cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Real Options Approach to Evaluating a Risky Investment by a New Generation Cooperative: Further Processing
Creators: name: Bailey, Michael D.
name: Sporleder, Thomas L.
name: Bailey, Michael D.
name: Sporleder, Thomas L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty
Agribusiness

description: Farmers continue to be interested in opportunities for value added production through further processing. New Generation Cooperatives (NGCs) offer member commitment through up-front capital contributions on the part of members. For a potential start-up NGC, one of new and novel issues that face the management of an NGC is making project commitments against the total capital available, both equity and debt capital. Because of the up-front capital commitment by members, NGCs invite managers to make commitments in phases, rather than one initial go or no-go decision. Thus, the capital decision is complex and requires managerial vision in terms of an uncertain world beset by constant shifts in prices, interest rates, consumer tastes, and technology. This paper considers a novel means of evaluating this investment decision, one that encompasses risk components mentioned above. When the outcome of an investment is least certain, real options analysis has the greatest potential analytic value. As time goes by and prospects for an underlying investment become clearer, the value of an option diminishes. The methodology of real options is novel because it encourages managers, at time t, to weigh equally all imaginable alternatives, good and bad. A project's net present value (NPV) is simply the difference between the project's value and its cost. By definition of the NPV rule, managers should accept all projects with a net present value greater than zero. The distinction between real options and conventional decision-making arises in that the standard net present value rule does not take into account managerial flexibility over time. Flexibility is especially important when the project involves sunk cost investments that can never be retrieved. Typically, investment in a new processing facility is a sunk cost, once the decision is made to build the facility. The analysis herein examines a NGC for corn tortilla chip processing, comparing both conventional NPV and real options analyses. PowerSim, a dynamic simulation model, is used is the analysis. This modeled investment is sunk, and the investment in a certain technology is sunk at the time the decision is made to construct the facility. The results indicate that the flexibility of managers is an important criterion for making decisions regarding sunk cost investments.
Patron Demand Deposit Account and Regional Patronage Financing Activities of Agribusiness Cooperatives
Creators: name: Brueckner, Erica C.
name: Duft, Ken D.
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
name: Brueckner, Erica C.
name: Duft, Ken D.
name: McCluskey, Jill J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Agribusiness
subject: cooperative finance
subject: patron demand deposit accounts
subject: regional patronage.

description: This paper investigates agribusiness cooperatives' reliance on patron demand deposit accounts (PDDAs) and regional patronage as sources of capital. Approximately 13% of cooperatives carry PDDAs, typically fruit cooperatives, of which over one-half have no financial protection against large unexpected withdrawals. Cooperatives with PDDAs must be concerned with potential legal conflicts regarding the handling of these accounts, as evidenced by a U.S. Supreme Court case classifying PDDAs as securities. Supply cooperatives are most likely to show investment in other cooperatives as a high percentage of total assets, which could generate insolvency issues for locals.
Excellence at Altitude: Why Internationally Trained Flight Attendants Are Essential to the Future of American Aviation
Creators: name: Hwang, Bitt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This opinion article argues that international training for flight attendants is a strategic differentiator in strengthening the U.S. commercial aviation industry. Drawing on her experience with globally recognized airlines, the author examines how rigorous training, exposure to high-complexity scenarios, and a culture of operational excellence cultivate skills that go far beyond in-flight service. The article suggests that professionals trained in high-performance environments help raise safety, efficiency, and passenger satisfaction standards. At the same time, it proposes that the U.S. aviation sector acknowledge the value of these professionals as knowledge multipliers and agents of operational transformation—especially in light of the industry’s current challenges.
Anomalous Cyclotron Motion in Graphene Superlattice Cavities
Creators: name: Kraft, R.
name: Liu, M. -H.
name: Selvasundaram, P. B.
name: Chen, S. -C.
name: Krupke, R.
name: Richter, K.
name: Danneau, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider graphene superlattice miniband fermions probed by electronic interferometry in magneto-transport experiments. By decoding the observed Fabry-Pérot interference patterns together with our corresponding quantum transport simulations, we find that the Dirac quasiparticles originating from the superlattice minibands do not undergo conventional cyclotron motion but follow more subtle trajectories. In particular, dynamics at low magnetic fields is characterized by peculiar, straight trajectory segments. Our results provide new insights into superlattice miniband fermions and open up novel possibilities to use periodic potentials in electron optics experiments.
