cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Women’s vulnerability in bean value chain development at the Maendeleo innovation platform, Eastern DRC
Creators: name: KALIBWANI, R M
name: NYAMWARO, S.O
name: WIMBA, B
name: MUKE, A
name: KAKURU, M.
name: TENYWA, M.M.
name: MUGABO, J.
name: BURUCHARA, R.A.
name: KALIBWANI, R M
name: NYAMWARO, S.O
name: WIMBA, B
name: MUKE, A
name: KAKURU, M.
name: TENYWA, M.M.
name: MUGABO, J.
name: BURUCHARA, R.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Beans
subject: DR. Congo
subject: innovation platform
subject: value chain
subject: vulnerability women

description: Value chain development in post conflict countries should not only deal with the technical issues of the value chain, but with women’s gender needs, and even more critically understand and address their vulnerabilities. The aim of this study was to investigate the vulnerabilities of women involved in a bean value chain development intervention at the Maendeloe Innovation Platform in Eastern DRC. Specifically, the paper first discusses the roles of women and men in the value chain, what production resources and benefits they access and control, the role of the IP as a vehicle for women’s empowerment, and identifies women’s gender needs. Secondly, the paper identifies women’s vulnerabilities, and the capacities that the IP could build on, to support their participation in bean value chain development. Using gender analysis tools, the study shows that in addition to the lack of control of productive resources, household assets and the benefits of their labour, women have been traumatized by the rampant sexual violation and gender-based violence in the region. The innovation platform should consider including legal, mental health and psychosocial counselling service providers as stakeholders in its activities to develop the bean value chain.
UV-laser modification and selective ion-beam etching of amorphous vanadium pentoxide thin films
Creators: name: Cheremisin, Alexander
name: Putrolaynen, Vadim
name: Velichko, Andrei
name: Pergament, Alexander
name: Kuldin, Nikolay
name: Grishin, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results on excimer laser modification and patterning of amorphous vanadium pentoxide films. Wet positive resist-type and Ar ion-beam negative resist-type etching techniques were employed to develop UV-modified films. V2O5 films were found to possess sufficient resistivity compared to standard electronic materials thus to be promising masks for sub-micron lithog-raphy
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
‹Wo die Parteien sich mit Staatsstreichen, Militärrevolten, Hinrichtungen und Morden bekämpfen›: Türkeibilder in schweizerischen Geschichtslehrmitteln in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Hoffmann-Ocon, Andreas
name: Grube, Norbert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Türkeibild
Bildungsgeschichte
Geschichte
Rezeption
Stereotyp
Geschichtsbuch
Lehrbuch
Geschichtsunterricht
Schulbuch
Schulbuchforschung
Historische Bildungsforschung
20. Jahrhundert
Schweiz
History of education
History of educational activities
History
Reception
Text book
Teaching of history
Textbook
Textbook research
Switzerland

description: Tendenzen in schweizerischen Geschichtslehrmitteln an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert, die das Bild einer mythisch grundierten Fortschrittsgeschichte mit dem eigenen Nationalstaat als Ziel stützen, sind vielfach beschrieben worden. Finden sich diese Zuschreibungen auch für die Darstellung der Türkei? Und wenn ja, welche Bedeutung hat die als didaktisches Prinzip verbreitete Form der Erzählung für die Konstruktion des Türkeibildes in Deutschschweizer Geschichtsbüchern gehabt, welche Narrative wurden dabei aktiviert? In den hier untersuchten geschichtsvermittelnden Ansätzen, die das Ziel hatten, die komplexe Verquickung verschiedener Akteurskonstellationen und Interessen bei „neuesten Staatenbildungen“ begreifbar zu machen, spielte die politische Bewegung der Jungtürken als Schulstoff eine besondere Rolle. Als Faktoren, die das schulische Wissen prägen, lassen sich daneben die Marginalisierung osmanischer Reformen, orientalisierende Imaginationen des innerosmanischen Konflikts und eine verhaltene Kritik am deutschen Kolonialismus identifizieren. Der vorliegende Beitrag nähert sich den Vorstellungen von der Türkei in deutschschweizerischen Lehrmitteln für die Volks- und Mittelschulen.
description: +repphzhbib2021F
Contesting BC's vision of '21st-century education' : a critical discourse analysis
Creators: name: Steeves, Tobey
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In recent years the Premier’s Technology Council has drawn on the rhetoric of ‘21st-century education’ to frame discussions of educational policy and reform in British Columbia. BC’s Teacher’s Federation, in contrast, has challenged the appropriateness of ‘21st-century education’, and has called for a more systematic interrogation of the contours, coherence, and value of the ‘21st-century’ policy narrative. Acceding to this warrant, this paper builds upon my ongoing inquiry into ‘21st-century education’. Taking the Technology Council’s “special report” on ‘21st-century education’ as a site of analysis, this paper draws on the tools of critical discourse analysis to identify and problematize instances of agency, modality, and validity in the Technology Council’s vision for ‘21st-century education’. In sharing this inquiry I hope to highlight the need for sustained critical engagement with educational policies in BC. [The Explorations & Education Conference is the collaborative effort of graduate student representatives from the Graduate Student Council for the Faculty of Education, the Department of Educational Studies and the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. The goal is to "to create a safe space for the exchange of academic ideas and to create opportunities particularly for graduate students (at all levels of study) to present their ideas and research".]
Innovation opportunities for milk production in Rwanda with lessons from the Mudende innovation platform
Creators: name: KALIBWANI, R.
name: KAKURU, M
name: TENYWA, M
name: MUGABO, J
name: NYAMWARO, S
name: BURUCHARA, R
name: KALIBWANI, R.
name: KAKURU, M
name: TENYWA, M
name: MUGABO, J
name: NYAMWARO, S
name: BURUCHARA, R
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Gross margins
subject: Innovation Platform
subject: milk
subject: Rwanda

