cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Wigner-Smith Time Delay Matrix for Electromagnetics: Theory and Phenomenology
Creators: name: Patel, Utkarsh R.
name: Michielssen, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wigner-Smith (WS) time delay concepts have been used extensively in quantum mechanics to characterize delays experienced by particles interacting with a potential well. This paper formally extends WS time delay theory to Maxwell's equations and explores its potential applications in electromagnetics. The WS time delay matrix relates a lossless and reciprocal system's scattering matrix to its frequency derivative and allows for the construction of modes that experience well-defined group delays when interacting with the system. The matrix' entries for guiding, scattering, and radiating systems are energy-like overlap integrals of the electric and/or magnetic fields that arise upon excitation of the system via its ports. The WS time delay matrix has numerous applications in electromagnetics, including the characterization of group delays in multiport systems, the description of electromagnetic fields in terms of elementary scattering processes, and the characterization of frequency sensitivities of fields and multiport antenna impedance matrices.
description: Published in the IEEE Trans. on Antennas \& Propag., vol. 69, no. 2, Feb. 2021
Non-livestock value chains. Lateral thinking for the securing of the Sahelian livestock economies
Creators: name: Wane, Abdrahmane
name: Touré, Ibra
name: Mballo, Aliou Diouf
name: Nokho, Cheikh Ibrahima
name: Ndiaye Aminata Konaté
name: Wane, Abdrahmane
name: Touré, Ibra
name: Mballo, Aliou Diouf
name: Nokho, Cheikh Ibrahima
name: Ndiaye Aminata Konaté
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: diversification
subject: value-chain
subject: social network
subject: Sahel

description: In a rapid rural appraisal conducted in 2012 in the Senegalese Sahel, agropastoralists of Thiel expressed their need for technical and scientific support in peanut value chain development. Value chain analysis assessed the performance of the stakeholders. Multiple correspondence analysis clarified power relationships among them. Social network analysis facilitated the understanding of social and technical relationships inside the particular node of agropastoralists. Results show that the peanut crop is both a source of cash flow (marketing) and a pillar of food (basic consumption) and feed (by-products) security. This paper also highlights a lack of convenient economic environments, mutual assistance, capacity transfer and knowledge sharing on the best agricultural practices among agropastoralists, despite their weak production performance. Agropastoralists have no influence in the peanut value chain and are dependent on decisions from other actors. Technical support and knowledge sharing appear to be key for agropastoralists to control and adopt agricultural innovations.
The PRC2 complex directly regulates the cell cycle and controls proliferation in skeletal muscle
Creators: name: Adhikari, Abhinav
name: Davie, Judith K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: The polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is an important developmental regulator responsible for the methylation of histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27). Here, we show that the PRC2 complex regulates the cell cycle in skeletal muscle cells to control proliferation and mitotic exit. Depletions of the catalytic subunit of the PRC2 complex, EZH2, have shown that EZH2 is required for cell viability, suggesting that EZH2 promotes proliferation. We found that EZH2 directly represses both positive and negative cell cycle genes, thus enabling the PRC2 complex to tightly control the cell cycle. We show that modest inhibition or depletion of EZH2 leads to enhanced proliferation and an accumulation of cells in S phase. This effect is mediated by direct repression of cyclin D1 (Ccnd1) and cyclin E1 (Ccne1) by the PRC2 complex. Our results show that PRC2 has pleiotropic effects on proliferation as it serves to restrain cell growth, yet clearly has a function required for cell viability as well. Intriguingly, we also find that the retinoblastoma protein gene (Rb1) is a direct target of the PRC2 complex. However, modest depletion of EZH2 is not sufficient to maintain Rb1 expression, indicating that the PRC2 dependent upregulation of cyclin D1 is sufficient to inhibit Rb1 expression. Taken together, our results show that the PRC2 complex regulates skeletal muscle proliferation in a complex manner that involves the repression of Ccnd1 and Ccne1, thus restraining proliferation, and the repression of Rb1, which is required for mitotic exit and terminal differentiation.
