cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of Low-cost Offsets on Energy Investment – New Perspectives on REDD –
Creators: name: Golub, Alexander
name: Fuss, Sabine
name: Szolgayova, Jana
name: Obersteiner, Michael
name: Golub, Alexander
name: Fuss, Sabine
name: Szolgayova, Jana
name: Obersteiner, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Real Options
subject: Energy Investment
subject: Cap-And-Trade
subject: REDD

description: Tropical deforestation is one of the major sources of carbon emissions, but the Kyoto Protocol presently excludes avoiding these specific emissions to fulfill stabilization targets. Since the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC in 2007, where the need for policy incentives for the reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) was first officially recognized, the focus of this debate has shifted to issues of implementation and methodology. One question is how REDD would be financed, which could be solved by integrating REDD credits into existing carbon markets. However, concern has been voiced regarding the effects that the availability of cheap REDD credits might have on energy investments and the development of clean technology. On the other hand, investors and producers are also worried that emissions trading schemes like the one installed in Europe might deter investment into new technologies and harm profits of existing plants due to fluctuations in the price of emissions permits. This paper seeks to contribute to this discussion by developing a real options model, where there is an option to invest in less carbon-intensive energy technology and an option to purchase credits on REDD, which you will exercise or not depending on the future evolution of CO2 prices. In this way, unresolved questions can still be addressed at a later stage, while producers and investors hold REDD options to maintain flexibility for later decisions. We find that investment in cleaner technology is not significantly affected if REDD options are priced as a derivative of CO2 permits. Indeed, the availability of REDD options helps to smooth out price fluctuations that might arise from permit trading and thus decreases risk for the producer - thereby being a complement to permit trading rather than an obstacle undermining cap-and-trade.
Factor-Augmenting Technical Change: An Empirical Assessment
Creators: name: De Cian, Enrica
name: De Cian, Enrica
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Factor-Augmenting Technical Change
subject: Technology Spillovers
subject: Panel Data

description: Starting from a system of factor demands, an empirical model that allows estimating factor-augmenting technical change is derived. Factor-augmenting technical change is defined as the improvement in factor productivities that can occur either exogenously or endogenously, with changes in other macroeconomic variables. This paper provides additional estimates for the substitution possibilities among inputs and it offers new empirical evidence on the direction and sources of factor-augmenting technical change, an issue that has not yet been explored by the empirical literature on growth determinants. The empirical findings suggest that technical change is directed. Technical change tends to be more energy-saving than capital- and labour-saving. Both R&D investments and international trade are important determinants of growth in energy and capital productivity whereas technical change for labour is positively related to education expenditure. Therefore, the sources of factor-augmenting technical change go beyond R&D investments, as proposed in the theory of directed technical change, and they differ across inputs. In other words, not only is technical change directed, the sources of factor-augmenting technical change appear to be input specific.
Qu Bingyun (1767-1810) : one member of Yuan Mei’s female disciple group
Creators: name: Meng, Liuxi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Qu Bingyun (1767-1810) took the leading role in a famous group of female poet in eighteenth-century China known as "The Female Disciples of Yuan Mei." This study explores the development and accomplishments of Qu as a poet and examines her unique poetry with special attention to her dynamic interrelation and interaction with her contemporaries. This dissertation begins with an introduction to the primary source for this research, the socio-cultural background of eighteenth-century China in which women's literature developed. Chapter II describes the connection between Qu's poetic engagement and her family's background, and Chapter III gives an account of her family's poetry circles and her relationships with them. The interaction between Qu and other members of Yuan Mei's female disciple group in her region re/shaped her poetic concepts, allowed her to advance to the level of an expert poet, and gained her recognition. Chapter IV deals with the interaction between Qu and other members of her group, and Chapter V examines the reading of and comments on Qu's poetry by her group. Qu's poetry is primarily family-oriented, revealing her domestic life and her social networks. Chapter VI views her poetic worlds in the framework of interrelations and interactions within the family and society, and the last chapter sums up the implications of her accomplishments as a poet and evaluates her creations in the contexts of Chinese literature and women's literature. Qu honoured women's experience as the source of autonomous art and her poetry opens up the world of a gentry woman's private life and feelings to an extent had not seen much before in classical Chinese poetry. Qu, together with her female contemporaries, broadened the scope of Chinese literature by bringing new themes to it and introducing a genial style of poetry. Qu also constantly sought connections with other people, and it was during the course of interaction with them that her poetic career developed. This experience of hers sheds light on the large increase in the number of women writers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China: women joining together with women to write poetry.
Modeling Prosodic Phrasing with Multi-Task Learning in Tacotron-based TTS
Creators: name: Liu, Rui
name: Sisman, Berrak
name: Bao, Feilong
name: Gao, Guanglai
name: Li, Haizhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tacotron-based end-to-end speech synthesis has shown remarkable voice quality. However, the rendering of prosody in the synthesized speech remains to be improved, especially for long sentences, where prosodic phrasing errors can occur frequently. In this paper, we extend the Tacotron-based speech synthesis framework to explicitly model the prosodic phrase breaks. We propose a multi-task learning scheme for Tacotron training, that optimizes the system to predict both Mel spectrum and phrase breaks. To our best knowledge, this is the first implementation of multi-task learning for Tacotron based TTS with a prosodic phrasing model. Experiments show that our proposed training scheme consistently improves the voice quality for both Chinese and Mongolian systems.
description: To appear in IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL)
Discovery of a Light Echo from Supernova 2003gd
Creators: name: Sugerman, Ben E. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Archival HST/ACS data reveal details of a light echo around SN 2003gd in the galaxy M74, only the fifth supernova around which resolved echoes have been reported. An echo is detected 0."3 from the supernova between PA 250--360, with fainter signal present at a few other position angles. This material lies ~180 pc in front of the supernova, with a thickness of 60--120 pc, and may delineate the disk of M74. This structure has a gas density of 1--2 cm^{-3}, typical of the interstellar medium, however, the dust grains are smaller than those found in our Galaxy, with maximum grain sizes around 0.25micron. Since only one epoch of data exists, in two wavebands and with low signal-to-noise, deeper, annual visits should be made with HST and ground-based adaptive optics telescopes.
description: Accepted August 30, 2005 for publication in the ApJ Letters. 4 pages using apjemulate
Non-Uniqueness of Equilibria in One-Shot Games of Strategic Communication
Creators: name: Valsecchi, Irene
name: Valsecchi, Irene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Sender-Receiver Games
subject: Strategic Information Transmission

