cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Health Information Availability and the Consumption of Eggs: Are Consumers Bayesians?
Creators: name: Chang, Hung-Hao
name: Just, David R.
name: Chang, Hung-Hao
name: Just, David R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We use a generalized Bayesian updating model to estimate the impact of health information appearing in the popular media on the consumption of eggs. Our model allows media publications with differing circulation numbers to have differing effects. Further, we explore the possible effects of several known psychological biases in learning.
Italian domination in rooted product graphs
Creators: name: Hernandez-Ortiz, R.
name: Montejano, L. P.
name: Rodriguez-Velazquez, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C69, 05C76, 68Q17

description: In this article, we obtain closed formulae for the Italian domination number of rooted product graphs. As a particular case of the study, we derive the corresponding formulas for corona graphs, and we provide an alternative proof that the problem of computing the Italian domination number of a graph is NP-hard.
Challenges and Solutions in Network Security for Serverless Computing
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Sina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460402
subject: Data and information privacy
classificationCode: 460403
subject: Data security and protection
classificationCode: 460407
subject: System and network security
classificationCode: 460499
subject: Cybersecurity and privacy not elsewhere classified

description: This research study explores the challenges and solutions related to serverless computing so that the computer systems connected to the network can be protected. Serverless computing can be defined as a method of managing computer services without the need to have fixed servers. The qualitative research method is used by this research study, which does not include any numerical data and involves the examination of non-number data so that the network security challenges can be identified in detail. In the literature review, the past studies from 2019 to 2023 are reviewed to identify study gaps so that the foundation for investigating serverless network security. The literature review is based on thematic analysis, so all the data can be organized into meaningful themes. The findings of this research study include the solutions to the challenges like data privacy, insecure dependencies and limited control. The strategies to overcome these challenges include encryption, strong monitoring and other relevant strategies. This research study also suggests the use of blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence. In short, this research study provides insights to improve serverless computing security and also guides future researchers to innovate creative solutions for developing security challenges.
Radio-ejection and bump-related orbital period gap of millisecond binary pulsars
Creators: name: D'Antona, F.
name: Ventura, P.
name: Burderi, L.
name: Di Salvo, T.
name: Lavagetto, G.
name: Possenti, A.
name: Teodorescu, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The monotonic increase of the radius of low mass stars during their ascent on the red giant branch halts when they suffer a temporary contraction. This occurs when the hydrogen burning shell reaches the discontinuity in hydrogen content left from the maximum increase in the convective extension, at the time of the first dredge up, and produces a well known "bump" in the luminosity function of the red giants of globular clusters. If the giant is the mass losing component in a binary in which mass transfer occurs on the nuclear evolution time scale, this event produces a temporary stop in the mass transfer, which we will name "bump related" detachment. If the accreting companion is a neutron star, in which the previous mass transfer has spun up the pulsar down to millisecond periods, the subsequent mass transfer phase may be altered by the presence of the energetic pulsar. In fact, the onset of a radio--ejection phase produces loss of mass and angular momentum from the sytem. We show that this sequence of events may be at the basis of the shortage of systems with periods between ~ 20 and 60 days in the distribution of binaries containing millisecond pulsars. We predict that systems which can be discovered at periods into the gap should have preferentially either magnetic moments smaller than ~ 2 x10^{26}Gcm^3, or larger than ~ 4x10^{26}Gcm^3. We further show that this period gap should not be present in population II.
description: in press on the astrophysical journal
In vitro phenotypic and functional characterization of epithelial progenitors present in the normal adult human breast
Creators: name: Stingl, John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The developmental relationships between the different epithelial cell lineages in the normal human mammary gland are not well defined. To characterize the progenitor activity of freshly isolated human breast epithelial cells (HBEC), 2- and 3-dimensional culture systems were developed that optimized their clonal growth, and fluorescence-activated cell sorting was used to characterize the progenitors of the different types of colonies obtained. These studies identified one type of progenitor cell that generates colonies of varying sizes with an alveolar-like morphology and generally contains cells expressing markers of luminal cells; i.e.: the apical glycoprotein MUC1 and epithelial cell adhesion molecule. They also express relatively high levels of erbB-2, retain rhodamine 123, express variable levels of the epidermal growth factor receptor and CD44v6 and express low levels of the ct6 integrin, the histo-blood group antigen