cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Catalog of Northern Stars With Annual Proper Motions Larger Than 0.15 Seconds of Arc (LSPM catalog - North)
Creators: name: Lepine, Sebastien
name: Shara, Michael M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LSPM-north catalog is a comprehensive list of 61,977 stars north of the J2000 celestial equator that have proper motions larger than 0.15 seconds of arc per year (local-background-stars frame). The catalog has been generated primarily as a result of our systematic search for high proper motion stars in the Digitized Sky Surveys using our SUPERBLINK software. At brighter magnitudes, the catalog incorporates stars and data from the Tycho-2 Catalogue and also, to a lesser extent, from the All-sky Compiled Catalogue of 2.5 million stars. The LSPM catalog expands considerably over the old Luyten (LHS, NLTT) catalogs, superseding them for northern declinations. Corrections to the local-background-stars proper motions have been calculated, and absolute proper motions in the extragalactic frame are given. The catalog is estimated to be over 99% complete at high Galactic latitudes (|b>15|), and over 90% complete at low Galactic latitudes (|b<15|), down to a magnitude V=19.0, and has a limiting magnitude V=21.0. All the northern stars listed in the LHS and NLTT catalogs have been re-identified, and their positions, proper motions and magnitudes re-evaluated. The catalog also lists a large number of completely new objects, which promise to expand very significantly the census of red dwarfs, subdwarfs, and white dwarfs in the vicinity of the Sun.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. Tables 2 and 3 available in electronic format only, and by request to the authors (lepine@amnh.org)
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRICE STABILIZATION AND CYCLES IN THE CANADIAN WHEAT MARKET
Creators: name: Clark, J. Stephen
name: Klein, Kurt K.
name: Clark, J. Stephen
name: Klein, Kurt K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: In this study, moving average price stabilization schemes were analyzed under the assumption of rational expectations. It was shown that moving average price schemes may induce cyclical behavior into market prices where no cyclical pattern previously existed. Moving average price stabilization schemes are important to Canadian agricultural policy analysis because they are a characteristic of stabilization programs in Canada. Indeed, the Agricultural Stabilization Act, introduced in 1975, and the Gross Revenue Insurance Program, introduced in 1991, use moving average prices to calculate returns to producers.
Investigating the relationship between Language Teacher Cognition and Student Learning through the ‘Tutelage of Thinking’: A complex dynamic systems perspective
Creators: name: Aljibory, Fay
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: language teacher cognition (LTC) on learning. Despite decades of LTC research, criticisms have been levelled at the dearth of studies linking LTC to learners and their learning in classroom learning environments (LEs). Research shows that LTC is an important mediator of teacher decision-making and behavioural practices in these contexts. This study makes a unique contribution to understanding how LTC relates to learning through the multidimensional concept of ‘the tutelage of thinking’ which functions on both macro and micro levels through cognition.This longitudinal, qualitative study explores LTC on a university EAP programme in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Employing complex dynamic systems theory, it investigates three classrooms as case studies using classroom observations and semi-structured interviews with teachers and learners, and documentary analysis of teaching and learning materials and assessed work.Past experiences of language learning (such as EMI schooling) and related beliefs were significant in mediating cognitions, intentionality, behaviours, perceptions of self, imagined future selves, identities, first and second language orientations, and the organisation of interaction patterns within the LE. While external contextual factors were significantly related to the stability of cognitions, the multifaceted tutelage of thinking was key to teacher and learner coadaptation and change within the LE and was the central link between LTC and learning.The study further illustrates how learning occurs through the interaction, mediation, and organisation of interconnected system components as they are dynamically assembled into new configurations. It presents insights into LTC on both micro- and macro-levels, respecting the complexity constitutive of LEs as nested systems in wider contexts. It poses pedagogical challenges for classroom participation, interaction and identity formation and advocates further research into the tutelage of thinking to better understand LTC in learning in EAP contexts.
Wrapping interactions and a new source of corrections to the spin-chain/string duality
Creators: name: Ambjorn, Jan
name: Janik, Romuald A.
name: Kristjansen, Charlotte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming that the world-sheet sigma-model in the AdS/CFT correspondence is an integrable {\em quantum} field theory, we deduce that there might be new corrections to the spin-chain/string Bethe ansatz paradigm. These come from virtual particles propagating around the circumference of the cylinder and render Bethe ansatz quantization conditions only approximate. We determine the nature of these corrections both at weak and at strong coupling in the near BMN limit, and find that the first corrections behave qualitatively as wrapping interactions at weak coupling.
description: 21 pages, 1 figure; v3:references added; v4:journal version, minor corrections; v5: typo in acknowledgments fixed
Anopliomorpha hirsuta
Creators: name: Lanuza-Garay, Alfredo
name: Taboada-Verona, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Anopliomorpha
Anopliomorpha hirsuta

description: Anopliomorpha hirsuta (Linsley, 1935)
(Fig. 8)
Known distribution. Mexico (Guerrero, México, Morelos, Sinaloa), Honduras, Nicaragua (Domitila), Costa Rica (Guanacaste), and Colombia (Bolívar) (García & Nascimento 2020; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2025).
