cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Recommended Libraries for Cyberinfrastructure Users Developing Jupyter Notebooks
Creators: name: Brewer, Nicole
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: jupyter notebook
widgets
user interface
high-performance computing
HPC
cyberinfrastructure
interactive widgets
computational notebooks
data analysis

description: Researchers are increasingly interested in using Jupyter Notebooks on HPC clusters, science gateways, and compostable platforms. In addition to using notebooks for scientific workflows, developers can use interactive browser controls, called widgets, to allow users to more easily interact with data and without editing code. In addition to simple widgets, such as sliders, checkboxes, and text inputs, more advanced features can be used to build standalone data dashboards and web applications. Many of these widgets and data visualizations are domain independent, though users may discover them in an ad hoc fashion, which can cause an onslaught of tickets to request particular libraries. To avoid frustration faced by users and system administrators alike, we present a recommended environment for scientists and research software engineers developing Jupyter Notebook on cyberinfrastructure platforms.
Supplementary Materials from If you blink at me, I’ll blink back. Domestic dogs’ feedback to conspecific visual cues
Creators: name: Canori, Chiara
name: Travain, Tiziano
name: Pedretti, Giulia
name: Fontani, Rachele
name: Valsecchi, Paola
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: SM of the study including comprehensive tables of the statistical models used.
Functions of western loanwords in Japanese newspaper articles
Creators: name: Shimada, Maiko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Previous studies on Western loanwords in Japanese showed that they account for approximately 10 percent of the Japanese lexicon and their number is continuing to grow. This thesis examined the functions of Western loanwords in the language of newspaper articles. 3,844 occurrences of loanwords were collected from four consecutive issues of Yomiuri Shinbun Satellite Edition published in April 2001 and classified into four main functional categories. The four main functional categories were "technical terms," "lexical-gap-fillers," "elevating the images of the referents," and "replacing the native vocabulary items." "Technical terms" were terminologies used specifically in certain fields such as sports, politics, medicine, etc., regardless of their familiarity among the general public. "Lexical-gap-fillers" could be divided into two types: those which denoted novel objects or concepts ("true LGFs") and those which filled lexical gaps by having either broader or more specific meanings than native terms ("semi-LGFs"). The loanwords in the "elevating the images of the referents" function could either have stylistic effects or a euphemistic role depending on the connotations of native equivalents. If a loanword replaced the native equivalent with a neutral connotation, it created a better image by adding stylishness, prestige, casualness, etc. On the other hand, if the native term had negative connotation, then the loanword functioned as a euphemism to conceal the a negativity. "Replacing native equivalents" could be divided into three stages according to the degrees of replacement. The loanwords in the earliest stage functioned as synonyms of the native equivalents. The next stage included loanwords that are used more commonly than their native counterparts in everyday language. The loanwords in the most advanced stage have almost completely replaced the native terms, which have become obsolete. The quantitative analysis of the above functions showed that "lexical-gap-fillers" was the most prevalent function (45.08%). This result was contradictory to the result from Takashi's (1990a) quantitative study on functions of English loanwords in advertisement texts, which revealed that the main function was to create better images of referents. Thus, this thesis concluded that the most prominent function of loanwords is different depending on text styles and purposes.
Elastic lever arm model for myosin V
Creators: name: Vilfan, Andrej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present a mechanochemical model for myosin V, a two-headed processive motor protein. We derive the properties of a dimer from those of an individual head, which we model both with a 4-state cycle (detached, attached with ADP.Pi, attached with ADP and attached without nucleotide) and alternatively with a 5-state cycle (where the power stroke is not tightly coupled to the phosphate release). In each state the lever arm leaves the head at a different, but fixed, angle. The lever arm itself is described as an elastic rod. The chemical cycles of both heads are coordinated exclusively by the mechanical connection between the two lever arms. The model explains head coordination by showing that the lead head only binds to actin after the power stroke in the trail head and that it only undergoes its power stroke after the trail head unbinds from actin. Both models (4- and 5-state) reproduce the observed hand-over-hand motion and fit the measured force-velocity relations. The main difference between the two models concerns the load dependence of the run length, which is much weaker in the 5-state model. We show how systematic processivity measurement under varying conditions could be used to distinguish between both models and to determine the kinetic parameters.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures, to appear in Biophys. J
Functional Ingredients and Food Choice: Results from a Choice Experiment
Creators: name: Fraser, Iain
name: Bitzios, Michael
name: Haddock-Fraser, Janet
name: Fraser, Iain
name: Bitzios, Michael
name: Haddock-Fraser, Janet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Functional Food
subject: Bread
subject: Choice Experiment

description: In this paper we present the results of a Choice Experiment (CE) conducted to examine how the inclusion of an attribute for a functional ingredient affects consumer food choice. Specifically, we examine consumer attitudes towards bread and the inclusion of a functional ingredient (eg, inulin), which can be added to bread to increase the quantity and the effectiveness of fibre in the final product A novel feature of the design of this CE was the use of Means-End-Chain analysis via semi-structured interviews to reveal key attributes to be included in the CE. In addition, the CE included the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ) so as to collect information on all participants underlying eating behaviours. Preliminary analysis of the data reveals that bread type determines choice, and that the inclusion of a functional ingredient yielded relatively small measures of value. Also, the use of a Latent Class Model reveals that there are differences in willingness-to-pay (WTP) between groups of respondents and that group membership can be partly explained by the DEBQ information. The public health implications of these findings are discussed.