type 2 and the common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen. A second type of progenitor identified is one that generates colonies composed of cells that express myoepithelial lineage markers and variable numbers of cells that express luminal cell markers. These progenitors generate colonies in collagen gels that have a branching duct-like morphology. These bipotent progenitors express the epidermal growth factor receptor, erbB-2, epithelial cell adhesion molecule, the α6 integrin, the common acute lymphoblastic leukemia antigen, variable levels of MUC1, and retain low levels of rhodamine 123. Single cell cultures verified the clonal origin of both types of colonies. Epidermal growth factor at 10 ng/ml within the breast epithelial colony assay promoted the survival of cells enriched for luminal cell progenitors, as well as the migration of keratin 14 expressing cells in a manner that could be interpreted as ductal elongation. Serial passaging of highly enriched populations of bipotent progenitors indicated that some cells produced in the mixed and pure myoepithelial marker+ colonies can generate colonies composed only of cells expressing myoepithelial characteristics, but not luminal characteristics. These latter results suggest that the culture conditions used compromise both the self-renewal of human breast epithelial stem cells and their differentiation into the luminal lineage.
Entropy-reduced retention times in magnetic memory elements: A case of the Meyer-Neldel Compensation Rule
Creators: name: Desplat, L.
name: Kim, J. -V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute mean waiting times between thermally-activated magnetization reversals in a nanodisk with parameters similar to a free CoFeB layer used in magnetic random access memories. By combining Langer's theory and forward flux sampling simulations, we show that the Arrhenius prefactor can take values up to 10$^{21}$ Hz, orders of magnitude beyond the value of 10$^{9}$ Hz typically assumed, and varies drastically as a function of material parameters. We show that the prefactor behaves like an exponential of the activation energy, which highlights a case of the Meyer-Neldel compensation rule. This suggests that modeling information retention times with a barrier-independent prefactor in such magnetic storage elements is not justified.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
IS THE EFFICACY OF AGRICULTURAL PROMOTION PROGRAMS OVERESTIMATED? THE IMPORTANCE OF DYNAMICS IN ADVERTISING DEMAND SYSTEMS
Creators: name: Cardwell, Ryan T.
name: Cardwell, Ryan T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This article outlines the shortcomings of current techniques to assess the effectiveness of agricultural commodity promotion campaigns; particularly their neglect of the dynamic nature of the underlying demand system. The dynamics that affect advertising effectiveness over time are illustrated, and the importance of cointegration in commodity markets is outlined. A dynamic, error-correction Almost Ideal Demand System is developed to accommodate the aforementioned dynamics and this model is applied to US meat data. Short and long-run elasticities for the dynamic model using Stone's price index are derived and estimated. The article also includes a discussion of the use of elasticities in policy decisions.
Synthesis, characterization, and antimicrobial studies of half-sandwich η6-toluene ruthenium complexes with N,N′-bidentate ligands
Creators: name: Gichumbi, Joel M.
name: Friedrich, Holger B.
name: Omondi, Bernard
name: Hafizah Y. Chenia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Nine new complexes [(η6-C6H5-CH3)RuLCl]+(PF6)ˉ (where L = N,N′-bidentate ligand; (C5H4NCH = N-Ar) where Ar = 4-methylphenyl (C20H20ClF6N2PRu, 1); 3,4-dimethylphenyl (C21H22ClF6N2PRu, 2); 2,4,6-trimethylphenyl (C21H24ClF6N2PRu, 3); 4-bromophenyl (C19H17ClBrF6N2PRu, 4); 2,5-dimethylphenyl (C21H22ClF6N2PRu, 5); 2-flourophenyl (C19H17ClF7N2PRu, 6), (4-methoxyphenyl)methylene (C21H22ClF6N2OPRu, 7); phenylmethylene (C20H20ClF6N2PRu, 8); and 3,5-dimethylphenyl (C21H22ClF6N2PRu, 9) were synthesized by reacting the corresponding N,N′-bidentate ligands with the ruthenium arene dimer in a 2:1 ratio. The compounds were fully characterized via 1H NMR and 13C NMR, IR, and UV-vis spectroscopy and elemental analyses. The molecular structures of representative complexes (1, 7, and 8) were established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. In the molecular structures of the complexes, the ligands coordinate to the Ru(II) centers via the pyridine nitrogen atom and the imine N atom in a bidentate manner. The other coordination sites of the Ru(II) center are occupied by the tolyl system in an η6 manner resulting in geometry often referred to as “pseudo-octahedral piano-stool.” All compounds were evaluated for their in vitro antibacterial activity by the disk diffusion method against a panel of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. The complexes showed promising bactericidal activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 43300.
GLOBALIZATION OF THE FROZEN POTATO INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Plummer, Charles
name: Makki, Shiva S.
name: Plummer, Charles
name: Makki, Shiva S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This paper examines the globalization of the frozen potato industry, including the expansion of production and processing of potato products in the global market place, and future prospects for the industry. We find that developing countries with high income growth rates could be major growth markets for U.S. frozen potato products in the future.
Totally geodesic surfaces and homology
Creators: name: DeBlois, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50, 57M12, 57M27