description: The paper shows that Perfect Bayesian equilibria need not be unique in the strategic communication game of Crawford and Sobel (1982). First, different equilibrium partitions of the state space can have equal cardinality, despite fixed prior beliefs. Hence, there can be different equilibrium action profiles with the same size. Second, provided a Perfect Bayesian equilibrium exists, different message rules and beliefs can hold in other equilibria inducing the same action profile.
Breaking the Selection Rules of Spin-Forbidden Molecular Absorption in Plasmonic Nanocavities
Creators: name: Ojambati, Oluwafemi S.
name: Deacon, William M.
name: Chikkaraddy, Rohit
name: Readman, Charlie
name: Lin, Qianqi
name: Koczor-Benda, Zsuzsanna
name: Rosta, Edina
name: Scherman, Oren A.
name: Baumberg, Jeremy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Controlling absorption and emission of organic molecules is crucial for efficient light-emitting diodes, organic solar cells and single-molecule spectroscopy. Here, a new molecular absorption is activated inside a gold plasmonic nanocavity, and found to break selection rules via spin-orbit coupling. Photoluminescence excitation scans reveal absorption from a normally spin-forbidden singlet to triplet state transition, while drastically enhancing the emission rate by several thousand fold. The experimental results are supported by density functional theory, revealing the manipulation of molecular absorption by nearby metallic gold atoms.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Proton transversity and intrinsic motion of the quarks
Creators: name: Zavada, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spin structure of the system of quasifree fermions having total angular momentum $J=1/2$ is studied in a consistently covariant approach. Within this model the relations between the spin functions are obtained. Their particular cases are the sum rules Wanzura - Wilczek, Efremov - Leader - Teryaev, Burkhardt - Cottingham and also the expression for the Wanzura - Wilczek twist 2 term $g_{2}^{WW}$. With the use of the proton valence quark distributions as an input, the corresponding spin functions including transversity are obtained.
description: Prepared for the conference SPIN2004
Total Factor Productivity Growth when Factors of Production Generate Environmental Externalities
Creators: name: Vouvaki, Dimitra
name: Xepapadeas, Anastasios
name: Vouvaki, Dimitra
name: Xepapadeas, Anastasios
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Total Factor Productivity
subject: Sources of Growth
subject: Environmental Externalities
subject: Energy
subject: Environmental Policy

description: Total factor productivity growth (TFPG) has been traditionally associated with technological change. We show that when a factor of production, such as energy, generates an environmental externality in the form of CO2 emissions which is not internalized because of lack of environmental policy, then TFPG estimates could be biased. This is because the contribution of environment as a factor of production is not accounted for in the growth accounting framework. Empirical estimates confirm this hypothesis and suggest that part of what is regarded as technology’s contribution to growth could be attributed to the use of environment in output production.
HEAR-COMMAND TOOL (in English / German / Arabic)
Creators: name: Afghah, Tahereh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A newly developed questionnaire, named the HEAR-COMMAND Tool. This is a Self-Rated tool to evaluate Hearing, Communication, and Conversation disability. The tool is provided in English and German. The usage is free of charge with the appropriate citation to the following paper published by the Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences journal:

Afghah, Tahereh, Razan Alfakir, Markus Meis, Lisette van Leeuwen, Sophia E. Kramer, Mahmoud Hammady, Mostafa Youssif, and Kirsten C. Wagener. "The development of a Self-Rated ICF-based questionnaire (HEAR-COMMAND Tool) to evaluate Hearing, Communication, and Conversation disability: Multinational experts’ and patients’ perspectives." Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences 3 (2022).

