cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Local Political Economy of Austerity: Lessons from Hospital Closures in Romania
Creators: name: Savu, A.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Austerity
Political Costs
Central and Local Governments
Electoral Spending

description: I study whether austerity measures implemented by a central government incentivize electorally-motivated policy adjustments at the local level. To do so, I first quantify the effects of a controversial 2011 health-sector reform carried out in Romania, whereby a significant proportion of the country’s public hospitals was discontinued. Exploiting geographic constituency-level variation in austerity exposure created by this measure, I document a significant increase in local "voter-friendly" government spending targeted towards infrastructure investments in the policy’s catchment areas. Consistent with an electoral mechanism explaining this response, the evidence suggests that the effect is driven by the actions of local politicians affiliated with those responsible for the reform. To rule out alternative explanations, I take advantage of a second natural experiment wherein a party previously in opposition to those responsible for the closure of hospitals allied itself with the measure’s principal orchestrator. Following this re-alignment, I find heterogeneous increases in local voter-friendly spending which further corroborate the electoral mechanism. Overall, my results indicate that the electorally-driven responses of sub-national governments may partially mitigate the political costs of carrying out austerity.
Light Quarks, Zero Modes, and Exceptional Configurations
Creators: name: Bardeen, W.
name: Duncan, A.
name: Eichten, E.
name: Hockney, G.
name: Thacker, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In continuum QCD, nontrivial gauge topologies give rise to zero eigenvalues of the massless Dirac operator. In lattice QCD with Wilson fermions, these zero modes appear as exactly real eigenvalues of the Wilson-Dirac operator and hence as poles in the quark propagator in the vicinity of critical hopping parameter. It is shown that "exceptional configurations" which arise in the quenched approximation at small quark mass are the result of the fluctuation of the position of zero mode poles to sub-critical values of the hopping parameter on particular gauge configurations. We describe a procedure for correcting these lattice artifacts by first isolating the contribution of zero mode poles to the quark propagator and then shifting the sub-critical poles to the critical point. This procedure defines a modified quenched approximation in which accurate calculations can be carried out for arbitrarily small quark masses.
description: 36 pages, Latex, with 11 embedded figures
Reverse Political Coattails under a Technocratic Government: New Evidence on the National Electoral Benefits of Local Party Incumbency
Creators: name: Savu, A.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Central and Local Governments
Reverse Coattails
Local Incumbency
Clientelism
Political Parties
Elections

description: Does the control of local offices benefit parties in national elections when local incumbents are not strategically supported by the central government? To address this question, I study the national electoral effects of local party incumbency in the context of a technocratic central government instituted following an unexpected tragic event that forced the resignation of the previous government. Using a regression discontinuity method applied to mayoral races in Romania, I document that the control of local offices causally generated significant vote share premia in the 2016 parliamentary ballot - estimated at 10-11 percentage points, or roughly one fourth of the dependent variable’s mean. My results show that the affiliation of local incumbents can be consequential for parliamentary power absent a contemporaneous party alignment linking local and central governmental forces.
Additional file 2: of Identification and characterisation of microRNAs and their target genes in phosphate-starved Nicotiana benthamiana by small RNA deep sequencing and 5â RACE analysis
Creators: name: Huen, Amanda
name: Bally, Julia
name: Smith, Penelope
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation (.pptx). Predicted structures for N. benthamiana pri-miRNAs identified from sRNA deep sequencing. Figure S2.. Degradome T-plots for potential miRNA targets. Figure S3. Transcript abundance of targets tested by RLM 5â RACE for cleavage by phosphate starvation-responsive miRNAs. (PDF 980 kb)
title: Comparing OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia Edit Patterns During Major Events
Creators: name: Esworthy, Gary
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Openstreetmap
subject: Wikipedia
subject: Contribution patterns
subject: VGI
subject: Crowdsourcing

