cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The performance of ultra-lightweight foamed concrete incorporating nanosilica
Creators: name: Elrahman, Mohamed Abd
name: Sikora, Pawel
name: Chung, Sang-Yeop
name: Stephan, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk
subject: ultra-lightweight foamed concrete
subject: cement-based composite
subject: nanosilica
subject: microstructure
subject: compressive strength
subject: shrinkage

description: This paper aims to investigate the feasibility of the incorporation of nanosilica (NS) in ultra-lightweight foamed concrete (ULFC), with an oven-dry density of 350 kg/m3, in regard to its fresh and hardened characteristics. The performance of various dosages of NS, up to 10 wt.-%, were examined. In addition, fly ash and silica fume were used as cement replacing materials, to compare their influence on the properties of foamed concrete. Mechanical and physical properties, drying shrinkage and the sorption of concrete were measured. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray microcomputed tomography (µ-CT) and a probabilistic approach were implemented to evaluate the microstructural changes associated with the incorporation of different additives, such as wall thickness and pore anisotropy of produced ULFCs. The experimental results confirmed that the use of NS in optimal dosage is an effective way to improve the stability of foam bubbles in the fresh state. Incorporation of NS decrease the pore anisotropy and allows to produce a foamed concrete with increased wall thickness. As a result more robust and homogenous microstructure is produced which translate to improved mechanical and transport related properties. It was found that replacement of cement with 5 wt.-% and 10 wt.-% NS increase the compressive strength of ULFC by 20% and 25%, respectively, when compared to control concrete. The drying shrinkage of the NS-incorporated mixes was higher than in the control mix at early ages, while decreasing at 28 d. In overall, it was found that NS is more effective than other conventional fine materials in improving the stability of fresh mixture as well as enhancing the strength of foamed concrete and reducing its porosity and sorption.
Legal Research in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Creators: name: Hutchinson, Terry
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: In Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Richard Susskind alerts us to the waves of change aﬀ ecting the legal profession — ‘[l]egal institutions and lawyers are at a crossroads … and are poised to change more radically over the next two decades than they have over the last two centuries’. He warns that ‘[i]f you are a young lawyer, this revolution will happen on your watch’. The focus of this article is on legal research. It examines the main changes taking place in the legal landscape and identiﬁ es concerns and perspectives that unexpectedly emerged during interviews with 15 judges, publishers, practitioners and librarians. These concerns include the pressure on traditional modes of law reporting, and the extent to which technology is changing the way lawyers locate and process the law. The article poses a more serious question as to whether any of these technical research changes are signiﬁ cant for the ongoing development of the law. The article explores the way the profession as a whole must counter the uncertainty inherent in legal research in this transition era.
Price Conduction Mechanism of China’s Wheat Industry Chain Based on VECM
Creators: name: ZHU, Haiyan
name: ZHU, Haiyan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Wheat industry chain
subject: Wheat price
subject: Flour price
subject: Price conduction
subject: Threshold co-integration
subject: VECM

