cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cosmic Rays and Spectral Distortions from Collapsing Textures
Creators: name: Brandenberger, Robert
name: Cyr, Bryce
name: Jiao, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the energy spectrum of photons and neutrinos produced by the unwinding of a scaling distribution of cosmic textures, and discuss the implications for the spectrum of high energy cosmic rays, and for CMB spectral distortions. Textures lead to a contribution to the photon flux which scales as $E^3 F(E) \sim E^{3/2}$. Hence, the tightest constraints on the texture model come from the highest energies from which primordial photons can reach us without being scattered by the CMB and other foregrounds. Textures lead to both $μ$ type and $y$ type distortions. While the constraints on the texture model coming from the current COBE bounds are weaker than the bounds from the angular power spectrum of the CMB, future surveys such as PIXIE can lead to stronger bounds. The high energy neutrino flux is constrained by data from the Pierre Auger experiment and yields a bound on the energy scale of textures which is competitive with CMB bounds.
description: 8 pages, discussion of the neutrino flux added, version accepted for publication in JCAP
title: Cocoon - ein Zelt für Radreisen
Creators: name: Boschitz, Nicole
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Architektonischer Entwurf
subject: architectural design

description: Ziel der Masterarbeit Cocoon - ein Zelt für Radreisen war es, ein Ein-Personen-Zelt für Fahrradreisen zu entwickeln, welches eine Verbindung zum Fahrrad herstellt sowie platzsparend transportiert werden kann. Der Entwurf geht auf die Bedürfnisse eines Radreisenden ein und ist in Form und Material so minimalistisch als möglich gehalten. Durch die Möglichkeit der Verbindung zweier oder dreier Zelte, kann eine Schnittstelle erschaffen werden, die es gemeinsam Reisenden ermöglicht miteinander zu kommunizieren.
description: This thesis Cocoon - a tent for cycle tours aims at developing a one-person tent forming a physical symbiosis with the bicycle, saving space and ensuring mobility at the same time. Design, form and material are geared exactly to meet the needs of cycle tourists. The possibility of connecting two or more tents creates an interface allowing interaction between cyclists travelling together.
Supplementary figures and tables from Individualized fMRI neuromodulation mechanisms enhance visual imagery, motor planning, and selective exteroceptive-interoceptive attention networks for visual perception.
Creators: name: Allam, Anthony
name: Allam, Vincent
name: Reddy, Sandy
name: Rohren, Eric
name: Sheth, Sameer A.
name: Froudarakis, Emmanouil
name: Papageorgiou, T. Dorina
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplemental Information.pdf
Phương pháp nắn trực giao ảnh vệ tinh độ phân giải cao sử dụng mô hình số bề mặt DSM Lidar
Creators: name: Thanh, Tung Dang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 40499 Geophysics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 40305 Marine Geoscience
subject: 40607 Surface Processes
subject: 50104 Landscape Ecology

description: Nowadays, high resolution satellite imagery and Lidar data are two of the main data sources for setting up high accuracy detailed GIS. Typically, in Lidar projects
airphotos and LiDAR point clouds are simultaneously acquired but if due to technical situation (night fly or malfunction with photocamera) there is no airphoto, high resolution satellite image is relatively compatible alternative in term of level of detail to accompany with Lidar data through post-processing as well as information extraction. The orthorectification using DSM increases accuracy of orthophoto, removes displacement of high
feature especially in those residential area with high density of buildings. This article presents research results on methods for satellite image rectification, requirements of
control points and proposes a workflow for ortho-rectification of satellite image using DSM Lidar. Experimental work in the town of BacGiang with WorldView-1, panchromatic, resolution 0.5m image utilizing DSM from Lidar 2.5 points/m2 is
introduced. Results of ortho-rectification using DEM and DSM are compared and
evaluated. Conclusions and recommendations are drawned for applying proposed
workflow in the future based on experimental results.
title: Identification and Characterization of MicroRNAs Modulating Cardiac Hypertrophy
Creators: name: Braga, Luca
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: The adult heart is capable of remodelling in response to different pathological stimuli; in most cases, a phase of compensated hypertrophy evolves into frank dysfunction and heart failure. To identify microRNAs able to prevent cardiac hypertrophy and preserve cardiac function, we performed a high-content microscopy, high-throughput functional screening for human microRNAs able to reduce neonatal cardiomyocyte (CM) cell size using a whole-genome microRNA library. The most effective anti-hypertrophic microRNA was hsa-miR-665. In a model of transverse abdominal aortic constriction (TAC) in 8 weeks old CD1 mice (n=14 per group), AAV9-mediated delivery of miR-665 showed remarkable capacity to protect against pathological cardiac hypertrophy and preserve function over time. This effect was observed when the vectors were delivered either before (LVEF at 60 day after TAC: 51.3% ±5.8% in treated vs 34.82% ±0.77% in controls; P<0.005) or after hypertrophy onset (LVEF at 60 days after TAC: 57.5%±5.60% in treated vs 28.4%±15% in controls; P<0.001). Global mRNA changes in hearts treated with miR-665 were evaluated by mRNA deep sequencing. All the 43 genes, for which siRNA were available, out of the 67 genes that were found to be significantly expressed ≤2 fold over control were individually down-regulated by specific siRNAs and tested for being direct miR-665 targets. This approach identified three sarcomeric proteins as direct mediators of miR-665 activity, namely Enah, Fhl1 and Xirp2, which are known to be involved in sarcomeric mechanotransduction and myofibrillar remodelling. In conclusion, miR-665 represents an important tool to decipher the molecular mechanisms of hypertrophy and offers a potential lead for the development of new biotherapeutics.
Low literacy levels likely to impede rural women’s success in business
Creators: name: Guloba, Madina
name: Ssewanyana, Sarah
name: Birabwa, Elizabeth
name: Guloba, Madina
name: Ssewanyana, Sarah
name: Birabwa, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Agribusiness
Labor and Human Capital

