cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dispersion Effects in Nucleon Polarisabilities
Creators: name: Griesshammer, Harald W.
name: Hemmert, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a formalism to extract the dynamical nucleon polarisabilities defined via a multipole expansion of the structure amplitudes in nucleon Compton scattering. In contradistinction to the static polarisabilities, dynamical polarisabilities gauge the response of the internal degrees of freedom of a composed object to an external, real photon field of arbitrary energy. Being energy dependent, they therefore contain additional information about dispersive effects induced by internal relaxation mechanisms, baryonic resonances and meson production thresholds of the nucleon. We give explicit formulae to extract the dynamical electric and magnetic dipole as well as quadrupole polarisabilities from low energy nucleon Compton scattering up to the one pion production threshold and discuss the connection to the definition of static nucleon polarisabilities. As a concrete example, we examine the results of leading order Heavy Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory for the four leading spin independent iso-scalar polarisabilities of the nucleon. Finally, we consider the possible r{ô}le of energy dependent effects in low energy extractions of the iso-scalar dipole polarisabilities from Compton scattering on the deuteron.
description: 17 pages LaTeX2e with 2 figures, using includegraphicx (5 .eps files). Minor corrections, references updated. Contents identical to version to appear in Phys. Rev. C 65, spelling different
Local Context Normalization: Revisiting Local Normalization
Creators: name: Ortiz, Anthony
name: Robinson, Caleb
name: Morris, Dan
name: Fuentes, Olac
name: Kiekintveld, Christopher
name: Hassan, Md Mahmudulla
name: Jojic, Nebojsa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Normalization layers have been shown to improve convergence in deep neural networks, and even add useful inductive biases. In many vision applications the local spatial context of the features is important, but most common normalization schemes including Group Normalization (GN), Instance Normalization (IN), and Layer Normalization (LN) normalize over the entire spatial dimension of a feature. This can wash out important signals and degrade performance. For example, in applications that use satellite imagery, input images can be arbitrarily large; consequently, it is nonsensical to normalize over the entire area. Positional Normalization (PN), on the other hand, only normalizes over a single spatial position at a time. A natural compromise is to normalize features by local context, while also taking into account group level information. In this paper, we propose Local Context Normalization (LCN): a normalization layer where every feature is normalized based on a window around it and the filters in its group. We propose an algorithmic solution to make LCN efficient for arbitrary window sizes, even if every point in the image has a unique window. LCN outperforms its Batch Normalization (BN), GN, IN, and LN counterparts for object detection, semantic segmentation, and instance segmentation applications in several benchmark datasets, while keeping performance independent of the batch size and facilitating transfer learning.
description: Accepted as a CVPR 2020 oral paper. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1803.08494 by other authors
Overheating Willingness to Pay: Who Gets Warm Glow and What It Means for Valuation
Creators: name: Interis, Matthew G.
name: Haab, Timothy C.
name: Interis, Matthew G.
name: Haab, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: contingent valuation
subject: warm glow
subject: willingness to pay

description: In traditional contingent valuation, the researcher seeks the amount a respondent is willing, ceteris paribus, to pay to obtain something. But if a respondent receives a “warm glow” from a yes response, ceteris is not paribus. In estimating willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce environmental impacts from consumption of transportation fuel, we find that respondents who were relatively less environmentally focused in the past receive greater warm-glow benefits from a “yes” response and have greater "warm” WTP (WTP that includes warm-glow benefits). Yet respondents who were relatively more environmentally focused in the past have greater “cold” WTP (WTP excluding warm-glow benefits).
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING ON CONSUMER TRUST AND SATISFACTION
Creators: name: Shrisowndarya R P
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Social Media Credibility, Trust, Satisfaction, Education Level, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation

description: The current digital age has transformed the way consumers interact with service providers, especially in the education and research domain. Social media serves as a critical touchpoint in shaping customer perceptions of credibility, trust, and satisfaction. This study explores the relationship between social media credibility and its influence on client trust and satisfaction among clients. Additionally, the moderating role of education level is examined to understand how demographic differences may impact these relationships. Using primary data collected from 60 participants through a structured questionnaire and applying statistical tools such as Pearson correlation and ANOVA, the study reveals strong positive associations among the key variables. The results also highlight that education level significantly influences trust but has a limited effect on credibility and satisfaction. These findings have implications for service-based businesses that rely on digital communication to improve client engagement and retention.
