cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessing the 2003 CAP Reform: Sensitivity to the Decoupling of Agenda 2000 Direct Payments
Creators: name: Gohin, Alexandre
name: Gohin, Alexandre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Decoupling
subject: Computable General Equilibrium
subject: European Union.

description: The European Union decided in June 2003 a new reform of its farm policy with a new step toward the decoupling of farm income support instruments. Available impact studies find that this reform will reduce production incentives, substantially for beef and to a lesser extent for arable crops. All these studies assume that the Agenda 2000 arable crop direct payments are already mostly decoupled while beef premiums are much more linked to production. Our main objective in this paper is to test the sensitivity of these results to this questionable modelling of Agenda 2000 direct payments which neglects eligibility rules and land market imperfections. Our analysis reveals that the negative effects of the reform on both arable crop and beef production are not sensitive to the modelling of Agenda 2000 direct payments. On the other hand, our analysis shows that, when the eligibility rules and land market imperfections are acknowledged, the decoupling effects may be much higher on the arable crop markets than on the beef markets. Policy implications of these results are finally derived.
The Impact of Regulations on Agricultural Trade: Evidence from SPS and TBT Agreements
Creators: name: Disdier, Anne-Celia
name: Fontagne, Lionel
name: Mimouni, Mondher
name: Disdier, Anne-Celia
name: Fontagne, Lionel
name: Mimouni, Mondher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: The paper provides an analysis of the structure and the importance of SPS and TBT measures in agricultural trade and tries to identify the division between genuine protection of consumers, flora and fauna and non tariff barriers. The paper covers all notifying countries and products at the HS6 digit level. The gravity equation controls for the bilateral applied tariff protection and uses ad-valorem equivalents of SPS and TBT measures. Results suggest that these measures have on the whole a negative mpact on OECD imports. OECD exporters are not significantly affcted by SPS and TBTs in their exports to other OECD countries while developing and least developed countries' exports are negatively and significantly affected.
Revisiting the Christ-Kiselev's multi-linear operator technique and its applications to Schrödinger operators
Creators: name: Liu, Wencai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We established a generalized version of the Christ-Kiselev's multi-linear operator technique to deal with the spectral theory of Schrödinger operators. As applications, several spectral results of perturbed periodic Schrödinger operators are obtained, including WKB solutions, sharp transitions of preservation of absolutely continuous spectra, criteria of absence of singular spectra and sharp bounds of the Hausdorff dimension of singular spectra.
Additional file 5 of The ‘Eat Well @ IGA’ healthy supermarket randomised controlled trial: process evaluation
Creators: name: Blake, Miranda R.
name: Sacks, Gary
name: Zorbas, Christina
name: Marshall, Josephine
name: Orellana, Liliana
name: Brown, Amy K.
name: Marj Moodie
name: Cliona Ni Mhurchu
name: Jaithri Ananthapavan
name: Etilé, Fabrice
name: Cameron, Adrian J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5. Customer survey detailed results. Detailed customer survey results including tabulated overall and subgroup analyses and text descriptions.
Collected Customs Duties: A Comparative Analysis of the Protection Applied by the US and the EU
Creators: name: Aussilloux, Vincent
name: Gallezot, Jacques
name: Aussilloux, Vincent
name: Gallezot, Jacques
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: trade protection
subject: custom duties
subject: trading regimes

description: Relating the collected customs duty to the value of imports enables to estimate a rate of applied duty that takes into account all the pricing components and their utilisation. Indeed, this ad-valorem equivalent integrates the complex dimensions of customs duties, the measures of exemption and suspension, and those concerning preferential regimes. Processing collected duties for all the products reveals that the 1.5% rate of duty actually applied in 2003 is the same for the EU and the US. Nevertheless, it appears that the US taxes more the LDCs and the developing countries than the EU. Thus, setting aside those products which enter free of duty, the rate of taxation applied by the US is 15% and 6.2% respectively with regards to LDCs and developing countries, whereas in the EU's case it is only 3.7% and 4.1%. For the US market the sectors that are the most highly taxed upon importation are those of textiles, apparel and clothing, cotton and articles of leather, whereas for the EU it is more agricultural and food products (fruits and preserves, meats, sugars and cereals).