description: Being literate is a prerequisite in business management and sustainability. While evidence shows that Uganda’s entrepreneurial potential is high globally, female entrepreneurs were still being presented with limited opportunities to expand their business and few tried to increase or independently manage their enterprises. Education levels for women especially in rural areas and among the youth is still low and hence most likely to miss out of government programmes that aim to uplift their livelihoods such as those targeting income enhancement amidst agricultural shortfalls. Programmes must offer mixed approaches in enterprise business chain and emphasis on adult literacy programmes along entrepreneurship is vital for rural business sustainability.
Lidar intensity image reveal information about land cover in the sort wave infrared spectral range with high spatial resolution .....................................................................Phương pháp phân loại lớp phủ bề mặt sử dụng ảnh cường độ phản hồi từ dữ liệu Lidar kết hợp với ảnh viễn thám
Creators: name: Thanh, Tung Dang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 40699 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Physical Geography

description: ion at sub meter resolution. The article introduce common methods for classification namely: decision tree; object oriented; maximum likelihood, nearest neighborhood, neuron network. These methods are experimented with 4 different combination of above mentioned input data sources for test area in Bac Giang city. Classification evaluation using error matrix shows that in the best case we can distinguish 8 land cover classes: grass and bush; high tree; dry vacant land; wet vacant land; asphalt road; tiled roof; concrete roof with accuracy around 85- 90% when applying neuron network method using all the available input data. The research result opens up opportunity to quick establishment of land cover layer from Lidar data to add tolarge scale geodatabase.
Representation theory and random point processes
Creators: name: Borodin, Alexei
name: Olshanski, Grigori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We discuss a connection between two areas of mathematics which until recently seemed to be rather distant from each other: (1) noncommutative harmonic analysis on groups and (2) some topics in probability theory related to random point processes. In order to make the paper accessible to readers not familiar with either of these areas, we explain all needed basic concepts. This is an extended version of G.Olshanski's talk at the 4th European Congress of Mathematics.
description: AMSTeX, 20 pages
Il B2B e il paradigma dei costi di transazione (B2B and the Transaction Costs Paradigm)
Creators: name: Sabbatini, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cost, Transaction Costs, Transactions
subject: D23, L86

description: Business to Business (B2B) Internet commerce causes a significant contraction of transaction costs. According to the Coase paradigm, we would thus expect a deverticalization of the industry and broader scope for anonymous market mechanisms. In reality, such expectations are not fully borne out by the facts. When the industrial structure is concentrated the B2Bgenerally loses its independence, and is owned by the firms which most contribute to its development, e.g. the ones able to bring the liquidity to it. The B2B governance mechanism established by these firms gives hierarchical mechanisms a role which they do not usually play in extensive, anonymous markets. JEL Codes: D23, L86 Keywords: Cost, Transaction Costs, Transactions
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 54, N. 214 (2001)
Quark recombination and elliptic flow
Creators: name: Pratt, Scott
name: Pal, Subrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elliptic flow systematics for different hadron species have been explained by quark coalescence models. It has been argued that the elliptic asymmetry v_2 should scale with the number of quarks that comprise the hadron. We show how these arguments are sensitive to the relative role of asymmetries in the phase space density vs. asymmetries in the effective volume of emission. We also discuss the degree to which coalescence arguments differ from thermal models. Illustrative calculations based on solving the Boltzmann equation are presented along with the results of blast-wave models. Although the issue is complicated, ambiguities might be clarified by measurements of source-size parameters for nucleons at higher transverse momenta.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Oltre la scuola dell’obbligo. Un’analisi empirica della decisione di proseguire nell’istruzione post-obbligatoria in Italia (Beyond Post-Compulsory Schooling: An Empirical Analysis of the Decision to Go On in Post-Compulsory Education in Italy)
Creators: name: Bratti, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Education, Schooling
subject: I21, I28