description: While milk in Rwanda is recognized to have potential for enormous contribution to the food security, nutrition and employment situation in the country, national milk production has remained well below to levels that can sufficiently enhance this contribution. The overall objective of the study was to conduct a value chain analysis that would enable the identification of innovative opportunities that exist to boost milk production in Rwanda. This paper specifically analyses the environment within which the milk value chain operates, and the functionality of the value chain at the Innovation Platform. Innovation opportunities to improve milk production are found to lie in the interaction of a diversity of stakeholders and partners to provide critical services for production, to dairy farmers. These would include extension, veterinary provision, and financial service provision, interacting together with farmers at the production stage to ease the acquisition of critical inputs and knowledge. Further opportunity exists to engage milk processors, health workers and nutritionists as new stakeholders at the production stage. This would not only inspire milk utilization by the population, but would subsequently enhance milk production in the country.
Ozineus doctus Bates 1863
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Ozineus
Ozineus doctus

description: 11. Ozineus doctus Bates, 1863
Syntype localities — Brazil, Pará: Óbidos. French Guiana. (MNHN). Distribution — French Guiana, Brazil (Pará).
 Ozineus doctus Bates, 1863: 280.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Nonlinear Dynamics of Metallic Nanofabrication
Creators: name: Bürki, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using concepts from fluid dynamics, a partial differential equation for the shape evolution of a metallic nanowire is derived from a semiclassical energy functional that includes electron-shell effects. A rich dynamics, involving movement and interaction of kinks connecting locally stable radii, leads to the formation of a wire whose equilibrium shape is universal and consists of a cylindrical part connected to unduloid-like leads. The universality of the equilibrium shape may provide an explanation for the formation of cylindrical nanowires observed in recent experiments.
description: paper given at the 3rd international conference on "Computational modeling and simulation of materials", may 30-June 4, 2004
Influence of multi-stakeholder linkages and practices on the adoption of technologies and innovations in lower Eastern Kenya
Creators: name: KAVOI, J M
name: MUTINDA, M. N.
name: KAVOI, J M
name: MUTINDA, M. N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Eastern Kenya
subject: feedback
subject: information sharing
subject: research-policy-practice
subject: strong linkages
subject: technology and innovation adoption

