cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spin-Flip Noise in a Multi-Terminal Spin-Valve
Creators: name: Belzig, W.
name: Zareyan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study shot noise and cross correlations in a four terminal spin-valve geometry using a Boltzmann-Langevin approach. The Fano factor (shot noise to current ratio) depends on the magnetic configuration of the leads and the spin-flip processes in the normal metal. In a four-terminal geometry, spin-flip processes are particular prominent in the cross correlations between terminals with opposite magnetization.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Oakley, Ray interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane
Creators: name: Campbell, Nancy
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Abuse liability; Addiction; Addiction neuroscience; Addiction research; Behavioral pharmacology; Drug abuse; Drug dependence; Ethics of addiction research; Medication assisted treatment; Substance abuse disorder; Substance abuse treatment
subject: Health behavior and health education; History
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Health Sciences

description: Oakley S. Ray, PhD, was Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University. He retired as Executive Secretary of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) in 2005. Over the years, Dr. Ray‘s psychology courses ranked among the most popular in the College of Arts and Science and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He was quoted by or interviewed by reporters from the BBC, The New York Times, Boston Globe, The (Nashville) Tennessean, National Public Radio and many other media outlets. He provided commentary on everything from substance abuse—a subject on which he was a national expert—to lighter fare such as the mood of the city of Nashville after the Tennessee Titans lost Super Bowl XXXIV. He earned his bachelor‘s degree in psychology from Cornell University, then a master‘s and doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. He served in the Army from 1952 to 1954. After teaching at the University of Pittsburgh and Chatham College, Dr. Ray was hired by Vanderbilt in 1970 as a faculty member of both its university and medical school. He won Vanderbilt‘s Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching in 1972, and in 1979 was awarded the Chancellor‘s Cup for making the greatest contribution outside the classroom to student-faculty relationships. He was granted emeritus status in 2002. Concurrent with his Vanderbilt career, Ray served at the Nashville Veterans Administration Medical Center for 14 years as the chief of the Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Unit. He also served from 1979 to 2005 as secretary of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, which supports the development of the next generation of scientists, researchers and clinicians, working in the area of brain-behavior-drug interactions. Ray published the first edition of Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior in 1972. The 12th edition, now co-written by Charles Ksir and Carl Hart, was published in 2006. More than 400 colleges have used the textbook and it has sold more than a half-million copies. He also wrote books for general audiences including The Good Life: How to Get It … How to Keep It, Grandma‘s Rules for Good Health and Long Life and Grandma‘s Rules for Understanding and Changing Behavior. Dr. Ray died February 6, 2007 at the age of 76.
First evidence for dusty disks around Herbig Be stars
Creators: name: Fuente, A.
name: Rodriguez-Franco, A.
name: Testi, L.
name: Natta, A.
name: Bachiller, R.
name: Neri, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out a high-sensitivity search for circumstellar disks around Herbig Be stars in the continuum at 1.4mm and 2.7mm using the IRAM interferometer at the Plateau de Bure (PdBI) . In this letter, we report data on three well studied B0 stars, MWC 1080, MWC 137 and R Mon. The two latter have also been observed in the continuum at 0.7 cm and 1.3 cm using the NRAO Very Large Array (VLA) . We report the detection of circumstellar disks around MWC 1080 and R Mon with masses of Md ~ 0.003 and 0.01 Msun, respectively, while for MWC 137 we estimate a disk mass upper limit of 0.007 Msun. Our results show that the ratio Md/M* is at least an order of magnitude lower in Herbig Be stars than in Herbig Ae and T Tauri stars.
description: 5 pages (including figures)
On the Quantization of Burgers Vector and Gravitational Energy in the Space-Time of a Conical Defect
Creators: name: Carneiro, F. L.
name: Ulhoa, S. C.
name: da Rocha-Neto, J. F.
name: Maluf, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A conical topological defect is the result of translational and/or rotational deformations of spacetime, in particular the Burgers vector describes the translational deformation. Such a configuration represents a discontinuity, that cannot be removed by coordinate transformations, and is related to the spacetime torsion. Using the Teleparallel Equivalent of General Relativity (TERG), a gravitational theory that is dynamically equivalent to General Relativity (GR), we investigate the consequences of assuming a discrete Burgers vector on the geodesic motion of particles around a static conical defect. The result is a helical geodesic motion of a test particle around the defect, with a discrete step that depends on the magnitude of the dislocation.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures
Measurement of the Ratio of Decay Amplitudes for B0bar -> J/psi K*0 and B0 -> J/psi K*0
Creators: name: Aubert, B.
name: Collaboration, BABAR
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the time-dependent decay rate for the process $B \to J/ψK^{*0}(892)$ in a sample of about 88 million $Υ(4S) \to B\bar{B}$ decays collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $B$ Factory at SLAC. In this sample we study flavor-tagged events in which one neutral $B$ meson is reconstructed in the $J/ψK^{*0}$ or $J/ψ\bar{K}^{*0}$ final state. We measure the coefficients of the cosine and sine terms in the time-dependent asymmetries for $J/ψK^{*0}$ and $J/ψ\bar{K}^{*0}$, find them to be consistent with the Standard Model expectations, and set upper limits at 90% C.L. on the decay amplitude ratios $|A (\bar{B}^0 \to J/ψK^{*0})|/|A (B^0 \to J/ψK^{*0})| < 0.26$ and $|A (B^0 \to J/ψ\bar{K}^{*0})|/|A (\bar{B}^0 \to J/ψ\bar{K}^{*0})| <0.32$. For a single ratio of wrong-flavor to favored amplitudes for $B^0$ and $\bar{B}^0$ combined, we obtain an upper limit of 0.25 at 90% C.L.
description: 6 pages, 2 postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
COST PASS-THROUGH AND PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION
Creators: name: Bittmann, Thomas
name: Loy, Jens-Peter
name: Anders, Sven
name: Bittmann, Thomas
name: Loy, Jens-Peter
name: Anders, Sven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Idiosyncratic and common shocks
subject: Cost pass-through
subject: Non-price competition
subject: Product differentiation
subject: Food retail