description: In this paper we analyse the decision to continue in post-compulsory education in Italy. Using data from the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) of the Bank of Italy we estimate binary choice models (probit and logit) with the primary aim of investigating factors which affect the decision to continue in post-compulsory education. The estimates of the econometric model show that the individual with the smallest probability to continue in education has one or more of the following attributes: residence in the South, in big towns, father without formal education, self-employed or working in the agricultural sector, mother with less than high secondary schooling (licenza media superiore). The role of family income in shaping educational decisions is especially important in Central and Southern Italy, where income levels are lower. The economic variables whose role is emphasised by the mainstream approach to educational choices, the theory of human capital, turn out not to be significant in the explanation of post-compulsory schooling in Italy where social and long-term and short-term family factors appear to be dominant. JEL Codes: I21, I28 Keywords: Education, Schooling
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 54, N. 214 (2001)
Hypoxylonone, a new oxa-bridged seven-membered ring analog from fungus Hypoxylon cf. subgilvum SWUF15-004
Creators: name: Jantaharn, Phongphan
name: Mongkolthanaruk, Wiyada
name: Suwannasai, Nuttika
name: Senawong, Thanaset
name: Boonmak, Jaursup
name: Youngme, Sujittra
name: McCloskey, Sirirath
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology

description: A new oxa-bridged seven-membered ring analog, hypoxylonone (1), and thirteen known compounds (2–14) were isolated from fungus Hypoxylon cf. subgilvum SWUF15-004. The structures were elucidated by the analysis of spectroscopic (IR, 1 D and 2 D NMR), HRESIMS and X-ray diffraction (MoKα) data. Several isolated compounds were evaluated for cytotoxicity against four human cancer cell lines (HeLa, HT29, MCF-7, A549). Compound 1 exhibited weak inhibitory effects of the nitric oxide production in RAW264.7 cells. Compounds 8 and 9 exhibited slight cytotoxicity.
On the variability of the iron line in Mrk 841
Creators: name: Longinotti, A. L.
name: Nandra, K.
name: Petrucci, P. O.
name: O'Neill, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Petrucci et al. (2002; hereafter P02) have reported extraordinary behaviour of the iron K alpha line in the type 1 AGN Mrk 841. At the XMM-Newton/EPIC resolution, a narrow line was observed in a short observation, which then apparently disappeared around 0.5 days later when another observation was performed. The limits are such that the line cannot both be narrow, and variable at this level, as the light-travel time places the material at a radius where broadening by the black hole's gravitational field is inevitable. Adding an additional observation taken before the P02 data, we present a different interpretation of the apparent variability. The data support the hypothesis that the line in fact varies in width, not only in flux. Rather than showing no line, and despite the strong Compton reflection component, the final observation exhibits broad emission at ~ 6.2-6.4 keV, with a width of ~0.8 keV, typical of a relativistic accretion disc. We suggest that the apparently narrow line in the early observations arises from local illumination by a flare inducing an hotspot in the inner disc, which then becomes progressively broadened as the disc rotates.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS in press
title: Beating the Boundaries: An Exploration of BDSM as Religioning
Creators: name: Robertson, Alison R
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: The focus of this research is an exploration of BDSM experience as it emerges from the complex interactions of kink activities and relationships. It argues that practices which are ostensibly not religious can be understood as contributing to personal processes of religioning. Enriching debates about living religion, I offer the idea of gestalt as a tool to address the question of how examples of a given practice which is a part of religioning might be distinguished from those where it is not. A gestalt is something felt to be more or other than the sum of its constituent parts; it is an emergent, felt quality that is neither perceptual nor cognitive. A sense of gestalt arises unpredictably from an individual's whole experience of a given phenomenon as it is integrated into their world and, when it appears, it changes the value, significance and meaning of the phenomenon. Thus, kink experience is presented as a crucible where personal outcomes and meaning can be distilled from the concentrated matter therein. I argue that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience.
Comparative study of four Yucca species by 2D-NMR and LC-MS
Creators: name: Falev, Danil I.
name: Faleva, Anna V.
name: Krylov, Ilya A.
name: Sukhanov, Anton E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The present study was conducted to compare leaf extracts of Y. gloriosa, Y. treculeana, Y. filamentosa and Y. aloifolia. Plant extracts were obtained by sequential extraction with 50% and 100% methanol using the pressurized liquid extraction method. General comparative analysis of Yucca extracts was performed by 2 D-NMR. The presence of various biologically active components in the extracts was shown, among which steroid saponins predominate. The use of LC-MS and LC-HRMS methods with electrospray ionization made it possible to conduct a comparative analysis of Yucca steroidal saponins. The 33 steroidal saponins of various structures were found. The presence of three characteristic saponins in all Yucca species was shown: yuccaloeside C, yuccaloeside E and yuccaloeside B. The results obtained can be used to control the quality of plant materials and products.
Governments’ financing of social protection initiatives dismal
Creators: name: Guloba, Madina
name: Ssewanyana, Sarah
name: Birabwa, Elizabeth
name: Guloba, Madina
name: Ssewanyana, Sarah
name: Birabwa, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Food Security and Poverty