Supplementary document for A Raman spectromics method for fast and label-free genotype screening - 6390798.pdf
Creators: name: Zhu, Shanshan
name: Li, Yanjian
name: Zhang, Fengdi
name: Xiong, Changchun
name: Gao, Han
name: Yao, Yudong
name: Qian, Wei
name: Ding, Chen
name: Chen, Shuo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The tentative assignments of Raman peaks to vibrational modes and biomolecules
Remarks on the BRST Cohomology of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Lemes, V. E. R.
name: Picariello, M.
name: Sarandy, M. S.
name: Sorella, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The supersymmetric version of the descent equations following from the Wess-Zumino consistency condition is discussed. A systematic framework in order to solve them is proposed.
description: 1+11 pages, LaTeX2e
Technology, Policy And Population Growth Impacts On Economic Performance,Nutrient Flows And Soil Erosion At Watershed Level: The Case Of Ginchi In Ethiopia
Creators: name: Okumu, B N
name: Russel, N
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Colman, D
name: Mohamed Saleem, M A
name: Pender, J
name: Okumu, B N
name: Russel, N
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Colman, D
name: Mohamed Saleem, M A
name: Pender, J
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Bio-economic model
subject: watershed
subject: resource degradation
subject: nutrient mining
subject: nutrient balances
subject: erosion
subject: dynamic programming
subject: Ethiopia

description: A dynamic bio-economic model is used to show that, without technological and policy intervention, soil nutrient balances, income and nutrition could not be substantially or sustainably improved in a highland area of Ethiopia. Although cash incomes could rise from a very low base by more than 50% over a twelve-year planning period, average per ha nutrient balances indicate significant nutrient mining and associated soil losses of about 31 tons per ha. With the adoption of an integrated package of new technologies (involving new high yielding crop varieties, agroforestry, animal manure and inorganic fertilizers use, construction of a communal drain to reduce water logging and some limited land user rights), results show the possibility of an average twoand- a-half-fold increase in cash incomes and a 28% decline in aggregate erosion levels over a twelve year period with a population growth rate of 2.3%. Moreover, a minimum daily calorie intake of 2000 per adult equivalent could be met from on-farm production, and per ha nutrient balances, while still negative for nitrogen and potassium, could be reduced by 36 and 6 % respectively, with phosphorous balances being reversed to positive values. However, these gains might be eroded by the need to meet increased nutritional demands arising both from increasing consumption levels and a more rapid population growth of over 2.8%. From a policy perspective, this reduction in nutrient losses in the face of higher reliance on the watershed for subsistence food requirements, would imply an increasing need for a more secure land tenure policy than currently prevailing, provision of credit to facilitate uptake of the new technology package and a shift from the current livestock management strategy that emphasizes use of livestock as a store of wealth to the one that encourages livestock keeping as a commercial activity. It would also imply a shift from a general approach to land management to a relatively more site-specific approach that recognizes the need for spatial and inter-temporal variability in input use based on land quality that would encompass an efficient nutrient management strategy.
Approximate solutions for the skyrmion
Creators: name: Ponciano, J. A.
name: Epele, L. N.
name: Fanchiotti, H.
name: Canal, C. A. Garcia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the Euler-Lagrange equation for the Skyrme model in the hedgehog ansatz and study the analytical properties of the solitonic solution. In view of the lack of a closed form solution to the problem, we work on approximate analytical solutions. We show that Pade approximants are well suited to continue analytically the asymptotic representation obtained in terms of a power series expansion near the origin, obtaining explicit approximate solutions for the Skyrme equations. We improve the approximations by applying the 2-point Pade approximant procedure whereby the exact behaviour at spatial infinity is incorporated. An even better convergence to the exact solution is obtained by introducing a modified form for the approximants. The new representations share the same analytical properties with the exact solution at both small and large values of the radial variable r.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures. 1 Reference added
GAVIS Observation Protocol 2024
Creators: name: Westling Allodi, Mara
name: Ringer, Noam
Publisher: name: Stockholm University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390402
subject: Education assessment and evaluation
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education
classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education
classificationCode: 390305
subject: Professional education and training

description: The classroom is a context in which proximal processes occur. The classroom social emotional climate (CSEC) is associated to students’ well-being and learning. An observation protocol GAVIS has been developed, based on theories on learning environments and motivation. The CSEC construct has potential to be relevant for research and practice since an accurate assessment of the quality of the social emotional climate may provide measures that can be used as outcomes of interventions, if they are reliable, prove to be valid and are sensitive to changes. GAVIS protocol contains 20 items rated by an observer in a 4-point Likert scale, related to 5 dimensions (stimulation, improvement, structure, relationship, influence) expected to cover in a comprehensive way significant and visible aspect of the social emotional climate. GAVIS protocol is developed from a framework based on theories of learning environments, motivation and universal values, as well as students’ evaluations and teachers’ interviews. GAVIS observation protocol is an innovation in the methodological field of classroom observations; its validation as an instrument would require further steps: a larger scale trial with examination of inter-rater reliability, test-retest-reliability; examination of convergent, concurrent and predictive validity are goals for future studies. Teachers, special educational needs professionals and managers are aware of differences in the quality of the social emotional climate in educational setting, but to change these situations in the specific classroom is not easy to achieve. The validated observation protocol could be employed in educational practice as an assessment tool where the teacher may receive constructive feedback by a coach, which may facilitate the planning of improvements in the classroom practice.The items of GAVIS formulate contents that are expected to be present in inclusive classrooms, and with students with diverse characteristics.
