cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fast secure virtualization for the ARM platform
Creators: name: Ferstay, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In recent years, powerful handheld computing devices such as personal digital assistants and mobile smart phones have become ubiquitous in home and office environments. Advancements in handheld device hardware have driven the development of the software that runs on them. As these devices become more powerful, increasingly connected, and the tasks performed by their operating systems more complex there is a need for virtual machine monitors. Virtual machine monitors such as the Xen hypervisor developed at the University of Cambridge could bring an increased level of security to handheld devices by using resource isolation to protect hosted operating systems. VMMs could also be used to place constraints on the resource utilization of hosted operating systems and their applications. Xen is closely tied to the x86 computer architecture and is optimized to work well on desktop personal computers. One of its design goals was to provide virtualization on x86 computers similar to that which was previously found only on IBM mainframes designed to support virtualization. We aim to provide this same style of virtualization on mobile devices, the majority of which are powered by the ARM computer architecture. The ARM architecture differs considerably from the x86 architecture. ARM was designed with high performance, small die size, low power consumption, and tight code density in mind. By migrating Xen to the ARM architecture, we are interested in gaining insight into the capacity of ARM powered devices to support virtual machines. Furthermore, we want to know which of the StrongARM’s architectural features help or hinder the support of a Xen-style paravirtualization interface and whether guest operating systems will be able to run without modification on top of a StrongARM based hypervisor. In this thesis, we describe the design and implementation issues encountered while porting the Xen hypervisor to the StrongARM architecture. The implementation of a prototype has been carried out for SA-110 StrongARM processor and is based on the hypervisor in Xen version 1.2.
The decomposition of an arbitrary $2^w\times 2^w$ unitary matrix into signed permutation matrices
Creators: name: De Vos, Alexis
name: De Baerdemacker, Stijn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15A21, 15A51

description: Birkhoff's theorem tells that any doubly stochastic matrix can be decomposed as a weighted sum of permutation matrices. A similar theorem reveals that any unitary matrix can be decomposed as a weighted sum of complex permutation matrices. Unitary matrices of dimension equal to a power of~2 (say $2^w$) deserve special attention, as they represent quantum qubit circuits. We investigate which subgroup of the signed permutation matrices suffices to decompose an arbitrary such matrix. It turns out to be a matrix group isomorphic to the extraspecial group {\bf E}$_{2^{2w+1}}^+$ of order $2^{2w+1}$. An associated projective group of order $2^{2w}$ equally suffices.
description: 4th paper in a series of Birkhoff decompositions for unitary matrices [(1) arXiv:1509.08626; (2) arXiv:1606.08642; (3) arXiv:1812.08833]
Cuotas y reestructuracion en la UE-15 y Espana: hacia un drastico redimensionamiento del sector productor
Creators: name: Ordonez, Victoriano
name: Ordonez, Victoriano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: produccion de leche
subject: sector lacteom cuotas lacteas
subject: reestructuracion
subject: milk production
subject: milk quotas
subject: milk sector
subject: restructuring

description: El proceso de desaparicion de explotaciones y reestructuracion (concentracion de la produccion en unidades de mayor dimension por su cuota), aunque de intensidad variable en la UE-15, prosigue y es previsible que no se detenga, sobre todo si el ciclo de bajos precios de la leche, tras los avatares de la segunda mitad de 2007 y comienzos de 2008, vuelve para mantenerse a medio plazo, impulsado por la reforma de3 la OCM en la Reforma Intermedia de la PAC de 2003 (MTR) y su revision de 2008 (incremento anual de cuota a todos los EE.MM. en un horizonte de desaparicion de las cuotas en 2015). The process of disappearance of milk farms and restructuring (concentration of the production in herds of more dimension per their quota), though a variable intensity in the EU-15, continues and is predictable that it doesn't stop, especially if the cycle of low prices of the milk, after the increases of the second half of 2007 and beginning of 2008, returns to be kept medium-term, encouraged by the changes of the OCM in the reform of the PAC )MTR 2003) and her review of 2008 (annual increase of quota to all the MM.EE. in a prospect of the quotas abolition in 20015). In this context, Spain, with Portugal and Greece, and Italy to certain distance, heads the rates of abandonment of the production and of increase of the average quantity of quota of the herds. Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany stand out as the MM.EE. of the smallest decrease of the number of herds and of smallest progress of the average quota per farm, always below the average of the EU 15, and Denmark and United Kingdom for important declines of the first parameter, corresponded with strong progresses of the second one. The other MM.EE. do not differ from the average of the EU-15 (-7,5 percent variation for the number and 8,4 percent for the average quota). From the territorial point of view, Spain shows the same picture that the EU 15, more accused from the period of quotas 1998-99, losing more number of herds the AA.CC. in which the strata of smaller dimension in quota were retaining more figures. Given the regionalization of the production of milk in Spain, three AA.CC. integrated to the Atlantic European arch, which frames in the EU-15 the milk production, shows a similar behavior, continues shaping the hard nucleus of the Spanish milk production and evolves towards milk farms of bigger dimension in quota.