description: Vulnerabilities within the economy are many, and females are at a higher disadvantage. The need for multi-faced interventions from both state and non-state actors is essential in addressing various vulnerabilities within different social groups.While there are recognised efforts from government to protect its citizens, the limited coordination in financing priorities are not reflecting this. Such that despite expenditure allocations to domestic development in social sectors increasing, the finances allocated to Social Protection by government are still very low for the programmes to achieve social inclusiveness nationally.
Conformal inflation in the metric-affine geometry
Creators: name: Mikura, Yusuke
name: Tada, Yuichiro
name: Yokoyama, Shuichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Systematic understanding for classes of inflationary models is investigated from the viewpoint of the local conformal symmetry and the slightly broken global symmetry in the framework of the metric-affine geometry. In the metric-affine geometry, which is a generalisation of the Riemannian one adopted in the ordinary General Relativity, the affine connection is an independent variable of the metric rather than given e.g. by the Levi-Civita connection as its function. Thanks to this independency, the metric-affine geometry can preserve the local conformal symmetry in each term of the Lagrangian contrary to the Riemannian geometry, and then the local conformal invariance can be compatible with much more kinds of global symmetries. As simple examples, we consider the two-scalar models with the broken $\mathrm{SO}(1,1)$ or $\mathrm{O}(2)$, leading to the well-known $α$-attractor or natural inflation, respectively. The inflaton can be understood as their pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson.
description: 6 pages, v2: published version, EPL Editor's Choice, v3: references added
Isolation, crystal structure and DFT study of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-oxo-piperidinium nitrate isolated from the stembark of Vitex doniana (Lamiaceae)
Creators: name: Bunu, Musa Ismaila
name: Ikhile, Monisola Itohan
name: Lembe, Jordan Tonga
name: Kengne, Michael Hermann Kamdem
name: Fotsing, Marthe Carine Djuidje
name: Arderne, Charmaine
name: Rhyman, Lydia
name: Mmutlane, Edwin Mpho
name: Ramasami, Ponnadurai
name: Ndinteh, Derek Tantoh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: We present the results of the analysis of 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-oxo-piperidinium nitrate isolated from the stem bark of Vitex doniana, a tree growing in Nigeria. The low-temperature molecular structure comprises one 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-oxopiperidinium cation and one nitrate anion as one molecule in the asymmetric unit. The compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/n. A portion of the nitrate anion exhibits positional disorder with the main disorder component present 66.253(2) % of the time and the minor disorder component present 33.279(2) % of the time. In comparison with the previously reported room-temperature structure of C9H18N2O4 . The low-temperature structure shows similarity with the piperidinium ring adopting a slightly deformed chair conformation while the nitrate anion is disordered. DFT method was used to complement the experimental study.
Gestione delle acque, pace nel Medio Oriente e un ruolo per la Banca Mondiale (Water Management, Middle East Peace and a Role for the World Bank)
Creators: name: Askari, Hossein
name: Brown, Catherine
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Water
subject: Q25, Q28, Q15, Q13

description: The region comprising North Africa and the Middle East is the driest in the world. Thus conflicts over water have been a part of the landscape. These conflicts over water are invariably seen as a zero sum game; such a view does not incorporate the notion that water is an economic good and is therefore scarce. Given the limitation of competitive markets, optimal water allocation could only but help. However, even if one country allocates water efficiently within its own territory, its allocation could be sub-optimal if water interdependencies with other countries are not incorporated in a regional optimization model. The World Bank is in the best position to adopt a regional optimization model and thus ameliorate water conditions in the Middle East and in other regions around the world. JEL Codes: Q25, Q28, Q15, Q13 Keywords: Water
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 54, N. 214 (2001)
Spesa pensionistica:quanto conta la crescita economica? (Paying for Pensions: How Important Is Economic Growth? )
Creators: name: Visco, Ignazio
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ageing, Demographics, Expenditure, Growth, Pension, Population
subject: H55, O40, J14, J11, J26