Three-point functions in N=4 Yang-Mills theory and pp-waves
Creators: name: Chu, Chong-Sun
name: Khoze, Valentin V.
name: Travaglini, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it has been proposed that the coefficient of the three-point function of the BMN operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is related to the three-string interactions in the pp-wave background. We calculate three-point functions of these operators to the first order in the effective Yang-Mills coupling lambda' = g_{YM}^2 N/J^2 in planar perturbation theory. On the string theory side, we derive the explicit expressions of the Neumann matrices to all orders in 1/(μp^+ α')^2. This allows us to compute the corresponding three-string scattering amplitudes. This provides an all orders prediction for the field theory three-point functions. We compare our field theory results with the string theory results to the subleading order in 1/(μp^+ α')^2 and find perfect agreement.
description: 15 pages. 6 eps figures; version to appear in JHEP + comments
Maximum value of the spin-independent cross section in the THDM+a
Creators: name: Abe, Tomohiro
name: Fujiwara, Motoko
name: Hisano, Junji
name: Shoji, Yutaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the maximum value of the spin-independent cross section ($σ_\text{SI}$) in a dark matter (DM) model called the two-Higgs doublet model + a (THDM+a). This model can explain the measured value of the DM energy density by the freeze-out mechanism. Also, $σ_\text{SI}$ is suppressed by the momentum transfer at the tree level, and loop diagrams give the leading contribution to it. The model prediction of $σ_\text{SI}$ highly depends on values of $c_1$ and $c_2$ that are the quartic couplings between the gauge singlet CP-odd state ($a_0$) and Higgs doublet fields ($H_1$ and $H_2$), $c_1 a_0^2 H_1^\dagger H_1$ and $c_2 a_0^2 H_2^\dagger H_2$. We discuss the upper and lower bounds on $c_1$ and $c_2$ by studying the stability of the electroweak vacuum, the condition for the potential bounded from the below, and the perturbative unitarity. We find that the condition for the stability of the electroweak vacuum gives upper bounds on $c_1$ and $c_2$. The condition for the potential to be bounded from below gives lower bounds on $c_1$ and $c_2$. It also constrains the mixing angle between the two CP-odd states. The perturbative unitarity bound gives the upper bound on the Yukawa coupling between the dark matter and $a_0$ and the quartic coupling of $a_0$. Under these theoretical constraints, we find that the maximum value of the $σ_\text{SI}$ is $\sim 5\times 10^{-47}$ cm$^2$ for $m_A = $ 600 GeV, and the LZ and XENONnT experiments can see the DM signal predicted in this model near future.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures, the version published in JHEP
The Earth Mantle-Core Effect in Matter-Induced Asymmetries for Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations
Creators: name: Bernabeu, J.
name: Palomares-Ruiz, S.
name: Perez, A.
name: Petcov, S. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Earth medium effects in the three-neutrino oscillations of atmospheric neutrinos are observable under appropriate conditions. This paper generalizes the study of the medium effects and the possibility of their observation in the atmospheric neutrino oscillations from the case of neutrinos traversing only the Earth mantle, where the density is essentially constant, to the case of atmospheric neutrinos crossing also the Earth core. In the latter case new resonance-like effects become apparent. We calculate the CPT-odd asymmetry for the survival probability of muon neutrinos and the observable muon-charge asymmetry, taking into account the different atmospheric neutrino fluxes, and show the dependence of these asymmetries on the sign of $Δm^{2}_{3 1}$ and on the magnitude of the mixing angle $θ_{13}$. A magnetized detector with a sufficiently good neutrino momentum resolution is required for the observation of the muon-charge asymmetry generated by the Earth mantle-core effect.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Valence-quark distributions of pions and kaons in a nuclear medium
Creators: name: Hutauruk, Parada T. P.