Analytic expressions for gravitational inner multipole moments of elementary solids and for the force between two rectangular solids
Creators: name: Adelberger, E. G.
name: Collins, Nathan A.
name: Hoyle, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give analytic expressions for the gravitational inner spherical multipole moments, q_{lm} with l <= 5, for 11 elementary solid shapes. These moments, in conjunction with their known rotational and translational properties, can be used to calculate precisely the moments of complex objects that may be assembled from the elementary shapes. We also give an analytic expression for the gravitational force between two rectangular solids at arbitrary separations. These expressions are useful for computing the gravitational properties of complex instruments, such as those used in equivalence principle tests, and in the gravitational balancing of drag-free spacecraft.
description: 12 pages, as published in CQG
QGP and Modified Jet Fragmentation
Creators: name: Wang, Xin-Nian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progresses in the study of jet modification in hot medium and their consequences in high-energy heavy-ion collisions are reviewed. In particular, I will discuss energy loss for propagating heavy quarks and the resulting modified fragmentation function. Medium modification of the parton fragmentation function due to quark recombination are formulated within finite temperature field theory and their implication on the search for deconfined quark-gluon plasma is also discussed
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, invited plenary talk at HP2004, Ericeira, Portugal, Nov. 4-10, 2004
Ab initio determination of magnetic ground state of pyrochlore Y$_2$Mn$_2$O$_7$
Creators: name: Amirabbasi, Mohammad
name: Alaei, Mojtaba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are two discrepant experimental results on the magnetic ground state of Y$_{2}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$, one study proposes a spin glass state, while another introduces the material as a ferromagnet. In this study, we attempt to resolve this issue by employing density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulations. We derive different spin models by varying the Hubbard $U$ parameter in ab initio GGA+$U$ calculations. For the most range of Hubbard $U$, We obtain that the leading terms in the spin Hamiltonian are bi-quadratic and the nearest neighbor Heisenberg exchange interactions. By comparing Monte Carlo simulations of these models with the experiments, we find a ferromagnetic ground state for Y$_{2}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$ as the most compatible with experiments. We also consider Y$_{2}$Mo$_{2}$O$_{7}$ as a prototype of the defect-free pyrochlore system with spin-glass behavior and compare it with Y$_{2}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$. The orbital degrees of freedom are considered as a leading factor in converting a defect-free pyrochlore such as Y$_{2}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$ to a spin glass system. By changing the $d$ orbital occupations of Mo atoms, our GGA+$U$ calculations for Y$_{2}$Mo$_{2}$O$_{7}$ indicate many nearly degenerate states with different $d$ orbital orientations which reveals $d$ orbital degrees of freedom in this material. While for Y$_{2}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$, we find a single ground state with a fixed orbital orientation. Consequently, all of our ab initio approaches confirm Y$_{2}$Mn$_{2}$O$_{7}$ as a ferromagnetic system.
title: Queere Trampelpfade in Zukünften von Stadt
title: Heteronormative Spuren und queer-inklusives Denken in Zukunftsbildern von städtischem Leben
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Koning, Matthias
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Queer Studies
subject: Futures Studies
subject: Zukunftsforschung
subject: Urban Studies
subject: Queer Spaces
subject: Stadtplanung
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit legt offen, inwiefern Zukunftsbilder von Stadt heteronormativ geprägt sein können. Zukunftsbilder von Stadt reproduzieren gegenwärtige, implizite Normierungen. Werden diese nicht explizit hinterfragt, können Zukünfte von Stadt stillschweigend heteronormative Annahmen abbilden, die von der Dominanzgesellschaft als unveränderbar markiert sind. Diese schränken die Entwicklung alternativer Zukünfte ein. Als Untersuchungsgegenstand wurden Zukunftsbilder von Stadt analysiert, die im Futurium in Berlin ausgestellt sind. Queere Personen wurden in einer Gruppendiskussion mit den Ausstellungsartefakten konfrontiert. Ihre Äußerungen wurden mit einer strukturierenden Inhaltsanalyse qualitativ ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich queere Personen in den präsentierten Zukunftsbildern von Stadt nicht wiederfinden konnten. Es wurden sieben Themenkomplexe herausgearbeitet, die aus einer queeren Perspektive in den Zukunftsbildern durch die Grenzen von heteronormativem Denken limitiert sind. Weiterhin konnten queere Prozesse der Aneignung und queere Räume aufgezeigt werden, mit deren Integration die Zukunftsbilder queer-inklusiver gestaltet werden könnten. Queere Personen sollten strukturell in Entstehungsprozesse von Zukünften von Stadt integriert sein. Dies gilt auch für andere marginalisierte Personengruppen.
description: This research aimed at finding out whether futures of cities imply a heteronormative bias. Contemporary futures of the city implicitly reproduce values that are considered valid only by the dominant part of society. If not contested transparently heteronormative presumptions become part of visions of future cities. Hence, they restrict the development of alternative futures. This project focused on futures of cities that were on display in the Futurium museum in Berlin. People who identify as queer debated in a group discussion about the exhibits. The recorded data was then analysed using a qualitative content analysis. The results revealed that the futures of cities on display were considered incomplete and thus restricted by the limits of heteronormative thinking. Queer amendments were created to complement the missing parts and to render the futures at hand more queer-inclusive. The results stress that queer people and people who are marginalised in general should be able to access and influence decision making that determine futures.