Resilience in Indigenous Australian families : how individual-, family-, and community-level protective factors contribute to wellbeing
Creators: name: Pisanu, N
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2024

description: In sociological research, increasing attention has been afforded to the examination of protective factors that contribute to resilience, particularly of those experiencing disadvantage. Resilience is the process of maintaining positive functioning during times of adversity, through protective resources that buffer against the negative effects of stress (Masten, 2018). While individual capacity to access protective factors is important, the ability of surrounding social environments to provide and give meaning to these resources is also crucial (Ungar, 2012b).Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are inequitably exposed to an atypical level of stress throughout their lives, stemming from the devastating consequences of colonisation and continued marginalisation in Australia (Walter, Dodson, & Barnes, 2017a). Despite this disproportionate vulnerability to risk and adversity, resilience research in an Indigenous Australian context is limited. For Australian Indigenous people, unique aspects such as engagement with culture, support from extended family and kinship networks, and community connectedness contribute to their ability to overcome adversity (Dobia et al., 2014; McLennan, 2015). While qualitative findings support this (McLennan, 2015), limited quantitative evidence has been found. Further, no known prior research has examined resilience in both parents and children using a national sample of Indigenous Australians.This thesis explores the role of individual-, family-, and community-level protective factors and their contribution to resilience for Australian Indigenous families, and demonstrates how the findings have implications for social and health policy. It uses quantitative methods, drawing national data from Wave 10 of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) to explore the protective factors that contribute to resilience in Indigenous Australian children aged between 9 and 14 years (n=1,270) and their caregivers (n=1,218). Multiple logistic regression is used to model the protective factors that contribute to positive outcomes, compared to negative outcomes, in high-stress contexts. Findings reveal evidence of individual- (e.g., social skills) and community-level (e.g., engagement with school) resources having protective effects for Indigenous children, with family-level (e.g., extended family support) factors being the strongest predictors of resilient functioning in caregivers. Findings are used to make policy recommendations based on decolonising principles, responding to contemporary demands for evidence-based policy. Decolonising approaches to research and policy include: (i) self-determination; (ii) investment in community-controlled services and place-based strategies; (iii) the sharing of power; and (iv) prioritising data sovereignty.
Foreground contamination of the WMAP CMB maps from the perspective of the matched circle test
Creators: name: Then, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: WMAP has provided CMB maps of the full sky. The raw data is subject to foreground contamination, in particular near to the Galactic plane. Foreground cleaned maps have been derived, e.g., the internal linear combination (ILC) map of Bennett et al. and the reduced foreground TOH map of Tegmark et al. Using S statistics we examine whether residual foreground contamination is left over in the foreground cleaned maps. In particular, we specify which parts of the foreground cleaned maps are sufficiently accurate for the circle-in-the-sky signature. We generalise the S statistic, called D statistic, such that the circle test can deal with CMB maps in which the contaminated regions of the sky are excluded with masks.
Cloud-scale VM Deflation for Running Interactive Applications On Transient Servers
Creators: name: Fuerst, Alexander
name: Ali-Eldin, Ahmed
name: Shenoy, Prashant
name: Sharma, Prateek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transient computing has become popular in public cloud environments for running delay-insensitive batch and data processing applications at low cost. Since transient cloud servers can be revoked at any time by the cloud provider, they are considered unsuitable for running interactive application such as web services. In this paper, we present VM deflation as an alternative mechanism to server preemption for reclaiming resources from transient cloud servers under resource pressure. Using real traces from top-tier cloud providers, we show the feasibility of using VM deflation as a resource reclamation mechanism for interactive applications in public clouds. We show how current hypervisor mechanisms can be used to implement VM deflation and present cluster deflation policies for resource management of transient and on-demand cloud VMs. Experimental evaluation of our deflation system on a Linux cluster shows that microservice-based applications can be deflated by up to 50\% with negligible performance overhead. Our cluster-level deflation policies allow overcommitment levels as high as 50\%, with less than a 1\% decrease in application throughput, and can enable cloud platforms to increase revenue by 30\%.
description: To appear at ACM HPDC 2020
WTO Discipline and the CAP: the Constraints on the EU Sugar Sector
Creators: name: Gohin, Alexandre
name: Bureau, Jean-Christophe
name: Gohin, Alexandre
name: Bureau, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Common agricultural policy
subject: sugar
subject: general equilibrium models
subject: WTO

description: The various assessments of the effects of a liberalization of world sugar markets are inconsistent with each other. One cause seems to be the modeling of the EU supply response. We investigate three possible linkages between sugar production under quota and the out-of-quota or "C" sugar supply: i/ the existence of fixed costs covered by the in-quota sugar; ii / the "overshooting" behavior as prevention against poor yields; iii/ the production of C sugar as "reference building" in view of expected reforms. Modeling these effects results in the introduction of an implicit crosssubsidy between in-quota sugar and C sugar. The resulting specification is included in a detailed model of the EU agricultural sector so as to account for intersectoral linkages. We simulate the effects of the 2005 reform of the sugar sector and the effects of a ban on sugar export subsidies.