name: Cobos-Martinez, J. J.
name: Oh, Yongseok
name: Tsushima, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In-medium valence-quark distributions of $π^+$ and $K^+$ mesons in symmetric nuclear matter are studied by combining the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model and the quark-meson coupling model. The in-medium properties of the current quarks, which are used as inputs for studying the in-medium pion and kaon properties in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model, are calculated within the quark-meson coupling model. The light-quark condensates, light-quark dynamical masses, pion and kaon decay constants, and pion- and kaon-quark coupling constants are found to decrease as nuclear density increases. The obtained valence quark distributions in vacuum for both the $π^+$ and $K^+$ could reasonably describe the available experimental data over a wide range of Bjorken-$x$. The in-medium valence $u$-quark distribution in the $π^+$ at $Q^2=16~\mbox{GeV}^2$ is found to be almost unchanged compared to the in-vacuum case. However, the in-medium to in-vacuum ratios of both the valence $u$-quark and valence $s$-quark distributions of the $K^+$ meson at $Q^2=16~\mbox{GeV}^2$ increase with nuclear matter density, but show different $x$-dependence. Namely, the ratio for the valence $u$-quark distribution increases with $x$, while that for the valence $s$ quark decreases with $x$. These features are enhanced at higher density regions.
description: 12 pages, REVTeX
Participatory conservation tillage research: an experience with minimum tillage on an Ethiopian highland Vertisol
Creators: name: Astatke, Abiye
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Tanner, Douglas
name: Astatke, Abiye
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Tanner, Douglas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Broad bed
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Minimum tillage
subject: Vertisol
subject: Wheat

description: Farmer participatory tillage trials were conducted in a highland Vertisol area of Ethiopia during the 1999 and 2000 cropping seasons. This participatory initiative clearly demonstrated that incorporating farmers’ knowledge, ideas and preferences could improve the wheat production package. A traditional practice of Chefe Donsa farmers—applying ash from their homesteads to their fields to enable early-sown crops to withstand frost—led to the verification of the yield-enhancing effect of inorganic potassium fertilizer on wheat. Farmer adoption of a minimum tillage production system increased the gross margin of wheat production by US$ 132 per hectare—based on 1999 prices—relative to the traditional flat seedbed system. The minimum tillage system was characterized by a much lower level of soil manipulation relative to the traditional flat seedbed system, and, as a consequence, markedly reduced the total human labor and draft oxen requirements for wheat production. Thus, the minimum tillage system could be an effective intervention for soil conservation due to early-season vegetative cover of the soil surface. Also, the early crop harvest associated with the minimum tillage system was highly beneficial for small-holder farmers—since the early harvest coincided with the cyclical period of severe household food deficits and high grain prices in local markets.
Additional file 1: of Current practice and awareness of pediatric off-label drug use in Shanghai, China -a questionnaire-based study
Creators: name: Mei, Mei
name: Xu, Hong
name: Wang, Libo
name: Huang, Guoying
name: Gui, Yonghao
name: Zhang, Xiaobo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Detailed questionaire. (DOCX 39 kb)
The Search for Life
Creators: name: Searra Foote
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: astrobiology, biology, biosignatures, habitability, statistics, Bayesian

description: The search for life is an interdisciplinary effort that requires an understanding of life on Earth, which includes characteristics of habitability, signatures life produces, and the origin of life. This information, along with statistical analysis, allows for a more reliable search.