A minimum-work weighted fair queuing algorithm for guaranteed end-to-end and quality-of-service in packet networks
Creators: name: Tayyar, Haitham Fahmi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Emerging applications in multimedia communications and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) require data networks to provide Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees, such as delay and/or jitter bounds, to individual packet flows. Providing such guarantees can be achieved by link scheduling mechanisms along the path of these packets. Among the many packet-scheduling techniques proposed for this problem, Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) offers the best delay and fairness guarantees. However, all previous work on WFQ has been focused on developing inefficient approximations of the scheduler because of perceived scalability problems in the WFQ computation. This thesis proves that the previously well accepted O(N) time-complexity for WFQ implementation, where N is the number of active flows handled by the scheduler, is not true. The other key contribution of the thesis is a novel Minimum- Work Weighted Fair Queuing (MW-WFQ) algorithm which is an 0(1) algorithm for implementing WFQ. In addition, the thesis presents several performance studies demonstrating the power of the proposed algorithm in providing precise delay bounds to a large number of sessions with diverse QoS requirements, whereas other well known scheduling techniques have failed to provide the same guarantees for the same set of sessions.
Rotational velocities of the giants in symbiotic stars: I. D'-type symbiotics
Creators: name: Zamanov, R. K.
name: Bode, M. F.
name: Melo, C. H. F.
name: Porter, J.
name: Gomboc, A.
name: Konstantinova-Antova, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured the rotational velocities (v.sini) of the mass donors in a number of D'--type symbiotic stars, using the cross-correlation function method. Four from five D' symbiotic stars with known v.sini, appeared to be very fast rotators compared with the catalogues of v.sini for the corresponding spectral types. At least three of these stars rotate at a substantial fraction (>=0.5) of the critical velocity. This means that at least in D'-type symbiotics the cool components rotate faster than isolated giants. If these binary stars are synchronized, their orbital periods should be relatively short (4-60 days). We also briefly discuss the possible origin of the rapid rotation and its connection with mass loss and dust formation.
description: 6 pages, to be submitted soon
Observing solar-like oscillations: recent results
Creators: name: Bedding, Timothy R.
name: Kjeldsen, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent progress in observations of ground-based oscillations. Excellent observations now exist for a few stars (alpha Cen A and B, mu Ara), while there is some controversy over others (Procyon, eta Boo). We have reached the stage where single-site observations are of limited value and where careful planning is needed to ensure the future of asteroseismology.
description: 6 pages, Invited review talk at the meeting on Stellar Pulsation and Evolution, June 2005, Rome. Proceedings to appear in "Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana", Vol. 76/4, eds. A.R. Walker & G. Bono
title: Utopisches Denken in der Politikpraxis
title: Eine explorative Untersuchung
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Vögler, Dodo
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Utopie
subject: Policy-Making Prozess
subject: Zukunftsforschung
subject: Politikgestaltung
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit den möglichen Potenzialen von Utopien und utopischem Denken für eine kreative Politikgestaltung. Vor dem Hintergrund steigender Unsicherheiten und einer sich stetig verändernden Umgebung, wird die Politik zunehmend mit Zukunftsfragen konfrontiert, die sich nicht allein mit einer Strategie des ‚weiter wie bisher‘ bewältigen lassen. Inwieweit ließe sich utopisches Denken in den Policy-Making Prozess integrieren und welche Chancen und Hindernisse würden sich daraus ergeben? Die Basis dieser Arbeit bilden Interviews mit Experten und Expertinnen aus Politik und Politikberatung. Deutlich wird, dass utopisches Denken politische Entscheidungen beeinflusst, allerdings nie ersetzen kann. Utopien enthalten Kritik und zeigen Bedürfnisse und Möglichkeiten auf. Durch ihre richtungsweisende Funktion können sie unser Entscheiden und Handeln leiten und als Antrieb politischer Debatten genutzt werden.
description: This thesis examines the possible potentials of utopias and utopian thinking for creative policy-making. Against the backdrop of rising uncertainties and a constantly changing environment, political decision-makers are increasingly confronted with questions about the future that cannot be dealt with by a strategy of 'business as usual' alone. To what extent could utopian thinking be integrated into the policy-making process and what opportunities and obstacles would result? This work is based on interviews with politicians and experts from political consultancy. This study shows that utopian thinking can guide political decisions, but it can never replace them. Utopias deploy criticism to point out needs and possibilities. They can assume a guiding function, helping to spark political conversations, and to lead to better-informed decisions and actions.
