cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Investigation of spectral and structural properties of a coordination compound with phthalic acid: DFT and molecular docking studies
Creators: name: Tuğba Aycan
name: Paşaoğlu, Hümeyra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The mixed-ligand coordination compound, [Cu(Hpht)2(na)2(H2O)] (1) (Hpht− = monoanion of phthalic acid and na = nicotinamide), was investigated by focusing on its supramolecular architecture. Structural properties of the complex were characterized by elemental analysis, XRD, spectroscopic methods and thermogravimetric analysis. The complex was connected by hydrogen bonds to form 3-D supramolecular structures. The FT-IR study of the complex was carried out in the middle-IR region focusing on the characteristic vibrations of the free ligands and the complex. Scaled theoretical vibrational frequencies were compared with experimental values. The magnetic properties of the complex were investigated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Further ultra-violet (UV-vis) spectral analysis and thermogravimetric analysis were performed to understand optical and thermal properties. The molecular structure was theoretically optimized using DFT/B3LYP/LanL2DZ methods for ground state. Scaled theoretical results of molecular structure, FT-IR and UV-Vis spectra were compared with experimental results. The optimized complex was docked to B-DNA (ID: 1BNA).
Loose Cannons – War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany
Creators: name: Koenig, Christoph
name: Koenig, Christoph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Financial Economics
International Development

description: I study the effect of war participation on the rise of right-wing parties in Inter-war Germany. After the democratisation and surrender of Germany in 1918, 8m German soldiers of WWI were demobilised. I argue that defeat made veterans particularly sceptical about the new democratic state. Their return undermined support for democratic parties from the very beginning and facilitated the reversion to autocratic rule 15 years later. In order to quantify this effect, I construct the first disaggregated estimates of German WWI veterans since official army records were destroyed. I combine this data with a new panel of voting results from 1881 to 1933. Diff-in-Diff estimates show that war participation had a strong positive effect on support for the right-wing at the expense of socialist parties. A one standard deviation increase in veteran inflow shifted vote shares to the right by more than 2 percentage points. An IV strategy based on draft exemption rules substantiates my findings. The effect of veterans on voting is highly persistent and strongest in working class areas. Gains for the right-wing, however, are only observed after a period of Communist insurgencies. I provide suggestive evidence that veterans must have picked up especially antiCommunist sentiments after defeat, injected these into the working class and in this way eroded the future of the young democracy.
Cordilura femoralis Sun 1993
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura femoralis

description: Cordilura femoralis Sun, 1993
 Cordilura femoralis Sun, 1993: 437, 440. HOLOTYPE: J, Northeastern China, environs of Amur river, Heilongjiang (Tangwanaghe, Yichun), 24.vi.1971 (IZCAS).
 Distribution. China (SUN 1993: 440).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 118, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Anharmonic phonon damping enhances the $T_c$ of BCS-type superconductors
Creators: name: Setty, Chandan
name: Baggioli, Matteo
name: Zaccone, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory of superconductivity is presented where the effect of anharmonicity, as entailed in the acoustic, or optical, phonon damping, is explicitly considered in the pairing mechanism. The gap equation is solved including diffusive Akhiezer damping for longitudinal acoustic phonons or Klemens damping for optical phonons, with a damping coefficient which, in either case, can be directly related to the Gruneisen parameter and hence to the anharmonic coefficients in the interatomic potential. The results show that the increase of anharmonicity has a strikingly non-monotonic effect on the critical temperature $T_{c}$. The optimal damping coefficient yielding maximum $T_c$ is set by the velocity of the bosonic mediator. This theory may open up unprecedented opportunities for material design where $T_{c}$ may be tuned via the anharmonicity of the interatomic potential, and presents implications for the superconductivity in the recently discovered hydrides, where anharmonicity is very strong and for which the anharmonic damping is especially relevant.
description: v2: matching the published version
In search for the social hysteresis -- the symmetrical threshold model with independence on Watts-Strogatz graphs
Creators: name: Nowak, Bartłomiej
name: Sznajd-Weron, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the homogeneous symmetrical threshold model with independence (noise) by pair approximation and Monte Carlo simulations on Watts-Strogatz graphs. The model is a modified version of the famous Granovetter's threshold model: with probability $p$ a voter acts independently, i.e. takes randomly one of two states +/-; with complementary probability $1-p$, a voter takes a given state, if sufficiently large fraction (above a given threshold r) of individuals in its neighborhood is in this state. We show that the character of the phase transition, induced by the noise parameter p, depends on the threshold r, as well as graph's parameters. For r=0.5 only continuous phase transitions are observed, whereas for r>0.5 also discontinuous phase transitions are possible. The hysteresis increases with the average degree and the rewriting parameter beta. On the other hand, the dependence between the width of the hysteresis and the threshold $r$ is non-monotonic. The value of r, for which the maximum hysteresis is observed, overlaps pretty well the size of the majority used for the descriptive norms in order to manipulate people within social experiments. We put results obtained within this paper in a broader picture and discuss them in the context of two other models of binary opinions, namely the majority-vote and the q-voter model.
Cordilura impudica Rondani 1866
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura impudica