description: During and in the aftermath of major natural disasters and other major events, data is rapidly contributed to online sources such as Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. For Wikipedia, text, images, and sources are added to the event’s page to. On OpenStreetMap, users attempt to update maps local to the area affected by the event by adding and updating roads, buildings, and other geospatial data. In both cases, users contribute data for public consumption. This thesis examines patterns of editing during and after such events, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, of both Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap. Using the Wikipedia Application Programming Interface and the various sources of OpenStreetMap history data, user contributions of these events will be processed to attempt to establish a pattern of edits. This data is analyzed in order to characterize and compare the patterns of activity in Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap and the results are compared with other events over time. The results indicate a positive correlation between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap contribution patterns for events that had organized mapping campaigns through OpenStreetMap. The contribution patterns for events that did not have organized mapping campaigns show less correlation.
The coronal volume of energetic particles in solar flares as revealed by microwave imaging
Creators: name: Fleishman, Gregory D.
name: Loukitcheva, Maria A.
name: Kopnina, Varvara Yu.
name: Nita, Gelu M.
name: Gary, Dale E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum of gyrosynchrotron emission from solar flares generally peaks in the microwave range. Its optically-thin, high-frequency component, above the spectral peak, is often used for diagnostics of the nonthermal electrons and the magnetic field in the radio source. Under favorable conditions, its low-frequency counterpart brings additional, complementary information about these parameters as well as thermal plasma diagnostics, either through gyrosynchrotron self-absorption, free-free absorption by the thermal plasma, or the suppression of emission through the so-called Razin effect. However, their effects on the low-frequency spectrum are often masked by spatial nonuniformity. To disentangle the various contributions to low-frequency gyrosynchrotron emission, a combination of spectral and imaging data is needed. To this end, we have investigated Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA) multi-frequency images for 26 solar bursts observed jointly with Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) during the first half of 2002. For each, we examined dynamic spectra, time- and frequency-synthesis maps, RHESSI images with overlaid OVSA contours, and a few representative single-frequency snapshot OVSA images. We focus on the frequency dependence of microwave source sizes derived from the OVSA images and their effect on the low-frequency microwave spectral slope. We succeed in categorizing 18 analyzed events into several groups. Four events demonstrate clear evidence of being dominated by gyrosynchrotron self-absorption, with an inferred brightness temperature of $\geq10^8$~K. The low-frequency spectra in the remaining events are affected to varying degree by Razin suppression. We find that many radio sources are rather large at low frequencies, which can have important implications for solar energetic particle production and escape.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted to ApJ. Final paper of a series of OVSA statistical results, prior to completion of expansion of the instrument (EOVSA)
Regime Switching Models for Directional and Linear Observations
Creators: name: Harvey, A.
name: Palumbo, D.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Circular data
conditional score
cylinder
hidden Markov model
von Mises distribution
wind

description: The score-driven approach to time series modeling provides a solution to the problem of modeling circular data and it can also be used to model switching regimes with intra-regime dynamics. Furthermore it enables a dynamic model to be fitted to a linear and a circular variable when the joint distribution is a cylinder. The viability of the new method is illustrated by estimating a model with dynamic switching and dynamic location and/or scale in each regime to hourly data on wind direction and speed in Galicia, north-west Spain.
title: Gustav Klemp World War I Narrative: German Translation
Creators: name: Schubel, Dorothee
name: Menjivar, Amanda
Publisher: name: George Mason University Libraries
Year: 2024

