cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Wiedza mieszkańców Darłowa i Wrześni z zakresu prawidłowej gospodarki odpadami komunalnymi
Creators: name: Jakubus, Monika
name: Jordanowska, Joanna
name: Tatuśko, Natalia
name: Jakubus, Monika
name: Jordanowska, Joanna
name: Tatuśko, Natalia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: municipal wastes segregation
subject: type of municipal waste
subject: knowledge
subject: municipal waste management

description: The paper presents state at social participation of inhabitants of Darłowo and Września in the process of municipal wastes management. The aim of the paper was an evaluation of the people’s knowledge connected with municipal waste segregation, as well as further fate of the separated municipal wastes. The assessment was based on the populations surveys. People are divided into 3 groups according to age. Each group consisted of 100 inhabitants of Darłowo, as well as Września. On the basis of obtained results it may be stated, that the residents showed quite satisfactory knowledge related to the necessity of wastes segregation. Moreover, the respondents can correctly distinguish essential types of municipal wastes as: paper, glass, plastics and metals. Despite this, the further fate of selected municipal wastes for most of was the surveyed was not well – known. In this context the respondents very often indicated on a landfi ll as a one of the most popular methods of municipal wastes utilisation. The obtained data of the surveys indicated that, the knowledge of inhabitants of Darłowo was higher than that of Września. In general men presented broader range of information related to municipal waste management. The oldest persons, 60+, showed a complete knowledge of municipal waste management.
title: Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals
Creators: name: Mazza, Valeria
name: Czyperreck, Inken
name: Eccard, Jana A.
name: Dammhahn, Melanie
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: The Anthropocene is the era of urbanization. The accelerating expansion of cities occurs at the expense of natural reservoirs of biodiversity and presents animals with challenges for which their evolutionary past might not have prepared them. Cognitive and behavioral adjustments to novelty could promote animals’ persistence under these altered conditions. We investigated the structure of, and covariance between, different aspects of responses to novelty in rural and urban small mammals of two non-commensal rodent species. We ran replicated experiments testing responses to three novelty types (object, food, or space) of 47 individual common voles (Microtus arvalis) and 41 individual striped field mice (Apodemus agrarius). We found partial support for the hypothesis that responses to novelty are structured, clustering (i) speed of responses, (ii) intensity of responses, and (iii) responses to food into separate dimensions. Rural and urban small mammals did not differ in most responses to novelty, suggesting that urban habitats do not reduce neophobia in these species. Further studies investigating whether comparable response patters are found throughout different stages of colonization, and along synurbanization processes of different duration, will help illuminate the dynamics of animals’ cognitive adjustments to urban life.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1226
Additional file 10 of Mapping DNA interaction landscapes in psoriasis susceptibility loci highlights KLF4 as a target gene in 9q31
Creators: name: Ray-Jones, Helen
name: Duffus, Kate
name: McGovern, Amanda
name: Martin, Paul
name: Chenfu Shi
name: Hankinson, Jenny
name: Gough, Oliver
name: Yarwood, Annie
name: Morris, Andrew P.
name: Adamson, Antony
name: Taylor, Christopher
name: Ding, James
name: Vasanthi Priyadarshini Gaddi
name: Fu, Yao
name: Gaffney, Patrick
name: Orozco, Gisela
name: Warren, Richard B.
name: Eyre, Steve
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10 : Figure S7. Previously reported HiC interaction data in NHEK cells in the 9q31.2 locus [14]. Interactions are indicated between KLF4 and the gene desert, including the psoriasis SNPs and the breast cancer region shown in a previous CHi-C experiment [17]. Image created using the YUE lab 3D Genome Browser.