description: Cordilura impudica Rondani, 1866
 Cordylura impudica Rondani, 1866: 13.? SYNTYPES: Italy, ‘in agri parmensis planitiae [= environs of Parma]’ (no additional data quoted in the original paper; depository unknown).
 Distribution. Great Britain (CHANDLER 1998: 163); Italy (RONDANI 1867: 97); Ireland (CHANDLER 1998: 163).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Additional file 1 of Primary desmoplastic small round cell tumor of the submandibular gland: a case report and literature review
Creators: name: Zhou, Jiayu
name: Li, Qingling
name: Luo, Baihua
name: Fu, Xiaodan
name: Ou, Chunlin
name: Gao, Xiaomei
name: Xu, Zhijie
name: Feng, Deyun
name: Yang, Keda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE RESPONSE RATES MAINTAINED BY VARIABLE-RATIO AND VARIABLE-INTERVAL SCHEDULES OF REINFORCEMENT
Creators: name: Peele, David Bray
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In a series of four experiments, response rates maintained under multiple variable-ratio variable-interval schedules were examined using a within-subject yoke-design that equated between-component reinforcement rates. Two features proposed to control higher rates of responding during the variable-ratio schedule were independently manipulated. They were (1) the role of the reinforced interresponse time, and (2) the function relating response rate and rate of reinforcement. Collectively, the results of the four experiments point to the primacy of IRT reinforcement in shaping higher response rates under the variable-ratio schedule, thereby supporting molecular over molar accounts of response-rate effects.
Quality and the Great Trade Collapse
Creators: name: Chen, Natalie
name: Juvenal, Luciana
name: Chen, Natalie
name: Juvenal, Luciana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Exports
subject: heterogeneity
subject: multi-product firms
subject: quality
subject: trade
subject: collapse
subject: unit values
subject: wine

