cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamic properties of high-Tc superconducting nano-junctions made with a focused helium ion beam
Creators: name: Couëdo, François
name: Amari, Paul
name: Feuillet-Palma, Cheryl
name: Ulysse, Christian
name: Srivastava, Yogesh Kumar
name: Singh, Ranjan
name: Bergeal, Nicolas
name: Lesueur, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Josephson junction (JJ) is the corner stone of superconducting electronics and quantum information processing. While the technology for fabricating low $T_{c}$ JJ is mature and delivers quantum circuits able to reach the "quantum supremacy", the fabrication of reproducible and low-noise high-$T_{c}$ JJ is still a challenge to be taken up. Here we report on noise properties at RF frequencies of recently introduced high-$T_{c}$ Josephson nano-junctions fabricated by mean of a Helium ion beam focused at sub-nanometer scale on a $\mathrm{YBa}_2\mathrm{Cu}_3\mathrm{O}_7$ thin film. We show that their current-voltage characteristics follow the standard Resistively-Shunted-Junction (RSJ) circuit model, and that their characteristic frequency $f_{c}=(2e/h)I_{c}R_{n}$ reaches $\sim 300$ GHz at low temperature. Using the "detector response" method, we evidence that the Josephson oscillation linewidth is only limited by the thermal noise in the RSJ model for temperature ranging from $T\sim 20$ K to $75$ K. At lower temperature and for the highest He irradiation dose, the shot noise contribution must also be taken into account when approaching the tunneling regime. We conclude that these Josephson nano-junctions present the lowest noise level possible, which makes them very promising for future applications in the microwave and terahertz regimes.
Ancylomenes lucasi Okuno & Bruce 2010, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Okuno, J.
name: Bruce, A. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Ancylomenes
Ancylomenes lucasi

description: Ancylomenes lucasi (Chace, 1937) comb. nov.
Restricted synonymy:
 Periclimenes (Ancylocaris) lucasi Chace, 1937: 133–135, fig. 8.
 Periclimenes (Harpilius) lucasi . — Holthuis 1951: 54–57; pls. 18–19, figs. f–h.
 Material examined. AHF 118701, 1 male CL 3.0 mm, 1 ovig. female, CL 4.7 mm, Isla Catalina, San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico, 18.2 m, next to cerianthid sea anemone, 17 June 1978, leg. A. Kerstitch.
 Type data. Female holotype (Cat. No. 361090) and 3 paratypes are deposited at the Department Tropical Research, New York Zoological Society; other paratype is housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge (see Holthuis 1951).
 Distribution. Type locality: San Lucas Bay, Baja California, Mexico (22º53'N, 109º54'E). Known from Baja California to southern Panama, Eastern Pacific (Wicksten 1983).
 Bathymetric range. Sublittoral zone, to 90 m.
 Host. Associated with cerianthids. Also known as a fish cleaner.
description: Published as part of Okuno, J. & Bruce, A. J., 2010, Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ' Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species *, pp. 85-105 in Zootaxa 2372 (1) on pages 98-99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/5305841
Transmission curves and effective refraction indices of MKO near infrared consortium filters at cryogenic temperatures
Creators: name: Ghinassi, F.
name: Licandro, J.
name: Oliva, E.
name: Baffa, C.
name: Checcucci, A.
name: Comoretto, G.
name: Gennari, S.
name: Marcucci, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report transmission measurements at cryogenic temperatures for 4 broad-band filters of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) near-infrared filter set and 5 narrow-band filters. The spectral scans were collected using the multi-mode IR instrument of the TNG telescope (NICS) in which these filters are permanently mounted and commonly used for astronomical observations. We determined the transmission curves at a temperature of 78K and found no significant red-leak up to 2.6 microns, the data are available in electronic form on the TNG web page. We also estimated the variation of the wavelength response with the incidence angle and found it compatible with an effective refractive index of about 2.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures, link to transmission data files, A&A in press
Ancylomenes magnificus Okuno & Bruce 2010, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Okuno, J.
name: Bruce, A. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Ancylomenes
Ancylomenes magnificus