Metastable states of surface plasmon vacuum near the interface between metal and nonlinear dielectric
Creators: name: Smolyaninov, Igor I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zero-point fluctuations of surface plasmon modes near the interface between metal and nonlinear dielectric are shown to produce a thin layer of altered dielectric constant near the interface. This effect may be sufficiently large to produce multiple metastable states of the surface plasmon vacuum.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Interacting quantum plasmons in metal-dielectric structures
Creators: name: Shahbazyan, Tigran V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a consistent quantum description of surface plasmons interacting with quantum emitters and external electromagnetic field. Within the framework of macroscopic electrodynamics in dispersive and absorptive medium, we derive, in the Markov approximation, the canonical Hamiltonian, commutation relations, and coupling parameters for the plasmon modes in metal-dielectric structures of an arbitrary shape whose characteristic size is well below the diffraction limit. We then develop a new quantum approach bridging the macroscopic and canonical schemes which describes the interacting plasmons in terms of bosonic modes with linear dispersion whose coupling to the electromagnetic field and quantum emitters is mediated by the classical plasmons. By accurately accounting for medium optical dispersion and losses in the interactions of surface plasmons with light and localized electron excitations, this approach can serve as a framework for studying non-Markovian effects in plasmonics.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Characterization of systematic error in Advanced LIGO calibration
Creators: name: Sun, Ling
name: Goetz, Evan
name: Kissel, Jeffrey S.
name: Betzwieser, Joseph
name: Karki, Sudarshan
name: Viets, Aaron
name: Wade, Madeline
name: Bhattacharjee, Dripta
name: Bossilkov, Vladimir
name: Covas, Pep B.
name: Datrier, Laurence E. H.
name: Gray, Rachel
name: Kandhasamy, Shivaraj
name: Lecoeuche, Yannick K.
name: Mendell, Gregory
name: Mistry, Timesh
name: Payne, Ethan
name: Savage, Richard L.
name: Weinstein, Alan J.
name: Aston, Stuart
name: Buikema, Aaron
name: Cahillane, Craig
name: Driggers, Jenne C.
name: Dwyer, Sheila E.
name: Kumar, Rahul
name: Urban, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The raw outputs of the detectors within the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory need to be calibrated in order to produce the estimate of the dimensionless strain used for astrophysical analyses. The two detectors have been upgraded since the second observing run and finished the year-long third observing run. Understanding, accounting, and/or compensating for the complex-valued response of each part of the upgraded detectors improves the overall accuracy of the estimated detector response to gravitational waves. We describe improved understanding and methods used to quantify the response of each detector, with a dedicated effort to define all places where systematic error plays a role. We use the detectors as they stand in the first half (six months) of the third observing run to demonstrate how each identified systematic error impacts the estimated strain and constrain the statistical uncertainty therein. For this time period, we estimate the upper limit on systematic error and associated uncertainty to be $< 7\%$ in magnitude and $< 4$ deg in phase ($68\%$ confidence interval) in the most sensitive frequency band 20-2000 Hz. The systematic error alone is estimated at levels of $< 2\%$ in magnitude and $< 2$ deg in phase.
Szanse i zagrożenia dla rozwoju kapitału ludzkiego na obszarach wiejskich w wieloletnich ramach finansowych 2014–2020 w Polsce w dziedzinie edukacj
Creators: name: Kowalska, Iwona
name: Kowalska, Iwona
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: finance
subject: EU
subject: education
subject: opportunities
subject: threats
subject: rural areas Słowa kluczowe w języku polskim: finanse
subject: UE
subject: edukacja
subject: szanse
subject: zagrożenia
subject: wi

description: Investment in human capital is a key determinant of socio-economic development in the twenty-fi rst century. These investments in rural areas require well-planned interventions in the fi eld of education. The necessary funds for this purpose will be available under the multiannual fi nancial framework EU 2014–2020. Interventions in this area in Poland are planned mainly under the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development POWER) and the Regional Operational Programmes (RPO). It should therefore be valuable to preliminarily assess the opportunities and threats connected with the development of human capital in rural areas in Poland in the fi eld of education in 2014–2020. The aim of this article is, thus, an attempt to make such an assessment, taking into account the following aspects: scope of the EU support; procedures for obtaining fi nancial support; available funds and financial instruments. The article verifi es the following hypothesis: based on program POWER establishments and RPO 2014–2020 in the section on education potential chances of the HRD in rural areas mainly result from wide range scope of this suport; while the main threats stem from a very limited scale of prioritization in the procedure of obtaining fi nancial support and the use of non-repayable fi nancial instruments (grants). The article draws upon the analysis of regulations of the European Commission and national legislative sources, as well as literature on development of human capital in rural areas and the absorption of EU funds for social projects.