Restrain the losses of the entanglement and the non-local advantage of quantum coherence for accelerated quantum systems
Creators: name: Mohammed, A. R.
name: El-Shahat, T. M.
name: Metwally, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examined the possibility of recovering the losses of entanglement and the non-local advantage by using the local symmetric operations. The improvement efficiency may be increased by applying the symmetric operations on both qubits. The recovering process of both phenomenon is exhibited clearly when only one qubit is accelerated and the symmetric operations is applied on both qubits. It is shown that, for large acceleration, the non-local coherent advantage may be re-birthed by using these symmetric operations.
Additional file 2 of Addressing knowledge gaps in Parkinson’s disease: a report on the Movement Disorder Society’s Centre-to-Centre initiative to improve Parkinson’s disease services in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Creators: name: Onanong Phokaewvarangkul
name: Somchit Vorachit
name: Appasone Phoumindr
name: Saysavath Keosodsay
name: Postuma, Ronald B.
name: Wassilios G. Meissner
name: Bhidayasiri, Roongroj
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. The Thailand and Lao PDR Centre-to-Centre programme concept. The Thailand and Lao PDR concept of Centre-to-Centre programme. The 2-year Centre-to-Centre (CTC) programme was a collaborative project between Chulalongkorn Centre of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease & Related Disorders (ChulaPD, www.chulapd.org ), as the mentor centre and the University of Health Science as the mentee centre, receiving funding support from the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS). The concept of CTC programme is to establish the movement disorders service in the underserved region by offering a tailored two-year educational training between established “mentor” movement disorder centres and “mentee” centres. Either increasing capacities of local physicians to handle with care for their PD patients, changing the way their practices, or establishing the dedicated movement disorders services are ultimate goals of this project. The responsibilities of the mentor centre are to create and deliver proper educational training about PD based on the mentees’ interest and to identify knowledge gaps which may intimate appropriate educational engagements. A number of regular tele-education and in-person visits between mentor and mentee centres provide core knowledge in PD. In particular, the educational programme will be focused on strengthening both theory and practice knowledge to medical professionals. This programme was approved by the MDS education committee.
SUCCESSION DECISIONS AND RETIREMENT INCOME OF FARM HOUSEHOLDS
Creators: name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: El-Osta, Hisham S.
name: Johnson, James D.
name: Mishra, Ashok K.
name: El-Osta, Hisham S.
name: Johnson, James D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Paper and PowerPoint Presentation
Truncated moment sequences and a solution to the channel separability problem
Creators: name: Milazzo, Nadia
name: Braun, Daniel
name: Giraud, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of separability of quantum channels via the Choi matrix representation given by the Choi-Jamiołkowski isomorphism. We explore three classes of separability across different cuts between systems and ancillae and we provide a solution based on the mapping of the coordinates of the Choi state (in a fixed basis) to a truncated moment sequence (tms) $y$. This results in an algorithm which gives a separability certificate using semidefinite programming. The computational complexity and the performance of it depend on the number of variables $n$ in the tms and on the size of the moment matrix $M_t(y)$ of order $t$. We exploit the algorithm to numerically investigate separability of families of 2-qubit and single-qutrit channels; in the latter case we can provide an answer for examples explored earlier through the criterion based on the negativity $N$, a criterion which remains inconclusive for Choi matrices with $N=0$.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Enhancement of superconductivity by local inhomogeneity
Creators: name: Martin, Ivar
name: Podolsky, Daniel
name: Kivelson, Steven A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of inhomogeneity of the paring interaction or the background potential on the superconducting transition temperature, T_c. In the weak coupling BCS regime, we find that inhomogeneity which is incommensurate with the Fermi surface nesting vectors enhances T_c relative to its value for the uniform system. For a fixed modulation strength we find that the highest T_c is reached when the characteristic modulation length scale is of the order of the superconducting coherence length.
description: 4 pages, 1 eps figure
title: Pfad ist nicht gleich Pfad!
