cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Dispersal of Gemma gemma. (Totten) and the Recolonization of Crab Foraging Pits in an Intertidal Sandflat
Creators: name: Currier, Carol Anne
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1989

description: Community structure in soft-bottom marine systems can be affected by biotic disturbances. At Tom's Cove, Assateague Island, Virginia, blue crabs and horseshoe crabs disturb the sediment in summer months by digging pits or depressions as they forage and mate. In this study, three hypotheses were tested to examine the recolonization dynamics of depressions by the dominant infaunal organism, the small, ovoviviparous bivalve, Gemma gemma (Totten). Hypothesis 1 predicted that the absolute and relative recolonization rates of G. gemma in depressions are greater in summer than in winter. Hypothesis 2 predicted that the movement of G. gemma is size- and age-selective, with a greater proportion of small, juvenile individuals found in depressions than in control areas. Hypothesis 3 predicted that dispersal of G. gemma is a passive phenomenon and occurs as individuals are moved by bedload transport. In summer 1986, hand-dug pits, simulating natural crab pits, were sampled over time to determine summer recolonization rates, and pitfall traps were employed to measure the sediment volume and number of G. gemma moving into depressions by bedload transport. Results from this study were compared with values from samples obtained in similar studies during winter months at the same site.
Do Agricultural Commodity Firm Stock Price and Agricultural Commodity Price Move Together?
Creators: name: Declerck, Francis
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2014
Subjects: Commodity; Pricing; Agricultural Commodity; Stock Price; Hedging

description: The research aims at explaining stock performance of processing companies as a function of commodity performance on commodity markets. The results show that stock prices of food companies do not significantly depend on agricultural market prices. So, risks of agricultural market price volatility cannot be hedged using food
firm stocks, whose markets are more liquid.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 5, No 3 (2014)
On the Welfare Consequences of Political Activity
Creators: name: Coggins, Jay S.
name: Coggins, Jay S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Political economy
subject: lobbying behavior
subject: rent-seeking
subject: distortionary policy.

description: When economic actors are also allowed to become politically active, perhaps to influence a government price policy, they face decision problems with essentially simultaneous political and economic features. If, in addition, two groups struggle to pull the administered price level in opposite directions, an important strategic component is introduced. On two levels, then, such situations depart from the competitive economy framework of Arrow and Debreu. The model of this paper is designed to reconcile the general equilibrium model with politically active interest groups. This model is then used to assess the welfare consequences of such lobbying activity. We find that very often a lobbying program with price distortions is not the best means for regulating these economies. However, there may be cases in which no alternative policy could achieve the outcome resulting from the lobbying program. Keywords: Political economy, lobbying behavior, rent-seeking, distortionary policy.
Verkuyl, Johannes: Inleiding in de nieuwere Zendingswetenschap ...
Creators: name: Gensichen, Hans-Werner
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (1977): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 26, Heft 4
A Review of Distributions on the String Landscape
Creators: name: Kumar, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some basic flux vacua counting techniques and results, focusing on the distributions of properties over different regions of the landscape of string vacua and assessing the phenomenological implications. The topics we discuss include: an overview of how moduli are stabilized and how vacua are counted; the applicability of effective field theory; the uses of and differences between probabilistic and statistical analysis (and the relation to the anthropic principle); the distribution of various parameters on the landscape, including cosmological constant, gauge group rank, and SUSY-breaking scale; "friendly landscapes"; open string moduli; the (in)finiteness of the number of phenomenologically viable vacua; etc. At all points, we attempt to connect this study to the phenomenology of vacua which are experimentally viable.
description: Invited review, IJMP A. LaTeX. 39 pages. References added
Structural Adjustment and Trade in Turkey: A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Export-Led Versus Domestic Demand-Led Strategies of Development
Creators: name: Yeldan, A. Erinc
name: Yeldan, A. Erinc
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1987
Subjects: International Development
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper attempts to assess the feasibility of the current strategy of manufactured export-led growth for Turkey over the Fifth and Sixth Five-Year Plan periods (1985-1994). The explicit hypothesis of the paper is that a domestic market, wage-goods oriented development strategy with agriculture leading the process will be more conducive to Turkey's long-term economic growth, as compared to an export-oriented strategy. The simulation experiments are conducted with the aid of a dynamic micro-planning model which belongs to a class of price-endogenous constructs known as Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models. The model as applied to Turkey distinguishes seven economic sectors, four types of labor, three consumer groups, seven social classes, and a government. In addition, it accommodates both fixed and flexible wages along with a disequilibrium mechanism of labor allocation, endogenous rural-urban migration, international trade flows with government intervention, and separate rules of allocation for the private -versus- public fixed investment. The overall conclusion that is supported by this study is that by combining a time-wise regressive, selective export-promotion program with a domestic demand oriented, wage-goods strategy, Turkey can achieve a superior growth performance over the current strategy of manufactured export-led industrialization. The model results further emphasize the pressing need for the revitalization of the domestic demand, and the importance of the agricultural productivity growth in promoting Turkey's overall objectives of industrialization, income equity, and foreign trade over the Fifth and Sixth Plan periods.
