cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Refinements in Effective Potential Calculations in the MSSM
Creators: name: Argyrou, M.
name: Katsikatsou, A.
name: Malamos, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-loop effective potential is a powerful tool in studying the electroweak symmetry breaking of supersymmetric theories, whose precise calculation may have important phenomenological consequences. In this work, we are correctly treating the contribution of the Higgs sector to the effective potential and refine the radiative corrections to the Higgs mixing parameter $μ$, which is known to affect greatly the supersymmetric spectrum. Working at the average stop scale to minimize the effect of the stop sector, we find additional corrections which can play a dominant role in the Focus Point region of the parameter space of the MSSM. The comparison of our results with those of the literature is discussed. We also discuss the gauge dependence of the effective potential and its effect on the $μ$ parameter in analyses where this is determined from the 1-loop minimization conditions of the effective potential.
description: 13 pages LateX, 3 eps figures. Revisions to text, comments and relevant references added
Reversible interger-to-interger wavelet transforms for image coding
Creators: name: Adams, Michael David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Reversible integer-to-integer (ITI) wavelet transforms are studied in the context of image coding. Considered are matters such as transform frameworks, transform design techniques, the utility of transforms for image coding, and numerous practical issues related to transforms. The generalized reversible ITI transform (GRITIT) framework, a single unified framework for reversible ITI wavelet/block transforms, is proposed. This new framework is then used to study several previously proposed frameworks and their interrelationships. For example, the framework based on the overlapping rounding transform is shown to be a special case of the lifting framework with only trivial extensions. The applicability of the GRITIT framework for block transforms is also demonstrated. Throughout all of this work, particularly close attention is paid to rounding operators and their characteristics. Strategies for handling the transformation of arbitrary-length signals in a nonexpansive manner are considered (e.g., symmetric extension, per-displace-step extension). Two families of symmetry-preserving transforms (which are compatible with symmetric extension) are introduced and studied. We characterize transforms belonging to these families. Some new reversible ITI structures that are useful for constructing symmetry-preserving transforms are also proposed. A simple search-based design technique is explored as means for finding effective low-complexity transforms in the above-mentioned families. In the context of image coding, a number of reversible ITI wavelet transforms are compared on the basis of their lossy compression performance, lossless compression performance, and computational complexity. Of the transforms considered, several were found to perform particularly well, with the best choice for a given application depending on the relative importance of the preceding criteria. Reversible ITI versions of numerous transforms are also compared to their conventional (i.e., non-reversible real-to-real) counterparts for lossy compression. At low bit rates, reversible ITI and conventional versions of transforms were found to often yield results of comparable quality. Factors affecting the compression performance of reversible ITI wavelet transforms are also presented, supported by both experimental data and theoretical arguments. In addition to this work, the JPEG-2000 image compression standard is discussed. In particular, the JPEG-2000 Part-1 codec is described, analyzed, and evaluated.
EFFECT OF WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ON PROFITABILITY: EVIDENCE FROM NON-MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: Amibor,, Ngozi Helen
name: Gina, Oghogho Olufemi
Publisher: name: TOP Journal
Year: 2024
Subjects: Working capital management, Current ratio, Sales to working capital ratio and Inventory turnover ratio and Profitability

description: This study determined the impact of operating capital control at the profitability of non-manufacturing companies in Nigeria. The have a look at followed the ex post facto research design; information was extracted from listed non-manufacturing companies on the floor of the Nigeria exchange institution (NGX). The sample consisted of one hundred-twenty-one (121) listed non-manufacturing corporations from the Nigeria exchange institution (NGX) for a length of 6 years (2016-2022). Descriptive analysis used to analyze data while the multiple regressions were used to test the hypotheses. The end result from the inferential facts discovered that modern-day ratio has no significant effect at the profitability of non-manufacturing corporations in Nigeria. Secondly, it found that income to working capital ratio have negative and significant impact on profitability of non-production firms in Nigeria. Ultimately, stock turnover ratio has effective and enormous influence on profitability of non-production firms in Nigeria. The study concluded that operating capital management has massive effect at the profitability of decided on non-production companies in Nigeria. The study encouraged the need for corporations to enhance on their potential to pay short-term debt that matures inside a year on the way to enhance profitability.
Additional file 1 of In-situ simulations for COVID-19: a safety II approach towards resilient performance
Creators: name: Zavi Lakissian
name: Sabouneh, Rami
name: Zeineddine, Rida
name: Fayad, Joe
name: Banat, Rim
name: Sharara-Chami, Rana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. SET-M Results (N=131).