description: Ancylomenes magnificus (Bruce, 1979) comb. nov.
Restricted synonymy:
 Periclimenes magnificus Bruce, 1979: 195–207, figs. 1–5; pl. 1A–C.
 Material examined. CMNH-ZC 02329, 1 female, CL 5.1 mm, Hira-ne, Hasama, Tateyama, Boso Peninsula, Honshu, Japan, 16 m, SCUBA, in association with Entacmaea quadricolor, 14 June 2001, leg. J. Okuno; CMNH-ZC 02373, 1 ov. female, CL 6.6 mm, same locality as CMNH-ZC 02329, in association with Aglaophenia whiteleggei, 29 August 2003, leg. J. Okuno; CMNH-ZC 01461, 1 female, CL 3.3 mm, Tatsunokuchi, Nagasaki, East China Sea coast of Kyushu, Japan, 15 m, SCUBA, in association with Antheopsis maculata, leg. J. Okuno; NFU, 1 female, CL 4.0 mm, Aotaka, Nakadoori-jima Island, Goto Islands, Kyushu, Japan, 3-5 m, in association with an unidentified sea anemone, 1 December 1979, leg. N. Higashi; QM W 28902, 1 ov. female, CL 7.2 mm, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, in association with Plerogyra sp., November 2003, leg. B. Halstead.
 Type data. Female holotype, AM P27106; 2 paratypes, RMNH D 31957, and USNM 171273.
 Distribution. Type locality: Heron Island, Capricorn Islands, Queensland, Australia. Also known from Andaman Sea, Western Australia and Northern Territory, Australia, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, southern Japan, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia (Marin et al. 2004; Bruce 2007f).
 Bathymetric range. Sublittoral zone, to 32 m.
 Host. In association with hydroid, Aglaophenia whiteleggei Bale, 1888, octocorallia, Lobophyton sp., scleractinians, Catalaphyllia plicata (Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1857) and Plerogyra sp., actiniarians, Entacmaea quadricolor, Antheopsis maculata (Klunzinger, 1877), Macrodactyla sp., and ceriantheans, Cerianthus sp. (Marin et al. 2004; present study).
description: Published as part of Okuno, J. & Bruce, A. J., 2010, Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ' Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species *, pp. 85-105 in Zootaxa 2372 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/5305841
Additional file 2 of STEM stereotypes predict students’ STEM career interest via self-efficacy and outcome expectations
Creators: name: Luo, Tian
name: So, Winnie Wing Mui
name: Wan, Zhi Hong
name: Li, Wai Chin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Appendix 2. Descriptives of and correlations among the four constructs
Extreme Events for Fractional Brownian Motion with Drift: Theory and Numerical Validation
Creators: name: Arutkin, Maxence
name: Walter, Benjamin
name: Wiese, Kay Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the first-passage time, the distribution of the maximum, and the absorption probability of fractional Brownian motion of Hurst parameter $H$ with both a linear and a non-linear drift. The latter appears naturally when applying non-linear variable transformations. Via a perturbative expansion in $ε= H-1/2$, we give the first-order corrections to the classical result for Brownian motion analytically. Using a recently introduced adaptive bisection algorithm, which is much more efficient than the standard Davies-Harte algorithm, we test our predictions for the first-passage time on grids of effective sizes up to $N_{\rm eff}=2^{28}\approx 2.7\times 10^{8}$ points. The agreement between theory and simulations is excellent, and by far exceeds in precision what can be obtained by scaling alone.
description: 18 pages, 19 figures
Nonequilibrium Green's function theory for transport and gain properties of quantum cascade structures
Creators: name: Lee, S. -C.
name: Wacker, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transport and gain properties of quantum cascade (QC) structures are investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function (NGF) theory which includes quantum effects beyond a Boltzmann transport description. In the NGF theory, we include interface roughness, impurity, and electron-phonon scattering processes within a self-consistent Born approximation, and electron-electron scattering in a mean-field approximation. With this theory we obtain a description of the nonequilibrium stationary state of QC structures under an applied bias, and hence we determine transport properties, such as the current-voltage characteristic of these structures. We define two contributions to the current, one contribution driven by the scattering-free part of the Hamiltonian, and the other driven by the scattering Hamiltonian. We find that the dominant part of the current in these structures, in contrast to simple superlattice structures, is governed mainly by the scattering Hamiltonian. In addition, by considering the linear response of the stationary state of the structure to an applied optical field, we determine the linear susceptibility, and hence the gain or absorption spectra of the structure. A comparison of the spectra obtained from the more rigorous NGF theory with simpler models shows that the spectra tend to be offset to higher values in the simpler theories.
description: 44 pages, 16 figures, appearing in Physical Review B Dec 2002
Insect pest image detection and recognition based on bio-inspired methods
Creators: name: Nanni, Loris
name: Maguolo, Gianluca
name: Pancino, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Insect pests recognition is necessary for crop protection in many areas of the world. In this paper we propose an automatic classifier based on the fusion between saliency methods and convolutional neural networks. Saliency methods are famous image processing algorithms that highlight the most relevant pixels of an image. In this paper, we use three different saliency methods as image preprocessing and create three different images for every saliency method. Hence, we create 3x3=9 new images for every original image to train different convolutional neural networks. We evaluate the performance of every preprocessing/network couple and we also evaluate the performance of their ensemble. We test our approach on both a small dataset and the large IP102 dataset. Our best ensembles reaches the state of the art accuracy on both the smaller dataset (92.43%) and the IP102 dataset (61.93%), approaching the performance of human experts on the smaller one. Besides, we share our MATLAB code at: https://github.com/LorisNanni/.
On the Interaction between Player Heterogeneity and Partner Heterogeneity in Two-way Flow Strict Nash Networks
Creators: name: Charoensook, Banchongsan
name: Charoensook, Banchongsan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Network Formation
subject: Strict Nash Network
subject: Two-way Flow Network
subject: Branching Network
subject: Agent Heterogeneity

