cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Emerging Markets for U.S. Pork in China: Experimental Evidence from Mainland and Hong Kong Consumers
Creators: name: Ortega, David L.
name: Chen, Maolong
name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Shimokawa, Satoru
name: Ortega, David L.
name: Chen, Maolong
name: Wang, H. Holly
name: Shimokawa, Satoru
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: choice experiment
subject: consumer preferences
subject: food quality
subject: food marketing
subject: patriotism

description: A major concern for international marketers is how products will be received by foreign consumers in other markets. This study uses choice modeling to assess Chinese consumer preferences for pork and evaluate the potential demand for U.S. pork in the cities of Guangzhou and Hong Kong. We find that differences in preferences for domestic versus imported pork can be explained, in part, by consumers’ level of patriotism. Marketing pork with a food safety claim can increase market demand for U.S. products, and accounting for differences in nationalistic attitudes can aid marketing efforts.
The monetary thought-ideology nexus: Simons versus Keynes
Creators: name: ASCHHEIM, J.
name: TAVLAS, G.S.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Simons, Keynes, monetary issues
subject: B22, B31

description: The work represents and in-depth review of the theoretical and ideological developments of Simons and Keynes on monetary issues, comparing their similarities and their differences in context. JEL: B22, B31
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 149 (1984)
Unified description of fluids and solids in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Kincl, Ondřej
name: Peshkov, Ilya
name: Pavelka, Michal
name: Klika, Václav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) methods are advantageous in simulations of fluids in domains with free boundary. Special SPH methods have also been developed to simulate solids. However, there are situations where the matter behaves partly as a fluid and partly as a solid, for instance, the solidification front in 3D printing, or any system involving both fluid and solid phases. We develop an SPH-like method that is suitable for both fluids and solids at the same time. Instead of the typical discretization of hydrodynamics, we discretize the Symmetric Hyperbolic Thermodynamically Compatible equations (SHTC), which describe both fluids, elastic solids, and visco-elasto-plastic solids within a single framework. The resulting SHTC-SPH method is then tested on various benchmarks from the hydrodynamics and dynamics of solids and shows remarkable agreement with the data.
On the Effective Evolution for the Inflaton
Creators: name: Ramos, Rudnei O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of the inflaton field is studied in the context of its interaction with bosonic and fermionic fields modeled by a minimal SUSY like model. Our results are based on the observation that in typical multifield inflation models there are parameter regions for which nonlinear and nonperturbative effects can become important and that can lead to important changes in the dynamics of the inflaton field. In those parameter regions feasible to inflation, it is possible the emergence of effective strong dissipative effects that alone can sustain inflation long enough and with observational effects on density perturbations.
description: 5 pages, 2 eps figures. Based on talk given at 10th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 04 and Pran Nath Fest), Boston, Massachusetts, 16-22 Aug 2004. To be published in the proceedings (World Scientific, 2004)
Learning Haptic-based Object Pose Estimation for In-hand Manipulation Control with Underactuated Robotic Hands
Creators: name: Azulay, Osher
name: Ben-David, Inbar
name: Sintov, Avishai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unlike traditional robotic hands, underactuated compliant hands are challenging to model due to inherent uncertainties. Consequently, pose estimation of a grasped object is usually performed based on visual perception. However, visual perception of the hand and object can be limited in occluded or partly-occluded environments. In this paper, we aim to explore the use of haptics, i.e., kinesthetic and tactile sensing, for pose estimation and in-hand manipulation with underactuated hands. Such haptic approach would mitigate occluded environments where line-of-sight is not always available. We put an emphasis on identifying the feature state representation of the system that does not include vision and can be obtained with simple and low-cost hardware. For tactile sensing, therefore, we propose a low-cost and flexible sensor that is mostly 3D printed along with the finger-tip and can provide implicit contact information. Taking a two-finger underactuated hand as a test-case, we analyze the contribution of kinesthetic and tactile features along with various regression models to the accuracy of the predictions. Furthermore, we propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach which utilizes the pose estimation to manipulate objects to desired states solely based on haptics. We have conducted a series of experiments that validate the ability to estimate poses of various objects with different geometry, stiffness and texture, and show manipulation to goals in the workspace with relatively high accuracy.
Additional file 1 of Reliability and validity of the Japanese movement imagery questionnaire-revised second version
Creators: name: Nakano, Hideki
name: Tachibana, Mizuki
name: Fujita, Nao
name: Sawai, Shun
name: Fujikawa, Shoya
name: Yamamoto, Ryosuke
name: Murata, Shin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1 Table S1
Integration of Bicomplex Valued Function along Hyperbolic Curve
Creators: name: Ghosh, Chinmay
name: Mondal, Soumen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30E20, 30G35, 32A30