Material examined. 1 male, PANAMA (new country record), Panamá, Playa Venado, límite con tierra, 30.v.1984, D. Quintero, R. Cambra, Jara leg. (MIUP).
description: Published as part of Lanuza-Garay, Alfredo & Taboada-Verona, Carlos, 2025, Description of a new species of Colobothea Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Central America, and new distributional records and taxonomic notes of Peruvian and Panamanian Cerambycidae, pp. 273-284 in Zootaxa 5621 (2) on page 277, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/15262683
Podocinum jamaicense Evans & Hyatt 1958
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum jamaicense

description: 18. Podocinum jamaicense Evans & Hyatt, 1958
 Podocinum jamaicense Evans & Hyatt, 1958: 920.
 Podocinum [jamaicense] jamaicense.— Hurlbutt, 1971: 298.
 Podocinum jamaicense.— Karg, 1979: 5; Ho et al., 2009: 90; Yan et al., 2012: 45.
 Type depository. British Museum (Natural History), London, England.
 Type locality and habitat. Jamaica, Dolphin Head (alt. 535 m), Hanover, Cornwall, 13 April 1956, in damp woody earth.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Hamiltonian structure of compartmental epidemiological models
Creators: name: Ballesteros, Angel
name: Blasco, Alfonso
name: Gutierrez-Sagredo, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Any epidemiological compartmental model with constant population is shown to be a Hamiltonian dynamical system in which the total population plays the role of the Hamiltonian function. Moreover, some particular cases within this large class of models are shown to be bi-Hamiltonian. New interacting compartmental models among different populations, which are endowed with a Hamiltonian structure, are introduced. The Poisson structures underlying the Hamiltonian description of all these dynamical systems are explicitly presented, and their associated Casimir functions are shown to provide an efficient tool in order to find exact analytical solutions for epidemiological models, such as the ones describing the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic.
description: Minor misprints corrected
AN ADAPTIVE MODEL OF PERISHABLE INVENTORY DISSIPATION IN A NONSTATIONARY PRICE ENVIRONMENT
Creators: name: Vukina, Tomislav
name: Anderson, James L.
name: Vukina, Tomislav
name: Anderson, James L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: The paper develops an adaptive model of perishable commodity dissipation based on the individual's price expectations and risk perception. A two-step, state-space procedure for modeling nonstationary time series is presented. The method combines an impulse response model for estimating deterministic components with an innovations model for the remaining stationary stochastic noise. Combined parameters are used to generate forecasts and to derive a measure of risk in a nonstationary price environment. Defined as the variance (covariance) of out-of-sample forecast error, the measure of risk is the difference between the historical estimate of the stationary noise auto-covariance and the variance (covariance) of out-of-sample forecasts. The optimal marketing strategy for a hypothetical salmon processor who sells to Japanese wholesalers is developed to illustrate the model. The solution is obtained using quadratic programming algorithm.
Analytical study of tunneling times in flat histogram Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Costa, Miguel D.
