cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Detection a Natural Source of Oil in the South-Eastern Part of Black Sea During Monitoring of Oil Pollution With on European Maritime Safety Agency Satellite Service
Creators: name: Gegenava, Avtandil
name: Kakhidze, Abdul
name: Gegenava, Tinatin
name: Chokharadze, Teimuraz
name: Babilodze, Joni
Publisher: name: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Year: 2021

description: The paper deals the presence of a natural source of oil, which is sometimes detected in the southeastern part of the Black Sea as part of the monitoring of oil pollution of the Black Sea using the EMSA (European Maritime Safety Agency) satellite service. With the collaboration of EMSA CLEANSEANET System and MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Center) of Maritime Agency of Georgia MRCC is regularly receiving data to region possible spills pollution. The EMSA satellite service offers extensive surveillance of European waters for oil spills by using radar images acquired by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors on polar orbiting satellites. SAR sensors have the capability to detect oil slicks on the sea surface in darkness as well as daylight hours and to see through clouds. The analysis CleanSeaNet Alert Report possible spills, it's safe to say that we are observing a natural expression of oil on the sea surface, which is formed by the migration of oil hydrocarbons in the sedimentary complex of the southeastern part of the Black Sea, seaward of the city of Poti (Georgia). Source identified based on the analysis of multi-temporal radar satellite imagery.
description: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Connection between soft and hard probes of small collision systems at RHIC and LHC
Creators: name: Perepelitsa, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The expected connections between signatures in the soft and hard sectors of small collision systems, and the status of experimental attempts to identify them, are discussed. These proceedings summarize the talk as given at the International Symposium on Multi-Particle Dynamics in September 2019 in Santa Fe, NM (ISMD19). As such, the choice of content and focus are selective and not intended to be comprehensive.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of the ISMD19
1206: Pte Frederick Williams (diary)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: The diary covers 1918, including Armistice Day 1918.
The Impact of Regional Food Cost Differences on the TFP Recommendations
Creators: name: Zhang, Ge
name: You, Wen
name: Carlson, Andrea
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
name: Zhang, Ge
name: You, Wen
name: Carlson, Andrea
name: Lin, Biing-Hwan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Regional
subject: Food Cost
subject: The TFP

description: The Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) adapts a national average price and stipulates that all foods should be prepared at home (FAH). Our purpose was to calculate the TFP with regional prices and add Food Away From Home (FAFH) into the TFP model. Measures were calculated and compared across the TFP, the regional models with FAFH, and low-income consumers’ diet pattern. The preliminary results indicated that considering moderate FAFH in the TFP yielded similar nutrient and food group composition as the TFP with FAFH added in it, while greatly increased the practicality and adaptability of the recommendations. However, the regional TFP costs are all larger than the TFP with FAFH cost. These findings may be used by nutrition educators to develop healthful FAFH choices and readjust the TFP allotments for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants.
"Understanding homophobic behaviour" for the National Rugby League's Respectful Relationships, Alcohol, Drugs and Gambling report
Creators: name: Denison, Erik
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170114 Sport and Exercise Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This chapter reviewed the body of research that has sought to understand why homophobic language is used by male athletes in order to contextualise the findings from the National Rugby Leagues internal audit of player behaviour.
1211: Sgt Harry Kay (press cutting; photograph; medals)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Family collection of press cutting, photograph and medals. Sgt Kay was awarded the Military Medal. Son of James T. and Ann J. Kay, of 6, Baythorpe St., Bolton.
Some Trends in the Development of Maritime Industry in the World and in Georgia
Creators: name: Mamuladze, Roman
name: Gabaidze, Meri
Publisher: name: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Year: 2021

description: The paper "Some Trends in the Development of Maritime Industry in the World and in Georgia" substantiates the place and role of international maritime industry in both the world economy and the economic development of the country. The special importance of maritime transport-logistics systems is emphasized in the further development of the Georgian economy. The abstract conclusions are based on the research and data analysis published by national and international institutions on world economy, international trade of goods as well as international maritime trade, and their interrelationships. Trends in the development of some areas of the maritime industry (international maritime trade, world navy, shipbuilding and training of seafarers) have been studied. Based on the analysis of similar indicators of the Georgian maritime industry, separate conclusions have been made about the further development and efficient use of the Georgian maritime transport-logistics system.
