cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Writing in real-time, fictions of digitization: the novels of Don DeLillo and Dave Eggers
Creators: name: Muscolino, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cultural digitization, contemporary American fiction, postmodern literature, post-postmodern literature, information technologies, internet studies, Dave Eggers, Don DeLillo.

description: By tracking the intersection of contemporary fiction and the information technologies of the digital age, this thesis argues that the narratives being produced over the past ten years have evolved into a distinct genre of literature, one where the aesthetics of fragmentation and postmodern uncertainty must confront the new realities of a digitally saturated culture and society. In order to demonstrate this alteration in contemporary fiction, this thesis considers novels written within the past ten years that reflect on this new form of textuality, namely Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003) and David Eggers’ The Circle (2013). These texts demonstrate a paradigm shift in contemporary literature, a new kind of fiction in which American society, culture, economics, and politics, are all directly affected by various forms of digital mediatisation. These authors reflect an altered cultural zeitgeist within their fiction—writings which can be differentiated from the postmodern literary aesthetic—prompted by neoteric digital technologies coupled with the ubiquitous nature of the Internet. Although this topic is broad and covers multiple fields of scholarly interests, my thesis nonetheless concerns itself with a very specific line of questioning: will our authors have the imaginative wherewithal and social sensitivity to keep pace with changes brought forth by the explosion of information technologies? If so, what type of fiction is likely to emerge from this new digital environment? By taking a focused approach and using contemporary literature as representative of these massive social, economic, and political transformations, my research recalls Kurt Vonnegut’s “Canary in the Coal Mine” dictum: the writer has always been the first to notice the dramatic effects of technology on the individual and the culture at large.
Energy Release and Initiation of Sunquake in C-class Flare
Creators: name: Sharykin, I. N.
name: Kosovichev, A. G.
name: Zimovets, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analysis of C7.0 solar flare of Febrary 17, 2013, revealing a strong helioseismic response (sunquake) caused by a very compact impact in the photosphere. This is the weakest known C-class flare generating a sunquake event. To investigate possible mechanisms of this event, and to understand the role of accelerated charged particles and photospheric electric currents, we use data from three space observatories: Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES). We find that the photospheric flare impact does not spatially correspond to the strongest HXR emission source, but both of these events are parts of the same energy release. Our analysis reveals a close association of the flare energy release with a rapid increase of the electric currents, and suggests that the sunquake initiation is unlikely to be explained by the impact of high-energy electrons but may be associated with a rapid current dissipation or a localized impulsive Lorentz force.
Effective actions for anomalous hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Haehl, Felix M.
name: Loganayagam, R.
name: Rangamani, Mukund
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that an effective field theory of local fluid elements captures the constraints on hydrodynamic transport stemming from the presence of quantum anomalies in the underlying microscopic theory. Focussing on global current anomalies for an arbitrary flavour group, we derive the anomalous constitutive relations in arbitrary even dimensions. We demonstrate that our results agree with the constraints on anomaly governed transport derived hitherto using a local version of the second law of thermodynamics. The construction crucially uses the anomaly inflow mechanism and involves a novel thermofield double construction. In particular, we show that the anomalous Ward identities necessitate non-trivial interaction between the two parts of the Schwinger-Keldysh contour.
description: 62 pages incl appendices. 3 figures. v2: added refs. v3: fixed typos. published version
title: Fritz Conradin
title: [1840-1892]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1892
Subjects: subject: 350 Öffentliche Verwaltung, Militärwissenschaft
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Zürich
subject: Bondo (Graubünden)

description: Enthält Todesanzeigen und Nekrologe aus Zeitungen
Characterising rectifiable metric spaces using tangent spaces
Creators: name: Bate, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30L99 (Primary), 28A75 (secondary)

description: We characterise rectifiable subsets of a complete metric space $X$ in terms of local approximation, with respect to the Gromov--Hausdorff distance, by an $n$-dimensional Banach space. In fact, if $E\subset X$ with $\mathcal{H}^n(E)<\infty$ and has positive lower density almost everywhere, we prove that it is sufficient that, at almost every point and each sufficiently small scale, $E$ is approximated by a bi-Lipschitz image of Euclidean space. We also introduce a generalisation of Preiss's tangent measures that is suitable for the setting of arbitrary metric spaces and formulate our characterisation in terms of tangent measures. This definition is equivalent to that of Preiss when the ambient space is Euclidean, and equivalent to the measured Gromov--Hausdorff tangent space when the measure is doubling.
description: v3: incorporated referee's comments. Accepted, Invent. Math
The New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey State Planning Commission
Year: 2001