Atmospheric electrification in the Solar System
Creators: name: Aplin, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atmospheric electrification is not a purely terrestrial phenomenon: all Solar System planetary atmospheres become slightly electrified by cosmic ray ionisation. There is evidence for lightning on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and it appears likely to exist on Mars, Venus and Titan. Atmospheric electricity has controversially been implicated in climate on Earth; here, a comparative approach is employed to review the role of electrification in the atmospheres of other planets and their moons. This paper reviews planetary atmospheric electricity including ionisation and ion-aerosol interactions. The conditions necessary for a global electric circuit, and the likelihood of meeting these conditions in other planetary atmospheres are briefly discussed. Atmospheric electrification could be important throughout the Solar System, particularly at the outer planets which receive little solar radiation, increasing the significance of electrical forces. Nucleation onto atmospheric ions has been predicted to affect the evolution and lifetime of haze layers on Titan, Neptune, and Triton. Atmospheric electrical processes on Titan, pre-Huygens, are summarised. Closer to Earth, heating from solar radiation dominates planetary meteorology; however Mars may have a global circuit based on electrical discharges from dust storms. There is a need for direct measurements of planetary atmospheric electrification, in particular on Mars, to assess the risk for future missions. Theoretical understanding could be increased by cross-disciplinary work to modify and update models and parameterisations initially developed for specific planetary atmospheres to make them more broadly applicable.
description: Submitted to Surveys in Geophysics. Abstract shown here is slightly abridged for brevity
SUSY GUTs with Yukawa unification: a go/no-go study using FCNC processes
Creators: name: Altmannshofer, Wolfgang
name: Guadagnoli, Diego
name: Raby, Stuart
name: Straub, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the viability of exact Yukawa unification in the context of general SUSY GUTs with universal soft-breaking sfermion and gaugino mass terms at the GUT scale. We find that this possibility is challenged, unless the squark spectrum is pushed well above the limits allowed by naturalness. This conclusion is assessed through a global fit using electroweak observables and quark flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) processes. The problem is mostly the impossibility of accommodating simultaneously the bottom mass and the BR(B --> Xs gamma), after the stringent CDF upper bound on the decay Bs --> mu^+ mu^- is taken into account, and under the basic assumption that the b --> s gamma amplitude have like sign with respect to the Standard Model one, as indicated by the B --> Xs l^+ l^- data. With the same strategy, we also consider the possibility of relaxing Yukawa unification to b - tau Yukawa unification. We find that with small departures from the condition tan beta ~= 50, holding when Yukawa unification is exact, the mentioned tension is substantially relieved. We emphasize that in the region where fits are successful the lightest part of the SUSY spectrum is basically fixed by the requirements of b - tau unification and the applied FCNC constraints. As such, it is easily falsifiable once the LHC turns on.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, 5 tables. v3: A few textual modifications. Conclusions unchanged. Matches journal version
Business Collaboration in Food Networks: Incremental Solution Development
Creators: name: Sundmaeker, Harald
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2014
Subjects: Business Collaboration; Food Networks; App Development; FIspace; Future Internet; Fruits & Vegetables

description: The paper will present an approach for an incremental solution development that is based on the usage of the currently developed Internet based FIspace business collaboration platform. Key element is the clear segmentation of infrastructures that are either internal or external to the collaborating business entity in the food network. On the one hand, the approach enables to differentiate between specific centralised as well as decentralised ways for data storage and hosting of IT based functionalities. The selection of specific data
exchange protocols and data models is facilitated. On the other hand, the supported solution design and subsequent development is focusing on reusable “software Apps” that can be used on their own and are incorporating a clear added value for the business actors. It will be outlined on how to push the development and introduction of Apps that do not require basic changes of the existing infrastructure. The paper will present an example that is based on the development of a set of Apps for the exchange of product quality related information in food networks, specifically addressing fresh fruits and vegetables. It combines workflow support for data exchange from farm to retail as well as to provide quality feedback information to facilitate the business process improvement. Finally, the latest status of the
FIspace platform development will be outlined. Key features and potential ways for real users and software developers in using the FIspace platform that is initiated by science and industry will be outlined.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 5, No 3 (2014)
BASLAWISH KLASLARDA KLASTAN TIS JUMISLARDIŃ ÓZGESHELIKLERI
Creators: name: Umirbaeva, Ulzada
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqalada baslawısh klass oqıwshılarınıń oy-órisin, pikirlew qábiletin, logikalıq oylaw dárejesin asırıw maqsetinde alıp barılatuǵın klastan tıs jumıslar hám olardıń ózgeshelikleri haqqında sóz etilgen. Baslawısh klass oqıwshılarına logikalıq jaqtan oylaw qábiletin asırıwda qollanılatuǵın mısal hám máseleler ústinde islew usılları kórsetilgen.