description: We explore whether the global …nancial crisis has had heterogeneous e¤ects on traded goods di¤erentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean …rm-level destination-speci…c wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the e¤ect is large: up to nine percentage points di¤erence in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports. This ‡ight from quality was triggered by a fall in aggregate demand, was more acute when households could substitute imports by domestic alternatives, and was stronger for smaller …rms’ exports.
Seed perturbations for primordial magnetic fields from MSSM flat directions
Creators: name: Enqvist, Kari
name: Jokinen, Asko
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the MSSM flat directions can naturally account for the seed magnetic fields in the early Universe. The non-zero vacuum expectation value of an MSSM flat direction condensate provides masses to the gauge fields and thereby breaks conformal invariance. During inflation the condensate receives spatial perturbations and $SU(2) x U(1)_Y$ gauge currents are generated together with (hyper)magnetic fields. When these long wavelength vector perturbations reenter our horizon they give rise to $U(1)_{em}$ magnetic fields with an amplitude of $10^{-30}$ Gauss, as required by the dynamo mechanism.
description: 4 pages, RevTeX4
Semilinear wave equations on the Schwarzschild manifold I: Local decay estimates
Creators: name: Blue, P.
name: Soffer, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The semilinear wave equation on the (outer) Schwarzschild manifold is studied. We prove local decay estimates for general (non-radial) data, deriving a-priori Morawetz type estimates.
description: AMS-LaTeX, 16 pages. There is an errata to this paper at gr-qc/0608073
Synthesis, thermal, photo-physical, and biological properties of mononuclear Yb3+, Nd3+, and Dy3+ complexes derived from Schiff base ligands
Creators: name: Sikandar Paswan
name: Afreen Anjum
name: Navneet Yadav
name: Nitesh Jaiswal
name: Singh, Rana Krishna Pal
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Six new lanthanide complexes, [Ln(NO3)2(L1H2)](NO3).xCHCl3.yH2O {Ln = Yb (1), x = 1, y = 2; Nd (3), x = 2, y = 3 and Dy (5), x = 2, y = 2} and [Ln(NO3)2(L2H2)](NO3).xCHCl3 {Ln = Yb (2), x = 1; Nd (4), x = 2 and Dy (6), x = 2}, were prepared by NNNOO-donor pentadentate Schiff base ligands N,N′-bis(3-methoxysalicylidene)−2,2′-diaminoethylamine (L1H2) and N,N′-bis(2-hydroxynaphthalidene)−2,2′-diaminoethylamine (L2H2). These synthesized complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR, 1H NMR, UV-vis spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. The thermal characteristics of complexes were studied by TGA technique. The observation of the fluorescence emission properties of ligands L1H2 and L2H2 and its Ln(III) complexes in DMSO solution at excitation wavelength of 320 nm shows that the ligands favor energy transfers to the emitting energy level of Ln(III) complexes. The computational calculations using density functional theory of ligands and its Yb((III) complexes were performed to obtain optimized molecular geometry, the highest occupied molecular orbital, the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital and other parameters. The Schiff bases, metal salts, and its Ln(III) complexes were screened for their in vitro antibacterial studies against Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, and Salmonella typhi bacterial strains. The results of the antibacterial investigation show that the lanthanide complexes possess more potent bactericide properties than ligands and metal salts.
Cordilura kakaberrans Ozerov 1997
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura kakaberrans

description: Cordilura kakaberrans Ozerov, 1997
 Cordilura kakaberrans Ozerov, 1997: 1424. HOLOTYPE: J, Russia, Southern Primoriye, 40 km SE Ussuriysk, 8.vi.1985, A. Ozerov leg. (ZMUM, registration number Di-0039 (OZEROV 2005: 136)).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (OZEROV 1997: 1424).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 119, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Liquid argon scintillation response to electronic recoils between $2.8$--$1275~{\rm keV}$ in a high light yield single-phase detector
Creators: name: Kimura, M.
name: Aoyama, K.
name: Tanaka, M.
name: Yorita, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the liquid argon scintillation response to electronic recoils in the energy range of $2.82$ to $1274.6~{\rm keV}$ at null electric field. The single-phase detector with a large optical coverage used in this measurement yields $12.8 \pm 0.3 ~ (11.2 \pm 0.3)~{\rm photoelectron/keV}$ for $511.0$-${\rm keV}$ $γ$-ray events based on a photomultiplier tube single photoelectron response modeling with a Gaussian plus an additional exponential term (with only a Gaussian term). It is exposed to a variety of calibration sources such as $^{22}{\rm Na}$ and $^{241}{\rm Am}$ $γ$-ray emitters, and a $^{252}{\rm Cf}$ fast neutron emitter that induces quasimonoenergetic $γ$ rays through a $(n, n'γ)$ reaction with $^{19}{\rm F}$ in polytetrafluoroethylene. In addition, the high light detection efficiency of the detector enables identification of the $2.82$-${\rm keV}$ peak of $^{37}{\rm Ar}$, a cosmogenic isotope in atmospheric argon. The observed light yield and energy resolution of the detector are obtained by the full-absorption peaks. We find up to approximately $25\%$ shift in the scintillation yield across the energy range and $3\%$ of the energy resolution for the $511.0$-${\rm keV}$ line. The Thomas-Imel box model with its constant parameter $ς=0.033 ^{+0.012} _{-0.008}$ is found to explain the result. For liquid argon, this is the first measurement on the energy-dependent scintillation yield down to a few ${\rm keV}$ at null field and provides essential inputs for tuning the argon response model to be used for physics experiments.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures
Cordilura amurensis Ozerov 2007
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura amurensis