description: This paper brings together analyses of two-way flow Strict Nash networks under exclusive player heterogeneity assumption and exclusive partner heterogeneity assumption. This is achieved through examining how the interactions between these two assumptions influence important properties of Strict Nash networks. Built upon the findings of Billand et al (2011) and Galleotti et al (2006), which assume exclusive partner heterogeneity and exclusive player heterogeneity respectively, I provide a proposition that generalizes the results of these two models by stating that: (i) Strict Nash network consists of multiple non-empty components as in Galleotti et al (2006), and (ii) each non-empty component is a branching or Bi network as in Billand et al (2011). This proposition requires that a certain restriction on link formation cost (called Uniform Partner Ranking), which encloses exclusive partner heterogeneity and exclusive player heterogeneity as a specific case, is satisfied. In addition, this paper shows that value heterogeneity plays a relatively less important role in changing the shapes of Strict Nash networks.
Effect of resource dynamics on species packing in diverse ecosystems
Creators: name: Cui, Wenping
name: Marsland, Robert
name: Mehta, Pankaj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The competitive exclusion principle asserts that coexisting species must occupy distinct ecological niches (i.e. the number of surviving species can not exceed the number of resources). An open question is to understand if and how different resource dynamics affect this bound. Here, we analyze a generalized consumer resource model with externally supplied resources and show that -- in contrast to self-renewing resources -- species can occupy only half of all available environmental niches. This motivates us to construct a new schema for classifying ecosystems based on species packing properties.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
CO2-Sammel- und Transportnetz in Österreich (Technology Talk)
Creators: name: Wernhart, Helmut
name: NEFI New Energy for Industry
Publisher: name: NEFI New Energy for Industry
Year: 2025
Subjects: NEFI
Innovationsnetzwerk
Energie
Industrie
New Energy for Industry
Klima- und Energiefonds
Vorzeigeregion
CCUS
Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage
CO2-Pipeline-Transport
Project "inGRID"
Industrielle Energiewende

description: Zur Erreichung der Klimaneutralität braucht es unterschiedliche Maßnahmen. In manchen Industrieprozessen können die Treibhausgas Emissionen nicht vollständig vermieden werden. Dort besteht aber die grundsätzliche Möglichkeit, nicht-reduzierbare CO2-Emissionen abzuscheiden, zu transportieren, geologisch zu speichern oder so weiter zu nutzen, dass sie permanent gebunden sind.

Die im Juni 2024 beschlossene österreichische Carbon Management Strategie (CMS) sieht als Empfehlung die Zulassung der geologischen Speicherung von schwer beziehungsweise nicht vermeidbaren CO2-Emissionen in "hard-to-abate"-Sektoren unter strengen Sicherheits- und Umweltauflagen vor. Es stellen sich Fragen der organisatorischen, technologischen und wirtschaftlichen Umsetzbarkeit sowie der Ausgestaltung der gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen.

Der NEFI Technology Talk des OÖ Energiesparverbandes präsentierte und diskutierte am 3. April 2025 wichtige technische, ökonomische und rechtliche Aspekte zum Thema CCUS sowie unterschiedliche Sichtweisen rund um die Infrastruktur, Nutzung und allfällige Verspeicherung von schwer oder nicht vermeidbaren CO2-Emissionen.

NEFI+ ist die österreichische Innovations-Plattform zur Transformation der Industrie in Richtung Klimaneutralität. Die NEFI Technology Talks sind eine Veranstaltungsreihe, die sich aktuellen technischen und systemischen Fragestellungen rund um die industrielle Energiewende widmet.
Additional file 1 of An 8-week freeze-dried blueberry supplement impacts immune-related pathways: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Rousseau, Michèle
name: Horne, Justine
name: Guénard, Frédéric
name: De Toro-Martín, Juan
name: Garneau, Véronique
name: Guay, Valérie
name: Kearney, Michèle
name: Pilon, Geneviève
name: Roy, Denis
name: Couture, Patrick
name: Couillard, Charles
name: Marette, André
name: Marie-Claude Vohl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Nutrition Facts: Blueberry Powder and Placebo Powder
Risk Reduction and the 2014 Farm Bill
Creators: name: Hungerford, Ashley
name: O'Donoghue, Erik
name: Motamed, Mesbah
name: Hungerford, Ashley
name: O'Donoghue, Erik
name: Motamed, Mesbah
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: 2014 Agricultural Act
subject: Yield Distribution
subject: Copulas
subject: Commodity Support
subject: Agricultural Risk Coverage
subject: Supplemental Coverage Option
subject: Price Loss Coverage