description: In this paper, we have defined bicomplex valued functions of bounded variations and rectifiable hyperbolic path. We have studied the integration of product-type bicomplex functions over rectifiable hyperbolic path. Also we have established bicomplex analogue of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for line integral.
Measuring trade in financial services
Creators: name: ARNDT, H.W.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Trade, financial services, international financial centres, offshore
subject: F30, G15

description: Although it has always been present, the importance of trade in financial services has increased greatly in the past two decades with the internationalisation of banking and the growth of international financial centres as the bases for offshore currency markets and other activities linking national capital markets. The question naturally arises how to measure the value and growth of this trade in financial services. The issues involved in this question are closely related to the difficulties that have been encountered in the treatment of financial enterprises in social accounts for national economies. In this context, the author investigates. JEL: F30, G15
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 149 (1984)
Economic, Regulatory and International Implications of Gene Drives in Agriculture
Creators: name: Brown, Zachary
name: Brown, Zachary
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Agricultural pests
subject: Gene drives
subject: Option value
subject: Public goods
subject: Risk assessment

description: Recent advances in biotechnology are generating new tools for pest and disease control in agriculture. One such technology, the gene drive, potentially allows humans to eliminate or alter entire pest populations using new genetic engineering tools. But with these potential benefits come risks and regulatory questions.
title: Shrubhill Tramworks Workshop : Baugeschichte und Bauanalyse einer schottischen Remise
Creators: name: Soulos, Julia Korina
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Baugeschichte
subject: architectural history

description: Thema der Diplomarbeit ist das "Shrubhill Tramworks Workshop", eine Remise in Edinburgh, Schottland. Erfassung, Erforschung, Interpretation und Erhaltung der industriellen Anlage führt auch zur Beschäftigung mit dem kulturellen und historischen Kontext. Ziel der Analyse ist einerseits die Dokumentation und andererseits der Erhalt industriellen Kulturgutes. Ein wichtiger Aspekt der Arbeit sind Aufnahme und Beschreibung der Remise, Vergleiche mit anderen, sowie die Entwicklung eines Nutzungskonzeptes, das durch die Vor-Ort-Analyse unter Berücksichtigung der historischen Entwicklung der Stadt zustande kommt. Das Objekt soll von einem halbverfallenen Industriebau zu einem Landmark werden. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den örtlichen Gegebenheiten wie auch mit der dort lebenden Bevölkerung und ihren Gewohnheiten ist unerlässlich, um für den Baukomplex und das Areal die entsprechenden Nutzerfunktionen zu erstellen.
description: The dissertation's topic is the " Shrubhill Tramworks Workshop", a tram factory and depot in Edinburgh, Scotland. The aim of the investigation is on one hand to research and document the history of the site and on the other hand to present a sustainable way to preserve the city-s industrial heritage. An important aspect of this work is on-site analysis, to record and describe the structures, compare with others and track their evolution and their use through time while taking into consideration the historical development of the city around it. The objective is to transform this ruined industrial building into a landmark. Local conditions, population, culture and needs will be essential factors in shaping the future of this site.
title: Role of sedlin, a TRAPP complex subunit, in membrane trafficking and in the pathogenesis of Spondyleopyphiseal Dysplasia Tarda
Creators: name: Venditti, Rossella
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: Genetic defects occurring in the sedlin gene, a conserved component of TRAPP complex, cause Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Tarda (SEDT), a rare progressive condition characterised by impaired chondrogenesis resulting in short stature, flattening of the vertebrae, and premature osteoarthritis. The role of sedlin in the pathogenesis of SEDT disease so far is still unknown. Prompted by the consideration that sedlin is ubiquitously expressed but that sedlin mutations cause cartilaginous-restricted dysfunctions, I hypothesized that sedlin might exert a role in membrane trafficking generally but in particular in the transport of chondrocyte- specific cargoes, such as type II procollagen (PCII). This hypothesis was reinforced by the fact that mutations in PCII give rise to autosomal dominant forms of spondyloepiphiseal dysplasia. I tested this hypothesis by analyzing the involvement of sedlin in the transport of different classes of secretory cargoes and found that sedlin is selectively required for PCII to exit the ER, while it is not essential for ER exit of small soluble and membrane-associated cargoes. I have also identified the molecular mechanism underlying this role of sedlin in its ability to bind the GTPase Sarl and to control the membrane-cytosol cycle of Sarl itself and of the COPIl coat complex at the level of the ER exit sites. Sedlin depletion and/or mutation in SEDT patients slows down the Sar1 cycle and prolongs the membrane association of Sar1-GTP at the ER exit sites, thus inducing constriction and premature fission of nascent carriers which fail to incorporate the large PC protofibrils but are still competent for smaller secretory cargoes. All together these findings provide new insights not only into understanding the role of sedlin but also shed new light on the molecular mechanisms underlying the onset of the SEDT disease.
சேதுரகுநாதனின் உரைத் திறன்.pdf
Creators: name: K, Sridhar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200315 Indian Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200520 Indian Literature
subject: 200202 Asian Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified

description: பழங்கால இலக்கியச் சுவையை அறிய உரை ஆசிரியர்கள், மறைந்து இருக்கும் ஓவியத்தைக் காண உதவும் ஒளி விளக்கைப் போன்றவர்கள் ஆவர். சேதுரகுநாதன் முக்கூடற்பள்ளு நூலுக்கு எழுதிய உரையின் வாயிலாக அவரது இலக்கிய அறிவு, பிற நூல் அறிவு, இலக்கண அறிவு போன்றவற்றை அறிய முடிகிறது.
Additional file 2 of Reliability and validity of the Japanese movement imagery questionnaire-revised second version
Creators: name: Nakano, Hideki
name: Tachibana, Mizuki
name: Fujita, Nao
name: Sawai, Shun
name: Fujikawa, Shoya
name: Yamamoto, Ryosuke
name: Murata, Shin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2 Figure S1
Financial innovation and monetary control in Italy
Creators: name: COTULA, F.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Deregulation, financial innovation, inflation, monetary controls, Italy
subject: E31, E40, E52

description: Increasingly the pressures of deregulation and competition have promoted innovation in the development of financial instruments. In the case of Italy the pressure for innovation has arisen from the need to finance the public sector borrowing requirement and the effects of inflation. As a result, funding instruments have been switched from longer-term bonds to the shorter-term treasury bill. However, this can lead to excessive supply of liquid assets with consequent problems for monetary controls. Such factors will make it more difficult to use monetary aggregates as a guide to monetary policy in the future. JEL: E31, E40, E52
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 150 (1984)
New insights to the photometric structure of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies from deep Near-Infrared studies: II. The sample of northern BCDs
Creators: name: Noeske, K. G.
name: Papaderos, P.
name: Cairos, L. M.
name: Fricke, K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is part of a series of publications which present a systematic study of Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) Galaxies in the Near Infrared (NIR). Compared to the visible light, NIR data allow a better separation of the starburst emission from the light distribution of the old stellar low-surface brightness (LSB) host galaxy. We analyze deep NIR broad band images of a sample of 11 BCDs, observed with the Calar Alto 3.6m telescope. This work enlarges the samples presented in preceding papers of this study (Noeske et al. 2003, Cairos et al. 2003) by BCDs of the most common morphological type, displaying a regular elliptical LSB host galaxy. The data presented here allow the detection and quantitative study of the extended stellar LSB host galaxy in all sample BCDs. The NIR surface brightness profiles (SBPs) of the LSB host galaxies agree at large galactocentric radii with those from optical studies, showing also an exponential intensity decrease and compatible scale lengths. Similar to Noeske et al. (2003), we find centrally flattening exponential (type V) SBPs of the host galaxy for several BCDs. Such SBPs remain mostly undetected in optical bands, due to the comparatively stronger starburst emission at these wavelengths. We apply a modified exponential distribution to decompose and quantitatively analyze SBPs of LSB hosts with a type V intensity distribution. We present the results of the surface photometry and the decomposition of SBPs, and discuss individual objects with respect to morphological details of their star-forming regions.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics; postscript file with full resolution images available at http://www.ucolick.org/~kai/PUB/noeske_nirbcds_2.ps.gz
Technology and international specialization
Creators: name: MOMIGLIANO, F.
name: SINISCALCO, D.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: International specialisation, industry interdependence, Italy
subject: O14, L16