Renormalization of Twisted Ramond Fields in D1-D5 SCFT$_2$
Creators: name: Lima, A. A.
name: Sotkov, G. M.
name: Stanishkov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the Ramond sector of the deformed two-dimensional $\cal N = (4, 4)$ superconformal $(T^4)^N /S_N$ orbifold theory, describing bound states of D1-D5 brane system in type IIB superstring. We derive the large-$N$ limit of the four-point function of two R-charged twisted Ramond fields and two marginal deformation operators at the free orbifold point. Specific short-distance limits of this function provide several structure constants, the OPE fusion rules and the conformal dimensions of a few non-BPS operators. The second order correction (in the deformation parameter) to the two-point function of the Ramond fields, defined as double integrals over this four-point function, turns out to be UV-divergent, requiring an appropriate renormalization of the fields. We calculate the corrections to the conformal dimensions of the twisted Ramond ground states at the large-$N$ limit. The same integral yields the first-order deviation from zero of the structure constant of the three-point function of two Ramond fields and one deformation operator. Similar results concerning the correction to the two-point function of bare twist operators and their renormalization are also obtained.
description: V1 - 47 pages, 3 figures; V2 - 48 pages, 3 figures; improved version; to appear in JHEP
High Curie temperatures in (Ga,Mn)N from Mn clustering
Creators: name: Hynninen, Teemu
name: Raebiger, Hannes
name: Ayuela, Andres
name: von Boehm, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of microscopic Mn cluster distribution on the Curie temperature (Tc) is studied using density-functional calculations. We find that the calculated Tc depends crucially on the microscopic cluster distribution, which can explain the abnormally large variations in experimental Tc values from a few K to well above room temperature. The partially dimerized Mn_2-Mn_1 distribution is found to give the highest Tc > 500 K, and in general, the presence of the Mn_2 dimer has a tendency to enhance Tc. The lowest Tc values close to zero are obtained for the Mn_4-Mn_1 and Mn_4-Mn_3 distributions.
description: To appear in Applied Phyiscs Letters
ZILZILADAN XIMOYALOVCHI TAYANCH MOSLAMALAR YORDAMIDA BINOLARNI SEYSMIK IZOLYATSIYA QILISH USULLARI
Creators: name: Xalilov, Xusanboy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Seysmik himoya masalasini hal qilishda oddiy yondashuv - tuzilmalarning qattiqligi va mustahkamligini oshirish oddiy konstruktiv dizayndagi ko‘pgina binolar uchun ishlatilishi mumkin, ammo maxsus usullardan foydalanish yuqori ishonchlilikni saqlab, qurilish xarajatlarini kamaytirishi mumkin. Bundan tashqari, murakkab, noyob va baland binolar uchun an’anaviy yondashuvdan foydalanish deyarli imkonsiz bo‘lishi mumkin. Seysmik himoyaning yangi samarali usullari zarur. Bunday yechimlar og‘irlik va mustahkamlikni o‘zgartirishni, uning harakatlari va tezligiga qarab tizimni nomlashni o‘z ichiga oladi. Shunday qilib, to‘g‘ri loyihalash bilan seysmik himoyadan foydalanish quyidagi ko‘rsatkichlarni sezilarli darajada oshirishi mumkin:
An Alternative Measure of Human Capital Stock
Creators: name: Tao, Hung-Lin
name: Stinson, Thomas F.
name: Tao, Hung-Lin
name: Stinson, Thomas F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: An integrated approach for estimating the stock of human capital in the United States is developed which eliminates well known problems associated with both the cost and income based methods currently in use. Historical information on the cost of the educational investment made in base entrants (individuals who enter the full time labor force immediately following high school graduation) and the wage rate they receive upon entry into the work force is used to compute a rental rate for human capital. The human capital stock for other cohorts of the work force is then estimated using that rental rate and the reported earnings for each population subgroup. This method neutralizes the cost identification problems associated with the work of Kendrick and Eisner. It also allows a more realistic treatment of the depreciation and appreciation of human capital. When used to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function of the U.S. economy for the period 1963-1988, this measure provided more explanatory power than hours of labor.