description: The 2014 Agricultural Act introduced several risk management programs for commodities. Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) provide price and revenue protection, respectively, to eligible producers of covered commodities. Also in addition to existing federally-backed crop insurance policies, the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO), a new program, provides subsidized add-on insurance coverage to producers of rice, cotton, corn, soybeans, sorghum, wheat, and spring barley. Through simulations of prices and yields, we examine the relationship between the support payments generated by these new programs and the magnitude of the risk reduction they produce, both under their current parameters as well as alternatives. The simulations also reveal the distribution of risk reduction among counties across the United States.
Phage host range and definition of genes implicated in Type III toxin-antitoxin-mediated abortive infection
Creators: name: Chai, Ray
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Phage
Type III toxin antitoxin
abortive infection

description: Bacteria are under constant threat by their viral parasites, the bacteriophages (phages) and have evolved a range of anti-phage systems to defend themselves. One of these systems is termed abortive infection (Abi) where, upon phage infection, an Abi system may be activated which initiate a bacteriostatic or bactericidal response. While the infected bacteria do not obviously benefit from the activation of these systems, the cessation of bacterial growth or premature cellular suicide prevents the release of phage progeny. Thus Abi can be viewed as an altruistic process as only the remaining clonal bacterial population benefits. The Type III toxin-antitoxin systems have previously been shown to be involved in Abi, however the mechanisms through which these systems are activated are still poorly understood. A common approach to reveal the phage product involved in triggering these systems is to first determine the mutations that a previously sensitive phage evolves to escape after exposure to an Abi system. Analysis of viral "escape" mutants has been used in this study to try to elucidate the activation mechanism(s) of two Type III systems (ToxIN$_P$$_a$ and TenpIN$_P$$_l$) of several environmental phages. Several new phage products were identified in escape mutants as candidate factors involved in circumventing Abi – and possible roles in phage metabolism predicted. Furthermore, the genomes of several phages that could not evolve escapes, or were insensitive to Abi, are sequenced and these data exposed interesting curiosities regarding Abi (as well as the discovery of several novel and rare phages). Previously, no coliphage was identified that was capable of escape of the ToxIN$_P$$_a$ or TenpIN$_P$$_l$ systems. However, this study defined and characterised the first ToxIN$_P$$_a$ and TenpIN$_P$$_l$ coliphage escapes as well as a new method for isolating host-dependent coliphage escapes. Finally, multiple phages that infect the insect pathogen $\textit{Photorhabdus luminescens}$ TT01 (the bacterial strain from which the TenpIN$_P$$_l$ system originated) were isolated, genomically sequenced and characterised in terms of host range. The results revealed a large superfamily of flagellum-dependent phages that exhibit remarkable host promiscuity, possibly defining the most promiscuous phages thus far identified.
A socio economic assessment of yield increasing GM wheat in Germany
Creators: name: Wree, Philipp
name: Sauer, Johannes
name: Wree, Philipp
name: Sauer, Johannes
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Real option
subject: wheat
subject: yield increasing
subject: uncertainty
subject: irreversibility
subject: social costs
subject: GMO

description: High Yield Genetically Modified Wheat (HOSUT) HOSUT lines are an innovation in wheat breeding based on genetic modification (GM) with an incremental yield potential of ca. 28 % compared to conventional wheat varieties. We apply the real option concept of Maximum Incremental Social Tolerable Irreversible Costs (MISTICs) to do an ex-ante assessment of the socioeconomic potential of HOSUT lines for Germany. We analyze the cost and benefits to farmer and society within two scenarios. Our results indicate that not authorizing HOSUT lines is correct if German society values the possible total irreversible costs of this technology to be € 10.44 and € 12.15 per citizen or more, depending on the scenario.
Ancylomenes pedersoni Okuno & Bruce 2010, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Okuno, J.
name: Bruce, A. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Ancylomenes
Ancylomenes pedersoni