description: This paper focuses on the scope for a higher level of output and faster productivity growth to ease future fiscal pressures stemming from demographic developments in OECD countries over the next fifty years. After concluding that, without substantial reforms, pressure on government spending linked to ageing populations (both on pensions and health expenditures), will in general result in significant increases in expenditures to GDP ratios, the paper examines how these pressures might be redressed. Responses which focus on achieving an increase in the average number of years individuals spend active in the labour force and raising the level as well as widening the sources of individual provision of retirement income are recommended. Increasing output (through lower structural unemployment and higher female and elderly workers' participation rates) and its rate of growth (through gains in productivity) are seen as offering a complementary, though limited, response. JEL Codes: H55, O40, J14, J11, J26 Keywords: Ageing, Demographics, Expenditure, Growth, Pension, Population
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 54, N. 215 (2001)
Thermopower of the Hubbard model: Effects of multiple orbitals and magnetic fields in the atomic limit
Creators: name: Mukerjee, Subroto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider strongly-correlated systems described by the multi-orbital Hubbard model in the atomic limit and obtain exact expressions for the chemical potential and thermopower. We show that these expressions reduce to the Heikes formula in the appropriate limits ($k_BT \gg U$) and ($k_BT \ll U$) and obtain the full temperature dependence in between these regimes. We also investigate the effect of a magnetic field introduced through a Zeeman term and observe that the thermopower of the multi-orbital Hubbard model displays spikes as a function of magnetic field at certain special values of the field. This effect might be observable in experiments for materials with a large magnetic coupling.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures Typos in eqns. 3 and 4 and reference 17 corrected
Symmetry protected topological phases beyond groups: The q-deformed Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki model
Creators: name: Quella, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that the $q$-deformed spin-1 AKLT Hamiltonian should be regarded as a representative of a symmetry protected topological phase. Even though it fails to exhibit any of the standard symmetries known to protect the Haldane phase it still displays all characteristics of this phase: Fractionalized spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ boundary spins, non-trivial string order and - when using an appropriate definition - a two-fold degeneracy in the entanglement spectrum. We trace these properties back to the existence of an $SO_q(3)$ quantum group symmetry and speculate about potential links to discrete duality symmetries. We expect our findings and methods to be relevant for the identification, characterization and classification of other symmetry-protected topological phases with non-standard symmetries.
description: 8 pages, v2: Added some discussion on qAKLT states based on higher auxiliary spins and their entanglement properties, v3: Changed title to conform to journal guidelines, moved one section from the appendix to the main text and added more comments and references concerning twisted boundary conditions. Version as submitted to and accepted in Phys Rev B as a Rapid Communication (Editors' Suggestion)
Country Reviews of Capacity Development: The Case of Uganda
Creators: name: Lakuma, Corti Paul
name: Katunze, Miraim
name: Nagawa, Maria
name: Mawejje, Joseph
name: Lwanga, Musa
name: Mbowa, Swaibu
name: Shinyekwa, Isaac
name: Lakuma, Corti Paul
name: Katunze, Miraim
name: Nagawa, Maria
name: Mawejje, Joseph
name: Lwanga, Musa
name: Mbowa, Swaibu
name: Shinyekwa, Isaac
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Financial Economics
Labor and Human Capital
Public Economics

description: Poorly functioning public sector institutions and weak governance are major constraints to growth and equitable development in many developing countries. It is imperative that as Uganda confronts its development challenge, it must address the capacity deficits in the policy environment and implementation for sustainable development results and outcomes. Capacity building is important to Uganda, given the mixed performance that the country has had in the past 30 years. In particular, this study notes success in macroeconomic stability, consolidating security and the restructuring of the government during the Economic Recovery Programme (ERP). Similarly, the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) supported poverty reduction by building the capacity of social sectors to expand agricultural production and education and health access. The success of the ERP and the PEAP is largely attributed to donor support in capacity-building effort in institutions such as the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) and the Bank of Uganda (BoU).
Uganda Country Policy and Institutional Assessment Study for the period 2013/14 and 2014/15
Creators: name: Lwanga, Musa Mayanja
name: Guloba, Madina
name: Munyambonera, Ezra Francis
name: Lwanga, Musa Mayanja
name: Guloba, Madina
name: Munyambonera, Ezra Francis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: The Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) evaluates the quality of a country’s present policy and institutional framework. Quality refers to how conducive that framework is to fostering poverty reduction, sustainable growth, and the effective use of development assistance. The CPIA ratings are used in the International Development Aid (IDA) allocation process and several other corporate activities and are consistent with the economic rating of the World Bank and the African Development Bank. This report presents the CPIA rankings for Uganda, as guided by document reviews, with validation and agreement by the key stakeholders. The rankings are based on a number of different criteria, including four major themes divided into various sub-themes that are subdivided into specific economic indicators. The four thematic areas include: Economic Management; Structural Policies; Social Inclusion/Inequality; and Governance focusing on Public Sector Management and Institutions.
Reproductive Biology of Pacific Oyster_JJBS.pdf
Creators: name: Ternala Alexander Barus
name: Kasmini, Lili
name: M. Ali Sarong
name: Miswar Budi Mulya
name: Agung  Setia Batubara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60201 Behavioural Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The reproductive biology of pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) was studied in the coastal area of Banda Aceh City, Aceh Province, Indonesia. This study was conducted over six months from July to December, 2017. The samples were collected following the seasons. July to August represented the dry season, while September to October represented the transition season, and November to December had been within the rainy season. Surveys and observations were conducted at two locations, Tibang and Ulee Lheue, where samples were collected with a minimum of 150 samples per location per month. Data collection is done by the line transect method. The results of the analysis showed that the male oyster gonad first matured at a total length of 26.40 mm in Tibang and at the total length of 25.45 mm in Ulee Lheue. Furthermore, the female oyster gonad first matured at 20.46 mm of total length in Tibang and at a total length of 25.24 mm in Ulee Lheue. The range of oyster fecundity in Tibang is between 7,487,888-34,511,625 eggs/ind with an average fecundity reaching 17,360,821 eggs/ind, whereas the range of oyster fecundity in Ulee Lheue was between 9,237,258-40,575,863 eggs/ind with an average fecundity reaching 17,108,206 eggs/ind. The total number of the collected oyster samples was 1800 specimen, and all the samples were in the adult category. In addition to sex determination of the oysters into males and females, the oyster hermaphrodite sex is also found. The results of gonadal observation show that oysters are hermaphrodite synchronous (male and female gonads mature at the same time).
title: A Cognitive TV White Space Access Framework
Creators: name: Martin, John Hugh
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2017