Temperature scaling in nonequilibrium relaxation in three-dimensional Heisenberg model in the Swendsen-Wang and Metropolis algorithms
Creators: name: Nonomura, Yoshihiko
name: Tomita, Yusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the present authors proposed the nonequilibrium-to-equilibrium scaling (NE-ES) scheme for critical Monte Carlo relaxation process, which scales relaxation data in the whole simulation-time regions regardless of functional forms, namely both for the stretched-exponential critical relaxation in cluster algorithms and for the power-law critical relaxation in local-update algorithms. In the present study, we generalize this scheme to off-critical relaxation process, and scale relaxation data for various temperatures in the whole simulation-time regions. This is the first proposal of the off-critical scaling in cluster algorithms, which cannot be described by the dynamical finite-size scaling theory based on the power-law critical relaxation. As an example, we investigate the three-dimensional Heisenberg model previously analyzed with the NE-ES [Y. Nonomura and Y. Tomita, Phys. Rev. E 93, 012101 (2016)] in the Swendsen-Wang and Metropolis algorithms.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Determining the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and CP Violation in NOvA with a Second Off-Axis Detector
Creators: name: Mena, Olga
name: Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio
name: Pascoli, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Super-NOvA-like experimental configuration based on the use of two detectors in a long-baseline experiment as NOvA. We take the far detector as in the present NOvA proposal and add a second detector at a shorter baseline. The location of the second off-axis detector is chosen such that the ratio L/E is the same for both detectors, being L the baseline and E the neutrino energy. We consider liquid argon and water-Cherenkov techniques for the second off-axis detector and study, for different experimental setups, the detector mass required for the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy, for different values of theta13. We also study the capabilities of such an experimental setup for determining CP violation in the neutrino sector. Our results show that by adding a second off-axis detector a remarkable enhancement on the capabilities of the current NOvA experiment could be achieved.
description: 20 pp
Additional file 1 of Comparing the self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of artisanal and small-scale gold miners and the urban population in Zimbabwe using the EuroQol (EQ-5D-3L+C) questionnaire: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Becker, Jana
name: Bose-O’Reilly, Stephan
name: Shoko, Dennis
name: Singo, Josephine
name: Steckling-Muschack, Nadine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
title: The Use of Collapsing Specific Differential Phase Columns to Predict Significant Severe Thunderstorm Wind Damage across the Northeastern United States
Creators: name: Frugis, Brian J.
Publisher: name: NOAA National Weather Service Eastern Region
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02txa8h30
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.)) ; 2020-04
description: The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) considers severe thunderstorms that produce measured or estimated wind gusts of at least 33.4 ms-1 (65 kt), hail 5.08 cm (2 in) in diameter or greater, or an EF2 or greater tornado to be significant. Pinpointing which particular severe thunderstorms will produce significant severe weather events can be a difficult challenge for the warning decision forecaster.  Out of the 1423 severe wind reports received by the NWS Albany between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2017, only 46 (about 3%) were considered significant.  However, these particular storms had a major impact on the lives of many people in the region and these storms received a large amount of media attention.   Doppler radar radial velocity data may not always provide a clear picture of a storm’s severity due to inherent problems regarding the radar beam’s height and angle.   As a result, forecasters need to rely on something other than just radial velocity during radar interrogation. This study examined the use of the dual-polarization product Specific Differential Phase (KDP) during radar interrogation to diagnose the potential of significant severe thunderstorm winds.  When examined in vertical cross-sections, elevated strong cores of KDP were shown to lower towards the surface just prior to the reports of significant severe thunderstorm wind damage in 30 of 46 cases across the NWS Albany forecast area.   This was statistically significant when compared with an examination of KDP cores from 51 ordinary (non-significant) severe storms during the same case days. The use of KDP columns can be a successful method to help forecasters predict when significant severe wind damage will occur, resulting in better lead times and more detailed information for impact-based severe thunderstorm warnings.
title: Ceramic materials in renewable energy: a module developed for hands-on learning
Creators: name: Mussleman, Matthew
name: Alkurd, Nooraldeen
name: Ley, Brett
name: Murugappan, Xena
name: Feldman, Jacob
name: Packard, Corinne E.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: lesson plans
ceramics
STEM
renewable energy

description: This document is a lesson plan for a short module describing the sintering of ceramic materials for STEM outreach. Colorado State science standards addressed by the module are included. The module is readily adapted for students in grades 1-12. The module was originally drafted for presentation to children aged 7-13 at the Rocky Mountain Camp for Dyslexic Children, thus activities are largely hands-on, driven by physical concepts, and do not rely heavily on reading or writing skills.
description: See related learning object: Sintering ceramic materials: a module developed for hands-on learning http://hdl.handle.net/11124/169991.