description: With the aid of the VECM (vector error correction model), this paper studied dynamic effect of wheat price and flour price conduction mechanism in the wheat industry chain. Study results indicate that in a long term, wheat price and flour price have equilibrium relationship. Through threshold co-integration test, it found that there is no threshold co-integration relationship between wheat price and flour price. This can be adjusted using the linear error correction mode (LECM). In a short term, the wheat price and flour price have Granger causality relationship. When the price deviates from equilibrium state, the flour price can be adjusted and regressed to equilibrium state, but the speed of wheat price regressing to equilibrium state is slow. Finally, the impulse response function analysis indicates that fluctuation of the wheat price can bring huge and sustained impact to wheat and flour market.
Constrained domain adaptation for Image segmentation
Creators: name: Bateson, Mathilde
name: Dolz, Jose
name: Kervadec, Hoel
name: Lombaert, Hervé
name: Ayed, Ismail Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose to adapt segmentation networks with a constrained formulation, which embeds domain-invariant prior knowledge about the segmentation regions. Such knowledge may take the form of simple anatomical information, e.g., structure size or shape, estimated from source samples or known a priori. Our method imposes domain-invariant inequality constraints on the network outputs of unlabeled target samples. It implicitly matches prediction statistics between target and source domains with permitted uncertainty of prior knowledge. We address our constrained problem with a differentiable penalty, fully suited for standard stochastic gradient descent approaches, removing the need for computationally expensive Lagrangian optimization with dual projections. Unlike current two-step adversarial training, our formulation is based on a single loss in a single network, which simplifies adaptation by avoiding extra adversarial steps, while improving convergence and quality of training. The comparison of our approach with state-of-the-art adversarial methods reveals substantially better performance on the challenging task of adapting spine segmentation across different MRI modalities. Our results also show a robustness to imprecision of size priors, approaching the accuracy of a fully supervised model trained directly in a target domain.Our method can be readily used for various constraints and segmentation problems.
description: Published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. First version in MICCAI 2019
Finite Theories and the SUSY Flavor Problem
Creators: name: Babu, K. S.
name: Kobayashi, Tatsuo
name: Kubo, Jisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a finite SU(5) grand unified model based on the non-Abelian discrete symmetry A_4. This model leads to the democratic structure of the mass matrices for the quarks and leptons. In the soft supersymmetry breaking sector, the scalar trilinear couplings are aligned and the soft scalar masses are degenerate, thus solving the SUSY flavor problem.
description: 17 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure
Eternal Inflation and Reheating in the Presence of the Standard Model Higgs Field
Creators: name: Jain, Mudit
name: Hertzberg, Mark P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the details of eternal inflation in the presence of a spectator Higgs field within the framework of the minimal Standard Model. We have recently shown that in the presence of scalar field(s) which allow inflation only within a finite domain of field values, the universe reaches a steady state where the normalized distribution for the field(s) converges to a steady state distribution [1]. In this paper, we analyze this eternal inflation scenario with the renormalized Standard Model Higgs potential, since it also allows inflation in a finite domain, but turns over at high scales due to the running of the self-coupling, marking an exit from inflation. We compute the full steady state distribution for the Higgs using an integral evolution technique that we formulated in [1] and the fractal dimension of the universe. We then obtain a bound on the inflationary Hubble scale in order to have a large observable universe contained within the instability scale of $H\lesssim\mathcal{O}(10^9)$GeV depending on the top mass. Upon reheating of the universe, thermal fluctuations in the Higgs field could potentially pose another problem; however, we compute the rate of thermal bubble production and find that the probability of tunneling in the post-inflationary era is negligibly small even for very high reheat temperatures.
description: 15 pages in double column format, 10 figures. V2: Further clarifications. Updated towards version published in Phys. Rev. D
Casimir effect in de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter braneworlds
Creators: name: Elizalde, Emilio
name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
name: Ogushi, Sachiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the bulk Casimir effect (effective potential) for a conformal or massive scalar when the bulk represents five-dimensional AdS or dS space with two or one four-dimensional dS brane, which may correspond to our universe. Using zeta-regularization, the interesting conclusion is reached, that for both bulks in the one-brane limit the effective potential corresponding to the massive or to the conformal scalar is zero. The radion potential in the presence of quantum corrections is found. It is demonstrated that both the dS and the AdS braneworlds may be stabilized by using the Casimir force only. A brief study indicates that bulk quantum effects are relevant for brane cosmology, because they do deform the de Sitter brane. They may also provide a natural mechanism yielding a decrease of the four-dimensional cosmological constant on the physical brane of the two-brane configuration.
description: 37 pages, LaTeX, references added, some revision is done, version to appear in PRD
Ischnocoelia mirabile Borsato
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia mirabile

description: mirabile Borsato
Ischnocoelia mirabile Borsato 2003: 511, 523, figs. 5, 13—“ Northern Territory, Nourlangie Ck., 8Km E of Mt. Cahill ” (holotype male Canberra); also from “ 12 km NN, of Mt. Cahill … (12.46S.— 132.39E),” “ Nitrniluk National Park, Katherine Gorge,” “Cahills Crossing, E Alligator River, (12.26S.— 132.58E),” “Cooper Ck., 11 km W of Nimbuwah Rock, (12.75S. 133.20E),” “ 9 km N by E of Mudginbarry HS, (12.31S.— 132.54E),” “ 12 km NNW of Mt. Cahill. ”
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Constraint Qualifications in Partial Identification
Creators: name: Kaido, Hiroaki
name: Molinari, Francesca
name: Stoye, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Econometrics (econ.EM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The literature on stochastic programming typically restricts attention to problems that fulfill constraint qualifications. The literature on estimation and inference under partial identification frequently restricts the geometry of identified sets with diverse high-level assumptions. These superficially appear to be different approaches to closely related problems. We extensively analyze their relation. Among other things, we show that for partial identification through pure moment inequalities, numerous assumptions from the literature essentially coincide with the Mangasarian-Fromowitz constraint qualification. This clarifies the relation between well-known contributions, including within econometrics, and elucidates stringency, as well as ease of verification, of some high-level assumptions in seminal papers.
description: Final version as accepted for publication in Econometric Theory
Study on the Sustainable Development of the Tobacco-growing Area in South Anhui
Creators: name: JIANG, Chun
name: TIAN, Jingjing
name: ZONG, Chengqing
name: JIANG, Chun
name: TIAN, Jingjing
name: ZONG, Chengqing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Tobacco-growing area in South Anhui
subject: Tobacco
subject: Sustainable development