description: Paper removed at authors' request, March 29,2019
Magma ocean evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 planets
Creators: name: Barth, Patrick
name: Carone, Ludmila
name: Barnes, Rory
name: Noack, Lena
name: Mollière, Paul
name: Henning, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations of the potentially habitable planets TRAPPIST-1 e, f, and g suggest that they possess large water mass fractions of possibly several tens of wt% of water, even though the host star's activity should drive rapid atmospheric escape. These processes can photolyze water, generating free oxygen and possibly desiccating the planet. After the planets formed, their mantles were likely completely molten with volatiles dissolving and exsolving from the melt. In order to understand these planets and prepare for future observations, the magma ocean phase of these worlds must be understood. To simulate these planets, we have combined existing models of stellar evolution, atmospheric escape, tidal heating, radiogenic heating, magma ocean cooling, planetary radiation, and water-oxygen-iron geochemistry. We present MagmOc, a versatile magma ocean evolution model, validated against the rocky Super-Earth GJ 1132b and early Earth. We simulate the coupled magma ocean-atmospheric evolution of TRAPPIST-1 e, f, and g for a range of tidal and radiogenic heating rates, as well as initial water contents between 1 and 100 Earth oceans. We also reanalyze the structures of these planets and find they have water mass fractions of 0-0.23, 0.01-0.21, and 0.11-0.24 for planets e, f, and g, respectively. Our model does not make a strong prediction about the water and oxygen content of the atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 e at the time of mantle solidification. In contrast, the model predicts that TRAPPIST-1 f and g would have a thick steam atmosphere with a small amount of oxygen at that stage. For all planets that we investigated, we find that only 3-5% of the initial water will be locked in the mantle after the magma ocean solidified.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrobiology, 24 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables
title: O'Keeffe, Charles interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane
Creators: name: Campbell, Nancy
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Abuse liability; Addiction; Addiction neuroscience; Addiction research; Behavioral pharmacology; Drug abuse; Drug dependence; Ethics of addiction research; Medication assisted treatment; Substance abuse disorder; Substance abuse treatment
subject: Health behavior and health education; History
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Health Sciences