description: German language text translation from a manuscript originally handwritten in German. This manuscript is a narrative that documents the military service experience of Gustav Klemp, a Prussian medic with the German army who served on the Eastern Front during World War I.
description: German language text translation from a manuscript originally handwritten in German. This manuscript is a narrative that documents the military service experience of Gustav Klemp, a Prussian medic with the German army who served on the Eastern Front during World War I.
Effect of Flavour Oscillations on the Detection of Supernova Neutrinos
Creators: name: Choubey, Sandhya
name: Majumdar, Debasish
name: Kar, Kamales
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrinos and antineutrinos of all three flavours are emitted during the post bounce phase of a core collapse supernova with $\numu/\nutau (\anumu/\anutau)$ having average energies more than that of $\nue(\anue)$. They can be detected by the new earth bound detector like SNO and Super-Kamiokande which are sensitive to neutrinos of all three flavours. In this letter we consider the effect of flavour oscillations on the neutrino flux and their expected number of events at the detector. We do a three-generation analysis and for the mass and mixing schemes we first consider the threefold maximal mixing model consistent with the solar and the atmospheric neutrino data and next a scenario with one $Δm^2 \sim 10^{-11} eV^2$ (solar range) and the other $Δm^2 \sim 10^{-18} eV^2$, for which the oscillation length is of the order of the supernova distance. In both these scenarios there are no matter effects in the resultant neutrino spectrum and one is concerned with vacuum oscillations. We find that though neutrino oscillations result in a depletion in the number of $\nue$ and $\anue$ coming from the supernova, the actual signals at the detectors are appreciable enhanced.
description: 13 pages LaTeX, 2 postscript figures
String Unification at Intermediate Energies: Phenomenological Viability and Implications
Creators: name: Leontaris, G. K.
name: Tracas, N. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the fact that the string scale can be many orders of magnitude lower than the Planck mass, we investigate the required modifications in the MSSM $β$--functions in order to achieve intermediate ($10^{10-13}$GeV) scale unification, keeping the traditional logarithmic running of the gauge couplings. We present examples of string unified models with the required extra matter for such a unification while we also check whether other MSSM properties (such as radiative symmetry breaking) are still applicable.
description: 11 pages, 2 figure included in the ps file, uses psfig.sty
The Schrödinger functional running coupling with staggered fermions
Creators: name: Heller, Urs M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the Schrödinger functional in lattice QCD with staggered fermions including its order $O(a)$ boundary counterterms. We relate it, in the classical continuum limit, to the Schrödinger functional as obtained in the same limit with Wilson fermions. We compute the strong coupling constant defined via the Schrödinger functional with staggered fermions at one loop and show that it agrees with the continuum running coupling constant in the Schrödinger functional formalism.
description: 24 pages. LaTeX2e with 1 macro file and 2 postscript figures
title: Report: M. B. Zuckerman, "Zurban Report," circa 1966
Creators: name: Zuckerman, M. B.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Report, copy with red pencil marks; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Report by M. B. Zuckerman entitled "Zurban Report" circa 1966. This report from Zurban Associates discusses the potential of New Towns to aid in metropolitan growth. The report also discusses the logical role that the federal government should play in developing these new towns. The Zurban Report suggests five possible areas that could be included in a federal new town program: development aid, facilities assistance, land assembly, moderate income housing programs, and a federal new town agency. Planned Community Archives Collection, 484.19
The Contribution of Taxes, Subsidies and Regulations to British Electricity Decarbonisation
Creators: name: Green, R.
name: Staffell, I.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Electricity Decarbonisation
Shapley Value
Carbon Pricing
Renewables

description: Great Britain’s carbon emissions from electricity generation fell by two-thirds between 2012 and 2019, providing an important example for other nations. This rapid transition was driven by a complex interplay of policies and events: investment in renewable generation, closure of coal power stations, raising carbon prices and energy efficiency measures. Previous studies of the impact of these simultaneous individual measures miss their interactions with each other and with exogenous changes in fuel prices and the weather. Here we use Shapley values, a concept from cooperative game theory, to disentangle these and precisely attribute outcomes (CO2 saved, changes to electricity prices and fossil fuel consumption) to individual drivers. We find the effectiveness of each driver remained stable despite the transformation seen over the 7 years we study. The four main drivers each saved 19–29 MtCO2 per year in 2019, reinforcing the view that there is no ‘silver bullet’, and a multi-faceted approach to deep decarbonisation is essential.
Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing
Creators: name: Janeway, W. H.
name: Nanda, R
name: Rhodes-Kropf, M.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Venture capital
start-ups
innovation

description: We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years -- which are related to but also distinct from macroeconomic business cycles and stock market fluctuations. Second, we review the emerging literature on the real effects of venture capital financing booms. A particular focus of this work is to highlight the potential impact that booms (and busts) can have on the types of firms that VCs choose to fund and terms at which they are funded, independent of investment opportunities -- thereby shaping the trajectory of innovation being conducted by startups. Third, an important insight from recent research is that booms in venture capital financing are not just a temporal phenomenon but can also be seen in terms of the concentration of VC investment in certain industries and geographies. We also review the role of government policy, exploring the degree to which it can explain the concentration of VC funding in the US over the past forty years in just two broad areas – information and communication technologies (ICT) and biotechnology. We conclude by highlighting promising areas of further research.
title: The Development of the AQ20 Learning System and Initial Experiments
Creators: name: Michalski, Ryszard S.
name: Cervone, Guido
name: Panait, Liviu A.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Symbolic learning
subject: Natural induction