description: Based on the actual situation of tobacco production in South Anhui tobacco-growing area, the paper analyzes several major constraints, and discusses several aspects such as tobacco production human resources, production of large-scale cultivation, science and technology service providers, the standardized production management and production security system. The countermeasures and suggestions for sustainable development are also put forward to provide a reference for the sustainable development of tobacco-growing area in South Anhui.
Probing Dust in the Atmosphere of Brown Dwarfs Through Polarization
Creators: name: Sengupta, Sujan
name: Krishan, Vinod
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical analysis and observational evidences indicate that a brown dwarf with effective temperature greater than 1400 K would have dust cloud in its atmosphere. In this letter, we show that dust scattering should yield polarized continuum radiation from the relatively warm brown dwarfs and the polarized flux profile could be a potential diagnosis tool for the optical and the physical properties of dust grains. The degree of polarization due to multiple scattering will be more in the optical region if the particle size is small while significant polarization should be detected in the infra-red region if the particle size is large. It is pointed out that the departure from sphericity in the shape of the object due to rapid rotation and due to tidal effect by the companion in a binary system ensures the disc integrated polarization to be non-zero.
description: 9 pages (Latex AAS v4.0), 2 postscript figures, Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal Letters
PROFITABILITY AND PROBLEMS OF EXPORTING FRESH VEGETABLE FROM BANGLADESH
Creators: name: Sabur, S. Abdus
name: Palash, M. S.
name: Khairunnahar
name: Sabur, S. Abdus
name: Palash, M. S.
name: Khairunnahar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The study was undertaken to examine the profitability of producers, margin of traders and problems encountered by exporters of fresh vegetables. In the export marketing chain the vegetables farmer sold three fourth of vegetables to the Bepari/ Selected agents. Vegetable producers received average profit of Tk. 32 by spending Tk. 100 as production cost. The agents received Tk. 12 to 13 by investing Tk. 100 within very short period of time. The study reveals that it is more profitable to export vegetables to Asian countries compared to Middle East countries. The scarcity of cargo space, high cost of airfreight, plane delay and lengthy custom procedure, low quality of packaging, poor quality of vegetables, seasonality of production and high domestic prices, lack of domestic transportation, lack of insufficient storage management, inadequate market information and off load were the major problems faced by vegetable exporters.
Distance to the stochastic part of phylogenetic varieties
Creators: name: Casanellas, Marta
name: Fernández-Sánchez, Jesús
name: Garrote-López, Marina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14P10, 14Q30, 62R01

description: Modelling the substitution of nucleotides along a phylogenetic tree is usually done by a hidden Markov process. This allows to define a distribution of characters at the leaves of the trees and one might be able to obtain polynomial relationships among the probabilities of different characters. The study of these polynomials and the geometry of the algebraic varieties defined by them can be used to reconstruct phylogenetic trees. However, not all points in these algebraic varieties have biological sense. In this paper, we explore the extent to which adding semi-algebraic conditions arising from the restriction to parameters with statistical meaning can improve existing methods of phylogenetic reconstruction. To this end, our aim is to compute the distance of data points to algebraic varieties and to the stochastic part of these varieties. Computing these distances involves optimization by nonlinear programming algorithms. We use analytical methods to find some of these distances for quartet trees evolving under the Kimura 3-parameter or the Jukes-Cantor models. Numerical algebraic geometry and computational algebra play also a fundamental role in this paper.
description: 33 pages; 11 figures; to appear in Journal of Symbolic Computation
Ischnocoelia occidentalis subsp. blumburyensis Giordani Soika 1969
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia occidentalis
Occidentalis blumburyensis giordani soika