AcDc - A new code for the NLTE spectral analysis of accretion discs: application to the helium CV AM CVn
Creators: name: Nagel, T.
name: Dreizler, S.
name: Rauch, T.
name: Werner, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a recently developed code for detailed NLTE calculations of accretion disc spectra of cataclysmic variables and compact X-ray binaries. Assuming a radial structure of a standard alpha-disc, the disc is divided into concentric rings. For each disc ring the solution of the radiation transfer equation and the structure equations, comprising the hydrostatic and radiative equilibrium, the population of the atomic levels as well as charge and particle conservation, is done self-consistently. Metal-line blanketing and irradiation by the central object are taken into account. As a first application, we show the influence of different disc parameters on the disc spectrum for the helium cataclysmic variable AM CVn.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures to be published in A&A
THE CLUSTER-BASED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN KAZAKHSTAN’S AGRO-FOOD SECTOR: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT FROM AN "AUSTRIAN" PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Wandel, Jurgen
name: Wandel, Jurgen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Cluster
subject: Kazakhstan
subject: industrial policy
subject: institutional change
subject: Kasachstan
subject: Industriepolitik
subject: institutioneller Wandel

description: This paper challenges the uselfullness of the cluster-based development strategy to diversify and increase the competitiveness of Kazakhstan’s economy, regarding the case of the country’s agro-food sector. For this it refers to insights of the Austrian Market Process Theory. It is argued that already the theoretical foundations of the cluster concept suffer from severe difficiencies, because it widely neglects the function of competition as a discovery procedure with alert entrepreuneurs as the driving force. Moreover, it ignores the knowledge requirements and limitations in a modern market economy for any outside third party to identify and promote successful industry structures. The closer examination of the implementation of the cluster development program in Kazakhstan’s agro-food sectors shows that cluster facilitation in practice turned out to be another form of social engineering and picking winners. In the light of the Austrian understanding of the market system as an entrepreneurial discovery process the paper suggestes as alternative policy option to concentrate on the establishment of a stable institutional framework for the whole economy that stimulates the entrepreneurial discoveries of profitable businesses. Yet, such an Austrian approach is politically less appealing, for it might bring no quick results due to the prevalence of conflicting informal institutions which in the short run might be difficult to change.
title: Representing Japanese Taipei: studies in urban development and architectural style (1895-1930)
Creators: name: Fan, Ya-Timg
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: While the urban development and the architecture of Taipei during the Japanese colonisation (1895-1945) has been extensively investigated, the architectural style of the shop-house has not been deeply explored. The style of these buildings has often been characterised simplistically as either 'Baroque' or 'Neo Mannerist' without any real attempt to understand the sets of associations. The Taiwanese shop-houses that were produced in this period were really much more complex in style, embracing Western, Japanese and Taiwanese features. It was more translation than imitation. In the light of all this, this dissertation studies both Japanese and Taiwanese shop¬houses in Taipei. The research focuses on how and why shop-house design in Taipei changed in this period, what styles were adopted by their designers, and what meanings and associations these styles have for their audiences. The findings suggest that the Japanese shop-house was more significantly influenced by English nineteenth-century historicist architecture than the others. The Taiwanese shop-houses which built by local craftsmen, such as the Chen-GUO family, were influenced not only by the colonial Japanese architecture in Taipei (namely the Western-style government buildings) and the shop-houses built by the Japanese architects for the Japanese merchants, but also by Han Chinese traditions in design. What this dissertation aims to provide therefore is a more nuanced approach to describing the style in early twentieth-century Taipei, one that owes much to the important Chen-GUO family.
