cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Who Cares about Unemployment Insurance?
Creators: name: Lifschitz, Avihai
name: Setty, Ofer
name: Yedid-Levi, Yaniv
name: Lifschitz, Avihai
name: Setty, Ofer
name: Yedid-Levi, Yaniv
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Redistribution
subject: Search and Matching
subject: Unemployment Risk
subject: Unemployment Insurance

description: How is the optimal level of unemployment insurance affected when accounting for skill differences? We analyze this question using a general equilibrium model that has a number of key elements: (i) a search and matching friction in the labor market; (ii) workers who have the ability to save and cannot perfectly insure idiosyncratic risks; and (iii) ex-ante heterogeneity in unemployment risk and labor income. Considering a proportional tax and replacement rate UI system, our model suggests an optimal replacement rate of 32%, while a model without ex-ante heterogeneity calls for a much lower replacement rate (12%). We show that both dimensions of heterogeneity are responsible for these results. Specifically, we argue that income differences induce an incentive to redistribute consumption across skill groups. However, given the UI system, such redistribution is feasible only when there are differences in unemployment risk.
IMAGES OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH IN AMERICAN MEDICAL THOUGHT: 1776-1800 AND 1835-1865
Creators: name: Wylie, Mary Sykes
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: The political, social, and intellectual currents of American life during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were as much expressed in language and ideas of medicine as in music, art, or literature. During the later era, discussions of disease and health and the role of physicians in the n.
Gender Ratios at Top PhD Programs in Economics
Creators: name: Hale, Galina
name: Regev, Tali
name: Hale, Galina
name: Regev, Tali
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: gender
subject: segregation
subject: economists
subject: gender bias
subject: affirmative action
subject: minority

description: Analyzing university faculty and graduate students data for ten of the top U.S. economics departments between 1987 and 2007, we find persistent differences in the gender compositions of both faculty and graduate students across departments. There is a positive correlation between the share of female faculty and the share of women in the PhD class graduating 6 years later. Using instrumental variable analysis, we find robust evidence that this relation is causal. These results contribute to our understanding of the persistent under-representation of women in economics, as well as for the persistent segregation of women in the labor force.
Locating the Launching Region of T Tauri Winds: The Case of DG Tau
Creators: name: Anderson, Jeffrey M.
name: Li, Zhi-Yun
name: Krasnopolsky, Ruben
name: Blandford, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely believed that T Tauri winds are driven magnetocentrifugally from accretion disks close to the central stars. The exact launching conditions are uncertain. We show that a general relation exists between the poloidal and toroidal velocity components of a magnetocentrifugal wind at large distances and the rotation rate of the launching surface, independent of the uncertain launching conditions. We discuss the physical basis of this relation and verify it using a set of numerically-determined large-scale wind solutions. Both velocity components are in principle measurable from spatially resolved spectra, as has been done for the extended low-velocity component (LVC) of the DG Tau wind by Bacciotti et al. For this particular source, we infer that the spatially resolved LVC originates from a region on the disk extending from $\sim 0.3$ to $\sim 4.0\AU$ from the star, which is consistent with, and a refinement over, the previous rough estimate of Bacciotti et al.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters
Parent stress and children's movement behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Taylor, Ellie K.
name: Okely, Anthony D.
name: Chathurangana, Prasad
name: Lubree, Himangi
name: Hettiarachchi, Yashodha
name: Turab, Syed Muhammad Ali
name: Baig, Aqsa
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: COVID-19 restrictions have had an unfavourable impact on children’s physical activity and screen time. The link between children’s movement behaviour and parental mental health is not well understood in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the pandemic has had a profound impact. Purpose: To explore the relationship between parent stress and child movement behaviours in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India during the pandemic. Methods: The sample comprises 30 parents with children aged 3 - 4 years. Parents were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews and a pandemic impact questionnaire, via phone, exploring their stress levels and their child’s movement behaviours, during the pandemic. Results: Parents reflected on concerns regarding their child’s lack of physical activity, and the amount of time their child was spending in screen time. Parents reported taking on different roles, and juggling complex responsibilities, influencing their motivation and ability to promote movement and play. This is further compounded by limited safe play spaces. Conclusions: Parents and caregivers have an important role to play in encouraging children’s healthy movement behaviours, particularly in circumstances where additional family supports (e.g. childcare, grandparents) are not available. Parents require readily-accessible information regarding promotion of healthy movement behaviours in the home environment, particularly in LMICs. We need to think beyond the impact of restrictions on the physical activity and screen time of children, to the impact this may have on parental stress and mental health. Funding: NHMRC Investigator Grant to ADO (APP1175658).