UBC South Campus Stormwater Detention Facility : Detailed Design Report
Creators: name: Deans, Joshua
name: Gill, Herman
name: Grant, David
name: Huang, Cliff
name: Ijaz, Asad
name: Liu, Jack
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: SMC Engineering has prepared a detailed design report, as requested by UBC Social, Ecological, Economic Development Studies (SEEDS), of the UBC South Campus Stormwater Management System that intends to mitigate the key risks associated with the 1 in 10 and 1 in 100-year storm event. The detailed design report, further developed on the preliminary design report, provides the methodology and reasoning utilized for designing the optimal solution that curtails the risk of cliff erosion along Foreshore Trail and mitigates overland flow on the UBC campus. The report intends to provide UBC SEEDS with an understanding of the design, cost, schedule, and construction practices required to complete the methods of risk mitigation associated with the 1 in 10 and 1 in 100-year storm events. An overall site assessment confirms the physical aspects of the site such as topography, land usage, and the key constraints. A set of six studies are commissioned, which analyze the technical, economic, regulatory, environmental, societal, and constructability performance of the design solution. In particular, the environmental considerations regarding turbidity, infiltration, and long-term sustainability are detailed and cross-referenced with anticipated design performances. Engineering solutions component to the mitigation system that are not common in the UBC region have been researched thoroughly; the documented performances have been scrutinized with practicing engineering judgment in order to provide reasonable benefits with regards to the six commissioned studies. SMC Engineering has designed a system that consists of four detention tanks, a dry pond, and a system of permeable asphalt to manage, the 1 in 10 and 1 in 100-year storm events. The cost estimate and project schedule indicate that this system is estimated to have a total initial direct and indirect construction cost of $5,573,000 with construction slated to start on May 2, 2016 with substantial completion on October 14, 2016. The system is anticipated to have a 90-year design life, and a life-cycle analysis determines the maintenance and repair costs throughout its lifespan. 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.”
Electronic Supplementary Material from Differential impact of severe drought on infant mortality in two sympatric neotropical primates
Creators: name: Campos, Fernando A.
name: Kalbitzer, Urs
name: Melin, Amanda D.
name: Hogan, Jeremy D.
name: Cheves, Saul E.
name: Evin Murillo-Chacon
name: Guadamuz, Adrián
name: Myers, Monica S.
name: Schaffner, Colleen M.
name: Jack, Katharine M.
name: Aureli, Filippo
name: Fedigan, Linda M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Extreme climate events can have important consequences for the dynamics of natural populations, and severe droughts are predicted to become more common and intense due to climate change. We analysed infant mortality in relation to drought in two primate species (white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus imitator, and Geoffroy's spider monkeys, Ateles geoffroyi) in a tropical dry forest in northwestern Costa Rica. Our survival analyses combine several rare and valuable long-term datasets, including long-term primate life-history, landscape-scale fruit abundance, food-tree mortality, and climate conditions. Infant capuchins showed a threshold mortality response to drought, with exceptionally high mortality during a period of intense drought, but not during periods of moderate water shortage. By contrast, spider monkey females stopped reproducing during severe drought, and the mortality of infant spider monkeys peaked later during a period of low fruit abundance and high food-tree mortality linked to the drought. These divergent patterns implicate differing physiology, behaviour or associated factors in shaping species-specific drought responses. Our findings link predictions about the Earth's changing climate to environmental influences on primate mortality risk and thereby improve our understanding of how the increasing severity and frequency of droughts will affect the dynamics and conservation of wild primates.
Agrilus egenus Gory 1841
Creators: name: Hallinen, Marie J.
name: Steffens, Wayne P.
name: Schultz, Jennifer L.
name: Aukema, Brian H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus egenus

description: 20. Agrilus egenus Gory, 1841
 New State Record: Washington County, 8 July 1911, collector unrecorded.
 County Records (n = 34): Anoka, Clearwater, Hennepin, Olmsted, Ramsey, Washington, and Winona.
Collection Dates: 4 June–31 July.
 Minnesota Hosts: Unspecified in collection records. Larval host recorded as Robinia pseudoacacia.
 Collection Method: As C. fumipennis prey.