description: Charles O’Keeffe, M.B.A., is Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). From his youthful days as a World Health Organization consultant riding camels to assess opiate addiction in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, to his role as a Professor at VCU, Charles O’Keeffe has worked tirelessly to educate policymakers, law enforcement officials, and health care professionals around the globe about addiction policy and treatment. He advised three U.S. presidents on international health and drug policy issues, serving as Deputy Director for International Affairs of the Office of Drug Abuse Policy under President Jimmy Carter. Mr. O’Keeffe played a key role in securing U.S. approval for the 1971 United Nations (U.N.) Convention on Psychotropic Substances and served on U.S. delegations to the World Health Assembly and the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs. He has been a frequent consultant to the World Health Organization and other U.N. agencies. During his career as a pharmaceutical company executive, Mr. O’Keeffe worked with National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) scientists and government officials in France and the United States to secure approval for buprenorphine to treat opioid dependence. He also developed the first abuse-resistant packaging for take-home doses of methadone and ran the largest clinical toxicology laboratory in the United States. At VCU, Mr. O’Keeffe worked with colleagues at King’s College London and the University of Adelaide in Australia to create the online master’s degree program that prepares its international students to become leaders in translating addiction research into effective treatment, prevention, and policy. Sources: National Institute on Drug Abuse. https://www.drugabuse.gov/international/charles-okeeffe-mba Accessed on 09 June 2023. Charles O’Keeffe, M.B.A., Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University. https://pharmtox.vcu.edu/about/our-team/charles-okeeffe-mba.html
A new high-resolution flood modeling framework for the Mississippi Basin using SWAT and LISFLOOD-FP
Creators: name: Lab, H2I
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Hydrology
subject: 40604 Natural Hazards
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Rajib, A. “A new high-resolution flood modeling framework for the Mississippi Basin using SWAT and LISFLOOD-FP”. Invited talk at the Global Flood Partnership Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 27 June 2017.
title: Playful Platonist : The development of ideas in the novels of Iris Murdoch
Creators: name: Edwards, S. L.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: This thesis examines Iris Murdoch's novels in the light of her philosophical thinking. It places her ethical thinking in the context of twentieth century moral philosophy and shows that her approach to the problems of the subject is out of key with the general run of contemporary philosophical thinking. It traces her debt to G. E. Moore, and the modification which she offers of the Intuitionist view of Ethics, as she develops the significance, for her, of learning to see the appropriateness of concepts to the facts of the case, and of the value of 'attention' in the development of moral behaviour. The thesis Outlines the way in which Iris Murdoch's early interest in the existentialist philosophy of Sartre becomes a firm point of philosophical objection. She finds that Sartre's disgust with the contingency of the world is based on a defensive solipsism, and argues that the world beyond the self should be a matter for delight and instruction in the insignificance of the individual. It further shows how her fundamental philosophical beliefs are indebted to Plato, in that she follows him in attributing to beauty a significance as a guide to the good, and also in equating love with knowledge of the external world. It points out that Iris Murdoch's comments on the novel have often been used to attack her own fictional practice, and suggests that this practice is mistaken. It points out the significance of the essay 'Existentialists and Mystics', which has been neglected by critics, both in terms of illuminating her interests and purposes and also in providing appropriate terminology with which to discuss her novels. The thesis then examines the individual novels and traces the evolution of Iris Murdoch's ideas in them from an interest in, but philosophical hostility to, existentialism, towards the 'mystical' novel which celebrates reality beyond the self, and sees freedom as obedience to that external reality. It suggests that Iris Murdoch consistently attempts to develop secular concepts which will take the place of the religious concepts which she feels are no longer appropriate.
Impacts of social and psychological issues on adoption behaviour for agroforestry systems, crop rotation and compost fertiliser in the Northern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Zeweld, Woldegebrial
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Girmay, Tesfay
name: Speelman, Stijn
name: Zeweld, Woldegebrial
name: Van Huylenbroeck, Guido
name: Girmay, Tesfay
name: Speelman, Stijn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Information
subject: Attitudes
subject: Risk behaviour
subject: Sustainable practice
subject: Multivariate analysis

description: This paper investigates how socio-psychological issues affect farmers’ decisions to adopt sustainable farming practices using a cross-sectional data from 350 farmers. The data are analysed by multivariate probit and ordered probit models. We find that the probability to adopt sustainable farming practices is affected by education, risk attitudes, information, intentions, social capital and attitudes. The intensity to adopt two and more farming practices jointly is influenced by labour supply, education, livestock ownership, information, risk attitudes, social capital, attitudes, intentions and perceived resource, implying education, social capital, attitudes, risk attitudes and information affect both the probability and the intensity of adoption decisions. Thus, the focus should be given to social and psychological factors to stimulate farmers in dryland and water stressed areas to adopt various sustainable agricultural practices.
Additional file 1 of Health related quality of life in chronic kidney disease; a descriptive study in a rural Sri Lankan community affected by chronic kidney disease
Creators: name: Senanayake, Sameera
name: Nalika Gunawardena
name: Paba Palihawadana
name: Senanayake, Shanika
name: R. Karunarathna
name: Priyantha Kumara
name: Kularatna, Sanjeewa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material Number of CKD patients selected from each MOH area for the study.
Economic analysis of the link between diet quality and health: Evidence from Kosovar micro-data
Creators: name: Braha, Kushtrim1mailto
name: Cupák, Andrej
name: Qineti, Artan
name: Pokrivčák, Ján
name: Rizov, Marian
name: Braha, Kushtrim1mailto
name: Cupák, Andrej
name: Qineti, Artan
name: Pokrivčák, Ján
name: Rizov, Marian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: BMI
subject: Diet diversity
subject: Diet quality
subject: Health
subject: Kosovo