description: In this paper the authors reconsider the cross-section analyses of international specialisation. Starting from a criticism of the methodology currently adopted in these exercises, the relationship between supply characteristics and trade performance of different goods is analysed by sub-system, or vertically integrated sector, instead of traditional methods. This procedure allows to take into consideration the interdependence between industries and final goods and to correctly attribute to each good the corresponding supply characteristics. In light of the results, a reappraisal of some characteristics of Italian specialisation is provided. JEL: O14, L16
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 150 (1984)
Spin-Resolved Topology and Partial Axion Angles in Three-Dimensional Insulators
Creators: name: Lin, Kuan-Sen
name: Palumbo, Giandomenico
name: Guo, Zhaopeng
name: Hwang, Yoonseok
name: Blackburn, Jeremy
name: Shoemaker, Daniel P.
name: Mahmood, Fahad
name: Wang, Zhijun
name: Fiete, Gregory A.
name: Wieder, Benjamin J.
name: Bradlyn, Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry-protected topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) have primarily been characterized by their gapless boundary states. However, in time-reversal- ($\mathcal{T}$-) invariant (helical) 3D TCI$\unicode{x2014}$termed higher-order TCIs (HOTIs)$\unicode{x2014}$the boundary signatures can manifest as a sample-dependent network of 1D hinge states. We here introduce nested spin-resolved Wilson loops and layer constructions as tools to characterize the intrinsic bulk topological properties of spinful 3D insulators. We discover that helical HOTIs realize one of three spin-resolved phases with distinct responses that are quantitatively robust to large deformations of the bulk spin-orbital texture: 3D quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), "spin-Weyl" semimetals, and $\mathcal{T}$-doubled axion insulator (T-DAXI) states with nontrivial partial axion angles indicative of a 3D spin-magnetoelectric bulk response and half-quantized 2D TI surface states originating from a partial parity anomaly. Using ab-initio calculations, we demonstrate that $β$-MoTe$_2$ realizes a spin-Weyl state and that $α$-BiBr hosts both 3D QSHI and T-DAXI regimes.
description: Final version: 22+146 pages, 8+44 figures. Nested and spin-resolved Wilson loop code with example scripts and documentation freely available at https://github.com/kuansenlin/nested_and_spin_resolved_Wilson_loop
தினமலரின் செய்தித் தலைப்பு.pdf
Creators: name: K, Sridhar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: 200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200315 Indian Languages
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200520 Indian Literature

description: அன்றாட உலக நிகழ்வுகள் எண்ணற்றவை. அதில் ஒவ்வொரு நாளிதழும் தனது வாசகர்களுக்கு ஏற்ற செய்திகளைத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்து வெளியிடுகிறது. அந்த அடிப்படையில் தினமலர் நாளிதழில் வெளியாகியுள்ள தலைப்புச் செய்திகளையும் அதன் முக்கியத்துவத்தையும் அறியலாம். மேலும் தினமலர் நாளிதழ் வாசிப்பவர்களின் எதிர்பார்ப்பையும் கணிக்க முடிகிறது.
Temperature-dependence of T1 spin relaxation of single NV centers in nanodiamonds
Creators: name: de Guillebon, Timothée
name: Vindolet, Baptiste
name: Roch, Jean-François
name: Jacques, Vincent
name: Rondin, Loïc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the experimental study of the temperature-dependence of the longitudinal spin relaxation time $T_1$ of single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers hosted in nanodiamonds. To determine the relaxation mechanisms at stake, measurements of the $T_1$ relaxation time are performed for a set of individual NV centers both at room and cryogenic temperatures. The results are consistant with a temperature-dependent relaxation process which is attributed to a thermally-activated magnetic noise produced by paramagnetic impurities lying on the nanodiamond surface. These results confirm the existence of surface-induced spin relaxation processes occurring in nanodiamonds, which are relevant for future developments of sensitive nanoscale NV-based quantum sensors.
The stability of the ratio of non-financial debt to income
Creators: name: GOLDSMITH R.W., R.W.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Monetary policy, non-financial debt, ratios
subject: E52, H63

description: The theoretical framework of monetary policy is based on a set of assumptions which have often been criticised. In particular, the relative stability of the ratio of money and of domestic non-financial debt to national product is a crucial factor affecting the choice of monetary instrument. Recent research has shown these ratios to have been remarkably constant in the postwar period in the United States. However, evidence is presented in this article for a number of other countries which, it is argued, refutes the US evidence. JEL: E52, H63
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 150 (1984)
Irrigation water use and yield of Thyme in the Virgin Islands
Régime d'irrigation du thym dans les Iles Vierges
Creators: name: Palada, M.C.
name: Crossman, S.M.A.
name: Collingwood, C.D.
name: Palada, M.C.
name: Crossman, S.M.A.
name: Collingwood, C.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: drip irrigation
subject: herbs
subject: mulching
subject: thymus vulgaris