description: Given the current boom in applications and services for mobile devices, data traffic is rapidly expanding, with the consequence that increasing spectrum capacity is being mandated. Following the switchover from analogue to digital platforms, Television White Space (TVWS) affords a fertile opportunity to supplement existing licensed spectrum to ease this scarcity. There are however, a number of obstacles to wide-scale TVWS adoption, including the accurate detection of primary users (PU), the hidden node problem and bandwidth availability for unlicensed secondary users (SU). Regulatory and industry bodies have sought to address some of these issues using a static database for spectrum access decisions, though this involves manual maintenance and accuracy can be compromised due to a lack of real-time information. While the new IEEE802.11af wireless local area network (WLAN) standard attempts to resolve some SU access issues, there remain many challenges, such as the critical asymmetry between mobile and base station power resources.

 This thesis presents a new cognitive TVWS access framework encompassing a real-time sensing paradigm for TVWS deployment that uses a spectrum-efficient scheme to uphold quality-of-service (QoS) for both PU and SU. A novel dynamic spectrum allocation (DSA) model has been formulated allied with a resilient interference management system which exploits the unique way digital terrestrial TV channels are allocated in different geographical areas. A margin strategy has been framed to support efficient TVWS channel reuse, with an exclusion zone established to overcome the hidden node problem, while an innovative routing algorithm using cross-layer information, both extends coverage capacity and maximises QoS provision by ensuring a more balanced resource allocation.

 Critical evaluation of the new access framework confirms that significant QoS improvements for SU are achieved compared to existing TVWS techniques. It importantly embodies a generic, practical, resource-efficient solution for TVWS deployment, which is compliant with current PU regulatory requirements.
Incentivi fiscali e politiche di sviluppo economico regionale in Europa (Fiscal Incentives and Regional Economics Development Policies in Europe)
Creators: name: Moro, Beniamino
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fiscal Policy, Policy, Regional Development, Regional, Tax
subject: E62, R58