Finansowo-techniczna ocena efektywności funkcjonowania wybranych podmiotów łańcucha gospodarki żywnościowej
Creators: name: Krotowska, Małgorzata
name: Mierzwa, Danuta
name: Krotowska, Małgorzata
name: Mierzwa, Danuta
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: PAG – Producers Association Groups
subject: FC – Farm Cooperatives
subject: economic effi ciency
subject: technical effi ciency
subject: RDP – Rural Development Program
subject: integration

description: The aim of the article was technical and economic assessment of organizational improvements and use of resources of the examined business entities within the frames of their economic activity. The measurement of economic effi ciency was done with the use of commonly accepted profi tability indices (ROE, profi t margin and RONA). The technical assessment was based on the DEA method, taking into account the model: CRS, VRS and the scale of production. The variables applied in the model w ere operating incomes, as well as expenditures, i.e. UR area, labour input, value of fi xed assets and expenditure connected with energy and materials consumption. The research results proved that there were not signifi cant diff erences between the examined groups (Z and N) as far as calculated indices were concerned.
Bubbling AdS space and 1/2 BPS geometries
Creators: name: Lin, Hai
name: Lunin, Oleg
name: Maldacena, Juan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider all 1/2 BPS excitations of $AdS \times S$ configurations in both type IIB string theory and M-theory. In the dual field theories these excitations are described by free fermions. Configurations which are dual to arbitrary droplets of free fermions in phase space correspond to smooth geometries with no horizons. In fact, the ten dimensional geometry contains a special two dimensional plane which can be identified with the phase space of the free fermion system. The topology of the resulting geometries depends only on the topology of the collection of droplets on this plane. These solutions also give a very explicit realization of the geometric transitions between branes and fluxes. We also describe all 1/2 BPS excitations of plane wave geometries. The problem of finding the explicit geometries is reduced to solving a Laplace (or Toda) equation with simple boundary conditions. We present a large class of explicit solutions. In addition, we are led to a rather general class of $AdS_5$ compactifications of M-theory preserving ${\cal N} =2$ superconformal symmetry. We also find smooth geometries that correspond to various vacua of the maximally supersymmetric mass-deformed M2 brane theory. Finally, we present a smooth 1/2 BPS solution of seven dimensional gauged supergravity corresponding to a condensate of one of the charged scalars.
description: 66 pages, 9 figures, latex, v2: Typos fixed, discussion on 2d QCD added
Application of seismic cone for characterization of ground improved by vibro-replacement
Creators: name: Asalemi, Ali Amini
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The objective of this thesis was to gain a better understanding of the physical process of ground improvement by vibro-replacement and of how the induced changes in ground conditions affect the interpretation of seismic cone penetration testing used to assess its effectiveness. This was achieved by a combination of field testing and monitoring supported by numerical modelling of both the vibro-replacement process and of in situ testing. Field measurements were made of the input motions created by the vibrator and the induced response of the ground. The measured vibrator motions were input to a numerical model of the soil mass and the results of the analysis were compared to the measured data. The results of seismic cone testing before and after treatment at 15 sites and existing chamber test data were analyzed and additional numerical modelling of seismic cone testing in the post-treatment ground conditions was carried out. The study showed that the ground response to the vibrator attenuated with distance due to geometrical spreading and material damping. The direction of the principal horizontal acceleration changed with distance from the vibrator. It was shown that vibro-replacement creates a young, heterogeneous deposit comprising the native soil with increases in density and horizontal stress varying with distance from stiffer stone columns. If the induced heterogeneity is neglected when interpreting in situ test results, there will be some over-estimation of the soil properties close to the cone hole and considerable under-estimation of the average properties of the composite mass. The stiffer stone columns also change the wave propagation regime during down-hole testing and prevent reliable interpretation of the shear wave velocity o f the improved native soil. Analysis of field test data showed that vibro-replacement causes an apparent shift in soil behaviour type classification. The combined effects of changes in density, horizontal stress and time dependent soil stiffness were shown to be important when interpreting seismic cone results. Friction ratio was found not diagnostic of changes in soil conditions. For the soils studied, a correlation was derived between achievable tip resistance and pre-treatment soil behaviour type for several stone column spacings.