description: Thyme (Thymus vulgaris L) is one of the major culinary herbs with economic importance in the Virgin Islands. In spite of this, little research has been undertaken to improve its crop cultural management practices. The traditional practice of growing herbs in the Virgin Islands requires frequent watering by hand with sprinkler cans or garden hose. This practice is inefficient and uses high amounts of water and labor. This experiment was conducted to determine the minimum irrigation water requirement of thyme with and without mulch. Treatments consisted of 3 irrigation levels corresponding to soil water tensions of 20, 40, and 60 k.Pa. Half of the treatments were mulched using a black plastic weed barrier ground cover. A rainfed plot without mulch served as the control. Differences in yield among treatments were significant, although rainfall was high during the growing season. Total fresh and dry matter yields were highest from treatment with an irrigation level maintained at soil water tension of 20 kPa without mulch. Generally, all treatments with mulch and the control had yields lower than treatments without mulch. This indicated that mulching is not necessary for thyme when rainfall is high and soil moisture is not a limiting factor. Total irrigation water use was highest (5.85 I/plant) in treatment with higher irrigation level (20 kPa) in both mulch and unmulched plots. Treatments under 60 kPa had the least water use. Based on the results, it appears that the minimum water requirement for growing thyme in the Virgin Islands can be met by maintaining a soil water tension of 60 k.Pa.
Microscopic many-body theory of two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy of excitons and trions in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Hu, Hui
name: Wang, Jia
name: Liu, Xia-Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a microscopic many-body theory of the recently measured two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy (2DCS) of excitons and trions in monolayer MoSe$_{2}$ materials {[}K. Hao \textit{et al.}, Nano Lett. \textbf{16}, 5109 (2016){]}, where excitons and trions can be well interpreted as repulsive and attractive polarons, respectively, in the dilute limit of exciton density. We derive a simple relation for the 2DCS spectrum in terms of a modified, mixing time-dependent polaron Green function, which is valid in the single exciton limit. Our simulated spectra are in excellent qualitative agreement with experiments without introducing any phenomenological parameters such as decoherence rates. In particular, quantum beats between the off-diagonal crosspeaks in the experimental 2DCS spectra are well reproduced. Our work, therefore, clarifies the microscopic principle that underlies the observed optical signals of exciton-trion coherence. We find that there are two quantitative discrepancies between theory and experiment: the smaller than expected crosspeak strength and the slightly unsynchronized quantum beats at different crosspeaks. Tentatively, we attribute these residual discrepancies to the finite exciton density and the resultant polaron-polaron interaction, which is not taken into account in our theory.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Neutron Star Properties from an NJL Model Modified to Simulate Confinement
Creators: name: Lawley, S.
name: Bentz, W.
name: Thomas, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NJL model has recently been extended with a method to simulate confinement. This leads in mean field approximation to a natural mechanism for the saturation of nuclear matter. We use the model to investigate the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter and then use it to compute the properties of neutron stars.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the proceedings for QCD Down Under Workshop, Adelaide, March 10-19, 2004
Is there a long cycle?
Creators: name: CLARK, C.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Economic history, business cycle
subject: E32, F44, N10

description: Is there a long cycle? This question is of the greatest importance, not only in economic history, but in the interpretation of the current situation. Is the slowing down of world production and trade in the past decade just the consequence of a series of temporary mishaps, whose effects can be rectified - or is the world under the influence of a long cycle, whose effects will still be with us for many years into the future? The author provides analysis in order to shed light on these questions. JEL: E32, F44, N10
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 150 (1984)
The 1973-74 tax reform in Italy: a partial success with many shortcomings
Creators: name: PEDONE, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Italy, tax reform
subject: H21