description: Published as part of Hallinen, Marie J., Steffens, Wayne P., Schultz, Jennifer L. & Aukema, Brian H., 2021, The Buprestidae (Coleoptera) of Minnesota, with a Discussion of the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, pp. 173-190 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.173, http://zenodo.org/record/4837088
Additional file 1 of Restriction of extracellular lipids renders pancreatic cancer dependent on autophagy
Creators: name: Saliakoura, Maria
name: Sebastiano, Matteo Rossi
name: Nikdima, Ioanna
name: Pozzato, Chiara
name: Konstantinidou, Georgia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Once part-timer always part-timer? Causes for persistence in off farm work state of farmers
Creators: name: Corsi, Alessandro
name: Salvioni, Cristina
name: Corsi, Alessandro
name: Salvioni, Cristina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: off-farm work
subject: farm household
subject: state dependence
subject: panel data
subject: CAP reform

description: Off-farm labour participation is an important way in which farm households adapt their labour resources to farm labour needs, and is often viewed as an income integration and an insurance against risk. Nevertheless, it has also been questioned as a step for exiting agriculture. It is therefore important to assess whether or not it is a permanent status and which are its determinants. Most papers on this issue are based on cross-sectional analyses and thus disregard the problem of persistence in the state. Using a 5-wave panel of Italian family farms we estimate different dynamic nonlinear panel data models of the determinants of off-farm labour participation. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, and in addition we control for the initial conditions problem. We find a strong persistence in the state and our findings show that, when taking all these features into account, the present work state is almost totally explained by the previous state and by idiosyncratic characteristics. The variables concerning the farm and the farmer’s characteristics, typically found to be relevant in cross-sectional analyses, are not significant in the dynamic setting. The reasons for the inconsistency between our results and those of cross-sectional studies are discussed, and an interpretation of how the determinants influence the off-farm labour participation is presented. The distinction between true state dependence and individual heterogeneity has important policy implications that are discussed.
3. Decision Log
Creators: name: Nelson, Therese Allen
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: PROs
subject: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
subject: Implementation Science
subject: Patient Reported Outcome Measures
subject: Patient Participation
subject: Surveys and Questionnaires

description: See "1. PRO Planning Tools Overview" for a description of this collection of PRO planning tools, as well as a full list of authors at multiple institutions and complete funding acknowledgements.
description: See PRO Planning Tools Overview
Additional file 2 of Sharing research results with Latina breast cancer survivors who participated in a community-engaged behavioral RCT study: a descriptive cross-sectional survey study
Creators: name: Bonilla, Jackie
name: Alhomsi, Alia
name: Santoyo-Olsson, Jasmine
name: Stewart, Anita L.
name: Ortiz, Carmen
name: Samayoa, Cathy
name: Torres-Nguyen, Alma
name: Palomino, Helen
name: Coleman, La Verne
name: Urias, Aday
name: Gonzalez, Nayeli
name: Cervantes, Silvia Araceli
name: Duron, Ysabel
name: Nápoles, Anna María
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Problems understanding study results, willingness to participate in future studies, and preference for format, Nuevo Amanecer RCT Studies (n=92).
Additional file 1 of Sharing research results with Latina breast cancer survivors who participated in a community-engaged behavioral RCT study: a descriptive cross-sectional survey study
Creators: name: Bonilla, Jackie
name: Alhomsi, Alia
name: Santoyo-Olsson, Jasmine
name: Stewart, Anita L.
name: Ortiz, Carmen
name: Samayoa, Cathy
name: Torres-Nguyen, Alma
name: Palomino, Helen
name: Coleman, La Verne
name: Urias, Aday
name: Gonzalez, Nayeli
name: Cervantes, Silvia Araceli
name: Duron, Ysabel
name: Nápoles, Anna María
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. English and Spanish versions of letter with aggregate RCT results sent to Nuevo Amanecer study participants.
Photo-Ionization Induced Rapid Grain Growth in Novae
Creators: name: Shore, Steven N.
name: Gehrz, R. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An elementary model is developed for grain growth during the expansion stage of nova ejecta. Rather than suppressing grain formation, we argue that agglomeration of atoms by dust nuclei proceeds kinetically through induced dipole reactions in a partially ionized medium. Ionization of a cluster increases once the ejecta become transparent in the ultraviolet which triggers runaway grain growth. This mechanism may also be important in other dust-forming hot stars such as Luminous Blue Variables and Wolf-Rayet systems.
description: 5 pages, 2 Postscript figures, uses A&A style; pdf only; accepted for A&A (2004, in press)
The postindustrial metropolis and race-ethnic relations: A comparative study of economic restructuring in the United States of America and Italy
Creators: name: Butera, Anita Cristina
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The end of the cold war has witnessed two striking sociological phenomena: unprecedented mass migration to the core countries---U.S. and Western Europe---and eruption of racial/ethnic conflict throughout the Globe. This work analyzes the causes of increasing racial/ethnic tensions occurring in the core countries, with particular attention to the metropolitan areas of the U.S. and Italy. The main argument is that the postindustrial economy features new patterns of socio-economic inequality that are expressed by the unequal distribution of socio-economic resources and minorities between the urban core and surrounding metropolitan periphery. In addition, contemporary migration flows differ markedly from previous periods due to their national origins---no longer Europe---and their preferred destination---no longer the central cities of major metropolitan areas. The combined impact of these phenomena is redefining racial/ethnic relations which are becoming a complex social configuration of increasingly heterogeneous minority groups.
