cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identifying Consumer Preferences for Nutrition Information on Grocery Store Shelf Labels
Creators: name: Berning, Joshua P.
name: Chouinard, Hayley
name: Manning, Kenneth
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Sprott, David
name: Berning, Joshua P.
name: Chouinard, Hayley
name: Manning, Kenneth
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Sprott, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: nutrition information
subject: grocery stores
subject: labels
subject: consumer preferences

description: Nutrition labels can potentially benefit consumers by increasing product knowledge and reducing search costs. However, the global increase in obesity rates leads one to question the effectiveness of current nutrition information formats. Alternative formats for providing nutrition information may be more effective. Shoppers at a major grocery chain participated in choice experiments designed to identify preferences for nutrition information provided on grocery store shelf labels. Shoppers demonstrate a strong affinity for shelf label nutrition information and the presentation of the nutrition information significantly affects their preferences as well. Several demographic variables help to explain differences in preferences.
title: Μελέτη της φορολογίας εισοδήματος ελεύθερων επαγγελματιών: συγκριτική παρουσίαση κατά τη διάρκεια και μετά το πέρας της οικονομικής κρίσης
title: Study on the income taxation of freelancers: a comparative presentation during and after the conclusion of the economic crisis
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μπουρλή, Μαρία Άννα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Φορολογία εισοδήματος
subject: Ελεύθεροι επαγγελματίες

description: Αρχικά, παρουσιάζονται και αποσαφηνίζονται οι κύριες θεωρητικές έννοιες που διέπουν το φορολογικό σύστημα καθώς και τα επιστημονικά κριτήρια αξιολόγησης ενός αποτελεσματικού και δίκαιου φορολογικού καθεστώτος. Εν συνεχεία και προβαίνοντας σε μια μικρή ιστορική αναδρομή στον προϊσχύοντα Κώδικα Φορολογίας Εισοδήματος του 1994, αναδεικνύονται οι κύριες διαφοροποιήσεις με το υφιστάμενο καθεστώς. Ακολούθως, αναλύονται οι διατάξεις που διέπουν τον υπολογισμό του φόρου εισοδήματος των ελεύθερων επαγγελματιών και οι επιπρόσθετες φορολογικές επιβαρύνσεις που επιβάλλονται στον κλάδο από το 2014 έως και σήμερα. Παράλληλα, αποτυπώνονται σε πρακτικά παραδείγματα οι μεταβολές που επέφεραν οι εκάστοτε τροποποιήσεις. Μάλιστα, πραγματοποιείται μια ολιστική αριθμητική απεικόνιση του συνολικά πληρωτέου φόρου εισοδήματος ενός ελεύθερου επαγγελματία έπειτα από την εισαγωγή του νόμου 4172/2013 για διάφορο ύψος εισοδημάτων, ώστε να διευκολυνθεί η εξαγωγή ασφαλών συμπερασμάτων ως προς το επιπρόσθετο ή μη φορολογικό βάρος που καλείται να πληρώσει ο επιτηδευματίας. Καταληκτικά, καθώς διαπιστώνονται ατέλειες στο υφιστάμενο φορολογικό σύστημα, υποβάλλονται προτάσεις αναμόρφωσής του, με σκοπό τον εξορθολογισμό του Κώδικα Φορολογίας Εισοδήματος και τη δημιουργία ενός ευμενέστερου φορολογικού περιβάλλοντος, το οποίο θα είναι ωφέλιμο για την ανάπτυξη αυτόνομης επαγγελματικής δραστηριότητας.
A method for global inversion of multi-resolution solar data
Creators: name: Rodríguez, J. de la Cruz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the complex dynamics and structure of the upper solar atmosphere benefits strongly from the use of a combination of several diagnostics. Frequently, such diverse diagnostics can only be obtained from telescopes and/or instrumentation operating at widely different spatial resolution. To optimize the utilization of such data, we propose a new method for the global inversion of data acquired at different spatial resolution. The method has its roots in the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm but involves the use of linear operators to transform and degrade the synthetic spectra of a highly resolved guess model to account for the the effects of spatial resolution, data sampling, alignment and image rotation of each of the data sets. We have carried out a list of numerical experiments to show that our method allows extracting spatial information from two simulated datasets that have gone through two different telescope apertures and that are sampled in different spatial grids. Our results show that each dataset contributes in the inversion by constraining information at the spatial scales that are present in each of the datasets, without any negative effects derived from the combination of multiple resolution data. This method is especially relevant for chromospheric studies that attempt at combining datasets acquired with different telescopes and/or datasets acquired at different wavelengths, both limiting factors in the resolution of solar instrumentation. The techniques described in the present study will also help addressing the ever increasing resolution gap between space-borne missions and forthcoming ground-based facilities.