description: occidentalis blumburyensis Giordani Soika
Ischnocoelia occidentalis blumburyensis Giordani Soika 1969: 84, male—“ Australia occidentale: Blumbury” [Bunbury] (Sydney).— Cardale 1985: 179 (cat.).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 88 (list).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Perturbative QCD Analysis of the Nucleon's Pauli Form Factor F_2(Q^2)
Creators: name: Belitsky, Andrei V.
name: Ji, Xiangdong
name: Yuan, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a perturbative QCD analysis of the nucleon's Pauli form factor $F_2(Q^2)$ in the asymptotically large $Q^2$ limit. We find that the leading contribution to $F_2(Q^2)$ has a $1/Q^6$ power behavior, consistent with the well-known result in the literature. Its coefficient depends on the leading- and subleading-twist light-cone wave functions of the nucleon, the latter describing the quarks with one unit of orbital angular momentum. We also derive at the logarithmic accurary the asymptotic scaling $F_2(Q^2)/F_1(Q^2) \sim (\log^2 Q^2/Λ^2)/Q^2$ which describes recent Jefferson Lab data well.
description: 4 papes, 3 figures included
STATUS OF PULSES VARIETIES ADOPTION IN BANGLADESH: A FARM LEVEL STUDY
Creators: name: Miah, M. A. Monayem
name: Akter, M. S.
name: Bakr, M. A.
name: Miah, M. A. Monayem
name: Akter, M. S.
name: Bakr, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The study was conducted in pulse growing areas of Bangladesh during November 2003 to April 2004 for assessing the farm level adoption status of improved pulse varieties with farmers' attitudes toward pulse production. The overall adoption of pulse varieties was very encouraging since 44% of the farmers adopted improved pulses, and 52% of the total pulse area was devoted to its production. The highly adopted varieties were BARI Mash 1, 2 and 3; BARI Lentil 4 and BARI Mung 4 and 5. Indigenous mungbean had completely been replaced by improved varieties in the study areas. The adopters plowed lands and sowed seed according to the recommendation, but could not follow the recommended sowing method and fertilizer doses. The significantly higher probability of adopting improved pulse varieties exists in extension services, influence of family member and encouragement of neighbour. Farmers' attitude toward improved pulse production was very positive since 63% of the adopters wanted to increase their present area for improved pulse production in the next year. On the other side, various agro-socio-economic constraints made many farmers pessimistic toward pulse production. The scarcity of improved pulse seed was identified as a crucial problem for its higher adoption at farm level.
What Role for Adult Guardianship in Authorising Restrictive Practices?
Creators: name: Chandler, Kim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This paper undertakes the first comprehensive analysis of the role that Australian guardianship laws play in regulating restrictive practices for people with intellectual and cognitive impairment. It identifies and critiques the five possible legal bases for authorising such decisions in the guardianship system before concluding that the law should be reformed to place decision-making about this issue on a clear, certain and consistent basis. This should be achieved by legislative reform and should not have to rely on tribunal decision-making. The paper also questions whether the guardianship system is an appropriate vehicle for regulating restrictive practices. Historically, restrictive practices were not part of decisionmaking regimes for adults with impaired capacity but it appears that it is now widely assumed to be a logical home for such practices. If that is to be the case, the guardianship system must maintain its clear focus on adults with intellectual and cognitive impairments and that the rights, interests and welfare of this cohort are paramount in decision-making about restrictive practices.
Yesterday Once More: Discrimination and LGBTI+ Seniors
Creators: name: Webb, Eileen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The rights of LGBTI+ people in Australia have been part of signiﬁcant public debate in recent times, especially with the marriage equality postal vote. However, little attention has been paid to the experiences of older LGBTI+ people, particularly those entering or already in aged care facilities. LGBTI+ seniors are far more vulnerable to interactions with care-givers than their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. Lack of education and understanding of how the law operates has resulted in many LGBTI+ seniors being unaware of how the legal system can be used to protect themselves against discrimination. Historical discrimination has also made many LGBTI+ seniors unwilling to engage with the legal system. As a result, information on the unique experiences of LGBTI+ seniors remain scarce, and steps to ensure awareness and implementation of laws that protect LGBTI+ seniors against discrimination have been minimal. This article seeks to address such concerns by providing a detailed outline of the legal protections available to LGBTI+ seniors in accommodation, ﬁ nancial and health issues, and suggesting solutions to ensure the greater protection of LGBTI+ seniors against discrimination. This research is especially pertinent due to consideration of LGBTI+ seniors in the Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Elder Abuse. Education, training, and research will be crucial in empowering LGBTI+ seniors to utilise the legal rights available to them.
Gradient Boosting Survival Tree with Applications in Credit Scoring
Creators: name: Bai, Miaojun
name: Zheng, Yan
name: Shen, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Credit scoring plays a vital role in the field of consumer finance. Survival analysis provides an advanced solution to the credit-scoring problem by quantifying the probability of survival time. In order to deal with highly heterogeneous industrial data collected in Chinese market of consumer finance, we propose a nonparametric ensemble tree model called gradient boosting survival tree (GBST) that extends the survival tree models with a gradient boosting algorithm. The survival tree ensemble is learned by minimizing the negative log-likelihood in an additive manner. The proposed model optimizes the survival probability simultaneously for each time period, which can reduce the overall error significantly. Finally, as a test of the applicability, we apply the GBST model to quantify the credit risk with large-scale real market datasets. The results show that the GBST model outperforms the existing survival models measured by the concordance index (C-index), Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) index, as well as by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of each time period.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
Ischnocoelia occidentalis subsp. occidentalis Giordani Soika 1969
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia occidentalis
Occidentalis occidentalis giordani soika