description: The study is an assessment of how the factors related to multi-stakeholder linkages and practices (MSLIAD) influence the adoption of Gadam sorghum technologies and practices by farmers in six sub-counties in lower eastern Kenya where past public-private-partnership development initiatives have been implemented. The factors studied included: (i) farmers’ attitude towards MSLIAD, (ii) prevailing policies, (iii) coordination of stakeholders in production and provision of services, (iv) competition among the stakeholders, (v) information sharing among the stakeholders, and (vi) collective action in access to markets. Stratified random sampling was used to select 165 household heads who were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Significant (p
Phonon-induced renormalization of electron wave functions
Creators: name: Lihm, Jae-Mo
name: Park, Cheol-Hwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Allen-Heine-Cardona theory allows us to calculate phonon-induced electron self-energies from first principles without resorting to the adiabatic approximation. However, this theory has not been able to account for the change of the electron wave function, which is crucial if interband energy differences are comparable to the phonon-induced electron self-energy as in temperature-driven topological transitions. Furthermore, for materials without inversion symmetry, even the existence of such topological transitions cannot be investigated using the Allen-Heine-Cardona theory. Here, we generalize this theory to the renormalization of both the electron energies and wave functions. Our theory can describe both the diagonal and off-diagonal components of the Debye-Waller self-energy in a simple, unified framework. For demonstration, we calculate the electron-phonon coupling contribution to the temperature-dependent band structure and hidden spin polarization of BiTlSe2 across a topological transition. These quantities can be directly measured. Our theory opens a door for studying temperature-induced topological phase transitions in materials both with and without inversion symmetry.
description: v3: Typo fixed in Eq.(5)
Local Identities Involving Jacobi Elliptic Functions
Creators: name: Khare, Avinash
name: Lakshminarayan, Arul
name: Sukhatme, Uday
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a number of local identities of arbitrary rank involving Jacobi elliptic functions and use them to obtain several new results. First, we present an alternative, simpler derivation of the cyclic identities discovered by us recently, along with an extension to several new cyclic identities of arbitrary rank. Second, we obtain a generalization to cyclic identities in which successive terms have a multiplicative phase factor exp(2iπ/s), where s is any integer. Third, we systematize the local identities by deriving four local ``master identities'' analogous to the master identities for the cyclic sums discussed by us previously. Fourth, we point out that many of the local identities can be thought of as exact discretizations of standard nonlinear differential equations satisfied by the Jacobian elliptic functions. Finally, we obtain explicit answers for a number of definite integrals and simpler forms for several indefinite integrals involving Jacobi elliptic functions.
description: 47 pages
Effect of memory electrical switching in metal/vanadium oxide/silicon structures with VO2 films obtained by the sol-gel method
Creators: name: Velichko, Andrei
name: Pergament, Alexander
name: Putrolaynen, Vadim
name: Berezina, Olga
name: Stefanovich, Genrih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrical switching and rectifying properties of the metal-VO2-Si structures, on both p-type and n-type silicon, with vanadium dioxide films obtained by an acetylacetonate sol-gel method, are studied. The switching effect is shown to be due to the semiconductor-to-metal phase transition (SMPT) in vanadium dioxide. The shift of the switching threshold voltage, accompanied by the memory effect, in forward bias of the p-Si-VO2 anisotype heterojunction is observed. To explain this effect, a model is proposed which suggests the existence of an additional series resistance associated with a channel at the VO2/Si interface, where a SiOx layer forms during the VO2 deposition process. This resistance is responsible for both threshold switching characteristics, and the memory effect, and the oxygen ion electromigration process is shown to underlie this effect. Potential applications of the observed phenomena, combining the effects of ReRAM and SMPT, in oxide electronics are discussed.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Ozineus dorsalis Melzer 1935
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Ozineus
Ozineus dorsalis

description: 12. Ozineus dorsalis Melzer, 1935
Type locality — Costa Rica, Cartago: Turrialba. (MZSP). Distribution — Costa Rica.
 Ozineus dorsalis Melzer, 1935: 200; Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948: 62 (type); Chemsak et al., 1992: 144 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
The participatory market chain approach: Stimulating innovations along the indigenous African leafy vegetables market chain
Creators: name: SANYA, L. N.
name: LUSEMBO, P.
name: SCOW, K. M.
name: MAGALA, D. B.
name: ALLEN, M.
name: GAFABUSA, R. N.
name: NAKYAGABA, W. N.
name: MUGISA, I.
name: MWEBE, S.
name: SALOMON, A.
name: MAYANJA, S.
name: SANYA, L. N.
name: LUSEMBO, P.
name: SCOW, K. M.
name: MAGALA, D. B.
name: ALLEN, M.
name: GAFABUSA, R. N.
name: NAKYAGABA, W. N.
name: MUGISA, I.
name: MWEBE, S.
name: SALOMON, A.
name: MAYANJA, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Central Uganda
subject: innovations
subject: leafy vegetables
subject: value chains