description: Research on a new system implementing the AQ learning methodology, called AQ20, is briefly described, and illustrated by initial results from an experimental version. Like its predecessors, AQ20 is a multi-purpose learning system for inducing general concepts descriptions from concept examples and counter-examples. AQ20 is viewed as a natural induction system because it aims at producing descriptions that are not only accurate but also easy to understand and interpret. This feature is achieved by representing descriptions in the form of attributional rulesets that have a higher representation power than decision trees or conventional decision rules. Among new features implemented in AQ20 are the ability to handle continuous variables without prior discretization, to control the degree of generality of rules by a continuous parameter, and to generate more than one rule from a star. Initial experimental results from applying AQ20 to selected problems in the UCI repository demonstrate a high utility of the new system.
B^+ --> D^{*+}_s gamma and B^+ --> D^{*+} gamma as Probes of V_{ub}
Creators: name: Grinstein, Benjamin
name: Lebed, Richard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decays B^+ --> D^{*+}_s gamma and B^+ --> D^{*+} gamma can be used for an extraction of |V_{ub}|. When the b and c quarks are nearly degenerate the rate for these modes can be determined in terms of other observed rates, namely B\bar{B} mixing and D^* --> D gamma decay. To this end we introduce a novel application of heavy quark and flavor symmetries. Although somewhat unrealistic, this limit provides us with a first estimate of these rates.
description: 10 pages, latex (revtex), 2 eps figures. Corrects numerical errors in branching fraction calculation
Measurement of exclusive omega electroproduction at HERA
Creators: name: ZEUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exclusive electroproduction of omega mesons, ep -> e omega p, has been studied in the kinematic range 3 pi^+pi^-pi^0. The exclusive (ep -> e omega p) cross section in the above kinematic region is 0.108 +- 0.014(stat.) +- 0.026(syst.) nb. The reaction ep -> e phi p, phi -> pi^+pi^-pi^0, has also been measured. The cross sections, as well as the cross-section ratios omega/rho and omega/phi, are presented as a function of W and Q^2. Thus, for the first time, the properties of omega electroproduction can be compared to those of rho^0, phi and J/psi electroproduction at high W.
description: 15 pages including 4 figures
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Dijon et du Dijonnais (XVe siècle), Cart. 175 (11 H 479), 115 folios, f. 0082
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2017
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Dijon et du Dijonnais (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 175 (11 H 479), 115 folios, f. 0082, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Dijon et du Dijonnais (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 175 (11 H 479), 115 folios, f. 0082, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Molecular search with conformational change: One-dimensional discrete-state stochastic model
Creators: name: Shin, Jaeoh
name: Kolomeisky, Anatoly B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Molecular search phenomena are observed in a variety of chemical and biological systems. During the search the participating particles frequently move in complex inhomogeneous environments with random transitions between different dynamic modes. To understand the mechanisms of molecular search with alternating dynamics, we investigate the search dynamics with stochastic transitions between two conformations in a one-dimensional discrete-state stochastic model. It is explicitly analyzed using the first-passage time probabilities method to obtain a full dynamic description of the search process. A general dynamic phase diagram is developed. It is found that there are several dynamic regimes in the molecular search with conformational transitions, and they are determined by the relative values of the relevant length scales in the system. Theoretical predictions are fully supported by Monte Carlo computer simulations.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Third-Degree Price Discrimination in the Age of Big Data
Creators: name: Charlson, G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Strategic interaction
network games
interventions
industrial organisation
platforms
hypergraphs

description: A platform holds information on the demographics of its users and wants maximise total surplus. The data generates a probability over which of two products a buyer prefers, with different data segmentations being more or less informative. The platform reveals segmentations of the data to two firms, one popular and one niche, preferring to reveal no information than completely revealing the consumer's type for certain. The platform can improve profits by revealing to both firms a segmentation where the niche firm is relatively popular, but still less popular than the other firm, potentially doing even better by revealing information asymmetrically. The platform has an incentive to provide more granular data in markets in which the niche firm is particularly unpopular or in which broad demographic categories are not particularly revelatory of type, suggesting that the profit associated with big data techniques differs depending on market characteristics.
title: Paleo-oxygenation and Uranium Isotope Behavior in Lower Mississippian Black Shales of North America
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Black Scale
subject: Uranium isotopes
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Anoxia
subject: Redox environment
subject: Lower Mississippian