description: The paper shows that fiscal policy and tax incentives are more effective than monetary policy and monetary incentives in supporting a regional development policy among European regions. Anyway, only recently the EU Commission agreed that member countries can use tax incentives instead of monetary ones to support new investment in European less developed areas, but she still does not permit that a member state can apply a differentiated fiscal policy on a regional basis. In fact, according to the Commission, a reduced tax rate for growth purposes in European less developed areas has the same effect as a working aid for those firms located in these areas, which is forbidden by the Code of conduct that regulates fiscal competition among member states. The paper shows this interpretation is not correct and also demonstrates that a regional fiscal policy differentiated among areas inside the same member state can be supported without violate the sound principles of fiscal free competition incorporated in the Code of Conduct. JEL Codes: E62, R58 Keywords: Fiscal Policy, Policy, Regional Development, Regional, Tax
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 54, N. 215 (2001)
Muon and Gamma Bundles tracing Up-going Tau Neutrino Astronomy
Creators: name: Fargion, D.
name: De Santis, M.
name: Lucentini, P. G. De Sanctis
name: Grossi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Up-going and Horizontal Tau Air-Showers, UpTaus and HorTaus, may trace Ultra High Energy Neutrino Tau Earth Skimming at the edge of the horizons. Their secondaries muon, electron pairs, and gamma bundles flashes might trace their nature over UHECR secondaries in horizontal showers. Indeed the atmosphere act as a perfect amplifier as well as a filter for showers: down-ward and horizontal muon bundles may still be originated by far Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays skimming the terrestrial atmosphere but their rich gamma component will be exponentially suppressed. At large zenith angles after crossing a large slant depth X > 3 10^3 g cm^-2 the number of muons and secondary gamma (produced by the electron pair from muon decay in flight) is comparable. On the other hand, up-ward muon bundles from UpTaus and HorTaus may arise within a young shower with a larger gamma-muon ratio 10^2, leaving a characteristic imprint. We estimate the UpTaus and HorTaus rate from the Earth and we evaluate the consequent event rate of muons, electrons pairs andgamma bundles. We show that such events even for minimal GZK neutrino fluxes could be detected by scintillator arrays placed on mountains at 1-5km and pointing to the horizon. The required arrayareas are within tens-hundreds of square meters. The ideal structure is an array of crown-like twin detectors facing the horizons. We argue that such detectors will be able to detect both muonic bundles at a minimal average flux of 10^-11 cm-2 s^-1 sr^-1 and electromagnetic particles gamma and electron pairs 3 10^-9 cm^-2 s^-1 sr^-1, a few times each year for GZK neutrino fluxes.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures and 1 tab., Catania GZK meeting, to be published in Nuclear Phys B
Le prospettive demografiche, l’edilizia residenziale e i fattori finanziari:la proposta di un nuovo strumento finanziario, il “MIpAIo” (Demographic Perspectives, Financial Factors and the Residential Building Sector: A New Financial Instrument)
Creators: name: Niccoli, Alberto
Publisher: name: Moneta e Credito
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Demographics, Elderly, Housing, Mortgage, Pension, Public Pension, Residential
subject: R31, H55, L74, J14, G21, J26

description: The paper deals with financial and demographic factors influencing the Italian residential building sector during the next decades. In particular, it is shown that, due to the reduction of public pensions coverage, many elderly people will enjoy inadequate incomes. Housing partnership and reverse mortgages, i.e. the sale of an equity stake in the ownership of their house, on the one hand, and mortgages to be paid back with the proceedings of the sale of the house at the end of their life, on the other, are a possible solution to the problem. Equity stakes in the limited partnership property of residential buildings are shown to have been a part of efficient portfolios for risk-averse investors in Italian financial markets, during the last ten years. The use of the new financial instrument to cover expenses for residential buildings maintenance and/or public investment in the urban and art sectors is also proposed. JEL Codes: R31, H55, L74, J14, G21, J26 Keywords: Demographics, Elderly, Housing, Mortgage, Pension, Public Pension, Residential
description: Moneta e Credito, V. 54, N. 215 (2001)
New isoflavan from Erythrina livingstoniana
Creators: name: Kgakatsi, Nayang A.
name: Majinda, Runner R. T.
name: Masesane, Ishmael B.
name: Nwamadi, Mutshinyalo S.
name: Demissie, Taye B.
name: Ombito, Japheth O.
name: Gobe, Irene
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Chemical investigation of the root wood of Erythrina livingstoniana led to the isolation of one previously undescribed isoflavan (3S,3″R)-7-hydroxy-2′-methoxy-[3″-hydroxy-2″,2″-dimethylpyrano (3′,4′)] isoflavan 1, together with eleven known compounds 2-12. The structure of compound 1 was elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic and spectrometric analyses (1 D and 2 D-NMR and APCI-HRMS), with absolute configurations established by comparison of experimental and DFT calculated ECD data. The assignment of the absolute configurations of C-3 and C-3″ of compounds 2 and 3, respectively, were reported for the first time. Compounds 1 − 4 were evaluated for their antibacterial activities in vitro against E. coli ATCC 25922 and S. aureus ATCC 25923. Compound 1 exhibited moderate antibacterial activity with MIC value of 0.063 mg/mL against the clinically relevant risk-group 2 (RG-2) bacterium S. aureus.
Rethinking human attention and its components
Creators: name: Ristic, Jelena
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: People attend to where others are looking. In three sections, spanning six studies and 11 experiments, the present thesis examines whether this social orienting effect is reflexive (Section I), if it should be considered a unique form of attentional orienting (Section II), and how it relates to traditional forms of reflexive and volitional spatial orienting (Section III). The results from Sections I and II indicate that social attention can be conceptualized as a strongly reflexive effect that is unique to eye gaze direction. However, other directional cues, like arrows, trigger similar spatial attention effects although their effects do not appear to be as strongly reflexive as the effects produced by eye gaze. The results from Section III demonstrate that reflexive orienting elicited by an attentional cue positioned at fixation, such as gaze or an arrow, can occur independently of the orienting effects produced by cues that have typically been used to study reflexive and volitional orienting, i.e., nonpredictive peripheral onsets and predictive central cues, respectively. Taken together these results carry important implications for understanding social attention specifically, and the conceptualization and experimental examination of human spatial attention in general.
Μελέτη υλοποίησης κβαντικών υπολογιστικών συστημάτων
Creators: name: Νταλαπέρας, Δημήτριος Ν.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Κβαντικοί υπολογιστές
Κβαντικά μπιτ
Κβαντικά συστήματα τριών καταστάσεων
Κβαντικά αυτόματα
Κβαντικά μπιτ τύπου τρανσμόν
Quantum computers
qubits
qutrits
Quantum cellular automata
Transmon qubits