description: Ancylomenes pedersoni (Chace, 1958) comb. nov.
Restricted synonymy:
 Periclimenes (Periclimenes) pedersoni Chace, 1958: 125–130, figs. 1–17. — Limbaugh et al. 1961: 242–247, figs. 3–4. Periclimenes pedersoni. — Williams 1984: 87–88, fig. 59.
 Material examined. QM W 28903, 1 ovig. female, CL 5.3 mm, 6 more specimens, off Dangriga, Pelican Cays, Belize, north-western Caribbean Sea, 1 m, associated with Bartholomea annulata, 25 April 2004, leg. W. Sterrer.
 Type data. Male holotype, USNM 101894; paratypes, USNM 101895-101897.
 Distribution. Type locality: Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, Bahamas. Known from the West Indies and Caribbean Sea (Williams 1984; Spotte et al. 1991).
 Bathymetric range. Sublittoral zone, to 40 m.
 Host. In association with actiniarians, Aiptasia pallida Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1860, Bartholomea annulata (Le Sueur, 1817), Bunodosoma granulifera (Le Sueur, 1817), Condylactis gigantea, Heteractis lucida Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1860, and Lebrunia danae (Duchassaing de Fombressin & Michelotti, 1860), ceriantharian, Cerianthus sp., and benthic medusa Cassiopea xamachana Bigelow, 1892 (Spotte et al. 1991). Also known as a fish cleaner.
 Remarks. Wicksten (1995) and Spotte (1999) suggested that P. anthophilus should be regarded as a junior synonym of P. pedersoni. As pointed out by Holthuis & Eibl-Eibesfeldt (1964), we considered that these two species may be separated by the form of the second pereiopod. In A. pedersoni comb. nov., the fingers are slender and gradually tapered distally, while the dactylus of major second pereiopod in A. anthophilus comb. nov. is compressed, and its dorsal surface is flattened.
description: Published as part of Okuno, J. & Bruce, A. J., 2010, Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ' Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species *, pp. 85-105 in Zootaxa 2372 (1) on pages 99-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/5305841
Superluminal influences, hidden variables, and signaling
Creators: name: Scarani, Valerio
name: Gisin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider alternative models to quantum mechanics, that have been proposed in the recent years in order to explain the EPR correlations between two particles. These models allow in principle local hidden variables produced at the source, and some superluminal "hidden communication" (or "influences") to reproduce the non-local correlations. Moving to the case of three particles, we show that these alternative models lead to signaling when "hidden communication" alone is considered as the origin of the correlations.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures; accepted in Phys. Lett. A
Detection of Gravitational Waves from Gravitationally Lensed Systems
Creators: name: Wickramasinghe, T.
name: Benacquista, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is accepted that quasars are powered by supermassive black holes (SMBH) with masses in the range 10^6 - 10^9 solar masses in their cores. Occasionally, compact stars can plunge into SMBH. In addition, there may be a number of such compact objects circling the central SMBH in any given quasar. Both of these processes are known to emit gravitational waves. LISA has the right sensitivity to detect these waves. We show that gravitational lenses amplify the amplitudes of these gravitational waves just as they amplify the observed light of quasars. Given the geometry of the lensing configuration, this amplification can be as large as a factor of 2 to 10, allowing the waves to be above the detection threshold of LISA. We also show that waves from lensed quasars arrive with time delays which are much larger than the coherence time of the gravitational waves, making interference effects negligible. Thus, a simple geometrical optics application leads to the lensing theory of gravitational waves. In this context, we analyze and show in this preliminary analysis that there is an enhancement of the amplitudes of gravitational radiation coming from observed lensed quasars.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, to be published in proceedings of 20th Texas Symposium, requires aipproc.sty (included)
Quality versus Quantity Effects of Pesticides: Joint Estimation of Quality Grade and Crop Yield
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Kentaro
name: Lichtenberg, Erik
name: Kawasaki, Kentaro
name: Lichtenberg, Erik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: grading standards
subject: pesticides
subject: fertilizers
subject: productivity
subject: climate change

description: While the capacity of pesticides to protect output from losses is well established, the contribution of pesticides to prevention of quality damage has been less extensively documented. The relative importance of the quality and quantity effects of pesticides has received even less attention. We investigate the relative effects of the three major classes of pesticides—insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides—on the quantity and quality of output. To do so, we build on our previous work to develop a new econometric estimator for estimating quality and quantity of output simultaneously when quality is measured in terms of discrete grades. We apply that estimator using a panel of data from Japanese wheat production for the period 1995-2006. The estimated parameters of the model indicate that the quality effects of fungicides and fertilizer are substantial: Increases in quality account for two-fifths of the overall marginal revenue product of fertilizer and close to a fifth of the overall marginal revenue product of fungicides. The magnitude of the effect of fertilizer on wheat quality attests to the importance of kernel size and weight in determining grade. Similarly, the magnitude of the effect of fungicides on wheat quality speaks to the importance of disease control in wheat production.
Morphology of the Secondary CMB Anisotropies: the Key to "Smoldering" Reionization
Creators: name: Gnedin, Nickolay Y.
name: Shandarin, Sergei F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how the morphological analysis of the maps of the secondary CMB anisotropies can detect an extended period of ``smoldering'' reionization, during which the universe remains partially ionized. Neither radio observations of the redshifted 21cm line nor IR observations of the redshifted Lyman-alpha forest will be able to detect such a period. The most sensitive to this kind of non-gaussianity parameters are the number of regions in the excursion set, the perimeter of the excursion set, and the genus of the largest (by area) region. For example, if the universe reionized fully at z=6, but maintained about 1/3 mean ionized fraction since z=20, then a 2 arcmin map with 500x500 pixel resolution and a signal-to-noise ratio S/N=1/2 allows to detect the non-gaussianity due to reionization with better than 99% confidence level.
description: submitted to MNRAS
Transmission of the International Price of Maize to the Mexican Regions
Creators: name: Nuno-Ledesma, Jose G.
name: Nuno-Ledesma, Jose G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Price Transmission
subject: Maize
subject: Mexico.