description: Indigenous African Leafy Vegetables (ALVs) play a significant role in alleviating hidden hunger and malnutrition and contribute to income security for smallholder farmers. However, their potential to contribute to food, nutrition and income security has not been fully realized due to dysfunctional market chains. The Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA), which aims to stimulate gender-responsive innovations in commodity chains, was used to improve the performance of ALVs market chains in central Uganda. This paper presents the results of applying the PMCA in a phased manner on the ALV commodity chain in the context of a collaborative research project implemented in central Uganda. Phase 1 of the project interfaced with 121 chain actors and subquently, 70 and 103 actors and stakeholders participated in phase 2 and phase 3 activities, respectively. Through this collaborative process, iterative learning, stronger linkages and trust were built amongst the chain actors leading to synergies that resulted in benefits to all. Commercial, technical and institutional innovations were generated including new products such as a nutritional powder made of dried Solanum aethiopicum, Baghia and an enriched peanut butter. A platform of 54 chain actors was formed to jointly address challenges and harness opportunities in the future. Process facilitators’ capacity to broker multi-stakeholder innovations was improved. New research areas related to cultivar descriptors for selected ALVs, postharvest management and business development support services emerged that triggered new research projects. The PMCA contributed to change in perceptions about ALVs, better incomes, knowledge and skills among market chain actors, establishment of beneficial linkages and improved capacity for innovation. The research re-emphasises the importance of a market approach towards improving and uplifting value chains of low profile crops which play a major role in sustaining livelihoods of smallholders farmers and women.
Diálogos y participación cívica
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Diálogo
Participación
Ciudad
Seguridad
respeto
ciudadanos
Derechos
valores

description: Publicación en la sección de opinión del diario digital hora 32 https://hora32.com.ec/ que se edita en Loja (Ecuador)
Effects of social capital on technical efficiency of cassava production in Oyo State, Nigeria
Creators: name: OLUROTIMI, P. O.
name: BAMIRE, A. S.
name: OGUNLEYE, A. S.
name: OLUROTIMI, P. O.
name: BAMIRE, A. S.
name: OGUNLEYE, A. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Cassava
subject: social capital
subject: Innovation Platform
subject: Nigeria
subject: technical efficiency

description: This paper evaluates the effects of social capital available in Innovation Platforms on the technical efficiency of cassava production in Humidtropics field sites in Oyo State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 100 respondents, comprising of 41 platform members and 59 non-members in the sites. Data were collected with the aid of pre-tested structured questionnaire on socio-economic characteristics, farm size, forms of social capital network as well as quantities of inputs and outputs. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, stochastic frontier function and Tobit regression model. The results of the study revealed that the technical efficiency of the farmers are high and membership in the Innovation platform increased the technical efficiency of cassava production. It was recommended that policies should be directed towards the creation of social capital networks through the establishment of Innovation platforms in order to increase the technical efficiency to boost cassava production for food security and better livelihood.
Experimental Study of Noise-induced Phase Synchronization in Vertical-cavity Lasers
Creators: name: Barbay, S.
name: Giacomelli, G.
name: Lepri, S.
name: Zavatta, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the experimental evidence of noise-induced phase synchronization in a vertical cavity laser. The polarized laser emission is entrained with the input periodic pump modulation when an optimal amount of white, gaussian noise is applied. We characterize the phenomenon, evaluating the average frequency of the output signal and the diffusion coefficient of the phase difference variable. Their values are roughly independent on different waveforms of periodic input, provided that a simple condition for the amplitudes is satisfied. The experimental results are compared with numerical simulations of a Langevin model.
IFAD RESEARCH SERIES 20 - Transformation and diversification of the rural economy in Asia
Creators: name: Briones, M.R.
name: Briones, M.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: EMPLOYMENT
subject: INCOME DISTRIBUTION
subject: RURAL AREAS
subject: URBAN AREAS
subject: ASIA