description: Submitted to A&A on 2019-09-04
MOESM1 of A novel protocol to isolate, detect and differentiate taeniid eggs in leafy greens and berries using real-time PCR with melting curve analysis
Creators: name: Frey, Caroline
name: Oakley, Jenna
name: Lobanov, Vladislav
name: Marreros, Nelson
name: Schurer, Janna
name: Lalonde, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Effect of the wash solution on the Cq value after spiking 500 eggs of T. pisiformis on lettuce. n = 60, groups n = 30, AIC = 38.761. Table S2. Effect of the wash solution on the Cq value after spiking five eggs of T. pisiformis on lettuce. n = 42, groups n = 21, AIC = 95.577. Table S3. Comparison of two DNA extraction kits to extract DNA from T. pisiformis eggs suspended in negative produce wash. Table S4. Effect of the DNA extraction kits on the Cq values after suspension of T. pisiformis eggs in negative produce wash. n = 117, groups n = 32, AIC = 246.304.
p75NTR as a Molecular Memory Switch
Creators: name: Ning, Shen
name: Jorfi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In recent years, many molecular and environmental factors have been studied to understand how synaptic plasticity is modulated. Sleep, as an evolutionary conserved biological function, has shown to be a critical player for the consolidation and filtering of synaptic circuitry underlying memory traces. Although sleep disturbances do not alter normal memory consolidation, they may reflect fundamental circuit malfunctions that can play a significant role in exacerbating diseases, such as autism and Alzheimer's disease. Very recently, scientists sought to answer part of this enigma and they identified p75 neurotrophic receptor (p75NTR) as a critical player in mediating impairments in hippocampal-dependent associative plasticity upon sleep deprivation. This paper will review the role of the p75NTR, critically discuss the impact and implications of this research as the bridge for sleep research and neurological diseases.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure
Micro-events in the active and quiet solar corona
Creators: name: Benz, Arnold O.
name: Grigis, Paolo C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The content of hot material in the corona is not constant. Soft X-ray and high-temperature EUV line observations show that new material, apparently heated and evaporated from the chromosphere, is frequently injected into the corona both in active and quiet regions. Active regions are found to exhibit transient brightenings, termed here microflares, due to such enhancements in emission measure. They appear at a rate of up to 10 per hour in RHESSI observations of 3--15 keV X-rays, occurring even during the periods of lowest solar activity so far in the mission. The RHESSI observations combined with measurements at other wavelengths yield estimates of the energy input into the corona. These observations suggest that the models for coronal heating must be complemented with respect to continuous replenishing the lower corona by chromospheric material heated to coronal temperatures. The observed micro-events are secondary phenomena and do not represent the primary energy release, nor its total amount. Nevertheless, they are an interesting source of information on the heating process(es) of the corona. The micro-events are compared to events in quiet regions, termed here nanoflares, which seem to be a different population, well separated in temperature and emission measure from microflares.
description: COSPAR meeting Houston 2002, PASP proceedings, in press
Μη επανδρωμένα πλοία: προοπτικές και περιορισμοί
Creators: name: Λουίζου, Δήμητρα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Μη επανδρωμένα πλοία
subject: Αυτοματισμός στην ναυτιλία

description: Ο στόχος της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να μελετήσει και να αναλύσει την αυτονομία στη ναυτιλία, εστιάζοντας στην περίπτωση των μη επανδρωμένων πλοίων. Η υλοποίηση της εργασίας στηρίζεται στα αποτελέσματα ειδικών επιστημονικών μελετών, με βάση τα οφέλη που παράγονται στον οικονομικό, κοινωνικό και περιβαλλοντικό τομέα, όπως επίσης, και τις κανονιστικές, επιχειρησιακές και ποιοτικές προκλήσεις, που συνάγονται, λόγω της δημιουργίας στο άμεσο μέλλον αυτού του είδους πλοίων. Η εργασία ολοκληρώνεται μέσα από πέντε κεφάλαια. Το πρώτο κεφάλαιο επιχειρεί μια ιστορική αναδρομή του αυτοματισμού στην ναυτιλία, το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζει κατευθυντήριες γραμμές για την αυτόνομη ναυτιλία και το τρίτο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζει πιλοτικές εφαρμογές αυτόνομων πλοίων. Το τέταρτο κεφάλαιο εστιάζει στα πλεονεκτήματα, την ασφάλεια, το οικονομικό μοντέλο και περιβαλλοντικά θέματα και τις προκλήσεις που υπάρχουν στο νομοθετικό έργο, στην ευθύνη, τον κυβερνοχώρο και τον ανθρώπινο παράγοντα. Το τελευταίο κεφάλαιο συνοψίζει τα τελικά συμπεράσματα της εργασίας για την έρευνα, που αφορά στη δημιουργία μη επανδρωμένων πλοίων και στηρίζεται στα θετικά αποτελέσματα που έχουν προκύψει, με στόχο την μελλοντική εφαρμογή τους.