description: We construct examples of hyperbolic rational homology spheres and hyperbolic knot complements in rational homology spheres containing closed embedded totally geodesic surfaces.
description: This is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 25 September 2006
K-amenability for amalgamated free products of amenable discrete quantum groups
Creators: name: Vergnioux, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The basic notions and results of equivariant KK-theory concerning crossed products can be extended to the case of locally compact quantum groups. We recall these constructions and prove some usefull properties of subgroups and amalgamated free products of discrete quantum groups. Using these properties and a quantum analogue of the Bass-Serre tree, we establish the K-amenability of amalgamated free products of amenable discrete quantum groups.
description: 17 pages ; late posting of an old article
The New Rewriting Engine of Dedukti
Creators: name: Hondet, Gabriel
name: Blanqui, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dedukti is a type-checker for the $λ$$Π$-calculus modulo rewriting, an extension of Edinburgh's logicalframework LF where functions and type symbols can be defined by rewrite rules. It thereforecontains an engine for rewriting LF terms and types according to the rewrite rules given by the user.A key component of this engine is the matching algorithm to find which rules can be fired. In thispaper, we describe the class of rewrite rules supported by Dedukti and the new implementation ofthe matching algorithm. Dedukti supports non-linear rewrite rules on terms with binders usinghigher-order pattern-matching as in Combinatory Reduction Systems (CRS). The new matchingalgorithm extends the technique of decision trees introduced by Luc Maranget in the OCamlcompiler to this more general context.
A Spin-Mechanical Device for Detection and Control of Spin Current by Nanomechanical Torque
Creators: name: Mohanty, P.
name: Zolfagharkhani, G.
name: Kettemann, S.
name: Fulde, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a spin-mechanical device to control and detect spin currents by mechanical torque. Our hybrid nano-electro-mechanical device, which contains a nanowire with a ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic interface, is designed to measure or induce spin polarized currents. Since spin carries angular momentum, a spin flip or spin transfer process involves a change in angular momentum--and hence, a torque--which enables mechanical measurement of spin flips. Conversely, an applied torque can result in spin polarization and spin current.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Decoupling The Present From The Past
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: There seems to exist a subtle connection between the Yellammā cult and the liṁgāvaṁt (liṁgāyat) sect, which is difficult to prove. At the Yellammā Guḍi near Savadatti, the main temple of the cult, the rānḍē huṇimē rite is conducted by liṁgāvaṁt pujaris; though at the village temples the jōgammā or jōgatī perform the rite. [Ramberg, 2011 : When the Devi Is Your Husband : Sacred Marriage and Sexual Economy in South India, in Feminist Studies, vol 37, no 1, 35] The history of Yellammā Guḍi may partly explain the prerogative of the liṁgāvaṁt pujaris to officiate at the temple.
VARIABILITY IN GROWTH, PIG WEIGHTS AND HOG MARKETING DECISIONS
Creators: name: Huang, Haixiao
name: Miller, Gay Y.
name: Huang, Haixiao
name: Miller, Gay Y.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Variability in pig growth is an intrinsic characteristic of swine production. The optimal marketing strategies are identified to minimize the negative economic impact of variability for a typical all-in-all-out swine finishing facility using a recent pricing matrix and data featuring swine production in the Midwestern region. Our results show that compared with marketing all pigs from a 1,020 head barn on the same day, marketing pigs in six truckloads on different dates as groups of pigs grow to more optimal size significantly improves the profitability of production as variability increases. This finding is in line with recent producer response to new pricing matrices that prove stronger price incentives for marketing more uniform pigs. We also find that studies on optimal marketing strategies without taking into account variability in pig weights can result in exaggerated optimal marketing weights and profits of production. Growth variability management and marketing strategies continue to be essential to the economic viability of the swine industry.
A Distant Fast Radio Burst Associated to its Host Galaxy with the Very Large Array
Creators: name: Law, C. J.
name: Butler, B. J.
name: Prochaska, J. X.
name: Zackay, B.
name: Burke-Spolaor, S.
name: Mannings, A.
name: Tejos, N.
name: Josephy, A.
name: Andersen, B.
name: Chawla, P.
name: Heintz, K. E.
name: Aggarwal, K.
name: Bower, G. C.
name: Demorest, P. B.
name: Kilpatrick, C. D.
name: Lazio, T. J. W.
name: Linford, J.
name: Mckinven, R.
name: Tendulkar, S.
name: Simha, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery and subarcsecond localization of a new Fast Radio Burst with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and realfast search system. The FRB was discovered on 2019 June 14 with a dispersion measure of 959 pc/cm3. This is the highest DM of any localized FRB and its measured burst fluence of 0.6 Jy ms is less than nearly all other FRBs. The source is not detected to repeat in 15 hours of VLA observing and 153 hours of CHIME/FRB observing. We describe a suite of statistical and data quality tests we used to verify the significance of the event and its localization precision. Follow-up optical/infrared photometry with Keck and Gemini associate the FRB to a pair of galaxies with $\rm{r}\sim23$ mag. The false-alarm rate for radio transients of this significance that are associated with a host galaxy is roughly $3\times10^{-4}\ \rm{hr}^{-1}$. The two putative host galaxies have similar photometric redshifts of $z_{\rm{phot}}\sim0.6$, but different colors and stellar masses. Comparing the host distance to that implied by the dispersion measure suggests a modest (~ 50 pc/cm3) electron column density associated with the FRB environment or host galaxy/galaxies.
description: Submitted to AAS Journals (ApJ) and revised for referee comments
Influence of Gravity on noncommutative Dirac equation
Creators: name: Bourouaine, S.
name: Benslama, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the influence of gravity and noncommutativity on Dirac equation. By adopting the tetrad formalism, we show that the modified Dirac equation keeps the same form. The only modification is in the expression of the covariant derivative. The new form of this derivative is the product of its counterpart given in curved space-time with an operator which depends on the noncommutative $θ$-parameter. As an application, we have computed the density number of the created particles in presence of constant strong electric field in an anisotropic Bianchi universe.
description: 9 pages, correct some miprints, Accepted for publication in journal of Mod. Phys. Letters A
Thermal Transfer in Amorphous Superionic Systems
Creators: name: Zhou, Yanguang
name: Volz, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using direct atomic simulations, the vibration scattering time scales are characterized, and then the nature and the quantitative weight of thermal excitations are investigated in an example system Li2S from its amorphous solid state to its partial-solid partial-liquid and, liquid states. For the amorphous solid state at 300 K, the vibration scattering time ranges a few femtoseconds to several picoseconds. As a result, both the progagons and diffusons are the main heat carriers and contribute largely to the total thermal conductivity. The enhancement of scattering among vibrations and between vibrations and free ions flow due to the increase of temperature, will lead to a large reduction of the scattering time scale and the acoustic vibrational thermal conductivity, i.e., 0.8 W/mK at 300 K to 0.56 W/mK in the partial solid partial liquid Li2S at 700 K. In this latter state, the thermal conductivity contributed by convection increases to the half of the total, as a result of the usually neglected cross-correlation between the virial term and the free ions' flow. The vibrational scattering time can be as large as ~ 1.5 picoseconds yet, and the vibrational conductivity is reduced to a still significant 0.42 W/mK highlighting the unexpected role of acoustic transverse and longitudinal vibrations in liquid Li2S at 1100 K. At this same temperature, the convection heat transfer takes overreaching 0.63 W/mK. Our study provides a fundamental understanding of the thermal excitations at play in amorphous materials from solid to liquid.
ALTERNATIVES FOR FINANCING MUNICIPAL SERVICES: THE CASE OF UNIT-PRICED TRASH DISPOSAL
Creators: name: Halstead, John M.
name: Hallas-Burt, Shanna
name: Huang, Ju-Chin
name: Halstead, John M.
name: Hallas-Burt, Shanna
name: Huang, Ju-Chin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Public Economics