description: This paper examines the transformation and diversification of the rural economy in Asia, focusing on the role and importance of the rural non-farm economy and employment in economic transformation and related diversification of employment and income opportunities for rural communities. Looking at the linkages across sectors (agriculture and others) and across regions (urban and rural), the paper stresses the role of agriculture and urban centers as key drivers of the rural non-farm economy. It considers strategic directions to be pursued to leverage diversification opportunities for rural economies to reduce rural poverty and inequality.
АМЕРИКА АДИБАСИ ПЕРЛ БАКНИНГ "САХИЙ ЕР" РОМАНИДА ЎЗИГА ХОС ЭПИК ТАСВИРЛАР
Creators: name: Маманабиева, Шахризода
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Мазкур мақола «Сахий ер» номли китоби учун 1931 йилда  Пулицер мукофотига лойиқ кўрилган, 1938 йилда адабиёт бўйича Нобель мукофотини олган  илк  америкалик  ёзувчи аёл Перл  Бакнинг  ҳаёти ва  ижодига бағишланган. АҚШда америкалик  миссионер оиласида таваллуд топган  ёзувчининг  болалиги  Хитой  давлатида  кечган. Нобель мукофоти унга Хитой  давлати  қишлоқларининг ҳаёти, ҳақиқий эпик тасвири  ва  яратган биографик  шедевр  асарлари  учун  берилган.
Constructing Carrollian CFTs
Creators: name: Gupta, Nishant
name: Suryanarayana, Nemani V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct classical theories for scalar fields in arbitrary Carroll spacetimes that are invariant under Carrollian diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations. When the local symmetries are gauge fixed these theories become Carrollian conformal field theories. We show that generically there are at least two types of such theories: one in which only time derivatives of the fields appear and the other in which both space and time derivatives appear. A classification of such scalar field theories in three (and higher) dimensions up to two derivative order is provided. We show that only a special case of our theories arises in the ultra-relativistic limit of a covariant parent theory.
description: 21 pages
The Sericum Via: A Serious Game For Preserving Tangible And Intangible Heritage Of Iran.pdf
Creators: name: Afshar, Sepehr Vaez
name: Sarvin Eshaghi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120107 Landscape Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The Sericum Via: A Serious Game For Preserving Tangible And Intangible Heritage Of Iran Conference: ASCAAD 2021 Session: Computational Enculturation I Authors: Sarvin Eshaghi, Sepehr Vaez Afshar, Güzden Varinlioglu ASCAAD 2021: Architecture in the Age Of Disruptive Technologies Transformation and Challenges 9th International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design Cairo, Egypt, March 2-4, 2021
Entanglement Measure for Composite Systems
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general description of entanglement is suggested as an action realized by an arbitrary operator over given disentangled states. The related entanglement measure is defined. Because of its generality, this definition can be employed for any physical systems, pure or mixed, equilibrium or nonequilibrium, and characterized by any type of operators, whether these are statistical operators, field operators, spin operators, or anything else. Entanglement of any number of parts from their total ensemble forming a multiparticle composite system can be determined. Interplay between entanglement and ordering, occurring under phase transitions, is analysed by invoking the concept of operator order indices.
description: 6 pages, Revtex
IFAD RESEARCH SERIES 21 - Does relative deprivation induce migration? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Winters, P.
name: Kafle, K.
name: Benfica, R.
name: Winters, P.
name: Kafle, K.
name: Benfica, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: MIGRATION
subject: DATA
subject: HOUSEHOLD INCOME
subject: ECONOMIC DISTRIBUTION
subject: AFRICA

description: This paper challenges the traditional view that portrays income maximization as the main driver of migration and tests whether relative deprivation and social inequality lead to migration in sub-Saharan Africa. Examining data from the Living Standards Measurements Study – Integrated Surveys in Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) from Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda, the paper finds that a household’s migration decision is based not only on its well-being status, but also on the position of the household relative to the wealth distribution in the local community. Results indicate that relative deprivation of wealth was positively associated with migration, implying a need to renew the discussion of relative deprivation and social inequality as a cause of migration in sub-Saharan Africa.
The XMM deep survey in the CDFS XI. X-ray properties of 185 bright sources
Creators: name: Iwasawa, K.
name: Comastri, A.
name: Vignali, C.
name: Gilli, R.
name: Lanzuisi, G.
name: Brandt, W . N.
name: Tozzi, P.
name: Brusa, M.
name: Carrera, F. J.
name: Ranalli, P.
name: Mainieri, V.
name: Georgantopoulos, I.
name: Puccetti, S.
name: Paolillo, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present X-ray spectra of 185 bright sources detected in the XMM-Newton deep survey of the Chandra Deep Field South, combining the three EPIC cameras. The 2-10 keV flux limit of the sample is 2e-15 erg/s/cm2. The sources are distributed over a redshift range of z=0.1-3.8. Eleven new X-ray redshift measurements are included. A spectral analysis was performed using a simple model to obtain absorbing column densities, rest-frame 2-10 keV luminosities and Fe K line properties of 180 sources at z>0.4. Obscured AGN are found to be more abundant toward higher redshifts. Using the XMM-Newton data alone, seven Compton-thick AGN candidates are identified, which makes the Compton-thick AGN fraction to be ~4%. An exploratory spectral inspection method with two rest-frame X-ray colours and an Fe line strength indicator is introduced and tested against the results from spectral fitting. This method works reasonably well to characterise a spectral shape and can be useful for a pre-selection of Compton-thick AGN candidates. We found six objects exhibiting broad Fe K lines out of 21 unobscured AGN of best data quality, implying a detection rate of ~30%. Five redshift spikes, each of which has more than six sources, are identified in the redshift distribution of the X-ray sources. Contrary to the overall trend, the sources at the two higher-redshift spikes at z=1.61 and z=2.57 have puzzlingly low obscuration.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Table 1 and Fig. 2 are available in electronic form the CDS. Typos corrected and some language editing and references added
A Multi-Method, Spatial Approach for Explaining the Appearance and Passage of Open Space Referenda
Creators: name: Heintelman, Martin D.
name: Walh, Patrick J,
name: Grzeskowiak, Dustin J.
name: Heintelman, Martin D.
name: Walh, Patrick J,
name: Grzeskowiak, Dustin J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1201
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Environmental Referenda
subject: Open Space
subject: Survival Model
subject: Spatial Econometrics
subject: Bayesian Probit