Gab es eine große Chronik des Kaisers Fasilädäs von Äthiopien?
Creators: name: Kropp, Manfred
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 70 (1986): Oriens christianus, Band 70
Curating “Chinese Canadianness”: Relational Technologies of Meaning-Making in Museums
Creators: name: Fong, Denise
Publisher: name: BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly
Year: 2025

description: Community-centred curating, which is concerned with the interconnectedness between people, museum objects, and social contexts, activates the museum as a participatory space. When examined through the lens of relational curating, a concept borrowed from art curating, it sheds light on how we can better take on community engagement and representation work in civic museums as it relates to identity making for racialized communities. This article analyzes exhibition team members’ meaning-making experiences through their encounters with museum objects based on a dissertation research project conducted by the author. The case study examines a single multi-sited temporary exhibition A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia, which was presented at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) and the Chinese Canadian Museum of British Columbia (CCM) from 2020 to 2023. The exhibition, one of the largest on Chinese Canadian history to date, presented the stories of Chinese Canadians over the past century through the lens of food, racism, and activism. Perspectives on object experiences and Chinese Canadian representation were central to the interpretation of data. A greater understanding of the relationalities within curatorial practice can help museums develop more culturally informed and socially just forms of engagement and representation that will resonate with and attract racialized audiences.
description: BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No. 224: Relational Technologies (Winter 2024/25)
Data-driven interpolation of dynamical systems with delay
Creators: name: Schulze, Philipp
name: Unger, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 518 Numerische Analysis
subject: data-driven model reduction
subject: delay systems
subject: Loewner framework
subject: moment matching
subject: tangential interpolation
subject: delay recovery
subject: structure-preserving model reduction

description: We present a data-driven realization for systems with delay, which generalizes the Loewner framework. The realization is obtained with low computational cost directly from measured data of the transfer function. The internal delay is estimated by solving a least-square optimization over some sample data. Our approach is validated by several examples, which indicate the need for preserving the delay structure in the reduced model.
The Cauchy problem for the Moore-Gibson-Thompson equation in the dissipative case
Creators: name: Chen, Wenhui
name: Ikehata, Ryo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for the linear and semilinear Moore-Gibson-Thompson (MGT) equation in the dissipative case. Concerning the linear MGT model, by utilizing WKB analysis associated with Fourier analysis, we derive some $L^2$ estimates of solutions, which improve those in the previous research [46]. Furthermore, asymptotic profiles of the solution and an approximate relation in a framework of the weighted $L^1$ space are derived. Next, with the aid of the classical energy method and Hardy's inequality, we get singular limit results for an energy and the solution itself. Concerning the semilinear MGT model, basing on these sharp $L^2$ estimates and constructing time-weighted Sobolev spaces, we investigate global (in time) existence of Sobolev solutions with different regularities. Finally, under a sign assumption on initial data, nonexistence of global (in time) weak solutions is proved by applying a test function method.
INVIOLABILITY DOCTRINE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
Creators: name: Khudayberganova, Nigina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: We often encounter the expression `inviolable` while studying the theme of immunities and privileges. Scholars define "inviolable" as a set of legal relations that are protected from violation by other subjects of law.[1]. The inviolability of diplomatic premises is a core principle in international law that governs the conduct of states and their representatives in foreign territories[2]. This principle is enshrined in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) of 1961[3] and has been widely accepted by states, becoming a cornerstone of diplomatic practice and international relations. This article will discuss the role of inviolability of diplomatic premises in both international and domestic law, as well as the challenges and controversies surrounding its application.
Surface pinning of fluctuating charge order: an "extraordinary" surface phase transition
Creators: name: Brown, Stuart E.
name: Fradkin, Eduardo
name: Kivelson, Steven A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mean-field theory of charge-density wave (CDW) order in a layered system, including the effect of the long-range Coulomb interaction and of screening by uncondensed electrons. We particularly focus on the conditions necessary for an ``extraordinary'' transition, in which the surface orders at a higher temperature, and is more likely to be commensurate, than the bulk. We interpret recent experiments on NaCCOC as indicating the presence of commensurate CDW at the surface that is not present in the bulk. More generally, we show that poor screening of the Coulomb interaction tends to stabilize incommensurate order, possibly explaining why the CDW order in LSCO and NbSe2 remains incommensurate to T -> 0, despite the small magnitude of the incommensurability.
