cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Similarity of the Optical-IR and Gamma-Ray Time Variability of Fermi Blazars
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Ritaban
name: Bailyn, C.
name: Bonning, E. W.
name: Buxton, M.
name: Coppi, P.
name: Fossati, G.
name: Isler, J.
name: Maraschi, L.
name: Urry, C. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the time variability properties of a sample of six blazars, AO 0235+164, 3C 273, 3C 279, PKS 1510-089, PKS 2155-304, and 3C 454.3, at optical-IR as well as gamma-ray energies. These observations were carried out as a part of the Yale/SMARTS program during 2008-2010 that has followed the variations in emission of the bright Fermi-LAT-monitored blazars in the southern sky with closely-spaced observations at BVRJK bands. We find the optical/IR time variability properties of these blazars to be remarkably similar to those at the gamma-ray energies. The power spectral density (PSD) functions of the R-band variability of all six blazars are fit well by simple power-law functions with negative slope such that there is higher amplitude variability on longer timescales. No clear break is identified in the PSD of any of the sources. The average slope of the PSD of R-band variability of these blazars is similar to what was found by the Fermi team for the gamma-ray variability of a larger sample of bright blazars. This is consistent with leptonic models where the optical-IR and gamma-ray emission is generated by the same population of electrons through synchrotron and inverse-Compton processes, respectively. The prominent flares present in the optical-IR as well as the gamma-ray light curves of these blazars are predominantly symmetric, i.e., have similar rise and decay timescales, indicating that the long-term variability is dominated by the crossing time of radiation or a disturbance through the emission region rather than by the acceleration or energy-loss timescales of the radiating electrons. In the blazar 3C 454.3, which has the highest-quality light curves, the location of a large gamma-ray outburst during 2009 December is consistent with being in the jet at ~18 pc from the central engine. This poses strong constraints on the models of high energy emission in the jets of blazars.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 15 pages (ApJ format), 6 tables, 11 figures. More discussion, explanation of analysis, and references have been added. Major conclusions remain unchanged
title: The disability-caused adjustment of the workplace through assistance technologies in Germany
Creators: name: Kohte, Wolfhard
name: Busch, Dörte
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: The use of assistive technology is important for persons with disabilities and for their return to work after accidents or physical problems. There is a multitude of technical assistants, which are constantly being further developed through the digital progress of the working world and medical[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)
Entanglement dynamics of photon pairs emitted from quantum dot
Creators: name: Zou, Yang
name: Gong, Ming
name: Li, Chuan-Feng
name: Chen, Geng
name: Tang, Jian-Shun
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model to derive the state of the photon pairs generated by the biexciton cascade decay of a self-assembled quantum dot, which agrees well with the experimental result. Furthermore we calculate the concurrence and entanglement sudden death is found in this system with temperature increasing, which prevents quantum dot emits entangled photon pairs at a high temperature. The relationship between the fine structure splitting and the sudden death temperature is provided too.
title: Climate and Health in Africa
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Public health
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In this tour, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) guides you through some of the work they are doing to project where meningitis may impact humans in the future under a changing climate, and illustrates their work with groups on the ground in Africa. Learn more at http://www.google.com/landing/cop15/.