Rabi-Oscillation Spectroscopy of the Hyperfine Structure of Muonium Atoms
Creators: name: Nishimura, S.
name: Torii, H. A.
name: Fukao, Y.
name: Ito, T. U.
name: Iwasaki, M.
name: Kanda, S.
name: Kawagoe, K.
name: Kawall, D.
name: Kawamura, N.
name: Kurosawa, N.
name: Matsuda, Y.
name: Mibe, T.
name: Miyake, Y.
name: Saito, N.
name: Sasaki, K.
name: Sato, Y.
name: Seo, S.
name: Strasser, P.
name: Suehara, T.
name: Tanaka, K. S.
name: Tanaka, T.
name: Tojo, J.
name: Toyoda, A.
name: Ueno, Y.
name: Yamanaka, T.
name: Yamazaki, T.
name: Yasuda, H.
name: Yoshioka, T.
name: Shimomura, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a new method to determine the resonance frequency, Rabi-oscillation spectroscopy has been developed. In contrast to the conventional spectroscopy which draws the resonance curve, Rabi-oscillation spectroscopy fits the time evolution of the Rabi oscillation. By selecting the optimized frequency, it is shown that the precision is twice as good as the conventional spectroscopy with a frequency sweep. Furthermore, the data under different conditions can be treated in a unified manner, allowing more efficient measurements for systems consisting of a limited number of short-lived particles produced by accelerators such as muons. We have developed a fitting function that takes into account the spatial distribution of muonium and the spatial distribution of the microwave intensity to apply the new method to ground-state muonium hyperfine structure measurements at zero field. This was applied to the actual measurement data and the resonance frequencies were determined under various conditions. The result of our analysis gives $ν_{\rm HFS}=4\ 463\ 301.61 \pm 0.71\ {\rm kHz}$, which is the world's highest precision under zero field conditions.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
ESTRUCTURA PRODUCTIVA Y DESEQUILIBRIO EXTERNO EN CARNE DE VACUNO ENTRE MÉXICO Y ESTADOS UNIDOS
Creators: name: Araujo Andrade, Luis Alberto
name: Cruz Pacheco, Eraclio Del Jesus
name: Araujo Andrade, Luis Alberto
name: Cruz Pacheco, Eraclio Del Jesus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Structure
subject: External Disequilibrium
subject: Centre
subject: Periphery
subject: Cattle
subject: Heard
subject: Meat.

description: The problem to investigate is the permanent disequilibrium of Mexican commercial balance of cattle heads and meat regarding United States during the period 1993-2007. The objective is shows that the inequality productive structure on cattle heads and meat that exists between Mexico and American Union, through commercial exchange of those products impact the commercial balance. The methodology used was the consult of international trade and productive aspects of cattle to both countries and the use of structuralism economic theory for the information analysis. The results obtained shows that the inequality structure between both nations (United States as centre and Mexico as periphery) on items such as herd size; integration to meat industry; meat production; carcass weight and that the most important part of the mexican exports are raw materials with few add worth, though commercial exchange impacts on permanent external disequilibrium for mexican commercial balance of cattle heads and meat.
INNOVACION DE PRODUCTOS DE ALTO VALOR AGREGADO A PARTIR DE LA TUNA MEXICANA
Creators: name: Sumaya Martinez, Ma. Teresa
name: Suarez Dieguez, Teodoro
name: Cruz Cansino, Nelly Del Socorro
name: Alanis Garia, Ernesto
name: Sampedro, Jose G.
name: Sumaya Martinez, Ma. Teresa
name: Suarez Dieguez, Teodoro
name: Cruz Cansino, Nelly Del Socorro
name: Alanis Garia, Ernesto
name: Sampedro, Jose G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Prickly pears
subject: antioxidant activity
subject: innovation
subject: functional food.

description: In the world, Mexico is the major producer of prickly pears and also has the largest number in varieties. However, in addition to its highly seasonal production, prickly pears are consumed just by a small segment of the Mexican population. Therefore, the promotion of prickly pears consumption in the form of new derivative products by emphasizing its bioactive properties seems to be a possible solution to its low consumption. Recent studies from European and Asian laboratories showed that some prickly pears varieties have a significant antioxidant activity. In Mexico, prickly pears producers are looking for new ways of commercialization. In this regard, similar studies are underway surveying those varieties from the highly producing Mexican states with the goal to develop new functional products with high added value. In addition, the use of prickly pears as a raw material for the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries is being considered and seems to be highly promising.