description: This plan offers statewide planning objectives regarding land use, housing, economic development, transportation, natural resource conservation, agriculture and farmland retention, recreation, urban and suburban redevelopment, historic preservation, public facilities and services and intergovernmental coordination.  The State Plan is divided into  5 main sections: Introduction: Overview of the State Plan; Statewide Goals, Strategies and Policies; State Plan Policy Map, The Role of the State Plan; and Appendices.
Watershed Focus Newsletter, Winter 2004
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Watershed Management
Year: 2004

description: The Watershed Focus Newsletter, which is published by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Watershed Management, concentrates on watershed management, stormwater and nonpoint source pollution management issues in New Jersey. The Winter 2004 issue features the following articles: New Stormwater Rules Adopted - New Jersey leads nation in water protection efforts; NPS Program Awards $2.5 Million - Guidance for latest round due soon; Watershed Ambassadors Teach About Water Pollution - Learn about watersheds, stormwater and volunteer monitoring; 203 TMDLs Established - Phosphorus and fecal coliform targeted; Watershed Leaders Honored by DEP - Environmental Excellence; Volunteer Monitoring Summit Showcases New Approach - Watershed Watch Network holds workshops; Awards winners.
Line Profiles of Cores within Clusters. III. What is the most reliable tracer of core collapse in dense clusters?
Creators: name: Chira, Roxana-Adela
name: Smith, Rowan J.
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
name: Stutz, Amelia M.
name: Shetty, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observational and theoretical investigations have emphasised the importance of filamentary networks within molecular clouds as sites of star formation. Since such environments are more complex than those of isolated cores, it is essential to understand how the observed line profiles from collapsing cores with non-spherical geometry are affected by filaments. In this study, we investigate line profile asymmetries by performing radiative transfer calculations on hydrodynamic models of three collapsing cores that are embedded in filaments. We compare the results to those that are expected for isolated cores. We model the five lowest rotational transition line (J = 1-0, 2-1, 3-2, 4-3, and 5-4) of both optically thick (HCN, HCO$^+$) as well as optically thin (N$_2$H$^+$, H$^{13}$CO$^+$) molecules using constant abundance laws. We find that less than 50% of simulated (1-0) transition lines show blue infall asymmetries due to obscuration by the surrounding filament. However, the fraction of collapsing cores that have a blue asymmetric emission line profile rises to 90% when observed in the (4-3) transition. Since the densest gas towards the collapsing core can excite higher rotational states, upper level transitions are more likely to produce blue asymmetric emission profiles. We conclude that even in irregular, embedded cores one can trace infalling gas motions with blue asymmetric line profiles of optically thick lines by observing higher transitions. The best tracer of collapse motions of our sample is the (4-3) transition of HCN, but the (3-2) and (5-4) transitions of both HCN and HCO$^+$ are also good tracers.
description: accepted by MNRAS; 13 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables
Bioassessment Integration Study: Systems Ecology Evaluation of US EPA Rapid Bioassessment Protocols in New Jersey (Macroinvertebrates, Periphyton, Fish, and Habitat)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Patrick Center for Environmental Research, The Academy of Natural Sciences
Year: 2006

description: The purpose of this project was to analyze existing fish, macroinvertebrate, and algal data to develop new methods for integrated stream bioassessment protocols. The goals of the project were divided into five main tasks with analyses focusing on data collected in New Jersey and adjacent states from sites in uplands physiographic regions (Piedmont, Ridge and Valley, Highlands): 1) Compile data on macroinvertebrate, fish and algal assemblages and associated site and watershed characteristics from the New Jersey uplands and adjacent upland areas. Compile data on mussels and odonates from the New Jersey Endangered and Nongame Species Program; 2) Collate and link data to allow joint analyses of intercorrelations among assemblages; 3) Use literature on ecological response to stressors and existing bioassessment programs to define candidate metrics of assemblage structure. Calculate these metrics ofassemblage structure for different taxonomic groups and compare the correlation structure of metrics within and among taxonomic groups; 4) Analyze relationships among metrics, environmental characteristics and stressors to determine the utility of various metrics as measures of environmental stress; 5) Pilot development of alternate methods of integrated analysis of indices from differenttaxonomic groups, with preliminary evaluation in conjunction with staff of NJ DEP.
A Biological Survey of the 'Pole Farm'
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: The Washington Crossing Audubon Society
Year: 1999