name: Lopes, J. Viana
name: Santos, J. M. B. Lopes dos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model for the dynamics in energy space of multicanonical simulation methods that lends itself to a rather complete analytic characterization. The dynamics is completely determined by the density of states. In the \pm J 2D spin glass the transitions between the ground state level and the first excited one control the long time dynamics. We are able to calculate the distribution of tunneling times and relate it to the equilibration time of a starting probability distribution. In this model, and possibly in any model in which entering and exiting regions with low density of states are the slowest processes in the simulations, tunneling time can be much larger (by a factor of O(N)) than the equilibration time of the probability distribution. We find that these features also hold for the energy projection of single spin flip dynamics.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, published in Europhysics Letters (2005)
Self-disclosure and Relationship Development among Malaysian Female Bloggers
Creators: name: Zainudin, Sharifah S. Syed
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis investigates the phenomenon of self-disclosure and relationship development through a case study of a group of Malaysian female bloggers known as ‘Scarflet Sisters’. Theoretically, the study draws upon social penetration theory and social information processing theory. A mixed methods design was employed: content analysis of the 20 Scarflet Sisters blogs and interviews with the 10 Scarflet Sisters bloggers. The findings indicate that the blogs, blogging practices and self-disclosure patterns reflect certain aspects of the bloggers’ identities. The most frequent topics for breadth of self-disclosure relate to major aspects of these bloggers’ lifestyles and identities as Muslim women, focusing on narratives around self-biographies, life events, activities, the value and practice of wearing the hijab, fashion, religious faith, beauty and the commercial aspects of blogging. The findings on the depth of self-disclosure indicate that bloggers mostly disclosed at an intermediate level of intimacy, demonstrating increased depth of disclosure to gain trust from their followers, especially on topics, such as self-biographies, feelings and emotions, personal experiences, as well as the hijab, fashion and religion. In fact, the breadth and the depth of self-disclosure correlate with the Scarflet Sisters’ practices of developing relationships via blogs. That is to say that these bloggers appear to be more likely to self-disclose when exhibiting positive attitudes to develop their relationship with other bloggers and readers. Additionally, the motives for blogging, factors for self-disclosure, trust, honesty and accuracy of blog contents determine positively the bloggers’ desire to initiate closer relationships via blogs. The results of the study provide support for the SPT and SIPT theories and suggest that for relationships to develop via blogs there must be an exchange of personal information through sufficient breadth and depth of bloggers’ self-disclosure, with blog features including comment box, hyperlinks and blogroll supporting the exchange of information on blogs.
Amplitude- and truncated partial-wave analyses combined: A novel, almost theory-independent single-channel method for extracting photoproduction multipoles directly from measured data
Creators: name: Švarc, A.
name: Wunderlich, Y.
name: Tiator, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Amplitude- and truncated partial-wave analyses are combined into a single procedure and a novel, almost theory-independent single-channel method for extracting multipoles directly from measured data is developed. In practice, we have created a two-step procedure which is fitted to the same data base: in the first step we perform an energy independent amplitude analysis where continuity is achieved by constraining the amplitude phase, and the result of this first step is then taken as a constraint for the second step where a constrained, energy independent, truncated partial-wave analysis is done. The method is tested on the world collection of data for $η$ photoproduction, and the obtained fit-results are very good. The sensitivity to different possible choices of amplitude phase is investigated and it is demonstrated that the present data base is insensitive to notable phase changes, due to an incomplete database. New measurements are recommended to remedy the problem.
description: 30 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables
THE EFFECTS OF INCREASING FLEX ACRES ON FARM PLANNING AND PROFITABILITY
Creators: name: Duffy, Patricia A.
name: Taylor, C. Robert
name: Duffy, Patricia A.
name: Taylor, C. Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Dynamic programming techniques were used to evaluate the effects of alternative levels of normal flex acreage requirements on a Midwestern corn-soybean farm and a Southeastern cotton farm. Results indicate that increasing normal flex acres from the current level of 15 percent to 35 percent would provide inducement for farmers in both regions to plant more soybeans. In general, the cotton farm incurs considerably higher expected losses from the change. Thus, there are unequal regional consequences of such a policy change.
FARM-LEVEL EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE POLICY APPROACHES TO REDUCE NITRATE LEACHING FROM MIDWEST AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Swinton, Scott M.
name: Clark, David S.
name: Swinton, Scott M.
name: Clark, David S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Policies to reduce nitrate leaching are evaluated using a mixed integer linear programming model of a representative Michigan cash grain farm. At spring 1993 prices, elimination of the current deficiency payment program is found to be more efficient at reducing leaching than a nitrogen input tax, a tax credit on biologically fixed nitrogen, a rotation payment, or obligatory use of the Integrated Farm Management Program Option (IFMPO). However, elimination of the deficiency payment program would significantly reduce farm income. Modeling risk management and nitrate leaching dynamics are useful extensions of this research, as is estimating the benefits from averting nitrate leaching.