description: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
An analysis on extrema and constrained bounds for the soft Pomeron intercept
Creators: name: Luna, E. G. S.
name: Menon, M. J.
name: Montanha, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate some aspects and consequences of the extrema bounds for the soft Pomeron intercept, recently determined by means of global fits to $pp$ and $\bar{p}p$ total cross section data at both accelerator and cosmic-ray energy regions (scattering data). We also examine the effects of the secondary Reggeons by introducing fitted trajectories from Chew-Frautschi plots (spectroscopy data) and determining new constrained bounds for the Pomeron intercept. In both cases we extend the analysis to $baryon-p$, $meson-p$, $baryon-n$, $meson-n$, $gamma-p$ and $gamma-gamma$ scattering, presenting tests on factorization and quark counting rules. We show that in all the cases investigated, the bounds lead to good descriptions of the bulk of experimental data on the total cross sections, but with different extrapolations to higher energies. Our main conclusion is that the experimental information presently available on the above quantities is not sensitive to an uncertainty of 2% in the value of the soft Pomeron intercept. At 14 TeV (CERN LHC) the extrema and constrained bounds allow to infer $σ_{tot}$ = 114 $\pm$ 25 mb and 105 $\pm$ 10 mb, respectively.
description: 20 pages, 5 eps-figures, elsart.cls (included), submitted to Nucl. Phys. A
Fast Optimization of Temperature Focusing in Hyperthermia Treatment of Sub-Superficial Tumors
Creators: name: Gaffoglio, Rossella
name: Righero, Marco
name: Giordanengo, Giorgio
name: Zucchi, Marcello
name: Vecchi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microwave hyperthermia aims at selectively heating cancer cells to a supra-physiological temperature. For non-superficial tumors, this can be achieved by means of an antenna array equipped with a proper cooling system (the water bolus) to avoid overheating of the skin. In patient-specific treatment planning, antenna feedings are optimized to maximize the specific absorption rate (SAR) inside the tumor, or to directly maximize the temperature there, involving a higher numerical cost. We present here a method to effect a low-complexity temperature-based planning. It arises from recognizing that SAR and temperature have shifted peaks due to thermal boundary conditions at the water bolus and for physiological effects like air flow in respiratory ducts. In our method, temperature focusing on the tumor is achieved via a SAR-based optimization of the antenna excitations, but optimizing its target to account for the cooling effects. The temperature optimization process is turned into finding a SAR peak position that maximizes the chosen temperature objective function. Application of this method to the 3D head and neck region provides a temperature coverage that is consistently better than that obtained with SAR-optimization alone, also considering uncertainties in thermal parameters. This improvement is obtained by solving the bioheat equation a reduced number of times, avoiding its inclusion in a global optimization process.
description: 7 pages, 6 figure, accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology
Klein-Nishina effect and the cosmic ray electron spectrum
Creators: name: Fang, Kun
name: Bi, Xiao-Jun
name: Lin, Su-Jie
name: Yuan, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radiative energy losses are very important in regulating the cosmic ray electron and/or positron (CRE) spectrum during their propagation in the Milky Way. Particularly, the Klein-Nishina (KN) effect of the inverse Compton scattering (ICS) results in less efficient energy losses of high-energy electrons, which is expected to leave imprints on the propagated electron spectrum. It has been proposed that the hardening of CRE spectra around 50 GeV observed by Fermi-LAT, AMS-02, and DAMPE could be due to the KN effect. We show in this work that the transition from the Thomson regime to the KN regime of the ICS is actually quite smooth compared with the approximate treatment adopted in some previous works. As a result, the observed spectral hardening of CREs cannot be explained by the KN effect. It means that an additional hardening of the primary electrons spectrum is needed. We also provide a parameterized form for the accurate calculation of the ICS energy-loss rate in a wide energy range.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, author-edited version
Effects of lattice geometry and interaction range on polaron dynamics
Creators: name: Hague, J. P.
name: Kornilovitch, P. E.
name: Alexandrov, A. S.