description: Cordilura amurensis Ozerov, 2007
 Cordilura amurensis Ozerov, 2007: 123. HOLOTYPE: J, Russia, ‘ Amurskaya obl. [= region], g. [= town] Zeya, 9.vii.1981, registration number Di-0154, A.Shatalkin leg.’ (ZMUM).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (OZEROV 2007: 123).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 117, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
World War II: Won by American Planes and Ships, or by the Poor Bloody Russian Infantry?
Creators: name: Harrison, Mark
name: Harrison, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: attrition
subject: air-sea power
subject: strategy
subject: war losses
subject: World War II

description: This short paper reviews a new book about World War II. In most such books, what is new is not usually important, and what is important is not new. This one is an exception. How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II, by Phillips Payson O'Brien, sets out a new perspective on the war. An established view is that World War II was decided on the Eastern front, where multi-million armies struggled for supremacy on land and millions died. According to O’Brien, this neglects the fact that the preponderance of the Allied productive effort was devoted to building ships and planes for an air-sea battle that was fought to a limited extent in the East and with much higher intensity across the Western and Pacific theatres. The Allies’ air-sea power framed the outcomes of the great land campaigns by preventing Germany and Japan from fully realizing their economic potentials for war. Finding much to be said for this reinterpretation, I reconsider the true significance of the Eastern front.
If You Do Not Change Your Behaviour: Managing Threats to State Security in Lithuania under Soviet Rule
Creators: name: Harrison, Mark
name: Harrison, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: coercion
subject: communism
subject: deviance
subject: nudge
subject: security
subject: social norms
subject: surveillance
subject: Soviet Union
subject: zero-tolerance

description: In Soviet Lithuania (and elsewhere) from the 1950s to the 1980s, the KGB applied a form of "zero-tolerance" policing, or profilaktika, to incipient threats to state security. Petty deviation from socio-political norms was regarded as a person's first step towards more serious state crimes, and as a bad example for others. As long as petty violators could be classed as confused or misled rather than motivated by anti-Soviet conviction, their mistakes would be corrected by a KGB warning or "preventive discussion." Successful prevention avoided the costly removal of the subject from society. This represented a complete contrast to the Stalin years, when prevention relied largely on eliminating the subject from society. Preventive discussions were widely practised in many different circumstances. KGB internal evaluations concluded that these discussions were extremely effective in preventing further violations. This was the front line of the Soviet police state; it was perhaps the largest programme for personally targeted behaviour modification anywhere in the world at that time outside the education sector. It was also a front line of the Cold War because the foreign adversary was seen as the most important source of misleading or confusing influence. My work in progress aims to understand the origins and operation of profilaktika, including how and to whom it was applied, how it worked on the individual subject, and its wider influence on the Soviet Union’s social and political order.
Knowing who you are: The Effect of Feedback Information on Short and Long Term Outcomes
Creators: name: Goulas, Sofoklis
name: Megalokonomou, Rigissa
name: Goulas, Sofoklis
name: Megalokonomou, Rigissa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: feedback
subject: relative performance
subject: university admission
subject: rank
subject: gender differences
subject: income inequality

description: We study the effect of disclosing relative performance information (feedback) on students’ performance in high-school and on subsequent university enrolment. We exploit a large scale natural experiment where students in some cohorts are provided with their national and school relative performance. Using unique primary collected data, we find an asymmetric response to the relative performance information: high achieving students improve their last-year performance by 0.15 standard deviations whereas the last-year performance of low achieving students drops by 0.3 standard deviations. The results are more pronounced for females indicating greater sensitivity to feedback. We also document the long term effect of feedback provision: high achieving students reduce their repetition rate of the national exams, enrol into 0.15 standard deviations more popular University Departments and their expected annual earnings increase by 0.17 standard deviations. Results are opposite for low achieving students. We find suggestive evidence that feedback encourages more students from low-income neighborhoods to enrol in university and to study in higher-quality programs indicating a potential decrease in income inequality.
DETERMINANTS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF SMALL-HOLDERS YAM FARMERS IN NIGERIA
Creators: name: NDUBUEZE-OGARAKU, Mercy Ebere
name: ADEYOOLA, Olutola Ayodele
name: NWIGWE, Cecilia Akuchinyere
name: NDUBUEZE-OGARAKU, Mercy Ebere
name: ADEYOOLA, Olutola Ayodele
name: NWIGWE, Cecilia Akuchinyere
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: determinants
subject: technical efficiency
subject: small-holders
subject: yam farmers