Zachowania żywieniowe pracowników restauracji sieci McDonald’s
Creators: name: Michota-Katulska, Ewa
name: Zegan, Magdalena
name: Grzebuła, Mariola
name: Michota-Katulska, Ewa
name: Zegan, Magdalena
name: Grzebuła, Mariola
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: dietary habits
subject: fast food
subject: McDonald’s employees

description: Both the amount and the quality of consumed food have a direct impact on health. There has been a noticeable increase in frequency of fast food consumption. The aim of the paper was to assess the food habits in a selected group of quick service restaurant employees, who have easy access to fast food. The survey was conducted at the end of 2014/beginning 2015 among 270 purposively selected McDonald’s Warsaw restaurant employees. An original survey questionnaire was employed. Statistica software was used to process the data; correlation coeffi cient was calculated taking p < 0.5 as the level of statistical signifi cance. The survey points to many nutritional errors committed by the employees, including too long intervals between meals and frequent fast food consumption. Additionally, it was observed that seniority played a role in food preferences: the longer the employee’s length of service, the more often would they consume McDonald’s-bought products. It was determined that place of employment was a determining factor in food choices. The respondents with longer seniority reported more frequent consumption of products bought during work hours and use of McDonald’s restaurants in general. Although almost half of the respondents were aware of the negative health eff ects of fast food, they did not limit its consumption. It appears essential to introduce health education for the surveyed group.
Rola i znaczenie cross-compliance w dopłatach bezpośrednich dla rolników w latach 2015–2020
Creators: name: Mickiewicz, Bartosz
name: Mickiewicz, Bartosz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The article presents the legal regulations of the European Union in the fi eld of cross-compliance requirements. The requirements were thought to change agricultural production in less intensive direction with respecting of the environment. The regulations encouraged the development of organic production methods. Cross compliance in the new fi nancial perspective means greater relation between the amount of direct payments earned by farmers and non-investment payments received from the Rural Development Programme. Studies show that new regulations adopted for the period 2015–2020 aimed at development of sustainable farming systems so that farmers can respond to many challenges awaiting them, not just those connected with climate change and increasing pressure associated with the use of natural resources.
Two-point function of the energy-momentum tensor and generalised conformal structure
Creators: name: Corianò, Claudio
name: Rose, Luigi Delle
name: Skenderis, Kostas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theories with generalised conformal structure contain a dimensionful parameter, which appears as an overall multiplicative factor in the action. Examples of such theories are gauge theories coupled to massless scalars and fermions with Yukawa interactions and quartic couplings for the scalars in spacetime dimensions other than 4. Many properties of such theories are similar to that of conformal field theories (CFT), and in particular their 2-point functions take the same form as in CFT but with the normalisation constant now replaced by a function of the effective dimensionless coupling $g$ constructed from the dimensionful parameter and the distance separating the two operators. Such theories appear in holographic dualities involving non-conformal branes and this behaviour of the correlators has already been observed at strong coupling. Here we present a perturbative computation of the two-point function of the energy-momentum tensor to two loops in dimensions $d= 3, 5$, confirming the expected structure and determining the corresponding functions of $g$ to this order, including the effects of renormalisation. We also discuss the d=4 case for comparison. The results for $d=3$ are relevant for holographic cosmology, and in this case we also study the effect of a $Φ^6$ coupling, which while marginal in the usual sense it is irrelevant from the perspective of the generalised conformal structure. Indeed, the effect of such coupling in the 2-point function is washed out in the IR but it modifies the UV.
description: v2: minor improvements, version to appear in EPJC
Laying the Foundation for Genetic Improvement of the Jamaican Goat: Selection and Performance of Imported Boer Goat Seed Stock
Creators: name: McWhinney, Dalton R.
name: Nuti, Louis C.