description: We analyze the link between diet quality and health outcomes measured by body-mass index (BMI) in a sample of 8,900 Kosovar individuals utilizing household expenditure micro-data. Using a household model of health production we devise a two-stage empirical strategy to estimate the antecedents of diet diversity and its effect on BMI. Economic factors and demographic characteristics play an important role in the choice of more balanced diets. Results from the BMI analysis support the hypothesis that diet diversity is associated with optimal BMI and thus healthier status. One standard deviation increase in diet diversity leads to 2.3% increase in BMI of the underweight individuals and to 1.4% reduction in BMI of the obese individuals. The findings have important implications for food policies aiming at enhancing the public health in Kosovo.
Synthesis of glucooligosaccharides by glucansucrases from fructophilic lactic acid bacteria from honey bee Apis mellifera
Creators: name: Bivolarski, Veselin
name: Nikolova, Mariana
name: Bodlev, Stepan
name: Iliev, Ilia
name: Vasileva, Tonka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Apis mellifera
glucansucrases
glucooligosaccharides
Lactobacillus

description: In the present work, we report synthesis of glucooligosaccharides (GOSs) by glucansucrase enzymes from fructophilic lactic acid bacteria Lactobacillus pentosus AG8, Lb. kunkeei AG9, AG10 and AG11 isolated from the gut of honey bees Apis mellifera. As an acceptor of glucose units from sucrose was used maltose and maltose to sucrose ratios (M/S) 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 0.12, 0.16, 0.25 and 0.5. GOSs with degrees of polymerization (DP) ranging from 3 to 7 were obtained. The yields of GOSs and their composition according to DP were strongly influenced by the concentrations of the acceptor and sucrose. The highest yields of GOSs were obtained at М/S=1 – 45 to 53 g/L with predomination of DP3 fraction of oligosaccharides – 47 to 53%. The further increase of M/S ratios led to gradual decrease of the amounts of GOSs and also of their diversity according to DP. At М/S=8 were achieved yields of 13 to 15 g/L, composed only by DP=3 and DP=4 GOSs. In the opposite, the increase of sucrose concentrations at the expense of maltose ones led to more even distribution of the synthesized GOSs according to their DP up to 7, and yields of 40 to 42 g/L at M/S=0.5. Thus by varying the acceptor/donor ratio we were able to produce GOSs preparations with more controlled composition. In addition, GOSs preparations synthesized with glucansucrases from the four strains were subjected to dextranase hydrolysis in order to determine the content of α-(1→6) linkages. The results showed content of α-(1→6) linkages that decreases towards the lower maltose concentrations and is between 71 and 96%. Knowing that the enzymes from the four strains introduce 16 to 22% α-(1→3) linkages in the synthesized glucan polysaccharides such type of linkages could be expected also in the oligosaccharide products and this is promising for their prebiotic potential.
description: This work was supported by Department for Scientific Research – PU, Bulgaria, grant МУ19-БФ-019/2019, and by operational program "Science and education for smart growth" 2014–2020, grant number BG05M2OP001-1.002-0005-C01, Personalized Innovative Medicine Competence Centre (PERIMED).
Assessing The Impact Of Agri-Environmental Management Practices On Farm Productivity When Adoption Is Endogenous
Creators: name: Bostian, AJ
name: Bostian, Moriah
name: Laukkanen, Marita
name: Simola, Antti Mikko
name: Bostian, AJ
name: Bostian, Moriah
name: Laukkanen, Marita
name: Simola, Antti Mikko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Agri-Environmental Programs
subject: Non-Point Pollution
subject: Productivity
subject: Stochastic Frontier Analysis
subject: Endogeneity
subject: Selection model
subject: Sparse Grid

description: Environmental management practices for mitigating nutrient runo aect the productivity of agricultural land. Finland's agricultural policy oers a number of such practices, and we use Finnish grain farms as a case study of these productivity impacts. Productivity is endogenous with adoption when decisionmakers can choose from a menu of policy options, but few studies actually address this endogeneity. Our identication strategy thus involves a novel approach for correcting endogeneity, combining classic methods from stochastic frontier analysis and selection models. Using registry data from 2007-2013, we nd that the more ecient farms are also more likely to enroll in management practices. Standard estimates without the endogeneity correction understate productivity losses after adoption.
title: Pickworth, Wallace interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane
Creators: name: Campbell, Nancy
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Abuse liability; Addiction; Addiction neuroscience; Addiction research; Behavioral pharmacology; Drug abuse; Drug dependence; Ethics of addiction research; Medication assisted treatment; Substance abuse disorder; Substance abuse treatment
subject: Health behavior and health education; History
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Health Sciences