MOESM1 of Three cases of histologically proven hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma evaluated using a second-generation microbubble contrast medium in ultrasonography: case reports
Creators: name: Arai, Jun
name: Shimozuma, Yuu
name: Otoyama, Yumi
name: Ikuya Sugiura
name: Nakajima, Yoko
name: Hayashi, Eiichi
name: Kajiwara, Atsushi
name: Omori, Risa
name: Shojiro Uozumi
name: Miyashita, Miyuki
name: Uchikoshi, Manabu
name: Hiroyoshi Doi
name: Sakaki, Masashi
name: Tianpeng Wang
name: Eguchi, Junichi
name: Ito, Takayoshi
name: Kurihara, Toshikazu
name: Munechika, Jiro
name: Gokan, Takehiko
name: Saito, Koji
name: Miura, Sakiko
name: Genshu Tate
name: Takimoto, Masafumi
name: Yoshida, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. (a) The graphics in abdominal plain CT and (b) the CECT equilibrium phase of case1 are shown. (c) The chest CT of case1 also revealed multiple lung nodules (arrow). (d) The lesions in the liver of case1 exhibited high signal intensity on axial T2WI. (e) The arterial dominant phase and (f) the hepatocellular phase in Gd-EOB-DTPA are shown. (g) In immunostaining (200×), a histological section of a hepatic specimen obtained via percutaneous liver needle biopsy in case 1 was positive for factor VIII. Figure S2. (a) The noncontrast CT of case2 revealed multiple hypodense liver nodules, with cystic lesions. (b) In the equilibrium phase of CECT, enhancement persisted inside the tumors. (c) T2WI showed multiple hyperintense liver nodules. (d) The size of liver tumors in the arterial dominant phase of CECT and (e) in the equilibrium phase have not increased when approximately 70 months has passes after the diagnosis was made. (f) In immunostaining (200×), a histological section of a hepatic specimen obtained via percutaneous liver needle biopsy in case 2 was positive for factor VIII. Figure S3. (a) The noncontrast CT of case3 revealed multiple hypodense liver nodules. (b) The graphics of abdominal CT in the arterial dominant phase and (c) in the equilibrium phase are shown. (d) The arterial dominant phase in Gd-EOB-DTPA is shown. (e) The size of liver tumors of case3 in the arterial dominant phase of CECT have not increased when approximately 49 months has passes after the diagnosis was made. (f) In immunostaining (200×), a histological section of a hepatic specimen obtained via percutaneous liver needle biopsy in case 3 was positive for factor VIII.
Does breed matter to cattle farmers and buyers? Evidence from West Africa
Creators: name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Diedhiou, M L
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Diedhiou, M L
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Cattle breeds
subject: Market prices
subject: Farmer preferences
subject: Genetic resources
subject: Conservation

description: World agriculture is based on a small number of animal species and a decreasing number of breeds within each species. Several breeds of West African shorthorn cattle (Bos taurus brachyceros) are now at high risk of extinction due to interbreeding. The West African shorthorn breeds are particularly important resources because of their superior abilities to resist diseases, particularly trypanosomosis, and be productive under high humidity, heat stress, water restriction and with poor quality feed. An analysis of farmers’ breeding practices and breed preferences in a sample area in southwest Nigeria confirmed a strong trend away from trypanotolerant breeds, especially Muturu, and identified the traits farmers find least desirable in these breeds relative to zebu (Bos indicus ) breeds. An analysis of cattle market prices found that buyers have preferences for specific breeds for specific purposes and that though in general price differences due to breed are small, in some cases, buyers pay significantly different prices for certain breeds consistent with their preferences. The best hopes for increased utilization of breeds at risk such as Muturu is likely in other areas of West Africa, for example in southeast Nigeria, where the Muturu is better suited to the farming systems and there is a large market for this breed to provide incentives
Role of knowledge in the adoption of new agricultural technologies: an approach and an applicationl
Creators: name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Beyene, Hailu
name: Mohamed Saleem, M A
name: Gebreselassie, Solomon
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Beyene, Hailu
name: Mohamed Saleem, M A
name: Gebreselassie, Solomon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: adoption
subject: adoption pathways
subject: Africa
subject: Ethiopia
subject: innovations
subject: knowledge
subject: logit
subject: technology
subject: tobit
subject: versitols.

description: Empirical studies on agricultural technology adoption generally divide a population into adopters and nonadopters, and analyse the reasons for adoption or nonadoption at a point in time. In reality, technology adoption is not a one-off static decision, rather it involves a dynamic process in which information gathering, learning and experience play pivotal roles, particularly in the early stage of adoption. A conceptual framework for an adoption pathway is suggested in which farmers move from learning to adoption, to continuous or discontinuous use over time. The framework was applied to understand the adoption pathways for vertisol management technology in highland Ethiopia. Analysis of a sample of 585 households confirmed that a simple classification of farmers as adopters and nonadopters was inadequate to understand the adoption process. Rather a multistage decision process in which farmers moved from learning to adoption to continuous or discontinuous use was more appropriate. The sets of factors that significantly influenced decisions to acquire knowledge about BBM, to adopt and then to use it continuously or discontinuously were different. The lag between learning and adoption, and the possibility of discontinuation and readoption imply that a longer period will require for majority of the farmers to use the technology than if adoption was a one off decision leading to continuous use.