Adaptive strategies in amphibians living under environmental stress
Creators: name: Stanescu Florina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: skeletochronology
age
body condition
salinity
release calls
Pelobates
Bufo
Lissotriton
Dermatonotus
Rhinella

description: Doctoral thesis summary. Thesis defended and validated in 2015. Domain: Biology Ovidius University Constanţa, Doctoral School of Applied Sciences
description: Unpublished doctoral thesis
COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE IN METROPOLITAN AREAS: ECONOMICS AND REGULATORY ISSUES
Creators: name: Gardner, Bruce L.
name: Gardner, Bruce L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: Metropolitan agriculture is economically important, especially in the Northeast. While faced with substantial economic and regulatory obstacles, commercial farming in urban areas is surviving and even prospering. In terms of standard models of agriculture in economic development, this is a puzzle. But more detailed, spatial economic models indicate how labor-intensive production of perishable commodities in urbanized areas can make economic sense, especially when coupled with environmental amenities that farming generates for nonfarm people. At the same time, environmental disamenities of agriculture are larger in densely populated areas. The political economy outcomes have tended to be favorable to continued farming, albeit with increased regulation. Nonetheless, many questions remain about the dynamics of agricultural adjustment to urbanization, and the possible steady-state mix of farm and nonfarm activities.
Podocinum mediocre Berlese 1913
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum mediocre

description: 20. Podocinum mediocre Berlese, 1913
 Podocinum mediocre Berlese, 1913a: 83.
 Podocinum mediocre.— Evans & Hyatt, 1958: 921; Ho et al., 2009: 91; Yan et al., 2012: 46.
 Type depository. Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Florence, Italy. Type locality and habitat. Indonesia, Java, unspecified collection date and substrate.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 150, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Shot noise in metallic double dot structures with a negative differential conductance
Creators: name: Nguyen, V. Hung
name: Nguyen, V. Lien
name: Dollfus, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The shot noise of current through a metallic double quantum dot structure exhibiting negative differential conductance is studied. We can exactly solve the master equation and derive an analytical expression of the spectral density of current fluctuations as a function of frequency in the first Coulomb staircase region. For a large range of bias voltage the noise is calculated by Monte Carlo simulation. We show that the noise is always sub-Poissonian though it is considerably enhanced in the negative differential conductance regime.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Identification and Remediation of Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Issue Trackers
Creators: name: Li, Yikun
name: Soliman, Mohamed
name: Avgeriou, Paris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Technical debt refers to taking shortcuts to achieve short-term goals, which might negatively influence software maintenance in the long-term. There is increasing attention on technical debt that is admitted by developers in source code comments (termed as self-admitted technical debt or SATD). But SATD in issue trackers is relatively unexplored. We performed a case study, where we manually examined 500 issues from two open source projects (i.e. Hadoop and Camel), which contained 152 SATD items. We found that: 1) eight types of technical debt are identified in issues, namely architecture, build, code, defect, design, documentation, requirement, and test debt; 2) developers identify technical debt in issues in three different points in time, and a small part is identified by its creators; 3) the majority of technical debt is paid off, 4) mostly by those who identified it or created it; 5) the median time and average time to repay technical debt are 872.3 and 25.0 hours respectively.
description: The 46th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)
NONRADIAL TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND CHEMICAL INPUT USE IN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge
name: Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Radial and nonradial measures of technical efficiency are calculated empirically for Florida vegetable farms using DEA (data envelopment analysis) techniques. Use of the nonradial measures to calculate overuse of chemical inputs by inefficient farmers is demonstrated and the potential for reduced environmental loading of pesticides and fertilizers by improving efficiency is evaluated.
Possible Detection of X-Ray Emitting Circumstellar Material in the Synchrotron-Dominated Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7-3946
Creators: name: Tateishi, Dai
name: Katsuda, Satoru
name: Terada, Yukikatsu
name: Acero, Fabio
name: Yoshida, Takashi
name: Fujimoto, Shin-ichiro
name: Sano, Hidetoshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Supernova remnants
Core-collapse supernovae
Circumstellar matter
X-ray observatories
High resolution spectroscopy

description: X-ray emission from the circumstellar material in the supernova remnant (SNR) can be a good probe to understand the activity of the progenitor star of the supernova. We report on a discovery of an X-ray emitting circumstellar material knot inside the synchrotron dominant SNR RX J1713.7-3946. This knot was previously thought to be a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 85), but we realized that it is in fact ~40'' away from WR 85, indicating no relation to WR 85. We performed high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) onboard XMM-Newton. The RGS spectrum clearly resolves a number of emission lines, such as N VII, O VIII, Fe XVIII, Ne X, Mg XI, and Si XIII. The spectrum can be well represented by an absorbed thermal emission model with a temperature of k_{B}T_{e}=0.65+/-0.02 keV. The elemental abundances are obtained to be N/H=3.5+/-0.8 (N/H)_solar, O/H=0.5+/-0.1 (O/H)_ solar, Ne/H=0.9+/-0.1 (Ne/H)_ solar, Mg/H=1.0+/-0.1 (Mg/H)_ solar, Si/H=1.0+/-0.2 (Si/H)_ solar, and Fe/H=1.3+/-0.1 (Fe/H)_ solar. The enhanced N abundance with others being about the solar values allows us to infer that this knot is circumstellar material ejected when the progenitor star evolved into a red supergiant. The abundance ratio of N to O is obtained to be N/O=6.8_{-2.1}^{+2.5}(N/O)_ solar. By comparing this to those in outer layers of red supergiant stars expected from stellar evolution simulations, we estimate the initial mass of the progenitor star that produced RX J1713.7-3946 to be about 15 - 20M_sun.