Tissue-specific tumorigenesis in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
Creators: name: Gardiner, Juliet Carolyn
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is a familial syndrome manifest by the formation of tissue-specific cancers with global DNA hypermethylation in affected tissues. The mechanisms underlying this selective tumorigenesis are not well known and we hypothesize the involvement of tissue-specific factors. We utilize a comprehensive approach to identify such factors driving the tissue- selective tumor formation. We have performed a systematic ChIP-Seq and RNA- Seq analysis of MEN1-associated cell types, followed by data mining using an integrated bioinformatics approach. Subsequently, we identified Pax5 as a novel tissue-specific factor that mediates the recruitment of a DNA methylation activator shown to drive the tumorigenesis in MEN1 Syndrome. These findings provide insight into a novel mechanism of MEN1-associated tissue-specific tumorigenesis. These findings may be relevant to the study of other tumor suppressor genes associated with a tissue restricted tumor phenotype.
Transition from anticipatory to lag synchronization via complete synchronization in time-delay systems
Creators: name: Senthilkumar, D. V.
name: Lakshmanan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of anticipatory, complete and lag synchronization in a single system having two different time-delays, that is feedback delay $τ_1$ and coupling delay $τ_2$, is identified. The transition from anticipatory to complete synchronization and from complete to lag synchronization as a function of coupling delay $τ_2$ with suitable stability condition is discussed. The existence of anticipatory and lag synchronization is characterized both by the minimum of similarity function and the transition from on-off intermittency to periodic structure in laminar phase distribution.
description: 14 Pages and 12 Figures
Additional file 3 of Improving the health of workers with a low socioeconomic position: Intervention Mapping as a useful method for adaptation of the Participatory Approach
Creators: name: Schaap, R.
name: F. G. Schaafsma
name: A. R. Bosma
name: M. A. Huysmans
name: C. R. L. Boot
name: J. R. Anema
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Matrices of change for the behavioral outcome. Change objectives for the behavioral outcome to identify what workers with a low SEP may need to learn or change to achieve the performance objectives.
Methods in the Local Theory of Packing and Covering Lattices
Creators: name: Schuermann, Achill
name: Vallentin, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we are concerned with three lattice problems: the lattice packing problem, the lattice covering problem and the lattice packing-covering problem. One way to find optimal lattices for these problems is to enumerate all finitely many, locally optimal lattices. For the lattice packing problem there are two classical algorithms going back to Minkowski and Voronoi. For the covering and for the packing-covering problem we propose new algorithms. Here we give a brief survey about these approaches. We report on some recent computer based computations where we were able to reproduce and partially extend the known classification of locally optimal lattices. Furthermore we found new record breaking covering and packing-covering lattices. We describe several methods with examples to show that a lattice is a locally optimal solution to one of the three problems.
description: 15 pages, (v2) Table 5 corrected
LINEAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ADMINISTRACIÓN DE AGRONEGOCIOS
Creators: name: Alvarado Martinez, Tomas Everardo
name: Aguilar Valdes, Alfredo
name: Cabral Martell, Agustin
name: Alvarado Martinez, Luis Felipe
name: Moreno Medina, Salomon
name: Arras Vota, Ana Maria
name: Alvarado Martinez, Tomas Everardo
name: Aguilar Valdes, Alfredo
name: Cabral Martell, Agustin
name: Alvarado Martinez, Luis Felipe
name: Moreno Medina, Salomon
name: Arras Vota, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Lines of research
subject: agribusiness.

description: The new century has brought with it the reaffirmation and consequence of profound changes which began taking place at the end of the last century. The revolution created by new information technologies, the media, as well as the new management styles and forms, partly guilty of the globalization phenomenon, is not only a fact, but has generated a high technology dependence both in developed and developing countries. This has affected all production and management systems, including those in which Agribusiness develop. Under these circumstances, the present essay's main objective is to establish a general reference in order to set up lines of research in the Agribusiness management in México. In the first part we find a retrospective regarding the environment where these activities took place, having it as basis for further research in order to improve the management systems. Subsequently there is a description of the surroundings where the present agribusinesses develop as well as a description of their possible tendencies. Finally through a brainstorm of ideas a norm has been set up to design and develop the lines of research in the agribusiness management.
title: House dust mites and their genetic systems
Creators: name: Farncombe, Kirsten M.