The link to the paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2022.1005525/full
Method of spectral Green functions in driven open quantum dynamics
Creators: name: Karabanov, Alexander
name: Köckenberger, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel method based on spectral Green functions is presented for the simulation of driven open quantum dynamics that can be described by the Lindblad master equation in Liouville density operator space. The method extends the Hilbert space formalism and provides simple algebraic connections between the driven and non-driven dynamics in the spectral frequency domain. The formalism shows remarkable analogies to the use of Green functions in quantum field theory such as the elementary excitation energies and the Dyson self-energy equation. To demonstrate its potential, we apply the novel method to a coherently driven dissipative ensemble of 2-level systems comprising a single "active" subsystem interacting with $N$ "passive" subsystems -- a generic model with important applications in quantum optics and dynamic nuclear polarization. The novel method dramatically reduces computational cost compared with simulations based on solving the full master equation, thus making it possible to study and optimize many-body correlated states in the physically realistic limit of an arbitrarily large $N$.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
HEAR-COMMAND TOOL (in English / German / Arabic)
Creators: name: Afghah, Tahereh
name: Alfakir, Razan
name: Meis, Markus
name: van Leeuwen, Lisette
name: Kramer, Sophia E.
name: Hammady, Mahmoud
name: Youssif, Mostafa
name: Wagener, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A newly developed questionnaire, named the HEAR-COMMAND Tool. This is a Self-Rated tool to evaluate Hearing, Communication, and Conversation disability. The tool is provided in English and German. The usage is free of charge with the appropriate citation to the following paper published by the Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences journal:

Afghah, Tahereh, Razan Alfakir, Markus Meis, Lisette van Leeuwen, Sophia E. Kramer, Mahmoud Hammady, Mostafa Youssif, and Kirsten C. Wagener. "The development of a Self-Rated ICF-based questionnaire (HEAR-COMMAND Tool) to evaluate Hearing, Communication, and Conversation disability: Multinational experts’ and patients’ perspectives." Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences 3 (2022).

The link to the paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fresc.2022.1005525/full

 
description: This study was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project ID: 352015383 – SFB 1330, C4.
GEMS: which galaxies dominate the z~0.7 ultraviolet luminosity density?
Creators: name: Wolf, C.
name: Bell, E. F.
name: McIntosh, D. H.
name: Rix, H. -W.
name: Barden, M.
name: Beckwith, S. V. W.
name: Borch, A.
name: Caldwell, J. A. R.
name: Haeussler, B.
name: Heymans, C.
name: Jahnke, K.
name: Jogee, S.
name: Meisenheimer, K.
name: Peng, C. Y.
name: Sanchez, S. F.
name: Somerville, R. S.
name: Wisotzki, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine high-resolution images from GEMS with redshifts and spectral energy distributions from COMBO-17 to explore the morphological types of galaxies that dominate the z~0.7 UV luminosity density. We analysed rest-frame 280 nm and V-band luminosities of 1483 galaxies with 0.65
description: submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, revised version
HEAR-COMMAND TOOL (in English / German / Arabic)
Creators: name: Afghah, Tahereh
name: Alfakir, Razan
name: Meis, Markus
name: van Leeuwen, Lisette
name: Kramer, Sophia E.
name: Hammady, Mahmoud
name: Youssif, Mostafa
name: Wagener, Kirsten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: A newly developed questionnaire, named the HEAR-COMMAND Tool. This is a Self-Rated tool to evaluate Hearing, Communication, and Conversation disability. The tool is provided in English and German. Link to the electronic version: https://www.hz-ol.de/en/hear-command-tool.html