description: To guard against urban sprawl, many communities in the United States have begun enacting policies to preserve open space, often through local voter referenda. New Jersey sponsors such municipal action through the Green Acres Program by providing funding and low interest loans to towns that choose, through a referendum, to increase property taxes and spend the money raised on open space preservation for the purposes of conservation and/or recreation. Understanding which factors contribute to the appearance and success of these measures is important for policy makers and conservation advocates, not only in New Jersey, but across the United States. Although previous literature has examined this issue, this is the first study to account for spatial dependence/spatial autocorrelation and to explore dynamic issues through survival analysis. The traditional two stage model from the literature is extended by incorporating a Bayesian spatial probit for the first stage and a maximum-likelihood spatial error model in the second stage. A Cox – proportional hazard model is used to examine the timing of referenda appearance. Spatial dependence is found in the second stage of the analysis, indicating future studies should account for its influence. There is not strong evidence for spatial dependence or correlation in the first stage. The survival model is found to be a useful complement to the traditional probit analysis of the first stage.
On the nature of the unidentified MeV gamma-ray source GRO 1411-64
Creators: name: Romero, Gustavo E.
name: Orellana, Mariana
name: Torres, Diego F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent analysis of COMPTEL data has revealed the existence of an unidentified and variable gamma-ray source, designated GRO J1411-64, at MeV energies in the galactic plane (Zhang et al. 2002). We discuss the possibility that such a source can be produced in the accreting neutron star system 2S 1417-624 through the bombardment of the accretion disk by relativistic protons accelerated in the magnetosphere by the Cheng-Ruderman mechanism.
description: Presented at 5th INTEGRAL Workshop: The INTEGRAL Universe, Munich, Germany, 16-20 Feb 2004. To be published in the proceedings. Version #2, with minimal changes after Referee's comments
Ozineus dubius Aurivillius 1922
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Ozineus
Ozineus dubius

description: 13. Ozineus dubius Aurivillius, 1922
Type locality — Peru, Huanuco: Pozuzu [Pozuzo]. (NHRS). Distribution — Peru.
 Ozineus dubius Aurivillius, 1922c: 170.
 Ozineus? dubius; Gilmour, 1965: 571 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
A Graduate Student's Road Map to Data Management Training
Creators: name: Roberts-Pierel, Ben
name: Davis, Eleanor
name: Yuhan Rao
Publisher: name: ESIP
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80604 Database Management
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This Road Map is a dynamic guide to help graduate students wade through the ocean of data resources. This guide will help identify what data management practices graduate students should be considering at different graduate school milestones.
Pattern Formation in Wigner-like Equations via Multiresolution
Creators: name: Fedorova, Antonina N.
name: Zeitlin, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the application of the variational-wavelet analysis to the quasiclassical calculations of the solutions of Wigner/von Neumann/Moyal and related equations corresponding to the nonlinear (polynomial) dynamical problems. (Naive) deformation quantization, the multiresolution representations and the variational approach are the key points. We construct the solutions via the multiscale expansions in the generalized coherent states or high-localized nonlinear eigenmodes in the base of the compactly supported wavelets and the wavelet packets. We demonstrate the appearance of (stable) localized patterns (waveletons) and consider entanglement and decoherence as possible applications.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, ws-procs9x6.cls, Presented at Joint 28th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics & Advanced & Novel Accelerators Workshop on Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics and Other Critical Issues of Beams in Physics and Astrophysics, January 7-11, 2003, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
The Dirichlet problem for Lagrangian mean curvature equation
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Arunima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we solve the Dirichlet problem with continuous boundary data for the Lagrangian mean curvature equation on a uniformly convex, bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$.
Ozineus elongatus Bates 1863
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Ozineus
Ozineus elongatus