Charged Higgs effects in IceCube: PeV events and NSIs
Creators: name: Dey, Ujjal Kumar
name: Nath, Newton
name: Sadhukhan, Soumya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extensions of the Standard Model with charged Higgs, having a non-negligible coupling with neutrinos, can have interesting implications vis-à-vis neutrino experiments. Such models can leave their footprints in the ultra-high energy neutrino detectors like IceCube in the form of neutrino non-standard interactions (NSIs) which can also be probed in lower energy neutrino experiments. We consider a model based on the neutrinophilic two-Higgs doublets and study its imprints in the recently reported excess neutrino events in the PeV energy bins at the IceCube. An additional signature of the model is that it also leads to sizeable NSIs. We perform a combined study of the latest IceCube data along with various other constraints arising from neutrino experiments e.g., Borexino, TEXONO, COHERENT, DUNE, and T2HK, together with the limits set by the LEP experiment, and explore the parameter space which can lead to a sizeable NSI.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, 1 Table. Discussions and clarifications added; a new plot and references added. Conclusions remain unchanged. Version to appear in the JHEP
Aplicação dos Algoritmos SIFT e SURF na Classificação de Sub-Imagens por Discriminação de Textura
Creators: name: Joziel Novais
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 170205 Neurocognitive Patterns and Neural Networks
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Image segmentation is present in the development of many technologies and applications. The proposal of this work is to evaluate and compare the performance of SIFT and SURF algorithms in a classification process of sub-images, where this classification is done considering the different textures in the image. For the purpose of this work, the textures of the image may be natural, with random and complex behaviors, or being formed by similar objects of complex nature. This work may be useful to assist in image segmentation processes. In the development of this work, artificial neural networks are used to classify the descriptors vectors generated with SIFT and SURF algorithms, when applied on different sub-images. The neural networks used are of SOM type, therefore use a non-supervised learning for training. The training of the neural networks is done with input patterns generated through SIFT and SURF algorithms when applied on some sub-images. To carry out the work studies were done on image segmentation methods, artificial neural networks and the functioning of SIFT and SURF algorithms.
Nested Derivatives: A simple method for computing series expansions of inverse functions
Creators: name: Dominici, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30B10 (Primary) 30D10, 33E20 (Secondary)

description: We give an algorithm to compute the series expansion for the inverse of a given function. The algorithm is extremely easy to implement and gives the first $N$ terms of the series. We show several examples of its application in calculating the inverses of some special functions.
description: 18 pages
Additional file 6 of The ‘Eat Well @ IGA’ healthy supermarket randomised controlled trial: process evaluation
Creators: name: Blake, Miranda R.
name: Sacks, Gary
name: Zorbas, Christina
name: Marshall, Josephine
name: Orellana, Liliana
name: Brown, Amy K.
name: Marj Moodie
name: Cliona Ni Mhurchu
name: Jaithri Ananthapavan
name: Etilé, Fabrice
name: Cameron, Adrian J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Staff survey detailed results. Detailed staff survey results including tabulated overall and subgroup analyses.
Neutrino masses and lepton-number violation in the Littlest Higgs scenario
Creators: name: Han, Tao
name: Logan, Heather E.
name: Mukhopadhyaya, Biswarup
name: Srikanth, Raghavendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the sources of neutrino mass generation in Little Higgs theories, by confining ourselves to the "Littlest Higgs" scenario. Our conclusion is that the most satisfactory way of incorporating neutrino masses is to include a lepton-number violating interaction between the scalar triplet and lepton doublets. The tree-level neutrino masses generated by the vacuum expectation value of the triplet are found to dominate over contributions from dimension-five operators so long as no additional large lepton-number violating physics exists at the cut-off scale of the effective theory. We also calculate the various decay branching ratios of the charged and neutral scalar triplet states, in regions of the parameter space consistent with the observed neutrino masses, hoping to search for signals of lepton-number violating interactions in collider experiments.