description: Uranium isotopes in ancient sedimentary rocks have emerged as a powerful proxy for the oxygenation history of Earth surface environments. Proper quantitative interpretation of uranium isotope data hinges, however, on an understanding of isotope fractionation associated with uranium removal to sediments under different redox conditions. Whereas oxygenated environments are plentiful in the modern ocean, studying contemporaneous uranium isotope behavior under a range of low-oxygen conditions is difficult given the paucity modern anoxic basins. For example, it is not possible to simultaneously test uranium isotope fractionation under oxic, euxinic, and ferruginous marine conditions using modern analogues. Here, we present uranium isotope data from coeval Lower Mississippian shales of the Appalachian Basin (North America) that represent a range of redox conditions. Iron speciation and trace metal data indicate that the Tournaisian Sunbury Shale was deposited across a strong redox gradient, from oxic to equivocal conditions proximal to the Catskill Delta in the northeast, to ferruginous conditions in the basin trough, to euxinic conditions towards the basin-bounding Cumberland Sill in the southwest. Overall, we find that both euxinic and ferruginous environments are capable of imparting high degrees of U isotope fractionation, and that U isotope values correlate more strongly with total organic carbon (TOC) and trace metal proxies for productivity than they do with euxinic vs. ferruginous conditions. We also compared our data to coeval carbonates from Nevada, which can be used to estimate Early Mississippian seawater U isotopes values. We find that cores deposited under more stably anoxic conditions below the redoxcline and under consistently brackish salinities away from direct freshwater sources record an increasing U isotope value through time, which loosely mirrors global seawater values. By contrast, cores deposited close to the Catskill Delta and in a shallow mixing zone near the Cumberland Sill show a decreasing U isotope trend through time which is the opposite of global seawater, indicating entirely local controls on U isotope fractionation. Ultimately, these results suggest that highly productive environments with high organic carbon loading can exert a strong control on the global U isotope mass balance regardless of whether euxinic or ferruginous conditions are present. These results necessitate a partial reassessment of the processes controlling seawater U isotope variability through Earth history.
Mapping the 13CO/C18O abundance ratio in the massive star forming region G29.96-0.02
Creators: name: Paron, S.
name: Areal, M. B.
name: Ortega, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Estimating molecular abundances ratios from the direct measurement of the emission of the molecules towards a variety of interstellar environments is indeed very useful to advance in our understanding of the chemical evolution of the Galaxy, and hence of the physical processes related to the chemistry. It is necessary to increase the sample of molecular clouds, located at different distances, in which the behavior of molecular abundance ratios, such as the 13CO/C18O ratio (X), is studied in detail. We selected the well-studied high-mass star-forming region G29.96-0.02, located at a distance of about 6.2 kpc, which is an ideal laboratory to perform this kind of studies. To study the X towards this region it was used 12CO J=3-2 data obtained from COHRS, 13CO and C18O J=3-2 data from CHIMPS, and 13CO and C18O J=2-1 data retrieved from the CDS database (observed with the IRAM 30m telescope). The distribution of column densities and X throughout the molecular cloud was studied based on LTE and non-LTE methods. Values of X between 1.5 to 10.5, with an average of 5, were found, showing that, besides the dependency between X and the galactocentric distance, the local physical conditions may strongly affect this abundance ratio. We found that correlating the X map with the location of the ionized gas and dark clouds allows us to suggest in which regions the far-UV radiation stalls in dense gaseous components, and in which ones it escapes and selectively photodissociates the C18O isotope. The non-LTE analysis shows that the molecular gas has very different physical conditions, not only spatially across the cloud, but also along the line of sight. This kind of studies may represent a tool to indirectly estimate (from molecular lines observations) the degree of photodissociation in molecular clouds, which is indeed useful to study the chemistry in the interstellar medium.
description: Accepted in A&A (July 10, 2018)
Modulation in Tetradic Harmony and its Role in Jazz
Creators: name: Agustín-Aquino, Octavio A.
name: Mazzola, Guerino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 00A65, 05E18