description: 9 pages, no figures, 31 references; 1 new figure and minor editing of the text
Die Kaisersöhne der sketischen Wüste
Creators: name: Meinardus, Otto F. A.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 70 (1986): Oriens christianus, Band 70
MODELING THE EFFECT OF UNCERTAINTY ON TIMBER HARVEST: A SUGGESTED APPROACH AND EMPIRICAL EXAMPLE
Creators: name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Van Kooten, R.E.
name: Brown, G.L.
name: Van Kooten, G. Cornelis
name: Van Kooten, R.E.
name: Brown, G.L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: A method is suggested for modeling uncertainty when there is a lack of information concerning the effect of forest management decisions on tree growth. Dynamic programming is used to investigate the optimality of alternative management strategies. The model is illustrated with an empirical example for a boreal forest region of western Canada. Three tentative conclusions follow: (a) silvicultural strategies to reduce uncertainty or to increase stand growth may not be worth pursuing, at least in northern forests; (b) the discounted cost of ignoring uncertainty may be substantial if taken over the entire forest; and (c) given uncertain forest growth, flexible harvest policies are preferred to a fixed harvest age.
(Non equilibrium) Thermodynamics of Integrable models: The Generalized Gibbs Ensemble description of the classical Neumann Model
Creators: name: Barbier, Damien
name: Cugliandolo, Leticia F.
name: Lozano, Gustavo S.
name: Nessi, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a classical integrable (Neumann) model describing the motion of a particle on the sphere, subject to harmonic forces. We tackle the problem in the infinite dimensional limit by introducing a soft version in which the spherical constraint is imposed only on average over initial conditions. We show that the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble captures the long-time averages of the soft model. We reveal the full dynamic phase diagram with extended, quasi-condensed, coordinate-, and coordinate and momentum-condensed phases. The scaling properties of the fluctuations allow us to establish in which cases the strict and soft spherical constraints are equivalent, confirming the validity of the GGE hypothesis for the Neumann model on a large portion of the dynamic phase diagram.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
A proxy architecture to enhance the performance of WAP 2.0 by data compression
Creators: name: Yin, Zhanping
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents a novel architecture for the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.0, employing a proxy to isolate the wireless from the wired domain and an advanced data compression scheme. The advanced data compression scheme combines content compression with robust header compression (ROHC) and minimizes the transmitted air-interface traffic, thus significantly reducing the wireless access time (WAT). By using a proxy at the transport layer to form a TLS tunnel, this architecture also overcomes WAP 1.x end-to-end security problems without deploying a gateway at the server side. A wireless channel is implemented in Network Simulator (NS-2) to emulate the characteristics of both narrow-band IS-95 and wide-band CDMA 2000 lxRTT wireless channels. The performances of the proposed WAP 2.0 architecture and WAP 1.x protocol stack are tested on it. Emulation results show that while WAP 1.x is optimized for narrow-band wireless channels, WAP 2.0 utilizing TCP/IP gives better performance than WAP 1.x in wide-band channels, even without compression. Huge performance enhancements can be achieved by the proposed data compression scheme in WAP 2.0. The reply contents compression is a major contribution to the improvement, while ROHC can offer further enhancement. The request compression is useful for low-bandwidth networks like IS-95, but gives no benefit in high-speed wireless networks, such as CDMA2000 lxRTT. In IS-95 channels, the reply and request compression with ROHC reduces the WAT of WAP 2.0 by over 70% to give comparable performance to WAP 1.x. In CDMA2000 lxRTT, even the uncompressed WAP 2.0 outperforms WAP 1.x, and the proposed method results in over 46% reduction in WAT. Although a proxy is optional in WAP 2.0, it can optimize the communication process by isolating the wireless from the wired domain, which gives a performance benefit as well as feature service enhancement. The proxy not only prevents the error propagation between wired and wireless domains, but also eliminates the wireless session delays (WSD) due to a TCP connection establishment by long-live connections between the proxy and wireless terminals.
Magnetic-Reconnection and Current-Sheet Model for the Radio Arc and Threads in the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Sofue, Yoshiaki
name: Kigure, Hiromitsu
name: Shibata, Kazunari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new mechanism to explain the radio Arc and threads in the Galactic Center by current sheets produced by local magnetic shears due to interaction of a moving cloud and the vertical field based on three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical simulations. Magnetic reconnetion and acceleration of cosmic-ray electrons in the current sheet will result in high contrast of radio emissivity inside and outside the Arc and threads.
description: PASJ Letters in press, 6 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 5 of Different effects of constitutive and induced microbiota modulation on microglia in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Mezö, Charlotte
name: Dokalis, Nikolaos
name: Mossad, Omar
name: Staszewski, Ori
name: Neuber, Jana
name: Yilmaz, Bahtiyar
name: Schnepf, Daniel
name: Agüero, Mercedes Gomez De
name: Ganal-Vonarburg, Stephanie C.
name: Macpherson, Andrew J.
name: Meyer-Luehmann, Melanie
name: Staeheli, Peter
name: Blank, Thomas
name: Prinz, Marco
name: Erny, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Fig. 5. Gating of hippocampal microglia in 5xFAD mice and non-transgenic controls. Gating of CD11b+CD45low microglia from (A) 4 months old or (B) 10 months old SPF, GF and ABX-treated 5xFAD mice and age-matched WT controls. Representative dot plots are shown.