description: 27 pages, 4 figures. v2: minor clarifications in discussion, version to appear in PRD
Matching in $pp \to t \bar{t} W/Z/h +$ jet SMEFT studies
Creators: name: Goldouzian, Reza
name: Kim, Jeong Han
name: Lannon, Kevin
name: Martin, Adam
name: Mohrman, Kelci
name: Wightman, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we explore the impact of extra radiation on predictions of $pp \to t\bar{t}X, X = h/W^{\pm}/Z$ processes within the dimension-6 SMEFT framework. While full next-to-leading order calculations are of course preferred, they are not always practical, and so it is useful to be able to capture the impacts of extra radiation using leading-order matrix elements matched to the parton shower. While a matched leading-order calculation for $t\bar{t}X$ is not expected to reproduce the next-to-leading order inclusive cross section precisely, we show that it does capture the relative impact of the EFT effects by considering the ratio of matched SMEFT inclusive cross sections to Standard Model values, $σ_{\rm SMEFT}(t\bar{t}Xj)/σ_{\rm SM}(t\bar{t}Xj) \equiv μ$. Furthermore, we compare leading order calculations with and without extra radiation and find several cases, such as the effect of the operator $(φ^{\dagger}i\!\overleftrightarrow{D}_{\!μ}φ) (\bar{t}γ^μt)$ on $t\bar{t}h$ and $t\bar{t}W$, for which the relative cross section prediction increases by more than $10\%$ -- significantly larger than the uncertainty derived by varying the input scales in the calculation, including the additional scales required for matching. Being leading order at heart, matching has the benefit that it can be applied to all operators and processes relevant to $pp \to t\bar{t}X, X = h/W^{\pm}/Z +$ jet, is computationally fast and not susceptible to negative weights. Therefore, it is a useful approach in $t\bar{t}X+$ jet studies where complete next-to-leading order results are currently unavailable or unwieldy.
description: 35 pages, 16 figures
Period-color and amplitude-color relations in classical Cepheid variables III: The Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid models
Creators: name: Kanbur, Shashi
name: Ngeow, Chow-Choong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Period-colour (PC) and amplitude-colour (AC) relations are studied for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Cepheids under the theoretical framework of the hydrogen ionization front (HIF) - photosphere interaction. LMC models are constructed with pulsation codes that include turbulent convection, and the properties of these models are studied at maximum, mean and minimum light. As with Galactic models, at maximum light the photosphere is located next to the HIF for the LMC models. However very different behavior is found at minimum light. The long period (P>10days) LMC models imply that the photosphere is disengaged from the HIF at minimum light, similar to the Galactic models, but there are some indications that the photosphere is located near the HIF for the short period (P<10 days) LMC models. We also use the updated LMC data to derive empirical PC and AC relations at these phases. Our numerical models are broadly consistent with our theory and the observed data, though we discuss some caveats in the paper. We apply the idea of the HIF-photosphere interaction to explain recent suggestions that the LMC period-luminosity (PL) and PC relations are non-linear with a break at a period close to 10 days. Our empirical PC and PL relations are also found to be non-linear with the F-test. Our explanation relies on the properties of the Saha ionization equation, the HIF-photosphere interaction and the way this interaction changes with the phase of pulsation and metallicity to produce the observed changes in the Cepheid PC and PL relations.
description: 19 pages, 6 tables and 18 figures, MNRAS accepted
Goldmann, Eva, Goldmann, Zeev, Wimmer, Hed: Das Land, das ich dir zeigen werde
Creators: name: Kg.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 17 Nr. 3 (1968): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 17, Heft 3
Nonlinearly Charged Black Hole Chemistry with Massive Gravitons in the Grand Canonical Ensemble
Creators: name: Dehghani, Ali
name: Hendi, Seyed Hossein
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 the context of Black Hole Chemistry (BHC), holographic phase transitions of asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) charged topological black holes (TBHs) in massive gravity coupled to Power Maxwell Invariant (PMI) electrodynamics are discussed in the grand canonical (fixed $U(1)$ potential, $Φ$) ensemble. Considering all higher-order graviton's self-interactions of (dRGT) massive gravitational field theory in arbitrary dimensions, exact TBH solutions are derived, the explicit form of the on-shell action is computed, and the associated thermodynamic quantities in the Grand Canonical Ensemble (GCE) are calculated. In addition, the validity of the first law of thermodynamics and Smarr relation are examined in the extended phase space. Regarding this model, it is shown that a van der Waals (vdW) behavior takes place in $d \ge 4$ dimensions, a typical reentrant phase transition is observed in $d \ge 5$, and both anomalous vdW and triple point phenomena are recognized in $d \ge 6$. So, the results are quite different from their counterparts in the GCE of Maxwell-massive gravity. Besides, we briefly study the critical behaviors of higher-dimensional TBHs with a conformally invariant Maxwell source as a special subgroup of our solutions for both Einstein and massive gravity theories in various ensembles.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables - Published version
ASCIT
Creators: name: Joziel Novais
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 170205 Neurocognitive Patterns and Neural Networks
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Image segmentation is present in the development of many technologies and applications. The proposal of this work is to evaluate and compare the performance of SIFT and SURF algorithms in a classification process of sub-images, where this classification is done considering the different textures in the image. For the purpose of this work, the textures of the image may be natural, with random and complex behaviors, or being formed by similar objects of complex nature. This work may be useful to assist in image segmentation processes. In the development of this work, artificial neural networks are used to classify the descriptors vectors generated with SIFT and SURF algorithms, when applied on different sub-images. The neural networks used are of SOM type, therefore use a non-supervised learning for training. The training of the neural networks is done with input patterns generated through SIFT and SURF algorithms when applied on some sub-images. To carry out the work studies were done on image segmentation methods, artificial neural networks and the functioning of SIFT and SURF algorithms.