Extended Data supplementary to the publication: A 2024 inventory of test methods relevant to thyroid hormone system disruption for human health and environmental regulatory hazard assessment
Creators: name: Vergauwen, Lucia
name: Bajard, Lola
name: Tait, Sabrina
name: Langezaal, Ingrid
name: Sosnowska, Anita
name: Roncaglioni, Alessandra
name: Hessel, Ellen
name: van den Brand, Annick D
name: Haigis, Ann-Cathrin
name: Novák, Jiří
name: Hilscherová, Klára
name: Buławska, Natalia
name: Papaioannou, Nafsika
name: Renieri, Elisavet
name: Spilioti, Eliana
name: Spyropoulou, Anastasia
name: Gutleb, Arno
name: Holbech, Henrik
name: Nikolopoulou, Dimitra
name: Jacobs, Miriam
name: Knapen, Dries
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: thyroid hormone system disruption
endocrine disruption
new approach methods
One Health

description: Extended Data supplementary to the publication "A 2024 inventory of test methods relevant to thyroid hormone system disruption for human health and environmental regulatory hazard assessment" consisting of (1) a list of additional in silico and in vitro methods that study an indirect link with THSD and (2) information on a targeted literature search for availability of in silico models for thyroid hormone system disruption.
Competitive advantage through responsible innovation in the New Zealand sheep dairy industry
Creators: name: Lees, Nic
name: Lees, Isobel
name: Lees, Nic
name: Lees, Isobel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: responsible innovation
subject: competitive advantage
subject: sheep dairy
subject: industry strategy
subject: resource based view

description: This paper explores the opportunity for New Zealand to establish and sustain an internationally competitive sheep dairy industry. As part of this it evaluates the role of responsible innovation (RI) within the New Zealand sheep dairy (NZSD) industry and whether this can assist in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. In the context of agrifood supply chains RI has received little attention despite the fact that these industries have significant environmental, ethical and social impacts. The research also addresses the lack of evidence as how to put RI into practice and the claim that the practical applicability of RI is not possible. The French sheep dairy industry was used as a comparative case study for the New Zealand industry. Information was gathered through a literature search, the comparative case study and interviews with New Zealand and French industry experts. Comparisons were made between the strategic capabilities and structural forces of the sheep dairy industries in both France and New Zealand. The study found that for the NZSD industry to achieve a competitive advantage it would need to pursue a differentiation strategy that focused on customer responsiveness, innovation, sustainability and quality. Furthermore, the study identified that RI had the potential to assist the NZSD industry by providing distinctive competencies to develop a competitive advantage. This is because there were existing resources and capabilities that provided a platform for differentiation. There were also strategic and economic drivers in the NZSD industry that encouraged RI as a competitive strategy. This indicated that for RI to occur there needed to be economic incentives that encouraged companies to pursue this strategy.
Considering the consumer in the design of a supply chain of perishables
Creators: name: Jiminez-Guerrero, Jose F.
name: Perez-Mesa, Juan C.
name: Burgos-Jimenez, Jeronimo De
name: Piedra-Munoz, Laura
name: Jiminez-Guerrero, Jose F.
name: Perez-Mesa, Juan C.
name: Burgos-Jimenez, Jeronimo De
name: Piedra-Munoz, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: strategic alignment
subject: customer orientation
subject: preferences analysis
subject: segmentation
subject: responsible innovation
subject: vegetables
subject: cooperatives

description: Customer satisfaction, contrary to a manufacturer based approach, is considered a key factor in the business strategy of many companies and in supply chain management. However, focusing on the consumer requires an analysis of the preference structure, which is something that conditions supply chain strategy. In this work we carry out a customer segmentation of a perishable product in order to identify different profiles, depending on their needs and preferences, which may allow the study of differentiated supply chain strategy. Thus, taking consumer satisfaction, we propose a differentiated supply chain approach depending on the segment which the company intends to address. In parallel and from a theoretical point of view, this approach represents a first step toward introducing the concept of responsible innovation in the study of supply chain management.