name: Samson, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of lattice type on polaron dynamics using a continuous-time quantum Monte-Carlo approach. Holstein and screened Froehlich polarons are simulated on a number of different Bravais lattices. The effective mass, isotope coefficients, ground state energy and energy spectra, phonon numbers, and density of states are calculated. In addition, the results are compared with weak and strong coupling perturbation theory. For the Holstein polaron, it is found that the crossover between weak and strong coupling results becomes sharper as the coordination number is increased. In higher dimensions, polarons are much less mobile at strong coupling, with more phonons contributing to the polaron. The total energy decreases monotonically with coupling. Spectral properties of the polaron depend on the lattice type considered, with the dimensionality contributing to the shape and the coordination number to the bandwidth. As the range of the electron-phonon interaction is increased, the coordination number becomes less important, with the dimensionality taking the leading role.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures
Importance of GHS in Seafarers Education
Creators: name: Kurshubadze, Nino
Publisher: name: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Year: 2021

description: Global harmonized system (GHS), relating to hazard chemicals, is a process of making regulations among countries uniform to the extent possible so as to benefit an industry to export its product to several countries with one communication system. On one side, the system is helpful to develop communication as labeling and material safety data sheets, and on the other side is helpful for personal in the industry (including manufacturer, chemical carrier, Ports, Terminals, Ships, laboratories) to properly handle chemicals with covering all safety rules. Such international guidelines are believed to be the most reliable information so that USERS of hazard chemicals is confident enough in handling, storage, segregation, disposal and using. The current article has two goals. Firstly, is to extend the awareness and understanding the main principles of GHS system, their guidelines, and how the hazard chemicals are being classified, communicated as labels, symbols, pictograms, hazardous / precautionary statements and material safety data sheets. Secondly, is to establish the importance of implementing of GHS in curricular of bachelor students of maritime specialization, significance of increasing their awareness, knowledge and understanding in hazardous communication and understanding of hazard identification and risk management of different cargos, which is the part of ISM code and MSC 286(86) requirements.
description: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
The Use of Wind Turbines in Ports and Sea Vessels
Creators: name: Kurshubadze, Tsiuri
name: Bekirishvili, Makvala
Publisher: name: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Year: 2021

description: The technical result of the research of presented wind turbine is simplification and rise of the practical application of its main body – the rotor construction, which shall be achieved via transformation of wind shifting movement into rotating movement is implemented by rotor blades, which present bent or inclined shape plates and during rotation, these plates are not influenced with decelerating resistance of surrounding air. The technical novelty of the turbine construction is presented with the following features: each profile blade of the rotor presents concave arc placed eccentrically towards its rotative axis, and the rotor may be equipped with one, two or more wings.
description: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Microparticles with diverse sizes and morphologies from mechanical and laser cutting of fuel debris simulants and geopolymer as a covering material
Creators: name: Zhou, Qian
name: Saito, Takumi
name: Suzuki, Seiya
name: Yano, Kimihiko
name: Suzuki, Shunichi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: During the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the dismantling of massive fuel debris is important for the defueling process. The production and dispersion of radioactive microparticles highly depends on the cutting technique implemented. Previous studies have been conducted on the development of cutting techniques and the treatment of radioactive particles generation during the cutting process. Besides, adequate understanding of the microparticle products during the cuttings of fuel debris is of vital necessity. Nowadays, geopolymer application is proposed as a covering material during the fuel debris retrieval in order to keep the structural integrity of damaged components. In this study, the microparticle products during mechanical and laser cutting of fuel debris simulants (Hafnium oxide and Tungsten(IV) oxide pellets) and geopolymer material were investigated. The cuttings have been carried out for samples of the simulants, geopolymer, and simulants with geopolymer covering. The generated particles were collected and investigated by laser diffraction particle size analyzer and Scanning Electron Microscope with X-ray spectrometry. Particles with diverse sizes and morphologies were observed from the products of each sample. It also appears that particles with unique sizes and morphologies can generate from the laser cuttings due to the thermal effect of laser cutting.
Is Agricultural Policy Decoupling against Human Nature? Experimental Evidence of Fairness Expectations’ Contributions to Payment Incidence
Creators: name: Ehmke, Mariah D.
name: Nagler, Amy M.
name: Menkhaus, Dale J.
name: Bastian, Christopher T.
name: Young, C. Edwin
name: Ehmke, Mariah D.
name: Nagler, Amy M.
name: Menkhaus, Dale J.
name: Bastian, Christopher T.