description: occidentalis occidentalis Giordani Soika
Ischnocoelia occidentalis Giordani Soika 1969: 69 (key), 82, figs. 4, 49, male, female—“ W. Australia: Dedari, 40 mls W. of Coalgardie” (holotype male London, type no. 18.108g); also from Merredin.— Cardale 1985: 179 (cat.).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 88 (list).— Borsato 2003: 525, figs. 15–17 (“morpha a” from Qld.: “ 27 km SW Bundaberg. Wallum Area,” Bundaberg, “Isis Distrect near Childers” [District], “Childers road near Bundaberg”; “morpha b” from W. A.: “Eyre Highway. 3 km E Western Australia border South Australian,” “ 70–75 km ENE of Norseman,” “ 28 km W of Balladonia (32.21S.— 123.37E)”).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Statutory Entitlements as Property: Implications of Property Analysis Methods For Emissions Trading
Creators: name: Johnson, Hope
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Legislatures are increasingly developing novel, tradeable statutory entitlements, such as transferable licences or allowances, to respond to a range of social and environmental issues. However, the statutes that establish such entitlements commonly overlook the nature and scope of the legal interests, personal or proprietary, which may exist in relation to an entitlement. As a result, courts are increasingly dealing with issues that stem from the uncertain legal nature of statutory entitlements. Issues that have arisen include whether a statute dealing with property transfers is applicable to a particular statutory entitlement, whether a regulator must pay compensation for withdrawing an entitlement or whether a statutory entitlement is capable of supporting rights that are enforceable against third parties. To determine the legal nature of statutory entitlements, courts undertake a property analysis that involves considering the attributes of a statutory entitlement against particular indicia of property. In this article, we focus on the diff erent conceptions of property and its indicia in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. This comparative analysis illustrates the distinct approaches being adopted to resolve the uncertain legal nature of statutory entitlements. Using emissions trading schemes as a case study, we explore how the diff erent property analyses adopted impact the rights and liabilities of parties as well as the functioning of statutory entitlement schemes.
Agricultural Production Economics (Second Edition); Applied Microeconomics: Consumption, Production and Markets; and Economics of Food and Agriculture, (Third Edition): Supplemental Spreadsheets, PowerPoint Files and Other Class Materials
Creators: name: Debertin, David L.
name: Debertin, David L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: microeconomics
subject: applied microeconomics
subject: production economics
subject: agricultural production economics
subject: production agriculture
subject: agricultural production
subject: consumption economics
subject: undergraduate teaching
subject: graduate teaching.

description: This publication contains a series of links containing spreadsheets, PowerPoints and other materials that should be useful for students and instructors using the books “Agricultural Production Economics (Second Edition)”; Applied Micreconomics: Consumption Production and Markets; and Economics of Food and Agriculture (Third Edition). Links for free pdf downloads of the books as well as sources for print copies are also included.
description: Supplemental class materials links for the Debertin books available through ageconsearch.
Top quark as a probe of heavy Majorana neutrino at the LHC and future collider
Creators: name: Liu, Ning
name: Si, Zong-guo
name: Wu, Lei
name: Zhou, Hang
name: Zhu, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Right-handed (RH) Majorana neutrinos play a crucial role in understanding the origin of neutrino mass, the nature of dark matter and the mechanism of matter-antimatter asymmetry. In this work, we investigate the observability of heavy Majorana neutrino through the top quark neutrinoless double beta decay process $t \to b \ell^+ \ell^+ j j$ at hadron colliders. By performing detector level simulation, we demonstrate that our method can give stronger limits on the light-heavy neutrino mixing parameters $|V_{eN, μN}|$ in the mass range of 15 GeV $< m_N
description: 6 pages, discussions added, version published in PRD (rapid communication)
Project Evaluation for Sustainable Rural Development
Creators: name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Santos, Blas
name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Santos, Blas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Sustainability
subject: project evaluation
subject: watershed development