Forschungsbewertung im Wandel: Ansätze für Anerkennung und FAIRness bei Helmholtz
Creators: name: Meistring, Marcel
name: Genderjahn, Steffi
name: Juckeland, Guido
name: Ferguson, Lea Maria
name: Pampel, Heinz
name: Vleugel, Mathijs
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Die zunehmende Digitalisierung und Open-Science-Praktiken fordern neue Wege zur Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Leistungen. Eindimensionale Metriken wie Zitationszahlen reichen nicht aus, um die Vielfalt des Forschungsoutputs angemessen zu erfassen. Seit 2022 arbeitet eine Task Group der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft mit Vertreter:innen aus den 18 Helmholtz-Zentren an einem mehrdimensionalen Qualitätsindikator für Forschungsdaten- und -Software-Publikationen. Dieser Ansatz soll die Qualität in der Wissenschaft steigern.
Evaluating Health Care Externality Costs Generated by Risky Consuption Goods
Creators: name: Cohen, Michael
name: Katsaiti, Marina-Selini
name: Cohen, Michael
name: Katsaiti, Marina-Selini
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Risky Consumption
subject: Health Care Costs
subject: Insurance Premia Pricing
subject: Two Sector Economy
subject: Obesity

description: We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) macroeconomic model that applies a behavioral interpretation of preferences for goods that generate health risks. In this paper proneness to poor health is viewed as a cognitive miscalculation by economic agents between their expected health state over various consumption bundles and the actual health care they require for their health outcome. To model this the paper borrows insight from prospect theory and applies the reference-dependent preference framework to the specification of out utility model. In our model of the economy individual preferences are decomposed into intrinsic consumption utility and gain-loss utility associated with the miscalculation. Agents in the economy are stratified in their health states as well as their expected health care consumption according to some probability measure over the population. Heterogeneity introduced in this way generates consumers of varied proneness to risk associated with consumption of unhealthy goods because individuals have various marginal valuations of their miscalculation. In such a population, when all agents pay the same insurance premium, health-conscious agents shoulder the health care costs of their less health-conscious counterparts and the less health-conscious are engaged in less healthy consumption than they would if they paid actuarially fair premia. We demonstrate these effects in simulations by comparing the risk pooling equilibria to the actuarially fair pricing equilibria. This paper introduces the mathematical programming equilibrium constraint (MPEC) computational approach to compute model equilibria; we believe this approach is new to heterogeneous agent OLG model simulation.
MOESM1 of A bibliometric analysis of human strongyloidiasis research (1968 to 2017)
Creators: name: Sweileh, Waleed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy and keywords used
Chaotic rotation and evolution of asteroids and small planets in high-eccentricity orbits around white dwarfs
Creators: name: Makarov, Valeri V.
name: Veras, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observed planetary debris in white dwarf atmospheres predominately originate from the destruction of small bodies on highly eccentric ($>0.99$) orbits. Despite their importance, these minor planets have coupled physical and orbital evolution which has remained largely unexplored. Here, we present a novel approach for estimating the influence of fast chaotic rotation on the orbital evolution of high-eccentricity triaxial asteroids, and formally characterize the propagation of their angular rotation velocities and orbital elements as random time processes. By employing the impulse approximation, we demonstrate that the violent gravitational interactions during periastron passages transfer energy between the orbit and asteroid's rotation. If the distribution of spin impulses were symmetric around zero, then the net result would be a secular decrease of the semimajor axis and a further increase of the eccentricity. We find evidence, however, that the chaotic rotation may be self-regulated in such a manner that these effects are reduced or nullified. We discover that asteroids on highly eccentric orbits can break themselves apart --- in a type of YORP-less rotational fission --- without actually entering the Roche radius, with potentially significant consequences for the distribution of debris and energy requirements for gravitational scattering in metal-polluted white dwarf planetary systems. This mechanism provides a steady stream of material impacting a white dwarf without rapidly depleting the number of small bodies in the stellar system.
