cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Entanglement-based quantum deep learning
Creators: name: Yang, Zhenwei
name: Zhang, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical deep learning algorithms have aroused great interest in both academia and industry for their utility in image recognition, language translation, decision-making problems and more. In this work, we have provided a quantum deep learning scheme based on multi-qubit entanglement states, including computation and training of neural network in full quantum process. In the course of training, efficient calculation of the distance between unknown unit vector and known unit vector has been realized by proper measurement based on the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement states. An exponential speedup over classical algorithms has been demonstrated. In the process of computation, quantum scheme corresponding to multi-layer feedforward neural network has been provided. We have shown the utility of our scheme using Iris dataset. The extensibility of the present scheme to different types of model has also been analyzed
description: Will appear in New Journal of Physics
Additional file 1 of Water, sanitation and hygiene practices associated with improved height-for-age, weight-for-height and weight-for-age z-scores among under-five children in Nepal
Creators: name: Shrestha, Som Kumar
name: Vicendese, Don
name: Erbas, Bircan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Descriptive summary of variables adjusted in the final regression models (n = 2352).
The HI Content of Compact Groups of Galaxies
Creators: name: Stevens, J. B.
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Barnes, D. G.
name: Pisano, D. J.
name: Drinkwater, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The HI content of Hickson Compact Groups in the southern hemisphere is measured using data from the HI Parkes All Sky Survey (HIPASS), and dedicated observations using the narrowband filter on the Multibeam instrument on the Parkes telescope. The expected HI mass of these groups was estimated using the luminosity, diameter and morphological types of the member galaxies, calibrated from published data. Taking careful account of non-detection limits, the results show that the compact group population that has been detected by these observations has an HI content similar to that of galaxies in the reference field sample. The upper limits for the undetected groups lie within the normal range; improvement of these limits will require a large increase in sensitivity.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in PASA
Effect of Temperature and Humidity Changes inside and outside Insect-proof Net in the Spring on the Spring Shoot Growth of Citrus Shatangju
Creators: name: ZHANG, Xiaofeng
name: GUO, Yanjun
name: JIANG, Hui
name: GUO, Liying
name: ZHOU, Xiqin
name: HU, Yaping
name: JI, Qianhua
name: ZHANG, Xiaofeng
name: GUO, Yanjun
name: JIANG, Hui
name: GUO, Liying
name: ZHOU, Xiqin
name: HU, Yaping
name: JI, Qianhua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Insect-proof net, Citrus Shatangju, Spring shoot, Temperature and humidity, Citrus pests

description: The experiment was mainly used to study the effect of insect-proof net mulching cultivation technology on the temperature and humidity of the greenhouse and the spring shoot growth of citrus Shatangju. The results showed that the 40-mesh translucent insect-proof net had a positive effect on the spring shoot growth of Shatangju in the spring from January to April. In the meantime, according to the change of the temperature and humidity inside and outside the insect-proof net and the change of quantity of Aleyrodidae, Tetranychidae and Phyllocnisidae, it was found that the role of insect-proof net in enhancing the spring shoot growth of Shatangju was possibly achieved by the regulation of citrus pests and the temperature and humidity inside the net.
Disks and winds around hot stars: new insights from multi-wavelength spectroscopy and interferometry
Creators: name: De Almeida, E. S. G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astrophysics
Stellar Astronomy

description: Hot stars are the main source of ionization of the interstellar medium and its enrichment due to heavy elements. Constraining the physical conditions of their environments is crucial to understand how these stars evolve and their impact on the evolution of galaxies. Spectroscopy allows to access the physics, the chemistry, and the dynamics of these objects, but not the spatial distribution of these objects. Only long-baseline interferometry can resolve photospheres and close environments, and, combining spectroscopy and interferometry, spectro-interferometry allows to draw an even more detailed picture of hot stars. The objective of my thesis was to investigate the physical properties of the photosphere and circumstellar environment of massive hot stars confronting multi-band spectroscopic or spectro-interferometric observations and sophisticated non-LTE radiative transfer codes. My work was focused on two main lines of research. The first concerns radiative line-driven winds. Using UV and visible spectroscopic data and the radiative transfer code CMFGEN, I investigated the weak wind phenomenon on a sample of nine Galactic O stars. This study shows for the first time that the weak wind phenomenon, originally found for O dwarfs, also exists on more evolved O stars and that future studies must evaluate its impact on the evolution of massive stars. My other line of research concerns the study of classical Be stars, the fastest rotators among the non-degenerated stars, and which are surrounded by rotating equatorial disks. I studied the Be star o Aquarii using Hα (CHARA/VEGA) and Brγ (VLTI/AMBER) spectro-interferometric observations, the radiative transfer code HDUST, and developing new automatic procedures to better constrain the kinematics of the disk. This multi-band study allowed to draw the most detailed picture of this object and its environment, to test the limits of the current generation of radiative transfer models, and paved the way to my future work on a large samples of Be stars observed with VEGA, AMBER, and the newly available VLTI mid-infrared combiner MATISSE.