Clarification of the Nature of the Galaxy CFC97 Cen 05
Creators: name: Bouchard, Antoine
name: Da Costa, Gary S.
name: Jerjen, Helmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The galaxy CFC97 Cen 05 has in the past been considered an HI-rich dwarf galaxy in the nearby Centaurus A group. We have used Australia Telescope Compact Array observations to show that the HI associated with CFC97 Cen 05 by Cote et al. (1997) is most likely a Galactic High Velocity Cloud that is centered ~17' from the optical image of the galaxy. At the optical location of the galaxy, which is not that tabulated by Banks et al. (1999), there is no indication of the presence of HI for velocities less than the upper limit of the HIPASS survey at ~12,500 km/s. In addition, WFPC2 images of CFC97 Cen 05 obtained from the HST Archive reveal that this galaxy is in fact not a dwarf at all, but rather is a distant background spiral not associated with the Centaurus A group.
description: accepted for publication in the PASP (November 2004)
Spin evolution of neutron stars in wind-fed high mass X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Karino, Shigeyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed X-ray pulse period of OB-type high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) pulsars are typically longer than 100 seconds. It is considered that the interaction between the strong magnetic field of neutron star and the wind matter could cause such a long pulse period. In this study, we follow the spin evolution of NS, taking into account the interaction between the magnetic field and wind matter. In this line, as new challenges, we solve the evolution of the magnetic field of the neutron star at the same time, and additionally we focus on the effects of wind properties of the donor. As the result, evolutionary tracks were obtained in which the neutron star spends some duration in the ejector phase after birth, then rapidly spins down, becomes quasi-equilibrium, and gradually spins up. Such evolution is similar to previous studies, but we found that its dominant physics depends on the velocity of the donor wind. When the wind velocity is fast, the spin-down occurs due to magnetic inhibition, while the classical propeller effect and settling accretion shell causes rapid spin-down in the slow wind accretion. Since the wind velocity of the donor could depend on the irradiated X-ray luminosity, the spin evolution track of the neutron star in wind-fed HMXB could be more complicated than considered.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
Coordenadas economico-institucionales para una gestion integral del mar. El caso de Galicia
Creators: name: Lafuente, Manuel M. Varela
name: Garza Gil, Maria
name: Lafuente, Manuel M. Varela
name: Garza Gil, Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: Economia Maritima
subject: Politica Marina
subject: Gestion Integral
subject: Sostenibilidad
subject: Economia de Galicia
subject: Maritime Economy
subject: Marine Policy
subject: Integrated Management
subject: Sustainability
subject: Economy of Galicia

description: La Comision Europea publico en 2006 un Libro Verde Politica Maritima en el que plantea como objetivo general el diseno de una politica global para el desarrollo sostenible en el medio marino. El nucleo del planteamien to se situa en la naturaleza global de los oceanos y, por tanto, en la necesidad de abordar normas de aplicacion universal, que deben acompanar y superponerse a las especificas de cada aspecto o actividad, para asegurar la compatibilidad de usos y espacios, y acrecentar las posibilidades de desarrollo. El objectivo de este trabaho es tomar este marco de referencia y tratar de analizar la situacion de la cuestion maritima en una region altamente dependiente de las actividades maritimas (Galicia). Esta valoracion se circunscribe a la significacion economica de los datos de actividad y del contexto institucional. Se pretende caracterizar los problemas de gestion y reflexionar sobre las perspectivas de esta estrategia integral y sobre las dificultades de regulacion que se presentan. In 2006, the European Commission published a Green Paper on Maritime Policy which identified as a general objective, the design within Europe of a global policy for sustainable growth with respect to the region's oceans and seas. The basis of this approach can be found in the overall nature of out maritime environment, and therefore, in the need to tackle aspects which are of universal interest. These areas should accompany and, where necessary, supersede the specifics of each aspect or activity, in order to ensure the full compatibility of use and space, and thus increase the potential for development. The aim of this study is to take this framework and seek to analyse in greater detail the maritime question within the context of an Atlantic region which is highly dependent on ocean going activities (in this case, Galicia), reflecting upon the perspectives which programmes of this nature offer, both from the point of view of the opportunities for development they provide and the management problems they imply, within the broader framework of sustainability.