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Thermal and Non-thermal X-Rays from the LMC Super Bubble 30 Dor C
Creators: name: Bamba, Aya
name: Ueno, Masaru
name: Nakajima, Hiroshi
name: Koyama, Katsuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the discovery of thermal and non-thermal X-rays from the shells of the super bubble (SB) 30 Dor C in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The X-ray morphology is a nearly circular shell with a radius of about 40 pc, which is bright on the northern and western sides. The spectra of the shells are different from region to region. The southern shell shows clear emission lines, and is well fitted with a model of a thin-thermal plasma (kT = 0.21keV) in non-equilibrium ionization (NEI) plus a power-law component. This thermal plasma is located inside of the H alpha emission, which is the outer edge of the shell of the SB. The northern and western sides of the SB are dim in H alpha emission, but are bright in non-thermal (power-law) X-rays with a photon index of 2.1-2.9. The non-thermal X-ray shell traces the outer boundary of the radio shell. These features of thin-thermal and non-thermal X-rays are similar to those of SN 1006, a prototype of synchrotron X-ray shell, but the non-thermal component of 30 Dor C is about ten-times brighter than that of SN 1006. 30 Dor C is the first candidate of an extragalactic SB, in which energetic electrons are accelerating in the shell. The age is much older than that of SN 1006, and hence the particle acceleration time in this SB may be longer than those in normal shell-like SNRs. We found point-like sources associated with some of tight star clusters. The X-ray luminosity and spectrum are consistent with those of young clusters of massive stars. Point-like sources with non-thermal spectra are also found in the SB. These may be background objects (AGNs) or stellar remnants (neutron stars or black holes).
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ, the paper with full resolution images in http://www-cr.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp/member/bamba/Paper/30DorC.pdf
Electron transport through quantum wires and point contacts
Creators: name: Havu, Paula
name: Puska, Martti
name: Nieminen, Risto
name: Havu, Ville
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied quantum wires using the Green's function technique and the density-functional theory, calculating the electronic structure and the conductance. All the numerics are implemented using the finite-element method with a high-order polynomial basis. For short wires, i.e. quantum point contacts, the zero-bias conductance shows, as a function of the gate voltage and at a finite temperature, a plateau at around 0.7G_0. (G_0 = 2e^2/h is the quantum conductance). The behavior, which is caused in our mean-field model by spontaneous spin polarization in the constriction, is reminiscent of the so-called 0.7-anomaly observed in experiments. In our model the temperature and the wire length affect the conductance-gate voltage curves in the same way as in the measured data.
description: 8 pages
IMAGES OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH IN AMERICAN MEDICAL THOUGHT: 1776-1800 AND 1835-1865
Creators: name: Wylie, Mary Sykes
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The political, social, and intellectual currents of American life during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were as much expressed in language and ideas of medicine as in music, art, or literature. During the later era, discussions of disease and health and the role of physicians in the n.
Does Information about Arbitrators’Win/Loss Ratios Improve Their Accuracy?
Creators: name: Klement, Alon
name: Neeman, Zvika
name: Klement, Alon
name: Neeman, Zvika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper examines how providing litigants with information about arbitrators’ Win/Loss ratios affects arbitrators’ incentives in deciding the cases before them in an impartial and unbiased manner. We show that if litigants are informed about arbitrators past decisions then arbitrators might want to make an incorrect decision when a correct decision would raise the suspicion that they are biased. Therefore, providing information about arbitrators’ past decisions might create adverse incentive effects and reduce the accuracy of arbitration. We compare the accuracy of arbitrators’ decisions under different arbitrator selection procedures and discuss the implications for the design of arbitration rules by arbitration and dispute resolution providers and by court administered arbitration programs.