description: A methodology of project appraisal combining the criteria of economic feasibility, acceptability, and sustainability is developed and applied to Plan Sierra, a watershed development project in the Dominican Republic. Feasibility is measured by the change in sustainable income due to the project; acceptability by the change in average annual income for the present generation; and sustainability by the difference between changes in sustainable and average annual incomes. These three criteria may be achieved by schemes of tax and subsidy between project and non-project households and between present and future generations.
Effect of Fractional Kinetic Helicity on Turbulent Magnetic Dynamo Spectra
Creators: name: Maron, Jason
name: Blackman, Eric G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic field amplification in astrophysics ultimately requires an understanding of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Kinetic helicity has long been known to be important for large scale field growth in forced MHD turbulence, and has been recently demonstrated numerically to be asymptotically consistent with slow mean field dynamo action in a periodic box. Here we show numerically that the magnetic spectrum at and below the forcing scale is also strongly influenced by kinetic helicity. We identify a critical value, $f_{h,crit}$ above which the magnetic spectrum develops maxima at wavenumber $= 1$ scale {\it and} at the forcing scale, For $f< f_{h,crit}$ the field peaks only at the resistive scale. Kinetic helicity may thus be important not only for generating a large scale field, but also for establishing observed peaks in magnetic spectra at the forcing scale. The turbulent Galactic disk provides an example where both large scale ($>$ supernova forcing scale) fields and small scale ($\le$ forcing scale, with peak at forcing scale) fields are observed. We discuss this, and the potential application to the protogalaxy, but also emphasize the limitations in applying our results to these systems.
description: version accepted to ApJL, 10 pages, 3 figs
Therapist Competence Measure Development for Comprehensive Behavioral (COMB) Treatment of Trichotillomania (TTM)
Creators: name: Gustaveson, Jacob
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 520302
subject: Clinical psychology

description: Exploratory analysis from the first randomized controlled trial of Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB) Treatment of Trichotillomania (TTM) indicated that treatment outcomes may be influenced by therapist experience: participants treated by therapists with prior TTM treatment experience saw greater improvement in self-rated hair pulling severity than their counterparts treated by therapists with no prior TTM treatment experience (Carlson et al., 2021). The purpose of the current study was to develop an instrument for assessing therapist competence in ComB delivery and perform initial tests on its psychometric properties. The ComB Competence Measure was developed for this study and is made up of 14-items, each dedicated to a specific skill in ComB. Two independent raters used the ComB Competence Measure to rate therapist competency in ComB from sixty randomly selected session recordings from the first ComB RCT (Carlson et al., 2021). Inter-rater reliability of the measure was assessed through two-way mixed model intraclass correlation coefficients with absolute agreement between the two raters and concurrent validity was assessed through difference of mean competence scores between therapists with and without prior TTM treatment experience. The measure received modest reliability support for its composite (average) score. The measure’s concurrent validity was supported, as the more experienced therapists had a significantly higher composite score compared to less experienced therapists. Refinement of the ComB competence measure would provide the means for researchers to further investigate therapist effects on treatment outcomes, facilitate study comparisons, and quality control for therapist inclusion into research studies.
O'ZBEKISTON SHAROITIDA ISTIQBOLLI TARMOQ SOHALARIDA BO'LADIGAN O'ZGARISHLAR
Creators: name: Xolyigitova, Mohigul
name: Jumashova, Charos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: O‘zbekiston iqtisodiyoti va texnologik rivojlanishi so‘nggi yillarda sezilarli o‘zgarishlarni boshdan kechirmoqda. Xususan, istiqbolli tarmoq sohalarida amalga oshirilayotgan islohotlar va kiritilayotgan innovatsiyalar mamlakatning global iqtisodiyotga integratsiyasini tezlashtirmoqda. Quyida O‘zbekiston sharoitida istiqbolli tarmoqlarda bo‘lishi kutilayotgan o‘zgarishlar va tendensiyalar haqida fikr yuritamiz.
The Legality of Walking Away from Public Service Ombudsman Reports: The United Kingdom's Experience
Creators: name: Yeom, Brian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Public sector integrity bodies, such as ombudsmen, have progressively become a core element of Australian administrative law. Despite carrying out inquisitorial functions to identify the root causes of defective public administration, there have been debates on whether the government is, or should be, legally bound by ombudsmen’s findings and recommendations. In the Bradley litigation, for example, the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal held that relevant investigated agencies cannot reject an Ombudsman’s findings without cogent reasons. Subsequent decisions in the United Kingdom have largely echoed the principle laid down by Bradley. Due to limited judicial guidance in Australia, this article analyses Bradley and relevant precedents from the United Kingdom, including recent developments, and then discusses legal implications for Australia. This article also revisits the parameters of ombudsmen’s functions and makes recommendations for potential reform to the Commonwealth Ombudsman legislation to provide greater clarity on how government departments and public authorities should respond to, and collaborate with, Ombudsman investigatory processes. It is suggested here that the Ombudsman procedure assumes a joint public responsibility to ensure access to the administration of justice: the executive arm of government, with decision-making responsibility, verifies the Ombudsman’s findings, which with its investigatory powers diagnoses the cause of alleged maladministration.
Ischnocoelia polychroma Giordani Soika 1969
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia polychroma