description: Revised manuscript resubmitted to ApJ after referee report
Environmental Income as a Pathway Out of Poverty? Empirical Evidence on Asset Accumulation in Nepal
Creators: name: Walelign, Solomon Zena
name: Nielsen, Martin Reinhardt
name: Larsen, Helle Overgaard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Using unique, environmentally augmented household panel data reflecting households’ annual cash and subsistence income portfolios, we model change over time in the value of four assets – livestock, implements, savings, and jewellery. A seemingly unrelated regression model reveals that although environmental resources on average contribute 16 per cent of the total household income, the contribution to asset accumulation is limited. Hence, environmental income does not constitute a pathway out of poverty in Nepal under the current set of regulations and tenure regimes. Asset accumulation was instead associated (both negatively and positively) with agricultural income (particularly as subsistence income), wage and business income. Most environmental income was obtained as subsistence income indicating that the environmental resources that households have access to present little opportunity for cash generation. Securing access of the poor to environmental resources may increase its role in poverty alleviation.
Semi-Autonomous Revenue Authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Silver Bullet or White Elephant
Creators: name: Dom, Roel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: A major component of tax administration reform in sub-Saharan Africa for the last 30 years has been the creation of semi-autonomous revenue authorities (SARAs). The effects of their creation on revenue performance have been much debated, although there are only a few quantitative studies. The core argument of this paper is that existing research suggesting diverse and contradictory outcomes has not taken account of trends in revenue performance in the years before the establishment of SARAs. Allowing for this revenue history our analysis, based on 46 countries over the period 1980–2015, provides no robust evidence that SARAs induce an increase in revenue performance. This does not imply that SARAs may not provide benefits for tax collection, but they do not demonstrably increase (or decrease) revenue collected.
Variable Hard X-ray Emission From the Central Star of the Eskimo Nebula
Creators: name: Guerrero, Martin A
name: Toala, Jesus A
name: Chu, You-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The central star of NGC 2392 shows the hardest X-ray emission among central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNe). The recent discovery of a spectroscopic companion with an orbital period of 1.9 days could provide an explanation for its hard X-ray emission, as well as for the collimation of its fast outflow. Here we analyse the available Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observations to determine accurately the spectral and temporal variation properties of the CSPN of NGC 2392. The X-ray emission can be described by an absorbed thermal plasma model with temperature 26$^{+8}_{-5}$ MK and X-ray luminosity (8.7$\pm$1.0)$\times$10$^{30}$ erg s$^{-1}$. No long-term variability is detected in the X-ray emission level, but the Chandra light curve is suggestive of short-term variations with a period $\sim$0.26 days. The possible origins of this X-ray emission are discussed. X-ray emission from the coronal activity of a companion or shocks in the stellar wind can be ruled out. Accretion of material from an unseen main-sequence companion onto the CSPN or from the CSPN wind onto a white dwarf companion are the most plausible origins for its hard X-ray emission, although the mismatch between the rotational period of the CSPN and the modulation time-scale of the X-ray emission seems to preclude the former possibility.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
The Global Food Price Crisis and China-World Rice Market Integration: A Spatial-Temporal Rational Expectations Equilibrium Model
Creators: name: Liu, Xianglin
name: Romero-Aguilar, Randall S.
name: Chen, Shu-Ling
name: Miranda, Mario J.
name: Liu, Xianglin
name: Romero-Aguilar, Randall S.
name: Chen, Shu-Ling
name: Miranda, Mario J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: world rice market
subject: China’s integration
subject: export bans
subject: government stockpiling

description: In this paper, we examine how China, the world’s largest rice producer and consumer, would affect the international rice market if it liberalized its trade in rice and became more fully integrated into the global rice market. The impacts of trade liberalization are estimated using a spatial-temporal rational expectations model of the world rice market characterized by four interdependent markets with stochastic production patterns, constant-elasticity demands, expected-profit maximizing private speculative storers, and government stockpiling authorities. The results show that full entry by China into the world rice market will substantially reduce and stabilize the world rice price, reducing the risk faced by major importers, particularly price spikes caused by restrictive trade policies implemented by major exporters.