title: Eine kritische Aufarbeitung der Pfadabhängigkeitstheorie als Grundlage und Appell der differenzierenden Betrachtung von Pfaden und Pfadzusammenhängen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Korn, Jonas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Zukunftsforschung
subject: longue durée
subject: Causal Layered Analysis
subject: Multi-Level-Perspective
subject: Pfadabhängigkeitstheorie
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Die Pfadabhängigkeitstheorie hat seit ihrer Entwicklung eine immense Erweiterung ihres Anwendungsgebietes erfahren. Mitte der 80er Jahre noch zur Erklärung von Sonderphänomenen in der neoklassischen Ökonomie erfunden, hat sich die Theorie inzwischen zu einem über die Wirtschaftswissenschaften hinausgehenden Ansatz zur Erklärung der Dialektik von Kontinuität und Wandel auch in der Zukunftsforschung etabliert. Dabei ist jedoch die konzeptionelle Weiterentwicklung der Theorie zu großen Teilen auf der Strecke geblieben – die Differenziertheit der Theorie wird ihren komplexen Anwendungsgebieten nicht gerecht. Auch ist keine klare Linie zu erkennen, dass sich spätere Autor*Innen auf frühere beziehen und deren Beiträge und Kritik nutzen. Diese Arbeit ist der Versuch einer Aufarbeitung. Dafür werden die Beiträge der deutschsprachigen Diskussion zur Theorie gesichtet, geordnet und kritisiert, um anschließend einen eigenen Beitrag anzuschließen. In Anlehnung an Jürgen Beyer, der in seiner Publikation „Pfadabhängigkeit ist nicht gleich Pfadabhängigkeit!“ vorschlägt, die stabilitätssichernden Effekte der Theorie zu differenzieren, wird vorgeschlagen, auch die Pfade und deren Pfadzusammenhänge zu differenzieren. Dafür wird das Vokabular von drei weiteren Konzepten fruchtbar gemacht, die sich mit Wandel auseinandersetzen: die Causal Layered Analysis von Sohail Inayatullah, die Multi-Level-Perspective nach Frank Geels und die longue durée von Fernand Braudel. Die Arbeit schließt mit ersten Anwendungsexperimenten der neu sortierten und differenzierten Pfadabhängigkeitstheorie.
Additional file 1 of Factors influencing the clinical presentation of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in pigeon breeders in Minia governorate: an Egyptian experience
Creators: name: Nezar R. Mohamed
name: Ghazawy, Eman Ramadan
name: Saeed, Zainab H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1:. STROBE checklist.
Substituting Restorative Benefits of Being Outdoors through Interactive Augmented Spatial Soundscapes
Creators: name: Joshi, Swapna
name: Stavrianakis, Kostas
name: Das, Sanchari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Geriatric depression is a common mental health condition affecting majority of older adults in the US. As per Attention Restoration Theory (ART), participation in outdoor activities is known to reduce depression and provide restorative benefits. However, many older adults, who suffer from depression, especially those who receive care in organizational settings, have less access to sensory experiences of the outdoor natural environment. This is often due to their physical or cognitive limitations and from lack of organizational resources to support outdoor activities. To address this, we plan to study how technology can bring the restorative benefits of outdoors to the indoor environments through augmented spatial natural soundscapes. Thus, we propose an interview and observation-based study at an assisted living facility to evaluate how augmented soundscapes substitute for outdoor restorative, social, and experiential benefits. We aim to integrate these findings into a minimally intrusive and intuitive design of an interactive augmented soundscape, for indoor organizational care settings.
An improvement solution for C-PAC dashboard
Creators: name: Su, Yiran, 1997-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: C-PAC
fMRI
JavaScript
React JavaScript

description: The Configurable Pipeline for the Analysis of Connectomes (C-PAC) is an automated processing pipeline for resting state functional MRI (R-fMRI) data. The C-PAC dashboard is a React.js-based web application, a visualization solution to provide runtime instructions for the C-PAC clusters, and to present C-PAC clusters' processing results. The dashboard provides services including C-PAC pipeline configuration, submitting C-PAC jobs, etc. The article introduced an improvement for the original C-PAC dashboard, in order to provide more configurable options and a better user experience. This includes flexible C-PAC cluster management, new options for fMRI scans data specifying, and better run-time status presentation for C-PAC clusters. The implementation is based on React JavaScript, which is a library of JavaScript. Two React libraries, React-Redux and Redux-Saga are also applied. The dashboard system validation is accomplished by observing global status changes in the browser's debugging mode, as well as enumerate combinations of possible user operations.