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A Dielectric Metasurface Optical Chip for the Generation of Cold Atoms
Creators: name: Zhu, Lingxiao
name: Liu, Xuan
name: Sain, Basudeb
name: Wang, Mengyao
name: Schlickriede, Christian
name: Tang, Yutao
name: Deng, Junhong
name: Li, Kingfai
name: Yang, Jun
name: Holynski, Michael
name: Zhang, Shuang
name: Zentgraf, Thomas
name: Bongs, Kai
name: Lien, Yu-Hung
name: Li, Guixin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compact and robust cold atom sources are increasingly important for quantum research, especially for transferring cutting-edge quantum science into practical applications. In this letter, we report on a novel scheme that utilizes a metasurface optical chip to replace the conventional bulky optical elements used to produce a cold atomic ensemble with a single incident laser beam, which is split by the metasurface into multiple beams of the desired polarization states. Atom numbers $~10^7$ and temperatures (about 35 $μ$K) of relevance to quantum sensing are achieved in a compact and robust fashion. Our work highlights the substantial progress towards fully integrated cold atom quantum devices by exploiting metasurface optical chips, which may have great potential in quantum sensing, quantum computing and other areas.
Macroprudential stress tests under Basel III: The role of funding liquidity risk
Creators: name: Fragkou, Stamatoula
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The thesis is composed of three main chapters each with an independent objective. The first inspects the main funding risk drivers employing a multivariate copula estimation. The second looks at the systemic liquidity risk asking whether macroeconomic fluctuations can trigger and create simultaneous liquidity shortages in banks’ funding position using agent based model(ABM). The third examines the funding liquidity risk’s procyclical behaviour to macroeconomic changes using a feedback mechanism. The findings of the three chapters, are as follow: Chapter 2, detects and quantifies the main funding liquidity risk drivers and shows that commercial banks’ Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) substantially decreases when macroeconomic adverse conditions are applied. In Chapter 3 the results suggest that banks face simultaneous liquidity shortages when the economy’s agents operate under economic recession. Chapter 4 indicates that funding risk is pro cyclical to the macroeconomic fluctuations while large banks’ responses assist on withstanding substantial liquidity shortages when macroeconomic shocks are applied. This study contributes to the literature in three folds: 1) Introduces a new stress test scope by assessing funding liquidity risk and its interrelations with the macroeconomic environment. 2) Provides evidence on prudential policies by incorporating systemic liquidity risk in macro prudential stress test framework. 3) Measures funding liquidity risk pro-cyclical, by developing a second round effects mechanism.
Deforming Euclidean cone 3-manifolds
Creators: name: Porti, Joan
name: Weiss, Hartmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50

description: Given a closed orientable Euclidean cone 3-manifold C with cone angles less than or equal to pi, and which is not almost product, we describe the space of constant curvature cone structures on C with cone angles less than pi. We establish a regeneration result for such Euclidean cone manifolds into spherical or hyperbolic ones and we also deduce global rigidity for Euclidean cone structures.
description: Only changes for the grants footnotes have been made
Podocinum minus Berlese 1913
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum minus

description: 21. Podocinum minus Berlese, 1913
 Podocinum minus Berlese, 1913a: 83.
 Podocinum minus.— Evans & Hyatt, 1958: 922; Ho et al., 2009: 91; Yan et al., 2012: 46.