 
description: This study was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project ID: 352015383 – SFB 1330, C4.
An Optimal Energy-Saving Home Energy Management Supporting User Comfort and Electricity Selling with Different Prices
Creators: name: Dinh, Huy Truong
name: Kim, Daehee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this study, we investigate the operation of an optimal home energy management system (HEMS) with integrated renewable energy system (RES) and energy storage system (ESS) supporting electricity selling functions. A multi-objective mixed integer nonlinear programming model, including RES, ESS, home appliances and the main grid, is proposed to optimize different and conflicting objectives which are energy cost, user comfort and PAR. The effect of different selling prices on the objectives is also considered in detail. We further develop a formula for the lower bound of energy cost to help residents or engineers quickly choose best parameters of RES and ESS for their homes during the installation process. The performance of our system is verified through extensive simulations under three different scenarios of normal, economic, and smart with different selling prices using real data, and simulation results are compared in terms of daily energy cost, PAR, user's convenience and consecutive waiting time to use appliances. Numerical results clearly show that the economic scenario achieves 51.6% reduction of daily energy cost compared to the normal scenario while sacrificing the user's convenience, PAR, and consecutive waiting time by 49%, 132%, and 1 hour, respectively. On the other hand, the smart scenario shows only slight degradation of user's convenience and PAR by 2% and 18%, respectively while achieving 46.4% reduction of daily energy cost and the same level of consecutive waiting time. Furthermore, our simulation results show that a decrease of selling prices has tiny impacts on PAR and user comfort even though the daily energy cost increases.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables
Re-entrant melting and freezing in a model system of charged colloids
Creators: name: Royall, C. Patrick
name: Leunissen, Mirjam E.
name: Hynninen, Antti-Pekka
name: Dijkstra, Marjolein
name: van Blaaderen, Alfons
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the phase behavior of charged and sterically stabilized colloids using confocal microscopy in a less polar solvent (dielectric constant 5.4). Upon increasing the colloid volume fraction we found a transition from a fluid to a body centered cubic crystal at 0.0415+/-0.0005, followed by re-entrant melting at 0.1165+/-0.0015. A second crystal of different symmetry, random hexagonal close-packed, was formed at a volume fraction around 0.5, similar to that of hard spheres. We attribute the intriguing phase behavior to particle interactions that depend strongly on volume fraction, mainly due to changes in the colloid charge. In this low polarity system the colloids acquire charge through ion adsorption. The low ionic strength leads to fewer ions per colloid at elevated volume fractions and consequently a density-dependent colloid charge.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures 1 table
Assessing the Impact of Biodiversity on Tourism Flows: A model for Tourist Behaviour and its Policy Implications
Creators: name: Macagno, Giulia
name: Loureiro, Maria L.
name: Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.
name: Tol, Richard S.J.
name: Macagno, Giulia
name: Loureiro, Maria L.
name: Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.
name: Tol, Richard S.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Species Diversity
subject: Habitat Fragmentation
subject: Landscape Diversity
subject: Trip Demand
subject: Indicators
subject: Ecosystem Services
subject: Human Well-Being

description: This analysis provides an example of how biodiversity can be measured by means of different indicators, and how the latter can be used to assess the influence of the biodiversity profile of a region on the tourism flows towards it. Previous studies have considered environmental amenities as one of the determinants of tourism destination choice. The central hypothesis of this paper is that the destination’s biodiversity profile can be considered as a key component of environmental amenities. The main objective of this study is to propose a different perspective on this topic, considering the role of biodiversity on tourists’ choice of destination and duration of stay. Domestic Irish tourist flows have been chosen as a case study. The first step of the analysis required the construction of biodiversity indicators suitable for developing a biodiversity profile of each Irish county. Subsequently, a model was developed so as to explain the total number of nights spent in any location as a function of a set of explanatory variables including information about the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents, biodiversity and the landscape profile of the county of destination and features of the trip. Results show that most of the biodiversity and landscape indicators included in the analysis turn out to be statistically significant in determining tourists’ choices regarding the duration of their trip. As a result, policies pursuing biodiversity conservation appear to have a positive impact on the revenue of regional tourism.
Low scale inflation and the immediate heavy curvaton decay
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Yeinzon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The end of a thermal inflation era, driven by the rolling of a flaton field coupled to the curvaton, cause a huge increment in the curvaton mass and decay rate while the curvaton is still frozen. It is shown that, if this increment is enough for the curvaton to immediately decay, low scale inflation with Hubble parameter H_\ast \sim 10^3 GeV is achieved for more natural values of the flaton-curvaton coupling constant λ(10^{-10} \lsim λ\lsim 10^{-4}) and the curvaton bare mass m_σ(m_σ\lsim 1 GeV).
description: Latex file in World Scientific style. 18 pages, 3 figures. v4: Two new sections added to make the paper self-contained. Two new figures sketching the evolution of the fluids involved in the model. References added. Conclusions unchanged. v5: Version published in Modern Physics Letters A
Agricultural Exports by Cooperatives, 1980
Creators: name: Kennedy, Tracey L.
name: Kennedy, Tracey L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1982
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultural exports
subject: cooperative exports
subject: cooperative export marketing
subject: direct commodities exports
subject: indirect commodities exports