Norayr N. Biwzandacʻi et ses archives
Creators: name: Minassian, Martiros
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 69 (1985): Oriens christianus, Band 69
Proposal of Direct Search for Strongly Bound States of ppbar, npbar Systems with High Intensity and Collective pbar beam
Creators: name: Li, Haibo
name: Yang, Maozhi
name: Yuan, Changzheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we discuss the possibility to look for the direct evidence of the existence of the ppbar and npbar bound states. Measurement of the single γray from the ppbar and npbar systems at rest can directly confirm whether the X(1860) and X(1835) are the resonances which are strongly coupled to ppbar. In addition to the neutral candidate, a charged resonance $X^-$ is also proposed to be searched for in npbar channel. We find that the data from the Crystal Barrel experiment at LEAR/CERN can be used to confirm the X(1835) observed by BES Collaboration. The possibility of measuring the $γ$ spectrum below 100 MeV at the new experiment with cold high intensity $\pbar$ beam at GSI is discussed. These new techniques can be used to probe the structure of the X(1860) and X(1835) in the future.
description: Accepted by Mod. Phys. Lett. A
America's Diverse Family Farms: Assorted Sizes, Types, and Situations
Creators: name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: MacDonald, James M.
name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: MacDonald, James M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This report describes a farm typology developed by the Economic Research Service (ERS), which categorizes farms into more homogeneous groups than classifications based on sales volume alone, producing a more effective policy development tool. The typology is used to describe U.S. farm structure.
First Level Use Cases of the SWITCH System
Creators: name: Wijnans, Sanne
name: Brenkman, Jeroen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: switch
solid oxide cell
hydrogen production
use cases

description: This report defines the use cases for the SWITCH system by looking at the demand profiles for hydrogen and power. Demand profiles include hydrogen refuelling, as well as power consumption of the system itself and surrounding power consumers, charging of battery electric vehicles and power balancing. It also gives the implications of these demands in the form of an operating envelope with a set of operating points. These can be used for modelling and design of the SWITCH system.
Additional file 5 of BCAS1-positive immature oligodendrocytes are affected by the α-synuclein-induced pathology of multiple system atrophy
Creators: name: Kaji, Seiji
name: Maki, Takakuni
name: Ueda, Jun
name: Ishimoto, Tomoyuki
name: Inoue, Yutaka
name: Yasuda, Ken
name: Sawamura, Masanori
name: Hikawa, Rie
name: Ayaki, Takashi
name: Hodaka Yamakado
name: Takahashi, Ryosuke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. In vitro inclusion formation in BCAS1(+) cells.
Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium Transmission Spectrum Modelling of HD209458b
Creators: name: Young, Mitchell E.
name: Fossati, Luca
name: Koskinen, Tommi T.
name: Salz, Michael
name: Cubillos, Patricio E.
name: France, Kevin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context - Exoplanetary upper atmospheres are low density environments where radiative processes can compete with collisional ones and introduce non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) effects into transmission spectra. Aims - We develop a NLTE radiative transfer framework capable of modelling exoplanetary transmission spectra over a wide range of planetary properties. Methods - We adapt the NLTE spectral synthesis code Cloudy to produce an atmospheric structure and atomic transmission spectrum in both NLTE and local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) for the hot Jupiter HD209458b, given a published T-P profile and assuming solar metallicity. Selected spectral features, including H$α$, Na I D, He I $λ$10830, Fe I & II ultra-violet (UV) bands, and C, O and Si UV lines, are compared with literature observations and models where available. The strength of NLTE effects are measured for individual spectral lines to identify which features are most strongly affected. Results - The developed modelling framework computing NLTE synthetic spectra reproduces literature results for the He I $λ$10830 triplet, the Na I D lines, and the forest of Fe I lines in the optical. Individual spectral lines in the NLTE spectrum exhibit up to 40 % stronger absorption relative to the LTE spectrum.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A, 15 pages, 13 figures
Additional file 4 of BCAS1-positive immature oligodendrocytes are affected by the α-synuclein-induced pathology of multiple system atrophy
Creators: name: Kaji, Seiji
name: Maki, Takakuni
name: Ueda, Jun
name: Ishimoto, Tomoyuki
name: Inoue, Yutaka
name: Yasuda, Ken
name: Sawamura, Masanori
name: Hikawa, Rie
name: Ayaki, Takashi
name: Hodaka Yamakado
name: Takahashi, Ryosuke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Characterization of oligodendroglial cell marker expressions during differentiation in primary oligodendroglial cell culture.
title: Confidently identifying the correct K value using the ΔK method: When does K=2?
Creators: name: Cullingham, Catherine I.
name: Miller, Joshua M.
name: Peery, Rhiannon M.
name: Dupuis, Julian R.
name: Malenfant, René M.
name: Gorrell, Jamieson C.
name: Janes, Jasmine K.