name: Young, C. Edwin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: The objective of this research is to measure individuals’ fairness expectations and relate them to their market behavior in a private-negotiation institution. By doing this, we may inform model parameterization of field data and increase understanding of payment incidence causation. We hypothesize agents will change both their market and UG behavior when the tenant/proposer receives a subsidy following a successful negotiation. We also hypothesize that agents’ market behavior does relate to their fairness expectations in the UG. Two economic experiments were developed to test our hypotheses, a market and an ultimatum bargaining game experiment. We recruited 106 undergraduate students and conducted the experiments in an experimental laboratory using a computer based market mechanism. Our findings suggest fairness expectations need to be considered as a possible constraint on agents’ profit maximization behavior in land markets. The experimental evidence indicates market sellers or landlords demand higher land rental prices when tenants receive per-unit subsidies. Their ability to obtain a higher price appears to be more formidable in markets with limited matching opportunities. We conclude fairness expectations may constrain individuals’ profit-maximization behavior in the land market and, in turn, affect payment incidence in this market.
Evaluation of fission product yields and associated covariance matrices
Creators: name: Tsubakihara, Kohsuke
name: Okumura, Shin
name: Ishizuka, Chikako
name: Yoshida, Tadashi
name: Minato, Futoshi
name: Chiba, Satoshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The independent and cumulative fission product yields (FPYs) and their covariance matrices were newly evaluated for thermal- and fast-neutron induced fission and spontaneous fission. We principally evaluated the independent isobaric charge distributions by taking account of available experimental data, especially putting emphasis on the shell and even-odd staggering in the fission yields by applying a Boltzmann factor including the shell and the pairing correction energies for the mass of fission products. Furthermore, the isomeric ratios of FPY were obtained by a systematic calculation based on the Hauser-Feshbach theory. Normalization of the FPY and associated covariance matrices of independent FPY were determined based on the generalised least-square method to make them consistent with important physical constraints. Especially, the FPYs were normalized to be consistent with the mass chain yield of England and Rider. The cumulative FPYs were calculated by following the relevant β-decay chain by using the decay data from JENDL/DD-2015. Finally, we verified the FPYs evaluated presently by considering experimental decay heats, delayed neutron yields, aggregate antineutrino spectra, and results from post-irradiation examination. All the results have shown that the present set of FPYs were consistent with these data and free from trivial problems present in JENDL/FPY-2011.
Particle escape into extra space
Creators: name: Maziashvili, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We focus on escape of a spin integer particle the challenge for which is of course that the corresponding field equation contains the second order time derivative and, in general, may be problematic for interpreting the extra-dimensional part of the field as a wave function for the KK modes as it is usually regarded.
description: 3 pages
Interdisciplinary Teaching of Natural Science Training Courses
Creators: name: Diasamidze, Mzia
name: Takidze, Irma
name: Shotadze, Ana
Publisher: name: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Year: 2021

description: Georgian sailors hold leading positions on the world market. Therefore, they need to be thoroughly trained and successfully integrated into international transport systems. The presented paper describes the introduction of interdisciplinary teaching, which is the basis for the success of the set goal. The introduction of this method of training will have a positive impact on the process of acquiring professional knowledge of a sailor and the formation of his personal qualities. It is well known that understanding most of the issues related to a sailor’s professional activity is based on knowledge of the laws and theories of natural sciences, elements of higher mathematics, digital technologies, the use of alternative energy, environmental safety and others. The acquired knowledge should be used by the student both in the educational process and in future professional activities. The model of interdisciplinary training of sailor training allows to achieve the professional competencies that are formed in the student in the process of learning and training. Competence is the ability of a sailor to apply in practice the knowledge gained in the learning process and properly formed skills.
description: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Pauli limited d-wave superconductors: Quantum breached pair phase and thermal transitions
Creators: name: Karmakar, Madhuparna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a quantum phase transition in Pauli limited $d$-wave superconductors and give the mean field estimates of the associated quantum critical point. For a population imbalanced $d$-wave superconductor a stable ground state phase viz. quantum breached pair phase has been identified which comprises of spatial coexistence of gapless superconductivity and nonzero magnetization. Based on the thermodynamic and quasiparticle indicators we for the first time analyze this phase, discuss the thermal behavior of Pauli limited $d$-wave superconductor, give accurate estimates of the thermal scales associated with such systems and map out the pseudogap regime. Our work shows that while the Pauli limited superconductors are known to exhibit exotic modulated superconducting phase at large imbalance of fermion populations; in the regime of weak imbalance an intriguing phase of competing orders is realized. We have established that rather than the superconducting pairing field, it is the average magnetization of the system that quantifies this quantum phase transition. Given that the existing Pauli limited superconductors possess unconventional pairing state symmetry of the superconducting order, our work promises to open up new avenues in the experimental research of these materials. We have also demonstrated an alternate scenario wherein the quantum breached pair phase is a natural outcome for a $d$-wave superconductor with unequal effective masses of the fermion species.