The Trigger of the ATLAS Experiment
Creators: name: Schoerner-Sadenius, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the high bunch-crossing and interaction rates and potentially large event sizes the experiments at the LHC challenge data acquisition and trigger systems. Within the ATLAS experiment, a multi-level trigger system based on hardware and software is employed to cope with the task of event-rate reduction. This review article gives an overview of the trigger of the ATLAS experiment highlighting the design principles and the implementation of the system and provides references to more detailed information. In addition, first trigger- performance studies and an outlook on the ATLAS event-selection strategy are presented.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Pseudoaugeneriella Fitzhugh 1998
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Fabriciidae
Pseudoaugeneriella

description: Pseudoaugeneriella Fitzhugh, 1998 unirama Fitzhugh, 1998: Okinawa, Japan. LACM 1894, 1895
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
Worker Matching and Firm Value
Creators: name: Moen, Espen R.
name: Yashiv, Eran
name: Moen, Espen R.
name: Yashiv, Eran
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: firm value
subject: complementarity
subject: worker value
subject: Salop circle
subject: hiring
subject: firing
subject: match quality
subject: optimal stopping

description: This paper studies the hiring and firing decisions of firms and their effects on firm value. This is done in an environment where the productivity of workers depends on how well they match with their co- workers and the firm acts as a coordinating device. Match quality derives from a production technology whereby workers are randomly located on the Salop circle, and depends negatively on the distance between the workers. It is shown that a worker's contribution in a given firm changes over time in a nontrivial way as co-workers are replaced with new workers. The paper derives optimal hiring and replacement policies, including an optimal stopping rule, and characterizes the resulting equilibrium in terms of employment, firm output and the distribution of firm values. The paper stresses the role of horizontal differences in worker productivity, as opposed to vertical, assortative matching issues. Simulations of the model reveal a rich pattern of worker turnover dynamics and their connections to the resulting firm value and age distributions.
Understanding Framing and Educational Effects on Climate Action
Creators: name: Al Shaeel, Fatema
name: Del Balso, Julian
name: Ishitani, Eri
name: Mann, Vanessa
name: Wu, Carmen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Framing is often used to elicit particular behaviours and attitudes. This paper examines whether educational framing of environmental issues impact participants’ willingness to engage in pro-environmental behaviour. We investigated local and global framing effects. Environmental issues are often perceived as abstract concepts and psychologically distant. Participants were randomly assigned to three conditions (local vs. global vs. control). We found no significant effects from both the local and global educational framing conditions. Instead, our results indicate that the control condition with no educational blurbs and quiz had the highest response rate and elicited the most pledge responses. The results did not support our hypothesis. Our findings suggest that using framing and educational blurbs are not effective on their own to elicit pro-environmental behaviours. Previous research further explains our results, which illustrated that neither local or global framed messages raised individual concern for environmental issues strong enough to change their behaviour. We conclude that our results are reflective of an ineffective methodology for the purpose of our study. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Quantum Temporal Superposition: the case of QFT
Creators: name: Henderson, Laura J.
name: Belenchia, Alessio
name: Castro-Ruiz, Esteban
name: Budroni, Costantino
name: Zych, Magdalena
name: Brukner, Časlav
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum field theory is completely characterized by the field correlations between spacetime points. In turn, some of these can be accessed by locally coupling to the field simple quantum systems, a.k.a. particle detectors. In this work, we consider what happens when a quantum-controlled superposition of detectors at different space-time points is used to probe the correlations of the field. We show that, due to quantum interference effects, two detectors can gain information on field correlations which would not be otherwise accessible. This has relevant consequences for information theoretic quantities, like entanglement and mutual information harvested from the field. In particular, the quantum control allows for extraction of entanglement in scenarios where this is otherwise provably impossible.
description: 5+6 pages, 5 figures. This version matches the one accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.Lett
Oportunidade perdida para a reforma dos processos judiciais de divórcio no código de processo civil de 2013
Creators: name: Xavier, Rita Lobo
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 3 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
Physical activity level during the Covid-19 pandemic: Evidence from Thailand's Surveillance on Physical Activity 2019-2020
Creators: name: Widyastari, Dyah Anantalia
name: Katewongsa, Piyawat
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: The stringent measures to contain COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a strain on the entire society including the opportunities for regular physical activity (PA). Purpose: This study examined the effects of the national curfew policy and health promotion campaigns in influencing PA during the pandemic. Methods: Thailand’s Surveillance on Physical Activity (SPA) 2019 and 2020 data were employed to compare PA level of Thai adults aged 18–64 years in three periods: pre-pandemic, during the maximum curfew and after maximum curfew was lifted. A total of 4460 respondents from SPA 2019 (face-to-face interview) and 4482 respondents from SPA 2020 (online survey) were included in the analysis. Global Physical Activity Questionnaires (GPAQ) Version 2.0 was used to assess PA. Results: The prevalence of sufficient MVPA among Thai adults decreased from 74.6% in SPA2019 to 54.7% in SPA2020. The decrease was accompanied by reduction in the average daily MVPA from 580 to 420 minutes. The prevalence of sufficient MVPA was at its lowest during the maximum curfew, and slightly increase during the relaxed curfew period. Those who were exposed to the Fit from Home (FFH) campaign were 1.4 times more likely to have sufficient MVPA. Conclusion: The pandemic measures imposed by the government have reduced the PA opportunities of Thai adults. The slight increase on the PA level after the maximum curfew was lifted suggested that continuous health promotion program is necessary to revert PA of Thai adults. Funding: SPA is funded by Thai Health Promotion Foundation grant number 63-0030.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Physical activity surveillance in Australia: Standardisation is overdue
Creators: name: Bauman, Adrian E.