Formation of early-type galaxies from cosmological initial conditions
Creators: name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Johansson, Peter H.
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
name: Efstathiou, George
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe high resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of three approximately $M_*$ field galaxies starting from \LCDM initial conditions. The simulations are made intentionally simple, and include photoionization, cooling of the intergalactic medium, and star formation but not feedback from AGN or supernovae. All of the galaxies undergo an initial burst of star formation at $z \approx 5$, accompanied by the formation of a bubble of heated gas. Two out of three galaxies show early-type properties at present whereas only one of them experienced a major merger. Heating from shocks and -PdV work dominates over cooling so that for most of the gas the temperature is an increasing function of time. By $z \approx 1$ a significant fraction of the final stellar mass is in place and the spectral energy distribution resembles those of observed massive red galaxies. The galaxies have grown from $z=1 \to 0$ on average by 25% in mass and in size by gas poor (dry) stellar mergers. By the present day, the simulated galaxies are old ($\approx 10 {\rm Gyrs}$), kinematically hot stellar systems surrounded by hot gaseous haloes. Stars dominate the mass of the galaxies up to $\approx 4$ effective radii ($\approx 10$ kpc). Kinematic and most photometric properties are in good agreement with those of observed elliptical galaxies. The galaxy with a major merger develops a counter-rotating core. Our simulations show that realistic intermediate mass giant elliptical galaxies with plausible formation histories can be formed from \LCDM initial conditions even without requiring recent major mergers or feedback from supernovae or AGN.
description: accepted for publication in ApJ
Quarkonium-Hadron Interactions in Perturbative QCD
Creators: name: Song, Taesoo
name: Lee, Su Houng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The next to leading order (NLO) quarkonium-hadron cross section is calculated in perturbative QCD. The corresponding leading order (LO) result was performed by Peskin more than 20 years ago using the operator product expansion (OPE). In this work, the calculation is performed using the Bethe-Salpeter amplitude and the factorization formula. The soft divergence appearing in the intermediate stages of the calculations are shown to vanish after adding all possible crossed terms, while the collinear divergences are eliminated by mass factorization. Applying the result to the Upsilon system, one finds that there are large higher order correction near the threshold. The relevance of the present result to the charmonium case is also discussed.
description: Yonsei University. to be published in PRD
AN EMPIRICAL APPLICATION OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENTAL AUCTIONS IN MARKETING RESEARCH
Creators: name: Menkhaus, Dale J.
name: Borden, George W.
name: Whipple, Glen D.
name: Hoffman, Elizabeth
name: Field, Ray A.
name: Menkhaus, Dale J.
name: Borden, George W.
name: Whipple, Glen D.
name: Hoffman, Elizabeth
name: Field, Ray A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A laboratory experimental auction was used to determine factors influencing the relative value consumers place on alternative retail beef packaging. Results indicate information is very important for the successful introduction and marketing of the vacuum skin package. Physical appearance of the beef plays a major role in purchasing decisions by consumers, with fat and shape significantly decreasing the value of beef in the vacuum skin package relative to beef in the overwrapped styrofoam tray package. Experimental economics procedures, when combined with traditional marketing research techniques, can provide useful information for marketing decisions and economic analyses.
Additional file 4 of Different effects of constitutive and induced microbiota modulation on microglia in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Mezö, Charlotte
name: Dokalis, Nikolaos
name: Mossad, Omar
name: Staszewski, Ori
name: Neuber, Jana
name: Yilmaz, Bahtiyar
name: Schnepf, Daniel
name: Agüero, Mercedes Gomez De
name: Ganal-Vonarburg, Stephanie C.
name: Macpherson, Andrew J.