description: New policy is being developed that incorporates not only innovative means of disposal, including the integration of source reduction and recycling, but also innovative approaches to funding disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW). This study was conducted to determine if a higher marginal price for MSW disposal affected per capita waste generation in New Hampshire towns, how the existence of a pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) program influenced per capita MSW generation, and to attempt to determine which towns were most likely to adopt a PAYT program in the future. The results showed that average household size, existence of a capital improvement plan, and marginal price to dispose of waste were statistically significant influences, regardless of the variation of price in the PAYT program. Towns with PAYT programs currently being implemented produce 0.18 tons of MSW less waste per capita per year than towns without PAYT programs.
DECOMPOSING UNOBSERVED CHOICE VARIABILITY IN THE PRESENCE OF CONSUMERS' TASTE HETEROGENEITY
Creators: name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
name: Veeman, Michele M.
name: Hu, Wuyang
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor L.
name: Veeman, Michele M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: Heterogeneous tastes across consumers can be captured by random coefficients in a mixed logit (ML) model. However, other types of factors that may not directly affect taste could cause choices to vary, such as choice context, choice task complexity, and demographic characters. This paper jointly considers taste heterogeneity around reference-dependent attributes and other choice variability through inclusion of a scale function, based on data from a stated preference experiment for bread. Results demonstrate that modeling other sources of choice variability in addition to taste heterogeneity increases the model fit, although the improvement is not dramatic.
Quasiclassical approach to the spin-Hall effect in the two-dimensional electron gas
Creators: name: Raimondi, Roberto
name: Gorini, Cosimo
name: Schwab, Peter
name: Dzierzawa, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spin-charge coupled transport in a two-dimensional electron system using the method of quasiclassical ($ξ$-integrated) Green's functions. In particular we derive the Eilenberger equation in the presence of a generic spin-orbit field. The method allows us to study spin and charge transport from ballistic to diffusive regimes and continuity equations for spin and charge are automatically incorporated. In the clean limit we establish the connection between the spin-Hall conductivity and the Berry phase in momentum space. For finite systems we solve the Eilenberger equation numerically for the special case of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a two-terminal geometry. In particular, we calculate explicitly the spin-Hall induced spin polarization in the corners, predicted by Mishchenko et al. [13]. Furthermore we find universal spin currents in the short-time dynamics after switching on the voltage across the sample, and calculate the corresponding spin-Hall polarization at the edges. Where available, we find perfect agreement with analytical results.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title: Der Bushveld-Komplex : die größte Intrusion der Erde und wichtigste Quelle für mineralische Rohstoffe der Platinmetalle
Creators: name: Trumbull, Robert B.
name: Veksler, Ilya V.
name: Reid, David L.
Publisher: name: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Year: 2014