Quantized Indexing: Beyond Arithmetic Coding
Creators: name: Tomic, Ratko V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: E.4; G.2.1

description: Quantized Indexing is a fast and space-efficient form of enumerative (combinatorial) coding, the strongest among asymptotically optimal universal entropy coding algorithms. The present advance in enumerative coding is similar to that made by arithmetic coding with respect to its unlimited precision predecessor, Elias coding. The arithmetic precision, execution time, table sizes and coding delay are all reduced by a factor O(n) at a redundancy below 2*log(e)/2^g bits/symbol (for n input symbols and g-bit QI precision). Due to its tighter enumeration, QI output redundancy is below that of arithmetic coding (which can be derived as a lower accuracy approximation of QI). The relative compression gain vanishes in large n and in high entropy limits and increases for shorter outputs and for less predictable data. QI is significantly faster than the fastest arithmetic coders, from factor 6 in high entropy limit to over 100 in low entropy limit (`typically' 10-20 times faster). These speedups are result of using only 3 adds, 1 shift and 2 array lookups (all in 32 bit precision) per less probable symbol and no coding operations for the most probable symbol . Further, the exact enumeration algorithm is sharpened and its lattice walks formulation is generalized. A new numeric type with a broader applicability, sliding window integer, is introduced.
description: Submitted to DCC-2006
Molecular and physiological studies of nitrate and sulfate uptake in roots of barley
Creators: name: Vidmar, Joseph John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Molecular and physiological approaches were employed to characterize nitrate and sulfate transporters from roots of Hordeum vulgare cv. Klondike. A cDNA, hvstl (accession no. U52867), by heterologous complementation in E. coli. This cDNA encodes a high-affinity sulfate transporter, that is 2442 bp in length and encodes a protein of 660 amino acids. Under steadystate conditions of sulfate supply, ranging from 2.5 to 250 μM, sulfate influx (measured at 100 uM external sulfate concentration) and hvst1 transcript levels were inversely correlated with sulfate concentrations in the culture solution. A time-course study, designed to investigate effects of S-withdrawal on the abundance of hvst1 transcript, showed a 5-fold increase of the latter within the first two hours after removing external sulfate, followed by a further slight increase during the period up to 48 h. These changes were accompanied by a parallel increase in sulfate influx and a decrease of root glutathione concentrations. When plants that had been deprived of sulfate for 24 h were exposed to 1 mM L-cysteine, or glutathione, for a period of 3 h, glutathione was the more effective down regulator of hvstl transcript levels, reducing the latter to a level that was below that of unstarved controls. Both hvstl transcript abundance and sulfate influx increased as a function of N-supply to N-starved plants. Two new cDNAs, bch3 and bch4 (homologous with an Aspergillus nidulans gene encoding a nitrate transporter, crnA) were isolated from barley roots by RACE PCR. Bch3 and bch4 are 1822 and 1705 bp, encode putative polypeptides of 507 amino acids, with a predicted m.w. of 54.6 kDa. Predicted BCH3 and BCH4 proteins are members of a nitrate/nitrite transporter subfamily of the major facilitator superfamily. Northern blot analysis, revealed that supplying NO3" to N-deprived plants increased both the abundance of bch transcripts and NO3" influx. All four bch genes (bch1, bch2, bch3, bch4) are co-ordinately up-regulated in response to NO3⁻ treatment. Plants provided with 50 pM NO3⁻ showed the highest bch transcript abundance and , JN03⁻ influx. The effects of exogenous provision of various amino acids on bch transcript levels was investigated, when plants were co-supplied with nitrate. Asparagine, aspartate, glutamate and glutamine decreased transcript levels by >60% and ¹³NO₃ influx by 50-80%. Analysis of amino acid concentrations of roots showed that the decrease of bch transcript was correlated with increased glutamine levels.
Energy dependence of current noise in double-barrier normal-superconducting structures
Creators: name: Bignon, G.
name: Pistolesi, F.
name: Houzet, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically the current-noise energy dependence for a N-N'-S structure, where N and S stand for bulk normal metal and superconductor, respectively, and N' for a short diffusive normal metal. Using quasiclassical theory of current fluctuations we obtain explicit expressions for the noise valid for arbitrary distributions of channel transparencies on both junctions. The differential Fano factor turns out to depend on both junction transparencies and the ratio of the two conductances. We conclude that measurement of differential conductance and noise can be used to probe the channel distribution of the interfaces.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Lowering and raising operators for some special orthogonal polynomials
Creators: name: Koornwinder, Tom H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C45; 33D45; 33C52

description: This paper discusses operators lowering or raising the degree but preserving the parameters of special orthogonal polynomials. Results for one-variable classical (q-)orthogonal polynomials are surveyed. For Jacobi polynomials associated with root system BC_2 a new pair of lowering and raising operators is obtained.