title: A systemic approach for construction contract claims settlement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alghamdi, Adel Mohammed
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) construction sector is an important part of the country’s Vision 2030 programme that is focused upon increasing non-oil economic growth. The structure of the KSA construction sector is different to many countries because of the reliance upon foreign workers and international companies to deliver projects. Culture also plays an important role, together with the use of Sharia law for dispute settlement. The KSA government is a key client of the sector commissioning projects to develop and improve housing, infrastructure, and social projects. Construction claims are endemic on KSA public sector projects. Cases of disputes, conflicts, and claims are on the rise over the past two decades which impact the time, cost, and quality of the work. In the worst-case scenario, they may even result in project abandonment. Making claims and resolving disputes takes a long time, costs money and resources, and can affect the professional relationship of the parties involved. The costs of disputes and contractual claims is rising and becoming more difficult. The claims settlement procedure is a complex process of interdependent and interrelated activities, which takes time and can delay the project. This research considers the efficiency of claim settlement procedures in KSA construction projects with the aim of developing a code of best practice. To develop the code, data and information was collected through mixed methods, including qualitative and quantitative methods. Interviews were conducted with 15 professionals involved in KSA construction projects. A survey questionnaire was designed and distributed to the professionals to collect quantitative data to frame measures for the code of best practice. The primary causes of claims have been identified. The most important feature is the lack of design development at the tender stage, with projects being started on site with incomplete and inaccurate information, which ultimately leads to claims. Contingency allowances are included in tenders for risks that are poorly specified. The two most critical areas in the pre-construction phase are the design process and the contract awarding procedure. There are five contributions. Firstly, the research explored the underlying causes of disputes and claims through qualitative and quantitative data raised from interviews and survey questionnaires from 15 respondents.
Exploring the X-ray Sky with the XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey
Creators: name: Della Ceca, R.
name: Maccacaro, T.
name: Caccianiga, A.
name: Severgnini, P.
name: Braito, V.
name: Barcons, X.
name: Carrera, F. J.
name: Watson, M. G.
name: Tedds, J. A.
name: Brunner, H.
name: Lehmann, I.
name: Page, M. J.
name: Lamer, G.
name: Schwope, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ABRIDGED. We present "The XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey", two flux-limited samples with flux limit fx ~7E-14 cgs in the 0.5-4.5 keV (BSS) and 4.5-7.5 keV (HBSS) energy band, respectively. After discussing the survey strategy, we present the basic data on a complete sample of 400 X-ray sources derived from the analysis of 237 XMM-Newton fields. The survey covers an area of 28.10 (25.17 for the HBSS) sq. deg. Up to now ~71% (~90%) of the sources have been spectroscopically identified making the BSS (HBSS) the sample with the highest number of identified XMM-Newton sources published so far. We find that: a) the optical counterpart in the majority (~90%) of cases has a magnitude brighter than the POSS II limit; b) the majority of the objects identified so far are broad line AGN. No obvious trend of the source spectra (as deduced from the Hardness Ratios analysis) as a function of the count rate is seen and the average spectra of the "extragalactic" population corresponds to an X-ray energy spectral index of ~0.8 (~0.64) for the BSS (HBSS) sample. About 13% (40%) of the sources are described by an energy spectral index flatter than that of the CXB. We measure a surface density of optically type 1 and type 2 AGN of 1.63+/-0.25 deg-2 and 0.83+/-0.18$ deg-2, respectively; optically type 2 AGN represent 34+/-9% of the total AGN population. Finally, we find a clear separation, in the hardness ratio diagram and in the (hardness ratio) vs. (X-ray to optical flux ratio) diagram, between "coronal emitting" stars and extragalactic sources.