name: Nau, Tracy
name: Cassidy, Sophie
name: Gilbert, Stephen
name: Bellew, William
name: Smith, Ben J.
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Physical inactivity remains a substantial contributor to chronic disease and ill-health in Australia. A stable surveillance system is necessary to understand the magnitude of the problem, assess its contribution to the burden of disease and monitor the impact of policies and programs to address it. Purpose: To determine and compare how Australian States and Territories measure the proportion of their adult populations who meet the recommended levels for being ‘sufficiently active’ over time. Methods: A detailed audit was conducted of the questions and definitions used by State and Territory health-sector surveys to determine adult population levels of sufficient physical activity over time. The State and Territory survey trends were compared with the state-level trends derived using the consistent Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) National Health Survey. Results: Survey questions and definitions were sustained and comparable in New South Wales and Queensland, with minor modifications in Western Australia. In South Australia, the comparability of trend data was disrupted in 2018 with a change in reporting of age groups. Victoria and Tasmania have used different definitions and questions over time. The state and territory health survey systems have produced much greater variability in physical activity than is suggested by the ABS’ state-level analysis. Conclusions: The lack of uniformity has reduced comparability of prevalence within and between jurisdictions. Standardisation is required if physical activity trends are to be reliably interpreted to inform policy and practice. Funding: Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) as provided to The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
A review of physical activity surveillance in Japanese adults over the last 50 years
Creators: name: Amagasa, Shiho
name: Kamada, Masamitsu
name: Miyachi, Motohiko
name: Inoue, Shigeru
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Considering the uniqueness of Japan among the world in its long history of physical activity (PA) surveillance, including participation in sports since 1957 and objective measurement of step-determined PA using research-graded pedometers since 1989, it is important to understand how survey methods have changed over the years for data interpretation. Purpose: To review the methodology of national PA surveys. Methods: We reviewed the methodology (sampling, measurement, etc.) of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Japan (NHNSJ) and Public Opinion Survey on Participating in Sports (POSPS) available in government websites and published documents. Results: We observed major changes in the survey methodology of the POSPS (e.g., redefinition of sports and change from visit surveys to internet surveys), but no major change in that of the NHNSJ. The NHNSJ, conducted every November using stratified random sampling, measures daily steps using pedometers (AS-200, Yamasa Co. Ltd., Japan) and exercise habit prevalence (defined as exercise of ≥30 minutes/day ≥2 days/week over a year) with face-to-face interviews. Since 1995, the mean age-adjusted steps decreased by approximately 700 steps/day, whereas exercise habit prevalence has remained constant in men and decreased in women. The response rate of these national surveys has declined since the conception of the surveys. Conclusions: The NHNSJ allows evaluation of long-term trends in population-level PA from different aspects, whereas the POSPS requires caution in data interpretation due to significant changes in survey methodology. Funding: The JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number 19H03996).
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
A DESCRIPTIVE AND STATISTICAL STUDY OF THE DEAN'S GRANT PROJECTS: FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR CHANGE IN TEACHER EDUCATION
Creators: name: Warnick Gazvoda, Marjorie Hester
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This is a descriptive and statistical study of the Deans' Grant Projects (DGP), a nationwide network of grants to institutions of higher education, initially funded in 1975 by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH), Division of Personnel Preparation (DPP), of the United States Offic.