description: Sixty-three agricultural cooperatives had direct exports of $3.2 billion in calendar year 1980. Grains and preparations had the largest dollar volume of direct exports, followed by oilseeds, cotton, and fruits. Cooperative share of U.S. agricultural exports decreased from 9.2 percent in 1976 to 7.8 percent in 1980. Asian and European countries were the largest markets for direct exports by cooperatives in 1980.
On Quasi-Einstein Sequential Warped Product Manifolds
Creators: name: Karaca, Fatma
name: Ozgur, Cihan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C25, 53C50, 53B20

description: We find the necessary conditions for a sequential warped product manifold to be a quasi-Einstein manifold. We also investigate the necessary and sufficient conditions for a sequential standard static space-time and a sequential generalized Robertson-Walker space-time to be a manifold of quasi-constant curvature.
Cooperatives' Position in the Fresh Vegetable Industry
Creators: name: Biggs, Gilbert W.
name: Biggs, Gilbert W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cooperatives
subject: vegetable
subject: fresh marketing
subject: organization
subject: grower payments
subject: selling arrangements

description: Seventy-three fresh vegetable marketing cooperatives handled 57 different fresh vegetable commodities weighing 1.6 billion pounds; these vegetables are valued at more than $218 million. In 1986, cooperatives handled more than 4 percent of the total volume of nine principal fresh vegetables produced in the United States. Important concerns of fresh vegetable marketing cooperatives were competition from domestic and foreign areas, overproduction, labor shortage and high costs, marketing, quality, and transportation. Although associations were using their facilities to 71 percent of capacity, 58 percent planned expansion over the next 5 years to provide facilities for handling the expected increase in new members and increased volume of current members.
Homotopy on spatial graphs and the Sato-Levine invariant
Creators: name: Fleming, Thomas
name: Nikkuni, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M15, 57M25

description: Edge-homotopy and vertex-homotopy are equivalence relations on spatial graphs which are generalizations of Milnor's link-homotopy. We introduce some edge (resp. vertex)-homotopy invariants of spatial graphs by applying the Sato-Levine invariant for the 2-component constituent algebraically split links and show examples of non-splittable spatial graphs up to edge (resp. vertex)-homotopy, all of whose constituent links are link-homotopically trivial.
description: 17 pages,16 figures
D2.4.16 Report containing proposed data outputs, user's feedback and database manual
Creators: name: Institute of Food Research
name: Danish Technical University
name: University College Cork
name: University of Surrey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: EuroFIR is also developing a unique database ‘EuroFIR-BASIS’ that collates international research on the composition and biological effects of plant-based bioactive compounds into a single, comprehensive reference resource (WP2.4).

In order to ensure that EuroFIR BASIS meets its intended purpose and allows the users to effectively complete tasks with high satisfaction levels, ‘Usability Testing’ must be included in the overall software development process.
Detecting Topological Quantum Phase Transitions via the c-Function
Creators: name: Baggioli, Matteo
name: Giataganas, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the c-function as a new and accurate probe to detect the location of topological quantum critical points. As a direct application, we consider a holographic model which exhibits a topological quantum phase transition between a topologically trivial insulating phase and a gapless Weyl semimetal. The quantum critical point displays a strong Lifshitz-like anisotropy in the spatial directions and the quantum phase transition does not follow the standard Landau paradigm. The c-function robustly shows a global feature at the quantum criticality and distinguishes with great accuracy the two separate zero temperature phases. Taking into account the relation of the c-function with the entanglement entropy, we conjecture that our proposal is a general feature of quantum phase transitions and that is applicable beyond the holographic framework.
description: v2: matching the published version in PRD
Supplementary Information acoziborole mass balance.pdf
Creators: name: Gillon, Jean-Yves
name: Simon, François
name: Sidhu, Sharan
name: Louis, Mathieu
name: Launay, Delphine
name: Wauthier, Valérie
name: Pelay-Gimeno, Marta
name: van Andel, Lotte
name: Rembry, Sandra
name: Weinling, Estelle
name: Tarral, Antoine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320211
subject: Infectious diseases

description: Phase I study of a new chemical entity for the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis.
Distributed branch points and the shape of elastic surfaces with constant negative curvature
Creators: name: Shearman, Toby L.
name: Venkataramani, Shankar C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C42(Primary) 53A70, 53C80, 35Q74, 74K99 (Secondary)