description: 42 pages, 7 figures, 8 Tables, Accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 3 of Allogeneic stem cell transplantation for peripheral T cell lymphomas: a retrospective study in 285 patients from the Société Francophone de Greffe de Moelle et de Thérapie Cellulaire (SFGM-TC)
Creators: name: Mamez, Anne-Claire
name: Dupont, Axelle
name: Blaise, Didier
name: Chevallier, Patrice
name: Forcade, Edouard
name: Ceballos, Patrice
name: Mohty, Mohamad
name: Suarez, Felipe
name: Beguin, Yves
name: Latour, Regis Peffault De
name: Marie-Thérèse Rubio
name: Tournilhac, Olivier
name: Nguyen, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy
Hematology

description: Additional file 3:. Multivariable analysis for 5-year TRM
title: Global predictive control for smart homes using improved disturbance predictions
Creators: name: Zauner, Michael
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Modellprädiktive Regelung
subject: MIQP
subject: Smart Home
subject: Prädiktionen
subject: model predictive control
subject: MIQP
subject: Smart Home
subject: predictions

description: Die Idee zur Verwendung von model predictive control (MPC) Algorithmen zur Regelung der thermischen Systeme eines smart-Home wird immer beliebter in modernen smart Homes. Die Effizienz und Performance von MPC Algorithmen hängt stark von der Güte der vorhandenen Störgrößenprädiktionen ab. Mit der Verbesserung der vorhandenen Wettervorhersage mittels Messdaten aus hausinternen Wetterstationen und selbstadaptierenden Belegschaftsprädiktionen könnte das smart-Home nicht nur besseren thermischen Komfort liefern, sondern auch noch elektrische Energie und Kosten sparen. Diese Arbeit stellt einen MPC Regler basierend auf gemischt-ganzzahliger quadratischen Optimierung vor. Der Regler integriert sowohl das thermische Model, als auch das elektrische Model, des smart-Home. Der Regelungsalgorithmus berechnet das globale Optimum unter Berücksichtigung möglicher Randbedingungen des smarten Stromnetzes. Deshalb kann der vorgestellte Regler die fortlaufenden monetären Stromkosten oder die verbrauchte Energie minimieren ohne dabei den thermischen Komfort zu verletzen. Ein weiteres Hauptmerkmal des Reglers ist, dass ein simples und intuitives Interface integriert wurde, welches den Bewohnern erlaubt den Regler auf ihre individuellen Wünsche anzupassen. Durchgeführte 'closed-loop' Simulationen zeigen die Effizienz der globalen Optimierung als auch alle weiteren Funktionen des vorgestellten Regelungskonzeptes.
description: Model predictive control (MPC) schemes for managing thermal systems in a smart home are becoming more popular in modern smart homes. The efficiency and performance of MPC controllers greatly depends on the quality of the available predictions for the controller. By refining the available weather forecasts with measurements taken from localized weather stations integrated into the smart home and self-adaptive occupancy predictions, the smart home could not only provide better thermal comfort, but also save energy and reduce the costs for the residents. This thesis proposes a mixed-integer quadratic-programming model predictive control scheme based on the thermal smart home building model and the electrical system. The controller calculates the global optima with respect to possible smart grid load constraints. This enables the control scheme to minimize the consumed energy or operating costs of the smart home while also guaranteeing thermal comfort. Another key feature of the controller is the option to provide a simple and easy interface for the occupants of the smart home to tune their smart home in accordance to their individual preferences. Closed-loop simulation results showcase the efficient global optimization as well as all the features of the proposed controller.
Additional file 9 of Mitigation of helium irradiation-induced brain injury by microglia depletion
Creators: name: Allen, Barrett D.
name: Syage, Amber R.
name: Maroso, Mattia
name: Baddour, Al Anoud D.
name: Luong, Valerie
name: Minasyan, Harutyun
name: Giedzinski, Erich
name: West, Brian L.
name: Soltesz, Ivan
name: Limoli, Charles L.
name: Baulch, Janet E.
name: Munjal M. Acharya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 9: Table S4. NPR task: total time spent (sec) exploring both objects.
Decoupling transition of two coherent vortex arrays within the surface superconductivity state
Creators: name: Pan, Alexey V.
name: Esquinazi, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In magnetic fields applied within the angular range of the surface superconductivity state a magnetically anisotropic layered medium is created in structurally isotropic, sufficiently thick niobium films. Surface (Kulik) vortices residing in the superconducting sheaths on both main film surfaces in tilted fields are shown to undergo a decoupling transition from a coherent to an independent behavior, similar to the behavior observed for Giaever transformer. At the transition a feature in pinning properties is measured, which implies different pinning for the lattice of surface vortices coherently coupled through the normal layer and for two decoupled vortex arrays in the superconducting surface sheaths.
description: To be published in Phys. Rev. B, in press
Tetravalent Colloids by Nematic Wetting
Creators: name: Huber, M.