BARRIERS TO EFFICIENCY AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF TOWNSHIP-VILLAGE ENTERPRISES
Creators: name: Fang, Xiangming
name: Smith, Rodney B.W.
name: Fang, Xiangming
name: Smith, Rodney B.W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: This paper uses Nerlovian type measures to compare the economic performance of private enterprises and Township-Village enterprises during the pre-1994 and post-1994 years, and introduces decomposition measures to help explain their relative performances.
Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. Emission-Line Luminosity Function
Creators: name: Hao, Lei
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Tremonti, Christy A.
name: Schlegel, David J.
name: Heckman, Timothy M.
name: Kauffmann, Guinevere
name: Blanton, Michael R.
name: Gunn, James E.
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Ivezić, Željko
name: Knapp, Gillian R.
name: Krolik, Julian H.
name: Lupton, Robert H.
name: Richards, Gordon T.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Strateva, Iskra V.
name: Zakamska, Nadia L.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Brunner, Robert J.
name: Szokoly, Gyula P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emission line luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is measured from about 3000 AGN included in the main galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey within a redshift range of $0
description: AASTeX v5.02 preprint; 35 pages, including 2 table and 12 figures. To appear in the April 2005 issue of AJ. See astro-ph/0501059 for Paper I
Additional file 7 of The ‘Eat Well @ IGA’ healthy supermarket randomised controlled trial: process evaluation
Creators: name: Blake, Miranda R.
name: Sacks, Gary
name: Zorbas, Christina
name: Marshall, Josephine
name: Orellana, Liliana
name: Brown, Amy K.
name: Marj Moodie
name: Cliona Ni Mhurchu
name: Jaithri Ananthapavan
name: Etilé, Fabrice
name: Cameron, Adrian J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 7. Stakeholder interview themes, sub-themes and illustrative quotes. Stakeholder interview themes, sub-themes and illustrative quotes.
Experiences of women with breast cancer : a critical incident study
Creators: name: Crawford, Frederick
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Breast cancer is a disease that affects many thousands of Canadian women every year. Battling such a disease often involves an arduous and highly invasive regime of eradicative medical treatment, including perhaps surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and/or hormonal therapy. A growing body of literature is available which aims at illuminating the various experiences women undergo while receiving such medical treatment. While the majority of the available literature focuses on studies of a quantitative nature, a few are in existence which report on qualitative studies, studies where women undergoing the process of treatment for breast cancer are viewed as the "experts" of this process. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of twelve women, aged from 41 to 70 years (M= 55 years old) who underwent eradicative medical treatment for breast cancer, from their own perspectives. To this end, the critical incident technique was used (Flannagan, 1954), through which women were asked to identify, during audiotaped interviews, experiences which both helped and hindered their treatment processes. Each of the twelve participants, or co-researchers, were interviewed twice; from these interviews, a total of 453 critical incidents were identified, and used to develop 15 thematic categories of experience for the participants involved: (a) relations with the medical team and any support staff (helpful vs. hindering), (b) medical treatment and services (helpful vs. hindering), (c) personal support (helpful vs. hindering), (d) activities/things which aid in treatment and recovery (or which did not help), (e) locus of control (helped vs. hindered), (f) availability and presentation of appropriate educational information (helpful vs. hindering), (g) attitude towards life and the human community (helpful), (h) support/psychoeducational agencies/groups/centres (helpful vs. hindering), (i) maternal/caregiving role/behavior (helpful vs. hindering), (j) career as a medical professional (helpful vs. hindering), (k) spiritual beliefs (helpful), (1) career (helpful vs. hindering), (m) personal involvement in decision making (helpful), (n) physical appearance (helpful vs. hindering), and (o) alternative treatments (helpful). Category validity was tested through four procedures: (a) cross-checking by the co-researchers, of the incidents (and their appropriate category placement) during the second interviews, (b) exhaustiveness of the categories, where two complete interviews were put aside, and their incidents later placed in the already existing 15 formed categories, (c) the services of an external rater, who independently placed 100 of the 453 critical incidents into the already existing categories, and (d) linking the categories to some of the existing literature on theories related to counselling psychology, particularly those involving crisis, transition and resiliency, implications for counselling research and practice are briefly discussed.