description: Wallace Pickworth, Ph.D., as Research Leader directs clinical research on tobacco and nicotine at Battelle Memorial Institute’s Public Health Center for Tobacco. Over a career of more than 30 years—including nearly 30 years with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)—he has made numerous contributions to the field of drug addiction and tobacco dependence, and is a recognized expert in the measurement of smoking topography, toxicant exposure, and the physiologic and psychological effects of nicotine/tobacco exposure. He has acted as Principal Investigator on numerous studies for academic and health care institutions, private industry, and national and international scientific and regulatory agencies, and published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and technical reports. Wallace serves as an adjunct faculty at two colleges of pharmacy and is on the presidential advisory council at the Albany College of Pharmacy. He was trained in both pharmacology and pharmacy, worked as a Staff Fellow in neuropharmacology at the Addiction Research Center (ARC) when it was at the U.S. Public Health Service Narcotics Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. His later work focused on tobacco and nicotine dependence and withdrawal, including the development of EEG measures to study these phenomena, genetic bases that underlie them, and harm reduction in smoking. Sources: Transcript. Public Health Center for Tobacco, Battelle Memorial Institute. https://www.battelle.org/government-offerings/health/public-health/battelle-public-health-center-for-substance-use-research/tobacco-research/tobacco-research-staff/wallace-pickworth Accessed 27 Oct 2021. Friends Research Institute. https://friendsresearch.org/people/wallace-b-pickworth/ Accessed 04 Feb 2023.
Astrophysical False Positives Encountered in Wide-Field Transit Searches
Creators: name: Charbonneau, David
name: Brown, Timothy M.
name: Dunham, Edward W.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Looper, Dagny L.
name: Mandushev, Georgi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wide-field photometric transit surveys for Jupiter-sized planets are inundated by astrophysical false positives, namely systems that contain an eclipsing binary and mimic the desired photometric signature. We discuss several examples of such false alarms. These systems were initially identified as candidates by the PSST instrument at Lowell Observatory. For three of the examples, we present follow-up spectroscopy that demonstrates that these systems consist of (1) an M-dwarf in eclipse in front of a larger star, (2) two main-sequence stars presenting grazing-incidence eclipses, and (3) the blend of an eclipsing binary with the light of a third, brighter star. For an additional candidate, we present multi-color follow-up photometry during a subsequent time of eclipse, which reveals that this candidate consists of a blend of an eclipsing binary and a physically unassociated star. We discuss a couple indicators from publicly-available catalogs that can be used to identify which candidates are likely giant stars, a large source of the contaminants in such surveys.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, to appear in AIP Conf Proc: The Search for Other Worlds, eds. S. S. Holt & D. Deming
Higher Chern numbers in multilayer ($\mathcal{N} \ge 2$) Lieb lattices: Topological transitions and quadratic band crossing lines
Creators: name: Banerjee, Saikat
name: Saxena, Avadh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a hitherto unexplored setting of stacked multilayer ($\mathcal{N}$) Lieb lattice which undergoes an unusual topological transition in the presence of intra-layer spin-orbit coupling (SOC). The specific stacking configuration induces an effective non-symmorphic 2D lattice structure, even though the constituent monolayer Lieb lattice is characterized by a symmorphic space group. This emergent non-symmorphicity leads to multiple doubly-degenerate bands extending over the edge of the Brillouin zone (i.e. Quadratic Band Crossing Lines). In the presence of intra-layer SOC, these doubly-degenerate bands typically form three $\mathcal{N}$-band subspaces, mutually separated by two band gaps. We analyze the topological properties of these multi-band subspaces, using specially devised Wilson loop operators to compute non-abelian Berry phases, in order to show that they carry a higher Chern number $\mathcal{N}$.
description: 12 pages and 11 figures
The impact of financial leverage on farms capacity to react in market shocks
Creators: name: Stefani, Gianluca
name: Gadanakis, Yiorgos
name: Lombardi, Ginevra Virginia
name: Tiberti, Marco
name: Stefani, Gianluca
name: Gadanakis, Yiorgos
name: Lombardi, Ginevra Virginia
name: Tiberti, Marco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Financial leverage
subject: Technical efficiency
subject: Capital structure
subject: Expenditure capacity
subject: Italy