description: 30 pages, 16 figures (Jour. Phys. Cond. Mat., in press)
A probabilistic model for the equilibration of an ideal gas
Creators: name: Prestipino, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present a generalization of the Ehrenfest urn model that is aimed at simulating the approach to equilibrium in a dilute gas. The present model differs from the original one in two respects: 1) the two boxes have different volumes and are divided into identical cells with either multiple or single occupancy; 2) particles, which carry also a velocity vector, are subjected to random, but elastic, collisions, both mutual and against the container walls. I show, both analytically and numerically, that the number and energy of particles in a given urn evolve eventually to an equilibrium probability density $W$ which, depending on cell occupancy, is binomial or hypergeometric in the particle number and beta-like in the energy. Moreover, the Boltzmann entropy $\ln W$ takes precisely the same form as the thermodynamic entropy of an ideal gas. This exercise can be useful for pedagogical purposes in that it provides, although in an extremely simplified case, a probabilistic justification for the maximum-entropy principle.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
1219: Cpl John Preston (medals; plaque; cards; photograph; poem)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Family collection of Cpl Preston who died 28/06/1917
Maritime Discourse in Diachronic Aspect
Creators: name: Dumbadze, Sopiko
name: Iakobidze, Kristine
Publisher: name: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Year: 2021

description: The work deals with the Georgian maritime discourse in different time ranges. It shows the impact of dominant languages on verbal communication of Georgian seafarers at different times and their trace not only in oral but in written languages. The research is connected to the very topical issue today, the purity of the Georgian language that is highly debatable among linguists. Language, language system, language policy is a complex phenomenon, study of which is inexhaustible and comprehensive. The work aims to depict the state of the Georgian maritime discourse, existing problems and to review the ways of solving them. Accordingly, it sets the following goals: to review the maritime discourse, identify barbarisms and neologisms, make a contrastive analysis of the examples found, present the impact of the globalization role. The synchronous and diachronic approaches used in the study reveal the influence of Russian and English on the Georgian maritime discourse. Nothing can stop the process of entering and establishing new lexical elements in a language. It is a continuous factor, but not all the words are capable of entering the base language, most of them disappear with time passage. Language in general has the ability to protect itself.
description: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
1200: Sgt Ernest Edward Morris (photograph)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Ernest Edward Morris was Headmaster at Adlington School and Organist at St Pauls Church, Adlington, Lancs
An Analysis of the Consumption of Sausages in Scotland using Supermarket Data
Creators: name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Kupiec-Teahan, Beata
name: Wrieden, Wendy
name: Davis, Victoria
name: Milne, Anne
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
name: Revoredo-Giha, Cesar
name: Kupiec-Teahan, Beata
name: Wrieden, Wendy
name: Davis, Victoria
name: Milne, Anne
name: Leat, Philip M.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Scotland
subject: saturated fats
subject: sodium
subject: consumer choices
subject: sausages consumption

description: This paper addresses consumers’ choices by looking into: current food choices made by different socio-economic groups; price barriers for diet improvement; and ways in which marketing may affect product choice. The study seeks: first, to analyze the differences in consumption of sausages of different nutritional composition among different socio-demographic and lifestage groups; and second, to measure whether it is possible to improve diet quality without affecting household expenditure. Sausages represent a relatively high proportion of red and processed meat purchases in Scotland, contributing significantly to the fat and sodium in the Scottish diet. The data used consisted of two-years of weekly information from a top-4, UK supermarket. The results suggest that it is possible to purchase similar quantities of a lower saturated fat or lower sodium sausage for the same price as a higher saturated fat or sodium sausage. However, it would cost more for some the groups to replace both a lower saturated fat and a lower sodium sausage in the household’s food basket.