Scaling Properties of Weak Chaos in Nonlinear Disordered Lattices
Creators: name: Pikovsky, Arkady
name: Fishman, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with a random potential in one dimension is studied as a dynamical system. It is characterized by the length, the strength of the random potential and by the field density that determines the effect of nonlinearity. The probability of the system to be regular is established numerically and found to be a scaling function. This property is used to calculate the asymptotic properties of the system in regimes beyond our computational power.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Slurry transport modelling and applications in the gravel packing process
Creators: name: Sarraf Shirazi, Alireza
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: A three-layer model for solid-liquid flow in inclined pipes is developed. The steady-state model predicts the frictional pressure loss, critical velocity, concentration profile in the heterogeneous layer, mean heterogeneous layer and moving bed layer velocities, and bed layer heights for each set of parameters. We propose a modified correlation for the turbulent solids diffusivity, and include appropriate closures for forces and stresses attributed to the solids and liquid phases in the different layers. The proposed turbulent solids diffusivity correlation and the steady-state model predictions show a good agreement with experimentally measured results in the literature: for concentration profiles in the heterogeneous layer, pressure losses and critical (deposition) velocity, both over a wide range of parameters and for different regimes. We also define a critical Peclet number based on which, a transition boundary between bed-load and heterogeneous regimes can be found. Furthermore, we extend the three-layer model to annular geometry and utilize it for developing another model for gravel packing applications in oil & gas industry. In this operation, kilometers of sand can be successfully placed in horizontal wells, in what is called alpha-beta packing. We explain how bed height is selected via coupling between the inner and outer annuli and from the combined hydraulic relations of inner and outer annuli. We investigate the effects of important parameters such as the slurry flow rate, mean solids concentration, wash pipe diameter, leak-off rate, etc, on gravel packing flows, to give a fluid mechanics framework within which this process can be easily understood and analyzed. For improving the accuracy of the slurry flow predictions in different operating flow regimes we also develop a robust integrated method consisting artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector regression (SVR) to estimate the critical velocity, slurry flow regime change, and ultimately, the frictional pressure drop for a solid-liquid slurry flow in a horizontal pipe, covering wide ranges of flow and geometrical parameters. The prediction results of the developed integrated method show that it significantly outperforms those of the widely used existing correlations and models in the literature.
Endemic Infrared Divergences in QED3 at Finite Temperature
Creators: name: Lo, P. M.
name: Swanson, E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that massless QED in three dimensions contains endemic infrared divergences. It is argued that these divergences do not affect observables; furthermore, it is possible to choose a gauge that renders the theory finite.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
title: Lessons from the Japanese Bubble for the U.S.
Creators: name: Center On Japanese Economy And Business
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Economics
Financial crises
Economic policy

description: The Program on Alternative Investments at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) of Columbia Business School and Columbia University's Program for Economic Research and Weatherhead East Asian Institute cosponsored the symposium "Lessons from the Japanese Bubble for the U.S." Amidst a deepening U.S. financial crisis, 260 people attended to hear three specialists on the Japanese economy discuss what can be learned from the Japanese experience to help U.S. policymakers avoid a systemic crisis and the "lost decade" that Japan went through following the bursting of its asset bubble in the early 1990s. The speakers were Takeo Hoshi, Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor of International Economic Relations, University of California, San Diego; Paul Sheard, global chief economist and head of economic research, Nomura Securities International; and Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University. Alicia Ogawa, director of the Program on Alternative Investments, CJEB, commenced the symposium with introductory remarks, and David Weinstein, associate director for research, CJEB, and Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University, served as moderator. This report is a summary of the speakers' presentations.
title: Work Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation in France: Organizational and Political Challenges
Creators: name: Fassier, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Work disability prevention (WDP) in France sits at the crossroads of the social security system, employers, the occupational health system, and the healthcare system. Numerous codes, laws and regulations create a very complex system for all stakeholders involved. This presentation is derived[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)
title: Abe's Gone . . . Is the LDP Next?
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: One day after the abrupt resignation of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, Burgess Professor of Political Science Gerald Curtis spoke before an audience of about 170 at the School of International and Public Affairs on September 13, 2007. The speech, titled "Abe's Gone . . . Is the LDP Next?" focused on Abe's one-year tenure as prime minister and the reasons for his fall from power, the July election defeat of the Liberal Democratic Party, and future prospects for Japanese politics, the economy, and foreign relations. Although Abe started out with high approval ratings and made positive initial overtures to neighbors such as China, he soon fell out of favor with the Japanese public after a series of public gaffes by his cabinet, poor crisis management of a situation involving 50 million lost pension records, and vaguely stated policy goals such as constitutional revision and making Japan a "beautiful country." He seemed out of touch with a constituency concerned about its own economic well-being, especially in rural areas that felt left behind by reforms instituted by his popular predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi. Professor Curtis reviewed the reasons behind the LDP's crushing defeat in the July Upper House Diet elections. The public's three "nos" were a no to Abe's priorities, favoring vague ideological issues over economic issues, which were a greater concern to the voting public; a no to Abe's crisis management, evidenced especially in his response to the pension scandal; and a no to economic reforms that neglected the rural farm areas. The next prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda of the LDP, faces an uphill battle on several key fronts. A resurgent Democratic Party of Japan led by Ichiro Ozawa threatens the LDP's traditional power base in the hinterlands and will most likely scuttle attempts to renew antiterror legislation in the Diet, which allows the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force to refuel foreign naval vessels in the Indian Ocean. But Fukuda brings a sense of balance, stability, and experience to the office of the prime minister, which is exactly what the public is looking for after the five and a half years of Koizumi's charismatic leadership and the disastrous one-year tenure of Mr. Abe.
title: Adoption of the Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB) to Germany and European countries [work in progress]
Creators: name: Feng, You-Shan
name: Kazis, Lewis
name: Kohlmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: The Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB) is a patient-completed measure of eight domains of physical and mental functioning for adults. Initially created to standardize assessments supporting claims adjudication for Social Security in the United States Social Security Administration,[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)
Defect-free assembly of 2D clusters of more than 100 single-atom quantum systems
Creators: name: de Mello, Daniel Ohl
name: Schäffner, Dominik
name: Werkmann, Jan
name: Preuschoff, Tilman
name: Kohfahl, Lars
name: Schlosser, Malte
name: Birkl, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the defect-free assembly of versatile target patterns of up 111 neutral atoms, building on a 361-site subset of a micro-optical architecture that readily provides thousands of sites for single-atom quantum systems. By performing multiple assembly cycles in rapid succession, we drastically increase achievable structure sizes and success probabilities. We implement repeated target pattern reconstruction after atom loss and deterministic transport of partial atom clusters necessary for distributing entanglement in large-scale systems. This technique will propel assembled-atom architectures beyond the threshold of quantum advantage and into a regime with abundant applications in quantum sensing and metrology, Rydberg-state mediated quantum simulation, and error-corrected quantum computation.
title: Dynamic balancing during perturbed walking on a treadmill in active subjects after trans-tibial amputation
Creators: name: Burger, Helena
name: Zadravec, Matjaž
name: Olenšek, Andrej
name: Matjačić, Zlatko
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: People with lower limb loss fall more frequently than healthy population. One of the risk factors is having trans-tibial amputation [ref:1], [ref:2].    Aim: We studied dynamic balance during perturbed walking in active people after trans-tibial amputation with no severe[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)
title: Early maladaptive schemas as predictors for depression severity and therapy outcome in ambulant psychiatric rehabilitation
Creators: name: Schosser, Alexandra
name: Affenzeller, Andreas
name: Senft, Birgit
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMS) are a result of early developmental experiences of unmet basic emotional needs, and play a causal role in the development of later psychopathology, including depression severity and episodes of major depression [ref:2], [ref:3].    Aim:[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)
A fully discrete numerical control method for the wave equation
Creators: name: Burman, Erik
name: Feizmohammadi, Ali
name: Oksanen, Lauri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a fully discrete finite element method for the interior null controllability problem subject to the wave equation. For the numerical scheme, piece-wise affine continuous elements in space and finite differences in time are considered. We show that if the sharp geometric control condition holds, our numerical scheme yields the optimal rate of convergence with respect to the space-time mesh parameter $h$. The approach is based on the design of stabilization terms for the discrete scheme with the goal of minimizing the computational error.
description: 27 pages
Determining Reactor Neutrino Flux
Creators: name: Cao, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux is an important source of uncertainties for a reactor neutrino experiment. It is determined from thermal power measurements, reactor core simulation, and knowledge of neutrino spectra of fuel isotopes. Past reactor neutrino experiments have determined the flux to (2-3)% precision. Precision measurements of mixing angle $θ_{13}$ by reactor neutrino experiments in the coming years will use near-far detector configurations. Most uncertainties from reactor will be canceled out. Understanding of the correlation of uncertainties is required for $θ_{13}$ experiments. Precise determination of reactor neutrino flux will also improve the sensitivity of the non-proliferation monitoring and future reactor experiments. We will discuss the flux calculation and recent progresses.
description: 5 pages. 4 figures. Neutrino 2010 Conference Proceeding. v2: peer-reviewed version
title: Network of competencies in rehabilitation [work in progress]
Creators: name: Shoshmin, Alexander
name: Rozhko, Kristina
name: Lorer, Viktoria
name: Besstrashnova, Yanina
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: ICTs can affect services, research and health-related activities ([link:http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA58-REC1/A58_2005_REC1-en.pdf*http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA58-REC1/A58_2005_REC1-en.pdf]).[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)
title: Japan's Problems and Emerging China: A Japanese Banker's Perspective
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Economics
Banks and banking

description: Mr. Yashiro drew on his experience as a senior executive in the oil and banking industries in the United States, Japan, and China, to compare economic prospects and corporate cultures in Japan and China. Mr. Yashiro began by outlining some of the key reasons behind Japan's post-bubble economic malaise. With American industry in decline in the late 1970s and early 1980s, excessive hubris among Japanese corporate leadership combined with a strengthened yen following the Plaza accords to help create a domestic economic bubble. The result has been stagnant growth and loss of competitive edge for Japan since the bubble burst in the early 1990s. Mr. Yashiro went on to explain lessons that Japan should learn from the bubble experience. Lack of international perspective, English skills, scarcity of foreigners among senior corporate leadership, the seniority-based promotion system, and risk-averse behavior continue to hinder Japanese corporations' global competitiveness and the expansion of Japan's economy. Moreover, lack of clear national goals, exemplified by former Prime Minister Abe's stated goal of a "beautiful Japan," is the most significant roadblock to renewed economic and political strength. Reflecting upon his recent experience working to reform Chinese state-owned banks, Mr. Yashiro outlined several key challenges on the path of continued growth. Chinese financial institutions, which recently had bad asset problems similar to those experienced by Japan, have largely taken care of them by transferring them to asset management companies. Moving forward, China must maintain its high rates of economic growth to avoid further nonperforming loan problems. Chinese banks must continue to develop a strong credit culture and risk management skills, prevent irregularities, and improve profitability through services other than loans and deposits. In contrast to the Japanese corporations, Mr. Yashiro described the eagerness of Chinese banks to tap into the skill and experience of foreigners. Already benefiting from infusions of Western capital, by absorbing foreign expertise Chinese financial institutions will soon be among the leading banks in the world, according to Mr. Yashiro. In Tokyo, on the other hand, it is rare to see foreigners among senior banking executives, and without fresh ideas and perspectives, Japan will struggle to compete globally.
Modification of Crum's Theorem for `Discrete' Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Garcia-Gutierrez, Leonor
name: Odake, Satoru
name: Sasaki, Ryu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Crum's theorem in one-dimensional quantum mechanics asserts the existence of an associated Hamiltonian system for any given Hamiltonian with the complete set of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. The associated system is iso-spectral to the original one except for the lowest energy state, which is deleted. A modification due to Krein-Adler provides algebraic construction of a new complete Hamiltonian system by deleting a finite number of energy levels. Here we present a discrete version of the modification based on the Crum's theorem for the `discrete' quantum mechanics developed by two of the present authors.
description: 31 pages, 2 figures. Two typos (eq.(3.16), ref.[15]) corrected, several comments added. To appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics
title: KKR in Asia: A Strategic View
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: The rise of private equity as a force of change is a recent phenomenon, and its impact has taken regulators, investors, and CEOs by surprise. The explosive growth in these funds and the increasingly substantial size of the corporate targets they pursue have touched off fiery debates as to the causes of the trend, the challenges for regulators, and the implications for minority investors. To shed some light on the industry and its impact on Asia, the Program on Alternative Investments of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) at Columbia Business School hosted a distinguished lecture by Deryck Maughan, chairman of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Asia. Sir Deryck spoke to an audience of 200 people at Casa Italiana, Columbia University, on February 13, 2007. The event was moderated by Alicia Ogawa, the Program's director. This report highlights Sir Deryck's speech and the discussion with audience members that followed.
Additional file 1 of Lower serum FT3 within the reference range is associated with mortality for older adults over 80 years of age with sarcopenia
Creators: name: Zhang, Li
name: Tu, You-Yi
name: Zhao, Zhe
name: Jin, Jun
name: Tao, Jun
name: Zhang, Xiao-Yan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Fig. 1. Flowchart for subjects enrolled in this study.
High Harmonic Generation via Continuum Wave-Packet Interference
Creators: name: Kohler, Markus C.
name: Ott, Christian
name: Raith, Philipp
name: Heck, Robert
name: Schlegel, Iris
name: Keitel, Christoph H.
name: Pfeifer, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated theoretically in the over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) regime revealing the strong signature of interference between two separately ionized and separately propagating free wave packets of a single electron. The interference leads to the emission of coherent light at a photon energy corresponding to the kinetic-energy difference of the two recolliding electron quantum paths, thus complementary to the well-known classical three-step picture of HHG. As will be shown by time-frequency analysis of the emitted radiation, the process entirely dominates the coherent HHG emission after the atomic ground state has been depleted by a strong field. Moreover, it can be isolated from the continuum--bound harmonics via phase-matching.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title: An online rehabilitation service for people with memory disease by implementing service design principles – Case Muistipuisto® (Memory Park)
Creators: name: Launiainen, Helena
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: There are plenty brain-training applications and online programs that focus on specific areas of brain health such as memory or attention. Most of them have an inadequate theoretical basis and research evidence. They rarely meet the user requirements of people with memory disease. The Memory[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)
Recovery of non-smooth coefficients appearing in anisotropic wave equations
Creators: name: Feizmohammadi, Ali
name: Kian, Yavar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the problem of unique recovery of a non-smooth one-form $\mathcal A$ and a scalar function $q$ from the Dirichlet to Neumann map, $Λ_{\mathcal A,q}$, of a hyperbolic equation on a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. We prove uniqueness of the one-form $\mathcal A$ up to the natural gauge, under weak regularity conditions on $\mathcal A,q$ and under the assumption that $(M,g)$ is simple. Under an additional regularity assumption, we also derive uniqueness of the scalar function $q$. The proof is based on the geometric optic construction and inversion of the light ray transform extended as a Fourier Integral Operator to non-smooth parameters and functions.
Symmetry breaking: A tool to unveil the topology of chaotic scattering with three degrees of freedom
Creators: name: Jung, C.
name: Zapfe, W. P. Karel
name: Merlo, O.
name: Seligman, T. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We shall use symmetry breaking as a tool to attack the problem of identifying the topology of chaotic scatteruing with more then two degrees of freedom. specifically we discuss the structure of the homoclinic/heteroclinic tangle and the connection between the chaotic invariant set, the scattering functions and the singularities in the cross section for a class of scattering systems with one open and two closed degrees of freedom.