A study of random laser modes in disordered photonic crystals
Creators: name: Yamilov, Alexey
name: Cao, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied lasing modes in a disordered photonic crystal. The scaling of the lasing threshold with the system size depends on the strength of disorder. For sufficiently large size, the minimum of the lasing threshold occurs at some finite value of disorder strength. The highest random cavity quality factor was comparable to that of an intentionally introduced single defect. At the minimum, the lasing threshold showed a super-exponential decrease with the size of the system. We explain it through a migration of the lasing mode frequencies toward the photonic bandgap center, where the localization length takes the minimum value. Random lasers with exponentially low thresholds are predicted.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Generating Black-Box Adversarial Examples for Text Classifiers Using a Deep Reinforced Model
Creators: name: Vijayaraghavan, Prashanth
name: Roy, Deb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, generating adversarial examples has become an important means of measuring robustness of a deep learning model. Adversarial examples help us identify the susceptibilities of the model and further counter those vulnerabilities by applying adversarial training techniques. In natural language domain, small perturbations in the form of misspellings or paraphrases can drastically change the semantics of the text. We propose a reinforcement learning based approach towards generating adversarial examples in black-box settings. We demonstrate that our method is able to fool well-trained models for (a) IMDB sentiment classification task and (b) AG's news corpus news categorization task with significantly high success rates. We find that the adversarial examples generated are semantics-preserving perturbations to the original text.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures, ECML PKDD 2019
An unconventional supergravity
Creators: name: Leites, Dimitry
name: Grozman, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83E50 (Primary) 58A50 (Secondary)

description: We introduce and completely describe the analogues of the Riemann curvature tensor for the curved supergrassmannian of the passing through the origin (0|2)-dimensional subsupermanifolds in the (0|4)-dimensional supermanifold with the preserved volume form. The underlying manifold of this supergrassmannian is the conventional Penrose's complexified and compactified version of the Minkowski space, i.e., the Grassmannian of 2-dimensional subspaces in the 4-dimensional space. The result provides with yet another counterexample to Coleman-Mandula's theorem.
description: 5 p., Latex
Noncommutative geometry and fundamental interactions: the first ten years
Creators: name: Gracia-Bondia, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the full text of a survey talk for nonspecialists, delivered at the 66th Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society in Leipzig, March 2002. We have not taken pains to suppress the colloquial style. References are given only insofar as they help to underline the points made; this is not a full-blooded survey. The connection between noncommutative field theory and string theory is mentioned, but deemphasized. Contributions to noncommutative geometry made in Germany are emphasized.
description: Latex, 20 pages, minor changes, a few references added
title: 02_1171
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Universal 3d Cardy Block and Black Hole Entropy
Creators: name: Choi, Sunjin
name: Hwang, Chiung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the Cardy limit of 3d supersymmetric partition functions which allow the factorization into the hemisphere indices: the generalized superconformal index, the refined topologically twisted index and the squashed sphere partition function. In the Cardy limit, the hemisphere index can be evaluated by the saddle point approximation where there exists a dominant saddle point contribution, which we call the Cardy block. The Cardy block turns out to be a simple but powerful object as it is a building block of other partition functions in the Cardy limit. The factorization to the Cardy block allows us to find universal relations among the partition functions, which we formulate as index theorems. Furthermore, if we consider a holographic 3d SCFT and its large $N$ limit, those partition functions relate to various entropic quantities of the dual gravity theory in AdS$_4$. As a result, our result provides the microscopic derivation of the universal relations among those entropic quantities of the gravity theory. We also discuss explicit examples, which confirm our general index theorems.