EAST EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AND TRADE IN 1976-73 WITH PROJECTIONS FOR 1985
Creators: name: Vankai, Thomas
name: Vankai, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Production Economics
subject: Eastern Europe
subject: policies
subject: land
subject: crops
subject: livestock
subject: fertilizer
subject: organization
subject: agricultural trade
subject: agricultural projections
subject: 1985

description: The gross agricultural production in Eastern Europe increased 20 percent between 1971 and 1976-78. The livestock sector grew faster than the crop sector causing a widening gap between domestic feed requirement and supply. The increasing feed imports together with higher prices of energy forced the countries to heavy borrowing. The larger current debt servicing obligations retard economic growth. Based on the present economic conditions a slow down in the rate of increase of the livestock sector is expected during 1981-85. .The projected annual rate of increase for total meat production is 2 percent. Based on projected total grain production and consumption Eastern Europe's net grain imports will be about 9.6 million tons and total protein meal import 5.4 million tons by 1985.
A nova acção especial para reconhecimento de contrato de trabalho (Lei n.º 63/2013) – uma caixa de pandora?
Creators: name: Pereira, Rita Garcia
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 3 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
Quantum Phase Transition induced by Topological Frustration
Creators: name: Marić, Vanja
name: Giampaolo, Salvatore Marco
name: Franchini, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum many-body systems with local interactions, the effects of boundary conditions are considered to be negligible, at least for sufficiently large systems. Here we show an example of the opposite. We consider a spin chain with two competing interactions, set on a ring with an odd number of sites. When only the dominant interaction is antiferromagnetic, and thus induces topological frustration, the standard antiferromagnetic order (expressed by the magnetization) is destroyed. When also the second interaction turns from ferro to antiferro, an antiferromagnetic order characterized by a site-dependent magnetization which varies in space with an incommensurate pattern, emerges. This modulation results from a ground state degeneracy, which allows to break the translational invariance. The transition between the two cases is signaled by a discontinuity in the first derivative of the ground state energy and represents a quantum phase transition induced by a special choice of boundary conditions.
description: 16 pages (including Supplementary Materials), 4 figures
A DESCRIPTIVE AND STATISTICAL STUDY OF THE DEAN'S GRANT PROJECTS: FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR CHANGE IN TEACHER EDUCATION
Creators: name: Warnick Gazvoda, Marjorie Hester
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: This is a descriptive and statistical study of the Deans' Grant Projects (DGP), a nationwide network of grants to institutions of higher education, initially funded in 1975 by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH), Division of Personnel Preparation (DPP), of the United States Offic.
The Lack of BLR in Low Accretion Rate AGN as Evidence of their Origin in the Accretion Disk
Creators: name: Nicastro, F.
name: Martocchia, A.
name: Matt, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present evidence suggesting that the absence or presence of Hidden Broad Line Regions (HBLRs) in Seyfert 2 galaxies is regulated by the rate at which matter accretes onto a central supermassive black hole, in units of Eddington rate. We use the intrinsic (i.e. unabsorbed) X-ray luminosities of these sources and their black hole masses (estimated by using the well known relationship between nuclear mass and bulge luminosity in galaxies) to derive the nuclear accretion rate in units of Eddington. We find that virtually all HBLR sources have accretion rate larger than a threshold value of $\dot{m}_{thres} \simeq 10^{-3}$ (in Eddington units), while non-HBLR sources lie at $\dot{m} \ls \dot{m}_{thres}$. These data nicely fit predictions from a model proposed by Nicastro (2000), in which the Broad Line Regions (BLRs) are formed by accretion disk instabilities occurring in proximity of the critical radius at which the disk changes from gas pressure dominated to radiation pressure dominated. This radius diminishes with decreasing accretion rates; for low enough accretion rates (and therefore luminosities), the critical radius becomes smaller than the innermost stable orbit, and BLRs cannot form.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in the ApJL
Resource-Frugal Classification and Analysis of Pathology Slides Using Image Entropy
Creators: name: Frank, Steven J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pathology slides of lung malignancies are classified using resource-frugal convolution neural networks (CNNs) that may be deployed on mobile devices. In particular, the challenging task of distinguishing adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and squamous-cell carcinoma (LUSC) lung cancer subtypes is approached in two stages. First, whole-slide histopathology images are downsampled to a size too large for CNN analysis but large enough to retain key anatomic detail. The downsampled images are decomposed into smaller square tiles, which are sifted based on their image entropies. A lightweight CNN produces tile-level classifications that are aggregated to classify the slide. The resulting accuracies are comparable to those obtained with much more complex CNNs and larger training sets. To allow clinicians to visually assess the basis for the classification -- that is, to see the image regions that underlie it -- color-coded probability maps are created by overlapping tiles and averaging the tile-level probabilities at a pixel level.