Interaction between Hosts and Guests of Rural Tourism in Northeast China Based on Symbolic Interaction Theory
Creators: name: XU, Shuheng
name: SUN, Xiaoxin
name: HU, Yingchun
name: XU, Shuheng
name: SUN, Xiaoxin
name: HU, Yingchun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural tourism in Northeast China, Interaction between hosts and guests, Symbolic interaction theory

description: With constant economic development and continuous improvement of living standards in Northeast China, rural tourism, as a new type of tourism, is increasingly favored. From the perspective of symbolic interaction theory, taking the current situation of rural tourism in Northeast China as an example, this paper explained the semiotic significance between hosts and guests in rural tourism. It established the evaluation indicators for authentic symbolic perception of rural tourism. Also, combined with the theories of sociology and anthropology, it studied the interaction between hosts and tourists of rural tourism in Northeast China.
A comparative study of adjustment difficulties of American male and female students in Israeli institutions of higher learning
Creators: name: Halpern, Jacob I.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy

description: The study addressed four research questions concerning the adjustment difficulties experienced by Americans who were studying in Israeli colleges, universities, and yeshivoth. Furthermore, four hypotheses were tested which dealt with gender differences in the adjustment process. In November and December of 1989, 671 American undergraduates in Israeli institutions were surveyed to determine how difficult it was for them to make fifty-three specific school-related adjustments. Each participant completed the Study Abroad Adjustment Inventory (SAAI), which was created by the writer specifically for this research. The SAAI categorized the adjustment difficulties into four general areas: Hebrew language, academic matters, personal situations, and living arrangements. It utilized four extent-of-difficulty response alternatives: 1.00 = none, 2.00 = not serious, 3.00 = serious, 4.00 = very serious, to assess student difficulty with each adjustment. The four hypotheses were tested by using the t test statistic. Significance was set at the.05 level. Study findings indicated that the sample of students in this research reported the most serious (X = 2.87) and most frequent adjustment difficulties in the "living arrangements" problem area among the four problem areas considered. Overall, the mean student extent-of-difficulty response to each of the set of fifty-three adjustments presented on the SAAI did not exceed 3.00 (serious). A significant disparity in adjustment difficulty was found between males and females for eighteen of the fifty-three adjustments. Males had more difficulty than females adjusting to matters in the "personal situations" problem area. Female students encountered significantly more difficulties than males adjusting to problems in the "academic matters" area. No significant gender difference was found regarding the "living arrangements" or "Hebrew language" problem areas. Although more than one third of study subjects reported that their mastery of the Hebrew language before starting to study in Israel was "none" to "poor," their adjustment difficulty with the "Hebrew language" problem area was less than "not serious" (X = 1.78). One study conclusion is that competency in Hebrew is not essential for a successful adjustment by American students, similar to those in this sample, to study in Israeli colleges, universities, and yeshivoth. The findings are interpreted for their meaning to directors of foreign student programs in Israeli post-secondary institutions and to advisors in the United States of American students planning to study abroad.