description: Στην παρούσα διατριβή μελετήθηκε η δυνατότητα υλοποίησης συστημάτων κβαντικού υπολογισμού που βασίζονται σε εναλλακτικούς τύπους απεικόνισης κβαντικής πληροφορίας. Μελετήθηκαν δύο κύριες τεχνικές. Η πρώτη βασίστηκε σε αρχιτεκτονική πλέγματος άμεσης γειτνίασης, στην οποία προτάθηκε μηχανισμός εκτέλεσης κβαντικού υπολογισμού με τη χρήση ενός μόνο παλμού σε κάθε υπολογιστικό βήμα. Η εναλλακτική απεικόνιση βασίστηκε στη διαδικασία της τηλεμεταφοράς για την επίτευξη της επιθυμητής διάταξης των κβαντικών μπιτ. Το γεγονός ότι μόνο ένας παλμός εφαρμόζεται σε κάθε βήμα, μπορεί να μειώσει το λάθος που οφείλεται σε αλληλεπιδράσεις κβαντικών μπιτ λόγω διάχυσης του σήματος. Συνεπώς, αν μία υλοποίηση υποστηρίζει αποτελεσματικές πράξεις κβαντικής τηλεμεταφοράς, η μεθοδολογία μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε αρκετά σημαντική μείωση του συνολικού θορύβου. Στη δεύτερη τεχνική, χρησιμοποιήθηκαν τα ανώτερα ενεργειακά επίπεδα ενός κβαντικού μπιτ τύπου τρανσμόν (transmon) για την αποθήκευση κβαντικής πληροφορίας. Μέσω θεωρητικής απόδειξης και πειραμάτων που εκτελέστηκαν στους κβαντικούς επεξεργαστές της IBM Quantum Platform αποδείχθηκε ότι μπορεί να επιτευχθεί διεμπλοκή σε λογικό επίπεδο χρησιμοποιώντας τους βαθμούς ελευθερίας ενός μόνο συστήματος. Αυτό μπορεί να έχει ως αποτέλεσμα τη μείωση των αναγκαίων παλμών σύζευξης, που είναι η κύρια πηγή θορύβου στους σύγχρονους κβαντικούς επεξεργαστές.
description: In the present thesis, a set of alternative ways of representing quantum information has been studied to lead to more efficient implementation schemes for quantum computers. The two approaches studied were two. The first one was based on nearest-neighbor grids, which can execute quantum computation by applying only one kind of pulse in each computational step. This alternative scheme uses the mechanism of quantum teleportation to arrange the qubits in the desired arrangement needed for computation. The fact that only one kind of pulse is applied in each step can lead to decreased coherent noise due to minimum cross-talk between neighboring qubits. Consequently, if a physical architecture supports efficient mechanisms for performing teleportations or SWAP gates, the proposed methodology can lead to a substantial decrease in the accumulated noise. In the second technique, the higher energy levels of a transmon-based qubit were used in order to encode quantum information. Based on theoretical proofs and experiments conducted on the quantum processors of the IBM Quantum Platform, it was demonstrated that logical entanglement could be performed using the degrees of freedom of a single quantum system. This can reduce the required number of two-qubit gates, which is the main source of noise in modern quantum processors.
Theme Overview: U.S. Commodity Markets Respond to Changes in China's Ag Policies
Creators: name: Marchant, Mary A.
name: Marchant, Mary A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: China
subject: Agricultural trade
subject: U.S.-China trade
subject: Exports

description: Although international trade deficits have recently been reputed as bad for the economy, agricultural trade represents 20% of U.S. farmers’ income. China, the United States’ largest agricultural export market, plays a key role in the economic wellbeing of U.S. agriculture. This theme analyzes Chinese agricultural policies and their impact on U.S. exports.
One-dimensional linear recursions with Markov-dependent coefficients
Creators: name: Roitershtein, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K15 (Primary) 60K20 (Secondary)

description: For a class of stationary Markov-dependent sequences $(A_n,B_n)\in\mathbb{R}^2,$ we consider the random linear recursion $S_n=A_n+B_nS_{n-1},$ $n\in\mathbb{Z},$ and show that the distribution tail of its stationary solution has a power law decay.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051606000000844 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)