Interaction of Japanese Rice and Wheat Policy and Impact on Trade
Creators: name: Jabara, Cathy L.
name: Jabara, Cathy L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Japan
subject: international trade
subject: wheat rice
subject: agricultural policy
subject: trade policy
subject: trade restrictions
subject: nontariff barriers

description: The interaction of Japanese rice and wheat policies and their impact on trade is described and analyzed through estimation of an econometric model which includes the interrelationships between the two sectors and which reflects Japanese Government policies. The model is used to simulate the trade impacts of previously announced increases in wheat support prices and in diversion payments over a 5-year period. Results indicate that the price changes reduce wheat imports 4-5 percent (from 1973 base levels) and also the accumulation of excess rice stocks which have given rise to Japan's emergence as a rice exporter in recent years.
Consequences of Observational Uncertainties on the Detection of Cosmic Topology
Creators: name: Mota, B.
name: Reboucas, M. J.
name: Tavakol, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observed values of density parameters inevitably involve uncertainties. We study the conditions for detectability and undetectability of cosmic topology in presence of such uncertainties. We present closed analytical forms of (un)detectability conditions for infinite redshift, which are important because: (i) they allow the examine of the detectability of cosmic topology not only for individual manifolds (topologies), but also in whole classes of manifolds; (ii) they are, to a very good approximation, (un)detectibility conditions for z=1100.
description: To appear in the Proc. of 10th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity. Latex2e, World Scientific proc. style files, 1 fig., 4 pages
AGRICULTURE'S ROLE IN THE ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES
Creators: name: Groenewegen, John R.
name: Clayton, Kenneth C.
name: Groenewegen, John R.
name: Clayton, Kenneth C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: agriculture
subject: productivity
subject: economic growth
subject: product flow
subject: value added
subject: employment
subject: interrelationships
subject: the economy

description: Agriculture has played a major role in the development of the U.S. economy. Substantial product flows occur between production agriculture and the rest of the food and fiber system. These interrelationships with the rest of the food and fiber system increase as more services are performed on the commodities that leave the farm gate and as more inputs are purchased. The value added to the flow of farm products as they move through the food and fiber system accounts for 20 percent of GNP and requires the services of 22 percent of the labor force. An increase in the final demand for food and fiber products has a considerable impact on the economy. One billion dollars of additional exports in 1979, for instance, would have generated nearly $2 billion in economic activity and required the services of 35,000 workers in the food and fiber system.
Psychology of physical activity – A 30-year reflection on physical activity behaviour change research
Creators: name: Biddle, Stuart J. H.
name: Faulkner, Guy
name: Mutrie, Nanette
name: Gorley, Trish
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: The first English language authored textbook on exercise psychology was published 30 years ago (Biddle & Mutrie, 1991, Psychology of Physical Activity & Exercise). The publication of the 4th edition of the follow-up to this book in 2021 (Biddle, Mutrie, Gorely & Faulkner, 2021, Psychology of Physical Activity), allows for a 30-year retrospective view of changes in this field concerning physical activity behaviour change. Purpose: To review progress concerning research about physical activity behaviour change since the 1st edition and speculate on future developments. Results: Significant progress has been made concerning methodology and measurement for physical activity behaviour change, including standardised guidelines for intervention development. Research syntheses have enabled large volumes of intervention research to be summarised but global effect sizes remain modest and often unexplained. Progress has been ‘weak-to-moderate’ for understanding behavioural maintenance or for use of long-term data; there is ‘weak’ progress on moving from efficacy to effectiveness trials; ‘good’ progress has been made involving research participants in intervention planning and design; and ‘moderate-to-good’ progress is evident in the use of explanatory process evaluations. Conclusions: These trends reflect changes in our understanding across the 30 years of the textbook publication process and suggest future research directions for those interested in the field of physical activity for health, especially from a behavioural perspective.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
Pseudofabriciola Fitzhugh 1990
Creators: name: Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.
name: Carrera-Parra, Luis F.
name: Muir, Alexander I.