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: Despite their medical implications and widespread distribution, there is limited knowledge of house dust mites. I assessed their biogeographical distribution, examined the genetic system of one of the most common species of house dust mite, Dermatophagoides farinae, and modelled different mating systems of mites, with the aim of improving understanding. This included assembling a database of house dust mite diversity, and identifying the most successful protocols for molecular work, which will save researchers time and provide a solid base for future studies. The creation of a house dust mite fauna database through published resources provided a worldwide distribution of all mites collected from homes. This may prove useful in future, particularly by allergists who are focusing on eradicating these mites for the benefit of human health. In addition, this identified the possibility of a latitudinal diversity gradient in house dust mites. Assessing D. farinae mitochondrial and nuclear genome regions through PCR and sequencing has illustrated dissimilarity between populations. This suggested that D. farinae may have been previously misidentified and the examined populations actually represent more than one species. This gives a basis for further analysis with an increased number of populations from a variety of locations. Finally, modelling and comparing different mating systems which may be found in mites, illustrate that despite the benefits of being haplodiploid, it is difficult to transition to this system from diploidy. This indicates that cytoplasmically inherited maternally-transmitted haplodiploidy is not favoured in diploid populations, forming part of the reason why many species are still in the ancestral diploid state.
Structural changes of Ti3SiC2 induced by helium irradiation with different doses
Creators: name: Zhang, Hongliang
name: Su, Ranran
name: Shi, Liqun
name: OConnor, Daryl J
name: Wen, Haiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, the microstructure changes of Ti3SiC2 MAX phase material induced by helium irradiation and evolution with a sequence of different helium irradiation doses of 5E15, 1E16, 5E16 and 1E17cm-2 at room temperature (RT) were characterized with grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) and Raman spectra analysis. The irradiation damage process of Ti3SiC2 can be roughly divided into three stages according to the level of helium irradiation dose: (1) for a low damage dose, only crystal and damaged Ti3SiC2 exit; (2) at a higher irradiation dose, there is some damaged TiC phase additionally; (3) with a much higher irradiation dose, crystal TiC phase could be found inside the samples as well. Moreover, the 450C 5E16cm-2 helium irradiation on Ti3SiC2 has confirmed that Ti3SiC2 has much higher irradiation tolerance at higher temperature, which implies that Ti3SiC2 could be a potential future structural and fuel coating material working at high temperature environments.
Nuclear structure corrections to gyromagnetic factor of the bound lepton
Creators: name: Martynenko, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the quasipotential method the covariant expression for the two-particle vertex operator is obtained. The nuclear structure corrections of orders (Zα)^4, (Zα)^5 including recoil effects to gyromagnetic factors of the bound electron and muon are calculated. Numerical value of the contribution of order (Zα)^5 is obtained by means of the dipole parameterization for the nuclear charge form factor in the range of the nuclear charges Z=7-32.
description: Talk presented on poster session of the Bogolubov Conference "Problems of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics", Moscow-Dubna, September 2-6, 2004, 14 pages, 2 figures
Hybrid nature of 0846+51W1: a BL Lac object with a narrow line Seyfert 1 nucleus
Creators: name: Zhou, Hong-Yan
name: Wang, Ting-Gui
name: Dong, Xiao-Bo
name: Li, Cheng
name: Zhang, Xue-Guang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have found a NLS1 nucleus in the extensively studied eruptive BL Lac, 0846+51W1, out of a large sample of NLS1 compiled from the spectroscopic dataset of SDSS DR1. Its optical spectrum can be well decomposed into three components, a power law component from the relativistic jet, a stellar component from the host galaxy, and a component from a typical NLS1 nucleus. The emission line properties of 0846+51W1, FWHM(Hbeta) ~ 1710 km s^-1 and [OIII]5007/Hbeta ~ 0.32 when it was in faint state, fulfil the conventional definition of NLS1. Strong FeII emission is detected in the SDSS spectrum, which is also typical of NLS1s. We try to estimate its central black hole mass using various techniques and find that 0846+51W1 is very likely emitting at a few times 10% L_Edd. We speculate that Seyfert-like nuclei, including NLS1s, might be concealed in a significant fraction of BL Lacs but have not been sufficiently explored due to the fact that, by definition, the optical-UV continuum of such kind of objects are often overwhelmed by the synchrotron emission.
description: ChJAA accepted
Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor in a Brawn-Based Economy
Creators: name: Pitt, Mark M.
name: Rosenzweig, Mark R.
name: Hassan, Md. Nazmul
name: Pitt, Mark M.
name: Rosenzweig, Mark R.
name: Hassan, Md. Nazmul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: brawn
subject: health
subject: schooling
subject: gender

description: We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of healthiness on schooling for females relative to males. The model incorporates gender differences in the level and responsiveness of brawn to nutrition in a Roy-economy setting in which activities reward skill and brawn differentially. Empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh provides support for the model and the importance of the distribution of brawn.