The crisis of judgment in Kant's three "Critiques", the aesthetic factor and Kant's architectonic solution
Creators: name: Scherer, Irmgard Braier
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation will explore a unique problem in Kant's critical philosophy, thus far not dealt with in the larger perspective it deserves, namely the possibility of judgment, particularly aesthetic judgment in the shadow of reason and understanding. Kant tells us in the Critique of Pure Reason that in the course of human conduct the power of judgment is more important than knowledge and reason (A134/B173), but how this is so he only comes to fully articulate in his culminating critical work, the Critique of Judgment. That judgment is a crucial focus in all three Critiques is indicated by the three guiding questions--how are a priori synthetic judgments possible?, how are moral judgments a priori possible? and how are aesthetic judgments a priori possible? The factor common to all is the demand for a priori status, i.e. what constitutes legitimate philosophical judgment in the three areas of human culture--science, morality and art. Assessing judgment in these areas turns up a peculiar, albeit recalcitrant, connection to the aesthetic component in human consciousness. Kant first confronts the link of judgment to feeling formally and critically (though recognized in his pre-critical phase) in the Transcendental Aesthetic of the first Critique, then again in the second Critique concerning the relationship of "moral feeling" to the moral law. It is only in the third Critique that the aesthetic element in consciousness is fully integrated in Kant's critical system. My dissertation reconstructs Kant's attempt to link feeling and cognition and do so on a priori principles; it explores the crisis this represents for judgment in philosophical discourse. This study asks whether in the course of his Critiques Kant can be said to have solved the "crises of judgment" within the totality of his own system, and beyond that, to have found the answers of the aporiae of judgment in the human soul. Further one must ask: does Kant find a rational, that is philosophical solution to the problem of the irrational posed in mid-eighteenth century thought, which is essentially a problem of aesthetics, i.e. of individual taste which becomes that of critique and judgment?; My claim is that Kant's answer lies in his unique but often obscured vision of reason's "architectonic" nature which finds in the Critique of Judgment its final solution. The architectonic vision assigns judgment-power, a "secret power" no longer, the task to reconcile simultaneous contradictory truths, for example to bring together in one consciousness the sensible and the supersensible, the conditioned and the unconditioned, and to generally "untie the knot of knowledge" (The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures, Akademie Ausgabe, Vol. II) by means of a theory of judgment.
elisson_thesis_final_version.pdf
Creators: name: De Almeida, E. S. G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Astrophysics
Stellar Astronomy

description: Hot stars are the main source of ionization of the interstellar medium and its enrichment due to heavy elements. Constraining the physical conditions of their environments is crucial to understand how these stars evolve and their impact on the evolution of galaxies. Spectroscopy allows to access the physics, the chemistry, and the dynamics of these objects, but not the spatial distribution of these objects. Only long-baseline interferometry can resolve photospheres and close environments, and, combining spectroscopy and interferometry, spectro-interferometry allows to draw an even more detailed picture of hot stars. The objective of my thesis was to investigate the physical properties of the photosphere and circumstellar environment of massive hot stars confronting multi-band spectroscopic or spectro-interferometric observations and sophisticated non-LTE radiative transfer codes. My work was focused on two main lines of research. The first concerns radiative line-driven winds. Using UV and visible spectroscopic data and the radiative transfer code CMFGEN, I investigated the weak wind phenomenon on a sample of nine Galactic O stars. This study shows for the first time that the weak wind phenomenon, originally found for O dwarfs, also exists on more evolved O stars and that future studies must evaluate its impact on the evolution of massive stars. My other line of research concerns the study of classical Be stars, the fastest rotators among the non-degenerated stars, and which are surrounded by rotating equatorial disks. I studied the Be star o Aquarii using Hα (CHARA/VEGA) and Brγ (VLTI/AMBER) spectro-interferometric observations, the radiative transfer code HDUST, and developing new automatic procedures to better constrain the kinematics of the disk. This multi-band study allowed to draw the most detailed picture of this object and its environment, to test the limits of the current generation of radiative transfer models, and paved the way to my future work on a large samples of Be stars observed with VEGA, AMBER, and the newly available VLTI mid-infrared combiner MATISSE.
Scaling functions for nonequilibrium fluctuations: A picture gallery
Creators: name: Racz, Zoltan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emergence of non-gaussian distributions for macroscopic quantities in nonequilibrium steady states is discussed with emphasis on the effective criticality and on the ensuing universality of distribution functions. The following problems are treated in more detail: nonequilibrium interface fluctuations (the problem of upper critical dimension of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation), roughness of signals displaying Gaussian 1/f power spectra (the relationship to extreme-value statistics), effects of boundary conditions (randomness of the digits of pi).
description: Invited contribution at SPIE conference on Fluctuations and Noise, Santa Fe, 2003; 9 pages, 6 figures
Value Appeal of Harmonious Moral Life of Chinese College Students
Creators: name: CHEN, Nannan
name: CHEN, Nannan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Chinese college students, Harmonious moral life, Value appeal, Humanity

description: Based on the theory of human nature and community, this paper analyzes some problems such as the weakening of moral appeal, the loss of moral behavior, the supremacy of physical values and the unclear role orientation faced by some Chinese college students in the course of their moral life so as to cultivate moral feelings and construct moral values, reshape the ethics of behavior, give full play to the main channel of ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities, inherit the outstanding Chinese traditional culture as the focal point, and probe into the value demands of college students' harmonious moral life.