description: The present article draws attention to a number of results of the Italian 1973-74 tax reform in order to offer useful information regarding the present taxation debate. The author deals with the fundamental changes in the level and the composition of taxation in the post-reform years in Italy with reference to the earlier situation and to that obtaining in comparable countries. It is suggested that the undeniable success of the reform in increasing the tax yield is actually the source of the present difficulties of the tax system. The most important outstanding problems in the light of the recent experience are touched on as well as what prospects there are for a solution - however hard to find and short-lived this may be. JEL: H21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 151 (1984)
Dissipation and energy gap
Creators: name: Trachenko, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of anharmonicity (coupling) in the field theory generally result in dissipation of plane waves. It has been appreciated that anharmonicity and ensuing dissipation of plane waves can be accompanied by the emergence of the gapped momentum state. Here, we show that the same effect can lead to a gapped energy state and a dispersion relation where the frequency (energy) gap emerges explicitly. We discuss several notable properties of gapped energy and momentum states and connections between them.
title: Influences of the use of management systems on the moral attitudes and behaviours of small and medium sized enterprises : measuring the dynamic interplay of morality, environment and managing systems
Creators: name: Bürgi, Jörg
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: The author designs a comprehensive model to characterise and optimise sustainable performance of small and medium sized enterprises SMEs - in the overall context of physical environment, society, economy and business. This model embraces issues of morality, management system, and environment and uses a corresponding measurement tool to discuss the interplay of these issues with the intention of leading SMEs to continuous improvement. For the design, issues of system thinking have been applied to cope with the complexity of the interplay of the elements. The model and the measurement tool are tested by a longitudinal survey of 27 SMEs in Switzerland and Germany. An outstanding issue of this survey is the interviewing of people from different hierarchical levels and departments of the companies (total: 212 individuals); it provides a comprehensive view of companies' attitudes and behaviours. The survey illustrates that a standardised management system is not decisive for the implementation of an increasingly dynamic and circular system with intensive integration of people. The implementation merely depends on the (moral) attitudes and behaviours of owners or top managers and employees. But SMEs with standardised (especially environmental) management systems generally demonstrate more outcomes towards embedded morality, circularity and integration as well as effectiveness and sustainable performance. Through the design and development of a comprehensive SME model and measuring tool, the author broadens the gap of narrowing SME research concerning optimised performance on individual issues and positions of individual companies to an overall context of society, economy, business and physical environment.
The Aquarius Superclusters II. Spectroscopic and Photometric Data
Creators: name: Caretta, Cesar A.
name: Maia, Marcio A. G.
name: Willmer, Christopher N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopic and photometric data for 920 galaxies selected in 68 fields of the Aquarius Cluster Catalog. Typically the 15 brightest candidate members with magnitudes in the range 16 < b_J < 21 were selected for observations, and ~ 71% turn out to be cluster members. Using the new redshift determinations we assign galaxies to groups and clusters, and by including data from the literature we calculate systemic velocities and velocity dispersions for 74 clusters, each with redshifts measured for at least 6 individual galaxies.
description: 16 pages, including 8 figures and 6 tables; to be published on Astronomical Journal, January/2005 issue
An intensive and sustainable system for Barbadine (Passiflora quadrangularis)
Système de culture intensif de la Barbadine (Passiflora quadrangularis)
Creators: name: Ramnanan, N.
name: Ramnanan, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: A survey of barbadine cultivation in Trinidad revealed that this crop was largely cultivated in a traditional backyard manner despite the existence of a market for the fresh fruit and processed barbadine products. Lack of sound agronomic practices, poor marketing facilities and the traditional trellis system employed by farmers are the main factors hindering large scale commercialization of this crop. A vertical trellis system which was compared to a horizontal trellis system was evaluated over a period of two years. A vertical system facilitates high density planting (2,000 plants per hectare), intercropping, and minimizes the drudgery of normal cultural practices, among other advantages. A comparison of the production costs and yield of the vertical versus the horizontal trellis system supports the conclusion that the vertical system lends itself to intensive and sustainable cultivation of barbadine.
Productive transformations and economic theory
Creators: name: AMENDOLA, M.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Technological progress, methods of analysis, economic theory
subject: O33