description: We develop a theory for distributed branch points and investigate their role in determining the shape and influencing the mechanics of thin hyperbolic objects. We show that branch points are the natural topological defects in hyperbolic sheets, they carry a topological index which gives them a degree of robustness, and they can influence the overall morphology of a hyperbolic surface without concentrating energy. We develop a discrete differential geometric (DDG) approach to study the deformations of hyperbolic objects with distributed branch points. We present evidence that the maximum curvature of surfaces with geodesic radius $R$ containing branch points grow sub-exponentially, $O(e^{c\sqrt{R}})$ in contrast to the exponential growth $O(e^{c' R})$ for surfaces without branch points. We argue that, to optimize norms of the curvature, i.e. the bending energy, distributed branch points are energetically preferred in sufficiently large pseudospherical surfaces. Further, they are distributed so that they lead to fractal-like recursive buckling patterns.
description: 59 pages, 20 figures. Major revisions including new proofs with weakened hypotheses, expanded discussion and additional references. Some images are not at their original resolution to keep them at a reasonable size. Comments are very welcome and much appreciated
The role of couple rituals on commitment in premarital relationships
Creators: name: Campbell, Kelly
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the role of couple rituals on premarital commitment. Data were collected using a rituals measure designed for this study and Rusbult's investment model scale. Responses from 101 undergraduate students at the University of British Columbia were analyzed. Regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses. The investment model was supported: relationship satisfaction, quality of alternatives, and investment size were significantly associated with commitment. In addition, rituals associated positively with satisfaction level, investment size, and commitment and negatively with quality of alternatives. However, the relationship between rituals and commitment was not significant when controlling for the investment model predictors of satisfaction level, quality of alternatives, and investment size. The variables of satisfaction level, quality of alternatives, and investment size were shown to act as mediators in the relationship between rituals and commitment.
CCS and NH3 emission associated with low-mass young stellar objects
Creators: name: de Gregorio-Monsalvo, I.
name: Gomez, J. F.
name: Suarez, O.
name: Kuiper, T. B. H.
name: Rodriguez, L. F.
name: Jimenez-Bailon, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a sensitive and systematic single-dish survey of CCS emission (complemented with ammonia observations) at 1 cm, toward a sample of low- and intermediate-mass young star forming regions known to harbor water maser emission, made with NASA's 70 m antenna at Robledo de Chavela, Spain. Out of the 40 star forming regions surveyed in the CCS(2_{1}-1_{0}) line, only 6 low-mass sources show CCS emission: one transitional object between pre-stellar and protostellar Class 0 phase (GF9-2), three Class 0 protostars (L1448-IRS3, L1448C, and B1-IRS), a Class I source (L1251A), and a young T Tauri star (NGC2071-North). Since CCS is considered an ``early-time'' (<10E+5 yr) molecule, we explain these results by either proposing a revision of the classification of the age of NGC2071-North and L1251A, or suggesting the possibility that the particular physical conditions and processes of each source affect the destruction/production of the CCS. No statistically significant relationship was found between the presence of CCS and parameters of the molecular outflows and their driving sources. Nevertheless, we found a significant relationship between the detectability of CCS and the ammonia peak intensity (higher in regions with CCS), but not with its integrated intensity. This tendency found may suggest that the narrower ammonia line widths in the less turbulent medium associated with younger cores may compensate for the differences in ammonia peak intensity, rendering differences in integrated intensity negligible. From the CCS detection rate we derive a lifetime of this molecule of ~(0.7-3) x 10E+4 yr in low-mass star forming regions.
description: 28 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables, to appear in the 2006 May 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal
A simple correction for COVID-19 sampling bias
Creators: name: Díaz-Pachón, Daniel Andrés
name: Rao, J Sunil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 62D99

description: COVID-19 testing has become a standard approach for estimating prevalence which then assist in public health decision making to contain and mitigate the spread of the disease. The sampling designs used are often biased in that they do not reflect the true underlying populations. For instance, individuals with strong symptoms are more likely to be tested than those with no symptoms. This results in biased estimates of prevalence (too high). Typical post-sampling corrections are not always possible. Here we present a simple bias correction methodology derived and adapted from a correction for publication bias in meta analysis studies. The methodology is general enough to allow a wide variety of customization making it more useful in practice. Implementation is easily done using already collected information. Via a simulation and two real datasets, we show that the bias corrections can provide dramatic reductions in estimation error.
description: 14 pages. Title changed. The whole Section 7 with information from Lombardy, Italy, was added (another real dataset). Some typos were corrected. In spite of several lengthy additions, no substantial changes were done to the paper. The goal of the additions was more to clarify than to correct
Reflection-Transmission Quantum Yang-Baxter Equations
Creators: name: Caudrelier, V.
name: Mintchev, M.
name: Ragoucy, E.
name: Sorba, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We explore the reflection-transmission quantum Yang-Baxter equations, arising in factorized scattering theory of integrable models with impurities. The physical origin of these equations is clarified and three general families of solutions are described in detail. Explicit representatives of each family are also displayed. These results allow to establish a direct relationship with the different previous works on the subject and make evident the advantages of the reflection-transmission algebra as an universal approach to integrable systems with impurities.
description: LaTex, 15 pages
Acadia Park : design for a healthy community
Creators: name: Sharif, Dorsai
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The overall goals of this poject was to enhance ecological, social and economic aspects of life in "Acadia Park", a residential neighborhood on University of British Columbia Campus. Different alternatives were explored based on major criteria. The results were design proposals ranging from efficient development patterns, better street connectivity, community core framework, and natural drainage systems. Each of them contributes to one of the three bases of sustainability.
Counting unlabelled toroidal graphs with no K33-subdivisions
Creators: name: Gagarin, Andrei
name: Labelle, Gilbert
name: Leroux, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05A15, 05C30 (Primary); 05C70, 05C75, 05C38 (Secondary)