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Animal population genetics

description: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cullingham, C.I., Miller, J.M., Peery, R.M., Dupuis, J.R., Malenfant, R.M., Gorrell, J.C., & Janes, J.K. (2020). Confidently identifying the correct K value using the ΔK method: When does K=2? Molecular Ecology, 29(5), 862-869, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15374. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
description: Populations delineated based on genetic data are commonly used for wildlife conservation and management. Many studies use the program structure combined with the ΔK method to identify the most probable number of populations (K). We recently found K = 2 was identified more often when studies used ΔK compared to studies that did not. We suggested two reasons for this: hierarchical population structure leads to underestimation, or the ΔK method does not evaluate K = 1 causing an overestimation. The present contribution aims to develop a better understanding of the limits of the method using one, two and three population simulations across migration scenarios. From these simulations we identified the “best K” using model likelihood and ΔK. Our findings show that mean probability plots and ΔK are unable to resolve the correct number of populations once migration rate exceeds 0.005. We also found a strong bias towards selecting K = 2 using the ΔK method. We used these data to identify the range of values where the ΔK statistic identifies a value of K that is not well supported. Finally, using the simulations and a review of empirical data, we found that the magnitude of ΔK corresponds to the level of divergence between populations. Based on our findings, we suggest researchers should use the ΔK method cautiously; they need to report all relevant data, including the magnitude of ΔK, and an estimate of connectivity for the research community to assess whether meaningful genetic structure exists within the context of management and conservation.
Income tax noncompliance in Germany, 2001-2014
Creators: name: Fauser, Hannes
name: Godar, Sarah
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: tax evasion
subject: income misreporting
subject: personal income tax
subject: self-employment
subject: distributional effects
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::336 Öffentliche Finanzen

description: This paper estimates income tax underreporting for the case of Germany, by income category and along the income distribution. Comparing weighted samples of survey and tax data, we find patterns that are in line with the literature: Average income from self-employment and from rent and lease in the survey is higher than in the tax data, increasing in upper quintiles. Income underreporting to the tax authorities may be one of several possible explanations for these descriptive findings. We therefore expand our analysis with the Pissarides & Weber (1989) approach that has been applied to a range of countries and data sources before. We use the German Socioeconomic Panel and the Taxpayer Panel, estimating food, housing cost and donation regressions. Results indicate that self-employment is associated with higher housing cost but not with higher food expenditure in the SOEP. In the TPP we find more robust indication of underreporting as self-employment and business incomes are signi_cantly associated with higher donations and even more so for the top-income decile. We use our results to derive tentative estimates of aggregate tax revenue losses due to underreporting of self-employment and other non-wage incomes.
U.S. ORGANIC FARMING IN 2000-2001: ADOPTION OF CERTIFIED SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Greene, Catherine R.
name: Kremen, Amy
name: Greene, Catherine R.
name: Kremen, Amy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: organic farming systems
subject: organic certification
subject: certified organic acreage and livestock
subject: price premiums
subject: national organic rules
subject: specialty agriculture
subject: farmers' markets

description: U.S. farmland managed under organic farming systems expanded rapidly throughout the 1990s, and that pace has continued as farmers strive to meet consumer demand in both local and national markets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) implemented national organic standards on organic production and processing in October 2002, following more than a decade of development, and the new uniform standards are expected to facilitate further growth in the organic farm sector. USDA's organic standards incorporate an ecological approach to farming-cultural, biological and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, ecological balance, and protection of biodiversity. An increasing number of U.S. farmers are adopting these systems in order to lower input costs, conserve nonrenewable resources, capture high-value markets, and boost farm income. This report updates USDA estimates of land farmed with organic practices during 1997 with estimates for 2000 and 2001, and provides new estimates on the number of certified organic operations in each State.
title: Tool use in great apes and human children : the impact of prior experience and visual feedback
Creators: name: Ebel, Sonja Jördis
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2019

description: Human and primate tool use has been the focus of intensive research for many decades. Studies with non-human great apes are of special interest for the question when certain cognitive abilities evolved. This thesis investigates the role of prior experience and visual feedback in great apes’ and human children’s tool use. Prior experience with tools is normally regarded as beneficial, helping individuals to find successful strategies. Also, visual feedback and additional information about the solution of a problem can deliver crucial insight into task components. Following an introductory and a methodological chapter, Chapter 3 explores the role of visual feedback and additional information in great ape problem-solving using the Floating Peanut Task (FPT), which requires pouring water into a tube to extract an object. Findings suggest that visual feedback was necessary for success at first, but later became redundant, and end-state information (seeing a water-filled tube) helped some individuals independently. As a downside of experience, familiar strategies may restrict the analysis of novel problems. Most interestingly, prior use of a tool can discourage using it with a novel function (functional fixedness effect). Chapter 4 investigates functional fixedness in 6- to 8-year-old children using the FPT, focusing on how prior tool use and task presentation predict success. Findings suggest low success rates overall and no effect of experience; however, greater tool salience increased success. Chapter 5 investigates functional fixedness in great apes, varying their experience with three tools to be used each with a novel function. Prior experience lowered success and increased latency on novel problems, and prior use as a food item kept apes from using a bread stick as a raking tool. Chapter 6 discusses the overall findings in terms of the evolutionary origins of the negative impact of prior experience with tools, object representations, and learning mechanisms.