The postindustrial metropolis and race-ethnic relations: A comparative study of economic restructuring in the United States of America and Italy
Creators: name: Butera, Anita Cristina
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The end of the cold war has witnessed two striking sociological phenomena: unprecedented mass migration to the core countries---U.S. and Western Europe---and eruption of racial/ethnic conflict throughout the Globe. This work analyzes the causes of increasing racial/ethnic tensions occurring in the core countries, with particular attention to the metropolitan areas of the U.S. and Italy. The main argument is that the postindustrial economy features new patterns of socio-economic inequality that are expressed by the unequal distribution of socio-economic resources and minorities between the urban core and surrounding metropolitan periphery. In addition, contemporary migration flows differ markedly from previous periods due to their national origins---no longer Europe---and their preferred destination---no longer the central cities of major metropolitan areas. The combined impact of these phenomena is redefining racial/ethnic relations which are becoming a complex social configuration of increasingly heterogeneous minority groups.
Self -concept and violent delinquent offenders: An exploratory study of urban African-American adolescent males
Creators: name: Bynum, Evita G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: African-American adolescent males experience a disproportionate rate of both victimization due to and arrest for violent crime. While legitimate structural correlates of violent behavior have been previously identified, one area that has not been significantly explored involves the mental health status of African-American adolescent males. The research investigates the relationship between positive self-concept---one dimension of mental wellness---and violent delinquency within the group of urban African-American adolescent males. This study addresses two major research questions: (1) How do the major socialization agents (family, peer group, school) influence the formation of either a positive or a negative self-concept of urban African-American male youths? (2) Is there a relationship between the formation of either a positive or a negative self-concept and the commission of violent delinquency by urban African-American male youths? Walter Reckless' (1967) containment theory, which suggests that a positive self-concept will insulate a juvenile from delinquency and crime, serves as the primary theoretical frame of reference to examine the relationship between self-concept and violence in urban African-American adolescent males. A multistage cluster sampling technique was used to select a sample in Washington, D.C., from the public school system, from the juvenile correctional facility, and from a community organization working with "at-risk" youth. The subjects included 155 African-American males aged thirteen to nineteen who completed the Adolescent Life Survey (ALS), developed by the investigator, and the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS:2). Quantitative measurements of self-concept, delinquency, and various structural factors have been obtained. In general, the findings fail to support containment theory. However, the study does present new data regarding recidivism as well as serious violent delinquency. Policy implications are discussed.
A class of two-sample nonparametric statistics for binary and time-to-event outcomes
Creators: name: Roig, Marta Bofill
name: Melis, Guadalupe Gómez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a class of two-sample statistics for testing the equality of proportions and the equality of survival functions. We build our proposal on a weighted combination of a score test for the difference in proportions and a Weighted Kaplan-Meier statistic-based test for the difference of survival functions. The proposed statistics are fully non-parametric and do not rely on the proportional hazards assumption for the survival outcome. We present the asymptotic distribution of these statistics, propose a variance estimator and show their asymptotic properties under fixed and local alternatives. We discuss different choices of weights including those that control the relative relevance of each outcome and emphasize the type of difference to be detected in the survival outcome. We evaluate the performance of these statistics with a simulation study, and illustrate their use with a randomized phase III cancer vaccine trial. We have implemented the proposed statistics in the R package SurvBin, available on GitHub (https://github.com/MartaBofillRoig/SurvBin).
Power spectral density analysis of relative comb-line phase jitter in a twin-soliton molecule
Creators: name: Tian, Haochen
name: Zou, Defeng
name: Song, Youjian
name: Hu, Minglie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Investigation on the relative phase evolution between two bounded optical solitons is essential for its potential applications in development of larger telecommunication capacity of optical fiber transmission lines, resolution improvement in advancing ultrafast characterization approaches and development of all-optical information storage. Here we characterized relative comb-line phase jitter power spectral density (PSD) of a soliton molecule pair generated from a passively mode-locked Er:fiber laser. Through tracking the intensity difference between two selected wavelengths in one certain spectral interference fringe, the relative comb-line phase noise PSD is measured by balanced detection. The estimated measurement resolution is at 10^(-14) rad2/Hz level and the estimated integrated phase noise from 10 MHz to 100 Hz is 2.04 mrad. The estimated relative linewidth is far below 1 mHz. Comparison between phase noise PSD and intensity noise PSD indicates that AM-PM conversion plays an important role in relative phase jitter dynamics between the two solitons. Our spectral interference fringe tracking technique is attractive for its simplicity and shows potential in ultra-high resolution in phase noise measurement, providing an ultra-sensitive alternative approach for relative phase noise stabilization of optical soliton molecules, between two independent mode-locked lasers and optical length stabilization of interferometers.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Optics Communications, CF-260
Improving market success of animal welfare programs through key stakeholder involvement: heading towards responsible innovation?
