltage required to induce cavitation in the reactor. The model also revealed that the significant effect of the stiffness of small gap space transducers on the magnitude of the reactor's pressure field at low frequencies.
Improving the Feshbach-Rubinow approximation
Creators: name: Richard, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The binding energy of three identical bosons is estimated by coupled differential equations which generalise the Feshbach--Rubinow approximation. This method turns out to be rather efficient, especially in the limit of vanishing binding.
description: 8 pages, Plain TeX
The Intriguing Relation Between Counterfactual Explanations and Adversarial Examples
Creators: name: Freiesleben, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The same method that creates adversarial examples (AEs) to fool image-classifiers can be used to generate counterfactual explanations (CEs) that explain algorithmic decisions. This observation has led researchers to consider CEs as AEs by another name. We argue that the relationship to the true label and the tolerance with respect to proximity are two properties that formally distinguish CEs and AEs. Based on these arguments, we introduce CEs, AEs, and related concepts mathematically in a common framework. Furthermore, we show connections between current methods for generating CEs and AEs, and estimate that the fields will merge more and more as the number of common use-cases grows.
Local field effects on the radiative lifetimes of Ce$^{3+}$ in different hosts
Creators: name: Duan, Chang-Kui
name: Reid, Michael F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For emitters embedded in media of various refractive indices, different theoretical models predicted substantially different dependencies of the spontaneous emission lifetime on refractive index. It has been claimed that various measurements on $4f\to 4f$ radiative transition of Eu$^{3+}$ in hosts with variable refractive index appear to favor the real-cavity model [J. Fluoresc. 13, 201 (2003) and references therein, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 203903 (2003)]. We notice that $5d\to 4f$ radiative transition of rare-earth ions, dominated by allowed electric-dipole transitions with line strengths less perturbed by the ligands, serves as a better test of different models. We analyze the lifetimes of $5d\to 4f$ transition of Ce$^{3+}$ in hosts of refractive indices varying from 1.4 to 2.2. The results favor the macroscopic virtual-cavity model based on Lorentz local field [J. Fluoresc. 13, 201 (2003)].
description: 9pages, 1 figures, presented on AMN-2 and to appear on Current Applied Physics
Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Data: Combining Virtues of SFA and DEA in a Unified Framework
Creators: name: Kuosmanen, Timo
name: Kuosmanen, Timo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: The literature of productive efficiency analysis is divided into two main branches: the parametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This paper attempts to combine the virtues of both approaches in a unified framework. We follow the SFA literature and introduce a stochastic component decomposed into idiosyncratic error and technical inefficiency components imposing the standard SFA assumptions. In contrast to the SFA, we do not make any prior assumptions about the functional form of the deterministic production function. In this respect, we follow the nonparametric route of DEA that only imposes free disposability, convexity, and some specification of returns to scale. From the postulated class of production functions, the proposed method identifies the production function with the best empirical fit to the data. The resulting function will always take a piece-wise linear form analogous to the DEA frontiers. We discuss the practical implementation of the method and illustrate its potential by means empirical examples.