name: Meyer-Luehmann, Melanie
name: Staeheli, Peter
name: Blank, Thomas
name: Prinz, Marco
name: Erny, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Fig. 4. Microglial density in hippocampus of 4 months old 5xFAD mice. (A) Representative immunofluorescence images of Iba1+ (green) microglia on coronal hippocampal sections of 4 months old SPF, GF and ABX-treated WT mice. Nuclei were stained with DAPI (blue). Scale bar: 50 μm. (B) Representative immunofluorescence images of 6E10 (red) and Iba1 (green) on coronal hippocampal sections of 4 months old 5xFAD mice. Nuclei were stained with DAPI (blue). Scale bar: 50 μm. (C) Quantification of 6E10+ plaque-associated microglia. Each symbol represents one mouse. Data are represented as means ± s.e.m. Significant differences were determined by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-hoc comparison test (**P
THE ECONOMIC THRESHOLD FOR GRASSHOPPER CONTROL ON PUBLIC RANGELANDS
Creators: name: Davis, Robert M.
name: Skold, Melvin D.
name: Berry, James S.
name: Kemp, William P.
name: Davis, Robert M.
name: Skold, Melvin D.
name: Berry, James S.
name: Kemp, William P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use

description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is responsible for controlling grasshopper populations on public rangelands. Under current guidelines, control of grasshoppers on rangeland should occur if grasshopper densities are at least eight per square yard. This article evaluates the concept of an economic threshold relative to the value of forage saved from destruction during a grasshopper outbreak. It is shown that financial justification for treating grasshopper outbreaks depends upon grasshopper density, rangeland productivity, climate factors, livestock cost and return relationships, and the efficacy of treatment options.
Adjoint modes as probes of gauge field structure
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Arroyo, Antonio
name: Kirchner, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how zero-modes and quasi-zero-modes of the Dirac operator in the adjoint representation can be used to construct an estimate of the action density distribution of a pure gauge field theory, which is less sensitive to the ultraviolet fluctuations of the field. This can be used to trace the topological structures present in the vacuum. The construction relies on the special properties satisfied by the supersymmetric zero-modes.
description: Latex file. 29 pages and 12 figures
Tilted outer and inner structures in edge-on galaxies?
Creators: name: Mosenkov, Aleksandr V.
name: Smirnov, Anton A.
name: Sil'chenko, Olga K.
name: Rich, R. Michael
name: Reshetnikov, Vladimir P.
name: Kormendy, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tilted and warped discs inside tilted dark matter haloes are predicted from numerical and semi-analytical studies. In this paper, we use deep imaging to demonstrate the likely existence of tilted outer structures in real galaxies. We consider two SB0 edge-on galaxies, NGC4469 and NGC4452, which exhibit apparent tilted outer discs with respect to the inner structure. In NGC4469, this structure has a boxy shape, inclined by $Δ$PA$\approx$3$^{\circ}$ with respect to the inner disc, whereas NGC4452 harbours a discy outer structure with $Δ$PA$\approx$6$^{\circ}$. In spite of the different shapes, both structures have surface brightness profiles close to exponential and make a large contribution ($\sim30$%) to the total galaxy luminosity. In the case of NGC4452, we propose that its tilted disc likely originates from a former fast tidal encounter (probably with IC3381). For NGC4469, a plausible explanation may also be galaxy harassment, which resulted in a tilted or even a tumbling dark matter halo. A less likely possibility is accretion of gas-rich satellites several Gyr ago. New deep observations may potentially reveal more such galaxies with tilted outer structures, especially in clusters. We also consider galaxies, mentioned in the literature, where a central component (a bar or a bulge) is tilted with respect to the stellar disc. According to our numerical simulations, one of the plausible explanations of such observed "tilts" of the bulge/bar is a projection effect due to a not exactly edge-on orientation of the galaxy coupled with a skew angle of the triaxial bulge/bar.
description: 20 pages, 19 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
FARM MACHINERY INVESTMENT AND THE TAX REFORM ACT OF 1986
Creators: name: LeBlanc, Michael
name: Hrubovcak, James
name: Durst, Ron L.
name: Conway, Roger K.
name: LeBlanc, Michael
name: Hrubovcak, James
name: Durst, Ron L.
name: Conway, Roger K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Farm Management

description: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 significantly changed incentives for investing. This analysis specifically examines how changes in marginal tax rates, depreciation schedules, and the investment tax credit altered the cost of capital and net investment in agriculture. A stochastic coefficients econometric methodology is used to estimate an investment function which is then used to simulate the effects of tax reform. Estimates indicated that relative to prior law, the Tax Reform Act will reduce the capital stock of farm machinery and equipment by nearly $4 billion.