description: System Erde; 4
CAP_TCN Cyverse to Symbiota Support Hub / ASU BioKIC URL Crosswalk
Creators: name: Gregory Post
name: Pearson, Katelin
name: Nico Franz
name: Mark Aaron Fisher
name: Edward Gilbert
name: K. Samanta Orellana
name: Lindsay J. Walker
name: Logan Wilt
name: Jenn M. Yost
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Symbiota Support Hub
California Phenology Thematic Collections Network
CAP_TCN

description: Crosswalk mapping specimen image urls of the California Phenology Thematic Collections Network (CAP TCN), previously hosted by the Cyverse BisQue platform, to new URLs hosted by Arizona State University Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center and the iDigBio Symbiota Support Hub.

Zip compressed archive  contains multiple csv files:

CAP_TCN_CROSSWALK.csv is a single file containing all data

CAP_TCN_xxxx_CROSSWALK.csv contains data related to a single institution

ex: CAP_TCN_OBI_CROSSWALK.csv contains data related to the Robert F. Hoover Herbarium at Cal Poly State University (OBI)

This crosswalk may be useful to third parties that reference CAP_TCN specimen images.
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH AND COMMUTING PATTERNS IN RURAL LABOR MARKETS
Creators: name: Davis, Elizabeth E.
name: Bachewe, Fantu
name: Davis, Elizabeth E.
name: Bachewe, Fantu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: We estimate a county-level labor market model for Minnesota in order to decompose employment growth into labor force, commuting, and unemployment changes. Preliminary results suggest that 1990-2000 employment growth was accommodated by increased in-commuting and labor force growth, with in-commuting more important in metro than rural counties.
title: Anwendung der Fernerkundung in der Exploration und im Haldenmonitoring im südlichen Afrika
Creators: name: Mielke, Christian
name: Rogaß, Christian
name: Bösche, Nina
name: Kaufmann, Hermann
name: Guanter, Luis
Publisher: name: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Year: 2014

description: System Erde; 4
Commune Shocks, Household Assets, and Economic Well-Being in Madagascar
Creators: name: Mills, Bradford F.
name: Del Ninno, Carlo
name: Rajemsison, Harivelo
name: Mills, Bradford F.
name: Del Ninno, Carlo
name: Rajemsison, Harivelo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: International Development