name: Stark, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an elegant paper, D. Nelson suggested a method to produce tetravalent colloids based on a tetrahedral configuration created on the surface of a spherical particle. It emerges from a two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal placed on a sphere due to the presence of four 1/2 disclinations, i.e., topological defects in the orientational order. In this paper we show that such a tetrahedral configuration also occurs in the wetting layers which form around spheres dispersed in a liquid crystal above the nematic-isotropic phase transition. Nematic wetting therefore offers an alternative route towards tetravalent colloids.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Europhys. Lett
Adiabatic cooling of Fermions in an optical lattice
Creators: name: Blakie, P. B.
name: Bezett, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entropy-temperature curves are calculated for non-interacting fermions in a 3D optical lattice. These curves facilitate understanding of how adiabatic changes in the lattice depth affect the temperature, and we demonstrate regimes where the atomic sample can be significantly heated or cooled. When the Fermi energy of the system is near the location of a band gap the cooling regimes disappear for all temperatures and the system can only be heated by lattice loading. For samples with greater than one fermion per site we find that lattice loading can lead to a large increase in the degeneracy of the system. We study the scaling properties of the system in the degenerate regimes and assess the effects of non-adiabatic loading.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Spectra of PT-Symmetric Operators and Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Caliceti, Emanuela
name: Graffi, Sandro
name: Sjoestrand, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Criteria are formulated both for the existence and for the non-existence of complex eigenvalues for a class of non self-adjoint operators in Hilbert space invarariant under a particular discrete symmetry. Applications to the PT-symmetric Schrödinger operators are discussed.
description: 14 pages
title: ESG finance during market downturns
Creators: name: Ghanma, Dina
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2024

description: This thesis investigates the importance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria during equity market downturns. Our findings contribute to the debate on whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as measured by ESG scores, is associated positively with returns. We explore declines that may be accompanied by a shift in investor preference for certain ESG criteria. The first empirical chapter explores the relationship between European firms’ CSR and equity market performance during the Subprime Crisis as well as the Sovereign Debt Crisis (SDC). We find that European firms with higher CSR scores outperformed those with lower scores during the Subprime Crisis. However, we find the opposite association during the SDC and suggest that this may be because CSR scores became more strongly correlated with ESG controversies. We posit that investors have come to rely on more than aggregate CSR measures in assessing a firm’s social capital. Next, we focus on the COVID-19 crisis period and work flexibility – an employee-related measure of ESG under the Social Pillar. We find that firms whose employees were accustomed to work flexibility before the COVID-19 downturn outperformed their counterparts in early 2020. Importantly, we find that this positive association is significantly stronger at the industry level and that it did not exist prior to the pandemic. Our findings contribute to the literature on the potential for socially responsible investments to be a safe haven during market declines. Finally, we look at market downturn in the countries worst affected by the 2021 summer floods in Europe. Testing a hypothesis that more environmentally responsible firms would outperform their counterparts during this window, we find counter-intuitive results to the contrary. We discuss whether environmental scores may be a proxy for high environmental risk exposure. Our results would fit the supposition that investors suspect ESG scores to be greenwashed.
The importance of accurate head registration for fine motor performance in VR
Creators: name: Sprague, David William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Many virtual reality researchers consider exact head registration and an exact multisensory alignment between real world and virtual objects to be a critical factor for effective motor performance in a virtual environment. Calibration procedures for headmounted displays, however, can be error prone, time consuming and sometimes impractical to perform. To better understand the relationship between head registration and fine motor performance, we conducted a series of reciprocal tapping tasks under four conditions: real world tapping, virtual reality with correct head registration, virtual reality with mildly perturbed head registration, and virtual reality with highly perturbed head registration. As might be expected, virtual reality performance was worse than real world performance. There was no effect of head registration perturbation on motor performance in the tapping tasks. We believe that sensorimotor adaptation enabled subjects to perform equally well in the three virtual reality conditions despite the incorrect head registration in two of the conditions. This suggests that exact head registration may not be as critically important as previously thought, and that extensive per-user calibration procedures may not be necessary for some virtual reality tasks.