description: We provide a description of unlabelled enumeration techniques, with complete proofs, for graphs that can be canonically obtained by substituting 2-pole networks for the edges of core graphs. Using structure theorems for toroidal and projective-planar graphs containing no K33-subdivisions, we apply these techniques to obtain their unlabelled enumeration.
description: 25 pages (some corrections), 4 figures (one figure added), 3 tables
Unveiling the Stable Nature of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase between Lithium Metal and LiPON via Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Creators: name: Cheng, Diyi
name: Wynn, Thomas Andrew
name: Wang, Xuefeng
name: Wang, Shen
name: Zhang, Minghao
name: Shimizu, Ryosuke
name: Bai, Shuang
name: Nguyen, Han
name: Fang, Chengcheng
name: Kim, Min-cheol
name: Li, Weikang
name: Lu, Bingyu
name: Kim, Suk Jun
name: Meng, Ying Shirley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) is regarded as the most complex but the least understood constituent in secondary batteries using liquid and solid electrolytes. The nanostructures of SEIs were recently reported to be equally important to the chemistry of SEIs for stabilizing Li metal in liquid electrolyte. However, the dearth of such knowledge in all-solid-state battery (ASSB) has hindered a complete understanding of how certain solid-state electrolytes, such as LiPON, manifest exemplary stability against Li metal. Characterizing such solid-solid interfaces is difficult due to the buried, highly reactive, and beam-sensitive nature of the constituents within. By employing cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the interphase between Li metal and LiPON is successfully preserved and probed, revealing a multilayer mosaic SEI structure with concentration gradients of nitrogen and phosphorous, materializing as crystallites within an amorphous matrix. This unique SEI nanostructure is less than 80 nm and is shown stable and free of any organic lithium containing species or lithium fluoride components, in contrast to SEIs often found in state-of-the-art organic liquid electrolytes. Our findings reveal insights on the nanostructures and chemistry of such SEIs as a key component in lithium metal batteries to stabilize Li metal anode.
title: Μελέτη και σχεδιασμός αυτόματου συστήματος εγκιβωτισμού μπουκαλιών
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Study and design case packer for bottles
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, Panagiotis G.
Publisher: name: National Technological University of Athens
Year: 2014
Subjects: Εγκιβωτιστικό
Ρομποτικό
Ομαδοποίηση
Χαρτοκιβώτιο
Case packer
Robot
Group
Carton box
Carton erector

description: 45 σ.
description: Μελέτη και σχεδίαση μηχανή για την διαμόρφωση χαρτοκιβωτιών, συλλογή και ομαδοποίσης πλαστικών μπουκαλιών.Παραλαβήγ μπουκαλιών και εγκιβωτισμό τους μέσα στο χαρτοκιβώτιο. Στο τέλος κλείσιμο του χαρτοκιβωτίου.
description: Design for case packer, format carton box, receive and group plastic bottles. Then pick up the group of bottles, put them inside the carton box. At the end seal the carton box
Marketing and Transportation of Grain By Local Cooperatives
Creators: name: Hunley, Charles L.
name: Hunley, Charles L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: cooperatives
subject: grain handling
subject: grain elevator
subject: grain bank
subject: grain transportation

description: A total of 2,060 local cooperative associations handled 4.7 billion bushels of grain during the 1982-83 marketing year. This is about 41 percent of all grain sold off-farm during the year. Cooperative grain storage capacity totaled 2.5 billion bushels. Corn, at 1 .5 billion bushels, ranked as the leading grain marketed; wheat was second at slightly under 1.0 billion. More than half of the grain sold by local cooperatives moved by truck.
Operating Patterns of Fruit and Vegetable Processing Cooperatives
Creators: name: Swanson, Bruce L.
name: Swanson, Bruce L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Associations
subject: cooperatives
subject: financial characteristics
subject: fruits
subject: operating features
subject: organizational features
subject: processing
subject: vegetables