description: Rural households in developing countries are buffeted by environmental, social, health and economic shocks. This paper provides an empirical vignette of the frequency and spatial distribution of such shocks in Madagascar. The association between shocks, community and household assets, and levels of economic well-being (as measured by per-capita expenditures) is then explored, along with the implications for reducing levels of chronic poverty.
Global parameter-space correlations of coherent searches for continuous gravitational waves
Creators: name: Prix, Reinhard
name: Itoh, Yousuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The space of phase-parameters (sky-position, frequency, spindowns) of a coherent matched-filtering search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars shows strong global correlations (``circles in the sky''). In the local limit this can be analysed in terms of a parameter-space metric, but the global properties are less well studied. In this work we report on our recent progress in understanding these global correlations analytically for short to intermediate (less than a month, say) observation times and neglecting spindowns. The location of these correlation-circles in parameter-space is found to be determined mostly by the orbital velocity of the earth, while the spin-motion of the detector and the antenna-patterns only contribute significantly to the amplitude of the detection statistic along these circles.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures; contribution to GWDAW9, submitted to CQG
Transfer Learning for British Sign Language Modelling
Creators: name: Mocialov, Boris
name: Turner, Graham
name: Hastie, Helen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic speech recognition and spoken dialogue systems have made great advances through the use of deep machine learning methods. This is partly due to greater computing power but also through the large amount of data available in common languages, such as English. Conversely, research in minority languages, including sign languages, is hampered by the severe lack of data. This has led to work on transfer learning methods, whereby a model developed for one language is reused as the starting point for a model on a second language, which is less resourced. In this paper, we examine two transfer learning techniques of fine-tuning and layer substitution for language modelling of British Sign Language. Our results show improvement in perplexity when using transfer learning with standard stacked LSTM models, trained initially using a large corpus for standard English from the Penn Treebank corpus
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AMONG SLASH-AND-BURN FARMERS IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEFORESTATION AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETS
Creators: name: Smith, Joyotee
name: Mourato, Susana
name: Veneklaas, Erik
name: Labarta, Ricardo A.
name: Reategui, Keneth
name: Sanchez, Glendy
name: Smith, Joyotee
name: Mourato, Susana
name: Veneklaas, Erik
name: Labarta, Ricardo A.
name: Reategui, Keneth
name: Sanchez, Glendy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: A Contingent Valuation survey shows that the possibility of trade in carbon sequestration services exists between utility companies and slash-and-burn farmers in the Amazon and that farmers positively value the environmental services of the forest. Global environmental markets could enhance the effectiveness of traditional forest conservation efforts while benefitting resource-poor farmers.
Integration and informal settlement upgrading : the Ashwayat of Cairo, Egypt
Creators: name: Sedky, Noha E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In developing countries, informal settlements play an integral part in each of the physical, economic, and institutional layers of the city. Using the case of Cairo, this study discusses how one policy approach has attempted to address this extended phenomenon. The policy of integrating the informal city into the modern structures of the formal state and related institutions has gained much interest by development practitioners and state authorities alike. To assess the validity of this approach, this paper examines three interventions that attempt to enhance the linkages between the formal and informal city. In evaluating the upgrading projects, the following issues are considered: Have these upgrading interventions been able to adequately determine and address the needs of the residents? What was the level of user involvement in project implementation and design? Did they build upon and work with existing local institutions? Most importantly, have these initiatives been able to develop dynamic approaches to informal settlement development and change?
Unitarily graded field extensions
Creators: name: Brenner, Holger
name: Kaid, Almar
name: Storch, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R32; 11R20; 12F10; 12E30; 13A02

description: We introduce the universal unitarily graded A-algebra for a commutative ring A and an arbitrary abelian extension U of the group of units of A, and use this concept to give simplified proofs of the main theorems of co-Galois theory in the sense of T. Albu. The main tool is a generalisation of a theorem by M. Kneser which, in our language, is a criterion for the universal algebra to be a field when the base ring A is itself a field. This theorem implies also the theorem of A. Schinzel on linearly independent roots. We discuss examples involving the injective hull of the multiplicative group of a field and we develop criteria for Galois extensions which allow a co-Galois grading, in particular for the cyclic case.
description: Some minor changes; to appear in Acta Arithmetica
Simultaneous deconvolution of bulk-sample and single-cell data leads to improved characterization of tumors
Creators: name: Chepeleva, Maryna
name: Kakoichankava, Aliaksandra
name: Muller, Arnaud
name: Kaoma, Tony
name: Yatskou, Mikalai M.
name: Nazarov, Petr V.
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: In this work, we applied a data-driven deconvolution method called consensus independent component analysis (ICA) to resolve the complexity of bulk and single cell data. The method was able to separate technical biases from signals of biological interest, isolate signals from different biological processes and cell subpopulations in different components, and integrate transcriptomics data with patient clinical data. The method was tested on TCGA and several independent datasets. Two single-cell RNA-seq datasets composed of 2544 normal pancreas cells and 3304 cancer cells from two patient-derived glioblastoma cell-lines were considered. Matching deconvolution results obtained on bulk cancer samples and single-cell data, we found two the most correlated components linked to the cell cycle and two others represented overall gene expression. ICA allows isolating signal from specific cell type, as acinar, mesenchymal, pancreatic ductal and pancreatic A cells, in components and match it with components of bulk sample data. By mapping of the components between bulk and single cell datasets, we improved the annotation of the components and therefore established a link between observation at cellular level and clinical data. Furthermore, new annotation can be used in interpretation of predicting models for patient classification.
EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF HOSPITALS IN THE GREAT PLAINS: AN URBAN-RURAL COMPARISON
Creators: name: Toodi, Bhaskar
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
name: Young, Ronald C.
name: Toodi, Bhaskar
name: Featherstone, Allen M.
name: Young, Ronald C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Health Economics and Policy