description: polychroma Giordani Soika
Ischnocoelia polychroma Giordani Soika 1969: 69 (key), 92, fig. 39 (polycroma [!]), 52, male, female—“ N.S.W.: Parkes” (holotype male Sydney); also from Condamine.— Cardale 1985: 179 (cat.).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 90 (list).— Borsato 2003: 528 (Qld.: “(25.57S.— 149.54E) 1 km S. Roche Creek”).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Exclusive Double-Charmonium Production from e^+ e^- Annihilation into Two Virtual Photons
Creators: name: Bodwin, Geoffrey T.
name: Braaten, Eric
name: Lee, Jungil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the contributions from QED processes involving two virtual photons to the cross sections for e^+ e^- annihilation into two charmonium states with the same C-parity. Generically, the cross sections are three orders of magnitude smaller than those for charmonia with opposite C-parity because they are suppressed by a factor of alpha^2/alpha_s^2. However, if both charmonia have quantum numbers J^{PC} = 1^{--}, then there is a contribution to the cross section that involves the fragmentation of each photon into a charmonium. The fragmentation contribution is enhanced by powers of E_{beam}/m_c, the ratio of the beam energy to the charm-quark mass, and this enhancement can compensate for the suppression factor that is associated with the coupling constants. In particular, the predicted cross section for J/psi + J/psi at the B factories is larger than that for J/psi + eta_c.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables, revised to correct errors in original version, Erratum to Phys. Rev. D article included as a separate file
Reviewing the Reviewer: The Role of the Parliamentary Joint Committee On Intelligence and Security — Constructing or Constricting Terrorism Law Review?
Creators: name: Carne, Greg
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: This content was published in the Monash University Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Monash Law School, managed by a team of student editors.
Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality, and the Hitchin system
Creators: name: Hausel, Tamas
name: Thaddeus, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14H60 (Primary); 14D21, 14H40, 14H70, 32S35 (Secondary)

description: We study the moduli spaces of flat SL(r)- and PGL(r)-connections, or equivalently, Higgs bundles, on an algebraic curve. These spaces are noncompact Calabi-Yau orbifolds; we show that they can be regarded as mirror partners in two different senses. First, they satisfy the requirements laid down by Strominger-Yau-Zaslow (SYZ), in a suitably general sense involving a B-field or flat unitary gerbe. To show this, we use their hyperkahler structures and Hitchin's integrable systems. Second, their Hodge numbers, again in a suitably general sense, are equal. These spaces provide significant evidence in support of SYZ. Moreover, they throw a bridge from mirror symmetry to the duality theory of Lie groups and, more broadly, to the geometric Langlands program.
description: 31 pages, LaTeX with packages amsfonts, latexsym, [dvips]graphicx, [dvips]color, one embedded postscript figure
A Homotopy Method Based on Theory of Functional Connections
Creators: name: Wang, Yang
name: Topputo, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A method for solving zero-finding problems is developed by tracking homotopy paths, which define connecting channels between an auxiliary problem and the objective problem. Current algorithms' success highly relies on empirical knowledge, due to manually, inherently selected homotopy paths. This work introduces a homotopy method based on the Theory of Functional Connections (TFC). The TFC-based method implicitly defines infinite homotopy paths, from which the most promising ones are selected. A two-layer continuation algorithm is devised, where the first layer tracks the homotopy path by monotonously varying the continuation parameter, while the second layer recovers possible failures resorting to a TFC representation of the homotopy function. Compared to pseudo-arclength methods, the proposed TFC-based method retains the simplicity of direct continuation while allowing a flexible path switching. Numerical simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the presented method.
Ischnocoelia robusta subsp. aurantiaca Giordani Soika
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ischnocoelia
Ischnocoelia robusta
Robusta aurantiaca giordani soika