description: 14. Ozineus elongatus Bates, 1863
Type locality — Brazil, Amazonas: Ega [Tefé]. (MNHN). Distribution — Panama, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará).
 Ozineus elongatus Bates, 1863: 279; Thomson, 1864: 322.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Deep Learning based Switching Filter for Impulsive Noise Removal in Color Images
Creators: name: Radlak, Krystian
name: Malinski, Lukasz
name: Smolka, Bogdan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Noise reduction is one the most important and still active research topic in low-level image processing due to its high impact on object detection and scene understanding for computer vision systems. Recently, we can observe a substantial increase of interest in the application of deep learning algorithms in many computer vision problems due to its impressive capability of automatic feature extraction and classification. These methods have been also successfully applied in image denoising, significantly improving the performance, but most of the proposed approaches were designed for Gaussian noise suppression. In this paper, we present a switching filtering design intended for impulsive noise removal using deep learning. In the proposed method, the impulses are identified using a novel deep neural network architecture and noisy pixels are restored using the fast adaptive mean filter. The performed experiments show that the proposed approach is superior to the state-of-the-art filters designed for impulsive noise removal in digital color images.
Carbon Pricing with Output-Based Subsidies: Impacts on U.S. Industries over Multiple Time Frames
Creators: name: Adkins, Liwayway
name: Garbaccui, Richard
name: Ho, Mun
name: Moore, Eric
name: Morgenstern, Richard
name: Adkins, Liwayway
name: Garbaccui, Richard
name: Ho, Mun
name: Moore, Eric
name: Morgenstern, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Carbon price
subject: competitiveness
subject: input-output analysis
subject: computable general equilibrium models
subject: output-based allocations
subject: carbon leakage

description: The effects of a carbon price on U.S. industries are likely to change over time as firms and customers gradually adjust to new prices. The effects will also depend on offsetting policies to compensate losers and the number of countries implementing comparable policies. We examine the effects of a $15/ton CO2 price, including Waxman-Markey-type allocations, on a disaggregated set of industries, over four time horizons — the very-short-, short-, medium-, and long-runs — distinguished by the ability of firms to raise output prices, change their input mix, and reallocate capital. We find that if firms cannot pass on higher costs, the loss in profits in a number of energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries will be substantial. When output prices can rise to reflect higher energy costs, the reduction in profits is substantially smaller, and the offsetting policies in H.R. 2454 reduce output and profit losses even more. Over the medium- and long-terms, however, when more adjustments occur, the impact on output is more varied due to general equilibrium effects. We find that the use of the output-based rebates and other allocations in H.R. 2454 can substantially offset the output losses over all four time frames considered. Trade or "competitiveness" effects from the carbon price explain a significant portion of the fall in output for EITE sectors, but in absolute terms the trade impacts are modest and can be reduced or even reversed with the subsidies. The subsidies are less effective, however, in preventing emissions leakage to countries not adopting carbon policies. Roughly half of U.S. trade-related leakage to non-policy countries can be explained by changes in the volume of trade and the other half by higher emissions intensities induced by lower world fuel prices.
What is the Optimal Offsets Discount under a Second-Best Cap & Trade Policy?
Creators: name: Klemick, Heather
name: Klemick, Heather
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: offsets
subject: additionality
subject: leakage
subject: baseline
subject: cap and trade
subject: second-best theory

description: Despite concerns about additionality, leakage, permanence, and verification, carbon offsets have been proposed as a core component of recent cap-and-trade proposals in order to contain costs, involve uncapped sectors in GHG reduction goals, and build mitigation capacity in developing countries. Discounting the value of offsets relative to GHG allowances (i.e., setting a trading ratio less than one) has been suggested as one approach to protect the integrity of the cap. This paper presents a simple theoretical model to derive the optimal trading ratio between offsets and allowances when coverage of emissions by the cap-and-trade and offsets programs is incomplete. I discuss the relationship between the trading ratio and the GHG cap and offsets baseline, which jointly determine the stringency of the policy. While a discount for leakage is always optimal, one notable result is that if “hot air” is introduced by setting either the baseline cap or the cap too leniently, an extra discount is warranted.
Water Quality Index Aggregation and Cost Benefit Analysis
Creators: name: Walsh, Patrick
name: Wheeler, William
name: Walsh, Patrick
name: Wheeler, William
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Valuation
subject: Water Quality
subject: Cost Benefit Analysis