„The mother of chemical peeling“ – Oder: Wie Kleopatra zum Bad in Eselsmilch kam
Creators: name: Ursin, Frank
Publisher: name: thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
Year: 2021

description: Application areas and drugs of Egyptian, Greek and Roman medi-cine are popular references of research in the field of recent aes-thetic dermatology. There, Cleopatra VII is referred to as “mother of chemical peeling” because she is said to have bathed in donkey’s milk. Although extremely popular, there is no ancient source sup-porting Cleopatra’s bath in milk. Nevertheless, Poppaea Sabina, the second wife of Emperor Nero, is said to has bathed in donkey’s milk to beautify her skin. The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the genesis and develop-ment of the modern myth of Cleopatra bathing in donkey’s milk. The origin of this myth can be traced back to the cinema of the 1930s. The result is that in the person of the actress Claudette Colbert her two roles as Cleopatra and Poppaea converged. This convergence was the basis for the popularization of the milk bath by the Cleopat-ra movie of 1963 with Elizabeth Taylor.
description: thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 12 (2020): Spring Issue
Second virial coefficient in one dimension, as a function of asymptotic quantities
Creators: name: Amaya-Tapia, A.
name: Larsen, S. Y.
name: Lassaut, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A result from Dodd and Gibbs[1] for the second virial coefficient of particles in 1 dimension, subject to delta-function interactions, has been obtained by direct integration of the wave functions. It is shown that this result can be obtained from a phase shift formalism, if one includes the contribution of oscillating terms. The result is important in work to follow, for the third virial coefficient, for which a similar formalism is being developed. We examine a number of fine points in the quantum mechanical formalisms.
description: 7 pages, no figures, submitted to Molecular Physics
OWN AND CROSS PASS-THROUGH IN A STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK
Creators: name: Hovhannisyan, Vardges
name: Bozic, Marin
name: Hovhannisyan, Vardges
name: Bozic, Marin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Pass-through
subject: retail conduct
subject: benefit function

description: The article offers measures of own and cross cost pass-through in a structural framework. Unlike the traditional reduced-form analysis used in the previous literature, our approach is applicable in situations where firm marginal cost data are unobserved. The empirical value of the model is illustrated in an application to retail pass-through for national and store brand yogurt using an inverse demand derived from the economic theory. We find that ignoring cross pass-through between the brands biases own pass-through estimates.
MOESM1 of When could human challenge trials be deployed to combat emerging infectious diseases? Lessons from the case of a Zika virus human challenge trial
Creators: name: Palacios, Ricardo
name: Shah, Seema
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Reviewers Report
“Grim to Great” Path to Profitability:Performance Profile of Midway Co-op Association
Creators: name: Barton, David G.
name: Barton, David G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Case Study of Midway Co-op Association Osborne, Kansas Prepared for 2006 Symposium and Leadership Roundtable January 16-17, 2006 Grand Prairie Hotel Hutchinson, Kansas
Blockchain Tree for eHealth
Creators: name: Kushch, Sergii
name: Ranise, Silvio
name: Sciarretta, Giada
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The design of access control mechanisms for healthcare systems is challenging: it must strike the right balance between permissions and restrictions. In this work, we propose a novel approach that is based on the Blockchain technology for storage patient medical data and create an audit logging system able to protect health data from unauthorized modification and access. The proposed method consists of a tree structure: a main chain linked with the patient's identity and one or several Subchains which are used for storing additional critical data (e.g., medical diagnoses or access logs).
The Shape and Stability of a Viscous Thread
Creators: name: Senchenko, Sergey
name: Bohr, Tomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a viscous fluid, like oil or syrup, streams from a small orifice and falls freely under gravity, it forms a long slender thread, which can be maintained in a stable, stationary state with lengths up to several meters. We shall discuss the shape of such liquid threads and their surprising stability. It turns out that the strong advection of the falling fluid can almost outrun the Rayleigh-Plateau instability. Even for a very viscous fluid like sirup or silicone oil, the asymptotic shape and stability is independent of viscosity and small perturbations grow with time as $\exp({{\rm C} t^{1/4}})$, where the constant is independent of viscosity. The corresponding spatial growth has the form $\exp({(z/L)^{1/8}})$, where $z$ is the down stream distance and $L \sim Q^2 σ^{-2} g$ and where $σ$ is the surface tension, $g$ is the gravity and $Q$ is the flux. However, the value of viscosity determines the break-up length of a thread $L_ν \sim ν^{1/4}$ and thus the possibility of observing the $\exp({{\rm C} t^{1/4}})$ type asymptotics.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Modeling Personality vs. Modeling Personalidad: In-the-wild Mobile Data Analysis in Five Countries Suggests Cultural Impact on Personality Models
Creators: name: Khwaja, Mohammed
name: Vaid, Sumer S.
name: Zannone, Sara
name: Harari, Gabriella M.