description: robusta aurantiaca Giordani Soika
Ischnocoelia robusta aurantiaca Giordani Soika 1969: 91, female—“ W. Australia: Balladona” [Balladonia] (Adelaide).— Cardale 1985: 179 (cat.).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 92 (list).— Borsato 2003: 529.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Official Position of the Brazilian Association of Bone Assessment and Metabolism (ABRASSO) on the evaluation of body composition by densitometry—part II (clinical aspects): interpretation, reporting, and special situations
Creators: Maeda, Sergio Setsuo
Albergaria, Ben-Hur
Szejnfeld, Vera Lúcia
Lazaretti-Castro, Marise
Arantes, Henrique Pierotti
Ushida, Marcela
Domiciano, Diogo Souza
Pereira, Rosa Maria Rodrigues
Marin-Mio, Rosângela Villa
de Oliveira, Mônica Longo
de Mendonça, Laura Maria Carvalho
do Prado, Mirley
de Souza, Guilherme Cardenaz
Palchetti, Cecília Zanin
Sarni, Roseli Oselka Saccardo
Terreri, Maria Teresa
de Castro, Luiz Claudio Gonçalves
Artoni, Silvana Martinez Baraldi
Amoroso, Lizandra
Karcher, Débora Emy
Prado, Carla M.
Gonzalez, Maria Cristina
de Medeiros Pinheiro, Marcelo
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Objective

To present an updated and evidence-based guideline for the use of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to assess body composition in clinical practice.

Materials and methods

This Official Position was developed by the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Association of Bone Assessment and Metabolism (Associação Brasileira de Avaliação Óssea e Osteometabolismo, ABRASSO) and experts in the field who were invited to contribute to the preparation of this document. The authors searched current databases for relevant publications in the area of body composition assessment. In this second part of the Official Position, the authors discuss the interpretation and reporting of body composition parameters assessed by DXA and the use of DXA for body composition evaluation in special situations, including evaluation of children, persons with HIV, and animals.

Conclusion

This document offers recommendations for the use of DXA in body composition evaluation, including indications, interpretation, and applications, to serve as a guiding tool in clinical practice and research for health care professionals in Brazil.
A Composite Phononic Crystal Design for Quasiparticle Lifetime Enhancement in Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Creators: name: Puurtinen, Tuomas A.
name: Rostem, Karwan
name: de Visser, Pieter J.
name: Maasilta, Ilari J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nanoscale phononic crystal filter (reflector) is designed for a kinetic inductance detector where the reflection band is matched to the quasiparticle recombination phonons with the aim to increase quasiparticle lifetime in the superconducting resonator. The inductor is enclosed by a 1 um wide phononic crystal membrane section with two simple hole patterns that each contain a partial spectral gap for various high frequency phonon modes. The phononic crystal is narrow enough for low frequency thermal phonons to propagate unimpeded. With 3D phonon scattering simulations over a 40 dB attenuation in transmitted power is found for the crystal, which was previously estimated to give a lifetime enhancement of nearly two orders of magnitude.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (Milan, 2019)
The Meaning of Kinship in Sharecropping Contracts
Creators: name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Fukui, Seiichi
name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: Fukui, Seiichi
name: De Janvry, Alain
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Land ownership and tenure

description: Analysis of a household survey from the Philippines shows that the behavior of sharecroppers with a kinship relationship with their landlord is not affected by the terms of the contract, while the ,behavior of the other sharecroppers responds to the contract terms. We characterized the meaning of this family tie through a survey of opinion conducted among tenants. It shows that kin landlords indeed help or are expected to help more frequently in case of emergency than the other landlords, and they do so with a wider range of instruments, providing the incentive for cooperative behavior in sharecropping contracts among kin.