name: Richards, Freddie L.
name: Parks, Alfred L.
name: Miller, David L.
name: Fearon, Albert L.
name: McWhinney, Ludlow A.
name: Jennings, Paul
name: McWhinney, Dalton R.
name: Nuti, Louis C.
name: Richards, Freddie L.
name: Parks, Alfred L.
name: Miller, David L.
name: Fearon, Albert L.
name: McWhinney, Ludlow A.
name: Jennings, Paul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Farm Management
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Consumers are demanding high quality leaner meat at lower prices. Demandfor meat that is tender, low in fat, and low in cholesterol is forcing livestock producers to look to genetics for the challenge. Over the past five years goat producers throughout the United States have been using the South African Boer goat extensively to improvethe meat quality and productivity of the Spanish, Angora, and Tennessee Stiff-legged herds. The Boer goat has adapted very well to a variety of environmentalconditions, ranging from hot, dry semi-arid to humid and tropical bush. The Boer goat has the necessary characteristics which include size, uniform carcass, fast growth rates. high reproductive rates and longbreedingseason. They are good foragers, good milkers, and have excellent mothering ability. A characteristic feature of the Boer goat is a large frame with either solid or red markings or white hair and red markingson the head and neck. Mature animals weigh between 180-280Ibs for males and 110-165 lbs for females. Cross breeding experiments lire being conducted using the Boer. Jamaica Creole. and graded Nubians. There are several critical factors to consider when embarkingon a cross breeding program. These include criteria for selecting seed stock for the foundation herd. selecting a herd sire. management, and enviromnental conditions under which the animals willi exist. This study is a summary of the selection, processing, importation. and performanceof imported BOeJr goat seed stock that will form the genetic base for the improvementof the Jamaican goat. Imported Boer goats were evaluated to determine the performance of this animal under Jamaican tropical management conditions.
Near-perfect conduction through a ferrocene-based molecular wire
Creators: name: Getty, Stephanie A.
name: Engtrakul, Chaiwat
name: Wang, Lixin
name: Liu, Rui
name: Ke, San-Huang
name: Baranger, Harold U.
name: Yang, Weitao
name: Fuhrer, Michael. S.
name: Sita, Lawrence R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we describe the design, single-molecule transport measurements, and theoretical modeling of a ferrocene-based organometallic molecular wire, whose bias-dependent conductance shows a clear Lorentzian form with magnitude exceeding 70% of the conductance quantum G_0. We attribute this unprecedented level of single-molecule conductance to a manifestation of the low-lying molecular resonance and extended orbital network long-predicted for a conjugated organic system. A similar-in-length, all-organic conjugated phenylethynyl oligomer molecular framework shows much lower conductance.
description: 11 pages text, 4 figures, 4 pages supplementary material; re-submitted to Physical Review Letters
A prediction for U(e3) from patterns in the charged lepton spectra
Creators: name: Ferrandis, Javier
name: Pakvasa, Sandip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that empirical relations between the charged lepton spectra and the quark spectra together with a bimaximal or near bimaximal neutrino mixing matrix necessarily imply that there is a contribution to U(e3) given by thetaC/3/sqrt(2) ~ sqrt(m_{e}/2m_{mu}) ~ 0.052, where thetaC is the Cabibbo angle. This prediction could be tested in the near future reactor experiments. The charged lepton mixing also generates a less robust prediction for the angle theta(23) and a small contribution to the phase delta.
description: 4 pages, 0 figures
Additional file 3 of Varlociraptor: enhancing sensitivity and controlling false discovery rate in somatic indel discovery
Creators: name: Köster, Johannes
name: Dijkstra, Louis J.
name: Marschall, Tobias
name: Schönhuth, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3 Review History.