description: The Washington Crossing Audubon Society (WCAS) is the West-Central New Jersey chapter (with members mostly in Mercer County) of the National Audubon Society. This report is the result of WCAS' biological surveys at the 'Pole Farm' (former ATT Pole Farm Property), which was purchased by Mercer County as property for a new County Park. The purpose of the Washington Crossing Audubon Society's Biological Survey was to provide the County with comprehensive information regarding the flora and fauna (including plant, vertebrate and invertebrate animals) that occur at the Park, with the expectation that this information would assist in the proper planning of the Park.
Schwinger Mechanism with Stochastic Quantization
Creators: name: Fukushima, Kenji
name: Hayata, Tomoya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prescribe a formulation of the particle production with real-time Stochastic Quantization. To construct the retarded and the time-ordered propagators we decompose the stochastic variables into positive- and negative-energy parts. In this way we demonstrate how to derive a standard formula for the Schwinger mechanism under time-dependent electric fields. We discuss a mapping to the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism and a relation to the classical statistical simulation.
description: 6 pages; 1 figure; discussions on the relation to the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism elaborated, numerical results refined, accepted for publication in PLB
A joint production-workforce-delivery stochastic planning problem for perishable items
Creators: name: Farghadani-Chaharsooghi, Pedram
name: Kamranfar, Pooria
name: Al-e-Hashem, Mohammad Seyed Mirzapour
name: Rekik, Yacine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Despite the existence of a rich literature on Production Routing Problem (PRP), the lack of investigations on the workforce planning, and its impact on costs and productivity of the organisation caught our attention. This paper aims to fill this gap by designing a novel framework to integrate inventory, production, distribution, routing, and workforce planning decisions simultaneously. Because of the potential long distances between the main plant and the retailers spread throughout the country and also the perishability nature of the products, considering travelling time uncertainty for delivering products is necessary to have feasible decisions. The application of the proposed approach is investigated by being inspired from a supply chain structure from a knowledge-based company. We derive managerial insights on the benefit of an integrated decision. Besides, given the size and complexity of the proposed problem, we were challenged by exactly solving it in a reasonable time. We succeeded to reach this target by designing an innovative hybrid algorithm. Computational experiments on several numerical examples applied on both the studied real case and on PRP literature instances reveal the effectiveness and efficiency of our new hybrid method and permits to derive interesting managerial insights on the joint decisions.
New Jersey Source Water Assessment Program Plan
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Water Supply Administration, Division of Science, Research, and Technology, Division of Watershed Management
Year: 1999

description: The 1996 Amendments to the federal Safe Drinking Water Act require all states to establish and implement a Source Water Assessment Program for all public water systems. This document prepared by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) outlines the procedures to be used for completing Source Water Assessments in New Jersey. A Source Water Assessment Program consists of the first three steps of a full Source Water Protection Program. These three steps are: (1) Delineate the source water protection area for ground water and surface water sources of public drinking water; (2) Inventory the significant potential sources of contamination within the delineated source water protection area; (3) Determine the public water system's susceptibility to contamination by sources inventoried within the source water protection area. The purpose of the Source Water Assessment Program is two-fold: to provide for the protection and benefit of public water systems and for the support of monitoring flexibility.
Discrepancy and rectifiability of almost linearly repetitive Delone sets
Creators: name: Smilansky, Yotam
name: Solomon, Yaar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C23, 37B20