description: 12 pages; to appear in proceedings of the Workshop on Jack, Hall-Littlewood and Macdonald polynomials (Edinburgh, September 2003)
Error Rates and Resource Overheads of Repetition Cat Qubits
Creators: name: Guillaud, Jérémie
name: Mirrahimi, Mazyar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate and analyze the error rates and the resource overheads of the repetition cat qubit approach to universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation. The cat qubits stabilized by two-photon dissipation exhibit an extremely biased noise where the bit-flip error rate is exponentially suppressed with the mean number of photons. In a recent work, we suggested that the remaining phase-flip error channel could be suppressed using a 1D repetition code. Indeed, using only bias-preserving gates on the cat-qubits, it is possible to build a universal set of fault-tolerant logical gates at the level of the repetition cat qubit. In this paper, we perform Monte-Carlo simulations of all the circuits implementing the protected logical gates, using a circuit-level error model. Furthermore, we analyze two different approaches to implement a fault-tolerant Toffoli gate on repetition cat qubits. These numerical simulations indicate that very low logical error rates could be achieved with a reasonable resource overhead, and with parameters that are within the reach of near-term circuit QED experiments.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
Sustainability as Sales Argument in the Fruit Juice Industry? An Analysis of On-Product Communication
Creators: name: Klink, Jeanette
name: Langen, Nina
name: Hecht, Stefanie
name: Hartmann, Monika
Publisher: name: CentMA
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sustainability; content analysis; on-product-communication; fruit juice industry

description: Purpose/Value – The objective of this paper is to determine (1) the extent to which sustainability serves as a sales argument and (2) which areas of sustainability are communicated in the fruit juice industry. This seems promising against the background that there are several ethical challenges the fruit juice chain is increasingly confronted with and consumers demand for sustainable products is also rising.
 Design/Methodology – A market investigation at the Point-of Sale (POS) was conducted in July 2013. On-product communication of all fruit juice products (‘not from concentrate (NFC)’ fruit juices, ’reconstituted (RECON)’ fruit juices, fruit nectars and smoothies) from five retailers (two full-range retailers, two discounters, one organic supermarket) was analyzed. The data was evaluated using content analysis.
 Results/Findings – Overall, 562 fruit juices were examined. Results reveal that nearly one quarter of the products has labels signaling sustainable aspects. However, most of those products were found in the organic food retailer and are organic juices. Only a small number of products consider other areas of sustainability, such as social concerns or regional production.
 Discussion/Conclusion – Communicating sustainability aspects of fruit juice production via on-package labels is scarce in conventional retail stores. In view of the ethical challenges present in the fruit juice chain and discussed in the paper, the increasing demand of consumers for sustainable products and the high competition in the sector, communicating different sustainability aspects can be an opportunity for fruit juice producers and retailers to differentiate their products on the highly saturated fruit juice market.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 5, No 3 (2014)
Lienhard, Marc (hrsg.): Zeugnis und Dienst reformatorischer Kirchen im Europa der Gegenwart
Creators: name: Kantzenbach, Friedrich Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (1977): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 26, Heft 4
Political Economy of Structural Adjustment: A General Equilibirum- Interest Group Perspective
Creators: name: Roe, Terry L.
name: Roe, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Political Economy

description: Economic policy, policy reform and sustainability are viewed as a political- collective action process. The challenge is to provide incentives for collective action that yield an efficient allocation of a country's resources and to prevent the reemergence of the old policy regime once a crises is resolved. A modified Ricardo-Viner model with rent seeking households is used to provide insights into the factors that cause action to be misdirected, and into how policy reform might be induced and sustained. The analysis suggests the use of instruments that decrease the scope for rent seeking, provide resources - in the form of public goods - to the less influential, and compensatory payments to those disadvantaged by reform. Several recent IBRD and IMF country programs include these types of payments.
Can money buy happiness?: the influence of money on well-being
Creators: name: Noland, Gabrielle
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2015
Subjects: money
happiness
health
materialism
homelessness
prosocial spending

description: This paper was the recipient of the Towson Seminar Information Literacy Award for the Fall 2015 semester. It was written for section 058 - Living a Meaningful Life: Well Being and Occupation, taught by Ann S. Greenbaum.
description: There are many factors that affect an individual’s well-being, with money being one of them. Multiple sources address the correlations between income and happiness through subjects such as prosocial spending, materialism, the pursuit of intrinsic versus extrinsic values, and the effects of homelessness on physical and mental health. In many cases, money can have a negative effect on both happiness and health, especially through financial stress. In some cases, however, money may have a positive effect on happiness and health, through spending money on others, for example. This paper will investigate the varying influences of money on emotional and physical well-being.
Existence of Equilibria in Lobbying Economics
Creators: name: Coggins, Jay S.
name: Graham-Tomasi, Theodore
name: Roe, Terry L.
name: Coggins, Jay S.
name: Graham-Tomasi, Theodore
name: Roe, Terry L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Political economy
subject: rent seeking
subject: generalized game
subject: lobbying equilibrium

description: Governments often establish economic policy in response to political pressure by interest groups. Since these groups' political activities may alter prices, economies so affected cannot be characterized by perfect competition. We develop a model of a "lobbying economy" in which consumers' choice of political activity simultaneously determines relative prices and income levels. They balance the loss in income due to lobbying payments against the potential gain in wealth from a favorable government price policy. This paper proves the existence of an equilibrium in economies of this sort. We reformulate the economy as a generalized lobbying game and prove the existence of a non-cooperative equilibrium in the game. This equilibrium is then shown to be an equilibrium in the economy.
Guilty pleasures : the uses of farcical prints for children in early modern Amsterdam
Creators: name: Vanhaelen, Engeline Christine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis examines the remarkable range of farcical prints that were marketed for 1 children in late seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Evoking controversial theatre plays, these prints picture slap-stick, sexually nuanced comic scenarios that do not seem in keeping with contemporary' convictions that the up-bringing of children was a key means to secure the future of the state. Yet there is evidence to indicate that this printed imagery did play a role in the education of middle-class children. Such contradictions open up significant questions about the reshaping of middle-class identity at a crucial moment in the emergence of the capitalist state. Indeed, the problem that this study investigates emerges from late seventeenth-century debates about the didactic function of comic prints and plays. Defenders of these forms argued that they effectively inculcated social norms-particularly mercantile ethics, gender roles, and class distinctions—in young viewers. Those who attacked the social role of this material, on the other hand, stated that it provided viewing pleasures that actually subverted these pedagogical intentions. Through an analysis of the prints themselves, I examine the ways in which the visual pleasures of these forms lured viewers in order to trap them within moral meanings. While this may have been their intended function, however, I also found much evidence that the enjoyment of farcical forms could, and did, overflow didactic restraints. It was this subversive potential that made comic forms particularly threatening to civic and church leaders of the day. In fact, a number of children's prints were linked to a series of farces that were banned from Amsterdam's theatre in the 1670's. With this, children's prints can be situated in historically specific contests about the control of urban spaces and populations. Throughout this thesis, the function of children's prints is not discussed solely in terms of either discipline or subversion, however. Rather, I argue that it is precisely the unresolved tension between comic pleasure and didactic instruction that characterizes these prints and their uses.
Induced Technical Change in Centrally Planned Economies
Creators: name: Fan, Shenggen
name: Ruttan, Vernon W.
name: Fan, Shenggen
name: Ruttan, Vernon W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: It has generally been assumed that the inferences of the induced technical change model with respect to the direction of technical change could not be expected to hold for the centrally planned economies. In this paper we test three hypotheses generated from the induced technical change hypotheses against the experience of centrally planned economies: (a) if land becomes increasingly scarce new technology will be biased in a land-saving direction; (b) if labor becomes increasingly scarce new technology will be biased in a laborsaving direction; and (c) changes in the land-labor ratio have been induced by changes in relative factor endowments. The results suggest a bias toward mechanical and against biological technology regardless of factor endowments. This is consistent with the well known ideological or policy bias in a number of centrally planned economies toward a capital intensive development strategy.
From perturbative to non-perturbative in the O(4) sigma model
Creators: name: Abbott, Michael C.
name: Bajnok, Zoltán
name: Balog, János
name: Hegedűs, Árpád
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the resurgent trans-series for the free energy of the two-dimensional O(4) sigma model in a magnetic field. Exploiting integrability, we obtain very high-order perturbative data, from which we can explore non-perturbative sectors. We are able to determine exactly the leading real-valued exponentially small terms, which we check against the direct numerical solution of the exact integral equation, and find complete agreement.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. v2 adds some references, one more term d_3, v3: some explanations are clarified, document is restructured, 11 pages now
The 7Be(d,p)2alpha cross section at Big Bang energies and the primordial 7Li abundance
Creators: name: Angulo, C.
name: Casarejos, E.
name: Couder, M.
name: Demaret, P.
name: Leleux, P.
name: Vanderbist, F.
name: Coc, A.
name: Kiener, J.
name: Tatischeff, V.
name: Davinson, T.
name: Murphy, A. S.
name: Achouri, N. L.
name: Orr, N. A.
name: Cortina-Gil, D.
name: Figuera, P.
name: Fulton, B. R.
name: Mukha, I.
name: Vangioni, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The WMAP satellite, devoted to the observations of the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, has recently provided a determination of the baryonic density of the Universe with unprecedented precision. Using this, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) calculations predict a primordial 7Li abundance which is a factor 2-3 higher than that observed in galactic halo dwarf stars. It has been argued that this discrepancy could be resolved if the 7Be(d,p)2alpha reaction rate is around a factor of 100 larger than has previously been considered. We have now studied this reaction, for the first time at energies appropriate to the Big Bang environment, at the CYCLONE radioactive beam facility at Louvain-la-Neuve. The cross section was found to be a factor of 10 smaller than derived from earlier measurements. It is concluded therefore that nuclear uncertainties cannot explain the discrepancy between observed and predicted primordial 7Li abundances, and an alternative astrophysical solution must be investigated.
description: To appear in Astrophysical J. Letters
ОСОБЕННОСТИ ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ ИММУННОГО СТАТУСА ПРИ ИШЕМИЧЕСКОМ ИНСУЛЬТЕ В ОСТРОМ ПЕРИОДЕ С УЧЕТОМ ГЕНДЕРНЫХ РАЗЛИЧИЙ
Creators: name: Нарзуллаев, Н.У.
name: Шомуродов, Х.Ш.
name: Умарова, М.Н.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Цель исследования – выявить особенности изменений иммунного статуса у больных с ишемическим инсультом в остром периоде с учетом гендерных различий.
Enhancement of the critical slowing down influenced by extended defects
Creators: name: Blavatska, V.
name: Dudka, M.
name: Folk, R.
name: Holovatch, Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an influence of the quenched extended defects on the critical dynamics of the d=3-dimensional systems with m-component non-conserved order parameter (model A dynamics). Considering defects to be correlated in ε_d dimensions and randomly distributed in d-ε_d dimensions we obtain reliable numerical values for the critical exponents governing divergence of the relaxation time as function of m and ε_d.
description: Submitted to the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference "Physics of Liquid Matter: Modern Problems", May 27-31, 2005, Kyiv, Ukraine
Some Economic Problems Facing Agriculture in the United States
Creators: name: Gruen, Fred H.G.
name: Gruen, Fred H.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1948
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: In 1947 the U.S. Congressional Committees on Agriculture held hearings regarding long-range agricultural policy and programmes. The United States Department of Agriculture, represented by some of its senior officers, presented a number of very interesting tables and reports to the Committees for examination. Recent developments in American agriculture and possible future problems are dealt with at length and, a wealth of factual detail has been made available in these pages to the Congressional Committees and to the interested public. The purpose of this article is to summarise some of the recent developments in U.S. agriculture, to discuss current trends in overall economic thinking, and to examine some of the problems which are considered likely to face U.S. agriculture in the future. Many of these problems are discussed at length in the testimony prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but others again are only barely mentioned.
Strongly nonexponential time-resolved fluorescence of quantum-dot ensembles in three-dimensional photonic crystals
Creators: name: Nikolaev, Ivan S.
name: Lodahl, Peter
name: van Driel, A. Floris
name: Koenderink, A. Femius
name: Vos, Willem L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe experimentally that ensembles of quantum dots in three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals reveal strongly nonexponential time-resolved emission. These complex emission decay curves are analyzed with a continuous distribution of decay rates. The log-normal distribution describes the decays well for all studied lattice parameters. The distribution width is identified with variations of the radiative emission rates of quantum dots with various positions and dipole orientations in the unit cell. We find a striking sixfold change of the width of the distribution by varying the lattice parameter. This interpretation qualitatively agrees with the calculations of the 3D projected local density of states. We therefore conclude that fluorescence decay of ensembles of quantum dots is highly nonexponential to an extent that is controlled by photonic crystals.
description: - changed content - 5 pages with 4 figures
Optimal collection of radiation emitted by a trapped atomic ensemble
Creators: name: Kurkó, A.
name: Domokos, P.
name: Vukics, A.
name: Bækkegaard, T.
name: Zinner, N. T.
name: Fortágh, J.
name: Petrosyan, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Trapped atomic ensembles are convenient systems for quantum information storage in the long-lived sublevels of the electronic ground state and its conversion to propagating optical photons via stimulated Raman processes. Here we investigate a phase-matched emission of photons from a coherently prepared atomic ensemble. We consider an ensemble of cold atoms in an elongated harmonic trap with normal density distribution, and determine the parameters of paraxial optics to match the mode geometry of the emitted radiation and optimally collect it into an optical waveguide.