description: Are variations in international prices of corn transmitted to local markets in Mexico? How homogeneous is the transmission across the different regions of the country? I estimate to what extent changes in international prices of maize are transmitted to the different Mexican sub-national regions. The price of white maize in the Mexican regions is cointegrated with the international price of yellow maize but not with the international price of the Argentina Up River maize. The north has the largest price transmission elasticity among the Mexican regions, although all of the regions exhibit similar elasticities. Changes in the international prices have permanent effects on the average of local prices in Mexico.
description: Poster prepared for the 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA July 26-28.
Ensemble Kalman filter for multiscale inverse problems
Creators: name: Abdulle, Assyr
name: Garegnani, Giacomo
name: Zanoni, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a novel algorithm based on the ensemble Kalman filter to solve inverse problems involving multiscale elliptic partial differential equations. Our method is based on numerical homogenization and finite element discretization and allows to recover a highly oscillatory tensor from measurements of the multiscale solution in a computationally inexpensive manner. The properties of the approximate solution are analysed with respect to the multiscale and discretization parameters, and a convergence result is shown to hold. A reinterpretation of the solution from a Bayesian perspective is provided, and convergence of the approximate conditional posterior distribution is proved with respect to the Wasserstein distance. A numerical experiment validates our methodology, with a particular emphasis on modelling error and computational cost.
Engineering an incentive to search for work: A comparison groups approach
Creators: name: Stark, Oded
name: Jakubek, Marcin
name: Kobus, Martina
name: Stark, Oded
name: Jakubek, Marcin
name: Kobus, Martina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: Unemployment benefits
subject: Social comparisons
subject: Relative deprivation

description: Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A “culture of unemployment” may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive-enhancing activity (for example, work under state-sponsored employment schemes or participation in work-site-based training programs), a government can engineer a revision of the reference groups of an unemployed individual in order to induce him to seek work.
Quark-Hadron Duality
Creators: name: Jeschonnek, Sabine
name: Van Orden, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quark-hadron duality and its potential applications are discussed. We focus on theoretical efforts to model duality.
description: Plenary Talk given at Baryons 2002, Newport News, VA, March 2002
Ancylomenes sarasvati Okuno & Bruce 2010, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Okuno, J.
name: Bruce, A. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Palaemonidae
Ancylomenes
Ancylomenes sarasvati

description: Ancylomenes sarasvati (Okuno, 2002) comb. nov.
Restricted synonymy:
 Periclimenes sarasvati Okuno, 2002: 212–220, figs. 1–4, 6A, B.
 Material examined. CMNH-ZC 01776, 1 male, CL 3.3 mm, Ashikebu, Naze, Amami-ohshima Island, northern Ryukyu Islands, 15 m, SCUBA, in association with Euphyllia divisa, 2 September 2004, leg. H. Kanehara.
 Type data. Female holotype, NSMT-Cr 14067; 4 female paratypes, CBM-ZC 6444, and CMNH-ZC 00891-00893.
 Distribution. Type locality: Off Hateno-hama, Kume-jima Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan (26º20.2'N, 126º52.1'E). Confirmed specimens have been collected from the Ryukyu Islands only, but underwater photographs show that the species is widely distributed in tropical regions of the western pacific.
 Bathymetric range. Sublittoral zone, to 26 m.
 Host. In association with scleractinians, Euphyllia ancora Veron & Pichon, 1980 and E. divisa Veron & Pichon, 1980.
 Remarks. This species was described on the basis of four female specimens, thus the male morphology has not been previously described. The present report represents for the first time that the endopod of male first pleopod possesses a distomesial acute appendix interna similar to those of congeneric species.
description: Published as part of Okuno, J. & Bruce, A. J., 2010, Designation of Ancylomenes gen. nov., for the ' Periclimenes aesopius species group' (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), with the description of a new species and a checklist of congeneric species *, pp. 85-105 in Zootaxa 2372 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/5305841
Chinese sentence-final particles and their behaviours in English speakers' L2 Chinese
Creators: name: Yan, Shanshan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Chinese sentence-final particles
English speakers
L2 Chinese
L1 transfer
L2 input
Form-meaning connections
Dormant features
Feature reassembly