The Indochina Peninsula Impervious Surface (ICPIS) dataset
Creators: name: xu, linyilin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370403
subject: Geoscience data visualisation

description: The Indochina Peninsula Impervious Surface (ICPIS) dataset generated in this study is publicly available on Figshare and can be accessed via 10.6084/m9.figshare.27302136. The dataset is provided in GeoTIFF format and consists of 77 independent tiles, each covering an area of 2°×2°, with filenames following the convention “ICPIS_latitude_longitude” for easy geographic reference. Each tile contains pixel values representing impervious surface data from 2016 to 2023, as well as non-impervious surfaces. Pixel values are encoded as follows: 0 for non-impervious surfaces, 2016 for impervious surfaces existing as of 2016, and values from 2017 to 2023 indicating impervious surface expansions in the corresponding years. The dataset achieves overall accuracies of 90.48% for 2016 and 90.65% for 2023, with Kappa coefficients of 0.809 and 0.813, respectively. This high accuracy, combined with its temporal and spatial granularity, enables users to monitor long-standing impervious surfaces and annual changes in impervious surface coverage, providing robust support for environmental monitoring, urban planning, and policy development.
A systematic study of galactic outflows via fluorescence emission: implications for their size and structure
Creators: name: Wang, Bingjie
name: Heckman, Timothy M.
name: Zhu, Guangtun
name: Norman, Colin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic outflows play a major role in the evolution of galaxies, but the underlying physical processes are poorly understood. This is mainly because we have little information about the outflow structure, especially on large scales. In this paper, we probe the structure of galactic outflows in low-$z$ starburst by using a combination of ultra-violet spectroscopy and imaging of the fluorescence emission lines (associated with transitions to excited fine-structure levels) and spectroscopy of the corresponding strongly blue-shifted resonance absorption lines. We find that in the majority of cases the observed fluorescence emission lines are much weaker and narrower than the absorption lines, originating in the star-forming interstellar medium and/or the slowest-moving part of the inner outflow. In a minority of cases, the outflowing absorbing material does make a significant contribution to the fluorescence emission. These latter systems are characterized by both strong Ly$α$ emission lines and weak low-ionization absorption lines (both known to be empirical signs of Lyman-continuum leakage). We argue that the observed weakness of emission from the outflow seen in the majority of cases is due to the missing emission arising on scales larger than those encompassed by the aperture of the {\it{Hubble Space Telescope}}. This implies shallow radial density profiles in these outflows, and suggests that most of the observed absorbing material must be created/injected at radii much larger than that of the starburst. This has important implications for our understanding of both the physics of galactic outflows and for our estimation of their principal properties.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ
ICPIS
Creators: name: xu, linyilin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 370403
subject: Geoscience data visualisation

description: The Indochina Peninsula Impervious Surface (ICPIS) dataset generated in this study is publicly available on Figshare and can be accessed via 10.6084/m9.figshare.27302136. The dataset is provided in GeoTIFF format and consists of 77 independent tiles, each covering an area of 2°×2°, with filenames following the convention “ICPIS_latitude_longitude” for easy geographic reference. Each tile contains pixel values representing impervious surface data from 2016 to 2023, as well as non-impervious surfaces. Pixel values are encoded as follows: 0 for non-impervious surfaces, 2016 for impervious surfaces existing as of 2016, and values from 2017 to 2023 indicating impervious surface expansions in the corresponding years. The dataset achieves overall accuracies of 90.48% for 2016 and 90.65% for 2023, with Kappa coefficients of 0.809 and 0.813, respectively. This high accuracy, combined with its temporal and spatial granularity, enables users to monitor long-standing impervious surfaces and annual changes in impervious surface coverage, providing robust support for environmental monitoring, urban planning, and policy development.