name: Faisal, A. Aldo
name: Matic, Aleksandar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sensor data collected from smartphones provides the possibility to passively infer a user's personality traits. Such models can be used to enable technology personalization, while contributing to our substantive understanding of how human behavior manifests in daily life. A significant challenge in personality modeling involves improving the accuracy of personality inferences, however, research has yet to assess and consider the cultural impact of users' country of residence on model replicability. We collected mobile sensing data and self-reported Big Five traits from 166 participants (54 women and 112 men) recruited in five different countries (UK, Spain, Colombia, Peru, and Chile) for 3 weeks. We developed machine learning based personality models using culturally diverse datasets -- representing different countries -- and we show that such models can achieve state-of-the-art accuracy when tested in new countries, ranging from 63% (Agreeableness) to 71% (Extraversion) of classification accuracy. Our results indicate that using country-specific datasets can improve the classification accuracy between 3% and 7% for Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. We show that these findings hold regardless of gender and age balance in the dataset. Interestingly, using gender- or age- balanced datasets as well as gender-separated datasets improve trait prediction by up to 17%. We unpack differences in personality models across the five countries, highlight the most predictive data categories (location, noise, unlocks, accelerometer), and provide takeaways to technologists and social scientists interested in passive personality assessment.
description: Presented at Ubicomp 2019. London, UK. September 2019
Remittances and the Brain Drain: Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Bredtmann, Julia
name: Flores, Fernanda Martínez
name: Otten, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Based on unique microdata from five Sub-Saharan African countries that contain comprehensive information on both migrants and their households at the origin country, we investigate the effect of migrants’ education on their remittance behaviour. Our results reveal that migrants’ education has no impact on the likelihood of sending remittances, but a positive effect on the amount of money sent, conditional on remitting. The latter effect holds for internal migrants and migrants in non-OECD countries, while it vanishes for migrants in OECD destination countries once characteristics of the origin household are controlled for.
QCD meson spectrum in the large $N_C$ limit
Creators: name: Grignani, G.
name: Marmottini, D.
name: Sodano, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low energy mass spectrum of QCD in the large $N_C$ limit is computed. The low-lying states in the meson spectrum are explicitly evaluated up to the fourth order in the strong coupling perturbative expansion. The 't Hooft limit is smooth and the meson masses are in very good agreement with the experimental values.
description: 3 pages, Contribution to the proceedings of LATTICE 2002
Some refinements of the partial $C^0$ estimate
Creators: name: Zhang, Kewei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Relying on the recent work of Liu-Székelyhidi we give a weak asymptotic estimate for the Bergman kernels of polarized Kähler manifolds with Ricci lower bound and Sobolev constant upper bound. We will also give a simple proof for the partial $C^0$ estimate along the (generalized) Kähler-Ricci flow on Fano manifolds.
description: Comments are welcome!
Additional file 8 of A second generation genetic linkage map of Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)
Creators: name: Castaño-Sánchez, Cecilia
name: Fuji, Kanako
name: Akiyuki Ozaki
name: Hasegawa, Osamu
name: Sakamoto, Takashi
name: Kagayaki Morishima
name: Nakayama, Ichiro
name: Fujiwara, Atsushi
name: Masaoka, Tetsuji
name: Okamoto, Hiroyuki
name: Hayashida, Kengo
name: Michihira Tagami
name: Kawai, Jun
name: Hayashizaki, Yoshihide
name: Okamoto, Nobuaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 1
Special Holonomy Manifolds, Domain Walls, Intersecting Branes and T-folds
Creators: name: Chaemjumrus, N.
name: Hull, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the special holonomy metrics of Gibbons, Lu, Pope and Stelle, which were constructed as nilmanifold bundles over a line by uplifting supersymmetric domain wall solutions of supergravity to 11 dimensions. We show that these are dual to intersecting brane solutions, and considering these leads us to a more general class of special holonomy metrics. Further dualities relate these to non-geometric backgrounds involving intersections of branes and exotic branes. We discuss the possibility of resolving these spaces to give smooth special holonomy manifolds.
description: 39 pages
Entropy for Colored Quark States at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Miller, David E.
name: Tawfik, Abdel-Nasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum entropy at finite temperatures is analyzed by using models for colored quarks making up the physical states of the hadrons. We explicitly work out some special models for the structure of the states of SU(2) and SU(3) relating to the effects of the temperature on the quantum entropy. We show that the entropy of the singlet states monotonically decreases meaning that the mixing of these states continually diminishes with the temperature. It has been found that the structure of the octet states is more complex so that it can be best characterized by two parts. One part is very similar to that of the singlet states. The other one reflects the existence of strong correlations between two of the three color states. Furthermore, we work out the entropy for the {\it classical} Ising and the {\it quantum} XY spin chains. In Ising model the quantum (ground state) entropy does not directly enter into the canonical partition function. It also does not depend on the number of spatial dimensions, but only on the number of quantum states making up the ground state. Whereas, the XY spin chain has a finite entropy at vanishing temperature. The results from the spin models qualitatively analogous to our models for the states of SU(2) and SU(3).
description: 19 pages, 4 eps figures
MOESM1 of Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of home-based postpartum care on neonatal mortality and exclusive breastfeeding practice in low-and-middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Gizachew Tiruneh
name: Chalachew Shiferaw
name: Alemayehu Worku
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Search Strategy.docx. This is a survey strategy used to search for articles from databases.
Evolution of crystalline electric field effects, superconductivity, and heavy fermion behavior in the specific heat of Pr(Os$_{1-x}$Ru$_x$)$_4$Sb$_{12}$
Creators: name: Frederick, N. A.
name: Sayles, T. A.
name: Maple, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Specific heat $C(T)$ measurements were made on single crystals of the superconducting filled skutterudite series Pr(Os$_{1-x}$Ru$_x$)$_4$Sb$_{12}$ down to 0.6 K. Crystalline electric field fits in the normal state produced parameters which were in agreement with previous measurements. Bulk superconductivity was observed for all values of the Ru concentration $x$ with transition temperatures consistent with previous experiments, confirming a minimum in $T_{c}$ at $x=0.6$. The $C(T)$ data below $T_{c}$ appear to be more consistent with power law behavior for $x=0$ (PrOs$_4$Sb$_{12}$), and with exponential behavior for $0.05 \leq x \leq 0.2$. An enhanced electronic specific heat coefficient $γ$ was observed for $x \leq 0.4$, further supporting $x \simeq 0.6$ as a critical concentration where the physical properties abruptly change. Significant enhancement of $ΔC/T_{c}$ above the weak coupling value was only observed for $x=0$ and $x=0.05$.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review B. v2: text added and figures modified
Additional file 9 of A second generation genetic linkage map of Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)
Creators: name: Castaño-Sánchez, Cecilia
name: Fuji, Kanako
name: Akiyuki Ozaki
name: Hasegawa, Osamu
name: Sakamoto, Takashi
name: Kagayaki Morishima
name: Nakayama, Ichiro
name: Fujiwara, Atsushi
name: Masaoka, Tetsuji
name: Okamoto, Hiroyuki
name: Hayashida, Kengo
name: Michihira Tagami
name: Kawai, Jun
name: Hayashizaki, Yoshihide
name: Okamoto, Nobuaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
Magnetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Hu, Jian
name: Lou, Yu-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This Letter explores influences of intracluster magnetic fields ($\gsim 1μ$G) submerged in the hot electron gas on classic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) and thermal bremsstrahlung in X-ray emissions. As the Larmor frequency is much higher than all collision frequencies, the presence of magnetic field may lead to an anisotropic velocity distribution of hot electrons. For the two-temperature relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, we compute modifications to the classical thermal SZE. Intracluster magnetic fields tend to enhance the SZE with steeper radial variations, which bear important consequences for cluster-based estimates of cosmological parameters. By applying the magnetic SZE theory to spectral observations of SZ and Chandra X-ray emissions from the galaxy cluster Abell 2163, a $\sim 30-40μ$G central core magnetic field $B_0$ is predicted. For the SZ and Chandra X-ray spectral observations of the Coma cluster, our theoretical analysis is also consistent with an observationally inferred $B_0\lsim 10μ$G. As the magnetic SZE is redshift $z$ independent, this mechanism might offer a potentially important and unique way of probing intracluster magnetic fields in the expanding universe.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. submitted to ApJL
Theory of the strongly nonlinear electrodynamic response of graphene: A hot electron model
Creators: name: Mikhailov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An electrodynamic response of graphene to a strong electromagnetic radiation is considered. A hot electron model (HEM) is introduced and a corresponding system of nonlinear equations is formulated. Solutions of this system are found and discussed in detail for intrinsic and doped graphene: the hot electron temperature, non-equilibrium electron and holes densities, absorption coefficient and other physical quantities are calculated as functions of the incident wave frequency $ω$ and intensity $I$, of the equilibrium chemical potential $μ_0$ and temperature $T_0$, scattering parameters, as well as of the ratio $τ_ε/τ_{\rm rec}$ of the intra-band energy relaxation time $τ_ε$ to the recombination time $τ_{\rm rec}$. The influence of the radiation intensity on the absorption coefficient $A$ at low ($\hbarω\lesssim 2|μ_0|$, $dA/dI>0$) and high ($\hbarω\gtrsim 2|μ_0|$, $dA/dI<0$) frequencies is studied. The results are shown to be in good agreement with recent experimental data.
description: 23 pages, 13 figures
The Roots of Global Inequality: The Role of Biogeography and Genetic Diversity
Creators: name: Daniele, Vittorio
name: Di Ruggiero, Antonio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper adds further evidence supporting Jared Diamond’s hypothesis that global technological differences in the pre-modern era were fundamentally due to bio-geographic factors: the time elapsed since the onset of agriculture and husbandry, the size of the population relative to the territories, the shape of continents. An alternative hypothesis, that genetic diversity within populations is the ultimate cause of global inequalities, is also examined. Results show how there is no robust evidence supporting a possible effect of genetic diversity on international differences in population density and technology in the pre-modern era.
MOESM1 of Deriving a Boolean dynamics to reveal macrophage activation with in vitro temporal cytokine expression profiles
Creators: name: Ramirez, Ricardo
name: Herrera, Allen
name: Ramirez, Joshua
name: Chunjiang Qian
name: Melton, David
name: Shireman, Paula
name: Jin, Yu-Fang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The core network for M1 activation by removing output nodes and signal transduction node. Figure S2. The core network for M2a activation by removing output nodes and signal transduction node. Figure S3. The core network for M2c activation by removing output nodes and signal transduction node.
Potential and limits of superlattice multipliers coupled to different input power sources
Creators: name: Apostolakis, A.
name: Pereira, M. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theoretical study is presented to assess the performance of semiconductor superlattice multipliers as a function of the currently available input power sources. The prime devices which are considered as input power sources are Impatt diodes, InP Gunn devices, superlattice electron devices and Backward Wave Oscillator sources. These sources have been successfully designed to deliver input radiation frequencies in the range from 0.1 to 0.5 THz. We discuss the harmonic power generation of both odd and even harmonics by implementing an ansatz solution stemmed from a hybrid approach combining nonequilibrium Green's functions and the Boltzmann kinetic equation.
Critical behaviour and scaling functions of the three-dimensional O(6) model
Creators: name: Holtmann, Sven
name: Schulze, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically investigate the three-dimensional O(6) model on 12^3 to 120^3 lattices within the critical region at zero magnetic field, as well as at finite magnetic field on the critical isotherm and for several fixed couplings in the broken and the symmetric phase. We obtain from the Binder cumulant at vanishing magnetic field the critical coupling J_c=1.42865(3). The universal value of the Binder cumulant at this point is g_r(J_c)=-1.94456(10). At the critical coupling, the critical exponents γ=1.604(6), β=0.425(2) and ν=0.818(5) are determined from a finite-size-scaling analysis. Furthermore, we verify predicted effects induced by massless Goldstone modes in the broken phase. The results are well described by the perturbative form of the model's equation of state. Our O(6)-result is compared to the corresponding Ising, O(2) and O(4) scaling functions. Finally, we study the finite-size-scaling behaviour of the magnetisation on the pseudocritical line.
description: 13 pages, 20 figures, REVTEX, fixed an error in the determination of R_\chi and changed the corresponding line in figure 13a
MOESM1 of Quantifying the benefit offered by transcript assembly with Scallop-LR on single-molecule long reads
Creators: name: Tung, Laura
name: Mingfu Shao
name: Kingsford, Carl
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary materials, Tables S1-S13, Figures S1-S3
WFRFT-aided Power-efficient Multi-beam Directional Modulation Schemes Based on Frequency Diverse Array
Creators: name: Cheng, Qian
name: Fusco, Vincent
name: Zhu, Jiang
name: Wang, Shilian
name: Wang, Fanggang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The artificial noise (AN) aided multi-beam directional modulation (DM) technology is capable of wireless physical layer secure (PLS) transmissions for multiple desired receivers in free space. The application of AN, however, makes it less power-efficient for such a DM system. To address this problem, the weighted fractional Fourier transform (WFRFT) technology is employed in this paper to achieve power-efficient multi-beam DM transmissions. Specifically, a power-efficient multi-beam WFRFT-DM scheme with cooperative receivers and a power-efficient multi-beam WFRFT-DM scheme with independent receivers are proposed based on frequency diverse array (FDA), respectively. The bit error rate (BER), secrecy rate, and robustness of the proposed multi-beam WFRFT-DM schemes are analyzed. Simulations demonstrate that 1) the proposed multi-beam WFRFT-DM schemes are more power-efficient than the conventional multi-beam AN-DM scheme; 2) the transmission security can also be guaranteed even if the eavesdroppers are located close to or the same as the desired receivers; and 3) the proposed multi-beam WFRFT-DM schemes are capable of independent transmissions for different desired receivers with different modulations.
description: accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 16 pages, 12 figures