description: This study examined the efficiency of a sample of hospitals in the Great Plains using a nonparametric approach. Technical efficiency was less than either allocative or scale efficiency. Urban hospitals are relatively more efficient than rural hospitals with respect to all efficiency measures. Private hospitals are more efficient than others.
Inhomogeneous freeze-out in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Dumitru, A.
name: Portugal, L.
name: Zschiesche, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A QCD phase transition may reflect in a inhomogeneous decoupling surface of hadrons produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We show that due to the non-linear dependence of the particle densities on the temperature and baryon-chemical potential such inhomogeneities should be visible even in the integrated, inclusive abundances. We analyze experimental data from Pb+Pb collisions at CERN-SPS and Au+Au collisions at BNL-RHIC to determine the amplitude of inhomogeneities.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
MTL-CNN: a highly-sensitive multi-task CNN learning model for taxonomic assignment of human viruses
Creators: name: Haoran Ma
name: Hon Kim Kenneth Ban
name: Tan, Tin Wee
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Background
Taxonomic assignment is a key step in the identification of human pathogens. Current tools for taxonomic assignment from sequencing reads based on alignment or alignment-free k-mer approaches may not perform optimally in cases where the sequences diverge significantly from the reference sequences (e.g. in viruses with high mutation rates). Furthermore, many tools may not incorporate sequence coverage of assigned reads as an indication of the likelihood of a correct taxonomic assignment. ​

Methods
A multi-task learning model based on convolutional neural network (CNN) was developed to perform taxonomic assignment for human viruses and coverage calculation for assigned reads. In the architecture, multiple MaxPooling and BatchNormalization layers were added for tolerating the mutations in virus nucleotide sequences. To calculate coverage, locations of each input read were predicted as the second task of the architecture. The model was trained on the augmented ICTV datasets by using an early-stopping strategy.

Results
For taxonomic assignment, the multi-task CNN model outperformed Kraken 2, Centrifuge and Bowtie 2 on simulated datasets, and showed it was able to identify the closest relation to the SARS virus with the highest sensitivity in four RNA sequencing datasets for SARS-CoV-2 virus. For coverage calculation, the Kappa score on one million unseen simulated reads was higher than 0.94.