AN EVALUATION OF CONSUMER SEGMENTS FOR FARMERS’ MARKET CONSUMERS IN INDIANA AND ILLINOIS
Creators: name: Arrington, Kendra
name: Dennis, Jennifer H.
name: Mazzocco, Michael A.
name: Arrington, Kendra
name: Dennis, Jennifer H.
name: Mazzocco, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: cluster analysis
subject: consumers
subject: farmers’ market
subject: primary data
subject: surveys

description: In Spring 2005 and Fall 2009 consumer surveys were collected in several Metropolitan 4 cities in Indiana and Illinois to explore differences based on psychographic and behavioral 5 characteristics of farmers’ market consumers. Consumer intercept surveys were conducted in: 6 South Bend, IN; Bloomington, IN; Springfield, IL and Peoria, IL. Likert scale questions were 7 analyzed using factor and hierarchical cluster analysis to identify clusters of consumers based on 8 several farmers’ market characteristics. Survey results show that of the 164 Metropolitan 9 surveys analyzed, 85.3% of respondents were Caucasian, 71.9% were between the ages of 35 and 10 64 and 78% were female. Data analysis showed that four clusters were formed: Recreational 11 (42%), Minimalists (27%), Enthusiasts (23%) and Time-challenged (8%). Each cluster had a 12 unique set of preferences based on farmers’ market attributes ranging from overall convenience 13 of the shopping trip to the presence of nearby stores. Differences in consumer segments suggest 14 that farmers’ market managers can develop specific marketing messages toward each segment.
Smooth values of the iterates of the Euler's Phi function
Creators: name: Lamzouri, Youness
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11N37, 11B37, 34K05, 45J05

description: Let $ϕ(n)$ be the Euler-phi function, define $ϕ_0(n) = n$ and $ϕ_{k+1}(n)=ϕ(ϕ_{k}(n))$ for all $k\geq 0$. We will determine an asymptotic formula for the set of integers $n$ less than $x$ for which $ϕ_k(n)$ is $y$-smooth, conditionally on a weak form of the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture.
description: 20 pages, see also http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~lamzouri
Sinkende Schulmilchnachfrage in Deutschland -- Woran kann es liegen?
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Mellado, Aida A.
name: Christoph, Inken B.
name: Salamon, Petra
name: Peter, Guenter
name: Weber, Sascha A.
name: Weible, Daniela
name: Gonzalez-Mellado, Aida A.
name: Christoph, Inken B.
name: Salamon, Petra
name: Peter, Guenter
name: Weber, Sascha A.
name: Weible, Daniela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Schulmilch
subject: Einflussfaktoren
subject: Nachfrage
subject: Preise
subject: Beihilfe
subject: Multilevel-Analyse

description: Die Nachfrage nach Schulmilch geht an deutschen Schulen stetig zurück. Um quantifizierbare Informationen über die verschiedenen Einflussfaktoren sowie Lösungsansätze zur Verbesserung der Schulmilchnachfrage zu erhalten, wurde vom Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz ein Bundesmodellvorhaben in Nordrhein- Westfalen initiiert. Im Rahmen des Projekts soll der Einfluss von Faktoren wie beispielsweise des Preises, verschiedener Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen, des sozialen Umfeldes, des Geschlechtes oder der ökonomischen Situation auf die Schulmilchnachfrage quantifiziert werden. In Nordrhein-Westfalen wurden rund 500 Grundschulen in einer geschichteten Zufallsstichprobe ausgewählt, in denen ein Preisexperiment durchgeführt wurde. In dem Experiment wurde der Schulmilchpreis während des Schuljahres 2008/09 stufenweise gesenkt und im Schuljahr 2009/10 stufenweise wieder angehoben. Die Auswertung erfolgte mittels Multilevel-Analyse, wobei neben Preis- und Nachfragemengen zusätzliche Informationen über die beteiligten Schulen und Klassen zur Verfügung standen. Erwartungsgemäß konnte ein Preiseinfluss auf die Nachfrage nachgewiesen werden. Daneben wurden andere signifikante Faktoren mit einem negativen Einfluss auf den Schulmilchkonsum identifiziert wie beispielsweise der Anteil der Schüler mit Migrationshintergrund oder das Alter der Schüler.
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title: A critical account of the EU Competition Commission's approach to investigations of free high technology companies: towards a new standard
Creators: name: Farook, Mohd Omran Adnan
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: Large free high technology (FHT) companies such as search engines can bring immense benefit to consumers. Only the largest FHT company is likely to be able to maximize innovation. Beyond this, any further innovation can only be brought by completely new and disruptive technologies that replace the product of the incumbent. However, whilst consumer welfare is purportedly the main objective of EU competition law, it presumes that more competition creates increased consumer benefit. This thesis explores this conflict by analysing how it manifests in a limited and uncertain approach on the part of the EU Commission. It then proposes a test that resolves the problems of the approach. First, the thesis explores the tension between FHT economics and the presumptions of competition law. Next, it evaluates the EU Commission’s approach to analysing FHT markets against literature and its conflicting approach in other technology cases. We conclude that the EU Commission’s proclamation that FHT markets are competitive is based on a limited approach that does not give due consideration to factors such as network effects. Subsequently, based on the above evaluation, the thesis hypothesizes that the EU Commission’s true belief is that dominant FHT companies are good for consumers even with reduced competition. However, the EU Commission can justify dominant company expansion only by showing that there is enough competition in the market; this is required by the analytical framework of competition law investigations. The EU Commission therefore ends up stating rationale based on limited reasoning. Finally, a test based on Magill and innovation markets, which focuses analysis on competing innovation projects in the market instead of the current relevant market, is proposed. This way the EU Commission bypasses arguments regarding network effects and simply focuses on making sure that there is a sufficient level of competition in the innovation market which ensures future innovation.