description: 52 pages; v3: typos corrected, a reference added
title: What's new about Cariprazin? Exklusives Newspaper für Verordner
title: Cariprazin – das etwas andere Neuroleptikum mit attestiertem Zusatznutzen.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fischaleck, Johann
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cariprazin
subject: Quetiapin
subject: Risperidon
subject: Aripiprazol
subject: Neuroleptikum
subject: Negativsymptomatik
subject: Schizophrenia
subject: Schizophrenie
subject: Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome/drug therapy

description: In der Publikation "Cariprazin – das etwas andere Neuroleptikum mit attestiertem Zusatznutzen" wird Cariprazin als innovatives Antipsychotikum vorgestellt, das sich durch einen partiellen Antagonismus an den D2- und D3-Dopaminrezeptoren auszeichnet. Diese einzigartige Wirkweise ermöglicht eine effektive Behandlung von Schizophrenie, insbesondere bei der Negativsymptomatik, und bietet Vorteile für Patienten mit Substanzmissbrauch. Cariprazin hat sich in umfangreichen klinischen Studien als wirksam erwiesen und erhielt vom Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss (G-BA) einen Zusatznutzen attestiert. Mit einer langen Halbwertszeit und einem günstigen Nebenwirkungsprofil stellt Cariprazin eine vielversprechende Option in der Psychopharmakotherapie dar. Diese Publikation beleuchtet die Wirksamkeit, Sicherheit und die besonderen Eigenschaften von Cariprazin im Vergleich zu anderen Neuroleptika wie Risperidon und Quetiapin.
MOESM2 of Actionability of HER2-amplified circulating tumor cells in HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer: the CirCe T-DM1 trial
Creators: name: Jacot, William
name: Cottu, Paul
name: Berger, Frederique
name: Dubot, Coraline
name: Venat-Bouvet, Laurence
name: Lortholary, Alain
name: Bourgeois, Hugues
name: Bollet, Marc
name: Servent, Veronique
name: Luporsi, Elisabeth
name: Espié, Marc
name: Guiu, Severine
name: D’Hondt, Veronique
name: Dieras, Veronique
name: Marie-Paule Sablin
name: Brain, Etienne
name: Souhir Neffati
name: Jean-Yves Pierga
name: Francois-Clement Bidard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Table S1. Univariate and multivariate analyses for PFS and OS (screened population). For multivariate analyses, only significant results are shown. MBC: metastatic breast cancer.
Rapidity particle spectra in sudden hadronization of QGP
Creators: name: Letessier, Jean
name: Rafelski, Johann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the remaining internal longitudinal flow of colliding quarks in nuclei offers a natural explanation for the diversity of rapidity spectral shapes observed in Pb--Pb 158AGeV nuclear collisions. Thus QGP sudden hadronization reaction picture is a suitable approach to explain the rapidity spectra of hadrons produced.
description: 3 pages including 2 figures
Constraints on the $χ_\mathrm{c1}$ versus $χ_\mathrm{c2}$ polarizations in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 8 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polarizations of promptly produced $χ_\mathrm{c1}$ and $χ_\mathrm{c2}$ mesons are studied using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 8 TeV. The $χ_\mathrm{c}$ states are reconstructed via their radiative decays $χ_\mathrm{c}$ $\to$ $\mathrm{J}/ψ\, γ$, with the photons being measured through conversions to e$^+$e$^-$, which allows the two states to be well resolved. The polarizations are measured in the helicity frame, through the analysis of the $χ_\mathrm{c2}$ to $χ_\mathrm{c1}$ yield ratio as a function of the polar or azimuthal angle of the positive muon emitted in the $\mathrm{J}/ψ$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ decay, in three ranges of $\mathrm{J}/ψ$ transverse momentum. While no differences are seen between the two states in terms of azimuthal decay angle distributions, they are observed to have significantly different polar anisotropies. The measurement favors a scenario where at least one of the two states is strongly polarized along the helicity quantization axis, in agreement with nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics predictions. This is the first measurement of significantly polarized quarkonia produced at high transverse momentum.
description: Corrected the title. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/BPH-13-001 (CMS Public Pages)
Amplification of superkicks in black-hole binaries through orbital eccentricity
Creators: name: Sperhake, U.
name: Rosca-Mead, R.
name: Gerosa, D.