III Informe sobre la Universidad Pública Española más transparente, 2020
Creators: name: SAID-HUNG, ELIAS MANUEL
name: Cousido-González, Pilar
name: Muñoz, Ignacio Moreno
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 80505 Web Technologies (excl. Web Search)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80612 Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: El análisis de la gestión de la transparencia y del derecho de acceso en la Universidad Pública española tiene sentido desde el momento en que el anteproyecto de la Ley 19/2013 permitió prever que las universidades públicas se encontrarían entre las instituciones obligadas a transparentarse ante la ciudadanía. Puesto que el artículo 2, sobre el ámbito subjetivo de la norma, las señala en su apartado 1.d) al decir que esta Ley se aplica a “(…) Las entidades de Derecho Público con personalidad jurídica propia, vinculadas a cualquiera de las Administraciones Públicas o dependientes de ellas, incluidas las Universidades públicas. (…)” y estando el grupo TRA.BU.COM. (“Transparencia, Buena Gobernanza y Comunicación, 931036”), autor de este análisis, constituido por docentes e investigadores de la universidad pública española, principalmente, no es de extrañar que pareciera de interés comprobar el grado de transparencia de las 50 universidades públicas.
The Study of Migration Influence on the Labor Market Structure and Employment in Georgia
Creators: name: Tchanidze, Ketevan
name: Katsadze, Irakli
Publisher: name: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Year: 2021

description: The present work is aimed at the study of impact of migration on labor marker structure and employment. Migration is a complex, multifaceted and very painful issue for our country. There is two forms of the migration - internal and external, both with its own peculiarities, aims and results.Both may be discussed in positive and negative contents, but taking into account a small scale of population in Georgia, external migration has more negative than positive sides and threats on the sustainable demographic development of the country. To identify the internal migration impact, we have used the official statistic information from National Statistics Office of Georgia, also the research materials of the scientific-research grant projects and the Neoclassical theory of migration. We have discussed as well the impact of the external migration on the demographic development of the country and on the employment structure. There are given particulars of the different types of migrants, and the accent is made on Seafarers, specifically are seafarers migrants or not. Research in regard of the seafarers is made on basis of the information of Maritime Transport Agency of Georgia, according which is shown growth of the seafarers employment. Works of Georgian migration and demography researchers are used within the frame of the research.
description: Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Georgian Maritime Scientific Journal
Transfer of 137Cs to web-building spiders, Nephila clavata, and its pathways: a preliminary study using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses
Creators: name: Tanaka, Sota
name: Kakinuma, Hotaru
name: Adati, Tarô
name: Atarashi-Andoh, Mariko
name: Koarashi, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Understanding the pathways of 137Cs transfer to spiders as generalist predators is useful to assess the long-term recycling of 137Cs through the food chain in forest ecosystems. Approximately 6.5 years after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, we collected spider samples at two different habitats (in a forest interior and along a river) in a forest and determined their 137Cs activity concentrations and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio values (δ13C and δ15N). Across the locations, 137Cs was detected in all spiders, indicating that a significant fraction of the deposited 137Cs is still bioavailable. The geometric means of the transfer factor (Tag) values were 1.3 × 10−3 m2 kg−1 and 0.8 × 10−3 m2 kg−1 for the spiders in the forest interior and along the river, respectively. There were no significant differences in the 137Cs activity concentration and Tag value between the locations. In contrast, the δ13C and δ15N for the spiders were significantly different between the locations, indicating different food resources of the spiders. The preliminary results indicate that the transfer of 137Cs to spiders can be a useful indicator of 137Cs recycling in forest ecosystems, but the transfer pathways remain difficult to identify because of high variability.
title: Responsible investment and stewardship in Japan
Creators: name: Biehl, Christoph F.
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2018

description: Responsible investment has grown globally over the last two decades, with a movement from screening strategies towards active ownership. In the UK this development was accelerated by the launch of the Stewardship Code. Not part of the global development, however, is Japan. The Japanese financial market is the only developed financial market globally that did not see a surge in assets under management invested in responsible investment products. In 2014, the Financial Service Authority (FSA) Japan launched the Japanese version of the Stewardship Code, the Principles for Responsible Institutional Investors (PRII) in order to boost responsible investment, focusing especially on active ownership. This thesis analyses the development of responsible investment and stewardship in Japan, with a focus on the question of whether or not stewardship increases accountability. The project is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with experts in the Japanese market. In 2014, 12 interviews were conducted with investment managers, 11 with investment analysts and 8 with academics, researchers, and consultants. The study finds that several institutional logics are currently competing in the Japanese financial market and that hybrid logics are emerging. One key aspect of a sub-set of these logics is impression management, which occurs in investor-investee meetings. The study finds that trust in the long-term alignment of incentives between investor and investee company is the main determinant for the occurrence of impression management during investor-investee meetings. Consequently, stewardship can either increase accountability and serve as an important corporate governance tool, or create a myth of accountability without any real effect on accountability.