name: León-González, Jesús Angel De
name: Piotrowski, Christina
name: Sato, Masanori
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Fabriciidae
Pseudofabriciola

description: Pseudofabriciola Fitzhugh, 1990 filaris Fitzhugh, 2002: Gulf of Thailand. LACM 2007, 2008–2058 peduncula Fitzhugh, 1996: Madang, Papua New Guinea. USNM 169977, LACM 1716, 1717
description: Published as part of Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., Carrera-Parra, Luis F., Muir, Alexander I., León-González, Jesús Angel De, Piotrowski, Christina & Sato, Masanori, 2014, Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3842 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3842.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928482
FACTORS AFFECTING FOOD STAMP PARTICIPATION RATES AND PER CAPITA BENEFITS
Creators: name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Hoppe, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: Participation Rates
subject: Per capita benefits
subject: Poverty
subject: Metropolitan areas
subject: Nonmetropolitan areas
subject: Transfer payments
subject: Welfare

description: Several socioeconomic variables had an impact on Food Stamp Program participation and per capita benefit levels in 1976. Among the significant variables were the unemployment rate, the percentage of the population that was white, the poverty rate, participation in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program, cashed-out Food Stamp benefits, region of residence, and metropolitan residence. Metropolitan residence increased participation and per capita benefits. This suggests that successful approaches to administering the program in metropolitan areas may not succeed in nonmetropolitan areas.
MONITORING OWNERSHIP OF U.S. REAL ESTATE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Creators: name: Moyer, D. David
name: Moyer, D. David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Bibliography
subject: landownership
subject: real estate
subject: foreign investment
subject: land information
subject: data sources

description: This bibliography lists by author the source materials from the 3-volume report "Monitoring Foreign Ownership of U.S. Real Estate" prepared by the Economics, Statistics and Cooperatives Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1979. The bibliography, partially annotated, includes 497 references on subjects of foreign investment, real estate, and land data systems.
A scalable school-based intervention to improve children's cardiorespiratory fitness: The internet-based Professional Learning to help teachers promote Activity in Youth (iPLAY) cluster randomised controlled trial
Creators: name: Lonsdale, Chris
name: Sanders, Taren
name: Noetel, Michael
name: Parker, Philip
name: Lee, Jane
name: Antczak, Devan
name: Vasconcellos, Diego
name: Lubans, David
Publisher: name: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada
Year: 2022

description: Background: Children’s health is at risk because of declines in cardiorespiratory fitness. Meta-analyses of efficacy studies show that school-based physical activity interventions can improve children’s cardiorespiratory fitness. These interventions, however, are rarely disseminated at scale, meaning they typically have little public health impact. iPLAY is a primary school intervention designed to build schools’ capacity to promote physical activity without relying on external providers delivering programs to students. To enhance scalability and sustainability, iPLAY is delivered to teachers via an online learning platform, with mentoring support from experienced physical education teachers. Purpose: To determine whether iPLAY, when deployed across a large number of schools, could improve children’s cardiorespiratory fitness. Methods: We did a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) with allocation at the school level (1:1 allocation). We completed assessments at baseline, post-intervention (12 months after baseline), and maintenance (24 months after baseline). The primary outcome was students’ cardiorespiratory fitness, as measured by a 20m shuttle run test. We tested for between-arm differences in changes in student outcomes using linear mixed models. Results: We recruited 132 primary schools in New South Wales, Australia. We assigned a representative sample of 22 schools to the cluster RCT. The remaining 110 schools entered an implementation study in which teachers received iPLAY but students did not complete primary outcome assessments. In the 22 schools involved in the cluster RCT, we recruited 1,217 students from Grades 3 and 4 who completed baseline assessments of their cardiorespiratory fitness. At 12-months (post-intervention), there was a significant between-arm difference in students’ change in fitness favouring the iPLAY intervention condition (1.2 laps [95%CI=0.1,2.0]). This effect continued to grow, as at 24 months the between arm difference was 2.2 laps [95%CI=0.9, 3.6). Conclusions: iPLAY is a scalable model to deliver a school-based physical activity intervention that improves children’s cardiorespiratory fitness. iPLAY also builds capacity in schools such that benefits are sustained or continue to grow after the intervention ends. Funding: Study funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (GNT1114281) and the New South Wales Department of Education. Trial registration: ACTRN12616000731493.