description: After a quick exposition of Mazzola's quantum modulation model for the so-called triadic interpretation of the major scale within the equal temperament, we study the model for the tetradic interpretation of the same scale. It is known that tetrads are fundamental for jazz music, and some classical objects for this kind of music are recovered.
Additional file 1: of Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of neuromuscular exercise and back care counseling in female healthcare workers with recurrent non-specific low back pain: a blinded four-arm randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Suni, Jaana
name: Kolu, Päivi
name: Tokola, Kari
name: Raitanen, Jani
name: Rinne, Marjo
name: Taulaniemi, Annika
name: Parkkari, Jari
name: Kankaanpää, Markku
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Methods Assessment of cost-effectiveness: outcomes measures and cost calculations; Results The calculated costs, Tables S1–S4. and Figure S1. presenting unadjusted cost-effectiveness plane and acceptability curves for sickness absence from work and for QALY. (DOCX 1439 kb)
Singlet Magnetism in Heavy Fermions
Creators: name: Barzykin, Victor
name: Gor'kov, Lev P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider singlet magnetism for the uranium ions in UPt$_3$ and URu$_2$Si$_2$ assuming that time-reversal symmetry is broken for the {\em coherent state of intermediate valence}. The relative weight of the two involved configurations should be different for UPt$_3$ and URu$_2$Si$_2$. If in UPt$_3$ the configuration $5f^1$ on the U-ion prevails in the coherent state below the magnetic transition, the magnetic moment would vanish for the particular choice of the {\em ionic} wave function. In case of URu$_2$Si$_2$, the phase transition is non-magnetic in the first approximation -- the magnetic moment arises from a small admixture of a half-integer spin configuration.
description: 12 pages, RevTex, no figures; Phys. Rev. Lett., to appear
Mussaenda membranifolia Merr.
Creators: name: Lin, Yun
name: Bi, Hai-Yan
name: Sun, Jun
name: Sun, Qian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Mussaenda
Mussaenda membranifolia

description: 42. Mussaenda membranifolia Merr.
 (Rubiaceae) in Philipp. J. Sci. 23(3): 267. 1923. TYPE:— CHINA. Hainan: Qiongzhong, 28 April 1922, F. A. McClure 2759 (i.e. Canton Christian College Herbarium 9316) (syntype: PNH, destroyed, A 00096249 image!, NY 00132296 image!, NY 00132297 image!).
 Merrill (1923) validly published the name Mussaenda membranifolia Merr. with only one gathering, McClure 9316, cited in the protologue. However, the collecting number on the label of the syntype specimen exists in A is 2759, while its herbarium number is Canton Christian College Herbarium 9316.Therefore, the erroneous collecting number is to be corrected.
description: Published as part of Lin, Yun, Bi, Hai-Yan, Sun, Jun & Sun, Qian, 2023, Correction of collecting number errors in the protologues of sixty-four taxon names from China, pp. 261-270 in Phytotaxa 613 (3) on page 267, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.613.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/8345323
The Impact of Trade on R&D: Evidence from UK Firms
Creators: name: S, Minkyu.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: R&D
Chinese competition
Firm-level trade

description: How does firm innovation respond to changing trade environments? This paper investigates this question using the matched administrative datasets for UK firms' R&D expenditures and their trade exposures between 2002 and 2011. I find a strong adverse impact of import competition from China on UK firms' R&D, which is supportive of the `Schumpeterian hypothesis'. There is no evidence that the improved access to Chinese inputs for individual firms offset this negative competition channel. Increased export demand, by contrast, significantly stimulates firms' innovation efforts. Our results also reveal heterogeneity in the R&D responses depending on the firms' initial conditions: First, more productive British firms raise their R&D spending by much more in response to increased foreign demand. Second, exporters reduce R&D by less than non-exporters in the face of the rising Chinese competition. These findings together imply that innovation of purely domestic and less profitable firms was most hurt by globalization, leading to a widening productivity gap across firms.
Sharing Asymmetric Tail Risk Smoothing, Asset Pricing and Terms of Trade
Creators: name: Corsetti, G.
name: Lipińska, A.
name: Lombardo, G.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: International Risk Sharing
Asymmetry
Fat Tails
Welfare
Transfer Problem

description: With the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the looming Climate Change, investors and policymakers around the world are bracing for a new global environment with heightened tail risk. Asymmetric exposure to this risk across countries raises the private and social value of arrangements improving insurance. We offer an analytical decomposition of the welfare effects of efficient capital market integration into a "smoothing" and a "level effect". Enhancing risk sharing affects the volatility of consumption, but also brings about equilibrium adjustment in asset and goods prices. This in turn drives relative wealth and consumption, as well as labor and capital allocation, across borders. Using model simulation, we explore quantitatively the empirical relevance of the different channels through which riskier and safer countries benefit from sharing macroeconomic risk. We offer an algorithm for the correct solution of the equilibrium using DSGE models under complete markets, at higher order of approximation.
title: Does Adjunct Faculty Status Vary By Institutional Setting?
Creators: name: Barrett, Katlin N
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adjunct faculty
subject: Teaching resources
subject: Higher education
subject: Status
subject: Institutional differences