description: This study investigates how seven Chinese sentence-final particles (SFP le, ne1, ma, ne2, ba1, ba2 and a; hereafter SFP) and their features are represented in English speakers’ L2 Chinese. In this research, SFPs are analysed as heads instantiating different positions in the CP domain (Paul 2009, 2014, 2015), which are head-final, and in particular, they are considered to carry semantic, syntactic and discourse features. As there is no SFP in English, the features on Chinese SFPs are realised by a variety of syntactic means. Through a proficiency test and six experimental tasks, data from 76 participants (including 18 Chinese native speakers, 20 low-intermediate learners, 20 high-intermediate learners and 18 advanced learners) were collected. Results show that English-speaking L2 learners can easily establish the basic syntactic structure of Chinese SFPs and successfully acquire the features attached to SFPs ma, ba1 and a. However, they have significant difficulty in acquiring the features attached to SFPs le, ne1, ne2 and ba2. In general, syntactic features on Chinese SFPs are intact in L2 grammars, whereas semantic features (i.e. syntax-semantics interfaces) are very vulnerable. In addition, it is found that not all discourse features (syntax-discourse interfaces) are problematic. Findings indicate that both L1 grammar (i.e. L1 transfer) and L2 input (frequency, saliency and complexity) play important roles in affecting learners’ acquisition of the features attached to Chinese SFPs. In particular, learners seem to transfer all feature sets from their L1 English. Semantic features that have been transferred from their L1 English but that are neither confirmed nor disconfirmed by the Chinese input have become dormant in the L2 Chinese, which complements the Dormant Feature Hypothesis (Yuan 2014). Furthermore, the homomorphous SFPs which exhibit a ‘one-to-many’ form-meaning connection are believed to complicate learners’ recognition and acquisition of relevant features on SFPs. It is also demonstrated that the mapping of a feature across CP domains (i.e. from a two-CP structure to a one-CP structure) can be problematic and difficult. The discourse feature needs to be reassembled in L2 grammars, which advances the arguments of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (Lardiere 2008, 2009a,b).
Additional file 1 of Long-term exposure to road traffic noise and stroke incidence: a Danish Nurse Cohort study
Creators: name: Cole-Hunter, Tom
name: Dehlendorff, Christian
name: Amini, Heresh
name: Mehta, Amar
name: Lim, Youn-Hee
name: Jørgensen, Jeanette T.
name: Li, Shuo
name: So, Rina
name: Mortensen, Laust H.
name: Westendorp, Rudi
name: Hoffmann, Barbara
name: Bräuner, Elvira V.
name: Ketzel, Matthias
name: Hertel, Ole
name: Brandt, Jørgen
name: Jensen, Steen Solvang
name: Christensen, Jesper H.
name: Geels, Camilla
name: Frohn, Lise M.
name: Backalarz, Claus
name: Simonsen, Mette K.
name: Loft, Steffen
name: Andersen, Zorana J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S I. Association (restricted cubic spline) between 3-year mean Lden exposures and incident Stroke (all, ischemic, or hemorrhagic) among the Danish Nurse Cohort. Figure S II. Restricted cubic spline plots to check linearity in adjusted models. Table S I. Associations between 3-year mean road traffic noise level (continuous and categorical) and incident Stroke (all, ischemic, hemorrhagic) among the Danish Nurse Cohort. Table S II. Associations between 23-year mean road traffic noise level (continuous and categorical) and incident Stroke (all, ischemic, hemorrhagic) among the Danish Nurse Cohort. Table S III. Likelihood ratio tests of significance for non-linear exposures. Table S IV. Associations between 1-, 3-, and 23-year mean road traffic noise level (53 dB cut-off) and incident Stroke (all, ischemic, hemorrhagic) among the Danish Nurse Cohort. Table S V. Associations between 1-, 3-, and 23-year mean road traffic noise level (58 dB cut-off) and incident Stroke (all, ischemic, hemorrhagic) among the Danish Nurse Cohort. Table S VI. Effect modification of the association between Lden (continuous, 1-year mean, per 10 dB increase) and incidence of ischemic stroke in the Danish Nurse Cohort. Table S VII. Overview of studies on associations between long-term exposure to road traffic noise and stroke.
Prym-Brill-Noether Loci of special curves
Creators: name: Creech, Steven
name: Len, Yoav
name: Ritter, Caelan
name: Wu, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use Young tableaux to compute the dimension of $V^r$, the Prym-Brill-Noether locus of a folded chain of loops of any gonality. This tropical result yields a new upper bound on the dimensions of algebraic Prym-Brill-Noether loci. Moreover, we prove that $V^r$ is pure-dimensional and connected in codimension $1$ when $\dim V^r \geq 1$. We then compute the first Betti number of this locus for even gonality when the dimension is exactly $1$, and compute the cardinality when the locus is finite and the edge lengths are generic.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures. Minor revisions, to appear in IMRN
Ludwig Zinzendorf's political economy in the Habsburg monarchy, 1750-1774
Creators: name: Adler, Simon
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: political economy
Habsburg monarchy
eighteenth century
Gournay
state credit
Enlightenment
banks
stock exchange
Kaunitz
Ludwig Zinzendorf
Karl Zinzendorf
public finances
war finance
translations of economic works
Zinzendorf diaries