description: We extend a discrepancy bound of Lagarias and Pleasants for local weight distributions on linearly repetitive Delone sets and show that a similar bound holds also for the more general case of Delone sets without finite local complexity if linear repetitivity is replaced by $\varepsilon$-linear repetitivity. As a result we establish that Delone sets that are $\varepsilon$-linear repetitive for some sufficiently small $\varepsilon$ are rectifiable, and that incommensurable multiscale substitution tilings are never almost linearly repetitive.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Nonlinearity
Hints of a second explosion (a quark nova) in Cassiopeia A Supernova
Creators: name: Ouyed, Rachid
name: Leahy, Denis
name: Koning, Nico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the explosive transition of the neutron star (NS) to a quark star (QS) (a Quark Nova) in Cassiopeia A (Cas A) a few days following the SN proper can account for several of the puzzling kinematic and nucleosynthetic features observed. The observed decoupling between Fe and 44Ti and the lack of Fe emission within 44Ti regions is expected in the QN model owing to the spallation of the inner SN ejecta by the relativistic QN neutrons. Our model predicts the 44Ti to be more prominent to the NW of the central compact object (CCO) than in the SE and little of it along the NE-SW jets, in agreement with NuStar observations. Other intriguing features of Cas A such as the lack of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) and the reported a few percent drop of the CCO temperature over a period of 10 years are also addressed.
description: Accepted for publication (RAA): 16 page, 2 figures, 1 table, extended discussions, updated (and added new relevant) references. Version to appear in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA) journal
Heater self-calibration technique for shape prediction of fiber tapers
Creators: name: Sørensen, Heidi L.
name: Polzik, Eugene S.
name: Appel, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the production of tapered optical fibers, it is important to control the fiber shape according to application-dependent requirements and to ensure adiabatic tapers. Especially in the transition regions, the fiber shape depends on the heater properties. The axial viscosity profile of the fiber within the heater can, however, be hard to access and is therefore often approximated by assuming a uniform temperature distribution. We present a method for easy experimental calibration of the viscosity profile within the heater. This allows the determination of the resultant fiber shape for arbitrary pulling procedures, using only an additional camera and the fiber drawing setup itself. We find very good agreement between the modeled and measured fiber shape.
A hybrid learning-based meta-heuristic algorithm for scheduling of an additive manufacturing system consisting of parallel SLM machines
Creators: name: Rohaninejad, Mohammad
name: Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Reza
name: Vahedi-Nouri, Behdin
name: Hanzálek, Zdeněk
name: Shirazian, Shadi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additive manufacturing (AM) has been recognised as a promising technology under the context of Industry 4.0, which is reshaping manufacturing paradigms. A prominent type of AM machine is the selective laser melting (SLM) machine, in which several parts may form a job and be produced concurrently. This paper aims to investigate a scheduling problem in an AM system with non-identical parallel SLM machines. Since, in this system, there might be differences in the material types of parts, the required setup time between two consecutive jobs on the relevant machine is dependent on their material types. Accordingly, a bi-objective mathematical model is extended for the problem, considering the makespan and the total tardiness penalty as two objective functions. Due to the high complexity of the problem, an efficient hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm is developed by combining the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) with a novel learning-based local search founded on the k-means clustering algorithm and a regression neural network. The local search enhances the exploitation ability of the NSGA-II while intelligently being taught during the solving procedure. Finally, the superiority of the proposed hybrid algorithm is demonstrated through a computational experiment.
EAST discharge prediction without integrating simulation results
Creators: name: Wan, Chenguang
name: Yu, Zhi
name: Pau, Alessandro
name: Liu, Xiaojuan
name: Li, Jiangang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, a purely data-driven discharge prediction model was developed and tested without integrating any data or results from simulations. The model was developed based on the experimental data from the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) campaign 2010-2020 discharges and can predict the actual plasma current $I_{p}$, normalized beta $β_{n}$, toroidal beta $β_{t}$, beta poloidal $β_{p}$, electron density $n_{e}$, store energy $W_{mhd}$, loop voltage $V_{loop}$, elongation at plasma boundary $κ$, internal inductance $l_{i}$, q at magnetic axis $q_{0}$, and q at 95% flux surface $q_{95}$. The average similarities of all the selected key diagnostic signals between prediction results and the experimental data are greater than 90%, except for the $V_{loop}$ and $q_{0}$. Before a tokamak experiment, the values of actuator signals are set in the discharge proposal stage, with the model allowing to check the consistency of expected diagnostic signals. The model can give the estimated values of the diagnostic signals to check the reasonableness of the tokamak experimental proposal.
ASMFC Fisheries Focus, November/December 2005, Vol. 14, Issue 10
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Year: 2005