Creators: name: Purwins, Nina
name: Schulze-Ehlers, Birgit
name: Purwins, Nina
name: Schulze-Ehlers, Birgit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: responsible innovation
subject: pig welfare
subject: willingness-to-participate
subject: willingness-to-buy
subject: preference heterogeneity

description: Despite frequent public criticism of modern husbandry practices, many animal welfare programs lack acceptance among both farmers and consumers. We contend that this lock-in originates from a lack of market orientation and consequential neglect of key stakeholders’ preferences in program design. Considering the case of a retailer-owned meat brand, we demonstrate the relevance of stakeholders’ inclusion when establishing animal welfare programs for pigs. Surveys among 62 farming members of a pig trading cooperative and 692 supermarket customers reveal the heterogeneity of beliefs and acceptance within both groups. While a Responsible Innovation approach, including key actors from the initial criteria selection, could be effective for raising acceptance, it would likely lead to lengthy time-to-market, prohibiting first-mover advantages. We suggest instead that beliefs and acceptance among farmers may be influenced through a communication strategy based on survey results and experimental research, as well as facilitating positive word-of-mouth.
Self -concept and violent delinquent offenders: An exploratory study of urban African-American adolescent males
Creators: name: Bynum, Evita G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: African-American adolescent males experience a disproportionate rate of both victimization due to and arrest for violent crime. While legitimate structural correlates of violent behavior have been previously identified, one area that has not been significantly explored involves the mental health status of African-American adolescent males. The research investigates the relationship between positive self-concept---one dimension of mental wellness---and violent delinquency within the group of urban African-American adolescent males. This study addresses two major research questions: (1) How do the major socialization agents (family, peer group, school) influence the formation of either a positive or a negative self-concept of urban African-American male youths? (2) Is there a relationship between the formation of either a positive or a negative self-concept and the commission of violent delinquency by urban African-American male youths? Walter Reckless' (1967) containment theory, which suggests that a positive self-concept will insulate a juvenile from delinquency and crime, serves as the primary theoretical frame of reference to examine the relationship between self-concept and violence in urban African-American adolescent males. A multistage cluster sampling technique was used to select a sample in Washington, D.C., from the public school system, from the juvenile correctional facility, and from a community organization working with "at-risk" youth. The subjects included 155 African-American males aged thirteen to nineteen who completed the Adolescent Life Survey (ALS), developed by the investigator, and the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS:2). Quantitative measurements of self-concept, delinquency, and various structural factors have been obtained. In general, the findings fail to support containment theory. However, the study does present new data regarding recidivism as well as serious violent delinquency. Policy implications are discussed.
EVALUATING THE COSTS OF ALTERNATIVE WATER QUALITY POLICIES: EFFLUENT CHARGES OR DIRECT CONTROLS?
Creators: name: Solove, Robert A.
name: Lynne, Gary D.
name: Spreen, Thomas H.
name: Solove, Robert A.
name: Lynne, Gary D.
name: Spreen, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Political Economy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Estimates are provided of the costs of water quality improvements to agricultural producers in Florida. Cost was lower with a charge system than with direct controls. This finding is in contrast to that of Jacobs and Casler and the theoretical arguments of Buchanan and Tullock. The key factor is flexibility.
Water Markets and Water Quality
Creators: name: Weinberg, Marca
name: Wilen, James E.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
name: Willey, Zach
name: Weinberg, Marca
name: Wilen, James E.
name: Kling, Catherine L.
name: Willey, Zach
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Water Markets
subject: Water Quality

description: A non-linear programming model is developed to simulate grower response to water market scenarios. As a result of encouraging conservation through improvements in irrigation efficiency, significant reductions in drainage are achieved, indicating the potential role of water markets as a policy tool for addressing the environmental problems of irrigated agriculture.