description: Evidence in the literature supports that farmers’ ability to choose the best available production technology is restricted when capital structure negatively influences farms’ financial performance. Therefore, empirical evidence is sought to provide an understanding of the relationship between capital structure and technical efficiency of Italian farms in a period of five years (2008 – 2013). It is concluded that significant improvements could be achieved for most of the farms in the sample by improving production and management practices. Furthermore, results provide an empirical support of the adjustment theory by showing a negative impact of debt to asset ratio to technical efficiency.
Bandlimited Entanglement Harvesting
Creators: name: Henderson, Laura J.
name: Menicucci, Nicolas C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are many reasons to believe that there is a fundamental minimum length scale below which distances cannot be reliably resolved. One method of constructing a quantum field with a finite minimum length scale is to use bandlimited quantum field theory, where the spacetime is mathematically both continuous and discrete. This is a modification to the field, which has been shown to have many consequences at the level of the field. We consider an operational approach and use a pair of particle detectors (two-level qubits) as a local probe of the field, which are coupled to the vacuum of the bandlimited massless scalar field in a time dependent way through a switching function. We show that, mathematically, the bandlimit modifies the spatial profile of the detectors so that they are only quasi-local. We explore two different types of switching functions, Gaussian and Dirac delta. We find that with Gaussian switching, the bandlimit exponentially suppresses the de-excitation of the detectors when the energy gap between the two levels is larger than the bandlimit. If the detectors are prepared in ground state, in certain regions of the parameter space they are able to extract more entanglement from the field than if there was no bandlimit. When the detectors couple with Dirac-delta switching, we show that a particle detector is most sensitive to the bandlimit when it couples to a small but finite region of spacetime. We find that the effects of a bandlimit are detectable using local probes. This work is important because it illustrates the possible observable consequences of a fundamental bandlimit in a quantum field.
description: (v2) minor changes to match published version; (v1) 13 pages, 9 figures, 16 images
ADVANTAGES OF VITAL PULPECTOMY TREATMENT METHOD OF PULPITIS
Creators: name: Hamzayev, B.M.
name: Aliyeva, G.H.
name: Damirchiyeva, M.V.
name: Kerimli N.K
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: vital pulpectomy
non-vital pulpectomy
pulpitis
complications
root canal treatment

description: One of the issues that has been debated among dentists and endodontists for many years is the sealing the canals during the treatment of pulpitis in one visit [3]. Proponents of traditional treatment suggest that the treatment is to be completed in one visit to prevent unpleasant complications and pain that may occur after sealing of canals . However, there is insufficient clinical evidence to support the sustainability of such a position [3,4].
En revenant de la foire
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

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Local superconducting density of states of ErNi2B2C
Creators: name: Crespo, M.
name: Suderow, H.
name: Vieira, S.
name: Bud'ko, S.
name: Canfield, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present local tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy measurements at low temperatures in single crystalline samples of the magnetic superconductor ErNi2B2C. The electronic local density of states shows a striking departure from s-wave BCS theory with a finite value at the Fermi level, which amounts to half of the normal phase density of states.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPOSITION AND STUDY OF THE ENCAPSULATED DOSAG FORM BASED ON LEVOMYCETIN
Creators: name: Zainullina, A.S.
name: Begadilova, A.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: drug
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
levomicetin
encapsulated form of the drug

description: The article is devoted to the development of technology for obtaining a drug based on levomicetin in the form of capsules. Marketing analysis has shown the relevance of the development of medicinal preparations in the form of capsules in Kazakhstan. The main physical, chemical and technological properties of the substance samples were studied. The quality indicators of the initial raw material and the finished product are determined. Techno�logical calculations were carried out.
Promoting the Bioelectricity Sector at the Regional Level: an Impact Analysis of Energy Tax Policy
Creators: name: Viccaro, Mauro
name: Rocchi, Benedetto
name: Cozzi, Mario
name: Egging, Rudolf G.
name: Perez-Valdes, Gerardo A.
name: Romano, Severino
name: Viccaro, Mauro
name: Rocchi, Benedetto
name: Cozzi, Mario
name: Egging, Rudolf G.
name: Perez-Valdes, Gerardo A.
name: Romano, Severino
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CGE
subject: Biomass
subject: Tax energy policies
subject: Land use change
subject: Welfare