Additional file 2 of Allogeneic stem cell transplantation for peripheral T cell lymphomas: a retrospective study in 285 patients from the Société Francophone de Greffe de Moelle et de Thérapie Cellulaire (SFGM-TC)
Creators: name: Mamez, Anne-Claire
name: Dupont, Axelle
name: Blaise, Didier
name: Chevallier, Patrice
name: Forcade, Edouard
name: Ceballos, Patrice
name: Mohty, Mohamad
name: Suarez, Felipe
name: Beguin, Yves
name: Latour, Regis Peffault De
name: Marie-Thérèse Rubio
name: Tournilhac, Olivier
name: Nguyen, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy
Hematology

description: Additional file 2:. Outcomes after post alloSCT relapse (N=65)
Young urban adults preference for wine information sources: An exploratory study for Republic of Macedonia
Creators: name: Hristov, Hristo
name: Kuhar, Ales
name: Hristov, Hristo
name: Kuhar, Ales
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Young adults
subject: sources of wine information
subject: objective knowledge
subject: involvement
subject: best-worst scaling

description: This article focuses on measuring the importance of wine information sources that influence the wine choice of Macedonian young adults purchasing wine in wine shops. Our goal tried to identify significant differences in the use of information sources across wine knowledge, involvement and gender-demographic subgroups within the sample, in order to give marketing managers a means to develop more efficient marketing strategies. Most marketing researchers use rating scales to understand consumer preferences. These have several problems, which can be improved using the new technique, best-worst scaling (BWS). The BWS method was applied to measure the level of importance to a list of most commonly used wine information sources. For this study, they were selected on a base of qualitative interviews with Macedonian wine marketers and confirmed after literature review of the articles published in wine marketing journals. A total of 123 Macedonian young consumers between the age of 25 and 34 participated in a face-to-face interview preformed in three wine stores in Skopje and one in Bitola. The study results show that young urban adults in selection of their wines give more importance to information obtain by tasting the wine previously, recommendation from family members, friends and colleagues. The information sources less preferred were radio, television, billboards and printed media. Moreover, the study showed that specific differences exist in the preferences of information sources of males and females and between different knowledge and involvement groups.
An epistemological approach to domain-specific multiple biographical document summarization
Creators: name: Tennessy, Blair
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Automatic document summarization consists of two tasks: understanding and generation. Understanding is a technique in which relevant content is identified, processed, and annotated. Generation is the process of restating important content in a concise form. As a task for an intelligent system, summarization is a crucial operation: by what process can you succinctly restate pertinent information contained within a set of documents, citing only the essential facts relevant to the query at hand? In this thesis we demonstrate a conceptual approach to multiple biographical document summarization. Specifically, we apply domain-specific semantic and temporal document understanding methods to multi-document biographical summarization. Our purpose is to more fully address the important criteria—routinely cited yet rarely approached—of multi-document summarization. These criteria, namely the discovery and resolution of identical, complementary, or contradictory statements, have been roughly treated using general lexico-semantic methods. We maintain that the general semantically-informed methods previously devised for unrestricted text are not completely suitableto biography summarization; instead, it is our conviction that one must have at least a partial conceptual understanding of the subject's domain in order to reason about the importance and verity of document information. We hold that this is especially true for establishing temporal relationships, which is at the heart of biography understanding and production. What we demonstrate in this thesis is that an extremely course approximation to an epistemological system based on concepts is able to satisfy the criteria of a multi-document summarization system in a particular domain. Our methods, while primitive, provide a lower-bound on the performance of such a system.
Additional file 8 of Mitigation of helium irradiation-induced brain injury by microglia depletion
Creators: name: Allen, Barrett D.
name: Syage, Amber R.
name: Maroso, Mattia
name: Baddour, Al Anoud D.
name: Luong, Valerie
name: Minasyan, Harutyun
name: Giedzinski, Erich
name: West, Brian L.
name: Soltesz, Ivan
name: Limoli, Charles L.
name: Baulch, Janet E.
name: Munjal M. Acharya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 8: Table S3. TO task: total time spent (sec) exploring both objects.
Level density for deformations of the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble
Creators: name: Bertuola, A. C.
name: de Carvalho, J. X.
name: Hussein, M. S.
name: Pato, M. P.
name: Sargeant, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Formulas are derived for the average level density of deformed, or transition, Gaussian orthogonal random matrix ensembles. After some general considerations about Gaussian ensembles we derive formulas for the average level density for (i) the transition from the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE) to the Poisson ensemble and (ii) the transition from the GOE to $m$ GOEs.