description: This study examines Ludwig Zinzendorf’s political economy and the intellectual inspiration of his thinking. Zinzendorf, a protégé of Kaunitz, was a sophisticated economic thinker in the mid eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy who was part of the wider intellectual movement in Europe dedicated to understanding political economy and presenting it as an independent and important activity. Self- educated, polyglot and hard-working, Zinzendorf was formidably well read and impressively numerate. His output was detailed and analytical. With an exceptionally wide knowledge, he offered a more original way to discuss the economy than the essentially didactic approach of cameralist writers. He was a reformer dedicated to propagating the most advanced European ideas and practices. This study is divided into five chapters: chapter one covers the relationship between Zinzendorf and Kaunitz and Zinzendorf’s formative years in France from 1750 to 1752. The influence of French economic thinkers on Zinzendorf’s intellectual development, Jean-François Melon and Vincent de Gournay in particular, is the subject of chapter two. Chapter three is devoted to Zinzendorf’s German translation of John Law’s Money and Trade. The development of Zinzendorf’s ideas on state credit, notably the creation of a new stock exchange and political bank in the monarchy, modelled on the Bank of England, is discussed in chapter four. The final chapter examines how Zinzendorf operated as a sophisticated financial expert in the monarchy. He sought to provide a different kind of economic advice and attempted to open-up government to new concepts on the economy. He was influenced by the important contribution in France made by Gournay and his circle of writers in disseminating foreign ideas by publishing in French a range of economic texts from rival nations. Zinzendorf, it is argued, attempted to apply a moderate format of Gournay’s initiative in the monarchy.
Quantum Holography
Creators: name: Abouraddy, Ayman F.
name: Saleh, Bahaa E. A.
name: Sergienko, Alexander V.
name: Teich, Malvin C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to make use of quantum entanglement for extracting holographic information about a remote 3-D object in a confined space which light enters, but from which it cannot escape. Light scattered from the object is detected in this confined space entirely without the benefit of spatial resolution. Quantum holography offers this possibility by virtue of the fourth-order quantum coherence inherent in entangled beams.
description: 7 pages, submitted to Optics Express
Probing Primordial Symmetry Breaking with Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
Creators: name: Park, Jiwon
name: Lee, Tae Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There have been vigorous research attempts to test various modified gravity theories by usingphysics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Meanwhile, symmetry breaking such as Higgsmechanism is one of the most important phenomena in physics but there have been not so muchresearches to make them contact with cosmological observations. In this article, with the CMBpower spectra we try to distinguish two different scenarios of spontaneous symmetry breaking inprimordial era of the universe. The first model is based on a broken symmetric theory of gravity,which was suggested by A. Zee in 1979. The second model is an application of Palatini formalismto the first model. Perturbation equations are computed and they show differences originated fromthe property of symmetry. Furthermore, it turns out that two models have different features ofCMB power spectra with the same potential scale. This fact enables us to verify distinct kinds ofprimordial symmetry breaking with CMB physics.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. v3 is equivalent to the accepted manuscript
ASCA Observations of the Supernova Remnant IC 443: Thermal Structure and Detection of Overionized Plasma
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
name: Ozaki, Masanobu
name: Nagase, Fumiaki
name: Masai, Kuniaki
name: Ishida, Manabu
name: Petre, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of X-ray spatial and spectral studies of the ``mixed-morphology'' supernova remnant IC 443 using ASCA. IC 443 has a center-filled image in X-ray band, contrasting with the shell-like appearance in radio and optical bands. The overall X-ray emission is thermal, not from a synchrotron nebula. ASCA observed IC 443 three times, covering the whole remnant. From the image analysis, we found that the softness-ratio map reveals a shell-like structure. At the same time, its spectra require two (1.0 keV and 0.2 keV) plasma components; the emission of the 0.2 keV plasma is stronger in the region near the shell than the center. These results can be explained by a simple model that IC 443 has a hot (1.0 keV) interior surrounded by a cool (0.2 keV) outer shell. From the emission measures, we infer that the 0.2 keV plasma is denser than the 1.0 keV plasma, suggesting pressure equilibrium between the two. In addition, we found that the ionization temperature of sulfur, obtained from H-like K$α$ to He-like K$α$ intensity ratio, is 1.5 keV, significantly higher than the gas temperature of 1.0 keV suggested from the continuum spectrum. The same can be concluded for silicon. Neither an additional, hotter plasma component nor a multi-temperature plasma successfully accounts for this ratio, and we conclude that the 1.0 keV plasma is overionized. This is the first time that overionized gas has been detected in a SNR. For the gas to become overionized in the absence of a photoionizing flux, it must cool faster than the ions recombine. Thermal conduction from the 1.0 keV plasma to the 0.2 keV one could cause the 1.0 keV plasma to become overionized, which is plausible within an old (3$\times10^4$ yr) SNR.
description: 11 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal