cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fast Macroscopic Forcing Method
Creators: name: Bryngelson, Spencer H.
name: Schäfer, Florian
name: Liu, Jessie
name: Mani, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The macroscopic forcing method (MFM) of Mani and Park and similar methods for obtaining turbulence closure operators, such as the Green's function-based approach of Hamba, recover reduced solution operators from repeated direct numerical simulations (DNS). MFM has been used to quantify RANS-like operators for homogeneous isotropic turbulence and turbulent channel flows. Standard algorithms for MFM force each coarse-scale degree of freedom (i.e., degree of freedom in the RANS space) and conduct a corresponding fine-scale simulation (i.e., DNS), which is expensive. We combine this method with an approach recently proposed by Schäfer and Owhadi (2023) to recover elliptic integral operators from a polylogarithmic number of matrix-vector products. The resulting Fast MFM introduced in this work applies sparse reconstruction to expose local features in the closure operator and reconstructs this coarse-grained differential operator in only a few matrix-vector products and correspondingly, a few MFM simulations. For flows with significant nonlocality, the algorithm first "peels" long-range effects with dense matrix-vector products to expose a local operator. We demonstrate the algorithm's performance for scalar transport in a laminar channel flow and momentum transport in a turbulent one. For these, we recover eddy diffusivity operators at 1% of the cost of computing the exact operator via a brute-force approach for the laminar channel flow problem and 13% for the turbulent one. We observe that we can reconstruct these operators with an increase in accuracy by about a factor of 100 over randomized low-rank methods. We glean that for problems in which the RANS space is reducible to one dimension, eddy diffusivity and eddy viscosity operators can be reconstructed with reasonable accuracy using only a few simulations, regardless of simulation resolution or degrees of freedom.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures. S. H. Bryngelson and F. Sch\"afer contributed equally to this work
Geometric description of the Kitaev honeycomb lattice model
Creators: name: Farjami, Ashk
name: Horner, Matthew D.
name: Self, Chris N.
name: Papić, Zlatko
name: Pachos, Jiannis K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely accepted that topological superconductors can only have an effective interpretation in terms of curved geometry rather than gauge fields due to their charge neutrality. This approach is commonly employed in order to investigate their properties, such as the behaviour of their energy currents. Nevertheless, it is not known how accurately curved geometry can describe actual microscopic models. Here, we demonstrate that the low-energy properties of the Kitaev honeycomb lattice model, a topological superconductor that supports localised Majorana zero modes at its vortex excitations, are faithfully described in terms of Riemann-Cartan geometry. In particular, we show analytically that the continuum limit of the model is given in terms of the Majorana version of the Dirac Hamiltonian coupled to both curvature and torsion. We numerically establish the accuracy of the geometric description for a wide variety of couplings of the microscopic model. Our work opens up the opportunity to accurately predict dynamical properties of the Kitaev model from its effective geometric description.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures
Finitely Based Congruence Varieties
Creators: name: Freese, Ralph
name: Lipparini, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 08B99 08B05 06B15 06C05

description: We show that for a large class of varieties of algebras, the equational theory of the congruence lattices of the members is not finitely based.
description: 18 pages
Effect of salinity on some morpho-physiological characters and yield in three sesame cultivars
Creators: name: Ali, M. A.
name: Islam, M. Tariqul
name: Islam, M. Tazul
name: Ali, M. A.
name: Islam, M. Tariqul
name: Islam, M. Tazul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Salinity
subject: Sesame
subject: Yield

description: A pot experiment was conducted at the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), Mymensingh, during February to May 2004 to assess the effect of different salinity levels on growth and yield attributes of three sesame cultivars namely BINA TIL-1, T6 and BARI Ti1-3. The salinity levels were control, 6 dS/m and 9 dS/m imposed by irrigation of NaCI salt solution at 45 days after sowing. The experiment was laid out following Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications. Plant height, leaf area, total dry matter, number of capsule per plant, number of seeds per capsule, seed weight per plant, 1000-seed weight and harvest index progressively decreased with the increasing salinity level. BINA Ti1-1 showed better performance on the above morpho-physiological parameters. BARI Ti1-3 had higher Na + in leaves and was found intermediate on the other parameters. T6 showed the lowest yield attributes, K+ content and the highest Na + content in leaves. Salinity tolerance seemed to be better in BINA Ti1-1 followed by BARI Ti!-3 and T6.
The Effectiveness of 3D Display Cases In The AMS Nest
Creators: name: Foster, Kasha
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of 3D display cases on Sort-It- Out stations in the Alma Mater Society (AMS) Student Nest. Qualitative and quantitative observations of bin users were conducted before and after 3D display cases were installed on the Sort-It-Out station by Pie-R Squared. The sorting behaviour of users was observed by recording the waste stream that was used to dispose of specific waste items and determining if the sorting decision was correct or incorrect. The comfort levels of users were also recorded by observing verbal and body language cues. The findings of this study will be useful in determining if 3D displays improve waste sorting behaviours, and can inform decisions about the signage on sorting stations in the Nest in the future. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Oscillations in small-scale bright features observed with ALMA
Creators: name: Guevara Gómez, Juan Camilo
name: Jafarzadeh, Shahin
name: Wedemeyer, Sven
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sun: atmosphere, Sun: oscillations, Sun: chromosphere

description: Small-scale chromospheric bright features in a plage/enhanced network are identified in solar ALMA observations. The features present oscillations in brightness temperature, size and horizontal velocity. Interestingly, an anti-correlation between brightness temperature and size is also evident, suggesting that these features might be associated to fast-sausage MHD modes. A statistical analysis is carried out to quantify the oscillation periods of the three quantities and the phase angles between the perturbations in temperature and size. The values found are in agreement with periods of high frequency oscillations in other layers of the solar atmosphere.
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title: Slow and steady wins the race: learning and the innovation process
Creators: name: Patel, Chirag
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2006

description: How should incumbent firms innovate in IT-based services in the long term? Past empirical research and conventional wisdom suggest that firms should be fast during the radical and incremental phase. We challenge this view in the context of the knowledge economy. We contend that incumbent firms can either be fast during the radical phase or during the subsequent incremental phase of the innovation process. We draw on the innovation and organizational learning literature to argue that sequential combination of modes of learning during the innovation process explains this phenomenon. We show that incumbent firms that learn through the path of internal knowledge creation during the radical phase followed by external knowledge transfer during the incremental phase will be slow at initial radical innovation but fast at subsequent incremental innovations. In contrast, incumbent firms that learn through any other path will be faster at radical innovation but slower at incremental innovations. We study the innovation in IT-based service of online retail banking over nine years (from 1995 to 2003) using archival data. Analysis of a longitudinal data set of 89 incumbent U.S. banks provides evidence for the thesis.
Diadasia (Coquillettapis) nigrifrons
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Diadasia (Coquillettapis) nigrifrons (Cresson, 1878)
[Syntype: ASNP; ♀ California, USA]
Diadasia nigrifrons is distributed in the western USA and in BC, Mexico and specializes on pollen from plants in the genus Sidalcea A. Gray. (Malvaceae) (Sipes & Tepedino 2005). Prior to our surveys, this species had only been collected in Sierra Juarez in the Baja California Mountains in May 1981 (SDNHM). The BBPT collected two males in the Chaparral region in May 2021 and 2023 (MABC). See fig. 95.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Light clusters in nuclear matter of finite temperature
Creators: name: Beyer, M.
name: Strauss, S.
name: Schuck, P.
name: Sofianos, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate properties and the distribution of light nuclei (A<4) in symmetric nuclear matter of finite temperature within a microscopic framework. For this purpose we have solved few-body Alt-Grassberger-Sandhas type equations for quasi-nucleons that include self-energy corrections and Pauli blocking in a systematic way. In a statistical model we find a significant influence in the composition of nuclear matter if medium effects are included in the microscopic calculation of nuclei. If multiplicities are frozen out at a certain time (or volume), we expect significant consequences for the formation of light fragments in a heavy ion collision. As a consequence of the systematic inclusion of medium effects the ordering of multiplicities becomes opposite to the law of mass action of ideal components. This is necessary to explain the large abundance of $α$-particles in a heavy ion collision that are otherwise largely suppressed in an ideal equilibrium scenario.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, epja-style files
Particle-In-Cell simulation of whistler heat flux instabilities: Scattering of the strahl electrons into the halo and heat flux regulation in the near-Sun solar wind.
Creators: name: Micera, A.
name: Zhukov, A. N.
name: López, R. A.
name: Innocenti, M. E.
name: Lazar, M.
name: Boella, E.
name: Lapenta, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Electron velocity distribution functions, initially composed of core and strahl populations as typically encountered in the near-Sun solar wind and as recently observed by Parker Solar Probe, have been modeled via fully kinetic Particle-In-Cell simulations. It has been demonstrated that, as a consequence of the evolution of the electron velocity distribution function, two branches of the whistler heat flux instability can be excited, which can drive whistler waves propagating in the direction parallel or oblique to the background magnetic field. First, the strahl undergoes pitch-angle scattering with oblique whistler waves, which provokes the reduction of the strahl drift velocity and the simultaneous broadening of its pitch angle distribution. Moreover, the interaction with the oblique whistler waves results in the scattering towards higher perpendicular velocities of resonant strahl electrons and in the appearance of a suprathermal halo population which, at higher energies, deviates from the Maxwellian distribution. Later on, the excited whistler waves shift towards smaller angles of propagation and secondary scattering processes with quasi-parallel whistler waves lead to a redistribution of the scattered particles into a more symmetric halo. All processes are accompanied by a significant decrease of the heat flux carried by the strahl population along the magnetic field direction, although the strongest heat flux rate decrease is simultaneous with the propagation of the oblique whistler waves.
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Schools as generators of crime: Routine activities and the sociology of place
Creators: name: Roman, Caterina Gouvis
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: The study of places has recently gained new prominence as a topic for study by sociologists and criminologists. This study continues the evolution of the merger of social disorganization theories and opportunity theories in explaining the crime potential of place. The criminal opportunity framework is used to examine the influence of schools on neighborhood variations in rates of violence. To examine neighborhood violent crime, the study develops a model of opportunity factors that is divided into three variable clusters or constructs grounded in routine activity theory and social disorganization theory. The constructs represent (1) the risk associated with the physical space or setting, (2) the potential for surveillance or guardianship, and (3) potential for motivated offenders to be present. The first goal is to determine how the opportunity constructs affect violence. Here, the research seeks to answer, "What are the contributions of routine activity and social disorganization constructs to block-level violence?" The second goal is to determine whether and how the presence of schools changes any relationship found between violence and opportunity across neighborhoods. To do this, the study uses dummy variables to characterize. The study examines block-level rates of reported incidents of violent crime across all census blocks in Prince George's County, Maryland. Secondary data collected from a number of sources were used to define the opportunity constructs. The analysis plan is based on the creation of a geographic information system that attributes all data to census blocks. Instrumental variable regression is used to estimate spatial lag models of violent crime. The findings support the research hypotheses. Social disorganization variables and routine activity variables influence block-level violent crime rates. Furthermore, schools were found to be generators of crime during the school day. During the after-school period, blocks near schools characterized by resource deprivation experienced even higher rates of violent crime. During the morning commute, blocks near schools characterized as disorderly exhibited higher violent crime rates than blocks near orderly schools. Examination of interaction effects found some significant relationships indicating support for theory integration.
The anisotropy of granular materials
Creators: name: Alonso-Marroquin, F.
name: Luding, S.
name: Herrmann, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of the anisotropy on the elastoplastic response of two dimensional packed samples of polygons is investigated here, using molecular dynamics simulation. We show a correlation between fabric coefficients, characterizing the anisotropy of the granular skeleton, and the anisotropy of the elastic response. We also study the anisotropy induced by shearing on the subnetwork of the sliding contacts. This anisotropy provides an explanation to some features of the plastic deformation of granular media.
description: Submitted to PRE
Nonassociative gauge fields
Creators: name: Loginov, E. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the consequences of the assumption that the gauge group $SU(2)$ of the standard model is a nonassociative image of $Spin(3)$. Such an approach allows us to take a different look at the Higgs mechanism and obtain the value of the Weinberg angle in very good agreement with the experiment.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX, no figures
A first look at Solar Orbiter campfires from numerical models
Creators: name: Nóbrega-Siverio, D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Solar Atmosphere
Solar Corona
Observations
Numerical methods

description: The solar atmosphere shows a large variety of eruptive phenomena at various scales that are key to solving the long-standing question about coronal heating. Recently, ubiquitous miniature eruptions (campfires) were uncovered using the EUI instrument onboard the Solar Orbiter mission. To start unravelling their physics, we have performed a 2.5D experiment using the Bifrost code in which hot ejections are obtained. We have computed the corresponding Fe X 174 Å emissivity as a first approach to compare with the EUI observations, concluding that some campfires may be explained as a natural consequence of magnetic flux emergence and reconnection.
Schools as generators of crime: Routine activities and the sociology of place
Creators: name: Roman, Caterina Gouvis
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The study of places has recently gained new prominence as a topic for study by sociologists and criminologists. This study continues the evolution of the merger of social disorganization theories and opportunity theories in explaining the crime potential of place. The criminal opportunity framework is used to examine the influence of schools on neighborhood variations in rates of violence. To examine neighborhood violent crime, the study develops a model of opportunity factors that is divided into three variable clusters or constructs grounded in routine activity theory and social disorganization theory. The constructs represent (1) the risk associated with the physical space or setting, (2) the potential for surveillance or guardianship, and (3) potential for motivated offenders to be present. The first goal is to determine how the opportunity constructs affect violence. Here, the research seeks to answer, "What are the contributions of routine activity and social disorganization constructs to block-level violence?" The second goal is to determine whether and how the presence of schools changes any relationship found between violence and opportunity across neighborhoods. To do this, the study uses dummy variables to characterize. The study examines block-level rates of reported incidents of violent crime across all census blocks in Prince George's County, Maryland. Secondary data collected from a number of sources were used to define the opportunity constructs. The analysis plan is based on the creation of a geographic information system that attributes all data to census blocks. Instrumental variable regression is used to estimate spatial lag models of violent crime. The findings support the research hypotheses. Social disorganization variables and routine activity variables influence block-level violent crime rates. Furthermore, schools were found to be generators of crime during the school day. During the after-school period, blocks near schools characterized by resource deprivation experienced even higher rates of violent crime. During the morning commute, blocks near schools characterized as disorderly exhibited higher violent crime rates than blocks near orderly schools. Examination of interaction effects found some significant relationships indicating support for theory integration.
Les relations commerciales agroalimentaires de la Russie avec l’Union européenne, l’embargo russe et les productions animales
Russia's agri-food trade relations with the European Union, the Russian embargo and animal production
Creators: name: Chatellier, Vincent
name: Pouch, Thierry
name: Le Roy, Cécile
name: Mathieu, Quentin
name: Chatellier, Vincent
name: Pouch, Thierry
name: Le Roy, Cécile
name: Mathieu, Quentin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Russia
subject: import ban
subject: competitiveness
subject: trade
subject: animal production

description: Russia has been for many years an important outlet for the European Union (EU) in the agri-food sector. Following the break-up of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991, Russian agriculture, which until then had been dominated by sovkhozes and kolkhozes, had suffered a drastic fall in domestic production, in particular in animal production. Over the past fifteen years, and due to a policy encouraging investment in agriculture, especially in agro-industrial complexes where the integration model prevails, agricultural production progressed rapidly, at least in certain sectors, including cereals, poultry meat and pork. This development of domestic supply and the diversification of supplier countries (including the United States, Brazil, etc.) had, even before the embargo imposed since August 2014, led to a substantial loss of European exports to Russia. Since the embargo was effective, Russia is no longer a privileged partner for European animal productions. Thanks to the growth of imports in several Asian countries, especially in China, several European animal sectors have nevertheless managed, despite the closure of the Russian market, to increase their exports. This paper deals, first of all, with the main stages of the Russian agricultural and trade policy, the development of agricultural production in this country, and the implementation of the embargo. Using customs statistics data (from BACI and COMEXT databases) over the period 2000 to 2016, it then discusses the evolution of trade flows following the implementation of the embargo, with particular emphasis on Russia's bilateral relations with the EU in four animal sectors: milk and milk products, beef and veal, poultry meat, and pork.
Connected Components of the Space of Surface Group Representations II
Creators: name: Ho, Nan-Kuo
name: Liu, Chiu-Chu Melissa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In math.SG/0303255, we discussed the connected components of the space of surface group representations for any compact connected semisimple Lie group and any closed compact (orientable or nonorientable) surface. In this sequel, we generalize the results in math.SG/0303255 in two directions: we consider general compact connected Lie groups, and we consider all compact surfaces, including the ones with boundaries. We also interpret our results in terms of moduli spaces of flat connections over compact surfaces.
description: 16 pages; cases with markings added
Tracking Charge Migration with Frequency-Matched Strobo-Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Hamer, Kyle A.
name: Folorunso, Aderonke S.
name: Lopata, Kenneth
name: Schafer, Kenneth J.
name: Gaarde, Mette B.
name: Mauger, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present frequency-matched strobo-spectroscopy (FMSS) of charge migration (CM) in bromobutadiyne, simulated with time-dependent density-functional theory. CM+FMSS is a pump-probe scheme that uses a frequency-matched HHG-driving laser as an independent probe step following the creation of a localized hole on the bromine atom that induces CM dynamics. We show that the delay-dependent harmonic yield tracks the phase of the CM dynamics through its sensitivity to the amount of electron density on the bromine end of the molecule. FMSS takes advantage of the intrinsic attosecond time resolution of the HHG process, in which different harmonics are emitted at different times and thus probe different locations of the electron hole. Finally, we show that the CM-induced modulation of the HHG signal is dominated by the recombination step of the HHG process, with negligible contribution from the ionization step.
Additional file 1 of Incidence trend of breast Cancer in women of eastern Mediterranean region countries from 1998 to 2019: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zahedi, Razieh
name: Vardanjani, Hossein Molavi
name: Baneshi, Mohammad Reza
name: Haghdoost, Ali Akbar
name: Afshar, Reza Malekpour
name: Roghayeh Ershad Sarabi
name: Tavakoli, Fatemeh
name: Zolala, Farzaneh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Strategy for systematic searches of the published literature. Table S2. Summarized characteristics of included studies. Graph S1. The ASR trend of breast cancer in Eastern Mediterian Region by qulity of data registration throughout 1998–2019. Graph S2. The ASR trend of breast cancer in Eastern Mediterian Region by qulity of data registration throughout 1998–2019. Figure S1. Geographic Distribution of ASR of breast cancer in Eastern Mediterranean Countries from 1998 to 2018.
Mid-Infrared observations of GRS 1915+105 during plateau and flaring states
Creators: name: Fuchs, Yael
name: Mirabel, I. Felix
name: Claret, Arnaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present mid-infrared (4-18 micron) observations of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 obtained with ISOCAM, the camera on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), in 1996 April and 1997 October. The first observation probably occurred during a flaring event with oscillating synchrotron emission. The 1997 observation occurred a few days before a major relativistic ejection, during a plateau state of inverted-spectrum radio emission and hard quasi-stable X-ray emission. The K-M giant donor star in GRS 1915+105 cannot account for the mid-IR emission and we discuss the possible additional components depending on two absorption laws. Thermal emission from dust seems unlikely. The flat mid-IR spectrum obtained during the plateau state is likely to be synchrotron emission. It would be the first evidence of the infrared extension of the radio synchrotron emission from the compact jets, although optically thin free-free emission from an X-ray driven-wind from the accretion disc cannot be excluded.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted by A&A
A Novel Scenario in the Semi-constrained NMSSM
Creators: name: Wang, Kun
name: Zhu, Jingya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we develop a novel efficient scan method, combining the Heuristically Search (HS) and the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), where the HS can shift marginal samples to perfect samples, and the GAN can generate a huge amount of recommended samples from noise in a short time. With this efficient method, we find a new scenario in the semi-constrained Next-to Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (scNMSSM), or NMSSM with non-universal Higgs masses. In this scenario, (i) Both muon g-2 and right relic density can be satisfied, along with the high mass bound of gluino, etc. As far as we know, that had not been realized in the scNMSSM before this work. (ii) With the right relic density, the lightest neutralinos are singlino-dominated, and can be as light as 0-12 GeV. (iii) The future direct detections XENONnT and LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ-7 2T) can give strong constraints to this scenario. (iv) The current indirect constraints to Higgs invisible decay $h_2\to \tildeχ^0_1 \tildeχ^0_1$ are weak, but the direct detection of Higgs invisible decay at the future HL-LHC may cover half of the samples, and that of the CEPC may cover most. (v) The branching ratio of Higgs exotic decay $h_2\to h_1h_1, a_1a_1$ can be over 20 percent, while their contributions to the invisible decay $h_2\to4χ_1^0$ are very small.
description: Accepted by JHEP, discussions added
The many faces of Nicolas's PhD thesis
Creators: name: Poirier, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Solar Orbiter
Parker Solar Probe
Solar corona
Modeling
Observations
Coronal loops
CME

description: A quick tour over some of the main works to which I contributed as a PhD student. They are not all directly related with the core subject of my PhD thesis. But they all allow to improve our understanding of the slow solar wind and its potential sources. I have especially selected projects that have connections with the Solar Orbiter mission.
An analysis of constructivist pedagogy in corporate distance education: Perspectives from the field
Creators: name: Shah, Nasrin M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research examines what is required to introduce new instructional technology---in the form of distance educational technology---into the corporate arena. The importance and need to attain lifelong learning in today's society is obvious, however, learning can be provided for corporations via online education. Distance educational technology has become a catalyst for constant change and upgrading of skills and work processes, a change based on how processes may be improved and upon people's skills in the corporate arena. While some corporate educational training programs are experimenting with distance educational technology, many are failing because they are not sufficiently implementing the full range of pedagogy. For successful implementation, particularly in the corporate distance education arena, a fundamental and authentic pedagogy must be incorporated into the curriculum in order for genuine learning to transpire (Dede, 1999). The corporate distance educational curricular environment is no different than any educational curriculum: Without an educational pedagogy, the purpose of the distance educational environment to learn is contradicted. This study examined constructivist pedagogy utilization within the arena of corporate distance education. The researcher queried several experts via web-based surveys and superlative interview techniques. Although the demographic population queried was a selected sample group, all respondents have experience in technology and education thus, they were able to comprehend the magnitude of pedagogy. Specifically, the sample population understood the significance of a particular pedagogy, such as constructivistism, and how it could enhance or maintain effective learning to take place. This research confirmed that in order for a corporate distance educational program to be deemed effective and successful, the constructivist pedagogy must be implemented. Therefore, the most critical conclusion of this research established that regardless of "cutting edge" technology, some of the most traditional characteristics of the constructivist pedagogy must be tied to the curriculum in order for it to be successful. Since the constructivist models have emerged from the works of many traditional educational theorists such as Bruner, Piaget, Dewey, and Vygotsky, the remarkable findings are that the most fundamental elements in successful learning environments can be applied into innovative classrooms, including the corporate distance education classroom.
Diadasia (Coquillettapis) nitidifrons Cockerell 1905
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Diadasia (Coquillettapis) nitidifrons Cockerell, 1905
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Banning, Riverside Co., California, USA]
This species is only known from the southwestern USA and BC. In BC, it has only been recorded in the Coastal Sage Matorral. INHS has one male specimen collected in Arroyo Rosarito in July 1964. Additionally, the BBPT collected 15 males near Ensenada City in May and June 2020, April 2021, and May 2022. Voucher specimens are in MABC (8 ♂), and ECOAB (7 ♂). See fig. 95.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Researching the competitiveness of the fishing industry in the region of the Baltic countries
Creators: name: Kubala, Sebastian
name: Firley, Chrystian
name: Kubala, Sebastian
name: Firley, Chrystian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: fishing industry
subject: aquaculture
subject: fish catches
subject: fishing fleet

description: The main objective of this article is to examine the level of competitiveness of the fishing industry in the countries of the Baltic region. The current socio-economic conditions have caused that there is a diverse degree of demand for fish products, different level of development of foreign trade and diverse possibilities of obtaining fish organisms through the development of aquaculture in individual Baltic states. The calculations performed in the study used such methods as DEA index and Trade Coverage index. Calculating the indicators made it possible to demonstrate that there is a significant variation in the degree of competitiveness of the fishing industry in the Baltic countries, while there is also a diversity in terms of the development of aquaculture, importance of foreign trade in fish products and relevance of the entire fish market.
On BF-type higher-spin actions in two dimensions
Creators: name: Alkalaev, K. B.
name: Bekaert, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a non-abelian higher-spin theory in two dimensions for an infinite multiplet of massive scalar fields and infinitely many topological higher-spin gauge fields together with their dilaton-like partners. The spectrum includes local degrees of freedom although the field equations take the form of flatness and covariant constancy conditions because fields take values in a suitable extension of the infinite-dimensional higher-spin algebra $hs[λ]$. The corresponding action functional is of BF-type and generalizes the known topological higher-spin Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity.
description: 15 pages. Main results originally appeared in v1 of arXiv:1911.13212, of which the self-contained section 8 has been extracted and expanded, v2: references and comments added. v3: more detailed abstract, extended discussion of 2d higher-spin dynamics in Introduction, Section 5 now contains more detailed explanation of the spectrum, references and acknowledgements added. Journal version
Variation in output shares and endogenous matching in land rental contracts
Creators: name: Gebrehiwot, D.
name: Holden, S.T.
name: Gebrehiwot, D.
name: Holden, S.T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: We investigate the extent of variation in output sharing in land rental contracts and alternative hypotheses to explain this variation. Close to half of the rental contracts in our study in northern Ethiopia have output shares that deviate from the dominant 50-50 equal sharing. Variation in land quality, the relative bargaining power of landlords and tenants, production risks and shocks are hypothesized to influence output shares. Matched data of landlords and tenants are used. The importance of endogenous matching of landlords and tenants is investigated by assessing how endogenous tenant characteristics are correlated with landlord characteristics. We find evidence of negative assortative matching for key resource characteristics. A control function approach is used to control for endogenous matching in the output share models. The results reveal that production risks as well as relative bargaining power affect output shares in the reverse tenancy setting with tenants being relatively wealthier and influential than landlords. Acknowledgement :
Quantity based indicators fail to identify extreme pesticide risks
Creators: name: Moehring, N.
name: Gaba, S.
name: Finger, R.
name: Moehring, N.
name: Gaba, S.
name: Finger, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: To reduce environmental and health risks caused by pesticide use, efficient and effective policies strongly demand a precise and meaningful quantification of these adverse effects. The indicators currently used in policy analysis are diverse and mainly focus on a purely quantitative dimension of used pesticides. Using a unique dataset on pesticide use of Swiss farmers, we demonstrate that the two most important quantitative indicators on average show a significant correlation with pesticide risks, but they have almost no explanatory power for applications with extreme risks for the environment and human health. Single applications and application regimes with extreme risks, have been shown to be central for potential environmental and human health impacts of pesticides. These findings render the use of common, quantitative indicators in-effective to reduce environmental and health risk - in the worst case leading to biased policy incentives and adverse outcomes of current pesticide policies. Acknowledgement :
Connection Formulae for Asymptotics of Solutions of the Degenerate Third Painlevé Equation. I
Creators: name: Kitaev, A. V.
name: Vartanian, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 33E17, 34M40, 34M50, 34M55, 34M60

description: The degenerate third Painlevé equation, $u^{\prime \prime} = \frac{(u^{\prime})^{2}}{u} - \frac{u^{\prime}}τ + \frac{1}τ(-8 εu^{2} + 2ab) + \frac{b^{2}}{u}$, where $ε,b \in \mathbb{R}$, and $a \in \mathbb{C}$, and the associated tau-function are studied via the Isomonodromy Deformation Method. Connection formulae for asymptotics of the general as $τ\to \pm 0$ and $\pm i0$ solution and general regular as $τ\to \pm \infty$ and $\pm i \infty$ solution are obtained.
description: 40 pages, LaTeX2e
Effect of subsidies on technical efficiency excluding or including environmental outputs: An illustration with a sample of farms in the European Union
Creators: name: Desjeux, Y.
name: Latruffe, L.
name: Dakpo, K.H.
name: Hanitravelo, G. Justinia
name: Desjeux, Y.
name: Latruffe, L.
name: Dakpo, K.H.
name: Hanitravelo, G. Justinia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: With a sample of farms in the European Union (EU) and Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data completed by additional data, we illustrate how the effect of farm subsidies on technical efficiency changes when environmental (good or bad) outputs are incorporated in the calculation of technical efficiency. Results indicate that the effect of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) operational subsidies on farm technical efficiency changes when environmental outputs (in this study: greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen balance and ecological focus areas) are taken into account in the efficiency calculation: some effects change significance, and more importantly, some effects change sign. Acknowledgement : Financial support from the FP7 EU project FLINT ( Farm level indicators for new topics in policy evaluation ; grant agreement no: 613800) is acknowledged.
Diadasia (Coquillettapis) rinconis Cockerell 1897
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Diadasia (Coquillettapis) rinconis Cockerell, 1897
[♀ Rincon, New Mexico, USA; July 5, 1896]
Diadasia rinconis is widely distributed in Mexico and the southern US, and it has been found in both peninsular states. This species’ flight season co-occurs with the bloom period of Cactaceae (March – June), which is its preferred pollen host plant (Sipes & Tepedino 2005). This species can be found in all ecoregions except for the Tropical Dry Forest and the Cape Mountains. SEMC reports specimens collected in the Gulf Coast and Sarcocaulescent Shrubland (GBIF 2023). The CARCIB team collected 25 specimens (15 ♂, 10 ♀) in the Central Desert (BC) in 2016; Vizcaíno Desert 2016, 2017, 2019; Gulf Coast in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018; and the Magdalena Plains and Sarcocaulescent Shrubland (BCS) in 2016. Additionally, the BBPT collected 66 specimens (41 ♀, 25 ♂) across the Coastal Sage Matorral, Chaparral, Baja California Mountains, Lower Colorado Desert, Succulent Coastal Sage and Gulf Coast (Supplementary material 1). Voucher specimens are in MABC, and ECOAB. See fig. 96.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
What counter seasonal hedging is revealing about the motives of hedging
Creators: name: Prehn, S.
name: Feil, J.-H.
name: Prehn, S.
name: Feil, J.-H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Like their North American colleagues, also South American grain merchants prefer to hedge their corn and soybean forward contracts at the CBoT in the United States. This is an interesting fact because it contradicts with the common belief that grain merchants always prefer a close hedge at a local futures exchange. In this paper, we show that the South American grain merchants prefer a loose hedge at the CBoT because of the counter seasonal price pattern in North and South America. The latter provides them with a unique hedging opportunity: Thanks to the counter seasonal price pattern, the South American grain merchants cannot only buy grain at more favorable conditions, but also resell it at more favorable conditions. Our discussion of counter seasonal hedging reconfirms that grain merchants are at first basis traders that seek to maximize their profit margins; the minimization of price risk only comes second. Acknowledgement :
Scaling of variational quantum circuit depth for condensed matter systems
Creators: name: Bravo-Prieto, Carlos
name: Lumbreras-Zarapico, Josep
name: Tagliacozzo, Luca
name: Latorre, José I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We benchmark the accuracy of a variational quantum eigensolver based on a finite-depth quantum circuit encoding ground state of local Hamiltonians. We show that in gapped phases, the accuracy improves exponentially with the depth of the circuit. When trying to encode the ground state of conformally invariant Hamiltonians, we observe two regimes. A finite-depth regime, where the accuracy improves slowly with the number of layers, and a finite-size regime where it improves again exponentially. The cross-over between the two regimes happens at a critical number of layers whose value increases linearly with the size of the system. We discuss the implication of these observations in the context of comparing different variational ansatz and their effectiveness in describing critical ground states.
description: 11 + 4 pages, 5 figures