An EU-Canada bilateral trade agreement: A DefraTAP application
Creators: name: Kitou, Elisavet
name: Philippidis, George
name: Kitou, Elisavet
name: Philippidis, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: EU27
subject: Canada
subject: Economic integration
subject: Sensitive products

description: The first round of negotiations held in Ottawa on the 19th October, 2009, heralded the opening of bilateral trade talks intent on reaching a Canadian-European Union (EU27) free trade area (FTA) agreement. A second round of negotiations were staged in Brussels in January, whilst further rounds are scheduled for 2010, with the longer term aim of ratifying an agreement within 24-30 months. Although stumbling blocs will be encountered, the divergent political interests of each region are compatible. In Canada, a FTA with its second largest trading partner offers a viable alternative to its current overdependence on the US. Similarly, the EU27 sees an opportunity to regain a competitive foothold in the North American market. This paper re-examines the long run trade led gains from a Canada-EU27 FTA. Unlike previous studies, our assessment also accounts for the HS6 level sensitive product declarations submitted by both parties in the first round. We examine the extent to which these proposals afford protection to key strategic sectors and impact on trade led growth and real incomes. All estimates are compared with a realistic contemporary baseline scenario. The results suggest that non tariff barrier (NTB) reductions dominate real income gains, whilst sensitive product exceptions, principally affecting wheat, dairy, wearing apparel and leather sectors, reduce Canadian and EU27 real income gains by 20% and 24%, respectively. Trade diversion impacts are relatively marked for the US and EFTA, whilst China escapes largely unscathed due to the pattern of its trade specialisation.
Higgs Sector of the Left-Right Model with Explicit CP Violation
Creators: name: Kiers, Ken
name: Assis, Michael
name: Petrov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the Higgs sector of the Minimal Left-Right (LR) Model based on the gauge group SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R x U(1)_{B-L} with explicit CP violation in the Higgs potential. Since flavour-changing neutral current experiments and the small scale of neutrino masses both place stringent constraints on the Higgs potential, we seek to determine whether minima of the Higgs potential exist that are consistent with current experimental bounds. We focus on the case in which the right-handed symmetry-breaking scale is only ``moderately'' large, of order 15-50 TeV. Unlike the case in which the Higgs potential is CP-invariant, the CP noninvariant case does yield viable scenarios, although these require a small amount of fine-tuning. We consider a LR model supplemented by an additional U(1) horizontal symmetry, which results in a Higgs sector consistent with current experimental constraints and a realistic spectrum of neutrino masses.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
FACS Framework STRESS Report.pdf
Creators: name: Hashmi, Imran Mahmood Qureshi
name: Anagnostou, Anastasia
name: Taylor, Simon
name: Bell, David
name: Groen, Derek
Publisher: name: Brunel University London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 80110 Simulation and Modelling
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: The recent Covid-19 outbreak has had a tremendous impact on the world, and many countries are struggling to help incoming patients and at the same time, rapidly enact new public health measures such as lock downs. We introduce the Flu and Corona virus Simulator (FACS), a simulation tool that models the viral spread at the sub-national level, incorporating geospatial data sources to extract buildings and residential areas within a predefined region. Using FACS, we can model Covid-19 spread at the local level, and provide estimates of the spread of infections and hospital arrivals for different scenarios. We present this STRESS (Strengthening the Reporting of Empirical Simulation Studies) report to describe the proposed agent-based simulation framework and to help improve the simulation reproducibility, and to capture relevant details of the COVID-19 simulation study and allow extend/reuse of our simulation.