description: The ASMFC Fisheries Focus is a monthly newsletter of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. It contains articles and information concerning the conservation and management of nearshore fishery resources, including marine, shell and anadromous species in the Atlantic Coastal States. The articles featured in this November/December 2005 issue include: Species Profile: American Lobster; ASMFC Comings and Goings; ASMFC Approves Amendment 1 to the Atlantic Croaker Plan; Northern Shrimp 2006 Fishing Season Set at 140 Days; Horseshoe Crab Addendum Initiated; Spiny Dogfish Board Approves 4 Million Pound Quota; Striped Bass Stock Assessment Indicates Healthy Stock; Weakfish Biological Sampling and Reporting System Approved; ACCSP Announces 2006 Funding; ASMFC Employee of the Quarter Named; Addendum XVI Approved for Public Comment.
Gravity driven instability in elastic solids
Creators: name: Mora, Serge
name: Phou, Ty
name: Fromental, Jean-Marc
name: Pomeau, Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the instability of the free surface of a soft elastic solid facing downwards. Experiments are carried out using a gel of constant density $ρ$, shear modulus $μ$, put in a rigid cylindrical dish of depth $h$. When turned upside down, the free surface of the gel undergoes a normal outgoing acceleration $g$. It remains perfectly flat for $ρg h/μ
Evidences for the existence of the ultimate regime in supergravitational turbulent thermal convection
Creators: name: Jiang, Hechuan
name: Wang, Dongpu
name: Liu, Shuang
name: Sun, Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: What is the final state of turbulence when the driving parameter approaches to infinity? For thermal turbulence, in 1962, Kraichnan proposed a so-called ultimate scaling dependence of the heat transport (quantified by the Nusselt number $\text{Nu}$) on the Rayleigh number ($\text{Ra}$), which can be extrapolated to arbitrarily high $\text{Ra}$. The existence of Kraichnan ultimate scaling has been intensively debated in the past decades. In this work, using a supergravitational thermal convection system, with an effective gravity up to 100 times the Earth's gravity, both Rayleigh number and shear Reynolds number can be boosted due to the increase of the buoyancy driving and the additional Coriolis forces. Over a decade of $\text{Ra}$ range, we demonstrate the existence of Kraichnan-like ultimate regime with four direct evidences: the ultimate scaling dependence of $\text{Nu}$ versus $\text{Ra}$; the appearance of turbulent velocity boundary layer profile; the enhanced strength of the shear Reynolds number; the new statistical properties of local temperature fluctuations. The present findings will greatly improve the understanding of the flow dynamics in geophysical and astrophysical flows.
Restoring the Hackensack Meadowlands: Ensuring a Healthy Future for Fish, Wildlife, and People
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services, New Jersey Field Office
Year: 2005

description: This document addresses questions about the Hackensack Meadowlands' role, degradation, current problems and restoration. It describes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's work to restore these important wetlands.
Vendor-managed inventory in practice: understanding and mitigating the impact of supplier heterogeneity
Creators: name: van den Bogaert, Joep
name: van Jaarsveld, Willem
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Vendor managed inventory (VMI) agreements are a supply chain collaboration principle in which the supplier is responsible for keeping the inventory at the buyer between given lower and upper inventory limits. VMI gives the supplier a lot of autonomy while making replenishments, allowing the supplier to efficiently ensure availability at the buyer. But different suppliers may apply different approaches for staying between the limits under VMI. Relatedly, the objectives of a supplier are not completely aligned with those of the buyer. We develop a methodology for setting appropriate lower and upper inventory limits, taking into account the heterogeneity in the supplier base. To this end, by distinguishing between various possible strategic supplier objectives and various approaches for staying within the inventory limits, we arrive at four possible supplier types. We develop a methodology for classifying suppliers into one of these four types based on historic inventory trajectories and argue how to set inventory limits tailored to each supplier type. A case study of the approach at a large high-tech manufacturer reveals that the approach accurately identifies the type of each of the 47 VMI suppliers of the manufacturer. Moreover, a simulation with company data shows that tailoring inventory limits to the suppliers' types may lead to a cost reduction of 4–6% without reducing the service level, as compared to a benchmark method that does not take into account supplier types.
Event-Driven Duplicate Detection: A probability based Approach
Creators: name: Heinrich, Bernd
name: Klier, Mathias
name: Obermeier, Andreas
name: Schiller, Alexander
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Duplicate detection, Record linkage, Entity Resolution, Data quality
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: The importance of probability-based approaches for duplicate detection has been recognized in both research and practice. However, existing approaches do not aim to consider the underlying real-world events resulting in duplicates (e.g., that a relocation may lead to the storage of two records for the same customer, once before and after the relocation). Duplicates resulting from real-world events exhibit specific characteristics. For instance, duplicates resulting from relocations tend to have significantly different attribute values for all address-related attributes. Hence, existing approaches focusing on high similarity with respect to attribute values are hardly able to identify possible duplicates resulting from such real-world events. To address this issue, we propose an approach for event-driven duplicate de-tection based on probability theory. Our approach assigns the probability of being a duplicate resulting from real-world events to each analysed pair of records while avoiding limiting assumptions (of existing approaches). We demonstrate the practical applicability and effectiveness of our approach in a real-world setting by analysing customer master data of a German insurer. The evaluation shows that the results provided by the approach are reliable and useful for decision support and can outperform well-known state-of-the-art approaches for duplicate detection.
New Jersey Department of Agriculture Strategic Plan (Through June 2006)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Agriculture
Year: 2004