The Impact of High Environmental Temperature on Aflatoxicosis and the Effects of Mannanoligosaccharide (MOS) as a Binding Agent
Creators: name: Stanley, Victor G.
name: Jones, Georgia
name: Quarrie, Clive
name: Stanley, Victor G.
name: Jones, Georgia
name: Quarrie, Clive
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Aflatoxin continues to be a serious hazard to high quality grains, animal productivity, and health and food security in many countries. Poor growth, feed efficiency, immuno suppression, organ damage, carcinogenicity, and toxin residue in foods are some of the adverse effects of aflatoxicosis. To reduce aflatoxicosis several binding agents have been suggested including sodium bentonites, synthetic zeolite, activated charcoal, H.S.C.A.S. and yeast. MOS is a non-digestible carbohydrate from the extract of yeast and has been very effective as a binding agent for aflatoxin in feeds. The Objectives ofthese studies were to show the; (I) effects ofaflatoxin on growth, and feed utilization, (2) relationship between aflatoxicosis and environmental temperature, and (3) effects of non-digestible carbohydrate (MOS) on the reduction of aflatoxicosis. In these separate studies commercial broiler chicks were fed aflatoxin-treated feed to 4 wks ofage. In the first and second studies, the effect of aflatoxin on perfonnance was examined under two separate environmental temperatures, 21° and 32 OC. In the third study, the effects ofMOS on aflatoxicosis under the two different temperatures were examined. Parameters measured were body weight, feed utilization, mortality and relative organ weights. Results showed that body weight of broiler chicks at 4 weeks of age was severely suppressed by 59% with the ingestion of 3 ppm of aflatoxin. Feed utilization was also significantly reduced, Among the internal organs examined, the liver, proventriculus, spleen and heart were severely affected by the feeding of aflatoxin. Under different environmental temperatures, the effect ofaflatoxicosis was more severe at 32 °C. MOS applied at 21bs per ton offeed was extremely effective in reducing aflatoxicosis by 85 percent. Irrespective ofthe temperature, body weight and feed utilization improved markedly compared to the control with the dietary inclusion ofMOS at 2 Ibs per ton of feed. In conclusion, MOS has been proven to be an effective binder for aflatoxins.
Adaptability of the Anglo-Nubian Goat as Measured by It's Reproductive Parameters in a Nucleus Herd
Creators: name: Miller, David
name: Miller, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1998
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Productivity Analysis

description: In recent years, the Anglo-Nubian breed of goat has been used extensively in crossbreeding work with the native Jamaican goat for improving the produetivity of the native. The purpose of this study is to establish parameters of reproductive performance in the Anglo-Nubian goat in the nucleus herd at the Bodies Research Station. Forty nine (49) purebred Anglo-Nubian does were observed through 136 kiddings between April 1993 and December 1997. The parameters measured include prolificacy, kidding interval, age at first kidding, frequency of multiple births and the relationship between parity and multiple births. The seasonality of kidding was also examined. The Anglo-Nubian does at Bodles were found to have a prolificacy rate of 1.69 ± 0.67 with a kidding interval of 355 ± 90 days (range of 185 - 688 days) and age at first kidding of 517 ± 164 days. The data shows that the Anglo-Nubian exhibits some seasonality in the pattern of kidding with 91.91 % of does kidding between November and April. This is typical of the temperate breeds, which tend to kid in the cooler and drier months.
Scalable functionalization of optical fibers using atomically thin semiconductors
Creators: name: Ngo, Gia Quyet
name: George, Antony
name: Schock, Robin Tristan Klaus
name: Tuniz, Alessandro
name: Najafidehaghani, Emad
name: Gan, Ziyang
name: Geib, Nils C.
name: Bucher, Tobias
name: Knopf, Heiko
name: Neumann, Christof
name: Lühder, Tilman
name: Warren-Smith, Stephen
name: Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Heike
name: Pertsch, Thomas
name: Schmidt, Markus A.
name: Turchanin, Andrey
name: Eilenberger, Falk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides are highly promising for integrated optoelectronic and photonic systems due to their exciton-driven linear and nonlinear interaction with light. Integrating them into optical fibers yields novel opportunities in optical communication, remote sensing, and all-fiber optoelectronics. However, scalable and reproducible deposition of high quality monolayers on optical fibers is a challenge. Here, we report the chemical vapor deposition of monolayer MoS2 and WS2 crystals on the core of microstructured exposed core optical fibers and their interaction with the fibers' guided modes. We demonstrate two distinct application possibilities of 2D-functionalized waveguides to exemplify their potential. First, we simultaneously excite and collect excitonic 2D material photoluminescence with the fiber modes, opening a novel route to remote sensing. Then we show that third harmonic generation is modified by the highly localized nonlinear polarization of the monolayers, yielding a new avenue to tailor nonlinear optical processes in fibers. We anticipate that our results may lead to significant advances in optical fiber based technologies.