 Type depository. Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Florence, Italy. Type locality and habitat. Indonesia, Java, collection date and host/substrate unspecified.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Non-Hermitian generalizations of extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger models
Creators: name: He, Yan
name: Chien, Chih-Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Hermitian generalizations of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) models with higher periods of the hopping coefficients, called the SSH3 and SSH4 models, are analyzed. The conventional construction of the winding number fails for the Hermitian SSH3 model, but the non-Hermitian generalization leads to a topological system due to a point gap on the complex plane. The non-Hermitian SSH3 model thus has a winding number and exhibits the non-Hermitian skin effect. Moreover, the SSH3 model has two types of localized states and a zero-energy state associated with special symmetries. The total Zak phase of the SSH3 model exhibits quantization, and its finite value indicates coexistence of the two types of localized states. Meanwhile, the SSH4 model resembles the SSH model, and its non-Hermitian generalization also exhibits the non-Hermitian skin effect. A careful analysis of the non-Hermitian SSH4 model with different boundary conditions shows the bulk-boundary correspondence is restored with the help of the generalized Brillouin zone or the real-space winding number. The physics of the non-Hermitian SSH3 and SSH4 models may be tested in cold-atom or other simulators.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, submitted
Applications of quantum message sealing
Creators: name: Worley, G Gordon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In 2003, Bechmann-Pasquinucci introduced the concept of quantum seals, a quantum analogue to wax seals used to close letters and envelopes. Since then, some improvements on the method have been found. We first review the current quantum sealing techniques, then introduce and discuss potential applications of quantum message sealing, and conclude with some discussion of the limitations of quantum seals.
description: Presented as SPIE paper 5815-25 at Quantum Information and Computation III, part of the SPIE Defense & Security Symposium 2005
Enhancement of squeezing in the Rabi model with parametric nonlinearity
Creators: name: Yogesh, V.
name: Maity, Prosenjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The squeezing effect arises in the interacting qubit-oscillator system is studied with the presence of a parametric oscillator in the Rabi model. Based on the generalized rotating wave approximation which works well in the wide range of coupling strength as well as detuning, the analytically derived approximate energy spectrum is compared with the numerically determined spectrum of the Hamiltonian. For the initial state of the bipartite system, the dynamical evolution of the reduced density matrix corresponding to the oscillator is obtained by partial tracing over the qubit degree of freedom. The oscillator's reduced density matrix yields the nonnegative phase space quasi probability distribution known as Husimi $Q$-function which is utilized to compute the quadrature variance. It is shown that the squeezing produced in the Rabi model can be enhanced substantially in the presence of a parametric nonlinear term.
Group Child Sexual Exploitation: How and Why Does it Happen?
Creators: name: Pancholi, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This portfolio is comprised of four parts: A literature review, a research report, a critical appraisal of the research and a service evaluation.The literature review investigated adult Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) globally, analysing factors contributing to people’s offending behaviour. Twelve studies were included. There were variable definitions of CSE and a paucity of high-quality research. Results indicated common psychological themes such as cognitive distortions, group stages and ways of operating, and systemic issues like socio-economic conditions and subcultural norms that are a catalyst for CSE.The research analysed interviews with sixteen serving prisoners convicted of group CSE in the UK. Data was analysed using a constructivist, grounded theory approach (Charmaz, 2014). Multiple adverse life experiences and criminal versatility were common. Those offending against children did so because of a pervasive sexual interest, which was the main function of their group involvement. Conversely, for people offending against teenagers, group involvement satisfied a need for kinship. CSE was part of a lifestyle that included sex as a transaction. The offending was incidental to group membership.The critical appraisal analysed strengths and limitations of the research. The interviews produced rich data. The painstaking analytical approach and methodological rigour made the analysis insightful and thorough. The project’s practical applications were apparent. Some participants were under-represented; females, high-level organised groups and the un-convicted. These should be considered preliminary findings and future research should seek to clarify whether they are representative.The service evaluation analysed the success of a mentor scheme for serving prisoners supporting peers attending Offending Behaviour Programmes. Thematic analysis (Braun and Clark, 2013) revealed their motivations were altruistic and mutually beneficial. They gained positive, sometimes transformational benefits from supporting others. This is consistent with desistance literature about the need to be valued in order to be rehabilitated (Maruna, 2001; Garcia, 2016).
AN EXPERIMENT IN CONTINGENT VALUATION AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY
Creators: name: Laughland, Andrew S.
name: Musser, Wesley N.
name: Musser, Lynn M.
name: Laughland, Andrew S.
name: Musser, Wesley N.
name: Musser, Lynn M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Social desirability (SD) represents the problem of subjects responding with social norms rather than individual values. This paper briefly surveys the SD literature and considers its relevance for contingent valuation (CV) studies. In an empirical study, undergraduate students were administered the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, as well as CV questions. High SD scores were hypothesized to imply a greater likelihood of offering a protest reason for a zero bid and to increase bids for socially desirable commodities. While all hypotheses were not supported, the empirical results suggest that SD can influence CV responses and should not be dismissed prematurely.