Kinship and convenants in the wilderness: Indians, Quakers and conversion to Christianity, 1675--1800
Creators: name: Gimber, Steven G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation focuses on Quakers' efforts to convert Indians to Christianity and Native peoples' reactions to their endeavors. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Lenape welcomed members of the Religious Society of Friends to their homeland. Both peoples' religious beliefs served as the basis for their interaction. According to their world views, both Indians and Quakers believed that they were their kinsmen. Additionally, Friends concluded that the Inner Light and their example of proper Christian deportment would induce Indians in the Delaware River Valley to become Quakers. However, after extensive contact, both groups became disappointed in each other and both experienced what they considered a decline in their faiths. The Indians found that Friends did not live up to their expectations for kin. Quakers found that Indians were not very interested in adopting Christianity. In fact, Indians believed that through frequent interaction with whites they had adopted behaviors that were not in keeping with their traditional beliefs. Thus, in the 1730s and '40s the Lenape began an effort to preserve and recapture their religious ideals and way of life. The Friends, too, let themselves become distracted from their spiritual base. Abundant opportunities for themselves become distracted from their spiritual base. Abundant opportunities for temporal gain led many Quakers to violate the dictates of their faith. In order to correct this problem, in the 1730s and '40s, they labored to restore religious principles and recover lost spiritual fervor. Following the American Revolution, in part to live their faith more fully, Friends of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting began an undertaking to acculturate and convert Indians in the mid-1790s. This effort to teach Christianity and agricultural techniques had the approval of the Federal government. After learning about the program through correspondence with the Quakers, the Oneida volunteered to participate in it. While some took part in the Friends' mission-model farm experiment, most did not. Instead, many Oneida joined a revitalization movement designed to recapture sacred ancestral ceremonies and traditions which they had neglected for decades. The Native people wanted to retain their culture and determine what elements of white society---if any they would adopt.
A Random Unitary Circuit Model for Black Hole Evaporation
Creators: name: Piroli, Lorenzo
name: Sünderhauf, Christoph
name: Qi, Xiao-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by the Hayden-Preskill protocol for black hole evaporation, we consider the dynamics of a quantum many-body qudit system coupled to an external environment, where the time evolution is driven by the continuous limit of certain $2$-local random unitary circuits. We study both cases where the unitaries are chosen with and without a conserved $U(1)$ charge and focus on two aspects of the dynamics. First, we study analytically and numerically the growth of the entanglement entropy of the system, showing that two different time scales appear: one is intrinsic to the internal dynamics (the scrambling time), while the other depends on the system-environment coupling. In the presence of a $U(1)$ conserved charge, we show that the entanglement follows a Page-like behavior in time: it begins to decrease in the middle stage of the "evaporation", and decreases monotonically afterwards. Second, we study the time needed to retrieve information initially injected in the system from measurements on the environment qudits. Based on explicit numerical computations, we characterize such time both when the retriever has control over the initial configuration or not, showing that different scales appear in the two cases.
description: 23 pages, 14 figures; v2: minor revision
Kinship and convenants in the wilderness: Indians, Quakers and conversion to Christianity, 1675--1800
Creators: name: Gimber, Steven G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: This dissertation focuses on Quakers' efforts to convert Indians to Christianity and Native peoples' reactions to their endeavors. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Lenape welcomed members of the Religious Society of Friends to their homeland. Both peoples' religious beliefs served as the basis for their interaction. According to their world views, both Indians and Quakers believed that they were their kinsmen. Additionally, Friends concluded that the Inner Light and their example of proper Christian deportment would induce Indians in the Delaware River Valley to become Quakers. However, after extensive contact, both groups became disappointed in each other and both experienced what they considered a decline in their faiths. The Indians found that Friends did not live up to their expectations for kin. Quakers found that Indians were not very interested in adopting Christianity. In fact, Indians believed that through frequent interaction with whites they had adopted behaviors that were not in keeping with their traditional beliefs. Thus, in the 1730s and '40s the Lenape began an effort to preserve and recapture their religious ideals and way of life. The Friends, too, let themselves become distracted from their spiritual base. Abundant opportunities for themselves become distracted from their spiritual base. Abundant opportunities for temporal gain led many Quakers to violate the dictates of their faith. In order to correct this problem, in the 1730s and '40s, they labored to restore religious principles and recover lost spiritual fervor. Following the American Revolution, in part to live their faith more fully, Friends of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting began an undertaking to acculturate and convert Indians in the mid-1790s. This effort to teach Christianity and agricultural techniques had the approval of the Federal government. After learning about the program through correspondence with the Quakers, the Oneida volunteered to participate in it. While some took part in the Friends' mission-model farm experiment, most did not. Instead, many Oneida joined a revitalization movement designed to recapture sacred ancestral ceremonies and traditions which they had neglected for decades. The Native people wanted to retain their culture and determine what elements of white society---if any they would adopt.