Additional file 3 of Different effects of constitutive and induced microbiota modulation on microglia in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Mezö, Charlotte
name: Dokalis, Nikolaos
name: Mossad, Omar
name: Staszewski, Ori
name: Neuber, Jana
name: Yilmaz, Bahtiyar
name: Schnepf, Daniel
name: Agüero, Mercedes Gomez De
name: Ganal-Vonarburg, Stephanie C.
name: Macpherson, Andrew J.
name: Meyer-Luehmann, Melanie
name: Staeheli, Peter
name: Blank, Thomas
name: Prinz, Marco
name: Erny, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Fig. 3. Memory function in 4 months old SPF, GF and ABX-treated 5xFAD mice. (A) Ratio of right versus left arm entries in the T-maze spontaneous alternation test of 10 months old SPF and GF or (B) SPF and ABX-treated 5xFAD and age-matched WT mice. (C-F) T-maze of 4 months old SPF and GF mice or (G-J) SPF and ABX-treated 5xFAD, as well as respective age-matched WT mice. (K-M) Novel object recognition task of 4 months old SPF and GF 5xFAD, as well as age-matched WT mice or (N-P) SPF and ABX-treated 5xFAD, as well as WT mice. Each symbol represents one mouse. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. Significant differences were determined by two-way ANOVA followed by Bonferroni’s post-hoc comparison test (*P
Preflare very long-periodic pulsations observed in Halpha emission before the onset of a solar flare
Creators: name: Li, Dong
name: Feng, Song
name: Su, Wei
name: Huang, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Very long-periodic pulsations during preflare phases (preflare-VLPs) have been detected in the full-disk solar soft X-Ray (SXR) flux (see Tan et al. 2016). They may be regarded as precursors to solar flares and may help us better understand the trigger mechanism of solar flares. In this letter, we report a preflare-VLP event before the onset of an M1.1 circular-ribbon flare on 2015 October 16. It was simultaneously observed in Halpha, SXR, and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) wavelengths, which were recorded by the NVST, GOES, EVE, and AIA respectively. The preflare-VLP is identified as the repeat and quasi-periodic pulses in light curves during preflare phase, which might be modulated by LRC-circuit oscillation in the current-carrying plasma loop. The quasi-periodicity can be determined from the Fourier power spectrum with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based Bayesian (e.g., Liang et al. 2020), such as ~9.3 minutes. We present the first report of a preflare-VLP event in the local Halpha line and EUV wavelength, which could be considered a precursor of a solar flare. This finding should therefore prove useful for the prediction of solar flares, especially for powerful flares.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted by A&A Letters. The abstract was rewritten
CMB maps lensed by cosmological structures: Simulations and statistical analysis
Creators: name: Antón, L.
name: Cerdá-Durán, P.
name: Quilis, V.
name: Sáez, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for ray-tracing through n-body simulations has been recently proposed. It is based on a periodic universe covered by simulation boxes. Photons move along appropriate directions to avoid periodicity effects. Here, an improved version of this method is applied to simulate lensed CMB maps and maps of lens deformations. Particle mesh n-body simulations with appropriate boxes and resolutions are used to evolve the nonlinear inhomogeneities until present time. The resulting maps are statistically analyzed to look for deviations from Gaussianity. These deviations are measured --for the first time-- using correlations for configurations of n directions (n being smaller than 7). A wide range of angular scales are considered. Some interesting prospects are outlined.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Die spätere Überarbeitung der armenischen Quellen zu den Ereignissen der Jahre vor bis nach dem Ephesinum
Creators: name: Winkler, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 70 (1986): Oriens christianus, Band 70
FARM-LEVEL RESPONSE TO AGRICULTURAL EFFLUENT CONTROL STRATEGIES: THE CASE OF THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY
Creators: name: Taylor, Michael L.
name: Adams, Richard M.
name: Miller, Stanley F.
name: Taylor, Michael L.
name: Adams, Richard M.
name: Miller, Stanley F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: This article examines economic incentives and other mechanisms to offset non-point source pollution from agriculture. A biophysical simulator to estimate technical relationships is linked to linear programming models for representative farms in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The models are then optimized for profit maximization under alternative non-point pollution control policies. The results indicate that site-specific resource conditions and production possibilities greatly influence policy effectiveness and the cost of achieving pollution abatement. Nevertheless, some abatement is possible on all farms for relatively little cost.