description: This thesis investigates the Weberian concept of “status” by investigating any potential differences between Adjunct Faculty statuses based upon institutional settings. The institutional settings investigated include Two-Year, Four-Year, and For-Profit colleges and universities. This project is an exploration into the status measurements of class preparation times, number of classes worked per semester, as well as access to resources, as these factors are independent of income or what Weber calls “class”. Analysis found significant differences in the status and resources provided by institutional setting by the amount of time to prepare for classes, as well as access to resources. The specific resources that differ based upon an Adjunct Faculty’s (AF) status and institutional setting include parking, office space, telephones and curriculum guidelines. The goal of the project is to deepen understanding of Adjunct Faculty experiences and acknowledge the various settings that a contingent faculty may find themselves, as well as a be utilized in the transformation of part-time labor in higher education.
Relational Contracts and Trust in a High-Tech Industry
Creators: name: Calzolari, G.
name: Felli, L.
name: Koenen, J.
name: Spagnolo, G.
name: Stahl, K. O.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Relational Contracts
Hold-up
Buyer-Supplier Contracts
Bargaining Power

description: We study how informal buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry affect procurement. Using unique data from a survey focusing on these, we show that more trust, the belief that the trading partner acts to maintain the mutual relationship, is associated with both higher quality of the automotive parts and more competition among suppliers. Yet both effects hold only for parts involving unsophisticated technology, not when technology is sophisticated. We rationalize these findings within a relational contracting model that critically focuses on changes in the bargaining power, due to differences in the costs of switching suppliers.
The Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings: Exploring the Mechanisms
Creators: name: Bolt, U.
name: French, E.
name: Hentall MacCuish, J.
name: O'Dea, C.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Parental Investments
Cognitive Skills
Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings

description: Using data covering a single cohort's first 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during childhood. To decompose the fraction of the IGE explained by each of these channels, we implement a multi-level mediation analysis combined with a latent factor framework that accounts for measurement error. Multilevel mediation analysis allows us to assess not only the direct effect of each channel on the IGE, but also its indirect effects working through the other channels, thus providing an in-depth understanding of the link between parents' and children's earnings. Of these channels, we show that the main driver of the IGE is increased levels of parental investments received by children of high income parents early in their lives, which encourages greater cognitive development and lifetime earnings.
Exotic hadronic states and all-to-all quark propagators
Creators: name: Michael, Chris
name: Peisa, Janne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss methods to obtain accurate hadronic spectra with propagating quarks. Comparing the determination of masses for spin-exotic hybrid mesons with glueball mass determinations, we conclude that quark propagators from all sites to all other sites would enable great improvement in the errors. Such propagators are achievable by using stochastic estimators. We discuss previous attempts and present our method for maximal variance reduction. This is a very promising technique and we illustrate it by obtaining the spectrum of ground state and excited B mesons in the limit where the $b$ quark is static.
description: 6 pages, LATEX, 2 postscript figures, needs espcrc2.sty
Aspirational pursuit of mates in online dating markets
Creators: name: Bruch, Elizabeth E.
name: Newman, M. E. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Romantic courtship is often described as taking place in a dating market where men and women compete for mates, but the detailed structure and dynamics of dating markets have historically been difficult to quantify for lack of suitable data. In recent years, however, the advent and vigorous growth of the online dating industry has provided a rich new source of information on mate pursuit. Here we present an empirical analysis of heterosexual dating markets in four large US cities using data from a popular, free online dating service. We show that competition for mates creates a pronounced hierarchy of desirability that correlates strongly with user demographics and is remarkably consistent across cities. We find that both men and women pursue partners who are on average about 25% more desirable than themselves by our measures and that they use different messaging strategies with partners of different desirability. We also find that the probability of receiving a response to an advance drops markedly with increasing difference in desirability between the pursuer and the pursued. Strategic behaviors can improve one's chances of attracting a more desirable mate, though the effects are modest.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables
Pionium lifetime corrections
Creators: name: Sazdjian, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pionium lifetime corrections are evaluated in the frameworks of constrained Bethe-Salpeter equation and chiral perturbation theory. Corrections of order $O(α)$ are calculated with respect to the conventional lowest-order formula, in which the strong interaction amplitude has been calculated to two-loop order with charged pion masses. The total correction is found to be of the order of $(6.1\pm 2.0)%$.
description: 9 pages, Latex. Uses Dubna98.sty. Talk given at the Int. Workshop "Hadronic Atoms and Positronium in the Standard Model", Dubna, 26-31 May 1998. To appear in the Proceedings
Wigner symmetry in the limit of large scattering lengths
Creators: name: Mehen, Thomas
name: Stewart, Iain W.
name: Wise, Mark B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We note that in the limit where the NN 1S0 and 3S1 scattering lengths, a^(1S0) and a^(3S1), go to infinity, the leading terms in the effective field theory for strong NN interactions are invariant under Wigner's SU(4) spin-isospin symmetry. This explains why the leading effects of radiation pions on the S-wave NN scattering amplitudes vanish as a^(1S0) and a^(3S1) go to infinity. The implications of Wigner symmetry for NN to NN axion and gamma d to n p are also considered.
description: 4 pages, 2 figs, minor typos and discussion regarding the number of three body operators corrected
Additional file 1 of Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data
Creators: name: Davis, Nicole
name: Proctor, Diana
name: Holmes, Susan
name: Relman, David
name: Callahan, Benjamin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Appendix: Supplemental Methods. Figure S1. Concentration of contaminant features across oral samples. Figure S2. Histogram of decontam scores in the oral mucosa dataset, weighted by ASV relative abundance. Figure S3. Histogram of decontam scores in the oral mucosa dataset, stratified by reference-based classification. Figure S4. Histogram of decontam scores in the preterm birth dataset. Figure S5. Density plot of scores assigned by the frequency and prevalence methods in the preterm birth dataset. (PDF 1208â kb)
Why Do Couples and Singles Save During Retirement?
Creators: name: De Nardi, M.
name: French, E.
name: Bailey Jones, J.
name: McGee, R.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Year: 2021
Subjects: Savings
bequests
medical spending

description: While the savings of retired singles tend to fall with age, those of retired couples tend to rise. We estimate a rich model of retired singles and couples with bequest motives and uncertain longevity and medical expenses. Our estimates imply that while medical expenses are an important driver of the savings of middle-income singles, bequest motives matter for couples and highincome singles and generate transfers to nonspousal heirs whenever a household member dies. The interaction of medical expenses and bequest motives is a crucial determinant of savings for all retirees. Hence, to understand savings, it is important to model household structure, medical expenses, and bequest motives.
Neutron production by cosmic-ray muons at shallow depth
Creators: name: Boehm, F.
name: Busenitz, J.
name: Cook, B.
name: Gratta, G.
name: Henrikson, H.
name: Lawrence, J. Kornis D.
name: Lee, K. B.
name: McKinny, K.
name: Miller, L.
name: Novikov, V.
name: Piepke, A.
name: Ritchie, B.
name: Tracy, D.
name: Vogel, P.
name: Wang, Y-F.
name: Wolf, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The yield of neutrons produced by cosmic ray muons at a shallow depth of 32 meters of water equivalent has been measured. The Palo Verde neutrino detector, containing 11.3 tons of Gd loaded liquid scintillator and 3.5 tons of acrylic served as a target. The rate of one and two neutron captures was determined. Modeling the neutron capture efficiency allowed us to deduce the total yield of neutrons $ Y_{tot} = (3.60 \pm 0.09 \pm 0.31) \times 10^{-5}$ neutrons per muon and g/cm$^2$. This yield is consistent with previous measurements at similar depths.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
title: The Determination, Quantification, and Analysis of Organic Nitrogen Compounds in Alaskan North Slope Diesel
Creators: name: Le, Hien
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Organonitrogen compounds
subject: GC/MS
subject: Alaskan North Slope Diesel
subject: Acid extraction
subject: Silica gel adsorption
subject: Quinolines

description: This study investigated a high nitrogen diesel fuel, which was derived from Alaskan North Slope oil. The purpose was to quantify the organonitrogen component distribution by using two methods: mild acid extraction and silica gel adsorption. The organonitrogen compounds of the Alaskan diesel fuel were isolated and analyzed. After the isolation process, three extracts were produced: a basic nitrogen extract (BNC) in methylene chloride, a nonbasic nitrogen extract (NBNC) in methylene chloride, and a NBNC in methanol. These extracts were studied by identifying the major constituents in each extract, which affect the fuel stability, using the GC/MS. Results from our laboratory indicated that alkyl substituted quinolines were the dominant class of compounds in all three extracts. In the BNC extract, there were two major functional groups present: pyrazines at 22.37%, and indole at 7.74%. In the NBNC/CH3Cl extract, alkylated pyrroles and carbazoles dominated with 37.25% and 15.8%, respectively. Lastly, in the NBNC/ CH3OH extract, carbazoles at 8.23% and pyrroles at 29.6% prevailed.