description: Research background: Yam is rated as a principal tuber crop in the Nigeria economy, contributing to more than 200 dietary calories per capita daily in West Africa. It’s also an important source of income generation and trade. However, increase in yam production over the years is attributed more to the large area planted than to increase in farm level productivity. Purpose of the article: This study aimed at estimating the determinants of technical efficiency and inefficiency levels in small-holder yam farms in Nigeria. The research specifically determined farm level technical efficiency and estimated farmers’ socioeconomic variables that contributed to inefficiency level in yam production in Nigeria. Methods: Cross sectional data was collected from 80 yam farmers, randomly selected from the study area. Descriptive statistics (frequency, mean and percentage) and Cobb Douglas stochastic frontier production function model were the analytical tools used. Findings & value added: Results indicated that the farmers were fairly educated and mainly males (75%) with a mean age of 36 years. Farmers level of education and their age showed negative influence on technical efficiency, while household size and farming experience showed positive influence on technical efficiency. MLE estimates indicated that coefficients of farm size and yam seedlings were significant at 5% while fertilizer and labour were not significant. Mean efficiency of yam farmers was 94.6%, indicating an allowance of 5.4% for improvement. The finding suggests that there is need to support yam farmers in the use of modern techniques in yam production, which would encourage older and educated farmers to remain in farming. High incidence of pest and diseases and high cost of farm labour were among other major challenges faced by the farmers. It is recommended that programmes that would help improve farmers’ access to input supplies at subsided rate should be put in place to enhance farm productivity.
description: doi: 10.15414/raae.2021.24.01.13-20; https://roaae.org/issue/review-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics-raae-vol-24-no-1-2021/?article=determinants-of-technical-efficiency-of-small-holders-yam-farmers-in-nigeria
A remark on Fano threefolds with canonical Gorenstein singularities
Creators: name: Prokhorov, Yuri G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give some rationality constructions for Fano threefolds with canonical Gorenstein singularities.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX2e, to appear in Proc. Fano Confe
Additional file 2 of Primary desmoplastic small round cell tumor of the submandibular gland: a case report and literature review
Creators: name: Zhou, Jiayu
name: Li, Qingling
name: Luo, Baihua
name: Fu, Xiaodan
name: Ou, Chunlin
name: Gao, Xiaomei
name: Xu, Zhijie
name: Feng, Deyun
name: Yang, Keda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2.
Measurement induced entanglement and quantum computation with atoms in optical cavities
Creators: name: Sorensen, Anders S.
name: Molmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to prepare entangled states and implement quantum computation with atoms in optical cavities. The internal state of the atoms are entangled by a measurement of the phase of light transmitted through the cavity. By repeated measurements an entangled state is created with certainty, and this entanglement can be used to implement gates on qubits which are stored in different internal degrees of freedom of the atoms. This method, based on measurement induced dynamics, has a higher fidelity than schemes making use of controlled unitary dynamics.
description: 4 pages including 2 figures. v2+3: minor changes
WEIGHTED AGREEMENT WITH CATEGORICAL DATA
Creators: name: Schloss, Louis
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 49
subject: Mathematical sciences
classificationCode: 4905
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Cohen (1968) presented two measures of weighted agreement for the two-judges case. One measure, which we denote as weighted kappa I, incorporates weights that reflect disagreement and the other measure, which we denote as weighted kappa II, incorporates weights that reflect agreement. The asymptotic variances of the estimates of weighted kappa I and II were derived by Cohen (1968) for the two-judges case under the assumption of known marginal totals. In this dissertation, weighted kappa I and II are generalized to the r-judges case (where r is a positive integer greater than two). The asymptotic variances associated with weighted kappa I and II are derived, under the assumption of a multinomial sampling scheme. Very little attention has been given in the literature for assigning the disagreement weights incorporated in weighted kappa I or the agreement weights incorporated in weighted kappa II. There is a need for a formula or method to obtain these weights, especially for cases where there are more than two judges. One such formula for obtaining the disagreement weights incorporated in weighted kappa I is presented. For the two-judges case, the effect on weighted kappa I and its associated variances due to different sample sizes, disagreement weights and sums of diagonal probabilities is studied under three models of tables of joint probabilities. Finally, a method is presented for randomly simulating missing ratings, so that all selected objects will have the ratings of all r judges.
The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy
Creators: name: Mukand, Sharun
name: Rodrik, Dani
name: Mukand, Sharun
name: Rodrik, Dani
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: We distinguish between three sets of rights – property rights, political rights, and civil rights – and provide a taxonomy of political regimes. The distinctive nature of liberal democracy is that it protects civil rights (equality before the law for minorities) in addition to the other two. Democratic transitions are typically the product of a settlement between the elite (who care mostly about property rights) and the majority (who care mostly about political rights). Such settlements rarely produce liberal democracy, as the minority has neither the resources nor the numbers to make a contribution at the bargaining table. We develop a formal model to sharpen the contrast between electoral and liberal democracies and highlight circumstances under which liberal democracy can emerge. We discuss informally the difference between social mobilizations sparked by industrialization and decolonization. Since the latter revolve around identity cleavages rather than class cleavages, they are less conducive to liberal politics.
Exponential a.s. synchronization of one-dimensional diffusions with non-regular coefficients
Creators: name: Aryasova, Olga
name: Pilipenko, Andrey
name: Roelly, Sylvie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H10, 37B25