Gravitational Lensing and Structural Stability of Dark Matter Caustic Rings
Creators: name: Onemli, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational lensing by the dual cusp catastrophes of the cold dark matter (CDM) caustic rings at cosmological distances may provide the tantalizing opportunity to detect CDM indirectly, and discriminate between axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Caustics are places where the CDM particles are naturally focussed. Our focus is upon the caustic rings which are closed tubes whose cross-section is an elliptic umbilic catastrophe with three dual cusps. A caustic ring has a specific density profile, a specific geometry and, therefore, precisely calculable gravitational lensing signatures. The magnification monotonically increases as the line of sight approaches to the cusps where it diverges in the limit of zero velocity dispersion. In this limit, we find 37% magnification at a sample point near the outer cusps of the CDM caustic rings at cosmological distances. In the presence of finite velocity dispersion, the lower and upper bounds of the effective velocity dispersions of the axion and WIMP flows in galactic halos may be used to constrain the lensing effects at the cusps. For a cosmological axion caustic ring, we find that the magnification may range between 3% and 2800% at the outer cusp, and between 2% and 46% at the non-planer cusps. For a cosmological WIMP caustic ring, on the other hand, we constrain the magnification between 3% and 28% at the outer cusp, and between 2% and 5% at the non-planer cusps. The images of extended sources may also show distortions that can be unambiguously attributed to lensing by dark matter caustics. Finally, we derive the Catastrophe Function of the triaxial caustic rings. We obtain the flow equations as the equilibrium points of this Catastrophe Function. The analysis of the Stability (Hessian) Matrix show that the caustic rings are structurally stable.
description: 61 pages, 8 figures, references added
Degree Landscapes in Scale-Free Networks
Creators: name: Axelsen, Jacob Bock
name: Bernhardsson, Sebastian
name: Rosvall, Martin
name: Sneppen, Kim
name: Trusina, Ala
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the degree-organizational view of real-world networks with broad degree-distributions in a landscape analogue with mountains (high-degree nodes) and valleys (low-degree nodes). For example, correlated degrees between adjacent nodes corresponds to smooth landscapes (social networks), hierarchical networks to one-mountain landscapes (the Internet), and degree-disassortative networks without hierarchical features to rough landscapes with several mountains. We also generate ridge landscapes to model networks organized under constraints imposed by the space the networks are embedded in, associated to spatial or, in molecular networks, to functional localization. To quantify the topology, we here measure the widths of the mountains and the separation between different mountains.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Observational indications of magneto-optical effects in the scattering polarization wings of the Ca I 4227 Å line
Creators: name: Capozzi, E.
name: Ballester, E. Alsina
name: Belluzzi, L.
name: Bianda, M.
name: Dhara, S. K.
name: Ramelli, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several strong resonance lines, such as H I Ly-$α$, Mg II k, Ca II K, Ca I 4227 Å\, which are characterized by deep and broad absorption profiles in the solar intensity spectrum, show conspicuous linear scattering polarization signals when observed in quiet regions close to the solar limb. Such signals show a characteristic triplet-peak structure, with a sharp peak in the line core and extended wing lobes. The line core peak is sensitive to the presence of magnetic fields through the Hanle effect, which however is known not to operate in the line wings. Recent theoretical studies indicate that, contrary to what was previously believed, the wing linear polarization signals are also sensitive to the magnetic field through magneto-optical effects (MO). We search for observational indications of this recently discovered physical mechanism in the scattering polarization wings of the Ca I 4227 Å line. We performed a series of spectropolarimetric observations of this line using the Zurich IMaging POLarimeter (ZIMPOL) camera at the Gregory-Coudé telescope of IRSOL (Switzerland) and at the GREGOR telescope in Tenerife (Spain). Spatial variations of the total linear polarization degree and of the linear polarization angle are clearly appreciable in the wings of the observed line. We provide a detailed discussion of our observational results, showing that the detected variations always take place in regions where longitudinal magnetic fields are present, thus supporting the theoretical prediction that they are produced by MO effects.
description: Accepted by A&A
Additional file 1 of Different effects of constitutive and induced microbiota modulation on microglia in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Mezö, Charlotte
name: Dokalis, Nikolaos
name: Mossad, Omar
name: Staszewski, Ori
name: Neuber, Jana
name: Yilmaz, Bahtiyar
name: Schnepf, Daniel
name: Agüero, Mercedes Gomez De
name: Ganal-Vonarburg, Stephanie C.
name: Macpherson, Andrew J.
name: Meyer-Luehmann, Melanie
name: Staeheli, Peter
name: Blank, Thomas
name: Prinz, Marco
name: Erny, Daniel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Fig. 1: Determination of intestinal bacterial loads and microbiota composition analysis. (A) Photograph of caeca from 4- and 10- months old SPF, GF and ABX-treated mice with ruler for scaling and (B) relative caecal weight referred to the body weight, and (C) absolute body weight. Each symbol represents one mouse. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. Significant differences were determined by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post-hoc comparison test (***P