name: Berti, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new numerical-relativity simulations of eccentric merging black holes with initially antiparallel spins lying in the orbital plane (the so-called \emph{superkick} configuration). Binary eccentricity boosts the recoil of the merger remnant by up to $25\%$. The increase in the energy flux is much more modest, and therefore this kick enhancement is mainly due to asymmetry in the binary dynamics. Our findings might have important consequences for the retention of stellar-mass black holes in star clusters and supermassive black holes in galactic hosts.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, to match published version in Phys.Rev.D
Economic evaluation of home medication review by community pharmacists (HMR-CP) for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)
Creators: name: Mohd Rozaini Rosli
name: Wu, David Bin-Chia
name: Neoh, Chin Fen
name: Mahmathi Karuppannan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Home medication review (HMR) programs could minimise patients’ health-related costs and burden, thereby enhancing the quality of life and well-being. The aim of this economic evaluation is to determine if home medication review by community pharmacists (HMR-CP) for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a cost-effective intervention from the Malaysian healthcare provider perspective. Methods: The economic evaluation was conducted alongside the randomised controlled trial (RCT) to estimate the intermediate cost-effectiveness of HMR-CP for patients with T2DM. A Markov model was then constructed to project the lifetime cost-effectiveness data beyond the RCT. The primary outcomes for the economic evaluation were HbA1c and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). Results: The intervention and health services costs throughout the 6-month HMR-CP trial was RM121.45 (USD28.64) [95%CI: RM115.89 to 127.08 (USD27.33-29.97)] per participant. At a 6-month follow-up, a significant reduction in HbA1c of 0.902% (95%CI: 0.388% to 1.412%) was noted in the HMR-CP group compared to the control group. The ICER of HMR-CP intervention versus standard care was RM178.82 (USD 42.17) [95%CI: RM86.77-364.03 (USD20.46-85.86)] per reduction of HbA1c. HMR-CP intervention [RM12,764.82 (USD3010.57)] was associated with an incremental cost of RM83.34 (USD19.66) over control group [RM12,682.95 (USD2,991.26)] with an additional of 0.07 QALY gained. The ICER associated with HMR-CP intervention was RM1,190.57 (USD280.79) per QALY gained, which was below the ICER threshold in Malaysia, indicating that HMR-CP was a cost-effective option. Conclusion: HMR-CP was a cost-effective intervention that had significantly reduced the HbA1c among the T2DM patients, although associated with higher mean total costs per participant.
Higgsino and Wino Dark Matter from Q-ball Decay in Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis
Creators: name: Fujii, Masaaki
name: Hamaguchi, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We claim that the Higgsino-like and wino-like neutralinos can be good dark matter candidates if they are produced by the late time decay of Q-ball, which is generally formed in Affleck-Dine baryogenesis. The late time decays of the Q-balls into these LSP's and subsequent pair annihilations of the LSP's naturally lead to the desired mass density of dark matter. Furthermore, these dark matter can be much more easily detected by the dark-matter search experiments than the standard bino-like dark matter.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures, version accepted for publication in PLB
Efficiency limits of electronically-coupled upconverter and quantum ratchet solar cells using detailed balance
Creators: name: Zhang, Emily Z.
name: Krich, Jacob J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intermediate band solar cell (IBSC) and quantum ratchet solar cell (QRSC) have the potential to surpass the efficiency of standard single-junction solar cells by allowing sub-gap photon absorption through states deep inside the band gap. High efficiency IBSC and QRSC devices have not yet been achieved, however, since introducing mid-gap states also increases recombination, which can harm the device. We consider the electronically coupled upconverter (ECUC) solar cell and show that it can achieve the same efficiencies as the QRSC. Although they are equivalent in the detailed balance limit, the ECUC is less sensitive to nonradiative processes, which makes it a more practical implementation for IB devices. We perform a case study of crystalline-silicon based ECUC cells, focusing on hydrogenated amorphous silicon as the upconverter material and highlighting potential dopants for the ECUC. These results illustrate a new path for the development of IB-based devices.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
What Can Biden Administration Learn From UK Consumer Bankruptcy Laws.docx
Creators: name: Solomon, Lyle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over 250,000 people declared bankruptcy in the United States to pay down debts. Lack of financial responsibility is one of the reasons behind repeated bankruptcy filings of the Americans. They have a tendency to pile up debt until:
They cannot manage credit card debt anymore
Creditors refuse to give any more credit.
The situation is different in the United Kingdom. The outstanding balance on credit cards has decreased in the last 12 months as repayments outpaced borrowing during that period. This is something Americans need to learn from Brits. Or, perhaps Biden should learn something from the UK bankruptcy laws.

The results of the investigation shows that the UK and US bankruptcy laws are different. And this is the focus of this paper.
In the US, there is nothing much that creditors can do when it comes to bankruptcy. They get important notifications without any good solution.
In the UK, the bankruptcy laws are more focused on providing a remedy to creditors.
Creditors can file bankruptcy on behalf of a debtor without his consent to stop him from getting more credit. Once they file bankruptcy, debtor's assets can be used to pay back creditors. Debtors have to follow all the rules and their names will be published on the individual insolvency register.
What Biden can learn from UK bankruptcy laws is to adopt a paternalistic approach so that Americans stop incurring debt and abuse the bankruptcy system.