The crisis of judgment in Kant's three "Critiques", the aesthetic factor and Kant's architectonic solution
Creators: name: Scherer, Irmgard Braier
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This dissertation will explore a unique problem in Kant's critical philosophy, thus far not dealt with in the larger perspective it deserves, namely the possibility of judgment, particularly aesthetic judgment in the shadow of reason and understanding. Kant tells us in the Critique of Pure Reason that in the course of human conduct the power of judgment is more important than knowledge and reason (A134/B173), but how this is so he only comes to fully articulate in his culminating critical work, the Critique of Judgment. That judgment is a crucial focus in all three Critiques is indicated by the three guiding questions--how are a priori synthetic judgments possible?, how are moral judgments a priori possible? and how are aesthetic judgments a priori possible? The factor common to all is the demand for a priori status, i.e. what constitutes legitimate philosophical judgment in the three areas of human culture--science, morality and art. Assessing judgment in these areas turns up a peculiar, albeit recalcitrant, connection to the aesthetic component in human consciousness. Kant first confronts the link of judgment to feeling formally and critically (though recognized in his pre-critical phase) in the Transcendental Aesthetic of the first Critique, then again in the second Critique concerning the relationship of "moral feeling" to the moral law. It is only in the third Critique that the aesthetic element in consciousness is fully integrated in Kant's critical system. My dissertation reconstructs Kant's attempt to link feeling and cognition and do so on a priori principles; it explores the crisis this represents for judgment in philosophical discourse. This study asks whether in the course of his Critiques Kant can be said to have solved the "crises of judgment" within the totality of his own system, and beyond that, to have found the answers of the aporiae of judgment in the human soul. Further one must ask: does Kant find a rational, that is philosophical solution to the problem of the irrational posed in mid-eighteenth century thought, which is essentially a problem of aesthetics, i.e. of individual taste which becomes that of critique and judgment?; My claim is that Kant's answer lies in his unique but often obscured vision of reason's "architectonic" nature which finds in the Critique of Judgment its final solution. The architectonic vision assigns judgment-power, a "secret power" no longer, the task to reconcile simultaneous contradictory truths, for example to bring together in one consciousness the sensible and the supersensible, the conditioned and the unconditioned, and to generally "untie the knot of knowledge" (The False Subtlety of the Four Syllogistic Figures, Akademie Ausgabe, Vol. II) by means of a theory of judgment.
A comparative study of Fulbe household economies in the rural Fouta Djallon
Creators: name: Roberts, William Cecil
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research is a case study of the factors that influence contemporary patterns of rural socioeconomic stratification among a sample of rural households in a group of Fouta Djallon Fulbe villages in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. The study shows that traditional social status and gender account for the variation in individual and household access to the productive resources that determine socioeconomic status. Patterns of socioeconomic stratification are in turn expressed as differences in levels of household agricultural production and income earning. Precolonial Fouta Fulbe society was composed of noble, free, artisan, slave and pastoral groups organized into a rigid hierarchy differentiated by occupation and wealth. Monetization occurred during the French colonial period through taxation and the development of commodity markets, and money has now become an important criterion for socioeconomic stratification. This study examines how contemporary rural Fulbe provide for their individual and household subsistence and income needs through various combinations of farm, non-farm, and migrant activities. A sample of twenty-one households was randomly selected from an initial census of 188 households in seven villages that included all five social groups. Seven of these households were headed by women. Comparisons were made between the five social groups and between male and female headed households from ethnographic data gathered over one year that focused on family demographics, farm level studies, time allocation, household income and expenditures, and market surveys. The study found that men from all social groups migrated elsewhere to earn money while female household heads managed remittances and rural production. However, nobles have generally had more successful migration strategies built around high levels of formal education and active urban kinship networks. They also had relatively high agricultural production based on greater access to extra household labor. Artisan and slave households generally have broadly based rural production strategies built around agro-pastoral, artisanal activities, commerce, and collection and processing of natural resources. For all social groups the levels of household agricultural production, income earning, and production options also change during the household's life cycle.