Impact of dark matter subhalos on extended HI disks of galaxies: Possible formation of HI fine structures and stars
Creators: name: Bekki, Kenji
name: Chiba, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent observations have discovered star formation activities in the extreme outer regions of disk galaxies. However it remains unclear what physical mechanisms are responsible for triggering star formation in such low-density gaseous environments of galaxies. In order to understand the origin of these outer star-forming regions, we numerically investigate how the impact of dark matter subhalos orbiting a gas-rich disk galaxy embedded in a massive dark matter halo influences the dynamical evolution of outer HI gas disk of the galaxy. We find that if the masses of the subhalos ($M_{\rm sb}$) in a galaxy with an extended HI gas disk are as large as $10^{-3} \times M_{\rm h}$, where $M_{\rm h}$ is the total mass of the galaxy's dark halo, local fine structures can be formed in the extended HI disk. We also find that the gas densities of some apparently filamentary structures can exceed a threshold gas density for star formation and thus be likely to be converted into new stars in the outer part of the HI disk in some models with larger $M_{\rm sb}$. These results thus imply that the impact of dark matter subhalos (``dark impact'') can be important for better understanding the origin of recent star formation discovered in the extreme outer regions of disk galaxies. We also suggest that characteristic morphologies of local gaseous structures formed by the dark impact can indirectly prove the existence of dark matter subhalos in galaxies. We discuss the origin of giant HI holes observed in some gas-rich galaxies (e.g., NGC 6822) in the context of the dark impact.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJL
Podocinum monilicum Halliday 1990
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum monilicum

description: 22. Podocinum monilicum Halliday, 1990
 Podocinum monilicum Halliday, 1990: 277.
 Podocinum monilicum.— Ho et al., 2009: 91; Yan et al., 2012: 45.
 Type depository. Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia.
 Type locality and habitat. Australia, Rosedale (near Malua Bay) (35°49’ S, 150°13’ E), New South Wales, 20 November 1983, in Eucalyptus [Myrtaceae] leaf litter.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
CHANCE CONSTRAINED PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR RISK-BASED ECONOMIC AND POLICY ANALYSIS OF SOIL CONSERVATION
Creators: name: Zhu, Minkang
name: Taylor, Daniel B.
name: Sarin, Subhash C.
name: Kramer, Randall A.
name: Zhu, Minkang
name: Taylor, Daniel B.
name: Sarin, Subhash C.
name: Kramer, Randall A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The random nature of soil loss under alternative land-use practices should be an important consideration of soil conservation planning and analysis under risk. Chance constrained programming models can provide information on the trade-offs among pre-determined tolerance levels of soil loss, probability levels of satisfying the tolerance levels, and economic profits or losses resulting from soil conservation to soil conservation policy makers. When using chance constrained programming models, the distribution of factors being constrained must be evaluated. If random variables follow a log-normal distribution, the normality assumption, which is generally used in the chance constrained programming models, can bias the results.
Initial-state nuclear effects in proton-nucleus collisions
Creators: name: Berdnikov, Ya. A.
name: Kim, V. T.
name: Kosmach, V. F.
name: Ryzhinskiy, M. M.
name: Samsonov, V. M.
name: Zavatsky, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two important initial-state nuclear effects in hadron-nucleus collisions are considered. The ratios of inclusive differential cross sections for Drell-Yan dimuon production are calculated. The calculated results are compared to the E866 data. It is shown that consideration of multiple soft rescatterings of incident quarks in nuclei and initial-state quark energy loss effects allow to get a good agreement between the calculated results and the experimental data.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
One-Loop QCD Spin Chain and its Spectrum
Creators: name: Beisert, N.
name: Ferretti, G.
name: Heise, R.
name: Zarembo, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the renormalization of gauge invariant operators in large Nc QCD. We compute the complete matrix of anomalous dimensions to leading order in the 't Hooft coupling and study its eigenvalues. Thinking of the mixing matrix as the Hamiltonian of a generalized spin chain we find a large integrable sector consisting of purely gluonic operators constructed with self-dual field strengths and an arbitrary number of derivatives. This sector contains the true ground state of the spin chain and all the gapless excitations above it. The ground state is essentially the anti-ferromagnetic ground state of a XXX1 spin chain and the excitations carry either a chiral spin quantum number with relativistic dispersion relation or an anti-chiral one with non-relativistic dispersion relation.
description: 54 pages, v2: minor changes, references added
THE ECONOMICS OF TWO-TIER TARIFF-RATE IMPORT QUOTAS IN AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Boughner, Devry S.