description: Growth of fruit- and vegetable-processing cooperatives slowed in the late seventies. High-growth cooperatives employed more full-time employees and more headquarters personnel than low-growth ones and organized their operations to minimize the impact of the peak season. The 14 cooperatives that were studied sold most of their products to chainstores, but the high-growth cooperatives sold a smaller proportion of their total product to chains and to Federal and State Government agencies than did the low-growth cooperatives.
Restoring site percolation on a damaged square lattice
Creators: name: Galam, Serge
name: Malarz, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study how to restore site percolation on a damaged square lattice with nearest neighbor (N$^2$) interactions. Two strategies are suggested for a density $x$ of destroyed sites by a random attack at $p_c$. In the first one, a density $y$ of new sites are created with longer range interactions, either next nearest neighbor (N$^3$) or next next nearest neighbor (N$^4$). In the second one, new longer range interactions N$^3$ or N$^4$ are created for a fraction $v$ of the remaining $(p_c-x)$ sites in addition to their N$^2$ interactions. In both cases, the values of $y$ and $v$ are tuned in order to restore site percolation which then occurs at new percolation thresholds, respectively $π_3$, $π_4$, $π_{23}$ and $π_{24}$. Using Monte Carlo simulations the values of the pairs $\{y, π_3 \}$, $\{y, π_4\}$ and $\{v, π_{23}\}$, $\{v, π_{24}\}$ are calculated for the whole range $0\leq x \leq p_c(\text{N}^2)$. Our schemes are applicable to all regular lattices.
description: 5 pages, revtex4
Scytale -- An Evolutionary Cryptosystem
Creators: name: Menon, Unnikrishnan
name: Hudlikar, Atharva
name: Panda, Divyani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the advent of quantum computing, and other advancements in computation and processing capabilities of modern systems, there arises a need to develop new trapdoor functions that will serve as the foundation for a new generation of encryption schemes. This paper explores the possibility of one such potential trapdoor function using concepts stemming from Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) -- specifically, the Critter's Rule set up in a Margolus Neighborhood. The proposed block encryption algorithm discusses how sensitive data can be manipulated and converted efficiently into a two dimensional sequence of bits, that can be iteratively evolved using the rules of the RCA and a private key to achieve a desirable level of encryption within a reasonable runtime. The performance benchmark and analysis results exemplify how well the proposed encryption algorithm stands against different forms of attacks.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Structural, transport, magnetic properties and Raman spectroscopy of orthorhombic Y$1-x$CaxMnO3(0 <= x <= 0.5)
Creators: name: Iliev, M. N.
name: Lorenz, B.
name: Litvinchuk, A. P.
name: Wang, Y. -Q.
name: Sun, Y. Y.
name: Chu, C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Orthorhombic Y$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$MnO$_3$ ($0 \leq x \leq 0.5$) was prepared under high pressure and the variations with $x$ of its structural, magnetic, electrical properties and the polarized Raman spectra were investigated. The lattice parameters change systematically with $x$. Although there are strong indications for increasing disorder above $x = 0.20$, the average structure remains orthorhombic in the whole substitutional range. Ca doping increases conductivity, but temperature dependence of resistivity $ρ$(T) remains semiconducting for all $x$. The average magnetic exchange interaction changes from antiferromagnetic for $x < 0.08$ to ferromagnetic for $x > 0.08$. The evolution with $x$ of the Raman spectra provides evidence for increasingly disordered oxygen sublattice at $x \geq 0.10$, presumably due to quasistatic and/or dynamical Jahn-Teller distortions.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Grassmannians of two-sided vector spaces
Creators: name: Nyman, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A03, 14M15, 16D20

description: Let $k \subset K$ be an extension of fields, and let $A \subset M_{n}(K)$ be a $k$-algebra. We study parameter spaces of $m$-dimensional subspaces of $K^{n}$ which are invariant under $A$. The space $\mathbb{F}_{A}(m,n)$, whose $R$-rational points are $A$-invariant, free rank $m$ summands of $R^{n}$, is well known. We construct a distinct parameter space, $\mathbb{G}_{A}(m,n)$, which is a fiber product of a Grassmannian and the projectivization of a vector space. We then study the intersection $\mathbb{F}_{A}(m,n) \cap \mathbb{G}_{A}(m,n)$, which we denote by $\mathbb{H}_{A}(m,n)$. Under suitable hypotheses on $A$, we construct affine open subschemes of $\mathbb{F}_{A}(m,n)$ and $\mathbb{H}_{A}(m,n)$ which cover their $K$-rational points. We conclude by using $\mathbb{F}_{A}(m,n)$, $\mathbb{G}_{A}(m,n)$, and $\mathbb{H}_{A}(m,n)$ to construct parameter spaces of two-sided subspaces of two-sided vector spaces.
description: 23 pages, changed content, minor errors corrected