description: The water quality index (WQI) has emerged as a central way to convey water quality information to policy makers and the general public and is regularly used in US EPA regulatory impact analysis. It is a compound indicator that aggregates information from several water quality parameters. Several recent studies have criticized the aggregation function of the EPA WQI, arguing that it suffers from “eclipsing” and other problems. Although past papers have compared various aggregation functions in the WQI (usually looking at correlation), this is the first paper to examine these functions in the context of benefit-cost analysis. Using data from the 2003 EPA CAFO rule, the present paper examines four aggregation functions and their impact on estimated benefits. Results indicate that the aggregation method can have a profound effect on benefits, with total benefit estimates varying from $82 million to $504 million dollars. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis does not find convincing evidence to substitute the current aggregation function, although several changes to the underlying WQI methodology may be warranted.
HST strong-lensing model for the first JWST galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327
Creators: name: Golubchik, Miriam
name: Furtak, Lukas J.
name: Meena, Ashish K.
name: Zitrin, Adi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On 2022 July 8, NASA shared$^{a}$ the list of five public showcase targets which have been observed with the new \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST), and whose data are expected to be released to the public around Tuesday, July 12. One of these targets is the galaxy cluster SMACS~J0723.3-7327 which acts as a gravitational lens and was recently imaged with the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} in the framework of the \textit{Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey} program (RELICS). To facilitate studies by the community with the upcoming JWST data, we publish here a lens model for SMACS0723 -- including mass-density and magnification maps. We identify in the HST imaging five multiple-image families for three of which membership and redshift are secured by public spectroscopic data. For the remaining two systems we rely on robust photometric redshift estimates. We use here the \texttt{Light-Traces-Mass} lens modeling method, which complements the parametric models already available on the RELICS website and elsewhere, and thus helps span a representative range of solutions. The new models published here can be accessed via a link given below$^{b}$. It will be interesting to examine by how much and which properties of the mass models change, and improve, when JWST data are incorporated.
description: 9 pages; 6 figures; 1 table; to be submitted; comments welcome.\\ a) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-shares-list-of-cosmic-targets-for-webb-telescope-s-first-images\\ b) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/svc84qmnlh05lmc/AABFQs_0VXE6Fh8jWbAgh4sza?dl=0
Do Environmental Regulations Disproportionately Affect Small Businesses? Evidence from the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditure Survey
Creators: name: Becker, Randy A.
name: Pasurka Jr., Carl
name: Shadbegian, Ronald J.
name: Becker, Randy A.
name: Pasurka Jr., Carl
name: Shadbegian, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: environmental regulation
subject: costs
subject: business size
subject: U.S. manufacturing

description: This paper examines whether the impact of environmental regulations differs by the size of the business. We consider the net effect of statutory, enforcement, and compliance asymmetries by estimating the relationship between plant size and pollution abatement expenditures, using establishment-level data on U.S. manufacturers from the Census Bureau’s Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures (PACE) survey and from its Annual Survey of Manufactures and Census of Manufactures. We model establishments’ pollution abatement operating costs (PAOC) per unit of economic activity as a function of establishment size, industry, state, and year. Our results show that PAOC intensity increases with establishment and firm size.
Ozineus jubapennis Fisher 1938
Creators: name: Monné, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Ozineus
Ozineus jubapennis

description: 16. Ozineus jubapennis Fisher, 1938
Type locality — Brazil, Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia. (USNM). Distribution — Brazil (Santa Catarina).
 Ozineus jubapennis Fisher, 1938: 142.
description: Published as part of Monné, Miguel A., 2005, Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae, pp. 1-760 in Zootaxa 1023 (1) on pages 1-760, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.946.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049553
Valuation of Human Health: An Integrated Model of Willingness to Pay for Mortality and Morbidity Risk Reductions
Creators: name: Gerking, Shelby
name: Dickie, Mark
name: Veronesi, Marcella
name: Gerking, Shelby
name: Dickie, Mark
name: Veronesi, Marcella
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: willingness to pay
subject: children
subject: environmental hazards
subject: health
subject: integrated analysis
subject: morbidity
subject: mortality
subject: value of a statistical life
subject: cancer
subject: stated preference

description: This paper develops and applies an integrated model of human mortality and morbidity valuation that is consistent with principles of welfare economics. The standard expected utility model of one person facing two health states (alive and dead) is extended to a setting in which two family members (a parent and a child) face three health states (healthy, sick, and dead). A key finding is that total health benefits of public programs equate to the sum of willingness to pay for reduced mortality risk plus a fraction of the willingness to pay for reduced morbidity risk. Implications of the integrated model are tested using two field data sets from the U.S. on skin cancer and leukemia risk reductions. Results obtained show how the integrated model can be used to increase the accuracy of health benefit estimation for benefit-cost analyses as well as for the design of public hazard reduction programs.
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Quasisymmetry
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Eduardo
name: Helander, Per
name: Bhattacharjee, Amitava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A necessary and sufficient set of conditions for a quasisymmetric magnetic field in the form of constraint equations is derived from first principles. Without any assumption regarding the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium of the plasma, conditions for quasisymmetry are constructed starting from the single-particle Lagrangian to leading order. The conditions presented in the paper are less restrictive than the set recently obtained by Burby et al. [arXiv:1912.06468], and could facilitate ongoing efforts towards investigating the existence of global quasisymmetric MHD equilibria. It is also shown that quasisymmetry implies the existence of flux surfaces, regardless of whether the field corresponds to an MHD equilibrium.