Deriving Bounds and Inequality Constraints Using LogicalRelations Among Counterfactuals
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Noam
name: Shpitser, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Causal parameters may not be point identified in the presence of unobserved confounding. However, information about non-identified parameters, in the form of bounds, may still be recovered from the observed data in some cases. We develop a new general method for obtaining bounds on causal parameters using rules of probability and restrictions on counterfactuals implied by causal graphical models. We additionally provide inequality constraints on functionals of the observed data law implied by such causal models. Our approach is motivated by the observation that logical relations between identified and non-identified counterfactual events often yield information about non-identified events. We show that this approach is powerful enough to recover known sharp bounds and tight inequality constraints, and to derive novel bounds and constraints.
Aplicação dos Algoritmos SIFT e SURF na Classificação de Sub-Imagens por Discriminação de Textura
Creators: name: Joziel Novais
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 80104 Computer Vision
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 170205 Neurocognitive Patterns and Neural Networks
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Image segmentation is present in the development of many technologies and applications. The proposal of this work is to evaluate and compare the performance of SIFT and SURF algorithms in a classification process of sub-images, where this classification is done considering the different textures in the image. For the purpose of this work, the textures of the image may be natural, with random and complex behaviors, or being formed by similar objects of complex nature. This work may be useful to assist in image segmentation processes. In the development of this work, artificial neural networks are used to classify the descriptors vectors generated with SIFT and SURF algorithms, when applied on different sub-images. The neural networks used are of SOM type, therefore use a non-supervised learning for training. The training of the neural networks is done with input patterns generated through SIFT and SURF algorithms when applied on some sub-images. To carry out the work studies were done on image segmentation methods, artificial neural networks and the functioning of SIFT and SURF algorithms.
ESTIMATING CONSUMER WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY FOR COUNTRY OF-ORIGIN-LABELS FOR BEEF PRODUCTS
Creators: name: Loureiro, Maria L.
name: Umberger, Wendy J.
name: Loureiro, Maria L.
name: Umberger, Wendy J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Country-of-origin labeling is now being considered as an alternative by the U.S. Senate. Research is still needed to determine what attributes consumers value in domestic versus imported beef, and to quantify the value that consumers place on country-of-origin labels. Preliminary results suggest that U.S. consumers perceived domestic beef as being safer than imported beef, and overall they are willing to pay a premium to obtain U.S. certified beef.
Spectroscopy of an AdS Reissner-Nordstrom black hole
Creators: name: Dappiaggi, C.
name: Raschi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of black hole spectroscopy, we extend the results obtained for a charged black hole in an asymptotically flat spacetime to the scenario with non vanishing negative cosmological constant. In particular, exploiting Hamiltonian techniques, we construct the area spectrum for an AdS Reissner-Nordstrom black hole.
description: 21 pages, enhanced conclusions, references added
Charge order induced by electron-lattice interaction in NaV2O5
Creators: name: Edegger, B.
name: Evertz, H. G.
name: Noack, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Density Matrix Renormalization Group calculations of the ground-state properties of quarter-filled ladders including static electron-lattice coupling. Isolated ladders and two coupled ladders are considered, with model parameters obtained from band-structure calculations for $α^\prime$-NaV$_2$O$_5$. The relevant Holstein coupling to the lattice causes static out-of-plane lattice distortions, which appear concurrently with a charge-ordered state and which exhibit the same zigzag pattern observed in experiments. The inclusion of electron-lattice coupling drastically reduces the critical nearest-neighbor Coulomb repulsion $V_c$ needed to obtain the charge-ordered state. No spin gap is present in the ordered phase. The charge ordering is driven by the Coulomb repulsion and the electron-lattice interaction. With electron-lattice interaction, coupling two ladders has virtually no effect on $V_c$ or on the characteristics of the charge-ordered phase. At $V=0.46\eV$, a value consistent with previous estimates, the lattice distortion, charge gap, charge order parameter, and the effective spin coupling are in good agreement with experimental data for NaV$_2$O_5$.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Superabsorption in an organic microcavity: towards a quantum battery
Creators: name: Quach, J. Q.