American public opinion on peace operations: The cases of Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti
Creators: name: Klarevas, Louis J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Peace operations have become the most prevalent and prominent form of operation undertaken by the U.S. military in the post-Cold War era. Still, there is little systematic scholarship devoted to mass American public opinion on peace operations. In an attempt to fill this void, this study employs a "structured, focused comparison" to discern patterns in the three most publicized, completed peace operations undertaken by the U.S. since the Gulf War: Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, Operation Support Hope in Rwanda, and Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. The main research question is: "Under what conditions does the public support U.S. military participation in post-Cold War peace operations?" Following a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the survey data related to each case, the study finds that there are several factors which can help secure and sustain public support: individual military objectives and overall principal policy objectives affect support, with humanitarian and foreign policy restraint objectives usually receiving higher support than internal political change objectives; news reports affect public support, with 'good news' reports---those implying successful outcomes---producing higher levels of public support than 'bad news' reports---those implying unsuccessful outcomes; fatalities affect support, with support dropping as the number of casualties---incurred and anticipated---rise; and the existence of a 'dissensus' among political leaders affects support, producing lower support when there is an observable division among the political elite. The identification of an operation as multilateral also seems to affect support positively, but only prior to the deployment of troops. Ultimately, however, the public usually does not consider a peace operation to be one of the most important problems facing the country. This provides the president with a greater degree of political latitude in formulating and executing military policy pertaining to peace operations. The study concludes with policy-relevant suggestions for securing and sustaining public support for the use of force in post-Cold War peace operations.
An Examination of the Likely Impact of the Withdrawal of Bovine Growth Promotants on the U.S. Beef Industry
Creators: name: Grundmeier, Eric
name: Hayes, Dermot
name: Grundmeier, Eric
name: Hayes, Dermot
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Public Economics

description: The paper examines the probable impact on prices, quantities, and profits in the U.S. beef industry in the event of a voluntary ban on hormone use by beef producers.
Testing for Preference Change in Consumer Demand: An Indirectly Separable, Semiparametric Model
Creators: name: Moschini, Giancarlo
name: Moschini, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper deals with the hypothesis that preference changes may partly explain observed consumption patterns. A model is developed based on indirect weak separability. The kernel estimator of the regression function models the unknown shape of demand functions, and a parametric structure models _seasonality, dynamics, and preference change. This semiparametric specification is applied to U.S. meat demand. The results support the notion that changes in consumer preferences, due to consumers' awareness of the health hazards of cholesterol and saturated fat intake, may explain an increased consumption of white meat and a decreased consumption of red meat.
Electronic structures of Zn$_{1-x}$Co$_x$O using photoemission and x-ray absorption spectroscopy
Creators: name: Wi, S. C.
name: Kang, J. -S.
name: Kim, J. H.
name: Cho, S. -B.
name: Kim, B. J.
name: Yoon, S.
name: Suh, B. J.
name: Han, S. W.
name: Kim, K. H.
name: Kim, K. J.
name: Kim, B. S.
name: Song, H. J.
name: Shin, H. J.
name: Shim, J. H.
name: Min, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic structures of Zn$_{1-x}$Co$_x$O have been investigated using photoemission spectroscopy (PES) and x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The Co 3d states are found to lie near the top of the O $2p$ valence band, with a peak around $\sim 3$ eV binding energy. The Co $2p$ XAS spectrum provides evidence that the Co ions in Zn$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$O are in the divalent Co$^{2+}$ ($d^7$) states under the tetrahedral symmetry. Our finding indicates that the properly substituted Co ions for Zn sites will not produce the diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor property.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
THE EFFECTS OF CONSUMER DEMAND ON REGULATION OF FOOD SAFETY
Creators: name: Brown, Timothy H.
name: Brown, Timothy H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: A model is developed where a production input contaminates food and demand responds. Control by informed consumers is compared to efficient regulation. Information changes the market failure from a health hazard among consumers to a common pool externality among producers, so that full information alone is not sufficient for efficiency.