Multilevel MATE algorithm for simulation of power system transients with the OVNI simulator
Creators: name: Armstrong, Maz̆ana Lukić
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The existing MATE (" Multi Area Thevenin Equivalent") concept implemented in the real-time simulator OVNI provides a means of partitioning large systems of equations into subsystems connected through links. The subsystems are solved independently, with the overall solution integrated at the level of the links. MATE partitioning enables fast simulation of power system networks in two distinct ways: first, it allows parallel processing in a multi-machine environment and second, it allows integration of different solution techniques for individual subsystems. In this thesis, we generalize the concept of MATE with the new Multilevel MATE concept, in which each subsystem becomes the basis for a new level of MATE partitioning. The new concept allows subsystems to be further partitioned into subsubsystems that, for example, are of a constant and changing nature. Partitioning at the subsystem level leads to higher overall solution efficiency. Furthermore, power system components can be described using Multilevel MATE by their nodal and/or branch equations on the subsystem level in OVNI. A three-phase induction machine model is an example of a power system component that is naturally described with branch equations. Multilevel MATE also provides a convenient framework for the incorporation of controllers as well as nonlinear elements. The software implementation of OVNI written in this work is based on the Multilevel MATE algorithm. Models of power system components have been implemented and tested using the newly developed concept. A test case describing a doubly-fed induction generator wind turbine system has been modelled and studied as a practical example of the new solution scheme's capabilities.
Kramers equation for a charged Brownian particle: The exact solution
Creators: name: Simoes, Tania P.
name: Lagos, Roberto E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the exact fundamental solution for Kramers equation associated to a brownian gas of charged particles, under the influence of homogeneous (spatially uniform) otherwise arbitrary, external mechanical, electrical and magnetic fields. Some applications are presented, namely the hydrothermodynamical picture for Brownian motion in the long time regime.
description: minor corrections
Devising and Designing a Model for Interaction of Mosque and Local organizations
Creators: name: Abbasi, Rasoul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 350710
subject: Organisational behaviour

description: One of the questions has always been aroused about the performance of local mosques was focused on the interaction of these mosques with local organizations. This study aimed to identify the elements of a model for the interaction of the mosque and local organizations. The method for designing a conceptual model in this study was single practical conceptualization. The research method was a hybrid one consisted of explanatory interviews, observation and a Delphi survey of experts' views. The required information was collected from various religious and scientific sources. According to this study the interaction of local organizations with mosques was considered in three aspects including supporting, monitoring and exchanging information. These three aspects were confirmed by the experts. Considering the top rating of supportive aspect avoiding the concentration and assigning of mosques' affairs to the governments in the local and institutional levels was emphasized. Hence, it is suggested that the management and monitoring of mosques' performances being assigned to a grassroots activists under the supervision of mosques' Imams.
Distillation-Based Semi-Supervised Federated Learning for Communication-Efficient Collaborative Training with Non-IID Private Data
Creators: name: Itahara, Sohei
name: Nishio, Takayuki
name: Koda, Yusuke
name: Morikura, Masahiro
name: Yamamoto, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study develops a federated learning (FL) framework overcoming largely incremental communication costs due to model sizes in typical frameworks without compromising model performance. To this end, based on the idea of leveraging an unlabeled open dataset, we propose a distillation-based semi-supervised FL (DS-FL) algorithm that exchanges the outputs of local models among mobile devices, instead of model parameter exchange employed by the typical frameworks. In DS-FL, the communication cost depends only on the output dimensions of the models and does not scale up according to the model size. The exchanged model outputs are used to label each sample of the open dataset, which creates an additionally labeled dataset. Based on the new dataset, local models are further trained, and model performance is enhanced owing to the data augmentation effect. We further highlight that in DS-FL, the heterogeneity of the devices' dataset leads to ambiguous of each data sample and lowing of the training convergence. To prevent this, we propose entropy reduction averaging, where the aggregated model outputs are intentionally sharpened. Moreover, extensive experiments show that DS-FL reduces communication costs up to 99% relative to those of the FL benchmark while achieving similar or higher classification accuracy.