description: We study the asymptotic behaviour of a real-valued diffusion whose non-regular drift is given as a sum of a dissipative term and a bounded measurable one. We prove that two trajectories of that diffusion converge a.s. to one another at an exponential explicit rate as soon as the dissipative coefficient is large enough. A similar result in $L_p$ is obtained.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures
Numerical study of the glass-glass transition in short-ranged attractive colloids
Creators: name: Zaccarelli, Emanuela
name: Sciortino, Francesco
name: Tartaglia, Piero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report extensive numerical simulations in the {\it glass} region for a simple model of short-ranged attractive colloids, the square well model. We investigate the behavior of the density autocorrelation function and of the static structure factor in the region of temperatures and packing fractions where a glass-glass transition is expected according to theoretical predictions. We strengthen our observations by studying both waiting time and history dependence of the numerical results. We provide evidence supporting the possibility that activated bond-breaking processes destabilize the attractive glass, preventing the full observation of a sharp glass-glass kinetic transition.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures; Proceedings of "Structural Arrest Transitions in Colloidal Systems with Short-Range Attractions", Messina, Italy, December 2003 (submitted to J. Phys.: Condens. Matt.)
QE and the Bank Lending Channel in the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Buttz, Nick
name: Churmz, Rohan
name: McMahon, Michael
name: Morotzz, Arpad
name: Schanz, Jochen
name: Buttz, Nick
name: Churmz, Rohan
name: McMahon, Michael
name: Morotzz, Arpad
name: Schanz, Jochen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Monetary policy
subject: Bank lending channel
subject: Quantitative Easing

description: We test whether quantitative easing (QE), in addition to boosting aggregate demand and inflation via portfolio rebalancing channels, operated through a bank lending channel (BLC) in the UK. Using Bank of England data together with an instrumental variables approach, we find no evidence of a traditional BLC associated with QE. We show, in a simple framework, that the traditional BLC is diminished if the bank receives ‘flighty’ deposits (deposits that are likely to quickly leave the bank). We show that QE gave rise to such flighty deposits which may explain why we find no evidence of a BLC.
title: The role of international courts in the settlement of disputes between private parties and regional economic integration organizations in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean
Creators: name: Escobar Gil, María José
Year: 2024

description: Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle internationaler regionaler Gerichte bei der Beilegung von Streitigkeiten zwischen privaten Personen und Regionalen Wirtschaftsintegrationsorganisationen (REIOs) in Afrika, Lateinamerika und der Karibik. Sie analysiert, wie diese Gerichte, die zur Förderung der wirtschaftlichen und regionalen Integration geschaffen wurden, privaten Personen den Zugang zu internationaler Rechtsprechung ermöglichen. Durch die Analyse der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und Zugangsmöglichkeiten werden die Unterschiede zwischen den regionalen Systemen in Theorie und Praxis hervorgehoben.
description: This thesis explores the role of international regional courts in resolving disputes between private parties and Regional Economic Integration Organizations in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean (REIOs). It examines how these courts, established to promote economic and regional integration, allow private individuals to engage in international litigation. By analyzing the legal frameworks and access mechanisms, the study highlights the differences between the regional systems in theory and practice.
Gamers' Copyrights in League of Legends
Creators: name: Hung, Colbert Tsung Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The article was published in the Hong Kong Student Law Gazette Spring 2017 Issue. Many online game companies or professional players tend to contract with specialized companies to broadcast and live the gameplay. However, as the technology improved, many large-scale online battling games now is more player-driven, and it is the players and their skills that determine the outcome. This gives rise to the problem of the copyright and ownership of gameplay video. Does it belong to the game company, the contractor (signed with company or players), or the players themselves? What complicates the picture more is the "spectator mode" that allows every player to spectate others' gameplay and the spectator to upload further and broadcast the video online. Who can be the final arbitrator if the streaming video by players and spectators under the game company's public license conflicts with licensed streaming platforms' interests? I argued in the article that legislation like DMC cannot deal with online streaming videos properly and may even be used to evade liability. League of Legends and SpectateFaker presented an excellent illustration of the controversy over the streaming gameplay video's ownership. Riot's public license clause also goes into the issue of contract law regarding unconscionability or unfair terms. Legal reform and the improvement of regulations are of utmost importance for the online video game streaming industry to continue its prosperity and growth.
Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Creators: name: Artz, Benjamin
name: Goodall, Amanda H.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
name: Artz, Benjamin
name: Goodall, Amanda H.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: bosses
subject: expert leaders
subject: leadership
subject: job satisfaction
subject: happiness

description: Nearly all workers have a supervisor or ‘boss’. Yet little is known about how bosses influence the quality of employees’ lives. This study is a cautious attempt to provide new formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss’s technical competence is the single strongest predictor of a worker’s job satisfaction. Second, it is demonstrated in longitudinal data -- after controlling for fixed effects -- that even if a worker stays in the same job and workplace a rise in the competence of a supervisor is associated with an improvement in the worker’s well-being. Third, a variety of robustness checks, including tentative instrumental-variable results, are reported. These findings, which draw on US and British data, contribute to an emerging literature on the role of expert leaders in organizations. Finally, the paper discusses potential weaknesses of existing evidence and necessary future research.
Bulk Viscosity in Hybrid Stars
Creators: name: Drago, A.
name: Lavagno, A.
name: Pagliara, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the bulk viscosity of a mixed quark-hadron phase. In the first scenario to be discussed, the mixed phase occurs at large densities and we assume that it is composed of a mixing of hyperonic matter and quarks in the Color Flavor Locked phase. In a second scenario, the mixed phase occurs at lower densities and it is composed of a mixing of nucleons and unpaired quark matter. We have also investigated the effect of a non-vanishing surface tension at the interface between hadronic and quark matter. In both scenarios, the bulk viscosity is large when the surface tension is absent, while the value of the viscosity reduces in the second scenario when a finite value for the surface tension is taken into account. In all cases, the r-mode instabilities of the corresponding hybrid star are suppressed.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, extended version in print on Phys.Rev.D
WEIGHTED AGREEMENT WITH CATEGORICAL DATA
Creators: name: Schloss, Louis
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Cohen (1968) presented two measures of weighted agreement for the two-judges case. One measure, which we denote as weighted kappa I, incorporates weights that reflect disagreement and the other measure, which we denote as weighted kappa II, incorporates weights that reflect agreement. The asymptotic variances of the estimates of weighted kappa I and II were derived by Cohen (1968) for the two-judges case under the assumption of known marginal totals. In this dissertation, weighted kappa I and II are generalized to the r-judges case (where r is a positive integer greater than two). The asymptotic variances associated with weighted kappa I and II are derived, under the assumption of a multinomial sampling scheme. Very little attention has been given in the literature for assigning the disagreement weights incorporated in weighted kappa I or the agreement weights incorporated in weighted kappa II. There is a need for a formula or method to obtain these weights, especially for cases where there are more than two judges. One such formula for obtaining the disagreement weights incorporated in weighted kappa I is presented. For the two-judges case, the effect on weighted kappa I and its associated variances due to different sample sizes, disagreement weights and sums of diagonal probabilities is studied under three models of tables of joint probabilities. Finally, a method is presented for randomly simulating missing ratings, so that all selected objects will have the ratings of all r judges.
On the Stability of Fermionic Non-Isothermal Dark Matter Halos
Creators: name: Borzou, Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability of isothermal dark matter halos has been widely studied before. In this paper, we investigate the stability of non-isothermal fermionic dark matter halos. We show that in the presence of temperature gradient, the force due to the pressure has both inward and outward components. In some regions of halos, the inward force that provides stability is due to the pressure rather than gravity. Moreover, it is shown that higher temperature gradients lead to halos with lower mass and size. We prove that if the temperature is left as a free positive profile, one can place no phase-space lower bound on the mass of dark matter. For halos that are in the low degeneracy classic domain, we derive an analytic expression of their temperature in terms of their mass density and place an upper bound on the mass of dark matter by requiring that temperature is not negative. We then use the Burkert mass profile for the Milky Way to show that if the central temperature of the halo is a few Kelvins, the mass of dark matter cannot exceed a few keV.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, computer software to solve the most general stability equation. Comments are welcome
Matter-wave gap vortices in optical lattices
Creators: name: Ostrovskaya, Elena A.
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict the existence of spatially localized nontrivial topological states of the Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atomic interactions confined by an optical lattice. These nonlinear localized states, matter-wave gap vortices, possess a phase dislocation and exist in the gaps of the matter-wave bandgap spectrum due to the Bragg scattering. We discuss the structure, stability, and formation dynamics of the gap vortices in the case of two-dimensional optical lattices.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, references and typos corrected
Cordilura bicoloripes Ozerov 1997
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Cordilura
Cordilura bicoloripes

description: Cordilura bicoloripes Ozerov, 1997
 Cordilura bicoloripes Ozerov, 1997: 1424. HOLOTYPE: J, Russia, Eastern Primoriye, 40 km SE Ussuriysk, 10.viii.1983, A. Ozerov leg. (ZMUM, registration number Di-0038 (OZEROV 2005: 136)).
 Distribution. Russia – Far East (OZEROV 1997: 1424).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 118, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
THE SINGLE PARENT IN THE FICTION OF HENRY JAMES AND EDITH WHARTON
Creators: name: Trechsel, Gisela Brigitte
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Henry James and Edith Wharton share similarities in background, life style, and professional goals. One characteristic they share is the repeated occurrence of the single parent. This study explores diverse single-parent situations, based on particular social issues such as divorce, illegitimacy, and public attitudes. Furthermore, the focus is on artistic individualities of James and Wharton in how they present similar conditions and circumstances. The various single-parent situations depict conflicts between individual and environment brought forth by deviations from the norm. The function of the single parent in both James's and Wharton's novels and stories is to reflect society in the process of alteration and change.
title: Media Representation and Political Legitimation: The Case of Chinese Media - Focusing Specifically on Newspapers
Creators: name: Zhang, Rong
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation adopts a sociological approach to political legitimation and explores the communicative aspect of the process in the Chinese context. The study examines both quantitatively and qualitatively the coverage in two newspapers of recent health care reform in China. One of these was a party organ, The People’s Daily, while the other was a mass appeal newspaper, The South Metropolis Daily. The similarities and differences between the two newspapers and in the functions they seem to play in legitimating the Party-state are discussed. The study finds that the Chinese newspapers create a symbolic environment where the power of the Party-state is legitimated via appeal to shared beliefs about the common interest.
Marriage Equality in Taiwan: Journey on the Rainbow Road
Creators: name: Hung, Colbert Tsung Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The article was published in the Hong Kong Student Law Gazette Fall 2017 Issue. On May 24, the Constitutional Court of Taiwan has issued its Judicial Yuan interpretation No. 748 concerning the legality and constitutionality of same-sex marriage. This enables Taiwan to become the first country in Asia-pacific to open its door to LGBT groups. I endeavoured to introduce this sensational legal transition from a comparative law perspective while bringing in the discussion of Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. approach. Finally, the counterpart legal development in H.K. has been stagnant for a while, and it is worth looking at where we stand and where we can go from now on.
Genralized Robustness of Entanglement
Creators: name: Steiner, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The robustness of entanglement results of Vidal and Tarrach considered the problem whereby an entangled state is mixed with a separable state so that the overall state becomes non-entangled. In general it is known that there are also cases when entangled states are mixed with other entangled states and where the sum is separable. In this paper, we treat the more general case where entangled states can be mixed with any states so that the resulting mixture is unentangled. It is found that entangled pure states for this generalized case have the same robustness as the restricted case of Vidal and Tarrach.
description: Final version. Editorial changes and references added to independent work