The rate of return on R&D in the South African Sugar Industry, 1925-2001
Creators: name: Nieuwoudt, W. Lieb
name: Nieuwoudt, T.W.
name: Nieuwoudt, W. Lieb
name: Nieuwoudt, T.W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The rate of return (ROR) on R&D in the South African Sugar Industry is estimated from a Ridge Regression of a production function of time series data for the period 1925 to 2001. The Industry has kept records on R&D expenditure, yields, rainfall and related factors over a 75-year period. Sugar cane yield was measured in tons sucrose to account for quality improvement. In this function, R&D expenditure lagged three years was significant (t = 6.5) in explaining increased sucrose production per ha. Other highly significant variables in this model were rainfall (t = 5.2) and real cost of production (t = 8.4). A dummy interaction with R&D was significant (t = 2.9) implying a greater impact for R&D technology during the period 1959 to 1975 than either before or after this period. The standardised regression model indicated that the R&D variable was one of the most important variables in explaining yield. Using the elasticity of production estimate for the R&D variable of the un-standardised model, a Benefit/Cost ratio for this variable of 1.41 was estimated, if benefit of millers is excluded and 1.59, if the gain to millers is included. In the latter estimates, the exports realisation price of sugar was used as the appropriate shadow price. A real internal rate of return was estimated at 17%. A unique feature of the South African Sugar Industry is that research is privately funded by the industry, which implies that the distortionary impact of taxes need not be accounted for, as is the case with public funded research.
Research management of water economics in agriculture - an open agenda
Creators: name: Backeberg, G.R.
name: Backeberg, G.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: It is indeed a privilege and an honour to deliver the FR Tomlinson Commemorative lecture this year. Although the invitation was quite unexpected, it is of course highly appreciated. When Prof Johann Kirsten phoned me with the request, I was initially not sure what topic I should address. The topic, which I have now formulated, is one which has fascinated me and certainly kept me busy for the most part of my career. I want to share with you some thoughts and perspectives, but will steer away from a laborious review or an abstract analysis. In doing so, I trust that this is appropriate within the spirit of the occasion, which is now a well established tradition in the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA). Let me start with a quotation which is at the core of the theme I want to unfold in this lecture. Our most important resource is not land, nor capital and even less the climate. Our most important resource is not the gold under the earth's crust, or the oil that might be there. Our most important resource is our human material. We must develop our human material and make full use of it. (Groenewald JA, 1973a)
Von Hammerstein, Franz (hrsg.): Von Vorurteilen zum Verständnis, Dokumente zum jüdisch-christlichen Dialog
Creators: name: Pfisterer, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 26 Nr. 4 (1977): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 26, Heft 4
Evolutionary mechanisms of box C/D and H/ACA snoRNAs in mammals resulted in multi-member families differing in family size, genomic locations and abundance regulation
Creators: name: Bergeron, Danny
name: Laforest, Cédric
name: Carpentier, Stacey
name: Calvé, Annabelle
name: Deschamps-Francoeur, Gabrielle
name: Scott S, Michelle
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are an abundant class of noncoding RNAs present in all eukaryotes and best known for their involvement in ribosome biogenesis. In mammalian genomes, many snoRNAs exist in multiple copies, resulting from recombination and retrotransposition from the same ancestral snoRNA. To gain insight into snoRNA copy regulation, we used Rfam classification and normal human tissue expression datasets generated using low structure bias RNA-seq to characterize snoRNA families. We found that although box H/ACA families are on average larger than box C/D families, the number of expressed members is similar for both types. Family members can cover a wide range of average abundance values but importantly, expression variability of individual members of a family is preferred over the total variability of the family, especially for box H/ACA snoRNAs, suggesting that while members are likely differentially regulated, mechanisms exist to ensure uniformity in the total family abundance across tissues. . Box C/D snoRNA family members are mostly embedded in the same host gene while box H/ACA family members tend to be encoded in more than one different host. And unexpectedly, snoRNAs encoded in the same host gene can be regulated independently, as some snoRNAs within the same family vary in abundance in a divergent way between tissues. Collectively, these findings support a model in which duplication of C/D snoRNAs occurred mostly through cis-recombination, while duplication of H/ACA snoRNA resulted mostly from retrotransposition, with consequences on family sizes, genomic locations and expression regulation mechanisms specific to each family.
Enhanced Elasticity and Soft Glassy Rheology of a Smectic in a Random Porous Environment
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini
name: Liang, Dennis
name: Colby, Ralph H.
name: Harden, James L.
name: Leheny, Robert L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report studies of the frequency dependent shear modulus, $G^*(ω)=G'(ω)+iG''(ω)$, of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) confined in a colloidal aerosil gel. With the onset of smectic order, $G'$ grows approximately linearly with decreasing temperature, reaching values that exceed by more than three orders of magnitude the values for pure 8CB. The modulus at low temperatures possesses a power-law component, $G^*(ω) \sim ω^α$, with exponent $α$ that approaches zero with increasing gel density. The amplitude of $G'$ and its variation with temperature and gel density indicate that the low temperature response is dominated by a dense population of defects in the smectic. In contrast, when the 8CB is isotropic or nematic, the modulus is controlled by the elastic behavior of the colloidal gel.
description: 4 pages, 4 eps figures; accepted for publication in Phys Rev Lett