title: Urban sprawl, land use and air pollution in urban areas with a case study on the San Juan Metropolitan Area, Puerto Rico
Creators: name: Gómez-Lobo Santiago, Pilar Sofía
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: urban sprawl
subject: Puerto Rico
subject: San Juan Metropolitan Area
subject: urban economics

description: Defining urban sprawl is a difficult task. Beyond low-density, uncontrolled development and urban expansion, there is no one unified concept or definition. As a consequence, several metrics and indicators are used to characterize urban sprawl. A literature review has been done in the first part of this thesis in order to complete the difficult task of finding the ideal set of indicators and thereby an ideal definition, that may also be applied to our case study of the San Juan Metropolitan Area. One of the main concerns of this thesis is the environmental consequences of urban sprawl. Therefore, further on in the literature review, a discussion of the causes and consequences of sprawl will show how the automobile plays a very important role in both being the origin of the 'problem' and in its increased use resulting in more carbon dioxide emissions and concentrations. The change and loss of landscape is the other important environmental consequence of sprawl. The second part of this thesis draws its focus to the San Juan Metropolitan Area in Puerto Rico (SJMA). Representing the main urban areas of the island, the San Juan Metropolitan Area has gone through an interesting process of development and urban growth. Following in the United States' footsteps, Puerto Rico experienced rapid growth in population and in infrastructure development during the 1950s. With a steady population growth rate until the late 1990s to early 2000s and an ever increasing use of the car as a means of transport, suburbanization was practically inevitable. More recent years show for a slow-down in population growth, but the consequences and outcomes - traffic congestion and loss of landscape, for instance - of sprawl remain. To fulfill the ultimate aim of this research - finding appropriate policy approaches to mitigate and control the negative effects of sprawl in the SJMA - census data, income data, transport data, land use regulation data, and remote sensing image information have been used and analyzed to list the policy implications accordingly. In order to make urban life more attractive than suburban life in the SJMA, more investments are required in the public transportation system and in the betterment of the other public amenities the urban centers of the SJMA have to offer. An island-wide land use regulation system is also required.
Disks Surviving the Radiation Pressure of Radio Pulsars
Creators: name: Eksi, K. Y.
name: Alpar, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radiation pressure of a radio pulsar does not necessarily disrupt a surrounding disk. The position of the inner radius of a thin disk around a neutron star can be estimated by comparing the electromagnetic energy density generated by the neutron star with the kinetic energy density of the disk. Inside the light cylinder, the near zone electromagnetic field is essentially the dipole magnetic field, and the inner radius is the conventional Alfven radius. Far outside the light cylinder, in the radiation zone, $E=B$ and the electromagnetic energy density is $/c \propto 1/r^2$ where $S$ is the Poynting vector. Shvartsman (1970) argued that a stable equilibrium can not be found in the radiative zone because the electromagnetic energy density dominates over the kinetic energy density, with the relative strength of the electromagnetic stresses increasing with radius. In order to check whether this is true also near the light cylinder, we employ global electromagnetic field solutions for rotating oblique magnetic dipoles (Deutsch 1955). Near the light cylinder the electromagnetic energy density increases steeply enough with decreasing $r$ to balance the kinetic energy density at a stable equilibrium. The transition from the near zone to the radiation zone is broad. The radiation pressure of the pulsar can not disrupt the disk for values of the inner radius up to about twice the light cylinder radius if the rotation axis and the magnetic axis are orthogonal. This allowed range beyond the light cylinder extends much further for small inclination angles. We discuss implications of this result for accretion driven millisecond pulsars and young neutron stars with fallback disks.
description: Accepted by Astrophysical Journal, final version with a minor correction