description: 7 pages revtex4, 5 eps figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
title: Comparison of ice nucleating particles from fruit juices and their properties
Creators: name: Fiala, Bianca
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: ice nucleation
subject: FTIR
subject: UV
subject: VIS

description: Heterogeneous ice nucleation is a crucial process for ice cloud formation in the atmosphere. Recent findings indicate the importance of ice nucleating particles of biological origin in this process. Previous investigations in our group (Pummer et al., 2012) revealed that pollen from several plants native to the boreal forests contain ice nucleating macromolecules, which are easily detached from the grains. Investigating a broader scope of boreal plants, Bichler (2015) showed that several juices of berries contain ice nucleation active macromolecules. Based on this research we examined ice nucleation activity and general properties of five juices from perennial plants: acerola, black currant, chokeberry, elderberry and sea buckthorn. With the only exception of acerola, which occurs primarily in the tropics and subtropics, the other four plants can be distributed up to the boreal zone. All of the examined fruit juices exhibit ice nucleation activity, T50,het values (median heterogeneous freezing temperature) of the pure juices are ranging between -17.9 °C and -29.6 °C. We elucidated particle size dependency of the ice nucleation activity to differentiate between coarse and submicron ice nucleating particles. For all analysed fruit juices ice nucleating particles were detected in both fractions: the coarse (> 0.45 μm) and the submicron size range (< 0.45 μm). For all five juices no direct correlation between dry mass and ice nucleation activity was found. Therefore no conclusions can be drawn from the dry mass of a juice concerning the ice nucleating particle quantity. The results of the investigations with different solvents (methanol, methylene chloride, and cyclohexane) suggest that polar components play an important role in the ice nucleation activity of acerola, black currant, chokeberry, elderberry and sea buckthorn. By FTIR spectroscopy numerous strong bands were assigned to saccharides, lipids and phenolic compounds. Further, broad bands in the different amid regions were present. The two juices that show the highest ice nucleation activity (sea buckthorn and black currant) were investigated with chaotropic agents (guanidinium chloride and urea) and a protein-digesting enzyme (Subtilisin). This way, properties like the importance of hydrogen bonds and other structure forming polar interactions were controlled. Our results suggest that proteinaceous compounds play a key role in the ice nucleation activity of pure black currant and sea buckthorn juice.
A WISE View of IRAS Debris Disks: Revising the Dust Properties
Creators: name: Liu, Qiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Debris disks around stars are considered as components of planetary systems. Constrain the dust properties of these disks can give crucial information to formation and evolution of planetary systems. As an all-sky survey, \textit{InfRared Astronomical Satellite} (\iras) gave great contribution to the debris disk searching which discovered the first debris disk host star (Vega). The \iras-detected debris disk sample published by Rhee \citep{rhe07} contains 146 stars with detailed information of dust properties. While the dust properties of 45 of them still can not be determined due to the limitations with the \iras\ database (have \iras\ detection at 60 $μ$m only). Therefore, using more sensitivity data of \textit{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} (\wise), we can better characterize the sample stars: For the stars with \iras\ detection at 60 $μ$m only, we refit the excessive flux densities and obtain the dust temperatures and fractional luminosities; While for the remaining stars with multi-bands \iras\ detections, the dust properties are revised which show that the dust temperatures were over estimated in high temperatures band before. Moreover, we identify 17 stars with excesses at the \wise\ 22 $μ$m which have smaller distribution of distance from Earth and higher fractional luminosities than the other stars without mid-infrared excess emission. Among them, 15 stars can be found in previous works.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures; 4 Tables, RAA in press
title: Using Digitized Building and Weather Records to Improve the Accuracy of Ground to Roof Snow Load Ratio Estimations
Creators: name: Parry, Gideon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Reliability target loads refer to the amount of accumulated snow a roof needs to be able to support to ensure that the probability of collapse is sufficiently low. Since ground snow weight, or load, is much easier to measure than roof snow load, models for roof snow loads rely on ground snow load measurements along with a statistical model that estimates roof snow retention as a ratio of the measured ground snow load. This thesis focuses on improving the roof snow retention model using data from Canadian case studies that include information about building geometry and local wind speeds. This information is used to create new statistical models for predicting roof snow retention. Modeling finds that adding building information improves our predictions of roof snow retention, even without using weather information, but using building and weather information together creates the largest improvements in predictions. Additionally, using estimated weather information from gridded maps of historical wind speeds does not improve predictions of roof snow retention, which suggests that weather needs to be specifically measured rather than estimated to be useful in predicting roof snow retention.
Attributing Uncertainties in the Identification of Hotspots in SPECT Imaging
Creators: name: Papanicolas, Costas N.
name: Koutsantonis, Loizos
name: Stiliaris, Efstathios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In SPECT imaging, the identification and detection of a lesion rely either on visual inspection of the reconstructed tomographic images or post-processing image analysis methods. Both approaches do not provide the capability to attribute a quantifiable uncertainty to this identification. We present a framework which allows the quantification of this uncertainty and the assignment of a level of confidence to the detection of hotspots. Based on the "Reconstructed Image from Simulations Ensemble" (RISE), an image reconstruction method, the presented scheme uses the set of projection measurements to derive the parameters defining the uptake of radioactivity, the position and the size of a hotspot, and as well as their associated uncertainties. The capabilities of the proposed method are demonstrated with projection data from GATE phantom simulations.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, Presentation in IEEE NSS/MIC 2018 Conference
La evaluacion de la calidad de las normas de peritacion de seguros agrarios en frutales por aplicacion del metodo Delphi
Creators: name: Ronco, Alicia
name: Izquierdo, Ricardo
name: Ronco, Alicia
name: Izquierdo, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Financial Economics
subject: seguros agrarios
subject: normas de peritacion
subject: prospectiva
subject: informacion subjetiva
subject: metodo Delphi
subject: Agricultural insurance
subject: loss adjustment standards
subject: prospective study
subject: subjective information
subject: Delphi method.

description: El incremento de la oferta de fruta dulce en los mercados ha originado por parte de la demanda una mayor exigencia en la calidad de la misma, por lo que el presente trabajo realiza una prospeccion sobre el fenomeno de la perdida de precio que experimentan las producciones que han sido objetp de danos por accidentes climatologicos. El principal objetivo es evaluar la adecuacion de la Norma especifica de peritacion de los seguros agrarios de determinadas producciones de frutales a las condiciones reales del mercado, asi como identificar los aspectos coyunturales que pueden condicionar la posibilidad de aprovechamiento de las producciones siniestradas. El estudio se desarrolla a traves del metodo Delphi de consulta a expertos, que permite la obtencion de informacion de caracter subjetivo, asi como identificar opiniones divergentes y armonizar posturas en relacion con un problema complejo. Los resultados obtenidos avalan la idoneidad de la propuesta metodolofica y evidencian la necesidad de revisar la Norma de peritacion analizada. The growing supply of sweet fruit in markets has increased the level of demanding quality for these products. This paper offers a forecast of the drop in prices that damaged productions suffer. Main objective is to determine if loss adjustments standards in agricultural insurance are appropriated to real market conditions and, in the other hand, to identify the conditions that can modify the use of damaged fruits. This survey uses the Delphi technique for obtaining subjective information form experts, which comes forward as a valid and reliable option for solving a complex problem. Results confirm this technique as a research tool particularly well suited to exploratory studies. We conclude with suggestions for revising the loss adjustment standards.
Relações e Estratégias de (Des)envolvimento Rural: políticas públicas, agricultura familiar e dinâmicas locais no município de Espera Feliz (MG)
Creators: name: Silva, Márcio Gomes Da
name: Dias, Marcelo Miná
name: Silva, Sandro Pereira
name: Silva, Márcio Gomes Da
name: Dias, Marcelo Miná
name: Silva, Sandro Pereira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural development
subject: public policy
subject: family farming
subject: social mediators
subject: normative domination.

description: This paper presents the analysis of the links between family farming organizations and rural development policies. The research was conducted in the municipality of Espera Feliz (MG). The results demonstrate that the adoption of family farm as an issue in public agenda was responsible for important changes in the performance of the Rural Workers Union (STR) of Espera Feliz with the adoption of collective devices used by farmers as a strategy for collective action. This organization adopted collective devices which began to be used by farmers as a strategy for collective action. It was possible to observe that these collective devices have undergone adjustments to their rules of reciprocity, constituting formalized institutions. Given the access to certain public policies, approaches with social mediators were created in order to optimize strategies developed by local organizations. This relationship, which becomes conflicting as there are divergences of collective orientations for development, can be classified as a relation of complementarity, normative domination or difficulties and tensions. In this set of relations, approximations between organizations and social mediators who work advising the farmer’s organizations are built up.
Supersymmetric Modified Korteweg-de Vries Equation: Bilinear Approach
Creators: name: Liu, Q. P.
name: Hu, Xing-Biao
name: Zhang, Meng-Xia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A proper bilinear form is proposed for the N=1 supersymmetric modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. The bilinear Bäcklund transformation of this system is constructed. As applications, some solutions are presented for it.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX using packages amsmath and amssymb, some corrections made
Additional file 7 of Mitigation of helium irradiation-induced brain injury by microglia depletion
Creators: name: Allen, Barrett D.
name: Syage, Amber R.
name: Maroso, Mattia
name: Baddour, Al Anoud D.
name: Luong, Valerie
name: Minasyan, Harutyun
name: Giedzinski, Erich
name: West, Brian L.
name: Soltesz, Ivan
name: Limoli, Charles L.
name: Baulch, Janet E.
name: Munjal M. Acharya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 7: Table S2. OiP task: total time spent (sec) exploring both objects.