description: In 2002, the New Jersey Department of Agriculture prepared a  Strategic Plan, which led to a reorganization of the Department to better meet the challenges of ensuring a strong, innovative and profitable agricultural industry in the most densely populated state in the nation. This Strategic Plan guides the Department through June 30, 2006, and serves as a roadmap for how the department will operate in the future. The plan is headlined by seven major goals that support the agency's vision and mission. Each goal is modified by a series of objectives that specifically state what the department intends to accomplish. Performance measures indicate how the Department will measure success toward achieving those objectives.
Topological phases in interacting spin-1 systems
Creators: name: Alnor, A.
name: Bækkegaard, T.
name: Zinner, N. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different topological phases of quantum systems has become areas of increased focus in recent decades. In particular, the question of how to realize and manipulate systems with non-trivial first Chern number is pursued both experimentally and theoretically. Here we go beyond typical spin 1/2 systems and consider both single and coupled spin 1 systems as a means of realizing higher first Chern numbers and studying the emergence of different topological phases. We show that rich topological phase diagrams can be realized by coupling two spin 1 systems using both numerical and analytical methods. Furthermore, we consider a concrete realization of spin 1 systems using a superconducting circuit. This realization includes non-standard spin-spin interaction terms that may endanger the topological properties. We argue however that the realistic circuit Hamiltonian including all terms should be expected to show the rich phase structure as well. This puts our theoretical predictions within reach of state-of-the-art experimental setups.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Laser Additive Manufacturing for the Realization of New Material Concepts
Creators: name: Pfleging, Wilhelm
name: Santos Solheid, Juliana Dos
Publisher: name: CRC Press
Year: 2021

description: In additive manufacturing processes, components are built up in layers from liquids, powders, wires or foils using chemical or physical processes. Direct energy deposition (DED) or powder bed fusion (PBF) can be used as additive manufacturing processes in which metal powder or wires are used to print dense metal layers on substrates or on freeform surfaces of existing components [1]. Metal powder (pure elements, element mixtures, master alloys) or metal wires are melted at high speed and instantaneously deposited in layers on respective metallic substrates. In case of the so-called laser cladding [2], this technology is generally used for applying coatings or for tool repairs. Compared to subtractive processes, additive processes save time and resources, as the material is only added where it is needed. Established steels, nickel-based alloys or titanium alloys are typically used. However, it is also possible to obtain completely new materials by in-situ alloying of powder mixtures or to create material gradients by changing the powder mixture composition during the build-up [3]. High entropy alloys (HEAs) represent a new research field for future applications. These are formed from a large number of elements, all of which are present in similarly strong concentrations e.g., alloys consisting of zirconium, niobium, hafnium, tantalum or tungsten [4]. The alloys formed can generally be single-phase as well as multi-phase mixed crystals. HEAs can often combine high strength and very good ductility. In-situ alloying offers the unique possibility of fast material screening for the future production of new metallic components with outstanding mechanical properties at high temperatures. For a long time, the manufacture of refractory alloys was limited to vacuum arc remelting because of their high melting points. With laser-based methods, these metals are locally melted by the focused laser beam and deposited additively. In addition to material development, additive manufacturing offers great design freedom in component design, which can be used, for example, for the development of load-optimized designs based on the bionic principle [5]. To add up to the versatility of additive manufacturing, laser post-processes can be used to modify the resulting surfaces of parts produced with such technology [6-9]. The different types of laser sources commercially available assure their suitability in a wide range of applications, with continuous wave (cw) lasers being often used for reduction of surface roughness, while pulsed lasers being applied in the modification of surface functionalities and to enhance the geometry accuracy. Even with the prospect of being able to replace certain steps of the additive manufacturing process chain, adopting laser post-processes as an additional step can also be proved beneficial when specific characteristics are required in localized areas of the final built components.
New Jersey Fish and Wildlife Digest, A Summary of Rules and Management Information: 2002 Freshwater Issue, Vol. 15, No. 2
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) Division of Fish and Wildlife
Year: 2002