Spin Calogero models obtained from dynamical r-matrices and geodesic motion
Creators: name: Feher, L.
name: Pusztai, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study classical integrable systems based on the Alekseev-Meinrenken dynamical r-matrices corresponding to automorphisms of self-dual Lie algebras, ${\cal G}$. We prove that these r-matrices are uniquely characterized by a non-degeneracy property and apply a construction due to Li and Xu to associate spin Calogero type models with them. The equation of motion of any model of this type is found to be a projection of the natural geodesic equation on a Lie group $G$ with Lie algebra ${\cal G}$, and its phase space is interpreted as a Hamiltonian reduction of an open submanifold of the cotangent bundle $T^*G$, using the symmetry arising from the adjoint action of $G$ twisted by the underlying automorphism. This shows the integrability of the resulting systems and gives an algorithm to solve them. As illustrative examples we present new models built on the involutive diagram automorphisms of the real split and compact simple Lie algebras, and also explain that many further examples fit in the dynamical r-matrix framework.
description: 25 pages, with minor stylistic changes and updated references in v2
Natural gas trade under the North American Free Trade Agreement
Creators: name: House, Richard Michael, 1951-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Gas industry
subject: North America
subject: Free trade
subject: NAFTA
subject: Natural gas supply
subject: Gas industry--North America
subject: Free trade--North America

description: The regulatory climate of the natural gas market has changed to promote competition, as opposed to regulatory control, and the industry has responded by restructuring. Gas producers are now deregulated as to the price of their product and market entry and exit; transmission companies function to transport, store and balance gas, and local distribution utilities provide energy services rather than simply sell a natural gas commodity. The resource base of natural gas is large and growing. If the United States joins Canada and Mexico in a free trade agreement, the opportunity exists for doubling the potential supply of natural gas, providing further reason to develop this clean burning, relatively environmentally benign resource. NAFTA focuses on manufactured goods, services and intellectual property. The agreement would ease the transition of Mexico's energy sector into a competitive arena. US natural gas companies would benefit from increased opportunities in the energy services sector and increased exports of gas to Mexico
Morphological transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation growth patterns
Creators: name: Ferreira, S. C.
name: Alves, S. G.
name: Brito, A. Faissal
name: Moreira, J. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, the transition between diffusion-limited and ballistic aggregation models was revisited using a model in which biased random walks simulate the particle trajectories. The bias is controlled by a parameter $λ$, which assumes the value $λ=0$ (1) for ballistic (diffusion-limited) aggregation model. Patterns growing from a single seed were considered. In order to simulate large clusters, a new efficient algorithm was developed. For $λ\ne 0$, the patterns are fractal on the small length scales, but homogeneous on the large ones. We evaluated the mean density of particles $\barρ$ in the region defined by a circle of radius $r$ centered at the initial seed. As a function of $r$, $\barρ$ reaches the asymptotic value $ρ_0(λ)$ following a power law $\barρ=ρ_0+Ar^{-γ}$ with a universal exponent $γ=0.46(2)$, independent of $λ$. The asymptotic value has the behavior $ρ_0\sim|1-λ|^β$, where $β= 0.26(1)$. The characteristic crossover length that determines the transition from DLA- to BA-like scaling regimes is given by $ξ\sim|1-λ|^{-ν}$, where $ν=0.61(1)$, while the cluster mass at the crossover follows a power law $M_ξ\sim|1 -λ|^{-α}$, where $α=0.97(2)$. We deduce the scaling relations $β=\n uγ$ and $β=2ν-α$ between these exponents.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
A Comparison of Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Poultry, Egg, and Pork Industries
Creators: name: Martinez, Stephen W.
name: Martinez, Stephen W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Industrial Organization
Livestock Production/Industries

description: Changes in vertical coordination in the U.S. broiler, turkey, and egg industries decades ago may provide useful insight into more recent developments in the U.S. pork industry. The need to protect relationship- specific investments created incentives for contracts and vertical integration. In the presence of relationship-specific investments, market uncertainty from a number of sources helped determine the type of contract/vertical coordination alternative selected.