Lifelong Incremental Reinforcement Learning with Online Bayesian Inference
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi
name: Chen, Chunlin
name: Dong, Daoyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A central capability of a long-lived reinforcement learning (RL) agent is to incrementally adapt its behavior as its environment changes, and to incrementally build upon previous experiences to facilitate future learning in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose LifeLong Incremental Reinforcement Learning (LLIRL), a new incremental algorithm for efficient lifelong adaptation to dynamic environments. We develop and maintain a library that contains an infinite mixture of parameterized environment models, which is equivalent to clustering environment parameters in a latent space. The prior distribution over the mixture is formulated as a Chinese restaurant process (CRP), which incrementally instantiates new environment models without any external information to signal environmental changes in advance. During lifelong learning, we employ the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm with online Bayesian inference to update the mixture in a fully incremental manner. In EM, the E-step involves estimating the posterior expectation of environment-to-cluster assignments, while the M-step updates the environment parameters for future learning. This method allows for all environment models to be adapted as necessary, with new models instantiated for environmental changes and old models retrieved when previously seen environments are encountered again. Experiments demonstrate that LLIRL outperforms relevant existing methods, and enables effective incremental adaptation to various dynamic environments for lifelong learning.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021
Quadratic estimates and functional calculi of perturbed Dirac operators
Creators: name: Axelsson, Andreas
name: Keith, Stephen
name: McIntosh, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove quadratic estimates for complex perturbations of Dirac-type operators, and thereby show that such operators have a bounded functional calculus. As an application we show that spectral projections of the Hodge--Dirac operator on compact manifolds depend analytically on $L_\infty$ changes in the metric. We also recover a unified proof of many results in the Calderón program, including the Kato square root problem and the boundedness of the Cauchy operator on Lipschitz curves and surfaces.
description: To appear in Inventiones Mathematicae. Minor final changes added 4/7 2005
title: Constructions of literature in GCSE English policy and their implications for teaching practice
Creators: name: Farleigh, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: This thesis explores the discursive constructions of literature in GCSE English literature policy and their implications for teaching practice. It analyses the ways in which literature is constructed through the language of policy and identifies the differences between constructions in order to understand the discourses that are drawn upon and their relationship to one another. It examines the discursive contexts within which the different constructions of literature are deployed and identifies what subject positions are made available by these constructions. Finally, this study scrutinises the relationship between discourse and practice, exploring what can potentially be thought, felt and experienced by teachers positioned by the discursive constructions of literature. This is important because with the implementation of the reformed GCSE in English literature in 2015 came a tendency for teachers to perceive the subject as something over which they had no control, resulting in a potential misconception of its purpose. This research followed an interpretive paradigm. Six teachers of literature from a school in the south of England took part in the research over six months. The data collected comprised policy documentation, group and individual interviews, observations, metaphors, and creative responses to literature. Data were analysed using Willig’s (2013) procedural guidelines for Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. The use of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis and Foucault’s social theory allowed a systematic enquiry of policy and practice in ways that threw light upon assumptions about the reformed GCSE in English literature being a ‘memory test’ that undermined teacher’s expertise. This study contributes new professional knowledge because it challenges professional assumptions about the intentions of the reformed GCSE in English literature and presents a hitherto unacknowledged disjuncture between reality and perception. Implications for both practice and research are discussed in light of this dissonance.
WHAT MATTERS FOR CONSUMERS OF ORGANIC WINE IN SWITZERLAND?
Creators: name: Mann, Stefan
name: Ferjani, Ali
name: Reissig, Linda
name: Ayala, Tatiana
name: Mann, Stefan
name: Ferjani, Ali
name: Reissig, Linda
name: Ayala, Tatiana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis

description: In an oral survey, 404 Swiss wine drinkers were interviewed in order to rank the importance of the ‘organic’ attribute for wine relative to other attributes and to identify the most important determinants of consuming organic wine.
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