description: This digest is a summary of rules and management information pertaining to fishing and marine life in New Jersey. The digest discusses such issues as fishing regulations, fish features, fisheries programs, reports about fish, and marine health.
ASMFC Fisheries Focus, August 2005, Vol. 14, Issue 7
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission
Year: 2005

description: The ASMFC Fisheries Focus is a monthly newsletter of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. It contains articles and information concerning the conservation and management of nearshore fishery resources, including marine, shell and anadromous species in the Atlantic Coastal States. The articles featured in this October 2005 issue include: Upcoming Meetings; Species Profile: Weakfish; ASMFC Comings and Goings; On the Legislative Front; Southeast Bycatch Workshop Scheduled for November; ACCSP Considers Preliminary Proposals for 2006; Managing Our Nations Fisheries Conference Proceedings Now Available.
Pooling problems under perfect and imperfect competition
Creators: name: Papageorgiou, Dimitri J.
name: Harwood, Stuart M.
name: Trespalacios, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate pooling problems in which multiple players vie with one another to maximize individual profit in a non-cooperative competitive market. This competitive setting is interesting and worthy of study because the majority of prevailing process systems engineering models largely overlook the non-cooperative strategies that exist in real-world markets. In this work, each player controls a processing network involving intermediate tanks (or pools) where raw materials are blended together before being further combined into final products. Each player then solves a pure or mixed-integer bilinear optimization problem whose profit is influenced by other players. We present several bilevel formulations and numerical results of a novel decomposition algorithm.
description: 42 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables
X-ray line signal from decaying axino warm dark matter
Creators: name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Seto, Osamu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider axino warm dark matter in a supersymmetric axion model with R-parity violation. In this scenario, axino with the mass $m_\axino\simeq 7$ keV can decay into photon and neutrino resulting in the X-ray line signal at $3.5$ keV, which might be the origin of unidentified X-ray emissions from galaxy clusters and Andromeda galaxy detected by the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected, discussion and one more figure added, the final journal version
Comprehensive Analysis of Learning Cases in an Autonomous Navigation Task for the Evolution of General Controllers
Creators: name: NAREDO, ENRIQUE
name: Sansores, Candelaria
name: Godinez, Flaviano
name: Lopez, Francisco
name: Urbano, Paulo C. M.
name: Trujillo, Leonardo
name: RYAN, CONOR
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Information and computing sciences

description: Robotics technology has made significant advancements in various fields in industry and society. It is clear how robotics has transformed manufacturing processes and increased productivity. Additionally, navigation robotics has also been impacted by these advancements, with investors now investing in autonomous transportation for both public and private use. This research aims to explore how training scenarios affect the learning process for autonomous navigation tasks. The primary objective is to address whether the initial conditions (learning cases) have a positive or negative impact on the ability to develop general controllers. By examining this research question, the study seeks to provide insights into how to optimize the training process for autonomous navigation tasks, ultimately improving the quality of the controllers that are developed. Through this investigation, the study aims to contribute to the broader goal of advancing the field of autonomous navigation and developing more sophisticated and effective autonomous systems. Specifically, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of a particular navigation environment using evolutionary computing to develop controllers for a robot starting from different locations and aiming to reach a specific target. The final controller was then tested on a large number of unseen test cases. Experimental results provide strong evidence that the initial selection of the learning cases plays a role in evolving general controllers. This work includes a preliminary analysis of a specific set of small learning cases chosen manually, provides an in-depth analysis of learning cases in a particular navigation task, and develops a tool that shows the impact of the selected learning cases on the overall behavior of a robot’s controller.
Radiative neutrino mass in 331 scheme
Creators: name: Boucenna, Sofiane M.
name: Morisi, Stefano
name: Valle, Jose W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new radiative mechanism for neutrino mass generation based on the 3-3-1 electroweak gauge group. Lepton number is a symmetry of the Yukawa sector but spontaneously broken in the gauge sector. As a result light Majorana masses arise from neutral gauge boson exchange at the one-loop level. In addition to the isosinglet neutrinos which may be produced at the LHC through the extended gauge boson "portals", the model contains new isosinglet quarks which can also lie at the TeV scale and provide a plethora of collider phenomena.
description: 4p, 2 figs. Minor typos corrected. Matches published version
Robust models and evaluation for systems security research
Creators: name: Sugrim, Shridatt
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Machine learning in modern systems security research is common. Researchers regularly use machine learning based models for tasks such as authentication and user identification. Often the practices followed for developing and evaluating a machine learning model that forms the decision logic of these systems are misleading. For example, the maximum accuracy (ACC) can be inflated when the data used to train a model is class skewed. Additionally, models built on data from small user groups may achieve high performance values but fail to generalize in a larger population. These inflated performance values will lead to unexpected system-level failures.There are several metrics that are used to evaluate how well a system performs at the task of distinguishing users. Existing metrics are often inadequate because they fail to capture the range of possible contingencies that arise when the measurements that decisions are based on have inherent ambiguities. These ambiguities can result in mistaking one user for another. For authentication or user identification, the consequences for such mistakes is dictated by the target application. Mistakenly granting access to a bank account has significantly different consequences than loading the wrong set of user preferences. Many of the common metrics hide underlying problems within the machine learning models. Models that are not tested with an adequate number of users can fail in surprising ways.In this PhD thesis, we explore the underlying reasons why the metrics are misleading, and models fail to generalize. We identify the flaws with the metrics and show how some metrics can degrade in performance when assumptions about the number of users are violated. We present surveys of proposals for new authentication or user identification systems from top-tier publication venues. We found that 94% (33/35) the authentication systems surveyed had reporting flaws and 77% of user identification systems used less than 20 participants to validate their system. Finally, we present solutions to these issues in the form of metrics that can be visually checked for flaws and testing methods that can be used to determine when assumptions about population size break down.
Inside the Pinelands: A Report by the Pinelands Preservation Alliance, February-March 2007, Vol. 14, No. 3
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Pinelands Preservation Alliance (PPA)
Year: 2007

description: This is the bimonthly newsletter of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance (PPA), a nonprofit organization working to protect and preserve the resources of the New Jersey Pinelands. Articles featured in this edition include: 25 Years of Pinelands Protection: A Critical Review (Part 1); Letter From the Executive Director; What's the Plan, Part 7: Forest Area; Pesticide Use In the Pinelands; In Memoriam: David O. Johnson and Lynn Hunt; Pinelands Calendar of Events
Higgs decays to two leptons and a photon beyond leading order in the SMEFT
Creators: name: Corbett, T.
name: Rasmussen, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the three-body decay of the Higgs boson into two leptons and a photon to dimension-eight in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). In order to obtain this result we interfere the full one-loop Standard Model result with the tree-level result in the SMEFT. This is the first calculation of the partial width of the Higgs boson into two leptons and a photon in the SMEFT to incorporate the full one-loop dependence for the Standard Model as well as the full tree level dimension-eight dependence in the SMEFT. We find that this channel can aid in distinguishing strongly interacting and weakly interacting UV completions of the SMEFT under standard assumptions. We also find that this channel presents the opportunity to distinguish different operator Classes within the SMEFT, potentially including contact $H\bar\ell\ellγ$ operators which are first generated only at dimension-eight in the SMEFT.
description: 22 pages excl Appendices, 4 Tables, 7 Figures
Confronting Higgcision with Electric Dipole Moments
Creators: name: Cheung, Kingman
name: Lee, Jae Sik
name: Senaha, Eibun
name: Tseng, Po-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current data on the signal strengths and angular spectrum of the 125.5 GeV Higgs boson still allow a CP-mixed state, namely, the pseudoscalar coupling to the top quark can be as sizable as the scalar coupling: $C_u^S \approx C_u^P =1/2$. CP violation can then arise and manifest in sizable electric dipole moments (EDMs). In the framework of two-Higgs-doublet models, we not only update the Higgs precision (Higgcision) study on the couplings with the most updated Higgs signal strength data, but also compute all the Higgs-mediated contributions from the 125.5 GeV Higgs boson to the EDMs, and confront the allowed parameter space against the existing constraints from the EDM measurements of Thallium, neutron, Mercury, and Thorium monoxide. We found that the combined EDM constraints restrict the pseudoscalar coupling to be less than about $10^{-2}$, unless there are contributions from other Higgs bosons, supersymmetric particles, or other exotic particles that delicately cancel the current Higgs-mediated contributions.
description: 34 pages, 17 figures, to appear in JHEP