description: 13 pages and 8 figures
title: Investors Unleashed: The Rise of Shareholder Activism in Japan
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: From the Western point of view, Japanese companies remain mired in tradition and are very inefficient. Given objective measures of efficiency and profitability, it is hard to argue against this characterization, particularly for domestically focused Japanese companies. However, one important change that has been occurring is the recent steep reduction in the number of cross-shareholdings in the Japanese equity market. These new shareholders are anxious to have a say in the actions of management, and they are becoming agents of change in stodgy companies that must evolve in order to survive. Activist investors have proven a successful force for change for U.S. companies, and they are finally making some inroads in Japan. There have been many stumbling blocks, including negative public and government opinion, resistant management, and legal and regulatory issues that previously made it hard for activists to purchase a block of shares. That said, even despite some high-profile prosecutions over the last two years, the tide has begun to change, and the Japanese vernacular media and public have increasingly been backing activist investors in their quest for better management of firms.  Mr. Fusa first explained that private equity firms take control of the company and change the way things are run from the inside, while hedge funds take control over a block of shares and try to shake things up from the outside. His view is that hedge fund players can often earn more money due to the additional management fees charged to clients, as well as the fact that private equity firms usually have to pay a higher entry premium to gain control of a company. Mr. Fusa compared the current Japanese market to where the U.S. market was 20 years ago, which is around the time private equity firms in the United States really shook up an inefficient marketplace and there was a boom for hostile takeovers and, therefore, for the economy. Regarding hedge fund activism, Mr. Fusa expressed the importance of making a large investment in a company if there are prospective strategic buyers willing to purchase at a premium. Professor Milhaupt remarked on the importance of the legal environment for takeovers. He discussed Japan's embrace of U.S.-style defensive mechanisms for hostile takeovers in the last couple of years and the advent of poison pills. He noted, however, that the city code of London would have been a better style of defensive mechanism for Japan because a board neutrality principle, coupled with a mandatory bid rule, would have done much more to enhance shareholder value. According to Professor Milhaupt, there is reason to be optimistic about the court system's dealing with hostile takeovers and, specifically, its record on striking down poison pills that are harmful to shareholders. He fears that the image that Japan's financial regulators are engaging in selective prosecution is dangerous for the Japanese capital markets.
title: Assessing the New Abe Administration in Japan
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Economics
Public policy (Law)

description: Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi left a lasting impression as he left office earlier this year. He shook up the status quo in the political world by shifting the power from the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters to the prime minister's office, decentralized the LDP power base, and forced out any potential threat to his throne. These moves were perhaps needed, but also left the new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on a path that has never been taken before. Everyone agrees that Prime Minister Abe has some large shoes to fill. Does he have the same charisma that Koizumi displayed to continue with reforms, political, economic, or otherwise? Does his choice of cabinet members show what kind of leader he will be? With both the domestic and international media touting him as a nationalist, how will he fare in foreign diplomacy? The answers are still quite vague and more will be known next year. That said, Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, shared his insight on Prime Minister Abe and his administration to a packed audience on September 26. Professor Curtis was joined by the moderator, Hugh Patrick, Director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus, Columbia Business School. This reports the highlights of Professor Curtis' speech and the following discussion with audience members. The program was presented in partnership by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
title: Are ICF-based eligibility criteria the future approach in rehabilitation? Evaluating effects of the Finnish legal reform of intensive medical rehabilitation
Creators: name: Mäkinen, Jenna
name: Heino, Pekka
name: Seppänen-Järvelä, Riitta
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela) provides intensive medical rehabilitation, such as therapies for persons with severe disabilities. In 2016, the Act on Rehabilitation Benefits was amended, which changed the eligibility criteria for intensive medical rehabilitation. According[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)
q-State Potts model metastability study using optimized GPU-based Monte Carlo algorithms
Creators: name: Ferrero, Ezequiel E.
name: De Francesco, Juan Pablo
name: Wolovick, Nicolás
name: Cannas, Sergio A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We implemented a GPU based parallel code to perform Monte Carlo simulations of the two dimensional q-state Potts model. The algorithm is based on a checkerboard update scheme and assigns independent random numbers generators to each thread. The implementation allows to simulate systems up to ~10^9 spins with an average time per spin flip of 0.147ns on the fastest GPU card tested, representing a speedup up to 155x, compared with an optimized serial code running on a high-end CPU. The possibility of performing high speed simulations at large enough system sizes allowed us to provide a positive numerical evidence about the existence of metastability on very large systems based on Binder's criterion, namely, on the existence or not of specific heat singularities at spinodal temperatures different of the transition one.
description: 30 pages, 7 figures. Accepted in Computer Physics Communications. code available at: http://www.famaf.unc.edu.ar/grupos/GPGPU/Potts/CUDAPotts.html
¬Die Entstehungsgeschichte des Entwurfes eines Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches für das Deutsche Reich
Creators: name: Vierhaus, Felix
Publisher: name: Guttentag
Year: 2022

description: Beiträge zur Erläuterung und Beurtheilung des Entwurfes eines Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches für das Deutsche Reich
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titleType: Subtitle
title: Methods for promoting innovative products on the b2b market
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Year: 2020
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innovative product
b2b market
promotion strategy
industrial market
marketing

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description: The work defines the concept of innovation marketing and its features for the industrial market. The description of methods of promotion in the B2B market is presented. An effective promotion strategy for the company's new product and an algorithm for applying the strategy at different stages of product development have been developed.
Engineering montbretin A biosynthesis in Nicotiana benthamiana
Creators: name: Sunstrum, Frederick Guy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The plant kingdom has always been a useful source of therapeutic molecules for humans. Montbretin A (MbA) is a complex acylated flavonol glycoside found in the underground storage organs, called corms, of the ornamental plant montbretia (Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora). MbA was discovered as a highly efficient and specific inhibitor of the human pancreatic α-amylase (HPA), making it an attractive candidate for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, a worldwide epidemic. The original plant source montbretia is not adapted for large scale cultivation, and MbA’s complex structure renders chemical synthesis infeasible for scalable production. Therefore, we are aiming to engineer a heterologous system for large-scale sustainable MbA production for treatment of type 2 diabetes. To this end we are using synthetic biology to develop an MbA producing Nicotiana benthamiana (tobacco) strain. This is possible due to the recent complete elucidation of the MbA biosynthetic pathway, including all essential genes and enzymes from montbretia. Small amounts of MbA can be produced in N. benthamiana through transient expression of the MbA biosynthetic enzymes. However, much higher quantities of montbretin B (MbB) and montbretin C (MbC), which differ from MbA in the identity of their acyl groups, were produced. MbB and MbC possess a coumaroyl and a feruloyl group, respectively, and are not effective HPA inhibitors. To influence acyl group availability, specifically increase the amount of caffeoyl-CoA for MbA biosynthesis, we investigated a set of enzymes involved in caffeoyl-CoA biosynthesis in montbretia, specifically 4-coumaroyl CoA ligases (4CL), hydroxycinnamoyl- CoA shikimate/quinate hydroxycinnamoyltransferases (HCT), 4-coumarate 3-hydroxylases (C3Hs), and caffeoyl-shikimate esterases (CSE). Co-expression of those caffeoyl-CoA biosynthetic genes together with MbA biosynthetic genes resulted in up to 10-fold higher MbA yields.
title: Agents of Change: Women CEOs of U.S. Based Japanese Subsidiaries
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Business

description: Although many Japan observers are quick to say that change comes relatively slow in Japan, the cumulative changes over the past fifteen years in the business arena have been profound, and are still evolving. One noticeable feature is the complex set of changes in behavior in the corporate world towards women. Although there are many females entering-and still exiting-the workforce, and only serving tea and doing other minor clerical tasks, there are now many others who have transcended such old-school, social norms and are paving the way for future generations to hope for success in the Japanese business world. With a declining population, within a few years labor will become in short supply as the economy achieves and maintains sustained growth. It will be increasingly important that Japan utilize its women in the labor market far more efficiently and effectively. Few women achieve management positions, particularly in large Japanese companies, and even fewer become CEOs. It is both noteworthy and particularly interesting that there are some cases of women serving as CEOs of Japanese subsidiaries in the United States. To shed some insight about running a Japanese subsidiary in the United States, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business invited two female CEOs-one American and the other Japanese-to talk about their personal experiences of running a major company, of being female, and of what has or has not empowered them to climb the corporate ladder so successfully. The speakers were Melanie Hart, President of the TASUS Corporation, a subsidiary of Nagoya-based auto parts manufacturer Tsuchiya, and Yuki Hattori, President of Dentsu Communications Inc., a U.S. unit of advertisement giant Dentsu Corporation. The two were joined by Columbia Business School Associate Professor Schon Beechler. This report highlights the speeches and following discussion with audience members. The program, sponsored by the Mitsui USA Foundation, was the seventh annual Mitsui USA Symposium, which kicked off the 20th anniversary celebration of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School.
title: Japan's Future Economic Directions: Center on Japanese Economy and Business 20th Anniversary Conference in Tokyo, May 15, 2006
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Economics

description: "The Center on Japanese Economy and Business was
established 20 years ago, in spring 1986. Our very first
conference was jointly held with the Ministry of Finance
Research Institute, and was titled “Japan and the United
States Today: Exchange Rates, Macroeconomic Policies,
and Financial Market Innovations.” Those topics are just as
important today as they were 20 years ago. Two of the
Japanese speakers then were bright young scholars named
Kazuo Ueda and Heizo Takenaka; I am delighted that they
will be participating in our program today as well.
The mission of the Center from its inception has been
to promote knowledge and understanding of the Japanese
economy and its business systems in domestic, East Asian,
and global contexts, with a special focus on the U.S.-
Japan relationship. Over time, the strategy and ways to
implement this mission have developed and evolved as
circumstances in Japan and in the world have changed so
dramatically. Indeed Japan’s role as a major, mature player
in the global economic system is even more important
today than it was 20 years ago."
An inverse problem for a semi-linear elliptic equation in Riemannian geometries
Creators: name: Feizmohammadi, Ali
name: Oksanen, Lauri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the inverse problem of unique recovery of a complex-valued scalar function $V:\mathcal M \times \mathbb C\to \mathbb C$, defined over a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal M,g)$ with smooth boundary, given the Dirichlet to Neumann map, in a suitable sense, for the elliptic semi-linear equation $-Δ_{g}u+V(x,u)=0$. We show that under some geometrical assumptions uniqueness can be proved for a large class of non-linearities. The proof is constructive and is based on a multiple-fold linearization of the semi-linear equation near complex geometric optic solutions for the linearized operator and the resulting non-linear interactions. These non-linear interactions result in the study of a weighted transform along geodesics, that we call the Jacobi weighted ray transform.
description: 36 pages
Branching Feller diffusion for cell division with parasite infection
Creators: name: Bansaye, Vincent
name: Tran, Viet Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe the evolution of the quantity of parasites in a population of cells which divide in continuous-time. The quantity of parasites in a cell follows a Feller diffusion, which is splitted randomly between the two daughter cells when a division occurs. The cell division rate may depend on the quantity of parasites inside the cell and we are interested in the cases of constant or monotone division rate. We first determine the asymptotic behavior of the quantity of parasites in a cell line, which follows a Feller diffusion with multiplicative jumps. We then consider the evolution of the infection of the cell population and give criteria to determine whether the proportion of infected cells goes to zero (recovery) or if a positive proportion of cells becomes largely infected (proliferation of parasites inside the cells).
title: Assistive soft robotic glove intervention using Brain-Computer Interface for elderly stroke patients: feasibility trials
Creators: name: Lim, Jeong Hoon
name: Yeow, Chen Hua
name: Ang, Kai Keng
name: Guan, Cuntai
name: Cheng, Zi Yi Nicholas
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Background: Impaired hand function in stroke survivors hampers performing daily functional tasks independently. Conventional rehabilitation equipment such as passive motion device cannot allow patients to play an active role in performing the hand exercises. Therefore, there is a strong need for an [for full text, please go to the a.m. URL]
description: 15th Congress of the European Forum for Research in Rehabilitation (EFRR)