description: Only recently have economists concentrated their attention on the revolutionary technological changes in progress and on the associated transformations of the structures of the economy. This has resulted in a proliferation of theoretical attempts which have proposed ambitious refoundations of the dynamic theory in the most varied directions. The problem with economic analysis today, however, is represented not by the changes in technology - which have, of course, always taken place - but by the shift of focus to the process through which such changes are realised. The author argues that rather than new analytical tools or sophisticated models, what is required is to define precisely the object of the analysis, bringing to light in particular the strict relation between the problems considered and the method of analysis adopted. JEL: O33
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 151 (1984)
A Wide-Field HI Study of the NGC 1566 Group
Creators: name: Kilborn, Virginia A.
name: Koribalski, Baerbel S.
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Barnes, David G.
name: Musgrave, Ruth C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on neutral hydrogen observations of a ~ 5.5 x 5.5 degree field around the NGC 1566 galaxy group with the multibeam narrow-band system on the 64-m Parkes telescope. We detected thirteen HI sources in the field, including two galaxies not previously known to be members of the group, bringing the total number of confirmed galaxies in this group to 26. Each of the HI galaxies can be associated with an optically catalogued galaxy. No 'intergalactic HI clouds' were found to an HI mass limit of ~ 3.5 x 10^8 Msun. We have estimated the expected HI content of the late-type galaxies in this group and find the total detected HI is consistent with our expectations. However, while no global HI deficiency is inferred for this group, two galaxies exhibit individual HI deficiencies. Further observations are needed to determine the gas removal mechanisms in these galaxies.
description: MNRAS accepted, 13 pages, 9 Figures. Full resolution paper available from http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~vkilborn/NGC_1566.pdf
Collaborative causal inference on distributed data
Creators: name: Kawamata, Yuji
name: Motai, Ryoki
name: Okada, Yukihiko
name: Imakura, Akira
name: Sakurai, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, the development of technologies for causal inference with privacy preservation of distributed data has gained considerable attention. Many existing methods for distributed data focus on resolving the lack of subjects (samples) and can only reduce random errors in estimating treatment effects. In this study, we propose a data collaboration quasi-experiment (DC-QE) that resolves the lack of both subjects and covariates, reducing random errors and biases in the estimation. Our method involves constructing dimensionality-reduced intermediate representations from private data from local parties, sharing intermediate representations instead of private data for privacy preservation, estimating propensity scores from the shared intermediate representations, and finally, estimating the treatment effects from propensity scores. Through numerical experiments on both artificial and real-world data, we confirm that our method leads to better estimation results than individual analyses. While dimensionality reduction loses some information in the private data and causes performance degradation, we observe that sharing intermediate representations with many parties to resolve the lack of subjects and covariates sufficiently improves performance to overcome the degradation caused by dimensionality reduction. Although external validity is not necessarily guaranteed, our results suggest that DC-QE is a promising method. With the widespread use of our method, intermediate representations can be published as open data to help researchers find causalities and accumulate a knowledge base.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Firm size and the division of labor
Creators: name: CONTINI, B.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Italy, manufacturing, firm size, division of labor
subject: L16, L60, O14

description: The recent publication of Italy’s 1981 Industrial Census has highlighted a phenomenon of which there had already been some signs for a number of years - the fact that manufacturing firms in every sector are reducing their size. The data indicate that both the appearance of a large number of small new firms and the reduction in the average number of employees in existing firms of all sizes have contributed to this. Similar conclusions have been drawn for other European countries. The author’s hypothesis is that the observed reduction in the average size of firms is caused by two concurrent factors: (1) the increased rigidity of the overall cost structure of business firms; (2) the increased uncertainty in both factor and product markets, which makes more flexible organisational structures desirable. JEL: L16, L60, O14
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 151 (1984)
SARDO: An Automated Search-and-Rescue Drone-based Solution for Victims Localization
Creators: name: Albanese, Antonio
name: Sciancalepore, Vincenzo
name: Costa-Pérez, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Natural disasters affect millions of people every year. Finding missing persons in the shortest possible time is of crucial importance to reduce the death toll. This task is especially challenging when victims are sparsely distributed in large and/or difficult-to-reach areas and cellular networks are down. In this paper we present SARDO, a drone-based search and rescue solution that exploits the high penetration rate of mobile phones in the society to localize missing people. SARDO is an autonomous, all-in-one drone-based mobile network solution that does not require infrastructure support or mobile phones modifications. It builds on novel concepts such as pseudo-trilateration combined with machine-learning techniques to efficiently locate mobile phones in a given area. Our results, with a prototype implementation in a field-trial, show that SARDO rapidly determines the location of mobile phones (~3 min/UE) in a given area with an accuracy of few tens of meters and at a low battery consumption cost (~5%). State-of-the-art localization solutions for disaster scenarios rely either on mobile infrastructure support or exploit onboard cameras for human/computer vision, IR, thermal-based localization. To the best of our knowledge, SARDO is the first drone-based cellular search-and-rescue solution able to accurately localize missing victims through mobile phones.
Joan Robinson and economic theory
Creators: name: ASIMAKOPULOS, A.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Joan Robinson, distribution of income, imperfect competition, employment, capital, production
subject: B31, E24

description: Joan Robinson’s interest in the question of the distribution of income and her disdain for what she considered to be theories that tried to justify existing distributions of income never flagged. Her work is marked by a strong inclination for clear, well reasoned arguments that left no room for sloppy habits of thought. The wide scope and quantity of Robinson’s writings make it difficult to present a critical evaluation of her contributions within the context of even a lengthy paper. The present one concentrates on her writings in five main areas: (i) the economics of imperfect competition; (ii) the theory of employment; (iii) the theory of accumulation in the long run; (iv) the concept of capital and the production function; and (v) the problem of time in economics as reflected in her writings on the theme history versus equilibrium. JEL: B31, E24
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 151 (1984)
title: The Burford Masons and the changing world of building practice in England, 1630-1730
Creators: name: Mobus, Melody Ann Clara
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2012