description: The development of bioenergy, as a new business model integrated with environment and territory, may be a valuable opportunity for farmers with positive effects both in socio-economic and environmental terms. However, largescale biomass plantations might increase pressure on the productive land and might cause a substantial increase of food prices. The main goal of the current study is to support the policy decision making in the renewable energy sector by quantitatively assessing impacts of alternative policy instruments at the sub-state regional level. The scenario analysis is performed using a multi-regional multi-sector Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model applied to Basilicata region, Southern Italy, with, given the importance of agriculture in the area, a great deal attention on agricultural production level, food prices and land competition. Results shows that promoting bioenergy sector do not generate negative impact on food price, land use and welfare, supporting the continuation of policies to incentive the bioenergy sector, combining tax policies with other policy tools (e.g. agricultural or climate policies) in order to make the sector more competitive.
Pauli blocking effects in thermalization of relativistic plasma
Creators: name: Prakapenia, M. A.
name: Vereshchagin, G. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of Pauli blocking on thermalization process of relativistic plasma by solving relativistic Uehling-Uhlenbeck equations with QED collision integral for all binary and triple processes. With this purpose we consider nonequilibrium initial state of plasma to be strongly degenerate. We found that when electron-positron annihilation is active, initial plasma degeneracy is quickly destroyed. As a result in a wide range of final temperatures ranging from nonrelativistic to mildly relativistic $0.1 m_e c^2 \leq k_B T\leq 10 m_e c^2$ thermalization is not affected by Pauli blocking. Conversely, when electron-positron annihilation process is inactive, thermalization process in such degenerate plasma is strongly affected by Pauli blocking. This is possible either in a nonrelativistic plasma, with equilibrium temperature $k_B T\leq 0.3 m_e c^2$, or in photon-electron plasma. In these cases all reaction rates are strongly suppressed by Pauli blocking and thermalization does not occur until electrons can populate energy states above the Fermi energy. Soon after this happens thermalization proceeds suddenly in an avalanche-like process.
Quantum phase transitions in superconductor--quantum-dot--superconductor Josephson structures with attractive intradot interaction
Creators: name: Hsu, Yu-Chun
name: Chen, Wu-Jing
name: Wu, Chien-Te
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study the superconducting proximity effect in a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads when the intradot interaction between electrons is made attractive. Because of the superconducting proximity effect, the electronic states for the embedded quantum dot are either spin-polarized states with an odd occupation number or BCS-like states with an even occupation number. We show that in the presence of an external magnetic field, the system can exhibit quantum phase transitions of fermion parity associated with the occupation number. In this work, we adopt a self-consistent theoretical method to extend our considerations beyond the so-called superconducting atomic limit in which the superconducting gap for the leads is assumed to be the largest energy scale. The method enables us to numerically investigate the electronic structure of the dot as results of the attractive interaction. For energy phase diagrams in the regime away from the atomic limit, we find a reentrant behavior where a BCS-like phase of the dot exists in an intermediate range of the hybridization strength between the quantum dot and the leads. We also consider Josephson current phase relations and identify a number of examples showing $0-π$ phase transitions that may offer important switching effects.
EFFECT OF INHALED NITROGEN OXIDE ON THE PLASMA CONCENTRATION OF CYTOKINES AND ENDOGENOUS NITROGEN OXIDE
Creators: name: Pukhtinskaya, M.G.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Internationale Zeitschrift für zeitgenössische Wissenschaft
Year: 2021
Subjects: sepsis
newborn
nitrogen oxide inhalation

description: Rationale. The nitrogen oxide molecule (NO) is a fundamental factor of the anti-infectious resistance of an organism. Research objective. To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the prevention of sepsis by the inhalation of nitrogen oxide (iNO) in newborns with respiratory pathology on artificial pulmonary ventilation. Methods. Controlled, randomized, blind clinical trial included 97 newborns with respiratory pathology for artificial pulmonary ventilation. Patients received standard intensive therapy. The main group (n=44) received inhaled nitrogen oxide. The control group (n=53) did not receive inhaled nitrogen oxide. On Days 1, 3, and 20, the plasma concentrations of IL-1ß, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α, G-CSF, s-Fas, FGF, and nitrogen oxide were measured by cap�ture ELISA. Results. Inhaled nitrogen oxide as a part of intensive care decreased the rate of sepsis development, the du�ration of mechanical ventilation, and the period of hospitalization. It provided a tendency towards a decrease in the rate of lethal outcomes and reduced cytokine aggression. Conclusions. Inhaled nitrogen oxide in standard intensive care effectively and safely prevented the develop�ment of sepsis in newborns with respiratory pathology on artificial lung ventilation. A decrease in the concentration of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including IL-6, against the background of nitrogen oxide inhalation, confirmed the possibility of using inhaled nitrogen oxide as a therapy for COVID-19.
title: Primm, Beny interview conducted by Campbell/Spillane
Creators: name: Campbell, Nancy
Publisher: name: University of Michigan
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Abuse liability; Addiction; Addiction neuroscience; Addiction research; Behavioral pharmacology; Drug abuse; Drug dependence; Ethics of addiction research; Medication assisted treatment; Substance abuse disorder; Substance abuse treatment
subject: Health behavior and health education; History
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Health Sciences