Excitation of Orthogonal Radiation States
Creators: name: Masek, Michal
name: Jelinek, Lukas
name: Capek, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A technique of designing antenna excitation realizing orthogonal states is presented. It is shown that a symmetric antenna geometry is required in order to achieve orthogonality with respect to all physical quantities. A maximal number of achievable orthogonal states and a minimal number of ports required to excite them are rigorously determined from the knowledge of an antenna's symmetries. The number of states and number of ports are summarized for commonly used point groups (a rectangle, a square, etc.). The theory is applied to an example of a rectangular rim where the positions of ports providing the best total active reflection coefficient, an important metric in multi-port systems, are determined. The described technique can easily be implemented in existing solvers based on integral equations.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures. Submitted to TAP
GOOD GOVERNANCE: ROLE OF PUBLIC SERVANTS IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Oaikhena, Marvellous
name: Osemeke, Monday
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description:  Governance has become so vast and complex that the government of the people, for the people and by the people has become the government of the people, by the government and for the people. The logic behind the idea of governance supports the development of political and administrative structures that offer the potentials for political stability and national development. Public servant in this regard plays significant role for the successful achievement of good governance. This study is expected to explain the relationship between politicians, public servants and good governance while it further revealed the efficiency of the application of the law in force, the efficacy of the decisions made by government, and the political responsibility and accountability of elected officials in relation to the demand expressed by civil society. The study is qualitative in nature, as it based its theoretical framework on structural functionalism. It submits that there is need for full respect for citizen’s rights as the public service is a major change agent in Nigeria’s quest for enhanced progress, hence the on-going reformation of the Nigerian public service is in line to achieve the purpose of good governance and deal with the challenges therein.
Collection Development Issues in Health Sciences Libraries (2nd Lively Lunch): Developments 2002
Creators: name: Kubilius, Ramune K.
name: Walton, Linda
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Charleston Conference
subject: Libraries, Medical
subject: Scholarly publishing

description: Handout prepared for and presented in synopsis during the 2002 Health Sciences Lively Lunch at the Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition. (2nd Lively Lunch took place on Friday, November 1, 2002 in Charleston, SC).
description: Handout, entitled "E-Books/Web-Based Medical Textbooks" was derived from study results presented in a poster session at the Midwest Chapter/Medical Library Association meeting, September 29, 2002 entitled: HEALTH SCIENCES E-BOOKS: ARE WE THERE YET?, co-authors Ramune Kubilius and Linda Walton.
description: presentation_location: Charleston (S.C.)
System Factors for Land Corruption in China
Creators: name: CHEN, Dongfang
name: CHEN, Dongfang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: China, Land corruption, System, Factors

description: In China, institutional factors for the land corruption include: (i) implementation of land policy lacking proper security mechanism; (ii) weak supervision system; (iii) vacancy in supervision due to dual land management system; (iv) corruption of land finance resulted from system of tax allocation; (v) imperfect land management system; (vi) poor coordination between central and local government in land policy; (vii) unreasonable land allocation system; (viii) vacancy in unified procedure and standard of land transfer. In view of these factors, this paper came up with pertinent countermeasures: (i) improving land operation mechanism and establishing sunshine land market; (ii) improving corresponding supervision mechanism and verification system; (iii) taking advantage of the audit system.
Quasinormal modes, stability and shadows of a black hole in the 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Creators: name: Konoplya, R. A.
name: Zinhailo, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently a $D$-dimensional regularization approach leading to the non-trivial $(3+1)$-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) effective description of gravity was formulated which was claimed to bypass the Lovelock's theorem and avoid Ostrogradsky instability. Later it was shown that the regularization is possible only for some broad, but limited, class of metrics and Aoki, Gorji and Mukohyama [arXiv:2005.03859] formulated a well-defined four-dimensional EGB theory, which breaks the Lorentz invariance in a theoretically consistent and observationally viable way. The black-hole solution of the first naive approach proved out to be also the exact solution of the well-defined theory. Here we calculate quasinormal modes of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations and find the radius of shadow for spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat black holes with Gauss-Bonnet corrections. We show that the black hole is gravitationally stable when ($-16 M^2
description: RevTex, 12 pages, 8 figures, the version published in the journal, the title is slightly changed
Inanspruchnahme von Landwirtschaftsfläche durch Freiflächen-Photovoltaik-Anlagen im Jahr 2017
Utilization of agricultural land by open space photovoltaic plants in 2017
Creators: name: Tietz, Andreas
name: Tietz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Renewable energies
subject: photovoltaics
subject: land take
subject: Germany
subject: Erneuerbare Energien
subject: Photovoltaik
subject: Flächeninanspruchnahme
subject: Deutschland

description: This report analyses how much open space, and particularly agricultural land, is utilized by photovoltaic plants which have been awarded the right to be subsidized within the framework of the Renewable Energies Act 2017. The research is based on individual data of successful bids in nine tendering rounds in the years 2015 to 2017. Additionally, data of all plants which have been put into operation until November 2017 are analysed. As a result from three tendering rounds in 2017, 939 hectares open space are expected to be utilized. 364 hectares presumably are agricultural land; this is similar to the years before. Due to incomplete data, it is impossible to estimate the amount of agricultural land that has actually been used for the construction of subsidized photovoltaic plants. In order to facilitate proper monitoring of the usage of agricultural land, data reported from photovoltaic plant operators should be prepared and controlled for plausibility in a better way.
Additional file 2 of Linking belowground microbial network changes to different tolerance level towards Verticillium wilt of olive
Creators: name: Fernández-González, Antonio J.
name: Cardoni, Martina
name: Cabanás, Carmen Gómez-Lama
name: Valverde-Corredor, Antonio
name: Villadas, Pablo J.
name: Fernández-López, Manuel
name: Mercado-Blanco, Jesús
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. Phyla showing significant changes in the bacterial structural (DNA) community of the ‘Picual’ rhizosphere after inoculation with Verticillium dahliae. No/green: non-inoculated; Yes/red: Verticillium dahliae-inoculated.
Motility and Energetics of Randomly Flashing Ratchets
Creators: name: Xu, Xining
name: Zhang, Yunxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a randomly flashing ratchet, where the potential acting can be switched to another at random. Using coupled Fokker-Planck equations, we formulate the expressions of quantities measuring dynamics and thermodynamics. Extended numerical calculations present how the potential landscapes and the transitions affect the motility and energetics. Load-dependent velocity and energetic efficiency of motor proteins, kinesin and dynein, further exemplify the randomly flashing ratchet model. We also discuss the system with two shifted sawtooth potentials.
Antiferromagnet-Based Neuromorphics Using Dynamics of Topological Charges
Creators: name: Zhang, Shu
name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a spintronics-based hardware implementation of neuromorphic computing, specifically, the spiking neural network, using topological winding textures in one-dimensional antiferromagnets. The consistency of such a network is emphasized in light of the conservation of topological charges, and the natural spatiotemporal interconversions of magnetic winding. We discuss the realization of the leaky integrate-and-fire behavior of neurons and the spike-timing-dependent plasticity of synapses. Our proposal opens the possibility for an all-spin neuromorphic platform based on antiferromagnetic insulators.
description: 7 pages including the supplemental material, 3 figures, published version
A comparative study of Fulbe household economies in the rural Fouta Djallon
Creators: name: Roberts, William Cecil
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: This research is a case study of the factors that influence contemporary patterns of rural socioeconomic stratification among a sample of rural households in a group of Fouta Djallon Fulbe villages in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. The study shows that traditional social status and gender account for the variation in individual and household access to the productive resources that determine socioeconomic status. Patterns of socioeconomic stratification are in turn expressed as differences in levels of household agricultural production and income earning. Precolonial Fouta Fulbe society was composed of noble, free, artisan, slave and pastoral groups organized into a rigid hierarchy differentiated by occupation and wealth. Monetization occurred during the French colonial period through taxation and the development of commodity markets, and money has now become an important criterion for socioeconomic stratification. This study examines how contemporary rural Fulbe provide for their individual and household subsistence and income needs through various combinations of farm, non-farm, and migrant activities. A sample of twenty-one households was randomly selected from an initial census of 188 households in seven villages that included all five social groups. Seven of these households were headed by women. Comparisons were made between the five social groups and between male and female headed households from ethnographic data gathered over one year that focused on family demographics, farm level studies, time allocation, household income and expenditures, and market surveys. The study found that men from all social groups migrated elsewhere to earn money while female household heads managed remittances and rural production. However, nobles have generally had more successful migration strategies built around high levels of formal education and active urban kinship networks. They also had relatively high agricultural production based on greater access to extra household labor. Artisan and slave households generally have broadly based rural production strategies built around agro-pastoral, artisanal activities, commerce, and collection and processing of natural resources. For all social groups the levels of household agricultural production, income earning, and production options also change during the household's life cycle.
Assessment of mechanical, thermal properties and crystal shapes of monoclinic tricalcium silicate from atomistic simulations
Creators: name: Claverie, Jérôme
name: Kamali-Bernard, Siham
name: Bernard, João Manuel Marques Cordeiro Fabrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The two most common polymorphs in industrial alite, $M_1$ and $M_3$, were characterized at the molecular scale. Different methods were employed and discussed to assess mechanical properties and specific heat of both polymorphs. The calculated homogenized elastic moduli and specific heat were found in good agreement with experimental measurements. A comparative analysis of spacial Young's modulus reveal isotropic and anisotropic spacial distribution for $M_1$ and $M_3$ respectively. A more isotropic compressive strength is also reported for $M_1$ when compared to $M_3$ polymorph. Cleavage energies computation allowed to proposed equilibrium shapes for both polymorph, with significant differences. While the lowest cleavage energies were found along (100) and (001) for both polymorphs, the constructed $M_1$ crystal possesses 3 independent facets, against seven for the $M_3$ polymorph.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures
The Glueball Superpotential
Creators: name: Aganagic, Mina
name: Intriligator, Ken
name: Vafa, Cumrun
name: Warner, Nicholas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute glueball superpotentials for four-dimensional, N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories, with arbitrary gauge groups and massive matter representations. This is done by perturbatively integrating out massive, charged fields. The Feynman diagram computations simplify, and are related to the corresponding matrix model. This leads to a natural notion of ``projection to planar diagrams'' for arbitrary gauge groups and representations. We discuss a general ambiguity in the glueball superpotential W(S) for terms, S^n, whose order, n, is greater than the dual Coxeter number. This ambiguity can be resolved for all classical gauge groups, (A,B,C,D), via a natural embedding in an infinite rank supergroup. We use this to address some recently raised puzzles. For exceptional groups, we compute the superpotential terms for low powers of the glueball field and propose an all-order completion for some examples including N=1^* for all simply-laced groups. We also comment on compactification of these theories to lower dimensions.
description: 56 pages, 3 figures, harvmac. v3: note added (at end of introduction)
RI-PB design with ASME PSD-1
Creators: name: Hill, Ralph
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: This presentation was given as part of the American Nuclear Society Risk-informed, Performance-based Policy and Procedures Committee (RP3C) Community of Practice (CoP). For more information on the RP3C CoP, please visit https://www.ans.org/standards/rp3c/cop/.

This presentation took place on September 27, 2024.

The presentation video recording can be found online at https://youtu.be/Dj3jxTXBYzg.
The role of police in society: A survey of attitudes toward this role among civilians and police patrol officers in Kuwait
Creators: name: Salem, Amir
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The purpose of this study is to assess the attitudes of Kuwaiti community residents towards the role of police patrol units and the attitudes of patrol officers themselves towards their jobs, their management, management's interaction with them, and their overall environment. Officers' attitudes towards management have to do with such factors as management's fairness towards them and the initiative that management allows them. Interaction with management relates to management's accessibility to officers and its responses to their suggestions and complaints. The term "environment" relates to the officers' working conditions, their relationships with other officers, community reception, and family attitudes towards their work. The attitudes of both community residents and officers are measured by means of two surveys conducted in January 1990 through March 1990, one for the community residents and one for the officers, which attempt to establish relationships between attitudes and such factors as age, level of education, marital status, length of police service and number of children (for officers), and occupation level and gender (for community residents). Among community residents, younger respondents are more inclined to hold negative attitudes towards the role of the police patrols than older ones. Married civilians are more favorable towards the patrols than single ones. Citizens are less favorable towards the patrols than non-citizens. No significant relationship exists between civilian attitudes towards the police patrols and gender, occupation, and level of education, however. Among the patrol officers, older respondents are more favorable towards both their jobs and towards management. This is also true of married officers as compared with single ones. Length of time on the force also corresponds positively with job satisfaction. However, patrol officers with three children or more are less favorable towards their jobs, management, and police-management interaction than officers with fewer children. In contrast, no statistically significant relationship exists between level of education and any of the dependent variables.
The Cesium Source Calibration and Monitoring System of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter: Design, Construction and Results
Creators: name: Blanchot, G.
name: Bosman, M.
name: Budagov, J.
name: Cavalli-Sforza, M.
name: Efthymiopoulos, I.
name: Isaev, A.
name: Ivanyushenkov, Y.
name: Karyukhin, A.
name: Kopikov, S.
name: Nessi, M.
name: Senko, V.
name: Shalanda, N.
name: Soldatov, M.
name: Solodkov, A.
name: Solovyanov, O.
name: Starchenko, E.
name: Tsoupko-Sitnikov, V.
name: Vichou, I.
name: Zaitsev, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article describes the design, construction and use of a calibration and monitoring system, based on movable 137Cs gamma-ray sources, for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter (TileCal). The sources, propelled by a water-based liquid through tubes that traverse all the calorimeter's cells, produce signals that precisely characterise the response of each tile, thereby providing very granular and accurate data on the response of TileCal to particles. The system has been used to guide and control the quality of the optical instrumentation of all TileCal modules, to set and equalise the dynamic range of the response to physics data, and to set the energy scale of the readout system. In the ATLAS cavern, periodic measurements of the whole detector's response to 137Cs sources allow monitoring the uniformity and stability of all the calorimeter's cells as well as maintaining precise knowledge of its energy calibration. The design of the source hydraulic drive system's hardware and software, the data acquisition system and the data processing algorithms are described. Finally, the results of this two-decade program are shown.
Indication on the universal hadron substructure - constituent quarks
Creators: name: Mochalov, V. V.
name: Troshin, S. M.
name: Vasiliev, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The universality of single-spin asymmetry on inclusive pi-meson production is discussed. This universality can be related to the hadron substructure - constituent quarks.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, references added
The role of police in society: A survey of attitudes toward this role among civilians and police patrol officers in Kuwait
Creators: name: Salem, Amir
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study is to assess the attitudes of Kuwaiti community residents towards the role of police patrol units and the attitudes of patrol officers themselves towards their jobs, their management, management's interaction with them, and their overall environment. Officers' attitudes towards management have to do with such factors as management's fairness towards them and the initiative that management allows them. Interaction with management relates to management's accessibility to officers and its responses to their suggestions and complaints. The term "environment" relates to the officers' working conditions, their relationships with other officers, community reception, and family attitudes towards their work. The attitudes of both community residents and officers are measured by means of two surveys conducted in January 1990 through March 1990, one for the community residents and one for the officers, which attempt to establish relationships between attitudes and such factors as age, level of education, marital status, length of police service and number of children (for officers), and occupation level and gender (for community residents). Among community residents, younger respondents are more inclined to hold negative attitudes towards the role of the police patrols than older ones. Married civilians are more favorable towards the patrols than single ones. Citizens are less favorable towards the patrols than non-citizens. No significant relationship exists between civilian attitudes towards the police patrols and gender, occupation, and level of education, however. Among the patrol officers, older respondents are more favorable towards both their jobs and towards management. This is also true of married officers as compared with single ones. Length of time on the force also corresponds positively with job satisfaction. However, patrol officers with three children or more are less favorable towards their jobs, management, and police-management interaction than officers with fewer children. In contrast, no statistically significant relationship exists between level of education and any of the dependent variables.
Modelling the solar transition region using an adaptive conduction method
Creators: name: Johnston, C. D.
name: Cargill, P. J.
name: Hood, A. W.
name: De Moortel, I.
name: Bradshaw, S. J.
name: Vaseekar, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modelling the solar Transition Region with the use of an Adaptive Conduction (TRAC) method permits fast and accurate numerical solutions of the field-aligned hydrodynamic equations, capturing the enthalpy exchange between the corona and transition region, when the corona undergoes impulsive heating. The TRAC method eliminates the need for highly resolved numerical grids in the transition region and the commensurate very short time steps that are required for numerical stability. When employed with coarse spatial resolutions, typically achieved in multi-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic codes, the errors at peak density are less than 5% and the computation time is three orders of magnitude faster than fully resolved field-aligned models. This paper presents further examples that demonstrate the versatility and robustness of the method over a range of heating events, including impulsive and quasi-steady footpoint heating. A detailed analytical assessment of the TRAC method is also presented, showing that the approach works through all phases of an impulsive heating event because (i) the total radiative losses and (ii) the total heating when integrated over the transition region are both preserved at all temperatures under the broadening modifications of the method. The results from the numerical simulations complement this conclusion.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in A&A