description: Architectural history has traditionally focused on the named architect and the completed building. Investigation of the master craftsmen who realised the emerging architect's ideas while continuing to build to their own design has only recently been embarked upon. This thesis sets out to address this imbalance by scrutinising a group of master masons closely connected with Wren for over five decades. This thesis, for the first time, explores the Burford Masons, three dynasties comprising the Strongs, the Kempsters, and Ephraim Beauchamp, who rose to join the elite of mason-contractors in the rebuilding of London. Examining their experience over the period 1630-1730, it aims to shed light on building practices undergoing transition to modem methods. The research is largely based on primary sources, some hitherto untapped, which has produced a wealth of new evidence. The Burford Masons' careers are set out in Chapter Two, a Catalogue Raisonne giving the first comprehensive account of their works. The remaining chapters are thematic, Chapter Three investigating their experience after the Great Fire, a catalyst for changing building practices and their careers. Chapters Four and Five study the Burford Masons' evolving contractual arrangements, and their strategies to withstand the endemic problem of dilatory payments. Chapter Six scrutinises changes in London Masons' Company and the Burford Masons' involvement with it. Chapter Seven explores their role in design, both in conjunction with the architect and as mason-architects in their own right. It identifies them as a school of masons emerging from quarries. The research deepens knowledge of the evolution of the contracting system in both London and the provinces. It shows the Burford Masons also in the process of change, becoming interdisciplinary master-builders, entrepreneurs, and financiers.
IMF conditionality – a better way
Creators: name: SPRAOS, J.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: IMF, private banking, Third World countries, balance of payments
subject: F32, F33

description: The article looks at IMF conditions for upper credit tranche stand-by arrangements. The IMF must face the criticism that its recent actions have transgressed on private banks' territory because of banks' errors in lending to third world countries - a matter that could have been left to free market forces. Conditions for IMF aid should focus not on policy instruments but on policy targets, such as growth, employment, inflation and, ultimately, restoration of countries' balance of payments positions. Conditions for IMF help should be centred squarely on the balance of payments of aid-seeking countries if a backwards trend is to be avoided. JEL: F32, F33
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 37, N. 151 (1984)
Effect of gibberellic acid (GA3) on yield and fruit length of egg plant (Salanum melangena)
Effet de l'acide gibberellique sur le rendement et la longueur du fruit de l'aubergine (Salanum melangena)
Creators: name: Morales-Payan, J.P.
name: Morales-Payan, J.P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Se estudio el efecto de la aplicacion de Acido Giberelico (GA3) a la berenjena (Solanum melongena L.) "Jira" sobre su productividad y la longitud del fruto en tres experimentos de campo. En el primer ensayo, frutos significativamente mas largos fueron obtenidos con dosis de 5 a 20 ppm, alcanzandose maxima productividad de cosecha a 5 ppm, al aplicarse en plena floracion. En el segundo experimento no se detecto diferencia significativa en rendimiento al aplicarse en plena floracion, pero los frutos tuvieron longitud significativamente mayor al aplicarse 25 ppm de GA3. En el tercer experimento, la aplicacion antes de la floracion plena no afecto significativamente la productividad o la longitud del fruto, mientras que la aplicacion despues de la floracion plena aumento el rendimiento en dos is de 5 y 10 ppm, y la longitud de 5 a 30 ppm. ----- The effect of Gibberellic Acid (GA3) application to eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) "Jira" on ltS yield and fruit length was studied in three field experiment. In the first trial, significantly longer fruits were obtained at 5 to 20 ppm, with the highest yield at 5 ppm, when applied at flowering. In the second experiment, no significant difference in yield was found with applications at flowering up to 25 ppm, finding significantly longer fruits at 25 ppm. In the third experiment, spraying at early flowering did not significantly affect either yield or fruit length, while spraying after flowering significantly increased yield at 5 and 10 ppm, and fruit length at 5 to 30 ppm.
Frobenius nilHecke algebras
Creators: name: Savage, Alistair
name: Stuart, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C08

description: To any Frobenius superalgebra $A$ we associate towers of Frobenius nilCoxeter algebras and Frobenius nilHecke algebras. These act naturally, via Frobenius divided difference operators, on Frobenius polynomial algebras. When $A$ is the ground ring, our algebras recover the classical nilCoxeter and nilHecke algebras. When $A$ is the two-dimensional Clifford algebra, they are Morita equivalent to the odd nilCoxeter and odd nilHecke algebras.
description: 14 pages; v2: minor corrections, published version