CP2K: An electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package
Creators: name: Tabacchi, Gloria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: 30701 Quantum Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: CP2K: An electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package - Quickstep: Efficient and accurate electronic structure calculations
Thomas D. Kühne, Marcella Iannuzzi, Mauro Del Ben, Vladimir V. Rybkin, Patrick Seewald, Frederick Stein, Teodoro Laino, Rustam Z. Khaliullin, Ole Schütt, Florian Schiffmann, Dorothea Golze, Jan Wilhelm, Sergey Chulkov, Mohammad Hossein Bani-Hashemian, Valéry Weber, Urban Borštnik, Mathieu Taillefumier, Alice Shoshana Jakobovits, Alfio Lazzaro, Hans Pabst, Tiziano Müller, Robert Schade, Manuel Guidon, Samuel Andermatt, Nico Holmberg, Gregory K. Schenter, Anna Hehn, Augustin Bussy, Fabian Belleflamme, Gloria Tabacchi, Andreas Glöß, Michael Lass, Iain Bethune, Christopher J. Mundy, Christian Plessl, Matt Watkins, Joost VandeVondele, Matthias Krack, Jürg Hutter
The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2020, American Institute of PhysicsDOI: 10.1063/5.0007045
An open-access review article on CP2K
Are consumers beef quality perceptions in accordance with objective beef quality?
Creators: name: Banović, Marija
name: Cristina Monteiro, Ana
name: Lemos, Jose Pedro Cardoso
name: Madalena Barreira, Maria
name: Fontes, Magda Aguiar
name: Banović, Marija
name: Cristina Monteiro, Ana
name: Lemos, Jose Pedro Cardoso
name: Madalena Barreira, Maria
name: Fontes, Magda Aguiar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: PDO beef
subject: perceived quality
subject: objective quality

description: The consumer has the final word in food choice, which is determined by his perceived quality. Within a project coordinated by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine we tried to relate objective quality with the consumer quality evaluation. To do so, we have measured the expected and experienced quality of a sample of Portuguese consumers towards three types of beef (PDO, national and imported) at the shop, and compared this subjective evaluation with the beef objective quality. Results at the consumer level show that respondents perceived PDO beef to be of higher quality than the two other types of beef for different attributes and for overall quality at the shop location. In terms of objective quality results, the three types of beef showed highly similar physicochemical characteristics and there were no differences, on average, in terms of the aspects mostly considered by the consumers - tenderness, colour and fat content. Hence, it was not possible to show that physicochemical characteristics are good predictors of consumer preferences. However shear force revealed a positive asymmetry showing a higher probability to find a tender beef in PDO than in the other types of beef. This should constitute an area for further research.
The classical diffusion limited Kronig-Penney system
Creators: name: Bar, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have previously discussed the classical diffusive system of the bounded one-dimensional multitrap using the transfer-matrix method which is generally applied for studying the energy spectrum of the unbounded quantum Kronig-Penney multibarrier. It was shown, by this method, that for certain values of the relevant parameters the bounded multitrap array have unity transmission and a double-peak phase transitional behaviour. We discuss in this work, using the same transfer matrix method, the energy related to the diffusion through the unbounded one-dimensional multitrap and find that it may be expressed in two entirely different ways with different results and consequences. Also, it is shown that, unlike the barriers in the Kronig-Penney case, the energies at one face of the imperfect trap greatly differ from the energies at the other face of the same trap.
description: 33 pages, 4 figures, some changes were introduced
Assessing the Impacts of Single Farm Payments on Farm Investment and Output in French Arable Farms: a Dynamic Stochastic Farm Household Model with Debt Constraints
Creators: name: Mary, Sebastien
name: Mary, Sebastien
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Single Farm Payment
subject: farm investment
subject: dynamic stochastic farm household model
subject: debt constraints.

description: The Common Agricultural Policy has radically been reformed in 2003 with the introduction of “decoupled” direct payments. Economic theory suggests that direct payments are expected to have no impact on production in a static deterministic environment with perfect markets for capital and labour. But if factor market imperfections or uncertainty are taken into account, this is no longer true. Taking into account these potential impacts, the empirical literature has studied the impacts of farm payments. However, most studies are based on assumptions such as perfect markets, risk neutrality or static environment. Recent researches have also often neglected the role of debt constraints. The paper develops and numerically solves a dynamic stochastic farm household model with occasionally binding debt constraints and investment adjustment costs. The impacts of direct and counter-cyclical payments are explored and compared to an increase in the intervention price. Results show that both types of payments will positively impact on investment, but the impacts on output will not be as significant as it is with an increase in intervention price. Further, the degree of decoupling of Single Farm Payments in the French crops sector is found to be significantly linked to the degree of capital market imperfections.