description: Dr. Beny J. Primm, M.D., helped found the Addiction Research Treatment Corporation (ARTC) and has been the Executive Director ever since. Located in Brooklyn, New York, the ARTC is one of the largest minority non-profit community-based substance abuse treatment programs in the country, treating over 2,300 men and women from underserved communities. Dr. Primm was also President of the Urban Resource Institute, an umbrella organization that supports various community-based initiatives and social service programs for battered women, the developmentally disabled, substance abusers, and those infected with HIV and AIDS. A national authority on drug addiction, Dr. Primm served as an adviser to the National Drug Abuse Policy Office since the Nixon administration. Dr. Primm is also internationally recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on HIV and AIDS, an area of study he pursued initially due to the disease's intimate relationship with addiction and the epidemic levels of infection among I.V. drug users. He served on the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic under President Reagan. Dr. Primm was later appointed to the U.S. National Drug Abuse Advisory Council, and headed the Office of Treatment Improvement, an agency of the government’s Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Administration. He also represented the U.S. at numerous international conferences, including the World Health Organization's conference in Geneva and the International Conference for Ministers of Health on AIDS prevention in London. Widely published, he wrote over thirty articles on addiction, which have appeared in numerous medical texts and journals. He also delivered speeches, lectures and keynote addresses around the world, and has been a visiting lecturer at a dozen different academic institutions, including Columbia University, Harvard University and New York University. In 2014, the year before his death, he released his memoir, which he co-authored with John S. Friedman, entitled The Healer: A Doctor’s Crusade Against Addiction and AIDS. Dr. Primm passed away on October 16, 2015. Sources: “Dr. Beny J. Primm” The HistoryMakers. https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/dr-beny-j-primm-39 Accessed 09 June 2023. “Beny Primm” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beny_Primm Accessed 09 June 2023.
Improving adversarial robustness of deep neural networks by using semantic information
Creators: name: Wang, Lina
name: Tang, Rui
name: Yue, Yawei
name: Chen, Xingshu
name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhu, Yi
name: Zeng, Xuemei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6

description: The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial attack, which is an attack that can mislead state-of-the-art classifiers into making an incorrect classification with high confidence by deliberately perturbing the original inputs, raises concerns about the robustness of DNNs to such attacks. Adversarial training, which is the main heuristic method for improving adversarial robustness and the first line of defense against adversarial attacks, requires many sample-by-sample calculations to increase training size and is usually insufficiently strong for an entire network. This paper provides a new perspective on the issue of adversarial robustness, one that shifts the focus from the network as a whole to the critical part of the region close to the decision boundary corresponding to a given class. From this perspective, we propose a method to generate a single but image-agnostic adversarial perturbation that carries the semantic information implying the directions to the fragile parts on the decision boundary and causes inputs to be misclassified as a specified target. We call the adversarial training based on such perturbations "region adversarial training" (RAT), which resembles classical adversarial training but is distinguished in that it reinforces the semantic information missing in the relevant regions. Experimental results on the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets show that this approach greatly improves adversarial robustness even using a very small dataset from the training data; moreover, it can defend against FGSM adversarial attacks that have a completely different pattern from the model seen during retraining.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Food consumption and diet quality choices of Roma in Romania: A counterfactual analysis
Creators: name: Ciaian, Pavel
name: Cupák, Andrej
name: Pokrivčák, Ján
name: Rizov, Marian
name: Ciaian, Pavel
name: Cupák, Andrej
name: Pokrivčák, Ján
name: Rizov, Marian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Roma
subject: Food security
subject: Diet quality
subject: Informal institutions
subject: Discrimination

description: This paper analyses the diet quality aspect of food security of Roma in Romania. We employ a modified Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique using Household Budget Survey data for the period 2004-2011. The estimates suggest that Roma have inferior diet quality compared to the non-Roma. Around one-third of the diet quality gap is explained by the differences in observed socio-economic factors, whereas the remaining part of the gap is attributed to unobserved factors. We argue that the unexplained component of the diet quality gap is caused by the discrimination of the Roma on the labour market and by their specific informal institutions.
title: A critical edition of John Bunyan's posthumously published treatise Of Antichrist, and His Ruine (1692)
Creators: name: Owens, W. R.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1983

description: This thesis is a scholarly edition of Bunyan's treatise Of Antichrist, and His Ruine. The text is based on the first edition of 1692, retaining the spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization and italicization of the original. Printer's errors have been corrected; inaccurate Scriptural references have been corrected in the text, and the original references noted in the apparatus. Explanatory notes to the text provide additional Scriptural references., definitions of words or phrases now obsolete or liable to misinterpretation, and cross-references to other works by Bunyan and his contemporaries. The Introduction discusses first the circumstances of the publication of the treatise in a Folio collection of Bunyan's works edited by his friend and disciple, Charles Doe. It goes on to argue, on internal evidence, that the composition of the treatise can be dated to the early 1680s. There follows a brief account of the Antichrist legend, tracing its inception in the early church, its development in medieval thought and art, and early Protestant identification of Antichrist with the papacy. The views of seventeenth-century Protestant commentators concerning the fall of Antichrist and the commencement of Christ's millennial reign on earth are outlined, and the extent. of millenarian expectation in the 1640s and 1650S is described. Bunyan's early millenarian beliefs are discussed especially as set forth in his treatise The Holy City (1665). Although some historians have argued that interest in Antichrist and the millennium died away after the Restoration, evidence is presented to show that Bunyan's concern with the fall of Antichrist was not unusual in the early 1680s. The main features of his treatise are discussed and set in context, particularly its style, Bunyan's concept of Antichrist, his account of the slaying of the witnesses, and his belief that God would use Kings to destroy the physical body of Antichrist.