name: De Gorter, Harry
name: Sheldon, Ian M.
name: Boughner, Devry S.
name: De Gorter, Harry
name: Sheldon, Ian M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This paper analyzes the economics of two-tier tariff import quotas (TRQs) and implications of alternative trade liberalization scenarios. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture had tariffs replace nontariff barriers as the protective mechanism while quotas ensured minimum trade flows. Our framework isolates the effects of changes either in the second-tier tariff, and first-tier tariff, or the quota. We show how market conditions or relative policy instrument levels determine which tariff or quota affects trade and domestic and world prices. Whether or not exporting countries have been allocated export quotas and the procedures for the distribution of the rights to export and import also influences the efficiency of TRQs.
Clinical data from Modelling of the arteriovenous malformation embolization optimal scenario
Creators: name: Cherevko, Alexandr A.
name: Gologush, Tatiana S.
name: Petrenko, Irina A.
name: Ostapenko, Vladimir V.
name: Panarin, Vyacheslav A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10599 Mathematical Physics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Tables of clinical data of patients obtained during neurosurgical operations to cure vascular pathologies
Podocinum nepalense Evans & Hyatt 1958
Creators: name: Barros, Avyla R. A.
name: Castilho, Raphael C.
name: De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Podocinidae
Podocinum
Podocinum nepalense

description: 23. Podocinum nepalense Evans & Hyatt, 1958
 Podocinum nepalense Evans & Hyatt, 1958: 922.
 Podocinum nepalense.— Ho et al., 2009: 92; Yan et al., 2012: 46.
 Type depository. British Museum (Natural History), London, England.
 Type locality and habitat. Nepal, Ulleri (28°21,5’N, 83°44,5’E; alt. 1828–2133 m), 18 May 1954, in dry soil under trees in a deciduous forest.
description: Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968
Ultra-High Thermoelectric Power Factors in Narrow Gap Materials with Asymmetric Bands
Creators: name: Graziosi, Patrizio
name: Neophytou, Neophytos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically unveil the unconventional possibility to achieve extremely high thermoelectric power factors in lightly doped narrow gap semiconductors with asymmetric conduction/valence bands operated in the bipolar transport regime. Specifically, using Boltzmann transport simulations, we show that narrow bandgap materials, rather than suffering from performance degradation due to bipolar conduction, if they possess highly asymmetric conduction and valence bands in terms of either effective masses, density of states, or phonon scattering rates, then they can deliver very high power factors. We show that this is reached because, under these conditions, electronic transport becomes phonon scattering limited, rather than ionized impurity scattering limited, which allows large conductivities. We explain why this effect has not been observed so far in the known narrow-gap semiconductors, interpret some recent related experimental findings, and propose a few examples from the half-Heusler materials family for which this effect can be observed and power factors even up to 50 mW/m$K^2$ can be reached.
description: J. Physical Chemistry C
The Galactic black hole transient H1743-322 during outburst decay: connections between timing noise, state transitions and radio emission
Creators: name: Kalemci, E.
name: Tomsick, J. A.
name: Rothschild, R. E.
name: Pottschmidt, K.
name: Corbel, S.
name: Kaaret, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-wavelength observations of Galactic black hole transients during outburst decay are instrumental for our understanding of the accretion geometry and the formation of outflows around black hole systems. H1743-322, a black hole transient observed intensely in X-rays and also covered in the radio band during its 2003 decay, provides clues about the changes in accretion geometry during state transitions and also the general properties of X-ray emission during the intermediate and the low-hard states. In this work, we report on the evolution of spectral and temporal properties in X-rays and the flux in the radio band with the goal of understanding the nature of state transitions observed in this source. We concentrate on the transition from the thermal dominant state to the intermediate state that occurs on a timescale of one day. We show that the state transition is associated with a sudden increase in power-law flux. We determine that the ratio of the power-law flux to the overall flux in the 3--25 keV band must exceed 0.6 to observe strong timing noise. Even after the state transition, once this ratio was below 0.6, the system transited back to the thermal dominant state for a day. We show that the emission from the compact radio core does not turn on during the transition from the thermal dominant state to the intermediate state but does turn on when the source reaches the low-hard state, as seen in 4U 1543-47 and GX 339-4. We find that the photon index correlates strongly with the QPO frequency and anti-correlates with the rms amplitude of variability. We also show that the variability is more likely to be associated with the power-law emission than the disk emission.
description: 23 pages, 5 Figures, 1 Table, accepted for publication in ApJ