description: The Health & Fitness Journal of Canada, Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): Proceedings from the 8th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress
U.S. CASEIN AND LACTALBUMIN IMPORTS: AN ECONOMIC AND POLICY PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Clayton, Kenneth C.
name: Spinelli, Felix
name: Stucker, Thomas
name: Leathers, Howard
name: Johnson, James
name: Womack, Letricia
name: Clayton, Kenneth C.
name: Spinelli, Felix
name: Stucker, Thomas
name: Leathers, Howard
name: Johnson, James
name: Womack, Letricia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: casein
subject: lactalbumin
subject: Section 22
subject: U.S. Dairy Price Support Program

description: This study examines the economic implications of restricting the importation of casein and lactalbumin--dairy proteins used in various food, feed, and industrial products. Under existing legislation and trade agreements, the most extreme restrictions that may be imposed are a 50-percent quota or a 50-percent ad valorem tariff. If either of these were imposed, users of casein would shift to soy-based protein and other ingredients wherever possible, although product quality could suffer. Some casein use would be replaced by skim milk solids, but not enough to significantly affect CCC purchases under the dairy price support program. Import restrictions would increase the cost of producing goods containing casein, and thus raise prices to consumers.
Baryon acoustic oscillations reconstruction using convolutional neural networks
Creators: name: Mao, Tian-Xiang
name: Wang, Jie
name: Li, Baojiu
name: Cai, Yan-Chuan
name: Falck, Bridget
name: Neyrinck, Mark
name: Szalay, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a new scheme to reconstruct the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal, which contains key cosmological information, based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). Trained with almost no fine-tuning, the network can recover large-scale modes accurately in the test set: the correlation coefficient between the true and reconstructed initial conditions reaches $90\%$ at $k\leq 0.2 h\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$, which can lead to significant improvements of the BAO signal-to-noise ratio down to $k\simeq0.4h\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$. Since this new scheme is based on the configuration-space density field in sub-boxes, it is local and less affected by survey boundaries than the standard reconstruction method, as our tests confirm. We find that the network trained in one cosmology is able to reconstruct BAO peaks in the others, i.e. recovering information lost to non-linearity independent of cosmology. The accuracy of recovered BAO peak positions is far less than that caused by the difference in the cosmology models for training and testing, suggesting that different models can be distinguished efficiently in our scheme. It is very promising that Our scheme provides a different new way to extract the cosmological information from the ongoing and future large galaxy surveys.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Aplicação de normas substantivas de direito público a contratos de empreitada de obra particular: um caso de fuga para o direito público?
Creators: name: Xavier, Pedro Vieira Da Gama Lobo
name: Mesquita, Vasco Xavier Da Gama Lobo Ribeiro De
Publisher: name: Direito e Justiça
Year: 2015

description: Direito e Justiça, v. 3 n. Especial (2015): Estudos dedicados ao Professor Doutor Bernardo da Gama Lobo Xavier
AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURES POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
Creators: name: Neville-Rolfe, Edmund
name: Neville-Rolfe, Edmund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Agricultual structures policy
subject: European Economic Community
subject: member country policies

description: The study summarizes and discusses agricultural structural policies enacted by the European Economic Community, the application of Community measures in each member country, and the national measures of each. member country. Although original intentions were to spend a large proportion of the EEC's agricultural budget on farm structure, cost escalations in commodity price support programs, storage costs, and surplus disposal schemes resulted in niggardly Community funding for agricultural structural improvements. While some member countries have a strong viable program of farm restructuring drawing on both national and Community funding (e.g., The Netherlands), others are at a much lower level of activity (e.g., Italy).
Conditional Adversarial Camera Model Anonymization
Creators: name: Andrews, Jerone T. A.
name: Zhang, Yidan
name: Griffin, Lewis D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The model of camera that was used to capture a particular photographic image (model attribution) is typically inferred from high-frequency model-specific artifacts present within the image. Model anonymization is the process of transforming these artifacts such that the apparent capture model is changed. We propose a conditional adversarial approach for learning such transformations. In contrast to previous works, we cast model anonymization as the process of transforming both high and low spatial frequency information. We augment the objective with the loss from a pre-trained dual-stream model attribution classifier, which constrains the generative network to transform the full range of artifacts. Quantitative comparisons demonstrate the efficacy of our framework in a restrictive non-interactive black-box setting.
description: ECCV 2020 - Advances in Image Manipulation workshop (AIM 2020)