name: McGhee, K. E.
name: Ganzer, L.
name: Rouse, D. M.
name: Lovett, B. W.
name: Gauger, E. M.
name: Keeling, J.
name: Cerullo, G.
name: Lidzey, D. G.
name: Virgili, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rate at which matter emits or absorbs light can be modified by its environment, as dramatically exemplified by the widely-studied phenomenon of superradiance. The reverse process, superabsorption, is harder to demonstrate due to the challenges of probing ultrafast processes, and has only been seen for small numbers of atoms. Its central idea - superextensive scaling of absorption meaning larger systems absorb faster - is also the key idea underpinning quantum batteries. Here we implement experimentally a paradigmatic model of a quantum battery, constructed of a microcavity enclosing a molecular dye. Ultrafast optical spectroscopy allows us to observe charging dynamics at femtosecond resolution to demonstrate superextensive charging rates and storage capacity, in agreement with our theoretical modelling. We find that decoherence plays an important role in stabilising energy storage. Our work opens new opportunities for harnessing collective effects in light-matter coupling for nanoscale energy capture, storage, and transport technologies.
description: 42 pages, 20 figures, 3 tables
Factors of Alternating Sums of Products of Binomial and q-Binomial Coefficients
Creators: name: Guo, Victor J. W.
name: Jouhet, Frederic
name: Zeng, Jiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A10, 05A30, 11B65

description: In this paper we study the factors of some alternating sums of products of binomial and q-binomial coefficients. We prove that for all positive integers n_1,...,n_m, n_{m+1}=n_1, and 0\leq j\leq m-1, {n_1+n_{m}\brack n_1}^{-1}\sum_{k=-n_1}^{n_1}(-1)^kq^{jk^2+{k\choose 2}} \prod_{i=1}^m {n_i+n_{i+1}\brack n_i+k}\in \N[q], which generalizes a result of Calkin [Acta Arith. 86 (1998), 17--26]. Moreover, we show that for all positive integers n, r and j, {2n\brack n}^{-1}{2j\brack j} \sum_{k=j}^n(-1)^{n-k}q^{A}\frac{1-q^{2k+1}}{1-q^{n+k+1}} {2n\brack n-k}{k+j\brack k-j}^r\in N[q], where A=(r-1){n\choose 2}+r{j+1\choose 2}+{k\choose 2}-rjk, which solves a problem raised by Zudilin [Electron. J. Combin. 11 (2004), #R22].
description: 14 pages, some facts on Conjectures 5.1 and 5.2 are provided, to appear in Acta Arith. See also http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~guo
The condensate in commutative and noncommutative theories
Creators: name: Baranov, R. N.
name: Bykov, D. V.
name: Slavnov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that gauge invariance of the operator \int dx tr(A_μ^{2}-\frac{2}{g ξ} x^ν θ_{μν} A^μ) in noncommutative gauge theory does not lead to gauge independence of its vacuum condensate. Generalized Ward identities are obtained for Green's functions involving operator \underset{Ω\to \infty}{lim}\frac{1}Ω \int\limits_Ω dx tr(A_μ^{2}) in noncommutative and commutative gauge theories.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
THE ROLE OF BRAZIL IN THE WORLD ORANGE JUICE MARKET: A THREAT POSED BY CVC
Creators: name: Fernandes, Waldir B.
name: Spreen, Thomas H.
name: Fernandes, Waldir B.
name: Spreen, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Brazil
subject: CVC
subject: orange juice
subject: Xylella

description: The role of the processed citrus industry of Brazil, the largest world orange juice producer, is discussed with reference to CVC (citrus variegated chlorosis), a bacterial disease that affects one-third of the Brazilian tree inventory. Scenarios are analyzed via a spatial equilibrium model on the impact of increased/decreased CVC incidence.
Quantum photonics in triangular-cross-section nanodevices in silicon carbide
Creators: name: Majety, Sridhar
name: Norman, Victoria A.
name: Li, Liang
name: Bell, Miranda
name: Saha, Pranta
name: Radulaski, Marina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Silicon carbide is evolving as a prominent solid-state platform for the realization of quantum information processing hardware. Angle-etched nanodevices are emerging as a solution to photonic integration in bulk substrates where color centers are best defined. We model triangular cross-section waveguides and photonic crystal cavities using Finite-Difference Time-Domain and Finite-Difference Eigensolver approaches. We analyze optimal color center positioning within the modes of these devices and provide estimates on achievable Purcell enhancement in nanocavities with applications in quantum communications. Using open quantum system modeling, we explore emitter-cavity interactions of multiple non-identical color centers coupled to both a single cavity and a photonic crystal molecule in SiC. We observe polariton and subradiant state formation in the cavity-protected regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics applicable in quantum simulation.
VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES: WHEN DOES "NO SURPRISES" MEAN NO CONSERVATION
Creators: name: Langpap, Christian
name: Langpap, Christian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Voluntary conservation agreements are becoming increasingly important in implementing the Endangered Species Act on private land. We analyze when such agreements arise and what level of conservation they generate in the presence of uncertainty about future government regulation and conservation benefits. Our results suggest that the likelihood of an agreement depends on the availability of assurances regarding future regulation. In particular, an agreement may not be reached if there is a high degree of uncertainty regarding future conservation requirements. The level of conservation attainable from an agreement depends on the likelihood of regulation, the bargaining power of the parties, the irreversibility of development, and the availability of assurances. Under conditions likely to hold in practice, a higher conservation level may be achieved by offering assurances. However, this level of conservation will not be optimal, and may be lower than that attainable from regulation.
Deep Extragalactic X-ray Surveys
Creators: name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Hasinger, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep surveys of the cosmic X-ray background are reviewed in the context of observational progress enabled by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission-Newton. The sources found by deep surveys are described along with their redshift and luminosity distributions, and the effectiveness of such surveys at selecting active galactic nuclei (AGN) is assessed. Some key results from deep surveys are highlighted including (1) measurements of AGN evolution and the growth of supermassive black holes, (2) constraints on the demography and physics of high-redshift AGN, (3) the X-ray AGN content of infrared and submillimeter galaxies, and (4) X-ray emission from distant starburst and normal galaxies. We also describe some outstanding problems and future prospects for deep extragalactic X-ray surveys.
description: 32 pages; Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., Volume 43 (2005); updated to match accepted version
Magnetic phase transitions and spin density distribution in the molecular multiferroic GaV$_4$S$_8$ system
Creators: name: Dally, Rebecca L.
name: Ratcliff, William D.
name: Zhang, Lunyong
name: Kim, Heung-Sik
name: Bleuel, Markus
name: Kim, J. W.
name: Haule, Kristjan
name: Vanderbilt, David
name: Cheong, Sang-Wook
name: Lynn, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out neutron diffraction and small angle neutron scattering measurements on a high quality single crystal of the cubic lacunar spinel multiferroic, GaV$_4$S$_8$, as a function of magnetic field and temperature to determine the magnetic properties for the single electron that is located on the tetrahedrally coordinated V$_4$ molecular unit. Our results are in good agreement with the structural transition at 44 K from cubic to rhombohedral symmetry where the system becomes a robust ferroelectric, while long range magnetic order develops below 13 K in the form of an incommensurate cycloidal magnetic structure, which can transform into a Néel-type skyrmion phase in a modest applied magnetic field. Below 5.9(3) K, the crystal enters a ferromagnetic phase, and we find the magnetic order parameter indicates a long range ordered ground state with an ordered moment of 0.23(1) $μ_\mathrm{B}$ per V ion. Both polarized and unpolarized neutron data in the ferroelectric-paramagnetic phase have been measured to determine the magnetic form factor. The data are consistent with a model of the single spin being uniformly distributed across the V$_4$ molecular unit, rather than residing on the single apical V ion, in substantial agreement with the results of first-principles theory. In the magnetically ordered state, polarized neutron measurements are important since both the cycloidal and ferromagnetic order parameters are clearly coupled to the ferroelectricity, causing the structural peaks to be temperature and field dependent. For the ferromagnetic ground state, the spins are locked along the $[1,1,1]$ direction by a surprisingly large anisotropy.
On static spherically symmetric solutions of the vacuum Brans-Dicke theory
Creators: name: Bhadra, Arunava
name: Sarkar, Kabita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that among the four classes of the static spherically symmetric solution of the vacuum Brans-Dicke theory of gravity only two are really independent. Further by matching exterior and interior (due to physically reasonable spherically symmetric matter source) scalar fields it is found that only Brans class I solution with certain restriction on solution parameters may represent exterior metric for a nonsingular massive object. The physical viability of the black hole nature of the solution is investigated. It is concluded that no physical black hole solution different from the Schwarzschild black hole is available in the Brans-Dicke theory.
description: 15 pages, To be published in Gen. Rel. and Grav, typos in references corrected