Significance
Our multi-task CNN model is highly sensitive on human viruses and can calculate coverage.
Can Remote Observing be Good Observing? Reflections on Procrustes and Antaeus
Creators: name: Lockman, Felix J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Remote observing seeks to simulate the presence of the astronomer at the telescope. While this is useful, and necessary in some circumstances, simulation is not reality. The drive to abstract the astronomer from the instrument can have unpleasant consequences, some of which are prefigured in the ancient tales of Procrustes and Antaeus. This article, written in 1992 for a conference proceedings on remote observing, is reprinted here with only slight editorial changes and the addition of a short Afterword. I consider some of the human factors involved in remote observing, and suggest that our aim be to enhance rather than supplant the astronomer at the telescope.
description: Slightly edited version of an article published in 1993 in 'Observing at a Distance' eds. D.T. Emerson & R.G. Clowes, World Scientific, p325, with a new short Afterword. Posted at the request of Paul Schechter
ASSESSING OPT-OUT FORMATS FOR DISCRETE-CHOICE STATED PREFERENCES: RESULTS FROM A SALTWATER ANGLING SURVEY
Creators: name: Ruby, Melissa C.
name: Johnson, F. Reed
name: Mathews, Kristy E.
name: Ruby, Melissa C.
name: Johnson, F. Reed
name: Mathews, Kristy E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: An important methodological issue in stated-preference (SP) experiments is the inclusion and format of an opt-out option. A split-sample design is used in a saltwater angling SP survey to test how including a "no-trip" option influences attribute salience relative to an option that allows respondents to choose their customary site.
Completing bases in four dimensions
Creators: name: Havlicek, Hans
name: Svozil, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Criteria and constructive methods for the completion of an incomplete basis of, or context in, a four-dimensional Hilbert space by (in)decomposable vectors are given.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, explanations added, text polished, final version
DISCUSSANT'S COMMENTS FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, SELECTED PAPERS SESSION SP-6AA: "NON-TARIFF BARRIERS"
Creators: name: Rude, James
name: Rude, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: Sanitary and phytosanitary regulations, import quotas, government farm policies, and other trade restrictions are analyzed with regard to their effects on agricultural commodity trade. Veterinary Standards as Barriers to Trade: The Case of Poultry Trade Between the U.S. and the EU, Tian Xia and Sylvia Weyerbrock. Estimation of Import Demand under Quota Licenses: The Case of Japan's Wheat, Kevin Chen and Renee Kim, University of Alberta. Government Policies and their Effects on Resource Use in the U.S. Grain and Oilseed Sectors, Peter Liapis, USDA/ERS. Non-Tariff Trade Restrictions on Genetically Modified Organisms: A Public Goods Model of Agricultural Product Standardization, Lee Ann Jackson and C. Ford Runge, University of Minnesota.
Unorthodox properties of critical clusters
Creators: name: Robledo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We look at the properties of clusters of order parameter at critical points in thermal systems and consider their significance to statistical-mechanical ground rules. These properties have been previously obtained through the saddle-point approximation in a coarse-grained partition function. We examine both static and dynamical aspects of a single large cluster and indicate that these properties fall outside the canonical Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) scheme. Specifically: 1) The faster than exponential growth with cluster size of the space-integrated order parameter suggests nonextensivity of the BG entropy but extensivity of a q-entropy expression. 2) The finding that the time evolution of the order parameter is described by the dynamics of an intermittent nonlinear map implies an atypical sensitivity to initial conditions compatible with q-statistics and displays an 'aging' scaling property. 3) Both, the approach to criticality and the infinite-size cluster limit at criticality manifest through a crossover from canonical to q-statistics and we discuss the nonuniform convergence associated to these features. Key words: critical clusters, saddle-point approximation, q-entropy, intermittency, aging
description: Contribution to the Special Issue of Molecular Physics in honor of Ben Widom
Childhood maltreatment experiences and adult attachment style in male offenders
Creators: name: Sirkia, T. Diane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: John Bowlby began to study childhood maltreatment, attachment and offending behavior many years before he conceived of attachment theory; through work with maladjusted children he came to believe that actual family experiences were key factors in the etiology of emotional disturbances. The present study examined the childhood maltreatment experiences and adult attachment representations, as defined by Bartholomew (1990) of 40 adult male offenders incarcerated at a medium security federal institution in the Fraser Valley. A control group, of 23 University of British Columbia male undergraduates, was also examined. Childhood maltreatment and other familial experiences were gathered using a modified version of the Family Attachment Interview (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991); adult attachment representations were assessed using the Peer Attachment Interview (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991), and coded using the four-category attachment framework developed by Bartholomew (1990). Participants also completed a questionnaire package that will not be analyzed for purposes of this thesis. It was found that the offender sample did experience significantly more childhood maltreatment on 5 of the 6 maltreatment variables than did the undergraduate sample; however no significant difference was found on the emotional neglect variable. In terms of attachment representations, results indicate that the inmate population is significantly more insecure in their attachment representations than are the university undergraduates; however, when compared to similar samples in the literature, both groups were significantly different in their attachment representations. Significant differences in childhood maltreatment, and attachment representation were not found. Discussion focuses on the limitations of the present samples, the need for future research on this issue with larger samples, and the usefulness of the attachment paradigm in understanding the impact of childhood maltreatment and family of origin variables on offenders; from both treatment and risk management perspectives.
A DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF PRICE DETERMINATION UNDER JOINT PROFIT MAXIMIZATION IN BILATERAL MONOPOLY
Creators: name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Devadoss, Stephen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Industrial Organization
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This study provides a dynamic mathematical treatment of price determination under bilateral monopoly. The results are: a) a quantitiative solution for the equilibrium price; b) equality of profits of the buyer and seller; c) dynamically stable equilibrium price; and d) the bargaining process achieves the equilibrium price at a faster pace for larger value of the quantity.
การพนันในสังคมไทย: ภาพสะท้อนจากวรรณกรรม
Creators: name: สุภาพร พลายเล็ก
Publisher: name: คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์
Year: 2004
Subjects: -

description: วรรณวิทัศน์, 4, พฤศจิกายน, 20-48
Return-Map Cryptanalysis Revisited
Creators: name: Li, Shujun
name: Chen, Guanrong
name: Álvarez, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As a powerful cryptanalysis tool, the method of return-map attacks can be used to extract secret messages masked by chaos in secure communication schemes. Recently, a simple defensive mechanism was presented to enhance the security of chaotic parameter modulation schemes against return-map attacks. Two techniques are combined in the proposed defensive mechanism: multistep parameter modulation and alternative driving of two different transmitter variables. This paper re-studies the security of this proposed defensive mechanism against return-map attacks, and points out that the security was much over-estimated in the original publication for both ciphertext-only attack and known/chosen-plaintext attacks. It is found that a deterministic relationship exists between the shape of the return map and the modulated parameter, and that such a relationship can be used to dramatically enhance return-map attacks thereby making them quite easy to break the defensive mechanism.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures